What's been happening?

Were to start?? I had every intention of updating the blog on Thursday, but that went out the window when Lyndon pocketed the key to the computer/craft room and went to work!! Not the most productive day I have had (ended up going to bed with a book, of which I read for about 10 minutes then promptly went to sleep LOL). (And for those that don't know, we lock the door to the computer/craft room to keep the little angels out heheheee. Aaron's very good at playing on the computer and Maddison makes a beeline for my desk!)
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The kids "helped" the cleaner in the morning by creating more work for her :-) They helped by cleaning the mirrors and windows. Usually I try and keep them entertained in the computer room while the cleaner is here, but with no key she just had to put up with them!! Aaron had an empty spray bottle which I put some water in, he thought he was so clever!

Not sure if you can see properly in the photo below, but he's got the wet cloth tucked under his chin, if you please, while he's working the spray trigger!!

Maddison just expects the spray to work by holding it real close to the mirror :-) heehee

Serious business this cleaning you know!
"Oh no!!!" Can't remember what she was oh no-ing about here, but there was some big story she was telling me hehee

Friday came and went, can't recall exactly what we did to be honest! Saturday morning I went to Scrap-n-Crop for a class (see separate blog post) while Lyndon looked after the kids :-) Then when I got home (mid afternoon) we decided to go to the mall at Sunway. I hadn't been there for over a year, so it was sort of interesting (I am not much of a shopper!) Lyndon bought some stuff for the computer, I bought some books for me and the kids, we had tea at Nandos, had an ice-cream, watched the people ice skating then came home!

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Maddison and I had an ice-cream while Lyndon was getting his computer bits, so when they finished Aaron had one which he very kindly shared with Maddison LOL Look at his tongue! heheee you would think he should be doing the licking not her!

So to share an ice-cream, one person has to lie stretched out on the table and lean down to lick, and the person who's ice-cream it is can sometimes be a bit of a meanie and hold the ice-cream down even lower so you nearly fall off the table head first trying to lick the jolly thing! (sometimes when we are out it's nice to pretend that these kids don't really belong to us LOL)

I want to join Rachel Greig in Scrap-n-Crop.com's ART RETREAT because ...

So who else has booked?? ;-)
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My reasons for going are still the same (see previous post here), but check out what Rachel Greig said in the comments of Scrap-n-Crop's blog here ... there's even more incentive to win now :-) She's very generous ... a special goodie prize bag for whoever wins a 1-day pass to SnC's art retreat, plus there's other prizes to be won as well :-) Goodie Goodie ... I like goodies :-)
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You can check out the details of Scrap-n-Crop's Art Retreat with Rachel Greig here and here ... and the details of how to win a 1-Day pass to this event are here.

14 Years of Bliss

:-) heheee
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This is just a quick post before we have lunch. Here's the card I made for Lyndon ... I went for ivory pearls on the card as my token contribution to the 14th wedding anniversary theme! LOL

Card Materials - Bazzil cardstock, Patterned papers = Cosmo Cricket Jacks World, Fancy Pants Daily Grind, Kaiser pearls
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I made an envelope wallet to hold some "vouchers" as Lyndon's gift. (He's kinda hard to buy for! :-) !!!)
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Back -

Wallet materials - Patterned papers = Chatterbox, Fancy Pants Daily Grind, Prima flowers, Bazzil brads
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I made six vouchers, but you can only see one at the moment ... consider this a sneak peak of Scrap-n-Crop's May kit :-) heheee

And the conditions of the voucher were printed on the back :-)

Voucher materials - Bazzil Cardstock, Patterned papers = Autumn Leaves, Anna Griffin, Hero Arts Clear stamps (2 types of alphas), Fiskars threading water punch.
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Thanks for looking.

Happy Birthday

To our Darling :-) heheee Here's the cards the kids made for Lyndon - the cream one is from Maddison, the blue from Aaron and the green piece of "art work" is from Aaron :-) It was from my card scrap box and already had the spirals cut out of it. He just added the star punch, scribbles and circle embellishment.

Here's Aaron showing Daddy the card he made!

And them both "helping" unwrap his present.

WOW

And the birthday boy off to work with his cake. Too much to leave here and us eat it all! (My clothes won't thank me!) So his work mates can help scoff it :-)

Yesterday we went to a Thai restaurant for lunch with Aunty Irene and Rachel (another friend). I didn't get the camera out though till all the food was finished! Duh ... so here's the messy table :-)

Mr pop-eyes!
Aaron's got hold of the camera here! He likes cutting off heads for some reason! Or maybe he was getting a photo of his drink bottle!

Found this photo on the camera too ... not sure if this was Lyndon or Aaron ... Lyndon I suspect? :-) Aaron's turned his train tack into a racing car track!

Maddison getting Rosie & Thomas to kiss :-)

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Kids are back to school this afternoon :-) I am hoping to get some scrappy stuff done. So I will scamper off now and get Maddison to bed for her nap and deal with the PILES of washing! (Where does it all come from???)

Scrap-it-Lah

There's a couple of lovely ladies in KL that have started a challenge blog ... the first for Malaysia :-) It's called Scrap-it-Lah.

Here's a wee snippet that I copied from their blog ... "Why the name Scrap-it-Lah? Lah is a very commonly used slang attached every single last word in the sentence. It's a very popular slang -which does not mean anything but we Malaysians used it anyway!"

It's true ... 'Lah' is heard everywhere :-) (I don't think I say it though ... not yet anyway!)

Their first challenge is up ... check it out on their blog and here's my entry.

I actually think this is the first Christmas LO I have done for Christmas 08! Hummmm ... wonder if my Christmas photos will get scrapped before next Christmas appears!! LOL