Here is my make and take album in full for anyone who wanted pictures!

Thanks for looking, I will be back later on to upload some more projects once I have photographed them!

Tam

Trish has to take me out for coffee/tea!!!!!!

Busy busy busy

Wow, this time of year gets so crazy doesn't it, I love Christmas to bits but I don't like the run off your feet feel, there is so many things to do and not enough days to do them. oh well enough complaining!!!

if you are by chance at a loose end for Saturday, Scrapbook city are having our first huge Custmer Christmas party, it is going to be soooooooo much fun, there are make and takes galore, classes, dinner provided and the chance to shop also. Below is a run down of the party as per the SCity newsletter-

Hi EveryoneWe can hardly sleep with excitement here at Scrapbook City, in anticipation of our huge Christmas Party being held this Saturday 29th November. If you haven't booked yet, but have a spare afternoon, we still have spaces available, here is the details:
Date: Saturday 29th November, 2009

Time: 2.00pm until 10.00pm

Address: Graceville State School Assembly Hall, Oxley Road, Graceville

Cost: $20.00 per person - includes afternoon tea, buffet dinner, plus an evening of lots of fun and creativity.

Check out below some of the cool things we will be doing.(please note - due to time restraints, not everyone may get to do all the projects we have available, but we hope you enjoy the ones you do get to do)

Rough Timetable
2.00pm Meet and Greet with afternoon tea available

2.30pm Fiskars class or spare time to do Make N Takes

4.00pm Christmas Card Showcase - by popular request we will be showcasing over 50 wonderful Christmas Cards made by our talented Design Team. This is something not to be missed.

4.30pm Fiskars Class or spare time to do Make N Takes

6.00pm Dinner (tea and coffee and cold drinks will be for sale all afternoon and evening)7.00pm Carole's class or spare time to do Make N Takes

9.00pm Scrapbook City Awards Night presentation

10.00pm Close

Please do not forget shopping is available all afternoon and evening, and we are really excited to have lots of new things, that no one has seen before.

Make N Take with Michelle - May You Always Be Friends

Pull up a seat beside Michelle to create this great Layout using Basic Grey papers. You will have a choice of 3 different colour schemes, and you will leave with a easy quick layout that will take pride of place in your family album. We will supply all the tools you will need for this Layout, but you are welcome to bring along a photo if you wish. Michelle has used a Portrait 5x7 photo.

Make N Take with Tammie - What a Year 2008
You will love this cute little brag Album that Tammie has made just the perfect size for your handbag. If you wish please bring along 4 6x4 photographs, that can be trimmed down, otherwise you can put the photo's on at home. (the photos on the left are of my make n take!!

Make N Take with Nicole Nicole will be making 3 beautiful cards throughout the afternoon.

Make N Take with TanyaWe call Tanya the Glimmer Mist "Queen". You will love making these cards with the master, and you will definitely fall in love with Glimmer Mist.

Thank you to everyone who has booked early to come along to the Christmas Party. By now you should be aware if you were lucky enough to be part of the 1st 100 to book, as you will be doing a fantastic class with Ang, sponsored by our friends at Fiskars.The class will be at either 2.30pm or 4.30pm. Please call us at the shop if you are unsure which timeslot you have.Please be ready to go at least 5 minutes before hand, we will be starting at those times, and because we have such large class numbers, it will be difficult to catch up if you are late.Unfortunately we do not have a photo for you, but we ask that you please bring the following tools:
Craft Mat to work onPaper TrimmerDouble Sided TapeFoam Mounting TapeCompass for drawing circles if you have onepencilrulerand 3 photos - 2"x3.5" (but these can be put on later if you prefer)

We have some great Prizes
Now we couldn't have a Christmas Party without having presents.Someone will be lucky enough to take home a new Making Memories Slice Machine valued at over $300.00. If you would like to be in the chance to win one, its not too late. Call the girls at the shop for more info.But we are really excited to let you all know that someone will also win a Xyron Design Runner, valued at over $300, thanks to our lovely friends at Esselte. We will have more info on how to win this when you arrive on Saturday.

Don't forget it's not too late to book to come along, we would love to see you there. Call the girls at the shop on 3378 7257 to reserve your spot.

Hope you can make it and if you do come and say hi to me!!!

Ok onto sharing a few items-

This mini album was my Dear santa Wishlist album class at scrapbook city, how cute is it! I made it for my nieces and nephew.

