Flipping the Top

Ha! made it!


have been meaning to get here for the last few days...I have to tell you it is so nice to have two big school boys! Watching them come tumbling over the fence (well its far too easy to just walk down the drive...you have to take a short cut cuz its cool man!)together after school is very satisfying.
Patrick was so ready for this and has taken to it like a duck to water! So very proud of his new bag, lunch box and drink bottle (he keeps coming up and giving me a big hug and says Thanks Mum...I say what for....for taking me to the warehouse to buy a new bag...oh to be five again!) In fact I do remember the wonder of my first school bag....it was a blue suitcase rofl! Puh-lease...laughing is rude...this was 1976 after all!! It was fantastic because I could sit on top of it while waiting for the bus...which explains its saggy demise towards the end of the year no doubt lol! The boys all had duffle bags...remember those?! Samuel sees all and wants to be just like his big brothers...he quite happily carries Josephs bag all the way home if we decide to walk down and meet them after school.... Isn't his blonde surfy hair cool! We are convinced that is his calling in life rofl...with hair like that how could it not be! Jim loves to blow dry it on end after his shower and he goes all fluffy and bouncy and loves to run madly about with it blowing back lol...we call him Dash off the Invincibles! Only then I have to go out with him the next day looking like that (only less bouncy after sleeping on it)I forget about it and wonder why people stare at him rofl!!

Here's the boys getting a taste of being behind the wheel at the BOI show up the road (this show has been at the same showgrounds for 165 years!! whoa!!) It was cool too, lots of animals to pat and farm machines to sit on and exhibits, rides and fun stuff for kids...they had been busy all week entering artwork, flower saucers and vegetable models and baking etc...I loved doing all that stuff at school. The food and wine tent was scrummy...could have spent longer there tasting and watching the cooking demos going on...but the kids dragged us off to the treasure hunt and the mini jeeps instead! Jim pretended to race Joseph and Patrick. Josephs face was just hilarious...a mixture of pure fear and determination as he screamed (it must have felt like that to him) around the tyres trying to pass Dad and Samuel...he "won" in the end and swaggered (or staggered away from the jeep) trying to look as if he did that sort of thing every day lol!

Its scrap a digi photo at NZdares this round...much to my horror!!! Mine was an example of using the basics that every computer has rofl! a bit of lighting improvement in word picture manager and a cute little telephone embellishment created with Paint! Sharon our resident digi expert has given lots of tips and links to help you out on the blog though, so if you are digitally challenged like me check them out along with all the gorgeous layouts the dare girls have created....cool prize too...I want that little space robot dude lol!

The Scrapbook Studio November Kit - Dare to be Clear...is here at last!!! yippee...check it out HERE it comes complete with an acrylic album and my very first DT task is create a project for you with it...very cool, I have seen some wonderful work using acrylic albums recently and can't wait to try one out! This months kit is jam packed full of great product so it was worth the wait!

The Scrapbook Studio DT are also busily preparing challenges for the Christmas Cyber Crop on Friday 30th November...come on over and pop your name down HERE for a fun nights scrapping and chatting before christmas...be inspired by the team with card ideas, layouts and OTP projects! The challenges deadlines will run through the week, so even if you just want to chat and play games on the night you will still be able to get the challenges done afterwards.

Lisa sure is one busy lady bursting with fantastic ideas for the shop...have you seen the wonderful fabric she now stocks and check out the great blog she has started purely to inspire you with ways to use it The Sewing Room. The message board also has a sewing section so if you have projects to share we would love to see them!

Thats me...done for another day! STill havn't got round to watching a full season's worth of Grey's anatomy from DVD unlimited lol! I never did get to see it on telly and people rave about it so didn't want to miss out did I!! Jims not impressed heh,heh!! He reckons its must be just like Casualty on steriods rofl!!