Scrap Happy

So for the past month I have been a guest on Sara Gleason's creative team
over at The Lily-Pad. It has been a great experience so far and I have been
getting a far bit of scrapbooking done as a result!
September is my last month guesting which is a little sad but this experience really
has inspired me to apply for more Creative Team calls in the future.
The worst that can possibly happen is I get knocked back, right?!

So here are some of the pages I have made recently:

This layout documents Rhyley starting at his new school last year.
I used Sara Gleason's Apple Tree kit and Apple Tree Template (former freebie)

Credits are here & here

This photo was taken when we went to Finch Hatton Show on Rhyley's 10th 

birthday. I used the Summer Bucket List Kit and Sara Gleason's template 

from the kit. 

Credits here & here

Unless you have been living under a rock, you've heard of the 50 Shades of Grey.
I devoured the 3 books in 4 days!
I loved them SO much I decided to scrap a page in a Shades of Grey theme.
I used Sara Gleason's Phlox templates for this page

Credits here, here & here

So lately other than scrapbooking - I have been learning how to crochet.
Here is a page done using Sara Gleason's Repotted.

Credits here, here & here

This layout I decided to use Sara Gleason's Happy Stripey Alpha to describe
Rhyley with words that start with his initial. So R is for.... was created.

Check the credits here, here & here

This layout was made using Sara Gleason's Learning Garden templates. 

It was the perfect template for scrapping about Rhyley's Maths tutoring!

Credits are here, here & here

The last layout I used Sara Gleason's Elmwood templates.
I also used MissMint's Grill Master Elements and Papers which fit perfectly
with the photos of Jason cooking a roast on the spit!

Check out the credits:

here, here & here

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

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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,

A Little Birdie Has Come to Nest

On Tuesday I was letting our dogs out for the day when I noticed this bird's nest hanging from the "clothesline" we have hanging under our back veranda.

There was no bird in the nest so I decided to have a peek inside and what did I spy?, a tiny little egg!

The tiny egg inside the nest

I was curious to find out what sort of bird had built this strange looking nest so I of course jumped on to the computer to Google what new life we will be seeing in the New Year.

After a little while I found what I was looking for and discovered we had a little family of Olive-Backed Sunbirds (commonly known as Yellow Bellied Sunbirds).

 Olive-Backed Sunbird Nest

I have been keeping an eye on the Mumma bird and she has been sitting on her precious little egg all day long. Can't wait until Rhyley is home after Christmas to see the nest with the Mumma bird in it and wait for the egg to hatch and watch the Mumma and Pappa bird raise there little baby in the New Year!

 Mumma Sunbird sitting in her nest

So today I was actually in the mood to do a little scrapbooking!  

Here are the layouts and with these two layouts I have achieved my goal of 52 layouts for the year!!

YAY!!! GO ME!! 

This layout is for the December Pimp My Page Challenge at Peppermint Creative (head over there to grab the freebie template) 

Credits are here

This layout I made using Grow With Love: Kids Edition by Sara Gleason & Crystal Livesay, Valorie Wibben's Platform 9 and 3/4 and Miss Mint's awesome new freebie kit Movie Night  

Credits here

Well I really must finish up got lots to do tomorrow before our trip away!

Until next time,