Life, Fairytales & Scrapping

Well life has been in full swing here.

Rhyley is doing well with his tutoring in the short time he has 

been attending he has already improved & I fully credit his wonderful tutor. 

She is a ex-teacher & she is wonderful with him, honestly he really seems 

to understand everything she is teaching him & he's enjoying it too! 

He actually looks forward to Thursday - as it's the day we go to the tutor, 

I am SO glad we have found her & I am hoping Rhyley's report card for 

Maths shows this improvement too.

Jason is enjoying his new job which is fantastic - he gets on well with 

his bosses & his workmate so hopefully there will be NO job changes for 

quiet awhile!

Rhyley & I have settled into a nice little routine since Jason has been away 

working & I have to say Rhyley is better behaved for me during the week

 than he is on weekends when Dad's home- much to his father's dismay lol.

So 3 weeks ago after months of teaser trailers (I kid you not!) 

Channel 7 started showing Once Upon A Time (of course if you live in the US you 

know season 1 has already finished), but here we are up to episode 3 & honestly 

after the first episode I couldn't wait it out 22 weeks to see what was going to 

happen - so I jumped online & found somewhere I could watch the whole series!

If you don't know what Once Upon A Time is I suggest you jump online 

& find it,watch it, cause I am sure you'll LOVE it!, if you love a good fairytale 

you'll love this show.  

So for the last 3 weeks I have been obsessively watching it! 

I found it really hard NOT to stay up all night watching episode after episode,

& I somehow managed to drag myself to bed without losing too much sleep,

now that I have finished the first season I seriously can't wait to see what is 

in store for the fairytale characters of Storybrooke.

There are SO many questions I want answered & theories I have that I want to 

see if I'm right about & hopefully Channel 7 will fast track season 2 here so we 

aren't so far behind the States!

Now that I have finished watching Once Upon A Time I have had sometime to

scrapbook & I will share with you what I have done.

Over at Peppermint Creative the Minty Mixed Bag Challenge was an Ad Challenge 

& this is what I came up with.

Here are the credits

 

The next one is a Facebook cover photo I made using MissMint's awesome new

freebie that is available on the Peppermint Creative fanpage! Just head on over, 

like the page, download the freebie, create a Cover photo & comment on the page 

so MissMint can check out your creation & you could win one of 3 prizes! 

 All products used are 

from Peppermint Creative

Last but not least!

Rhyley is Almost 10 so I wanted to do a countdown page of sorts to the big milestone

& this is it: 

 Here are the credits

Well that is all for now folks I am off to finish up a page I have in the works you

never know I may post it tomorrow ;)

Until next time,

Post iNSD....

Well, if you are a scrapbooker then you know this past weekend scrapbookers around 

world celebrated interNational Scrapbook Day with scrap parties, blog/facebook hops, 

freebies and sales, sales and more SALES!

Seriously how do you manage your scrap budget when the bargains are just TOO 

good to pass up? 

It is a problem and I am sure I am not the only one faced with this problem. 

For me it's about not impulse shopping the hype of a big sale can be very much 

like a drug, you get that heart pounding rush from the excitement and this is 

what can lead to problems and overspending! 

So I thought I'd share what I do when there is a digital scrapbook sale.

1. Set a budget - if I can only spend $30, I stick to it! It's hard but at least I won't be 

kicking myself later.

2. Shop around and make note of when the sites sale finishes - finding the best bargains, biggest discounts, longer sale time = more for my money.

3. I go shopping but I DON'T checkout straight away! - I close the site, walk away 
and come back later (this way I can think about if I REALLY want to buy the items).


4. I go back to the site where I know I REALLY want to buy from first and 
I go through my shopping cart and decide if I REALLY want/will use the 
items in my cart or am I buying because it's on sale?! 


5. Then I trim the stuff I don't really want (if I feel I may want to buy it later or 
at the next sale I add it to my Wishlist, for the next time there's a sale.)

6. I complete my purchases and download the files (sometimes I wait until later do 
this since the sites can lag on downloads during sale times). 


7. Lastly I use my new goodies - I definitely create more AFTER a sale than normal 
and it's simply because I want to try out my new stuff!

I hope my tips are useful and help you get the most out of your next digital 
scrapbooking sale experience!
Obviously I have been shopping for new scrap supplies and I got lots of great 
bargains and was able to afford some things from my wishlists because of the great 
sales.

So here are some of the new pages I have made this weekend:

This page was made using MissMint's PB&J Kit which is FREE with any purchase from Peppermint Creative of just $1.00 or you can purchase the kit for $4.50 and I used 
one of the templates from Sara Gleason & Crystal Livesay's 3rd {i}NSD 2012 Grab Bag

Credits Here & Here

This page was made using Sara Gleason's Ambrosia {album} & MissMint's Artsy Fartsy Kit and I actually already had both these in my stash but I was inspired :)

  Credits Here & Here
 

Anyway I'm off to scrap some more with my new goodies.
Until next time,

Change....

Well hello there...

I know, I know yet again I have neglected my poor, poor blog.

I swear if my blog was a friend it would probably never want to speak with me again 

(or at least not for a very long time lol.)

Well they say change is as good as a holiday but I beg to differ. 
In the last few months we have had so much change, we've changed address (a nightmare in itself there especially trying to find rentals in Mackay), Jason change jobs 3 times (he just started a new and better job 2 weeks ago so hopefully there will be NO more for a while), our family dynamics are changing too - Jason's new job will take him away from home during the week which means it'll just be me and the boy (a big change but we've done it before, so I'm confident it won't be a problem).


Other than these changes in the last few months I have completed my Certificate II in Retail, been looking and applying for part-time work, looking for a new rental property, packing up our stuff, moving out of our old house/into our new house, taking Rhyley to Maths tutoring, Easter, school holidays, a return train trip to Bundaberg (10 loooonnnnng hours each way) to celebrate my Pop's 90th (yes, it's quiet a milestone!), watching Rhyley march at the ANZAC day parade and so much more it is actually making me sleepy just thinking about it all.

So as you can imagine blogging has been the last thing I've had time for, I haven't really 
had the time to scrap either or the desire.
But I managed to put the following pages together over the past few months:

This one was for a Mixed Bag Monday Challenge over at Peppermint Creative

Credits

The next ones are layouts from my Pop's 90th birthday lunch. 

I used MissMint's funky new Celebration Station Collection and Basil by Sara Gleason

Credits

 Credits

This one was made using the free Pimp My Page Template from Peppermint Creative head over there to grab your copy

  Credits

 Anyway it's time to wrap this up. I'm off to do some more scrapping.

So until next time,