This card has been made out of acrylic, I really enjoyed creating it, lots of fun, the little chipboard butterflies are by Scrapware, aren't they cute!!!

this is a layout I did ages ago but haven't shared, It has been created using heidi Crace and the accucut machine at Scrapbook City!! The title is the name of my favourite song by Pete Murray! I love this layout!! The little words around the photo is a line from the song and says- "the life and love I've found stands me up on Happy ground"

Just wanted to add this photo, I used it today in my little make n take album and I love it! This was taken in July at my gorgeous husband's uni Graduation, I am just so proud of the man he is! I love this Man and how could I not!!!

Just before I go I just wanted to record for my own memory that yesterday my gorgeous Jazzy swam in her very first 25m race at her school swimming carnival and came 2nd!!! she was so excited and proud of herself and so were we, she love loves loves swimming and this was just such a great thing for her. yay for Jasmine!!!

anyway I am off to bed!
until tomorrow

love Tam

xoxo

hmmmmmm

I just did this quiz
hmmmmm interesting!! have a look at it via the link below
What Does Your Home Say About You?
What Your Home Says About You
You come across as very intellectual. People take your wisdom seriously.Your hygiene is passable, but you may be hiding some dirty secrets.You are a very domestic person. You enjoy decorating, cooking, and making things homey.You are a very nurturing person. You find meaning in taking care of others.You feel settled in your life. You have enough time to focus on little details.You are a very self sufficient person. You can get along well without much help.Your friends see you as courageous, dynamic, and bright. http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourhomesayaboutyouquiz/

I will be back later to blog some more!!
tam
xoxo

has it really been that long!!

I have had a really busy few weeks, has it really been that long since I last blogged??

Laurenhttp://laurenrhodes.blogspot.com/ has nominated me for a blog award. Thank you Lauren, it was very sweet and It has given me the motivation to update my blog!!!

With receiving this award I have to pass it on with these Rules

1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

I nominate

Trish- http://www.tishstalking.blogspot.com/ because she needs to update her blog to move the photos of me from the top of the

page LOL!!! and she has been challenged to blog more!!

Shazz http://shazzpratten.blogspot.com/ because she is just the

sweetest, I love reading her blog and seeing her work

Jodi- http://goddessgoosh.blogspot.com/ This gorgeous Girl is

such a creative soul, I love shecking in on her blog.

Beth-http://bethjarrett.com/ Beth's work is just lovelyI

enjoy reading her blog and seeing her work and reading her

adventures with her family, I am sure she probably won't know

that I have nominated her I will have to pop a message on her blog.

Nikala http://nikalaobrien.squarespace.com/journal/

This amazing scrapper creates incredible layouts, is just the

sweetest person and her photography is lovely too!!

so there you go, I have done my 5

4. Put links to their blogs.- Done!!

5. Leave a message for your nominees.- will do at a later date!!

thanks again Lauren!!!

onto other news-

I did go to the Pixma party in Sydney, My sister couldn't come so mum came instead. We had a ball, Sara pearcy and Melissa Frances both did classes, it was great to catch up with Sara and wonderful to meet Melissa, she is just lovely!! t was fun night and also fab to meet the SM girls in person. I also plucked up the courage to introduce myself to Julie Heard on behalf of Trish, Julie was just lovely. I am a pretty shy person in new situations so didn't introduce myself to as many people as I would have liked, it is hard when you walk into a situation where many people already know each other and you only know one other person. but all in all it was a good night and havng the time with mum was super fun. it was soooooo nice to have some one on one mummy daughter time, it is rare as the kids are usually always around. we had a few funny moments and interesting public transport moments!! LOL!!!

OK on to some creations-

These are some wine charms and cards that I created for Scrapbook city's xmas showcase, Kerri and Leisa set up a christmas table for christmas dinner with all of the trimmings made out of scrapbooking material, it looked amazing, there were placemats, place cards, wine charms, a table runner, gift boxes candles, a mini xmas tree and hanging decorations. it was all made using the chatterbox artyliscious range as the base. the wine charms were made from the artyliscious buttons flowers and bling pack. They were quick and easy and I think they are kinda cool!! I used the Sei Glitzmas range to create my cards, I really do consider myself a cardmaker but these were quick and easy and look better IRL!!

how sweet is this- Ethan has become rather "interested" in Star wars and some of his friends have started collecting figurines, he has been talking about them and asked if he could get one. Little did he know that Brad has a box full of star wars figurines that have been carefully packed away in the shed for years, After a little coaxing from me Brad went and got the box out of the Shed, well you would have thought that it was xmas!! Both Ethan and Jasmine were amazed and played with them for about 4 hours non stop, no fights nothing just happy play (Brad also played for sometime too!!) anyway this photo is so cute, Both Brad and Ethan standing in the same position discovering the figurines.

