Big Post!!

Deacon has started Little Aths (athletics) and poor little bugger just keeps coming last every race :( But tonight he didn't! He managed to actually come in second last in the longest race of all!

He is not showing promise in the running but other events like the shot put & long jump he just loves! And that is what it is all about....FUN!!! Discus is showing great promise though, he is really getting the hang of it and is getting better & better each time. We have ordered a special kids discus to practice with.

We live right across the road from the athletics track, I mean RIGHT across the road, like a 30 second walk to get to it. So we have all of the discus, shot put, track & long jump facilities to use whenever we like, we'll get in some practice during the week. They are just too young to understand yet, still babies at 5, they just want to run around and play.

So funny during the 100 metre run the kids yell out "run like a monster is chasing you!"

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DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY!!

WOW!! Miss Mint released such excellent new stuff today. I finally spent my $10 gift card, these are my new goodies!!

And this is what I have created!!

This is so cool, a calendar that sits in a CD holder. Click photo for the original idea from Miss Mint. And mine is done!

MY NEWS!!

Hopefully this weekend I will be the latest designer to join http://www.scraphead.com/ I am just waiting to see my stuff actually in the store!! Here is a sneak peek of some stuff I hope will be in store this Sunday/Monday. I will have to be my own CT and use my stuff to get it seen.

Just a quickie

Aaaaaw I went and saw a new baby tonight. Soooo cuuuute! Little Rhys, didn't even make me clucky though so I am definately NOT having anymore kids. My 2 have driven me insane lately, a 3rd would send me over the edge completely!!!

While they were at mum's and I had a spaer hour I got busy with publisher and finally made the raffle books, made the covers, posters, flyers and even did the calendar bottoms. Now I just have to print out 150 copies of raffle tickets, and over 1000 pages of calendars!!! Geeez I'll be a busy girl! Here is the 2008 calendar, every page is a different colour scheme. I just hope it is all right, I make it all manually using a spread sheet. Hope the dates are all correct. Then everyone makes an A4 sized custom top which I laminate and bind with the bottom. Finished product looks really good if I do say so myself. Now I just have to get time to make one for us and all the family members!! We usually raise over $1000 each year doing this fundraiser but I have to do it ALL and it is a LOT of work.

And here is the top half! Closest thing I'll get to a layout for now :( I'm really happy with it.

CREDITS HERE

Psycho Baby

What me?

Whoa where has my darling angel pie gone? Kaylee please come back, your psycho dopelganger is no longer welcome! Who would think this innocent looking princess could be such a demanding diva?

Seriously my Kaylee has suddenly changed from loveable tike to tasmanian devil. Monday she was her usual self then Tuesday, yesterday and today she has been a screaming mess. Unless I am holding her she is just crazy. Cries at the drop of a hat. It's is 6pm and she is in bed, I have totally had enough and put her to bed. Hopefully it's just because of the nw tooth coming through. I can't work at home any more because she stands at my leg and screams and claws at me to pick her up. And LOUD!!! Like a banshee, how can one little girl scream soooo loud?

Luckily she is a great sleeper and goes all night with out a peep. It takes 20 seconds to put her to bed, walk in lay her down tuck her in and that's it. Same with Deacon, our bedtime routine's for both kids are just in & out.

Oh well, tomorrow she has me to herself all day so here's hoping I can make her happy while daddy gets some sleep, luckily for him he doesn't have to work tomorrow night. It's one thing to have a screaming 16 month old in the house but another when a shift worker is trying to sleep through it.

On another note check out my new layout! Can you tell my Christina stuff came through! hahaha. I am totally in love with these flowers, so awesome. Christina wrote to tell me my order had cleared but little did she know that not only had I already downloaded it but had already done this page! hahaha. I had to do it quick while Kaylee was up at mum's house

I did some shopping and got some new clothes as well today, just tshirts for summer. No black, nice hot pink and a gorgeous emerald green. No more depressing black this season, it's happy bright & funky for me!

