Getting close to the end

I have been such a slack blogger.. Not feeling slack about blogging though.. Just a shortage of time to do so.  We have been full on at work but I am now on holidays for a few weeks.  I have 9 days off work but now today I go into hospital for surgery so I will be off for a few weeks to recover from this.

So while at the caravan and having some spare time on my hands I have been able to photograph my pages and inserts.

I am still 4 to 5 weeks behind.. but hoping to catch up a bit.  I can't even think about my title page for 2014 but I must say Im excited to get started.

Currently as of today I am up to Week 51. Slow yes I know but I will get there.

So here below I am sharing my pages and journal cards.. not in any order.

Today was one of those days you had to get a photo of the date…. 11/12/13 (above)

So much fun documenting Coreys last day of year 5.  He had the most amazing year with Mr Koshe. He has been his most favorite teacher yet!!
Simple Stories make PL so much fun.  I am in love with their products.

 I can't stop loving these Kaiser Craft Capturing Memories journal cards. So so yummy.  Love the colours of them.

 I love these little Simple Stories journaling envelopes.. They are pretty cute.

Sue Ko and I met up finally and had the most loveliest catch up together.. We are only 1 hour away from each other and we are keen to do some brain storming together again.  You can find Sue's lovely blog here 

Simple.. but me

I better be off and get back to my last bit of scrapping before surgery. I am looking forward to seeing lots of blogs and FB pages on what you have all done during my recovery.
Take care everyone and happy scrapping 
Moonie x

Slack blogger or just crazy over Christmas

I cannot believe it has been exactly one month since I last blogged.  As we all know it has been the busiest time of the year and we are all rushing to get everything done.  I made a heap of cards this Christmas which was nice for my pocket… but man oh man.. it took up a lot of time.  but i do get a lot of enjoyment out of making them for others.

Work has been hecktic and just super crazy so thats all I feel like I have been doing.. Working and sleeping.  I am much behind in my project life.. well I was…. 2 weeks ago.. but I am quickly catching up.  I have lots of photos to scrap so I have added a few of my journal cards below.

So that is all I have to share tonight.. it is late… 12.15am and I have an exciting day tomorrow meeting one of my fellow Project Life Junkies  Kirsty Blinston… we are going to do a bit of brainstorming while our children are elsewhere… oh and did I mention coffee.. and brunch?? and peace and quiet?? 

So special to meet these girls one by one as we touch base with one another through Project Life Junkies.. If you are not a special member of our Facebook site.. search for us.. It is a closed group and so many talented fun ladies on here where we all share the same passion

Take care and have an awesome rest of the week xxx

Moonie x

Live Breathe Art

Update on life

I know we are all busy at the moment.. crazy time of our lives.. the shopping centres are full to the rim, people getting angry in car parks and in shops.. impatient and intolerant of each other.. but please remember to be kind to the person standing next to you or whip is serving you as they are no doubt feeling just like you too.  I see so many cranky rude people and it is really quiet easy to be quiet and polite.  After a long day the other day and we finally got a decent dose of rain… I walked into our home and my husband and son had poured me a warm magnesium salt bath with candle and a iced cold beverage for me to sip on while chilling out..

Bless their cotton socks as we haven't had rain for so long and we are very water conscious as we are on tank water.. so when I got home it was pure bliss for this Mumma.

This week was my sons last week of school.. He is in Year 6 next year.  Time goes so fast I find it hard to keep up.  Hard to believe its only 3 weeks til Christmas Day. He and Daddy have gone away for a week in their camper van.. They have gone out bush as they love the off road camping.  I am still working hard as it is our busiest time in retail right now.

I cannot believe that at the beginning of the year the shoes I bought him were size 6.  In September I bought him another pair but this time they were a huge size 9.  I nearly died.  He is only 10 and he is growing like a green bean.  On the other hand he is still wearing the same school shorts and school shirts that we bought him 3 years ago.     He is looking forward to new uniforms for 2014 LOL

I have been frantically making Christmas cards these past few weeks.  I have been commissioned to make 40 for one person and another 20 for another.  I am going to make some pretty baubles too tomorrow night.. well that is the plan.  Then off to Brisbane for a night and two days with my BFF.  Tuesday night we are all meeting up (my other BFF) in Brisbane for a birthday dinner for me. I turn another year younger on Tuesday.  Whats another number right?? As long as we all have a great time together and we always do so I am pretty exited.
So til next time.. keep happy and I hope you are all prepared and ready for Christmas.  If you are not yet.. you still have 3 weeks to go.
Take care
Moonie xxxx

Traditions…. LPS December Challenge!!!!!!!!!

This month over at Life Paper Scrapbook our challenge is to create a Project Life page including TRADITIONS we have in our lives.  I love traditions.. they always bring back beautiful memories and I always look forward to the next one.

We have a few in our lives but I have narrowed it down to a few I have shared with you today.

Yummmmo…  this is our yummy banana cake that has been our favourite recipe in our family for years.. My Nana and then Mum made it for years… It is out of our New Zealand Edmonds Cook Book.  This is the book we used to cook out of at cooking classes at school.  The kids are still using this book at school in 2013.  It is moist, tasty and I make lemon and orange rind icing for the top.

