Scrap-n-Crop Art Retreat with Irene Tan

On Saturday I spent the day at Scrap-n-Crop's Scrap.Abode with a group of lovely ladies all there for an art retreat with Irene Tan. We altered a little "treasure" box and made a mini album for inside it. Lots of inking and stamping :-) Sure wish I could have gone to Sunday's class as well. I saw the album they were going to do and it was just gorgeous!

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We decorated this little box.

The inside with the album in it.
And without the album.
The bottom of the box (see how small it is!) :-)
The album. It was a Clear Scraps one and I love how you can put their little mini albums through the cuttlebug. Looks so effective. I still have some glittering to do on my album. I didn't do it in class as I knew it wouldn't dry in time to take it home. (You will have to imagine the glitter!!)
One of the inside pages.

Now I wonder who's chair I am sitting on with that packet of chocs in front of it!! ;-) (just keeping the baby happy hehee)
Us all except for Val - she was taking the photo (thanks Val for the photo!).
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Do they think this is their new school uniform?

I sure hope not!!!

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Aaron is really into Ben 10 at the moment - it's driving me slightly crazy, but what's worse is that whatever he does Maddison has to do too. So he's "given" her his other Ben 10 tee-shirt and this morning they decided together that they would wear them to school! Honestly!

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Aaron had his Ben 10 watch on and wanted Maddison to have one too ... some how I managed to avoid all the questions on that one. But no doubt I'll get them again! (I am NOT buying her a Ben 10 watch thank you very much!)

This pic makes me grin - Aaron gave her a hug and she just leans back (hard) and squashes him against the door and stands on his foot by the looks! hehehee

I think I can safety say she's a bit of a tom-boy! And a little scruffy one at that! hehee

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Little People's Conversations ...

The last few days the kids have said some funny things, so thought I'd share them here.

The other night we had soup for dinner and Maddison was picking up the bowl and drinking from it if you please! I asked her to use her spoon and she replied ...

"It's 'licious Mummy, just 'licious"!!

(Needless to say she didn't use the spoon!)

Maddison came to me one afternoon and said rather proudly ...

"I done poo's Mummy, I stink, it's 'gusting"

I had to agree with her!

After picking up Maddison from school today we got inside and she says with a big dramatic sigh ...

"I very tired".

So I suggested she have a sleep, but that was a complete waste of words on my part!

Yesterday after picking up Aaron from his music lesson he informed me ...

"I don't like music Mummy".

"Oh why is that Aaron?"

"Cause it makes me hurt all over!"

"Really, that's not good, what is it about music that makes you hurt all over?"

"The teachers make a terrible noise"!!!

I just laughed to be honest ... I mean seriously, how can he blame it on the teachers! ;-) He makes me hurt all over too when he cranks up a loud beat on the keyboard at home and just dances around like a loony (although he says he's dancing like Ben 10!!).

And tonight Aaron informed me

"I can't go to sleep Mummy because my tummy is too big"!!

hahahaa

My reply was "Really ... if you think you have a big tummy and can't sleep, what about Mummy's tummy? She still manages to sleep and her tummy is a lot bigger than yours!"

He grinned at me and said

"Yeah, Mummy's tummy is going to get bigger, 'n bigger, 'n bigger and then POP and then the baby will see you!"

Well how fascinating! I sure hope it doesn't happen like that - would be awfully messy!!! He seems convinced though that this baby is going POP out anyway.

This'n'that

Not much happening around here. I have done a few more LO's (without journaling!) for our holiday album. Here's a couple.

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A double LO - but in between this I am going to put a sleeve that holds 12 6x4 photos because I had FAR too many photos of this particular outing but really wanted to include them in my album, so decided this was the easiest way to do it without cropping them to bits. (Will also save space!) hehee

Ready, set, go - I used up some alpha stickers and I used foam dots to lift out some of the circles which I cut & punched from old Prima paper.

On a different note ...

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Some people might think I am fussy ... well I used to be. But I don't think I am near as fussy as I used to be, especially now I have kids. For instance, I don't really care if the beds aren't made - it doesn't bother me (10 years ago it did!). But if you are going to make the bed then you might as well do it properly right?

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This is how the maid makes the kids beds ... (I am not even going to take a pic of our bed).

I mean seriously - why bother! Just look at Maddison's bed. It looks worse than what it did when she got out of it this morning!

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My problem ... I don't have the heart to tell the maid how to do it properly. Can't be bothered! So there you go ... I am definitely not as fussy as I used to be right? ;-)

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Okay of to try and do some journaling before I pick Maddison up from school.

Time for a Swim

It was over 35degs here today ... so Lyndon took the kids for a swim. I opted to sit on a bench with the camera (this baby has outgrown my togs!). ;-)

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I got out the water squirter's for the kids to play with. They had so much fun ... mainly attacking Daddy! heheehee

Maddison is trying to have a go with Daddy's one - but she didn't have the oomph to get it to squirt at full power!
Love the leg out!
Lining up the water to squirt in Daddy's ear!!


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Love the look on Aaron's face here. Sums up their time at the pool just right I think :-)

On a completely different note ... has this happened to anyone else? I was flicking through a couple of my albums the other night and found this LO had come to grief. The adhesive I had used just wasn't working at all! And if I am correct it's not one I bought at a scrapbook shop - it was a tape runner I got from a stationery shop that was acid free and I thought it would do (it was also a bit cheaper). I was really disappointed though. Hope it doesn't happen to too many more of my LO's. I can't remember how many I did using that tape runner. Obviously it doesn't pay to get "bargain" adhesive! :-(

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