Sizes, Shhh's, a Storm & some Sneaks

Grandma ... Maddison (at 20 months old) is wearing that little dress you bought her at Christmas which is size 3-4!!! Hummmm ... should I be worried? :-) She looks a bundle of joy doesn't she to be having her photo taken. LOL


Maddison has added some more words to her vocab ... tonight she did a little "bottie cough" and she turned to me and said "ohh parppie" :-) heheeee. Anything that holds drink is a "bobbel" and she's also taken to saying "shhhh" at me when I tell her off! Little monkey.
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We had a terrific thunder & lightening storm this evening ... and the RAIN!!!!! It was just tipping down. We were out when it started and when we were ready to go home I went and got the car! Long skirts and rain don't mix! :-} I don't even bother wearing shoes when the road is ankle deep in water, just wrecks them. I had a umbrella, but my skirt from just above my knees down was sodden. Fun and games ... life in Malaysia huh! I'm sorry you missed this storm Dad, it was a goodie! ;-)
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Here's a couple more sneak peeks from what I did with the April kit from Scrap-n-Crop. You can check the gallery out and see what Sharmaine has done too.
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First 2 photos are of a LO, and the third one of a card I made.

Saturday Stuff

Been a bit of a lazy morning around here! Aaron came into our bed around 4am and by 5.30am I was so sick of his wiggling and kicking me in his sleep that I went to try and have a sleep in his bed! Maddison had just woken up about 7.30am (well she had woken earlier, but went back to sleep when I whispered to her to lie back down!) :-) when Aaron came in and said "No Mummy that's too small for you!" Hummm ... "what's too small for me Aaron?" "MY BED"!!! I had great pleasure telling him that yes it was too small for me and didn't he think it would be better for me if he slept ALL night in his bed then?!! ;-) hehehee we'll see if it works!
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Aaron's spent some of the morning doing this (yep, he takes after his Father!).

While Maddison was pulling the xylophone to pieces!

Yesterday I played with some Graphic45 papers. Last Wednesday they posted a sketch which I liked the look of. I had these photos in my 'to scrap' pile so decided they would be perfect, I did alter the sketch a bit though as you can see from their blog here - twisted it and only used 3 squares down the sides (didn't have enough photos! that's unusual for me aye!) Like those little checked squares ... sort of fits with the "racing" theme! LOL

Materials -

Graphic45 patterned papers, Bazzill cardstock, American Craft Thickers, Tattered Angels Olive Vine Glimmer Mist

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And I'll leave you with some more sneaks from what I've created from Scrap-n-Crop's April kit. The first 2 pics are from a LO (there's that Olive Vine glimmer mist again!) :-) And the 3 pic is a little mini album I made.

Right, better go and sort something out for lunch before Maddison wakes from her nap.

October Afternoon LO's

October Afternoon have a challenge going about creating a LO, card or project using at least 2 different collections from their range. Check their blog post here.

So I decided to FINALLY use some of their beautiful papers I've had in my stash from the Detours and Home Town collections. The fact that their papers are double sided actually makes it really hard to chose which side to use! And very pleased to be able to say I have used photos that were already printed in the stack I have to scrap :-)

I am getting into the rumbled scruffy look ;-)

This First Easter Treats LO I am not sure I have finished with it ... kwim? Doesn't help that Maddison drew all over it with pencil and although I have managed to rub out the pencil marks, there's deep gouges in the paper and a scratch on the photos! NOT happy I tell you. Grrrrr. Anyway I will sit and think about it a bit and see if I can be bothered to add anything else to it :-) Maybe it needs a scrunched flower too! I like the lettering though ... and look at me being very thrifty carefully cutting out the outline of the S that was left on the sticker sheet as I'd used all the s's up!

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Materials:

Picking Daisies LO - all October Afternoon products except for Bazzill Cardstock and Basic Grey brad, Ranger Faded Jeans Distress ink.

First Easter Treats LO - all October Afternoon products except for Bazzill Cardstock.

Showing Off

I'm allowed sometimes aren't I??? ;-)

Graphic 45 have a call out for cards made with their papers, so I thought I would send pictures of these ones I did for Kinda Sweet. And during the night I got an email to say they were up on their blog. Can't wait to get some of their new papers to play with ... so colourful!

Also Basic Grey accepted another of my LO's into their gallery ... the 'Today You' you one I posted about the other day :-)

New Word

Maddison said a new word tonight ... 'apple' :-) I was eating an apple after tea and she was watching me VERY closely and said "Mummy more apple". :-) I could hardly believe it, so I asked her what she said and she just grunted, pointed and then said apple. heheee
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Both kids insisted on wearing their caps to school today! What a laugh. They were still wearing them when I went to pick them up this afternoon!
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Here's a couple of sneaks at another LO I've done with Scrap-n-Crop's April kit.