Rising Damp.

If you're reading this, could you say a little prayer for my mum, my sister Ingrid and her family. They're in Giru and things are not looking good. The town has been cut off and the river is expected to peak at nine o'clock tonight. They have a new baby (3 weeks old) and Ingrid is still recovering and can't drive, so we're hoping that things don't get to the evacuation stage. They're at the "high" end of town, so we're crossing our fingers and hoping nothing goes wrong. Will keep you updated.

Happy happy, joy joy...

Guess where I am??? I'm sitting on my bed, typing on my NEW LAPTOP while I wait for my BRAND NEW CAMERA to charge!!!! Bruce and I went out today to get Kit a new laptop for the start of school and Harvey Norman had such amazing deals happening that we were also able to get a laptop for me, PLUS the Canon Eos 400D Twin Lens Digital Camera!!!! I am just SO excited!!! Now I can access everything I need without having to lock myself away downstairs!! The biggest bonus (well apart from my camera, YIPPEE!!!) is that because my back is SO bad at the moment, I've only been able to sit at the desktop for short periods of time, but now I can do all my computer stuff without sending my back into spasm, which is just the coolest deal EVER!!! I feel COMPLETELY decadent, but it's a feeling I'm willing to live with, lol!!!! Now all I have to do is christen my camera!!!!

Quiet Time

I am sitting here typing and all I hear is the sounds of silence. Why?? Because B1, B2 and DH are off on their weekly pilgrimage to all things violent at the Games Workshop. Yes, Thursday is officially "Seek and Destroy Night" where like minded lunatics from near and far (and, I'm guessing, from several different dimensions) converge at Carindale for several fun filled hours of mortal combat and alien invasion practice. Yeehah. For those of you doubting my enthusiasm, I have one thing to say.....You're spot on. I don't get it. More to the point, as far as the three citizens of impending doom are concerned....I don't want to get it. Seriously. It sounds messy and painful, and involves weapons that even McGyver would have problems with. I know I should probably show a little more interest, but this whole weapons thing drives me MENTAL!!!! I tried so hard to raise B1 without the whole arsenal thing, trying to prove that you could raise a perfectly happy male child without a plastic AK47. Yeah right. By the time B2 came along, it was a lost cause...he was teething on a plastic dagger. At this current moment our weapons tally stands at three light sabres, one medieval lance (supplied by Nanna..thanks for that) several regiments of army men, more guns than Governor Arnie used in all the movies he ever made, shields and swords in various shapes and degrees of lethal,nunchucks, ninja stars, and a long bow complete with arrows. All I can say is that if we get invaded by the Medieval Ninja Jedi Army, we're completely prepared.

Mystical Use Your Stash

I got a little happy with the cropping tool, so it's hard to see that I did actually use SEVEN (count them) different ribbons on this layout.....This is a shot from our recent bushwalking day at Springbrook...you'd never dream there's drought conditions an hour away!!!

Catching Up

HI....did you miss me??? I feel like I haven't sat down and "caught up" with things in forever!! Partly because the boys are on holidays which means that my time is not my own (ever), and partly becuase I have decided to trade sleeping for scrapping, to try and work through all the challenges at Mystical Scrapbooks. I'm LOVING all the different challenges, totally stretching me creatively, (and leaving me bent out of shape, lol). These are a couple from the cybercrop that Mystical had over the weekend



and this one is using Karen Foster paper from my DT kit that arrived this morning...very happy with this one...mostly because it gave me the opportunity to blow the dust off my cricut, lol. DIY transparancy letters...gotta love it!!
The photo is from Sebi's 3rd Birthday...a whopping 5 years ago!! Can you believe it??
I am so flat out with my scrapping ATM that I have found myself working to a weekly calendar intead of a monthly one. I just hope that my mojo stays in gear!!