I wish this was an April Fool's Joke!

Told you it was quite a bit of hair Aaron chopped off Maddison!!!
But thankfully you can't really tell ... can you? At least it wasn't her coconut tree! LOL

And yeah I saved the hair for a scrapbook page! Just need to get a photo of the scissors! heheee

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I've been scrapping. I've FINISHED scrapping the photos from our July 2005 holiday we had with Lyndon's family! :-) Feels good to get that done. Not going to "publish" them on my blog though ... too much to blur out and can't be bothered!

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But you can see these ones. These are photos from the "to scrap" pile as well. Actually they are all pics of Aaron from September 2006. Him and I had a week with my parents and I took tons of photos (as I do!).

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Used the new snorkel range from Cosmo Cricket. Cool paper. I have HEAPS of other neat bath and swimming photos I could have used with this, but didn't have the photos printed and I am trying to scrap photos in my pile, so these ones got the cool paper! I hand wrote the journaling amongst the fish at the bottom of the page.

I bought a DCWV paper stack when I was in Singapore at the beginning of the year ... it's called the Green Stack. Also bought the box of embellishments to go with it and shared them with Mum. This is the first LO I've done with the papers.

And more Basic Grey Archaic :-) Had this LO done for ages actually, just finished the journaling today.

Okay, off to sort tea out. Thanks for looking.

Reaveal of SnC's Reminiscence Kit

Here's what I created with the April kit from Scrap-n-Crop called Reminiscence. I had such a lot of fun with this kit. Scrapped some older photos and some new ones too :-) AND used tons of scraps from my cardstock box to make a series of cards.
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I would have thought Val picked the music sheets sheets especially for me ... but I don't think she did ... they were all in order as they'd been taken from the book. But they sure were appropriate ;-)
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I made 6 LO's, a mini album and 18 cards using the kit. If you check out the gallery I've written under each one what I've used from the kit or my stash. You can also see in the gallery what Sharmaine made ... or check her blog post here (she's added some more pages from her mini album).
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Spaghetti LO - the base cardstock was actually a pale blue and I was really struggling with what to do with it because I knew I wanted to use these photos and the music sheet ("on top of spaghetti"). It was the last piece of cardstock from the kit and my last LO ... then I had the brainwave (which lots of others have had before me! lol) of spraying the billyo out of it ... and yep I used my new olive vine glimmer mist heheheee

Musician's LO - check out the music sheet ("Battle Hymn of the Children") hehehee (Not that these 2 were fighting then :-)

Art Deco Home LO ... most disgusted with myself that I never took any photos of our house before we left Auckland. I can't believe it. I did lots of video (although I am not sure where exactly that is!), but no photos! Used one from 2004. Sigh ... moving countries and new babies do that to ones brain I suppose.

Mum LO - Cute huh :-) And there's that olive vine glimmer mist again (wonder if I should buy another bottle!).

Dad LO - he's cute too :-) Like the title on the record? "Golden Boy" heheee

Wait LO - a LO for Aaron's album about how we waited, and waited, and waited for him to arrive ;-)

A little mini album. It's full of cute photos too! Decided I would do a little album of baby/toddler photos of mine and Lyndon's parents as well as us for the kids to look at so that they can see what we were like as kids. The inside pages of this album are covered in paper that isn't in the kit, it's from my stash, but the same brand and theme as the cover patterned paper. Perfect :-)

And 18 cards.

Altered cigar box to hold my cotton collection (for someone that doesn't sew I sure have a lot!). Like I said in yesterday's post, I didn't actually use any paper from the kit on this, but see that blue/white lace paper at the top of the lid (right corner) well that is the same brand and collection as a piece of the patterned paper in the kit. Scrap-n-Crop have the papers here.

Okay gotta go ... while I have been doing this post my son (although I don't want to own him at this point) has been very busy with his scissors cutting pieces of paper into tiny pieces. BUT I have just discovered that Maddison, who has been up at my craft desk, has had a hair cut!!! I am not amused ... thankfully it doesn't look so bad although he's cut a lot off. So yes Lyndon you can say "I told you so"! Sigh ... will post pics of the damage later. Bye.

Game of Pool Anyone?

There's a pool table down near our playground and the kids love playing on it!! Now normally this isn't something I would have EVER let my kids do, but what do you do when it seems like every other little boy under 5 in the complex does this?? And worse, their parents lift my kids up to play on it too before I can say "ummm excuse me, but NO!". Sigh ... so now it's something they like to do once they have worn themselves out in the sun, they scamper back here where it's marginally cooler and play!

Discovered this morning there's 3 new turtles in the pond too - little ones! Not sure if the big turtle laid eggs and they hatched, or they got some more. The new ones are very shy though, they dive back under the water as soon as they catch a glimpse of movement. See how green the water is. Gross aye. On Friday last week they had emptied out the pond and had cleaned it and now look ... 4 days later it's full of turtle poop! ugggh

Here's my last sneaks of some cards I made for the April kit for Scrap-n-Crop. Full reveal tomorrow when the kit goes on sale. :-)

Here's a sneak too of something else I made and Val from SnC said I should put it up as I've used some papers very similar to what's in the kit. :-) Just finished it last night actually heheee

Another October Afternoon LO

Just had to use up the last of my scraps from the Hometown & Detours collections from October Afternoon. And another photo that was sitting in my pile :-) One day I will see the bottom of that pile I am sure!!

I cut out lots of the apples and a couple I foamed out.

Getting the most out of those alphas too :-)

Monday - 1st Day of School Holidays

And I've survived :-) Actually we've had a lovely day. The kids were really good considering! Last night we had visitors and had a late tea and amongst the visitors was a little boy aged 2 and a half, and the kids had so much fun together, so you can imagine it was a late night and 2 very wound up little kids to put to bed once the visitors had gone. They were up around 7.30am which is a sleep in for them, so that was nice :-)
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Maddison had a sleep from 10.30am till noon and during lunch Aaron informed me that he was very tired and really needed to go to bed!! (LOL at the "really need to" heheee). So he went to bed after lunch and slept for just over 2 hours! Sweet :-) Not going to complain about that.
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I've noticed that when I am in with Maddison putting her to bed Aaron will forget that I have told him what I'm doing and will walk around the house calling (actually it's more like yelling!) "Mummy, where are you?". And this afternoon when I was putting Aaron to bed Maddison was wandering around calling out (she's a bit quieter than Aaron though hehee) "where are uuuu". So cute to hear her saying that.
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After Aaron woke from his sleep they had some quiet time reading books and having a snack ... Aaron is totally fixated with anything to do with racing cards (Ferrari's in particular!) at the moment!

Maddison is in her own little world!

Lyndon came home from work a bit earlier and took Aaron to get a few groceries and to bank a cheque, then while tea was cooking we all went for a swim.

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And now ... there's another thunder storm happening outside, Lyndon is trying to get the kids to sleep (unless he's fallen asleep too!) and I'm about to go and load up the dryer with towels.

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I'll leave you with another couple of sneaks of a LO I've done for the April Kit for Scrap-n-Crop.

Oh look there's another snowman :-) hehee