Stuck?! Sketches Blog Hop

If you have arrived here because you are hopping along with the Stuck?! Sketches blog hop, welcome! One lucky winner from those hopping will receive a We’re Savvy kit from Scrapbook Savvy! Who wouldn’t want to win this gorgeous kit?

For your chance to win, leave a comment and collect the words from each blog on the hop. The words are just a list, they do not form a sentence, so no being tricky and skipping any of the blogs. Once you have finished, email the list of words to stucksketches@optusnet.com.au along with your name and location by midnight Sunday August 28th.

If you've just discovered the hop, you can get started HERE.

And, here is the full list just in case you get lost...

Celeste

Chantelle

Charmane

Felicity

Helen <<< you are here

Linda

Melinda

Raquel

Sarah

Tara

Tess

So, your next stop on the hop is Linda

Don't forget to write down your word, before you go – DECORATIONS

Exciting news to share ...

Lookie over here ...

Announcing ...

And lookie at the new blinkie down the RH side bar!

Woohoo and congratulations to everyone on the Creative Team. Cant wait :)

Happy Birthday to RES!

Can you believe it? Red Earth Scrapping is one year old!!!
WOW, how exciting to have come this far in the journey ... here's to many more years of sharing this fabulous craft with my special RES members.
Make sure you check the forum for details of the various birthday celebrations happening throughout the month.

Speaking of birthdays, we just celebrated Ciaran's 5th birthday here on the 29th July ...

We had a quiet day at home and I made his cake request, the "Huff & Puff" Dragon from the good ol' WW Birthday Cake book then our friends joined us for dinner (spaghetti bol was the birthday boy's request). On Saturday we surprised him with more birthday celebrations, a family day out to see Cars 2 at the movies (his very first time to the movies actually) ...

and then had lunch at the Hogs Breath Cafe, followed by a quick bit of shopping and then a lazy night at home watching the original Cars movie.

On Sunday we spent the day riding motorbikes around our farm with friends having a fabulous, fun time. We are so proud of Ciaran finally mastering riding the PeeWee 50 all by himself.

 
He'd been busting to get going on the motorbikes himself but our little 50cc has a bigger frame than others so he couldn't quite get the hang of it comfortably so we used our friends' and he got it. He rode around the yard (grass) first then was so confident he roared up and down the driveway with the other kids. He was actually a little too confident and we had just finished saying so when he had a great big stack! Minor injury to him and the bike but all ok and he doesn't seem frightened off so he'll be back riding as soon as he can I'm sure.

The other stack of the day was from yours truly (sorry, no photos but it would have been a winner on Funny Home Videos for sure) ... I was on the PW50 and didn't corner too well so the bike went one way and I went the other with an impressive swan dive and face plant. A few pretty bruises on my knees and a little embarassed but otherwise I'm ok LOL.

So I know it's another post with no scrapping but these new photos will be scrapped as soon as I get a chance (the mojo is always good when there's fresh material to work with) ... and next time I will have some very happy scrappy news to share. See you then ...

Great weekend away!

How the other half live 'eh! WOW, hubby and I have just been treated to an amazing, fabulous weekend in Sydney at the Rugby (Wallabies vs Springboks) and treated like VIP's the whole time.

Hotel, fine dining, endless drinks, great company and platinum tickets ... everything included for us ... we were quite humbled and very appreciative of the whole experience and cant speak highly enough of the time away.

And in case you follow the rugby here's the match review. The whole weekend was a wonderful experience and made even more enjoyable because hubby and I do follow the rugby (Marty used to play rugby).

Hmmm, so no scrapping to share once again ... whoops, sorry. But I just thought I'd do a quick blog about this experience ... oh, and I kept the tickets etc from our weekend so I can SCRAP a page about it of course. Even Marty handed me the program and menu to keep! I've got him well trained hahaha.

Thank you ...

... to those precious people who left me some lovely, encouraging comments on my recent "sad" blog posts.
I do appreciate it, thank you so much.

From now on though I will just be posting scrapping/creative related things here on the blog - I am well aware that blogs, FB and other internet social media type things are absolutely not private, I know that, but it seems some of my private ramblings, letting off steam etc have been taken the wrong way by some and created havoc in my personal life. I am not happy about that but perhaps it is lesson learnt.

Anyways, so on to creative things ... well I've got nothing to show you this post LOL! I've been away with the kids in Brisbane with my family and during that time I made only 1 card (for my Grandmother's birthday) but I forgot to take a photo doh!!!

So I'll be back another day with (hopefully) some pretties to share.

Sunshine on a cloudy day!

*** I have deleted my personal ramblings here as it seems they have been misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused so this blog shall be focussing once again on just my scrapping ***
And so here's a bit of what I've squeezed in lately.
This one is my sample LO for the Red Earth Scrapping Road Trip competition. We "visited" Tennant Creek in the NT during week 4 on the tour.

This one is a "just because" using up some pretties.

This one is another "just because" using up some pretties as well as displaying a few yummies from the RES shop. Sorry about the dodgy/shadowy pic LOL.

I have some other LO's I've been working on but cant show you yet (they're for the RERT competition which is still running) so stay tuned for them.

Until next time, I hope the sun is shining on you wherever you are.

Any idiot can face a crisis ...

... it's this day to day living that wears you out!!!

Yes, that is my phrase of the moment and oh, how true it is!

*** I have deleted my personal ramblings here as it seems they have been misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused so this blog shall be focussing once again on just my scrapping ***

No!! Stop!! Enough!! Apart from the fact that I shouldn't be disclosing personal business here, it does me no good at all to whinge and whine. I have to buck up, deal with it, and make the most of what we DO have.

And that is each other. And we have a roof over our heads (for now, haha) and we are warm and well fed (even if it is all home brand LOL).

And I am blessed to have a wonderful hobby I can still pursue (albeit with no new purchases of course) and that creative outlet - when I have time - is a godsend.

So here's what I've squeezed in over the last few weeks, creatively speaking ...

This grungy LO was inspired by a sketch challenge over at Twiddleybitz actually and I really enjoyed doing this page, something a bit different for me and it was challenging to keep the grungy theme happening and find the right embellies but I think it turned out ok in the end.

I also joined in the card swap over there and made this one ...

This next page was actually for Mistra's May Challenge over at RES ...

And I whipped up a couple of "just because" cards using up those scraps ...

Totally non scrap related, these are the newest members of our family (and they're gonna have to learn to feed themselves pretty fast cos the current cash crisis is squeezed even more having to now buy cat food LOL). Aren't they cute? even for farm cats? They are brothers - the kids named one each, Darkie and Sammy - and they are for mouse hunting. I hope they're quick learners.

And there's been some seriously cold and horrible weather lately too ... including a few ripper frosts like this one.

And back to the scrapping ... a few pages to get those pics scrapped, memories recorded and stash used!

Ok so I'm off to finish cleaning and sorting out this office/scraproom, have a bite to eat and if I can drag myself out of the money doldrums I might try and get creative again.

Thanks for stopping by :) Hmmm, next time I might make the post a bit more cheery 'eh.