I've had a few comments about why I didn't apply for the CT call of Christina's. Easy answer, I didn't have any layouts using Christina's products to show off. I was all ready to go for it until I read the part about showing your favourite Christina layout. I felt it was fair on people who did use products, for me to apply without ever actually using any of Christina's products. Next time around I'll be there as I now finally have taken the plunge and bought some products which I am totally in love with already. I'm all for following the rules.

I also notice I haven't had any nasty anon comments about my piracy post either, they were pretty keen to say what they thought of me on The Digital Dish but not so confident to say it to my face (so to speak). Such a ridiculous thing to accuse me of piracy for admitting to downloading a free to air show, who am I ripping off exactly? And I am still downloading Survivor China but I am yet to actually watch it. Being accused of piracy has left me very mad still. I am so pissed off it's not funny. It's a free to air show! Get over it! How dare you say it's stealing? And that I am a pirate! arrrrr It is a free to air show, we don't get it here in Australia, I can't watch it on the CBS site because of region settings or some crap. What else can I do? (Ignore me I'm still so mad and having a major vent!!!)

New layout tonight. Mum & I at the Annual State Night Awards in 2005. Just after I reached my first goal weight. I was presented as the Queen of our club for losing the most weight for our club for the year. I had lost 13kilos at that stage. About 4 months before I got pregnant with Kaylee as well.

I used my Diamond Swirls freebie on both layouts so be sure to grab it.

My page for the FPD Think Pink Challenge.

I chose my Paternal Grandmother. She had a very hard life. A single mother of 2 children over 70 years ago, just imagine the stigma attached to that back then! And by 2 different men even. Sadly she had Alzeimer's and died in a nursing home. She had it for over 10 years before she was diagnosed, everyone thought she just went quiet. And because she lived with my Aunty she just seemed normal for so many years. No accidents or anything to make us realise. She ended up just being so quiet and frail. She really did it hard.

New Layout

My new page. I did it for the scraplift challenge at MSA. I loved this page when I saw it last night. Click for credits.

ORIGINAL by Ale Modolon

SCRAPLIFT by Me

Howdy

Boring day. Playgroup this morning, work all arvo. Loads of housework as well as a baby who was a psycho all day! Talk about tantrum chucker!!! Thank god she is in bed that's all I can say. This page has taken me forever to finish, but I like it. It is a scraplift but I can't find the page. I will credit the artist as soon as I find it!

A different of my layouts made it into gallery standouts this week! How awesome! YAY. Only ever had one other page make it in before. Check it out here it's this one:

Happy Monday!

AH what wonderful weather we are having this week. Today was so beautiful we ate our lunch out in the backyard like a picnic! Except I think Kaylee fed all of hers to the dogs! haha. I got Deacon new sneakers for a steal at $10!! How good is that? And he was excited to get the thing-a-ma-bobs for his crocs too, you know the little thingy's that go in the holes? No computer time today, no pages to share yet.

Happy news is my excellent gift I got from Christine Smith today at DST. She RAK'd me with her new 'Crumpled, Creased & Curled' template/ overlays. I LOVE page tears & curls so I can't wait to use these. The crumpled paper overlays look so good. I always feel so honored when I get a gift, and love downloading them like opening a present!

UPDATE! This is my new layout, a very quick put together tonight but I'm happy with it. I love all of the photos from the Wildlife Park. The kangaroos are just so tame, even letting Deacon pet the baby joey in the pouch.

FORD 1, 2, 3!!

Yay FORD got 1, 2, 3 at Bathurst today!! Go Lowndesy!! Basically a wasted day today. First we went and registered Deacon at Little Athletics and then spent the day watching Bathurst at Col's. Deacon & Kaylee both had a great play day. Then home for a bath where Kaylee decided to hop in fully clothed! I wished I'd had my camera handy. This is the page I did last night. I always loved Juliet's page See The World so I scraplifted it when I found these free leaves last night.

