Life Paper Scrapbooks Monthly Challenge

Hi ladies, this month Life Paper Scrapbook started their new Project Life Design Team blog posts. Be sure to pop over here and have a read up about all of us over there.


Life Paper Scrapbook has got a very exciting challenge for the month of September and it's all about Layers in Project Life. 
Do you love to layer in your pages and journal cards??? I surely do.  

I have below added a couple of my journal cards that I have in my PL album.
I always love layers and dimension on my pages.. Otherwise they just do not feel completed.  One of my most used and loved items is double sided foam tape.  I use this all the time to get dimension.  I also love lots of different textures on my pages i.e: flair buttons, wood veneer, die cuts and washi just to name a few.
So what are you waiting for... you have to be in to win right???

Join us for the LPS Project Life Challenge and have a chance to win a terrific prize from Gossamer Blue our fantastic PL Challenge sponsor.  They will be sponsoring the challenges every month and we could not be more delighted, the first prize is one of their new Life Pages kit!
Ruth will have a layout up next week using the last month's kit, the August Life Pages kit, I love the colours they used!  September is also looking amazing, the designs are so good, fun and easy to use.  So, who wold like to win this kit???

Cut out pictures like the arrow above and use double sided foam tape to give your card dimension and lots of layers.

Good luck and I will be taking a peek every day and night to see what everyone is submitting..
Moonie x

Findingnana Winner!!!!!!!

So excited to wake up to this news this morning.. I love these cute little embellies.. and make sure you go and check out FINDINGNANA!!!!! THEY ARE SOO COOL X

paper clips giveaway winners!

Hey there!

I apologize for not coming in yesterday to announce the winners of my giveaway. I was knocked out cold, clearly tired from a hectic day at work.

So, as picked by the random generator, the 3 lucky winners who will receive a full set of my paper clips are……………..

lisa webb

amelia ng

margaret from az

Hey girls, congratulations!!

Please contact me at findingnana73[at]gmail[dot]com to claim your prize.

Thank you all again for joining in the fun. Please keep a lookout for more giveaways in the coming months when I release more new products in my shop.

Have a great week ahead!

24/7 Simple Stories

Wow it has been just about a month since I have blogged and honestly I cannot believe how time and life is soo busy.. Drives me insane..  

I have recently just had my daughter here for 5 days.  She and 6 other girls from Townsville flew down to compete in the Tough Mudda race.. It was a gross hard slog 23km of blood, sweat and tears... not to mention the sunburn.. of climbing walls, monkey bars, through cages of water under ground.... etc.. so not my cup of tea but about 25,000 competitors took park in this here on the Sunshine Coast last weekend.. The biggest challenge of Tough Mudda world wide so far.

I managed to get some awesome shots in this 5 hours being a spectator.

The girls contemplating crawling through the Electric Eel.. if you touch the wires crawling under them they will give you a little electric shock.  Nasty.

Trying to avoid touching the wires that zap you.

My tough liddle Mudda 

5.15am before they started

Danielle climbing up the wall.. what a massive attempt. Everyone was so encouraging.

I have been busy as usual trying to get up to date with my Project Life but life actually just keeps getting in the way.. I am always busy and never really a spare moment to stop.  But last night I put together a layout I have been wanting to do for a while.  I miss doing my 12x12's so had fun creating last night of my little niece Indiana.

Well that's it for me tonight.. I have just done a split shift at work and Im dearly looking forward to jumping in my nice big fat bed.

Have a great weekend everyone.. off to Daisys to create with my girls tomorrow night. Cant wait x

Til then

Moonie x

Shouting from the rooftops !!

After keeping everyone in suspense for 2 long days.. I can now let out my secret and share the news that I have been chosen to be part of the Life Paper Scrapbook - Project Life Design Team.  I will be working along with the awesome Lisa Wilkinson, Bernii Miller and Aimee Dow.  I'm sure these girls are just as excited to get going as I am.  Very keen to get started to make sure you pop over and see what we are all up to.

I have just come home from my week away with my girl.  Feeling very sad as I miss her.. but is nice to be rewarded with this wonderful news.  I took so many photos while I was with her.. She kept saying.. Why are you taking a photo of that MUM?? I just kept answering Project Life... Project Life.. ... she stopped asking me after a day.. I think she gets it.. I still think she thinks I'm mad. LOL

Night night to you all
Have a great weekend. I am back at work for the whole weekend.... All things must come to an end.

Moonie x

Me and my girl

Currently I am on a 6 day break up north to spend with my girl.  I miss her so much and life just gets in the way of us spending time together when we are about 1500km apart from each other.  Life is tough and this is one of my challenges every day..Being away from her.  But as the story goes.. you have to let them go and let them spread their wings just like I did when I was 19.  I decided to move to Australia.  I told my Mum and no one believed me.  6 weeks later I left them all bawling their eyes out at the airport (including myself) LOL

My son Corey was very disappointed that he couldn't join me but this had to purely be a break for both of us just to do girly things together with no limits.

A week before I flew up she told me she has written up an itinerary for our holiday.  She has planned every day what we are doing but I was not to know what was on it until I stepped off the plane.  She then put on Facebook 2 days before I flew up here 6 clues on our itinerary.. 6 random pictures that were meant to relate to what we had on that day..It was fun.. I guessed one out of 6 clues.

Day 1 we went to her Dads place who was having a big get together Pig on the spit for dinner.. It was divine with all the roasted veges too.

 we went shopping and then went to Body Balance together.  This was my first time and I loved it.  Was very soothing for my back.

