Looking forward, Looking back....

I know that's the name to a Slim Dusty song (yuck!), but I thought it would be a good title for this post. I've been checking out Retro Girl's blog and she did this so I thought I'd give it a go...

In 20 words - Recap 2009

In 10 words - Write about your hopes for 2010

2009 - Life settling into routine, Lost weight, New friends, Priorities, Happiness, Joy, Finding myself again, So many firsts, Lots of smiles.

2010 - Family, Good health, New house, More creativity, Learning, Peace, Love.

Oops, gotta go - Jenna has found the baking paper and is rolling it out on the floor! LOL

Some pics from Christmas.

I thought I'd share some of my favourite pics from Christmas.... We had so much fun down in Toowoomba - Jenna and I went down a week before Noel - he arrived late on Christmas Eve. We were so looking forward to seeing her reaction to waking up and seeing Daddy there..... didn't realise it would be so early though... Mum's smoke alarm went off at 5.30am for no reason and woke us all up... nice.

Jenna seems to have a fascination with blocks, she is always playing with them at child-minding when I go to the gym so we thought we should buy her some...


and some more just to be sure...


This pic is a bit blurry but I just love the attitude in her walk! :)


She LOVES her talking Elmo!


My gorgeous little fairy (and yes, quite a bit of the gravel was eaten. LOL).


Jenna with her Uncle Andrew, who she hadn't seen since she was a few weeks old. They had so much fun chasing each other around the house!
As well as a lot of family time, a lot of shopping was done. I fluked finding someone in Toowoomba who sells Golden paint products which are REALLY hard to find here in Australia even though everyone in America raves about how good they are. I've had a quick play with the gesso which is awesome! You can find it here if you are after some. There may have also been a few trips to Myer.... I SO wish we had one here.

Well, that's about it for now... BYE!

A Few Layouts....

I have actually been scrapping!! Ok, ok, so there's not a LOT to share because I am usually quite slow although I seem to be getting a bit quicker the last few weeks. I think I've just given up on thinking about what I'm doing so much and actually just doing it. It's odd though, sometimes I feel so motivated to do something and have all these ideas in my head so I'll do heaps for about a week or so and then I won't touch anything for weeks after that... guess I'll just go with the flow! :)

So here are my latest layouts that I've done....


Jenna sat at the park for ages just playing with these sticks, changing them from hand to hand, adding a few more...

This one is from when Jenna was just starting to pull herself up on things.. she kept climbing up and down on the futon mattress.... at least it wasn't far for her to fall since it was on the floor. When I did this background I absolutely hated it - pink and green oil pastels all mashed together - but then I just put some gesso over most of it and tada! It's now one of my favourite layouts.... gotta love gesso!

Our first trip to the beach with Jenna - she absolutely loved it and not too much sand was eaten. LOL

It's amazing just how much pink I use now!! Before Jenna was born I didn't even own one pink paint because I hated pink and now it's everywhere! But just to be different here is one that is not totally pink...

I had fun with the background of this one... I covered some cardstock thickly with gesso and then ran a stamp through it to give it some texture.


Well, that's about it for now - I should really go and do some housework while Jenna is asleep... maybe.

Hello...... Is there anybody out there??

Hi All!

I know, I know, it has been a VERY long time since I have paid any attention to this poor little blog and I'd pretty much left it for dead, but over the last few weeks I have been toying with the idea of blogging again. Now looking at it I realise it is in DESPERATE need of a makeover so I'm going to get cracking with that over the next few days - no better time than a new year, right?

Quick update though - Jenna is 15 months old tomorrow and doing fabulously well. She is just absolutely adorable in every way. We didn't end up moving to Brisbane - we are still in Rockhampton at the moment but planning to move out to Gracemere (which is about 15 minutes away) soon as we are building a house there.

Well, that's it for now and I promise to share some more soon. If you are actually reading this please leave me a comment so I know that at least one person is! LOL

Hope you all have a great New Year!!