Freebie

I have made some photo actions to share. I played around while making this layout for Lindsay Jane Designs. The action I used in the layout was number 5, then I changed the opacity of the top layer until I was happy with the results. There is an example of this in the zip file. They all have a brown or antique look because I was doing an Autumn coloured page. Click on layout for credits.

Download it LINK EXPIRED and tell me what you think ok. I've tried it on other photos and have been happy with the results so I hope you are as well.

Australian Citizenship test (joke)

This is hilarious, unless you are an Aussie or New Zealander it will make no sense at all.

2007 Australian Citizenship test

1. Do you understand the meaning, but are unable to explain the origin of, the term "died in the arse"?

2. What is a bloody little beauty??

3. Are these terms related: chuck a sickie; chuck a spaz; chuck a U-ey?

4. Explain the following passage: "In the arvo last Chrissy the relos rocked up for a barbie, some bevvies and a few snags. After a bit of a Bex and a lie down we opened the pressies, scoffed all the chockies, bickies and lollies. Then we drained a few tinnies and Mum did her block after Dad and Steve had a barney and a bit of biffo."

5. Macca, Chooka and Wanger are driving to Surfers in their Torana. If they are travelling at 100 km/h while listening to Barnsey, Farnsey and Acca Dacca, how many slabs will eachperson on average consume between flashing a brown eye and having a slash?

6. Complete the following sentences:
a) "If the van's rockin' don't bother ?
b) You're going home in the back of a ?
c) Fair crack of the ?

7. I've had a gutful and I can't be fagged. Discuss

8. Have you ever been on the giving or receiving end of a wedgie?

9. Do you have a friend or relative who has a car in their front yard "up on blocks"? Is his name Bruce and does he have a wife called Cheryl?

10. Does your family regularly eat a dish involving mincemeat, cabbage, curry powder and a packet of chicken noodle soup called either chow mein, chop suey or kai see ming?

11. What are the ingredients in a rissole?

12. Demonstrate the correct procedure for eating a Tim Tam.

13. Do you have an Aunty Irene who smokes 30 cigarettes a day and sounds like a bloke?

14. In any two-hour period have you ever eaten three-bean salad, a chop and two serves of pav washed down with someone else's beer that has been flogged from a bath full of ice?

15. When you go to a bring- your-own-meat barbie can you eat other people's meat or are you only allowed to eat your own?

16. What purple root vegetable beginning with the letter "b" is required by law to be included in a hamburger with the lot?

17. Do you own or have you ever owned a lawn mower, a pair of thongs, an Esky or Ugg boots?

18. Is it possible to "prang a car" while doing "circle work"?

19. Who would you like to crack on to?

20. Who is the most Australian: Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, John "True Blue" Williamson, Kylie Minogue or Warnie?

21. Is there someone you are only mates with because they own a
trailer or have a pool?

22. What does "sinkin' piss at a mates joint and getten para " mean?

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Now for my day. Great start, I got totally RAK'd by Sara Ellis. I'm really having an awesome week. Pity I don't have anything to pass on as well. This is what I got:

The bows look awesome. Can't wait to get scrapping.

Piracy: whoa did it get heated on the Digital Dish today!!! Seems that noone else in the scrapping community ever download anything. Isn't that just great. I look at piracy in a couple of ways.

1: No way in hell would I ever share my digital purchases with other people. The designers work hard and probably don't make all that much designing digital scrapping supplies. I paid my money so they are for me only. I also don't make any money from the stuff I download, currently I am downloading Survivor China because the dumbass channel 9 network won't show it here until after it's all finished in the US and we know who wins anyway. So I get my fix illegally, and I'd do it honest way if I could but the CBS website won't let me watch, wrong region or whatever.

2: People who share everything, sell downloaded DVD's, kits, MP3's etc...are scum. Easy. They are the real pirates. My Survivor fix is hardly bringing down the CBS network.

I love some of the replies I got on The Digital Dish:

Anonymous said...

Stealing is stealing. You cannot justify it.
October 2, 2007 4:29 PM

Anonymous said...
Very nice Megan. I'm sure the various store owners and designers will be very interested to hear your stance on piracy.

