Imagine, Dream, Believe....Crafty Sketches Entry for September 15 Challenge

This is my entry that I've submitted for the September 15th Challenge on Crafty Sketches Swing by and have a go, still some time until this one closes. The 1st October Challenge is also up ready for your creative hands to get going on! Come on and have a go!!




I absolutely ADORE this photograph of Miss Ellen that I happened to just snap when she was having one of her "off with the fairies" episodes lol I'm just amazed at how beautiful the blue of her eyes are, they are oh so dreamy. So when I saw this challenge & the sketch actually had the words, Imagine, Believe & Dream on there, I thought yeeehaaaa this will work perfectly. Gave me a chance to lash out irrationally on the bling "oh god how I love that stuff" lol.

Anyhoo, off to create some more entries for challenges, having a blast with them all at the moment, we've just gotten back from my sister's place, they have an inground pool, still a lil bit cool for swimming (for people with commonsense anyway) didn't stop the kids though, I swear these kids of mine are part mermaid lol they just LOVE the water! Who am I to stop them....hehehe photo opportunities lmao.

Take care & I hope you all had a great weekend, in good health :) Cheers Kris

My Challenge Entry for ShabbyChic Butterflys & Bows Blog...

I had a ball doing this layout, with a jolly good push from my dear friend Tina to make me try something thats a little bit "out of the box I live in" lol...so once again Thank You Tina for making me try new things, I love love love scrapping with you girl, have a blast every time!

So the challenge at Shabbychic Butterflys & Bows for this month, was this....Use...

Background colour of CREAM or WHITE
Dominants of pastel pink and lemon
and Butterflies (my fave lol)

Spread the word......

D-lish Scraps is offering a $40 voucher on it's blog just for helping to spread the word about their online store! If you would like to win too then head on over .... make sure you tell them I sent you!

And their sister site D-lish Kits has one of their kits up for grabs each month just for following their blog. If you would like to win one of their kits, all you need to do is head to the blog and become a follower. Winners will be announced on the last day of each month.

Good luck everyone!!!

MAGNOLIA Down Under - BLOG CANDY.....OMG OMG OMG

OMG jaw dropping blog candy from the lovely Kellie Winnell for Magnolia Down Under, go check it out girls, follow the instructions, you should know them by now lol, share the love around and cross your fingers, toes, eyes, arms, legs, whatever it takes omg this is just too much, I'm in love!!!!! Thanks Kellie for the opportunity to win such a fabulicious Candy :)

Bev's Beautiful Blog Candy...

Girls you definately need to check this lil beauty out, Bev is offering another stunningly gorgeous blog candy CHECK IT OUT HERE I'm so impressed to see some gorgeous Aussie stuff in there too....Kaiser!!! We love our Kaiser Down Under :) lol

Last Chance - Sketch Entries for September at Discover Scrapbooking

Come on ladies, only 2 entries so far, would greatly love to see some more, if you have a bit of spare time on your hands this weekend, why not pop by and have a go. Here's the LINK for the sketch, you have until Midnight Wednesday, 30th September to get your entries in to have a great chance at winning the Store Voucher for the month. Here's the great sketch we are using, it is by Jolene Pienaar one of our very own well published Aussie ladies. Pop over and check out her BLOG for some inspiration.

RAK from my dear friend Tina :)

Oh My Goodness, How I just loooooooooove surprises....

How is this for total yum-alicious flower heaven? My dear friend Tina surprised me the other day with this totally gorgeous collection of flowers, tags, journalling bits n pieces, and embellies, omg sooooo many beautiful gorgeous things in here (still amazed at what she can fit into an envelope!!!!) She made a drop dead gorgeous card as well with her sweet baby girl, Bindy on front, she is such a lil sweetheart with a gorgeous smile, how nice it was to find my little mate Bindy popping out off the envelope lol.






Tina you are such a sweetie, and I thank you with lots of love & hugs (again) lol.

Kylie's Flower Challenge at SWV Cyber Crop

This is my entry for Kylie's Challenge on the SWV Spring themed Cyber Crop from the weekend. We had to use floral paper, a flower transparency, a chippie flower and include the word "flower" in the title.


Thanks for looking :) Hope you all have a great day.... what's left of it lol.