My title… It's so good to scrap out of your weekly square…. makes you scrap other important things in life.

I love love love the times when we go back to New Zealand. This is at a place called Mt Maunganui.  We spend every summer as kids here for 15 years in the same caravan park in our caravan.  When we go back home (Mum still lives only 30 min away from here) we alway go to the Mount and have fish and chips and the whopping generous New Zealand Ice creams on my favourite beach.  Double ice creams are only about $2 and you get the most awesome NZ flavours.  NZ beats anywhere in the world with our ice cream flavours.  We always have this occasion with my cousins and nephews and nieces.  This to me is priceless.

 Every NYE we hit the beach and get out and enjoy the freedom we have in Australia.. My hubby is a Life Saver so we all love the beach.  It is normally packed with families playing with their new water toys and just chillaxing after a hectic wind up to Christmas Day.  I love it here.. Never ever want to leave.

Our gorgeous son Corey is very passionate about being part of the Anzac March Parade each year.  We take him to Buderim and he is the most proudest at this moment.  He truly has a deep heart this kid. Age 10

 I hope you can read my journalling… He is a passionate dedicated rock my husband.. Love him to bits.

 
We are extremely delighted to be partnering with Gossamer Blue for these challenges. This month's prize is the December Life Pages kit! I just love these kits. Check it out below!

Gossamer Blue (http://www.gossamerblue.com/ is a monthly crafts kit club based out of California. We offer two kinds of kits on subscription. One is a traditional scrapbooking kit called the Main kit and the other is our Life Pages kit perfect for scrapbooking with divided page protectors. Both kits include exclusive Gossamer Blue products, including stamps manufactured just for Gossamer Blue by Elle's Studio (http://shopellesstudio.com/).


How can you win this amazing prize?
Here are the details:
- You can submit ANY kind of project that meets the challenge: layouts, cards, PL, off the page projects. Keep in mind that this is a Project Life challenge and your project should be relevant to your PL system, whatever that may be.
- You can combine the Project Life challenge with the other LPS challenges just make sure you link it up to each so you have a chance to win in both.
- October Project Life Challenge runs until 11.55pm December 20 (Don't forget we are in Australia)
- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn
- We will also feature three of the favourite layouts and the selected layouts will be asked to guest design for the next Project Life challenge.


You have to be in it to win it, so link up your project up on the right. Please make sure you link to the correct challenge, there are three challenges; project life, sketch and colour challenge to link up to. If you are linking to a blog, please link to the actual post the layout is featured in, not just the general address and make sure you link back to Life.Paper.Scrapbook.

 Good luck and have fun.. This challenge is just awesome!!!!!!!

Moonie x 

Selfies - Life.Paper.Scrapbook November Challenge

This month over @ Life Paper Scrapbook our November Challenge is all about Selfies... Yes.. that's right.. Sounds easy doesnt it.. Well it is.  I hope you have taken the time out to give this months challenge a go.  If you haven't yet… you still have time.
Make sure you pop over to Life Paper Scrapbook blog and check out some of the amazing work our designers have put together for this challenge.

Here is my take on the challenge for this month anyway.. I hope you like it. I loved putting this together.. Instead of only taking selfless of myself… I also incorporated photos of things that are important to me.. Like Family, my husband, my exercise, my Canon 600D, the beach, the hearts I have been collecting for a few years, and of course my scrapping.  It has pretty well summed me and my life up in just two pages.. well a light sum up lol

I have just received this AWESOME Simple Stories Say Cheese collection … OMG I am loving it.  Below is the left hand side of my page

Below is the right hand side of my page

My daughter… my love… my best friend

 SELFIE 

My love for Project Life, Scrapping and crocheting… so so much more that I want to do and love doing but time is not on my side..

We are extremely delighted to be partnering with Gossamer Blue for these challenges. This month's prize is the November Life Pages kit! I just love these kits. Check it out below!

Gossamer Blue (http://www.gossamerblue.com/ is a monthly crafts kit club based out of California. We offer two kinds of kits on subscription. One is a traditional scrapbooking kit called the Main kit and the other is our Life Pages kit perfect for scrapbooking with divided page protectors. Both kits include exclusive Gossamer Blue products, including stamps manufactured just for Gossamer Blue by Elle's Studio (http://shopellesstudio.com/).


How can you win this amazing prize?
Here are the details:
- You can submit ANY kind of project that meets the challenge: layouts, cards, PL, off the page projects. Keep in mind that this is a Project Life challenge and your project should be relevant to your PL system, whatever that may be.
- You can combine the Project Life challenge with the other LPS challenges just make sure you link it up to each so you have a chance to win in both. 
- October Project Life Challenge runs until 11.55pm 15 November. (Don't forget we are in Australia)
- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn
- We will also feature three of the favourite layouts and the selected layouts will be asked to guest design for the next Project Life challenge. 


You have to be in it to win it, so link up your project up on the right. Please make sure you link to the correct challenge, there are three challenges; project life, sketch and colour challenge to link up to. If you are linking to a blog, please link to the actual post the layout is featured in, not just the general address and make sure you link back to Life.Paper.Scrapbook. 

Most importantly have fun! We can't wait to see what you all come up with. 
Ta Ta for now
Moonie x