Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Finally, Christmas is almost here!! Yay! Today was the last day I had to work before Chrissy so now I feel that I can really get into the Christmas spirit... I've bought all of my pressies so now I just have to do the cooking and relax! I made a heap of yummies yesterday after work to give to some friends and for us to eat on Tuesday....



They are (clockwise from top left) Bailey's balls, Honey Bubble slice, peanut butter balls, chocolate balls and mini plum puddings with chocolate. The honey bubble slice is something that Mum used to always make for us as kids... it is SO yummy and always reminds me of when I was little, waiting for it to get cold and set. I got the recipe for the peanut butter balls off the net - they are so yummy that it's not even funny!! I'm so glad I joined the gym - I think I'm going to have a bit of extra weight to work off.... LOL!

A big Thanks to Kirsty and Dee for my beautiful Christmas pressies...

Isn't he cute! Dee also made me the yummiest brown sugar shortbread, you can see a pic on her blog here..... I would have taken a photo myself but most of it is gone. Ooops....

And last but not least I have a journal page to share...

I've been working on a few things lately, but I can't share yet as they are classes for next year. I'm so excited about doing art journal classes next year!! They'll be every second Saturday morning starting around the middle of January... so if you're in or around Rockhampton, come in and have a look!

Well, I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas!! Make sure you all travel safely and enjoy whatever it is that you may be doing!

He he he.....

Guess what someone may be getting for Christmas?? These two made me chuckle....




You can see more of the art of Jeff Thomas here.

Glow-in-the-dark Cats are just wrong!

Saw this on the news the other night - some scientists claim that they have altered the genes of a cat to make clones which glow in the dark...

I find something unsettling about this... I certainly wouldn't want my cat to look like that! And where does this kind of technology take us.... in 100 years are all people going to be walking around at night looking like glow worms?? Kinda scary to think.... I know there are probably all types of good things that could come of this but there will always be people around which abuse the system and start creating all kinds of weird things for their own gain.

Anyway..... on a lighter note, my car is fixed!! YAY! The RACQ guy said that the battery had "collapsed" - sounds like it had a big night out on the town! And might I just say that the RACQ is absolutely fabulous!!! We rang them to come out and have a look at our car, we were prepared to be sitting there for about an hour or so waiting for them.... I swear it only took them 5 minutes to get there.... just FABULOUS!!

We finally put up our Christmas tree the other day...

I bought a huge last tree as I had always wanted one, now I just need to get some bigger decorations as kind of looks a bit empty. Tomorrow I'm going to set up my little Christmas village so I will share some pics of that later.

Have been to the gym 3 times since joining... have been a little bit sore and tired but it has definitely been worth it - I can already feel a change in my mood, I'm definitely starting to feel a lot better.... and I found that the new netball season starts in about 2 months so I have until then to get fitter. If anyone in Rocky wants to play Netball, check out the Runaways site ... you can sign up for next year and even pay your fees in the online shop. Michelle and the girls have done an awesome job in setting everything up for next year!

And last, but not least, I finished off a journal page yesterday - I posted a pic earlier of just the background so now you get to see the finished product!

See you all later!!

Stupid Car....

I'm so annoyed that my car would choose this time of year to not work!! (Like it has any control over itself....) Went to get in to my car yesterday afternoon, turned the key and.... NOTHING!! We think it may be the battery but not sure, so we joined RACQ last night so that they can look at it and tow it if needed, we've just got to wait 24 hrs after we joined to call them. So last night my car spent the night all by itself in not a very good neighbourhood.... hopefully it will still be there as you can't move it at all... we tried... but hopefully it still has everything intact and isn't missing any tyres...

But here is what I got up to last night when I finally did get home.... was looking through some books I had sitting around and this picture just jumped out at me...



So I just had to do something with it. The book is called "The Book of Faeries" by Francis Melville. There are quite a few illustrators who did the book so I'm not sure who did this actual picture. It actually came together really quick - I got it all done before I went to bed. Basically just stuck the picture down on one page (it fit perfectly) and tried to continue it over the next. I love how it turned out, the colours are so calming.

Well, I'm off to the shoppe now.... wish me luck with the car!!

Some pages....

Finally, here are the pages that I did at the crop last Saturday...

This is a photo of me on my 15th birthday... which reminds me, I need to email my friend in the picture.... we finally got in touch again after about 12 years but I haven't emailed her back in a LONG time!!

A photo of the Berlin wall (or what was left of it) from when I was over there as a kid. Did the background using some Christmas wrap - I love the way it looks like graffiti.

This next one is still a work in progress.... was playing with some oil pastels and decided to do some embossing on it. It's really cool, you don't need to use ink as the oil pastels melt with the heat so I just ended up sprinkling embossing powder all over it!

Oh, I DID join the gym today...hooray!! I have my first appointment at 6.30 tomorrow morning... not looking forward to waking up so early but I am determined to get started!! It worked out really well, I didn't have to pay the joining fee and I get my first month free...YAY!

That's It!!!

That's it!! I am joining a gym tomorrow.... I don't have the time OR the money but I am going to find it! Every week when I play indoor netball I feel like I am getting less and less fit when it should be the other way around!!

I guess I am putting this on here so that way I actually do it rather than just say it... I have to do this for myself and so that when outdoor netball starts again next year I can still fit into my bodysuit... that's right, I have to wear a bodysuit!! Never thought I would have ever be wearing one of those!!

So here's a photo of me before I started losing weight about 4 years ago... I totally cringe whenever I see old photos of me..... but I can't let myself get back to that again....



On a happier note, I will post my new pages tomorrow..... I promise!!

Quick catch up

Hi again!

Have a few things to share but will do it tomorrow as I'm too lazy to do it today... will post again tomorrow with my pages that I finished at the crop on Saturday night. I had so much fun at the crop on Saturday night - I love that there are people who started out as customers but now I think of them more as friends. There have been days at the shop where I know the name of every single customer who walks in the door.... I love it!!

We had our Embellished staff Christmas party at Jo's house last night.... I'll have to "borrow" some photos from Ali so I can share them with you all. The boys (and Ali) played darts and we all sat around eating, drinking and chatting - I can't wait until we're all camping, it's going to be so much fun!!

Started reading a new book the other night:

It's good so far, I love Ben Elton.... I remember reading Gridlock when I was a teenager and just laughing. We went and saw "We Will Rock You" in Brissy a few years ago and it was just AWESOME!! I want the next book I read to be a bit more serious and involved though - something that will take me a while to read.... so any suggestions would be great! Amanda said she's going to let me borrow a Jodi Picoult book - I've never read any of her stuff so I am looking forward to it.

Well, I'm off to go and clean the house now.... am looking forward to spending today at home and spending some time with Noel. The last week has been so hectic for the both of us... I can't even remember the last time I had dinner at home..... umm.... it was actually last Tuesday! Maybe Noel will make me something yummy for tea tonight.... fingers crossed!!

BYE!