Cheers Kris :)

Vroooooooooooooooooooooom OMG SuperPowerBoats at Moreton Bay today :)

OMG these things were UNREAL!!! They are so loud and fast omg was incredibly good fun trying to catch photos of these guys today. Here's a pic of "Big Red" as I was calling him, anything red and big and fast has gotta be good don't ya think? lol


I couldn't believe how low these helicopters fly over the boats and even scarier, the turkeys who are filming from the helicopters, man I'm talking, could see legs hanging out of the doors, holy cow!!!! Adrenalin junkies or what?? hehehe



We went for a quick cruise through the Scarborough Marina yesterday and saw a couple of these guys up on their trailers, OMFG they are HUGE HUGE HUGE! The engines are enormous, trailers the size of a house, unbelievably gorgeous pieces of machinery is all I can say.

We were going to trek up this arvie after the race finished to check them all out and grab some photos, but family called and informed us we were supposed to be visiting with them, like wtf? when did we make that plan I wonder?? but anyway, nature of the beast, keep everyone happy happy happy, so we had to ditch our plans :( oh well, always next year I suppose....

Hope you all had a happy & safe weekend,

Cheers Kris :)

Oh What a Day it's been.....

Firstly.....A very big huge Happy Birthday to my gorgeous girl Ellie :) 6 today!!! Wahoo!




Anyway.... somedays we mums just feel like tortured old souls, slaves, cooks, washerwomen, chauffeurs, cleaners, you name it, I'm quite certain that I've felt it. So normally on our kid's birthdays (as we have such a large family) we generally don't do birthday parties as such, we stick to just the family, inlaws, outlaws, etc etc.

This morning I started at 6am with a quick trip to the local IGA to grab some lunchbags for tuckshop (Pay day treat for the kids), and a pack of candles to send off to school with Ellen's cake to share with her class! Came home, iced said cake, packaged it all up, got the troops ready, delivered the 3 youngsters to school, took Miss Amy & Miss Rach for a treat at Macca's (OMG) on the way to dropping Rach at High School, so whilst sitting there enjoying an absolutely fabulous cappucino yummmmmmy I decided, what the heck, lash out and have a bit of fun today for Miss Ellen and see what becomes of it....so off to do the grocery shopping, aka mad chaotic dash thru Woolies, picked up quite a few (out of the ordinary for us) treats along the way, grabbed what I needed to make a nice salad & bbq dinner for the family as the inlaws just got home from holidays yesterday (bit of a surprise!!!)

Well my day of fun had just begun....baked another cake (thankya Betty lol), we put a tonne of her frosting on it too yummmo & a cute Dora Icing topper that we found at the supermarket... put up a hundred and one streamers out on the patio, a great big ole birthday banner, made some potato salad, coleslaw, truckload of salad, chilli lamb-burgers, hot oven fries for the kids and blew up a zillion balloons OMG now I know why I hate balloons... anyway this went on for the entire day, closed all the house up, pulled the curtains across the back doorway and set off to pic the kids up (how fast did that school day go??)



Ellie was first to the car going "omg Mummy I've had the bestest birthday today with my friends and one of my friends gave me a present, I'm so excited" lol she so cute this kid, we get home and I asked her, "so what did your little friend give you?" she says to me "I don't know, I was so excited I haven't opened it yet!" lol

Anyway, said pressie was a gorgeous Fairy Barbie Doll (she is soooooo in love now)...Big Thankyou to Tom & his folks for their thoughtfulness and kindness to Ellen! On to the next big act of the day.....I asked Ellen to go out the back and get something for me....welllllllll the curtain gets pulled across and all I hear is

OH MY GOD!!!

This girl was so damn excited and thrilled to bits, she couldn't remember how to open the sliding door lmao. I was nearly flat on my back on the floor with laughter and delight!

Well anyway, the afternoon and evening turned into a great event, and the biggest and best thing ever happened.....

....right when my tired little possum walked up and grabbed me in a big ole bear hug and said

"Mummy I love you sooooooooo much, thankyou for making this bootiful party for ME, you are the bestest Mummy ever!"

And then I just melted!

I'm so utterly worn out and exhausted, but this little gem of a girl just made my entire day so worth the effort! I love her sooooooo much! xo

Hope you have all had a fabulous day :)