I did a bit of scrapping, a lot of relaxing (including a nap on the lounge Sunday afternoon that Michael kindly captured on video for me) and Alec's soccer carnival on Saturday afternoon.

We loved going to soccer but I was glad of a sleep in on Sunday morning. It was a 20 week season and thankfully we only really got soaking wet about 3 times. On Saturday they played 5 games of 10 minutes each and then the coach, Jude gave out the trophies.


As a thank you to Jude for the fantastic job he did with the kids we had a book made at blurb.com from all the photos taken over the season, it turned out to be such a hit with the parents that I am putting an order in for 14 books! I know what some grandparents are getting for chrissy this year. I made it and it really is a cute book, I chose the 7x7 size and did imagewrap, which is the picture directly onto the hardback cover. We have had 2 books done by blurb now and are really happy with them.

And here is one of those photos I found. I couldn't think of anything to say about it though. I know how old I am because of the house I am living in but it could be 1985 or 86 but I have gone with 85. I got a few other pages done but they are for Buzz and Bloom and will be going up on Wednesday.

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This started as a page shuffler, moved bits on and off and then it just worked. I like it, and I like single photo layouts.

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OK.. so I am excited!!!! I am really really excited.

Donna Downey has used my toilet roll album as one of the examples of what people made for her challenge.

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This is my last commisioned piece as a master it seems, it is for everlasting keepsakes, it was a bit of a jumble of product, what I finished up with looks more like something for Basic Grey, anyway it is my most favourite layout I have done for the magazine so far.

I also did this, it was lost in transit for 17 days, the commisioning letter didn't turn up until 2 days after its due date and I hadn't started it when I got the paper work.. oops, it still isn't back from the magazine so here is a rather bad photo of it. I haven't seen the magazine yet but I hope it looks better than this!

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I needed a tool box for kiwi scraps so I made this one.. then Ali Edwards liked it so I gave it to her and then carried my tools around in a plastic bag, not alot of forethought on my part there, I hope my box is having a nice time.

So the story starts 6 months ago when we were in the city and walked past a tobacconist and they had a sign saying cigar boxes $1, we walked out with a dozen, I had been missing my tool box and was looking for something to take the drills to class in on Saturday so I did myself another one.

Before:

After:

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This was fun, I didn't really have a plan I just winged it, I'm happy with it. That silly bunch forgot to take pictures of themselves waiting so I mainly just have photos of myself but I did get some great group shots with the girls.

The 40 album - in full

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Donna Downey has her new newsletter out, The Creative Playground each month she is posting a challenge and this month it was toilet rolls. She was right I spent a few days coming up with ideas of what to do with the humble roll, as it would happen instead of having 28 of them laying around I had 3! So instead of the butterflied covered extravaganza I was planning I did slices, I love it though it is little and cute, it measures 14cm square and I am going to use it as an inspiration folder.

For some reason Michael was quiet emphatic about never slicing toilet rolls on the scroll saw again. I'm standing watching saying you can get another slice out of that one and I got 'the look'

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This was done right after I had the book, Lissy did the sewing for me.
Less prints same principal.
It makes for a great background, I haven't tried one using the prints as the entire background yet. I am down to very few scraps so I am going to have to start cutting up more paper.

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This was great! 24 wallet sized photos some PP scraps and Riley's birthday pages are done in the same week as his birthday.

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This is theAEzine challenge : week two (Ali's is stunning) I'm liking these, not what I had envisaged when I started out with this one but it did fit the criteria set out by Ali for the challenge. I found it difficult to be brief (for me) but this was the format I chose as I wanted all of us on the one page.I would like to keep these up as you hardly ever see all of us on a page together and I can only find 2 pages just about Michael and this is one of them that I did a few weeks back I seem to concentrate on Alec and Riley and forget about me and Michael, I only have 5 BOM pages so I really need to pick up there, maybe I will do a BOM for Michael too.

I just did Ali's 9 squares paper challenge for my BOM from A Designers Eye for Scrapbooking with patterned paper

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Ali Edwards has a miniBOOK challenge and I decided to have a go, I'm working on what I thought was a miniBOOK for my 40th but this is a lot smaller, I made the book myself, it measures 12cm x 8.5cm and that includes the tabs. I covered some heavy card, trimmed it and sanded it. I'm not thrilled with my front cover, ended up doing it on the computer discarding 2 others, might have to go back to the discards

materials:
paper : SEI & MM ledger folio
stickers: 7gypsies
stamps: provocraft circa 18pt
rub-ons: Heidi Swapp

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