Day 2 she took me to her boot camp on the beach.. An hour of intense exercise and commando crawls through the sand.  After that we went to Squeeze Me health kiosk here in Townsville and had a mighty healthy breakfast with all the ingredients I have never heard of.  It was divine.

We caught up with a few movies too at home which I just loved.. I never ever get to watch movies.. She is the movie buff.

Day 3 she pulled me out of bed at 5.30 and we climbed Castle Hill in Townsville.  Was beautiful when we got to the top.  She loves her exercise now which is great.. as I have loved it most of my adult life.  So nice to now do it together.  That night Danielle had bought tickets for us to go to a live theatre comedy show.  I have never been to one so once again it was great to do something that my girl enjoys.

Day 4 we went over to Magnetic Island.  This was awesome.. we caught the ferry from Townsville and it was only 20 min on the ferry.  When we got off we hired two scooters for the day.  Zoey and Maurice were their names. lol

We rode around the island all day and checked out all the bays.  Just gorgeous. We had fun along the way taking lots of snap shot, did a 6km hill climb up to check out the forts, went to another bay for lunch, went up many hills nearly pushing our scooters.. lol was full of fun all day.

We come home and slept like babies.

Day 5 is today and she had us booked in for a Hot Stones full body massage.  This was unreal and so nice to have after our hiking and boot camps.  I must say I felt a bit guilty for spending that sort of money on myself but it was worth it. We only live once don't we.

Did a bit of shopping today and then home for the rest of the day.  I am teaching Danielle how to sew.  We are making a dress.  Talk about funny.  OMG. I need my Mum I think.  My Mum Sue is the sewer!! She is brilliant.  I have just reminded myself that I hate sewing clothes but love sewing projects like quilts and all things you don't have to wear and make to fit.

But she has proven to herself and I that she has got the knack.   I bought a beautiful sewing machine for her 21st last year. I think every girl needs a sewing machine.  The only thing she has sewn in 15 months is her partners hole in his socks.  He cant seem to get his toes in his socks anymore LOL

So.. off back home to reality tomorrow.  Working the whole weekend but that's ok.  I miss my boys and they miss me so it will be nice to get home.  But I will be very sad when I am sitting in my seat on the plane wondering when I will see her again.

Thanks for stopping in and checking up on what I am up to.  Back into Project Life when I get home. I cant wait.

Til then .. 

Moonie x

Moonies Retreat... to be continued

We all had a great night... Lucky we got in 7 hours of fun..

These girls are so much fun to be around.. make me laugh til I cry and are full of inspiration..

To be continued at Tex's place soon.  But sadly I won't be able to make it.

Monika flying through the weeks of her Project Life album.  This girl is so full of talent it is amazing!!

We are all proud of Mel as she was only up to Week 3 and she flew through about 4 weeks just this friday night.. Now she is on a roll .. tonight I expect her to be up to week 23 LOL

Sadly no photo of Tex as she was the one taking the mug shots

 I am sad we all had to end the weekend with my illness. I was so on a roll and having a great time.. but at least I will get my problem sorted ... off to the Doctors from Ultrasound in the morning.

Luv Moonie x

Week 23 ...... and a little bit more

Slowly getting there but I must admit I am not stressing so much over being up to date as I just cannot get there.. so one page at a time.

I have found lots of yummy papers lately I am adding to my pages and I love my flair buttons and wooden veneers.  So cute.

Here is my Week 23 LHS page.. I am half way through my Week 23 RHS page until something happened..

To be continued:

but for now.. here are my inserts and page for the LHS

Love my Amy Tans "&" stamp.. so cute

Love this stamp that my friend Tex (Melissa Walden) shared with me

So glad I have finally got these inserts I ordered from Craft House in NZ.  But sadly they took 3 months to arrive.. At least I know I can now get there in Australia.

They are great for full on weeks or special occasions where you have more photos you want to add.

so this is as far as I got when.... I wen to bed at midnight with a sore belly. This has been going on for about 6 weeks.. Pains in the belly and the rest you don't need to know about.. but it got that bad about 2am that it woke me up. By 6am I was vomiting and could not stop.  The pains were excruciating and my husband called the ambulance.  They hooked me up to morphine and a fluid drip.  I spent 11 hours in hospital.. Had a CT scan where they picked up that I have fluid on the abdomen. Not sure what this is but this is what has been causing such pain my my belly.  I slept all that night and most of the day today.  I have a Doc appointment first up in the morning and then I have chosen to see a Naturopath at 12pm. I am pretty sure there has been a change in my body with food or fluid of some sort.  I will go and see what test results come up from the Naturopath anyway.

So not so happy in my little world atm but will get better very very soon.  I don't like being kept down. I have too much to do x

Til next time....

Keep smiling.. 

Moonie

Project Life Update

After a great weekend away in Brisbane at the Paper Craft show life has been full on back at work.  Lots of exciting new stock coming in and wool wool wool.. I baa like a sheep in my sleep I am putting so much wool on our shelves at work.  It is selling like there is no tomorrow.  I cannot believe how many girls are crocheing now.  It's so great to see.  My girlfriend Mel has started up our own crochet group together.  She is amazing and can create anything you throw at her.

I am currently tongiht up to week 23 in my Project Life.  Still 4 weeks behind.. but I just cannot seem to catch up.  It doesnt worry me.  I just keep plodding along and enjoy the journey.

I bought Becky Higgins Honey Core Kit.  Love love love it.. So easy and funky to use.

Here are my pages I have just completed.  

Thanks for popping in.. I love looking at everyone elses PL pages too. There are so many inspiring girls out there creating this year.  

Til next week..... see you then and be happy!!!!

Moonie x