A Creative Life

Cards, Cats and Children!

I was a little bored the other day!  Not because I had nothing to do, on the contrary, I had too much to do so I was procrastinating so out came the camera!  Someone asked me this week if I ever take pictures of the other kids.  Yes I do but not that often as the 3 boys are often at school when a moment of procrastination takes over and Ashton, well he is a tricky little kid to capture as he often looks the opposite direction just to avoid me!!  Please note my case in point below!!

and then there is the way Ashton carries poor long suffering Tickles! Again you will notice the obvious refusal to look at the camera!  Oh he has his ..."I am all boy" face on too! Such a little charmer! 

and absolutely no better with his animal handling skills in this picture either! To top it off this time, he totally turned his back on me. No way was he posing for a photograph!!!

So it is little wonder that I resort to photographing this little poser who has some improved animal handling skills over her Brother!

She also seems to enjoy striking a pose! Watch out world!

In the end it is just easier to capture beautiful pictures of Miss Kaitlyn!  I might also enjoy scrapbooking feminine layouts as well!  

My parents came up the other weekend as I had a birthday.  Yep another year older, I just can't slow that progression down!! Darn It!!  Well why they were over I suggested I take a couple of photos of them.  I really don't have that many pictures of Mum and Dad together so it was a good opportunity and also a chance for them to get a nice image for themselves.  I then gave the photo the same attention I would give any photo of myself and erased a few years of experience from their faces and Mum LOVED the results!  I also think that Miss Kaitlyn shares some similarities with my Mum, especially a more square jawline, whereas I have my Fathers very angular face!

Onto the scrapbooking front....I have created a lot of cards lately for the Color Room.  We have had some amazing sponsorship from companies and I really wanted to create with their products but am extremely time poor right now so I opted for cards.  Besides it is always fabulous to have a stash of cards to draw on when necessary!  These first ones are created with papers from a Sweedish company called Maja Designs.  Beautiful papers with lovely fine designs on them.

And these cards using papers from anothe Color Room sponsor, Megs Garden.

So now I have quite a good range in my stash!

I also want to promote a retreat that I will be teaching at in September in.....wait for it..... NEW ZEALAND!!  Woohoo!  Can't wait to go there.  I have been to NZ once before, for all of 1 hour and only got to set foot in their international airport on my way to Los Angeles, so I am a bit excited to be able to venture out of the airport and have the opportunity to meet some fabulous NZ scrappers!  If it is something you are interested in here are some details for you!

If you are wanting to book into this fabulous event just pop by Louises Blog and you can find registration forms!  For anyone who is planning to go I cant wait to see you there in September!  Thanks again for stopping by my blog!!

 

Creating with New Websters Pages

CHA is always such an exciting time of the year!  This year I had projects up in 2 different booths.  Both Prima and Websters.  Not that I ever get to see them on display there, "sigh, I need a money tree out the back."  Sometimes I just wish I had more time to spend online looking at all the new releases! :)  Totally loved playing with a few of Websters Pages new releases though.  I was lucky enough to be able to create LO's with Palm Beach, Everyday Poetry and Sunday Picnic.  They all have such wonderful colours in the ranges and it was such a treat to create layouts with them.

This LO uses the Palm Beach Collection.  It has glorious colours and can work easily with beachy/ holiday pictures (LO below) as well as non-beachy pages like the one above.

 Then I stole this photo from Anabelle showing a couple of my LO's on display in the Websters booth!

This is what i created with the Everyday Poetry Line.  I hand-made all the flowers on this LO. Finally my Sunday Picnic LO. Oh I ADORE the colours in this range.

 So if you wish to check out more wonderful pages with the new Websters lines, just check out the Websters Blog 

On the home front.... the kids went back to school, which means lots of VERY early mornings in our household as we all have to be out the door around 7.30am in the morning as both Paul and I have to be at work by 8am.  Gosh it is so much easier when holidays are on! The boys seem pretty excited to be back at school with their friends.  Lachlan is loving his IT classes as they are working with Photoshop and I have to say it is the most excited I have ever seen Lachlan over learning something!  It seems he has finally found something at school that he is rather passionate about!  Rather a handy skill to develop in this household!  Maybe I will get him to edit my photos soon! 

Kaitlyn and Ashton are both "loving" Tickles the kitten to bits!  Poor kitty keeps coming to me for protection from the constant holding and carting around that Kaitlyn likes to do!  Paul is getting a bit frustrated with Tickles as she keeps going behind his computer desk as well as the television unit and decides to swipe at the cords behind the units.  Unfortunately this often results in the cables coming loose.  As you could imagine that does not go down too well!  Poor kitty is desperate to go outside and I have not let her out yet either.  I really want her to be adjusted to our household before she is allowed out.  She has to know that this is home now to ensure she comes back home! In the meantime, Ashton and Kaitlyn are paying her a little too much attention!

Yes the little lad has had a hair-cut since the last photos I took of him!  He didn't like having it cut much!  He was fine for the first half of the hair-cut and then proceeded to cry his eyes out for the rest of it.  I heard that pitiful cry of "Mummy, Mummy, in that elongated whine/cry that small children use!  It is not like I can stop it half way through though!!!  He does look cute though!  

Thanks again for stopping by my blog.  I know I finished abruptly but if I don't press publish now, it may be another week before I get back here! :)