Maddison's Art

This term Maddison is doing an art class after school (1 hour once a week). She loves it :-) Anything to do with colouring is right up her ally, but I love how this class is taking that a little bit further. On Monday when I picked her up from school she came running with this awesome little tree and held it up with both hands and said "this is for you Mummy, I made it"!! :-)

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Amazing what you can create with tissue paper and corrugated cardboard! haha I think the little sign was supposed to say "Save the Trees", but her sign says "Sav Tree" (mainly because she coloured over the E in save hehee).

Apparently the red bits are flowers (I thought they might be apples, but no they aren't!).
I think the fence is very cute.
And I love the decorated tree trunk and the added bits of seeds and pods among the grass at the base of the tree.
When we got back home she took the tree off me and very seriously told me that "Baby Samuel isn't allowed this tree Mummy, I will put it your room so it's safe!" :-) heheee Later I checked and she had put it right beside my bed. :-) It's now in pride of place on our dresser (none of the kids can reach up there (yet)!)

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Looking forward to seeing what she creates next week.

Scrap-it-Lah June Challenge

This month's challenge at Scrap-it-Lah is to scrap about "Thing/s that you can't do without".

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I actually spent AGES thinking about what I was going to scrap for this challenge. Mainly because the heading of SiL's blog post said 'Things you can't live without" so I had been focusing on that. To be honest even though I love my family to pieces and it would be absolutely horrible if I lost any one of them, life would still have to go on and I guess you'd find the strength to keep going somehow. (I am sure you all know what I mean.) The only thing I definitely couldn't live without would be my faith, and that isn't something I want to scrap about on here. This morning I decided to have another look at what the DT had done (you can see them here). And I saw the wording of the challenge was slightly different to the title of the blog post heheee ... so I decided to take a light hearted look at the challenge and scrap about my addiction to chocolate! hahaa

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So here's my take.

And a close up - all different alphas - the chipboard ones have been sprayed with glimmer mist. Prima bling, Martha Stewart boarder punch and a VERY old Maya Road felt arrow. (Oh I do like using up some really old stuff!) :-)

I inked the edges of the white cardstock with Marigold Distress Ink as well. Oh and the patterned paper is from Studio Calico :-)

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Get Picky Sketch #9

Get Picky's sketch this month had room for 5 photos ... but I squeezed in 6! :-) Here's the sketch.

And here's my take.

I used a couple of Ali Edwards stamps from her Road Trip set for my title. Saved me thinking too hard hehehe I coloured them with Twinkling H20's.

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And another LO done for our 2009 holiday album! I do hope I have this holiday all scrapped before the end of the year! It's taking me forever!

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Look what I found ...

On my desk this afternoon! Thankfully he couldn't get the lid of the bottle of glossy accents!!!

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He's got it all sorted though! Seems to know exactly what to do!

I am sure he hasn't seen me LICKING the glue off things though heheee

Cheeky fella.

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I must admit though I did kinda freak out a little at him perched right on the corner of my desk! Mind you there's not a lot of room up there heheee

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Fathers Day 2011

Today it's Father's Day. :-) Kids were excited to see Lyndon back home this morning (he arrived back from Finland last night after they were asleep).

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They gave him their gifts this morning and we went out to Tony Roma's for lunch.

Maddison had hers wrapped in pink and gave him a pink card!

I found these little canvas and easels at an art store and thought they would be cute for the kids to decorate and Daddy to display on his desk at work!

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Left to right is Aaron's rainbow, Samuel's fingertip painted heart, and Maddison's swirls of colour! Aaron and Maddison wanted to keep painting after they had done their canvas (it's not very big), so I suggested they paint the easel as well.
Pictures with Daddy and their gifts.
At school Maddison had made him a crown and another card :-)
Kiss kiss!
Samuel just wanted to bite his canvas!
I did buy a few other goodies that the kids had on their list that Daddy would like, but I didn't get round to putting them in a basket - so I just told him they were there to enjoy hehee :-) (Chocolate milk, eggs, apples, coffee beans, and I covered the watch and book by getting a watch magazine!) :-)

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Bath Time

I thought to myself last night when I was bathing Samuel that I had hardly taken any photos of him in the bath ... and certainly none in the last several months! Poor deprived child! So tonight I got the camera ready and got some pics :-)

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He loves the bath and is getting very adventurous! He likes standing up (which is something I don't like!) and he's just discovered in the last week or so that he can lie on his tummy and kick and splash and wiggle up and down the length of the bath. He thinks he's so clever (which of course he is hehee) :-)

Cheeky little fella!

He also likes to put his chin in the water (and I suspect he's having a taste as well!).
See!
Sometimes you get a huge grin from him ...
Other times the splashing can be a bit vigorous and he gets a face full of bubbles and you hear quite a bit of coughing and spluttering. hehee

He also knows the word bath, because when you tell him he's going to have one, he trots off to the bathroom and will tug and pull at his tee shirt and nappy until it's off :-)

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Happy now that I have these photos :-)

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A Date & Some Donuts!