Ethan had his Pre prep art show at Kindy a little While back, this was an amazing display the teachers did a fabulous job intriducing the children to the different mediums. I was blown away by the kids artisitic talent and understanding of art. Ethan was so proud of his creations and I am too!

On the 12th of October we partipated in the Juvenile diabetes walk for a cure. that gorgeous boy above is my nephew Matthew who lives with Type one (insulin dependant) Diabetes. the walk was great and Matthews family and friends alone raised over $1500 for the JDRF to go torwards research to find a cure for diabetes and wouldn't that be great. It really was a fun day We were Team moo, we all had shirts that uncle Steve and aunty trish made and Steve even dressed up as a cow!! There were even a team of storm troopers walking . My little star wars fan was gobsmacked that there were storm troopers and one of them was kind enough to pose with the kids for a photo so Ethan could show his Daddy(who is the reason for Ethan being obsessed with Star wars. Unfortunately Brad missed out on the walk as he was in Malaysia.

Isn't this the funniest photo, look at Ethan's face, he was kind of in awe and went really quiet and shy when the storm trooper talked to him LOL!!!

Trish and I were talking yesterday and we have decided to take up a challenge to blog everyday for two weeks, if anyone else wants to join me leave a comment to let me know. I do have lots of news to catch up on and things to share as well so stay tuned!!!

take care

Tam

xoxo

Hee hee I won!!

I am a winner of the Scrapbooking memories Pixma party competition!! I am off to Sydney on the 17th of October for the party! How excitement!!!
here is some infor about the comp that I copied off the net incase you were unaware of what the comp invloved etc!! I am very much looking forward to it and hopefully my sister is going to come with me.

Scrapbooking Memories and canon are proud to announce their joint venture – PIXMA Party 2008. Readers will be given the chance to win tickets to this exclusive event at canon Australia headquarters, where they are sure to become scrapbooking celebrities!
The inaugural PIXMA Party will be held on Friday 17th October with free make-and-takes, inspirational and educational talks, PIXMA printer demonstrations and of course, bubbly and nibbles!

So who will be attending this glamorous event?
Straight from the U.S. is Melissa Frances, owner of Heart and Home and Melissa Frances Designs. Scrapbooking Memories staff will be also be in attendance, plus the Scrapbooking Memories Masters and Creative Team. With all these special guests, plus canon spokespeople, you’ve got yourself one big party!

Winners to the PIXMA Party will be given the chance to print their photos on the range of PIXMA printers, including the ever-popular PIXMA MP610 and PIXMA Pro9000, a professional-standard printer which produces glossy photos up to A3+ size. Participants also will be able to sample how easy it is to print onto CDs and DVDs, stickers, t-shirts, make calendars and origami dolls! This is a way to promote both the creative and colourful possibilities of PIXMA printers and the ever-growing craft of scrapbooking at one event.

All readers have to do to go in the draw is to email in their most memorable photo and tell Scrapbooking Memories why it is their favourite. Entries will be judged on creativity and originality by a panel appointed by Scrapbooking Memories and canon. All entries will be displayed online at www.scrapbookingmemories.com.au

For more information, readers are encouraged to check out Scrapbooking Memories Vol 10 No 4 on sale July 18, 2008. The PIXMA Party competition opens July 18 and closes last mail August 15.

isn't that cool. Ok better go, back to work!!!
Tam xoxo

oops meant to....

wish my Beautiful Sister Trish the happiest of birthday for yesterday. we celebrated on Friday with lunch at the Newmarket hotel, with Trish, mum ike and I, it was lovely just the 4 of us. Trish cracks me up. She is sooooooooo funny and is a joy to be around. thought that I would leave you with some photos of Trish in her true "Trishness" ( and she only had 3 glasses) Love you cwazy girl!!

Tam xoxox

Oh my goodness go and get a cuppa.............

because you will be here for a while .......This is one Loooooooooooooooooooooooong post!!!
Ok I have finally got a minute or two (or an hour) to update on the last few weeks!! I have been so busy. This will probably be a jumble of bits and pieces as i am just writing as I think of it as because I want to record these memories while they are fresh.

