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Thought I might do this too since everyone else seems to be :-) (Didn't give anyone a halo though heheee)

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Spring @ Home mini

Finished off the little album from Scrap-n-Crop's Saturday Crop.Arty last night. You can see what tutor Penny did on SnC's blog here. For some reason I thought they were both little "Spring" albums, so I put the word spring on the cover, then I realised this was supposed a little "home" album. hehehee So this is my "Spring @ Home" album :-) I just took some photos around our condo of different plants and flowers.

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This photo is underneath the pic above.

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I haven't made the second one yet (Penny actually made 3 minis out of the kit!), have some other things to finish first!!

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Thanks for looking.

A Bit of This and a Bit of That

I've been a bit slack in the blogging department sorry! So this post is a bit of a ramble ... mainly a catch up on the kids.
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They are both enjoying school. Don't particularly want me to leave, but once I do they settle down quickly and get involved.
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On Friday Maddison bought home her first lot of artwork :-) heheee. The first one is painting with cotton buds.

This one is just a free-for-all with yellow paint by the looks :-)

And this one is "free colouring". I think she had a little bit of help with the green pencil! LOL

And on Friday Aaron didn't want to leave he was very busy with the others colouring. This is his latest creation. It was actually really neat until he saw me then he just went crazy and scribbled all over the place! So I've called it his "Melting Ice cream" artwork LOL Like how he's written his name? He can spell it real good, just not so good at writing small a's and n's!!

Today we've started a "star chart" (or star charge as Aaron calls it! snigger snigger) for Aaron. It's just for about 6 things that he needs to work on! So we'll see how it goes.

I've realised I need to reward his "good" behaviour too, not just keep punishing his bad behaviour. So this morning he "helped" me make this chart and we wrote a list of things that I'd like him to do so he can get stars. If he's particularly bad then stars will be taken off the chart. So far he's got 2 stars today :-) One was for playing nicely this morning and not yelling and fighting (with me or Maddison!), and the other was for walking to school and not yelling and crying and whinging that he didn't want to go and he wanted on the computer. Will be interesting to see how he responds to it. We've decided his rewards will be on Saturdays, if Lyndon's home then we'll go swimming (I don't do that with them on my own!) or to the park to feed the turtles, or maybe Lyndon will take him somewhere special like to the Thomas Shop to play with the trains there. If Lyndon's not home then I'll take them to the playground and do something with them that we don't do that often, like the bubble machines etc.

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Yesterday we were discussing this star chart with Aaron and what it means, how he can get stars etc. etc. and we'd been out in the car and when we got back Lyndon was getting him out of the car and he told Aaron not to run off because it's dangerous and there might be a car coming etc. (I'll just add that this little speech happens EVERY time he gets out of the car, by either me or Lyndon and it doesn't seem to make much difference! anyway) Aaron just looked at him and grinned. So Lyndon said, "Do you understand Aaron? Do you know what dangerous means?" There's a bit of a pause then Aaron goes "Yes, it means fall down"!! LOL Lyndon and I just grinned at each other. (Think he's got that from us telling him not to jump on the couch or bed because it's "dangerous" and he could fall and hurt himself.)

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Maddison's latest words are:- MORE (this is said very loudly) and See :-)

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So life is interesting isn't it. They come out with all sorts of little things that make us laugh, even when we are cross with them. Ahhhh what would we do without the little darlings huh!?? :-)

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On Saturday afternoon the kids and I went to Scrap-n-Crop for a Crop.Arty. I haven't quite finished the little mini album I started. It's about 90% done. I've been out this afternoon and taken some photos and just want to put them in before I blog it. So hopefully tomorrow I can do that. I have been scrapping a little too, but not doing a LO a day unfortunately. Most of what I have been doing is kit stuff, so I can't show you yet anyway!

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Lyndon got back from Korea on Saturday night and so far he's not heading away this week! Woo Hoo :-)

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Okay, off to organise something for tea so it's ready when the kids are finished school.

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud!

I've been playing with the Basic Grey Archaic range ... had it in my stash for a little while now and finally had the chance to do something with some of it :-)
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Playing in the Mud LO was accepted in the Basic Grey Gallery :-)


All Basic Grey products from Archaic range, except for alphas from the Ambrosia range which I sanded and then inked with distress ink. The "rocks" on the truck are from the chipboard shape stickers and the rocks "falling off the truck" are cut from one of the borders on the sticker element sheet.
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Did this one as well - again all Basic Grey Archaic except for cardstock on the base and matting on photo. I just love those dinos :-)

Catch Up

Didn't feel like blogging much at the end of last week ... so this is a bit of a catch up.
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Thursday I think it was the kids did some colouring in :-) Aaron's singing away that's why his mouth is open in most of the photos! He was singing Old McDonald had a Farm (but it was his version ... like "on his farm there was a tiger" and there was also a zebra, a snake and a rooster heheheee) Maddison spent the majority of the time changing her pen and pulling the lids off and putting them back on!

On Sunday Lyndon built the front half of this train track for Aaron. He thought it was pretty neat. And on Monday it was a public holiday, so Lyndon and Aaron went away off in the morning to do some "shopping" (i.e. visit the Thomas shop!). They came back VERY pleased with themselves! Lyndon has had his eye on the Roller Coaster set for a while now (oh sorry, maybe that should have been Aaron!) hehehee. Anyway it found it's way to our place. But it was a disappointment actually. If you have a Thomas fan at your house and they like the look of this set, don't bother! Truly, it's not worth it. It's really hard to line up, the track doesn't sit nice and flat on the bends and little people (e.g. Maddison!) only need to touch it and the uprights move a bit and the track falls apart. VERY annoying for Mummy, believe me! Looks good on the box, but we were disappointed. (btw the track doesn't look like this now! LOL, the roller coaster set is in many pieces and half of them over the floor!)

Last night we had spaghetti for tea ... well some spag and some pasta because I didn't have enough. So I had to take some photos ... especially for a LO using the April kit for Scrap-n-Crop :-) hehehee

Lyndon was booked to fly to Korea Monday ... but he got his times a little bit muddled LOL Thought he was leaving at 1am Tuesday morning, but it was actually supposed to be 1am Monday morning! (whoops). Never mind, he's there now, and we didn't mind at all having him home all day Monday especially since it was a public holiday :-)
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I have been scrapping, but most of it is stuff I can't show you yet. I can't say I have done a LO a day though ... last week I did 5 and a half LO's, started a mini album (liking my new Zutter!) and shuffled a lot of paper. Very cross because I KNOW I have some photos SOMEWHERE of my parents when they were kids and do you think I can find them! GRRRR ... I have seen them recently too, but they have vanished into goodness knows where!

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Yesterday while the kids were at school I didn't do any scrapping ... I read a book, cleaned up the kids mess, did the dishes, and spent over an hour on the phone to the airline I'm using in April to go to Singapore because I didn't have my e-ticket emailed to me. I've been trying them on and off for nearly 2 weeks. I finally got through at quarter past 4! Phew. All booked and confirmed so happy about that.

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Okay, that's enough woffle ... bye for now!