A Creative Life: Creating, Play-dough & Moth Eaten Hair!!

June 20, 2011

Creating, Play-dough & Moth Eaten Hair!!

My nights have been filled with scrapping of late! I am not good at scrapbooking at night these days, feel a little bit brain dead, but between working, and looking after the kids there just isn't any time during the day for me to be able to spend un-interrupted time scrapbooking as Kaitlyn no longer has a daytime sleep, so there is NEVER any time during the day which is child free. Before I went back to work, I used to put the kids in childcare, one day a week and spend that day scrapbooking, it was bliss and really allowed some uninterrupted creative time. I sooooo miss those days, but the budget just cant afford to put the kids in childcare one more day a week as they have to be in there when I am working. Sigh!!! So what have I created in the evenings of late!

This LO was one of the last ones that I created while on the Prima DT for their Prima Palette challenge. There is a lot of stamping and details on this, including about 10 different layers of paper!

The swirls on this were created from cutting a design from a cricut cartridge, then I stamped with a Prima stamp and stazon ink, followed by a coat of orange distress ink. Just a fun way to customise some plain cardstock.

I created this LO for Aussie Scrap Source. I shared the pictures of Kaitlyn reading to "Charlie Bear" previously here. Just love the sequence of pictures, she was just so adorable that day!

More scrappy shares another time!! Dont forget to check out the Prima Educators Blog as well, there are regular updates of cool stuff over there! If you are wanting to find the Educators blog, there is a link on the front page of the Prima blog now! Onto the family stuff now!!

For the record, I made a bad batch of play dough today!! I am usually very adept at this task!! Lets face it, I have made a LOT of this stuff over the years! Today, was not one of my highlights! You see, the play dough was gooey, soft but a little gooey, wants to stay stuck to your fingers! The tiddley peeps still think it is the beez knees, but I am far more critical of its consistency. More chance of this one ending up stuck to their clothes and transferred throughout the house! Yes, that is the crucial point in all of this, my displeasure with the playdough is intertwined with the prospect of more work for me in the clean up department. On the upside, I have bought myself 15 minutes of quiet time without toddlers underfoot!! Priceless!!

OK it didn't distract one of them quite long enough as right now the silent destroyer has taken up residence under my computer desk, quite literally at my feet, getting into goodness knows what in the cupboard under there!! Well, now you have such an insightful look into the mundane aspects of my life!! LOL!

Talking of these two tiddley peeps, you know you are in trouble when kids are quiet, too quiet, always spells disaster! I had to go out and run an errand and when I came home DH asked me if I noticed anything different about Ashton. I quickly looked at him, nope, no big texta marks over his face (that was what I was expecting too see) but something looked a little odd but I couldn't put my finger on it straight away, then it dawned on me his hair looked a little odd. Then I looked closer!!

My friend Hilary gave it a very apt description when she said "He looks moth eaten"!! Well the only moth eating at him was his big sister with a pair of scissors! I have no idea how she got the scissors as I store them way up high, out of reach! Hairdressing does not look like one of her strong points at this stage!

Lachlan has had exams last week. He feels pretty confident that he has gone well in them, so lets see what his report card brings at the end of the month! I also lodged his passport application this week (the quick errand I had to run when the previous mentioned scissor incident occurred) so he is very excited at the thought of his impending cruise!!

As you can see there is never a dull moment in this household! Thanks for stopping by!

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Comments

Your both Prima layouts are absolutely gorgeous! I totally admire the way you layer papers and cluster flowers...soooo beautiful! I can imagine how busy it is with a house full of 5 children. I have 2 nieces and when I have to babysit only 1 of them, she's already a handful... so two thumbs up for you that you manage to raise 5 children and still work too:) Oh gosh, poor Ashton... his new hairdo looks...mmm....utterly creative;)

Also I wanted to say thank you for your sweet comment on my blog. How wonderful that you have a job in psychology too. I'm really looking forward in majoring in psychology. It must be a very wonderful and fascinating subject.

Posted by: Romy | June 20, 2011 at 05:45 PM

hahaha sorry sweetie i am laughing so much.. Little miss hairdresser :D
Your layouts are stunning sweetie stunning!!!!
I need some scrap time with you to, im no good at night time scrapping here either!!!

Posted by: Malin | June 20, 2011 at 07:21 PM

oh your posts make me smile.. is it because of the stunning and beautiful scrapping that just amazes and delights me..... or is it because as a mum i sit here and laugh with remembrance of my kids doing the same things.. i reckon two of my daughters have played hairdresser at some stage of their lives.. usually to themselves.. so sorry for smiling at the moth eaten hair do.. it will grow back faster then the memory will be forgotten.. thanks for lightening my heart tonight!!

Posted by: lizzyc | June 20, 2011 at 07:46 PM