first of all -

As you may know I turned the big 3-oh!! (along with my gorgeous twin brother Michael) on the 5th of September. I was so incredibly spoilt and felt very special. It started with me waking up on my Birthday to My husband giving me a kiss and saying "happy birthday Sweetheart" as he was leaving for work. I thought to myself oh how sweet .... and as he walked out of the room he very cheekily said........ "old hag!!" Can you believe ii!! particularly coming from him as he is older than me!! LOL!! I had to laugh. When the kids woke up they presented me with a Pete Murray concert DVD. I was under the impression that I was going to see pete Murray in concert for my Birthday and Jazzy had dropped a "few hints" that made me sure until she handed me the DVD and said with a giggle here is your concert !!! hmmmmm was I or wasn't I going. Anyway, My gorgeous friend took me out to lunch at the monier and we had a glass of Champagne to celebrate. We went out to dinner with a group of friends that night and it was nice. I wasn't sure that I wanted to have a party to celebrate my 30th, I don't really like being the "birthday girl" I would much rather throw parties for other people, but it seems the done thing so i caved to peer pressure and Linda and David and Mum's group hosted one for me. Well I had the best time. The girls worked so hard and it was lovely to catch up with my nearest and dearest friends. Among all the beautiful gifts I received was a gorgeous bracelet from mum and how sweet is this card, Mum made it for me and I adore it. She also wrote the most beautiful things in it, I am so blessed to have the bestest mummy!!! So the party- we ate drank and were merry and let me say I may have had a little headache the next day but that is Shazz'z fault because she told me that I needed to have a drink or two for her!! LOL!! Speaking of my sweet friend Shazz, look what she sent me for my Birthday!!!!!

Aren't they just gorgeous, gorgeous gorgeous!!! Thank you so much Darls, i am so blessed and they were and awesome surprise. One thing that turning 30 reminded me of (other than the fact that I am not as young and funky as I thought!!!) is how very uch loved I am and not because of the gifts either. My friend sheree representing our mum's group made the most beautiful speech at the party and I had to laugh because among the lovely things she said that I remind her of a combination of Mary poppins and Martha stewart, childcare book in one hand and cookbook/ craft book in the other!! LOL hmmm doesn't that conjure up an image.... now where is my apron LOL!!! I am truly so Lucky to have these Mum's group girls in my life, seven years and going strong. I would have been lost without them.

Anyway probably thebiggest and best "surprise" for my birthday was Pete Murray ( my favourite singer and brilliant Australian, Brisbane Talent) tickets, from Brad, as far as husbands go he is the best and it was so lovely to have a night out just the two of us, it has been a while. We went on Sunday night and it was AWESOME. he is one fabulous performer. The stage design was brilliant and he sung my Favourite song as the last song, Happy Ground- here is a link to you tube that someone put on of the performance at this concert- take note of the shelves behind him. it resembled the cover of his album and had loads of books in the shelf as well as lighting behind it, so cool!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWWHCM9F1-Q how gorgeous is this song here is another link so you can hear the words better - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wbd_cgIcPI what a cool song, his family and friends sing the end bit and it is soooo cute!! OK enough of Pete!!!

You know when you are a scrapbooker, it is rare that you get "scrappy" gifts, but for my birthday my oldest and bestest friend Nikki gave me a mini album made by her mum Shelley and it is gorgeous. Shelley put photos of Nikki and I from when we were kids (yep we did Ballet together) right up til recently and many of the photos I don't have copies of so it was wonderful. I actually got a bit teary looking at it and I love it!! It highlighted how special scrapbooking is. Thank you so much Shelley, I will always treasure it. here is a photo of it -

I also made up a kaisercraft 30 album for my friends and family to sign and to pop some photos in. you may notice that it matches the outfit I wore (yep i matched the papers to my dress- only a scrapbooker!!! ) and yes I did get laughed at by "non scrapbookers" for doing it!!
I very quickly added some of my favourite pics from my party to it so it could go on display at Scrapbook city. I lOVE the doodlebug glitter papers on the 30. The flower on the front was made with the accucut machine at scrapbook city and with a kaiser bling flower- you Have to check out the Accucut club at scrapbook city- we have so many amazing dies now robots, spaceships, card dies ribbon buckles you can cut to your little hearts content for an annual membership fee of $40 and it cuts through almost anything- acrylic, chipboard etc!!!

I just want to paste this in here too for my own records, this is what my sister Trish posted on her blog about Michael and I , there are no piccies though- I love it thanks Trishy!!

