I found this on Melissa Cooks blog. How stupidly cute is this!!! I love it. Love the moves my husband has...and I thought the serious looking pic of his was perfect as he's always been very bah humbug!!

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kaisercraft entry

i picked up my kaisercraft scrap off entry the other day. It got top 14 and got me into the next round. It was quite a hard thing to do with being so limited with what could be used. In my pack I got 4 sheets of paper, black paint, a pack of flourishes, a 2009 album, 2 different sizes of white flowers, black and red pearls and a pack of rub ons. The rub ons were difficult to use because they were the ones with all the sayings like 100% created by me, so I had to cut them up to suit what I was doing. The flowers were also really hard to use. Even tho I got 2 different sizes, they were both white so I had to try and adapt them using rubons, ink and paint. I was able to add my own ribbon because its something that kaiser dont make

I cried today......

...high school orientation. So not fair having to leave them alone in a place they don't know with no one they know.

crop 4 a cause

day was on again yesterday. Its on every 3 months and its such a great day. This time it was held at the kaisercraft store. Last time I only managed to do 1 page in the whole 12 hours but yesterday I outdid myself...2 pages and a few quicky christmas cards.
This first one I've wanted to do for ages but didn't quite know how I wanted it done. It's a photo taken by Simonne of the sunset on Gary and my wedding night 10 March last year. I love this photo.

This page is just because I wanted to use the new Rose Moka papers. How gorgeous are they!!! And they match this photo that the princess took of herself perfectly....and very cool Heidi Swapp stickers on here too. Wonder what goodies of hers we'll get. Its only 9 more sleeps til the Heidi day.

my apron strings

are loosening just a tiny bit.
I let my son go to his nans for the weekend when the kaiser scrap off was on. He had to go by bus. Big deal I suppose, except for its nearly a 2 hour trip.
Then last week he came home from school asking to go swimming the next night with his mates. Not such a big deal either....but he would normally be at after school care until I finished work. I spent that night making sure that everyone I knew was programmed into his mobile phone (no matter how far away they lived). I rang my work no and my mobile so that he only had to press the resend button to get me if needed. When I dropped him at school that morning he had all his swim gear, some cash and the phone. I had spent an hour drilling into him what he had to do. He knew if I wasn't able to get away to call him at 3.30 then a 3.45 he was to ring me at work. It really freaked me, and not cause he was doing something with his friends, this has happened plenty of times. It was me needing to trust that he was able to get himself from school to his mates and then walk to the pool, and know when to leave and walk back to his mates. Safely. But he did it and I survived.
Tomorrow I have the crop 4 a cause day and it all happens again. Off to the train station for a bus trip to my sisters this time. Its the only time ever that my son is allowed to play his ds at 8.30 in the morning. Apparently, according to him, all he needs for his 2 hour drive is his ds, a bag of chips and an ice coffee big M.
Gee I'm getting brave, must be growing up at last ..... although I know I will still cry when the bus leaves, and not because I will miss him (that is a given) but because once again I face the reality of my baby growing into a young man.
......tuesday I have to face orientation day for high school :)

my saturday so far

banana muffins with cream cheese icing and choc chip cookies...time for coffee i think

I've been tagged

by Melissa Cook. How cool is she!
Here's the rules to follow
1. Link to the person who tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. List 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.

So my 6 random are:
1. I am the eldest of 8 children and I'm 25 years older than my youngest sister. Oh and I was pregnant with my son at the same time mum was with her......some say how sweet...i say grossly weird.
2. I really really hate talking on the phone.
3. I have an obsessive compulsion with washing my hands. They always feel dirty. I've tortured the skin on my poor hands with constant washing...I have lots of little obses. compulsions :)
4. I don't eat sausages! No one in my house eats sausages!!! I watched a program on how they are made and whats in them. Now they are banned! I have a sausage embargo at our house.
5. I'm afraid of going to the dentist. Can't go without crying. Not a great sight when your 13 year old is rubbing your hand telling his mummy that it will be alright. You would think that with all the technological advances made in this world that something could be done about the pain they inflict. Surely. I don't understand why at 37 it still hurts as much as when I was 5!
6. White chocolate is my favourite...and so is milk. And cheesecake. mmm carrot cake from the muffin break and bannana cake and any muffins with cream cheese icing on them. oh and lindt balls, yum yum :)

So the 6 I'm tagging are
Anthea
Debbie
Melissa Kennedy
Simonne
Sharni
Nicole
looking forward to learning some things about you all