Today while my helper was here I had some time out with Aaron while Maddison was at school and Samuel was sleeping :-) It was sort of a date ... except Aaron chatted away nearly the whole time and I came home with a headache! ;-) He just talked and talked and talked! :-)

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We went to a mall and had a look at a few shops ... an Art shop for me, 2 toy shops for Aaron and another just checking out something for Fathers Day which wasn't successful!

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We had lunch at Paddington House of Pancakes ... we shared an entree and a dessert :-) I remembered to get my camera out when Aaron's hot chocolate arrived ...

Then promptly forgot about it till we had nearly finished dessert! Whoops! :-)
Blurry photo sorry ... must remind Aaron to rest his elbows on the table when he takes pics so he doesn't move the camera so much!

When we were walking back to the carpark Aaron dived into Big Apple Donuts! He spent ages watching them ice a whole lot then INSISTED that we buy some to share with Maddison and Baby Samuel! :-) (At least he wasn't asking just for himself I suppose!) :-)

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So he chose 6 ... a pink for Maddison, a nut one for me, snow one for Samuel and one covered in Chocolate squiggles called Alien for himself, plus a couple of others. (forgot to take a pic of the full box ... sorry)
They went down VERY well :-)

And this little fella thought it was a bit of alright! hahahahaa He had about 1/4 of his one and enjoyed every bit :-) His fake grin that he does at the moment makes me laugh every time!
Tomorrow the kids and I are going to get our craft on before Daddy gets back from Finland! We have a card to make and Aaron found a craft activity for Maddison and himself which he wants to do as well. I will be back tomorrow with photos! :-)

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Things the kids have said ...

Thought I better get these written down before I forget! Some of these are things I have overheard and others are what they have said to me. :-)

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Samuel was chatting away in his language and Aaron turned to me laughing and said "He only speaks China"! :-)

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Maddison to Aaron - Aaron can we play Princess and Kings and babies?

Aaron to Maddison - NO I hate that game!

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Maddison to me wanting to do some drawing - But Mummy my tummy is hungry to colour.

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Maddison to me - I've finished my breakfast ... I'm awesome aren't I Mummy!! :-)

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This morning I realised that Fathers Day (over here) is this weekend, so I asked the kids what they thought Daddy would like for a present. Here's their list ... I just jotted them down as they said them. But I had to keep reminding them in amongst all the suggestions that it was Daddy we were buying a present for and what did he like.

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Here's what they suggested ...

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Maddison - Something Pink (said with a HUGE smile) :-)

Aaron - New glasses

Aaron - A scrapbook - a really nice scrapbook, he'd like that. (hehehee)

Aaron - How about a photo

Maddison - a Camera

Aaron - a book

Maddison - A T-Rex toy, a really big big T-Rex toy.

Aaron - Apples, or a snowman (he saw a picture of a snowman in a story book hehee)

Aaron - A new car ... a Ferrari car

Aaron - Watch

Aaron - Chocolate milk and coffee

Aaron - Eggs

Aaron - That's all! :-)

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I am grinning to myself thinking of Lyndon's reaction if we gave him a carton of eggs for his Fathers Day present!! :-)

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Obviously some of those things will never be bought for Fathers Day presents (not around here anyway!) hehehee But some of the ideas were good ones - I'll just have to have a bit more of a think myself! :-)

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Scrappin Studio Weekly Challenge

I'm playing along with Scrappin Studio's Weekly Challenge, which is to use stamps on a LO. As you know I have PLENTY of stamps to use, it's a matter of narrowing it down to which ones! haha

I decided to scrap these pics of Maddison at the beach so pulled out some shell stamps from Darkroom Door. I stamped the background using the bubble stamp from Studio Calico with Antique Linen distress ink, and stamped the words and shells with Pumice Stone distress ink. The words are from Technique Tuesday (large set is an Ali Edwards set).

And I have just realised I haven't journalled on it! Oh well ... I'll get to that! :-)

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Our Boys ...

I told you Samuel likes climbing up on the dining table didn't I?!! Yesterday Aaron yelled at me to come and get "Baby Samuel" down because he was "disturving me"! hehee

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Look at the little monkey perched up there! No problems with interrupting the game! ha

Hummm ... what's in that hat?
And this morning I came out to find the Master Climber up on the table again with a wooden spoon (he helps himself to whatever utensil he fancies from the drawer in the kitchen!).
Hehehee ... he looks like he's giving me a warning waving that spoon at me! :-)
Any ideas on how to discourage climbing? Taking the chairs away works, but if the kids put them back and I don't realise he's up there as quick as you like!

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I found out a way to tire him out though ... make him walk down when we take Maddison to school in the morning :-) By the time we get back home he's nearly asleep hehee :-)

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3 More LO's

Using Studio Calico's May kit Lawn Party (plus some other bits).

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Snakes Alive LO also uses some alphas from previous kits.

Special Quilt LO I added the white cardstock, pink rickrack, glitter and velum for the journalling.

Hook I can Fly LO is all from the kit except for the base cardstock and the Jenni Bowlin butterfly stamp. Maddison says "Hook" instead of look! I had to record it somewhere hehee :-)

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