Prima Big Secret ...

Prima are giving away another prize in conjunction with their Big Secret Promotion :-)

Nice huh. Check out their blog for details.

2 x Double LO's

I did a couple of double LO's yesterday for our holiday album. :-) Funny thing ... I used to (and must confess sometimes I still do, but I do think a bit harder about it now!) buy paper I liked and would usually get two sheets, without even knowing what I would use it for. It was a "just because" purchase - know what I mean? ;-)

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Anyway when I was thinking about what papers to use for this '1st few days' LO I found this paper ... and the reason I bought it was because I liked the colours, flowers & swirls on it. But what do you know ... I didn't even use that side of the paper! (I have a feeling that might happen a bit more when I am doing this album heheee)

I journaled with mini alpha stickers ... man that takes absolute ages!! (does use up the sticker stash though!) :-)

Hummm that is a bright blue isn't it (by the way it goes nicely with broken china distress ink!!) And the Cosmo Cricket strips of paper are on straight ... I just didn't take the photo straight so when I cropped it it looks crooked - sorry.

So far I have done 28 pages for this album ... and when you look at my stack of photos still you wouldn't even think I had started! And I have been culling photos as I go! Some of the photos I got printed I want to use for the kids individual albums, so I won't scrap them for now. I want to prioritise the actual holiday album itself.

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I have a couple of aims/challenges for myself for this holiday album ...

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1. To try and complete before baby #3 arrives (hummm is that wishful thinking??) ;-)
2. To use only what stash I have (that includes alpha stickers do you hear Rachel!).
   I have a few sets of alpha stamps and I am pretty sure I have a brand new die cut alpha set that I can run through my cuttlebug ... so there's no excuse right! No doubt after another 30 odd pages I will be muttering to myself about setting such a stipulation! hehee

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Have also decided to try and keep track of how many LO's I have done so far this year & will do before the baby comes ... not sure how much I will get done after he/she arrives! So I am going to put up a tally in my right column just for interest. :-)

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Scrap-it-Lah March Challenge

Scrap-it-Lah's challenge for March is easy :-) Scrap some photos you have taken during your holidays! My biggest challenge was deciding which photos to scrap! hehehee

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I had some paper scraps left over from Scrap-n-Crop's last art retreat with Iris, so decided to use them with these pics taken of Henry the Tuatara and his babies at the Southland Museum.

Scrap-it-Lah have two RAKS this month - one for the challenge and one for their refurbished blog :-) They have a blinkie (you can check it out on the right), so check out their blog for details on how to win. :-)

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Kinda Sweet LO's

Here's the last of the LO's I created last month with papers & embellishments from Kinda Sweet. Using more photos from our NZ holiday last year :-)

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Peek-a-boo LO

Patterned paper, crocheted flowers & birds from Kinda Sweet. (Birds cut from another patterned paper and foam taped out.)

Snuggles LO

Patterned paper, alphas & numbers from Kinda Sweet.

Maddison LO

Patterned paper, fibre, alphas, birds from Kinda Sweet.

Dinosaur Cake LO

Patterned paper from Kinda Sweet.

Birthday Party LO

Patterned paper and stickers from Kinda Sweet.

New Trend? LO

Patterned paper and rub-ons from Kinda Sweet.

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Build an Airport ...

That's what Aaron did this afternoon (with some help from Daddy).

It was very high tech as it even had the baggage handler running the length of it to load all the bags onto the plane (yellow & blue blocks near the planes tail).
Aaron's attempt at pointing to the baggage! haha
Five minutes after taking the photo he'd destroyed it ... I think that's what the wooden tractor & 4-wheeler were on standby for!!

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Tonight Lyndon requested a chicken rice dish for tea. I just looked at him and said 'hummm'. So he found this recipe for me. I decided it was going to be a bit time consuming (I am a lazy cook and besides it was after 4pm) and I didn't have any mushroom soup anyway. So I did another google search, but every chicken rice dish I found had mushroom soup in it. So I thought to myself since I had to waddle down to the supermarket to get the soup, to save time I'll combine two recipes, the one he found and this one. It's nearly finished cooking ... I wonder what it will be like ;-) I just put it all in the dish together, gave it a good stir and shoved it in the oven :-) Very quick & easy - hope it tastes okay!! (Oh I didn't put in any paprika as Mr 4 doesn't eat anything spicy!!!)

Right better go and check it I suppose.

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*** Edited to add ... dinner was actually very yummy! Will be making it again for sure. Lyndon had seconds and Aaron even ate it without much fuss! ;-) (Note: I did add another 1/2 cup of water to the mixture and I am glad I did - only took an hour to cook and the chicken wasn't thawed properly - diced chicken fillets). ***