Some randomness

Hi! Just thought I'd share a bit of what's been going on around here lately.


My girls are doing great - they are really starting to form a great bond between them, sometimes they just sit there laughing at each other... it's so cute!

Amani is 5 months old now.... She's still teething up a storm but none have come through yet. She's trying to crawl but isn't quite able to yet, although she can move around the room by rolling over a few times. She absolutely loves splashing around in the bath and water goes everwhere!

Jenna is almost 2 and a half... She is still loving going to daycare once a week and we haven't had a teary day yet. She's going through a stage at the moment where she "cries" when she doesn't get what she wants... it was quite funny to find her standing at the bathroom mirror watching herself "cry". It was like she was practicing... LOL.

I'm still going to the gym and doing all the usual things... I gained some weight over the holidays between Christmas (I blame the trifle) and being stuck at home during the floods (stupid bakery was almost the only shop left with food). It messed with my head for a while but now that weight is gone and more with it. Noel is on holidays this week so I'm planning on going to the gym heaps. Today I managed to go 4km on the treadmill in 34min 42sec so I'm getting close to my 30 minute goal. Yay!

This is one of the books I'm reading at the moment...



I've loved Ajay Rochester after reading "Confessions Of A Reformed Dieter" a few years ago (back before she started hosting The Biggest Loser). It was exactly what I was going through at the time and I could really relate to it. I'm loving this book too... it's not the kind of book you read from start to finish, you can just flip to a page and read that for the day. It's definitely helping to keep me motivated at the moment.

Well I've gotta go now... I had a bit of "me" time out shopping this morning and I have to leave in less than 2 hours to get to netball, so I better go and spend some time with the family.

Bye!

Scrap the Girls

I actually did a scrapbooking layout! *gasp* I feel like I haven't done one in ages so it was good to give one a go. This is for the February challenge over at Scrap the Girls. I've been meaning for ages to do a page of Amani as I have only done 1 of her so far - but I did this on the first day that Jenna went to daycare - maybe I was missing her just a little. :)


And just to balance it out, another art journal page.


I'm stealing some computer time while I can today.... in the last few weeks, both girls have had colds and school sores. Amani has had her 4 month needles and has been teething something shocking, and now to top it all off, Jenna has school sores again and threw up all over the lounge room this morning after not reacting well to her antibiotics. Aarrgghh! I keep reminding myself just to breathe in and out and take each day as it comes, hopefully things will pick up again soon.

Bye for now!

Some art journal pages...

The last few weeks have been pretty eventful but I've still been managing to do some art journaling every day. Sometimes it's only for ten minutes, sometimes longer. Here are my latest pages.





As you can probably see, I've been trying to toilet train Jenna the last week. She's only done one pee on the toilet so far but we've decided to just take it slowly and see how she goes. It started getting too stressful for a while there... Amani has started teething and it seems to be hurting her a lot more than it did Jenna. Some days even Bonjela and Panadol won't settle her and she cries until she falls asleep - and then she doesn't sleep for very long at all. So this did not help while trying to take the time to put Jenna on the toilet. Oh well, we're not in any huge hurry so I guess it will happen when it happens.

I also have a layout to share but it will just have to wait for another day... I'm off to go pick my little girl up from "school"!

I love ink.

Remember that page I hated. Well, I took to it with lots of ink and it's barely recognisable now....



I tried to lighten the area where the sun rub-on was so you could still see it, but it didn't really work. I must say I like this page now.... this is what I love about art journals - if you don't like something, you can just keep adding layers until you do!

It's a bit quiet around here....

Today is the first day of daycare for Jenna and the day is going SO slowly! We decided to put her in one day a week so she can socialise with some other kids and do lots of fun things - she loves to paint and draw, which can sometimes get too messy at home. It also gives me a bit of a break and I can get some stuff done during the day, and also spend a bit more quality time with Amani.

I didn't anticipate how slowly today would go though... I guess it's because I'm not chasing her around and hearing "Mummy, Mummy, Mummy" all the time. It is giving me some time to do some scrapping and art journaling though.... housework will just have to wait for next week. :)

So here is some of the stuff I have been creating over the last week.

This first one is totally inspired by Christy Tomlinson (did I mention I'm taking her class at the end of the month??).
Jenna loves balloons and is always pointing to birds in the sky which is why I used those two things - I know she loves them. Jenna also means "small bird" in Arabic ( although it can also mean paradise/heaven, but I think then it needs to be spelled Jennah). So you'll probably notice birds on a few of the things that I do for her.


This next one started out as a rough drawing in a notebook and I thought "Why not?" stick it in my art journal. That's why she has lines across her face. It's my first attempt at doing a girlie drawing so she's not perfect - her eyes are a bit freaky and I'm not sure about her nose.... but that's what an art journal is for - trying new things.


The background started out as some paper towel that I had used to blot various inks while I was working with them. This page is SO heavy because of that and the gel medium, mod podge and paper.

Well, I'm off to go and make the most of my time before I go and pick Jenna up!

The secret's out!

I'm excited to say that I am now part of the Creative team over at the 123 Challenge blog! YAY!!

The great thing about the 123 Challenge is that it doesn't have to be a 12x12 scrapbooking page for you to enter - you can do an art journal page, canvas, off-the-page - as long as the criteria are covered you can create to your hearts content!!

Here's my sample for the February Challenge... The criteria are the colour cream, the word "about" and upcycling. To see some more terrific examples, check out the 123 Challenge blog, including a great fabric creation from Giovanna Scott.


Thanks for stopping by!