Yep that little baby on the left is now the babe on the right! My little sister is 30!! Unbelievable!!!But of course she shares her birthday with her twin brother...he however has decided that he is turning 27 this year...(until the house settles then he will allow himself to be 30). LOL! He wanted to have 3 things achieved before he turned 30, 2 are done (boat and work promotion) but the 3rd is still pending (buying a house).I don't have a baby photo of Mikey though :( but here's one with Milly (who adores her Uncle Mikey!!)I really can't believe that you guys are 30! I was about to turn 4 when you guys came and crashed my world LOL! and I remember you guys being little so vividly! Some quick memories ... ...Michael wearing thongs everywhere, including into our little above ground pool....Tammie playing with Barbie's....in fact Tammie having every Barbie thing ever made - caravans, horses, townhouses, cars, Ken, Barbie, Barbie's sister/daughter, furniture...etc etc etc (I on the other hand had 1 Barbie and can remember biting its foot for some strange reason!)...Michael pulling everything apart to find out how it worked, including a pen in Marnie's bathroom and splattering it all over her white curtains....Tammie reading Babysitter Club books...playing Softball and/or teeball in the front yard. There was a mound of dirt that had been delivered on the footpath and never got used so grass grew over it so we used to use that as home base, the water manhole as the pitchers plate and then we'd dodge the persimmons as we ran the bases!... jumping the fence to run over to the Robsons, Heinrichs or 'Jameseses' house... many many camping trips - yabbie pumping, walks on the beach, icecreams of our choice... Thursday night Dad's cooking - homebrand pizzas "Dad style", homebrand burgers "Dad style"... plus our choice of chocolate bars or Tam's standard Chomp!... Honey patrol for each other when the mustard came out LOL! ... hiding the rulers!!... sneaking Mikey into our room at night to play. He'd get down low and crawl along the floor into our room and we could never work out how Mum and Dad knew...derr, where Mum and Dad used to sit in the lounge room was about 2m from where Michael was crawling!... Staying up late and giggling then getting into trouble but putting pillows in our PJ pants in case we got a smack (and thinking we were getting away with it!) LOL! Now that I have my own kids I have to laugh - 1st I now realise how frustrating it is when you just want your kids to GO TO SLEEP! and 2nd - how Mum and Dad kept a straight face when telling us off!!... Tammie's "goth" stage...ewww!... Watching the Sound of Music - EVERY TIME it was on! LOL!We had a lot of fun growing up. We also had some not so great times but their were definitely more good times!You have both achieved so much. You've grown into amazing people and I love you both! So Happy Birthday to my little brother and sister. Hope you have a wonderful 30th birthday and that the next 30 are just as great as the last 30! Keep smilingLove Trish

Isn't that sweet, so many memories, they made me laugh and nearly cry!!!

OK enough of my birthday - other news

I never popped some photos of Jazzy's birthday on my blog so here are some. no party this year just a nice dinner with family -

oh and here is a photo of jasmine's birthday present and our newest pet Cutie!!
She had her school musical and was very good in it and overall it was a fantastic production for a primary school musical. I want to share a page from one of Jasmine's school books. She has a book called a recall book and each Monday they write in it about something in their lives it is kind of like a diary and they also draw pictures. On friday parents were invited to the classroom to look at the kids work and have morning tea and I had to take a photo of this page of her book that she created in March after receiving an award on assembly for her guitar practice. It brought tears to my eyes and was a big reminder of the power of positive reinforcement in children and letting kids know how much the good things they do mean to you as they remember.

Ethan had his book week dress up day and he decided to go as Max from Where the Wild things are. I whipped up a costume for him and I think he made a great little Max!! All the kids looked gorgeous. He is also doing really well with his drawing. which is great, one more term and he will be finished kindy and a big school boy sob sob!!

here is a link to you tube (again) to have a look at where the wild things are if you are not familiar with it. It has been out for a long time and is one of Ethan's favourites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkHA6IjrlY&feature=related

Ok to scrapping - not much to share at the moment as I can't share some of my stuff as yet but will do as soon as I can. I was invited By angela from Scrapware earlier in the year to be a guest designer for them and the most wonderful package of their products arrive 2 weeks ago for me to play with, they are soooooooo cool and I have nearly finished a host of projects so I can share them sooonish. I also have somethings for scrapbook city that i will have photos of this week oh and while I think of it keep and eye on the email newsletter for scrapbook city because there is a few BIG things coming, it is going to be a very exciting few months!!!!

Here is a class layout I did a little while ago. the class was coredinations cardstock. My purpose was to teach the versatility of this cool product and the joy of using the cuttlebug with it. It was a great class. Here is a card and tag too!!

Here is a layout that I did a little while ago about Ethan and his grandpa. There is journaling behind the photo. I LOVE the photo of the two of them.

Anyway if you have got this far you deserve a medal. I am impressed. I will be back in the next few days to share some scrappyness!!

Thanks for reading and take care mwah

Tam xoxoxo