Anonymous said...
Ohhhh, ok, you post as yourself so that's you're going to justify being a pirate? Whatever.
October 2, 2007 5:59 PM

Well ANON's at least I have the balls to post as myself. All the designers I have ever bought from can go check my account and see if there were any extra downloads, here is a list of designers I have purchased from:

Peppermint Creative

Paint The Moon

Marcie Reckinger & Traci Murphy

Gina Cabrera

Karah Fredricks

Lisa Witney

Shandy Vogt

Catrine

If any of these designers have a problem with my views on piracy I am only too happy to discuss it. Email me here

I fail to see the connection between downloading Survivor and being a pirate? Or how about these gutless anon posters tape Survivor for me and send it to Australia? Cos that's about my only other option.

I might just email all the designers I have purchased from too and ask them about my views on piracy. What an interesting discussion, wonder how many of our designers download movies? And would these anon posters stop buying from them if they knew they did?

And in case anyone is wondering, my copy of CS3 is a legal copy that my husband uses for work.

And finally I did a Halloween page. YAY, pity we don't celebrate Halloween here like other countries do. We just had a Halloween bash one year at Dave & Kims. Green wasn't really a great Halloween choice but it's Deke's fave colour. I'll post all our pics from that night on Halloween.

Click here for credits

Layout makeovers

BEFORE

AFTER

I loved this idea from the Funky Playground Blog I didn't completely overhaul mine, just fixed them up. I always liked my idea, but the execution just wasn't right. I am especially happy with Caramel Pudding. Slowly I will redo all of my cringe worthy layouts. Click on layouts for full credits.

BEFORE

AFTER

TGIF

We went to Ballarat today. Just for some shopping. Kaylee just loved playing on the McDonald's playground for the first time today. It was soooooo cold I felt like the wind was made of razorblades.

Did OK with my calories today. I think.....just have to see what a backyard burger is worth.

This is the page I did tonight, click for credits.

New layout and the most beautiful flowers ever!

I did this layout last night. Click layout for credits. It was a scraplift of Annie Manning's, I just bought her flowers and they are simply stunning. So gorgeous, I couldn't have found anything more perfect. Get them here while they are 50% off:
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I hate doing girl pages, I just suck totally. Boy pages are so easy, girl pages end up too frilly and sickly sweet for me. But now I have some great ideas from posters and I'll be doing more girl pages from now on.

These are just zoom in's of my page to show the gorgeous flowers and the little pink diamontes.

New Page

New page last night. Jason won't ever have a nice pic taken with the kids so this was the best I could get. Click image for credits.

New Layouts

My Bella Gypsy Pages:

I had a productive night. 2 new pages for Bella Gypsy- Tabatha Reed. I love my Playtime one, very happy.

Also new pages for LJD but not posted in galleries yet, tomorrows job that.
No work today, did lots of washing, cleaned the house. Went for a visit at mums etc....

My Lindsay pages:

Zac's 1st Birthday Part 1

So all day friday I sat and made 20 pages for Zac's birthday book. I wish I had taken a photo of it first. It was a stretch as I had limited photos of him and everyone that emailed me some through unfortunately didn't work!I ended up 4 pages short but am going to do them now with the birthday shots I took and send them on. Basically I just cheated and altered some of Deacon's layouts. But I also made some from scratch.

New Layout for Bella Gypsy

Kaylee found a packet of blue sugar sprinkles and decided to tip the whole lot on the floor and sit quietly and eat them! It's true when they say that they are up to no good when they're quiet. Does she look innocent?
This page is for BellaGypsy (Tabatha Reed) who I am currently on the CT for.

New layout

I just got Miss Mint's Elementary Grammar elements & papers, I'm loving them. I promised myself it is the last thing I buy. I think I have enough now. I just love Miss Mint's products though so I can't help myself. I'm getting much quicker too thank god! More time to do more pages hahaha. I also just got Art Rage!!! Wow this is addictive. No more crappy glitter for me, I am making glitter textures like crazy. So far all 3 pages have had glitter on them