I'm baack!

Hey Y'all,

I know I have been AWOL for a bit, and a bad bad scrapper pal, but pleaser forgive moi!

DH & I bought our first house, and we have been renovating like MAD! I am VERY thankful ot have a very skilled self employed carpenter for a Hubby!

We have been here 4 months now, and have been busy little beavers.. This is what we have been up to in our spare (HUH!) time:

New KITCHEN! LOVE it.. all new appliances.. yum! & A MASSIVE oven..

New carpet in all 4 bedrooms & dining room

Aircon ( big ONE - does the whole house!)

New floorboards over tiles

New skirting boards

New doors & handles

New front door (also painted) & handle

Installed new fan/ lights (W/ remotes) in bedrooms

Painted whole house (ongoing project.. but we r nearly there..)

New blinds

New furniture / paint / blinds in guest room (a REAL guest room, YAY!)

New lounge, entertainment unit, bookcase & shelf - v cool!)

New fireplace surround (yet to be tiled.. workin' on it!)

New Solar Hot water

Yet to come:

Solar power

Water tank

Paint outside of house

tbc...

So as you can see, we are time poor & just plain POOR!

Also, Em has started "Big School" and is totally adorable in her uniform:

So watch this space, and leave a comment so I know you've been by :)

Thanks for reading,

Jaimie xox

Cute LO to show ya :)

Last night I did my first LO for a challenge on Craft bits and bears. It's a LO of Darling Emily (surprise, surprise!), using dark pink & light pink. Very girly, but I like it! Excuse the shocking phot and all the glare.. I'll re do it in the daylight.. It has gone kind of orangey and yuk..

On another front, I actually emailed off some work tonight to start submitting to be published! I know, it's about time.. but I AM doing it! Yay for me! No more scaredycat.. I fully expect rejection, but I will just have to learn to deal with that..lol..

What else.. Oh, i went back to work in the city yesterday. It was GREAT to be back in the real world, but very very tiring. The boys at work were laughing at me shuffling along like an old lady, but I'm getting there. I still haven't had the pathology results back from the lump that was removed, so I think I'll call the specialist tomo about that, I just want it all done & dusted, ya know? I was in bed before Em last night, I slept like the living dead, but I guess I needed it. I will work from home tomorrow, then I'm off to Nelson Bay on Thursday, and home again friday. My boss and a few others are out of the office Friday so I don't need to go to the city Friday either, I will try to do something in Newcastle instead (which is cool, less traffic :))

Thanks for checking in, leave me a message, so I know you've been & can check out your blog too!!

More scrap creations to share

well, I have just had THE best weekend, catching up on all my lost scrapping time..lol..

I created a card for the scraptherapy August Cybercrop, using a piece of plastic out of a chocolate box for a transparent window, that was fun.

I also did a LO from an inspirational picture, and I scrapped a LO of myself as a baby I have wanted to do for ages.

I also made a CS Cd holder, to send out a DVD of a Jaime Oliver show "Fowl dinners" that was on a few weeks ago.. a few of the gals at the SM forum asked for it, and I happened to tape it, but a scrapper can;t just send it without prettying it up first! lol.. I need to make 2 more and all ready to go.

I have started making some journal cards for a swap over at SM too, heaps of fun! I'll post pics when I am all done. I am in 4 groups of 13, so I better get cracking!

I also have to make a pile of recipe cards for a cupcake recipe swap, and a spring recipe swap, so I have a bit on the go at the moment.. which is how I like it!!



Gus is outside washing and vacuuming my car for my return to work tomorrow (Eeek!) and I will have to jump (correction, shuffle!) into the car and do a test drive (pardon the pun..) to make sure I can drive the car, and more importantly, slam the brakes on if I have to, so I can drive into work (In the city, sigh..) tomorrow.





Well, I hope you like my latest creations, and hope you are outside enjoying the gorgeous weather today :)