OMG really its been two years!!

So I'm slightly ashamed of the time that has passed since I was last here BUT I've had the push to start Blogging again thanks to a swap I'm taking part in......super excited but it does mean I've got some updating to do.  If you have stumbled across my blog and live in New Zealand (BEST place in the World) here is the link to the Christmas swap

http://catalinanz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/secret-advent-swap-2013.html


so Last two years well my children now look like this

doesn't Geo look beautiful and here is one of Scott and Mel from our dinner last night,

 

and here is Scott and I, we are all rocking our Pirate Hat

 

 

I guess I should explain,  Josh would have been 21 on the 6th of November so we thought we had better do a night of drink rum and wearing pirate hats and saying a lot of ARRRRGGGG me hearties,  we may look silly but we did have a lot of fun (just saying lol).

So maybe tomorrow I might load a few photo's of art stuff Ive been doing, not a lot of scrapbooking but heaps of ATC's, altered puzzles oh and Kelly and I have been working hard on doing a very messy art Journal (that faze started thanks to a lady named Ruth but that's a whole different story)
Ciao

why did the chicken cross the road??

Question ... Why did the chicken cross the road?


PLATO: For the greater good.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
HIPPOCRATES: Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, ``Thou shalt cross the road.'' And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?
RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.
JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: Our soon-to-be-released Chicken '98 will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook.
OLIVER STONE: The question is not, ``Why did the chicken cross the road?'' Rather, it is, ``Who was crossing the road at the sametime, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?''
DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.
EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road... it transcended it.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER: It was an instinctive maneuver, the chicken obviously didn't see the road until he had already started to cross.
COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?
PHYSICIST: Because the chicken's momentum had a positive component towards the other side of the road.
QUANTUM PHYSICIST: Because you measured its momentum too precisely.
MATHEMATICIAN: Because of the intermediate values theorem.
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRIST: Well, consider a faithfully flat etale coherent sheaf...
C PROGRAMMER: cross_road() was called from get_other_side()
C++ PROGRAMMER: chicken->CrossRoad() was called from chicken->GetOtherSide()
OMAR KHAYYÁM:
MARKETING DIVISION OF MICROSOFT CORPORATION: Where does your chicken want to go today?
MARVIN: The other side is just as dull as this one. Don't talk to me about chickens.
ARTHUR DENT: Why did the chicken cross the road? 42? No, that doesn't make sense.

HAMLET:

To cross, or not to cross, that is the question: -
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous side;
Or to take arms against a road of troubles,
And by crossing end them?

july newsletter

just a quick blog to let you know the july news letter is out for Better Scrapbooking. read it here!

and the

Craft Out West

16th and 17th July

Te Pai Centre

Craft Show Entrance

(Indoor Netball Facility)

Adults: $5.00

Senior Citizens: $3.00

Children under 12yrs: Free

Proceeds to Hopice West Auckland

is happening soon.  looking forward to it.

one photo, three ideas

today at scrappn was at my house,  Kerry had the great idea that Debbie, herself and i should scrapbook the same photo of the three of us, worrisome as us three girls can be quite competitive (mostly Debbie!). 

Anyhow here are our three layouts

Debbies

Kerrys

and mine

they all turned out so very different.  catch ya xx

Happy Mothers Day xx

Happy Mothers Day to all my lovely blog readers and big hugs to those who mothers day isnt quite as happy as it can be.  I remember my first mothers day with out Josh, he had died three day before and it sucked BIG time But I have two WONDERFUL kids who make me feel like the best mum ever!

Yesterday was National Scrapbooking day, which is odd because really it is International Scrapbooking day and did I scrap?  oh yes I did  Megan over at Better Scrapbooking ran a online challenge and I uploaded my photos this morning but here they are so you can see first hand. 

This first layout Megan gave us a sketch to copy and this is what I did,  I used a lace cardstock I brought from the warehouse as my stencil and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist, I am sooo happy with how it turned out
of course these photos are quite old and before Josh got sick, what cute boys I have x

lol more sibling pictures but so up to date, take at Easter, at you guessed it Hine's wedding. Anyway Megan gave us another sketch and this is what I did....

Last challenge I entered was one that used stitching,  I hand stitched up the side of this layout, I really wanted Geo to stand out so used alot of red to zoom your eye in.... hope it worked

And this last layout I didn't enter online but I worked on it for a couple of days,  This is my Father In Law who passed away many years ago.  I do love this photo, we don't have many so every one is special (and I did more spraying with glimmer mist can you see what my latest addiction is)

I hope you all have a wonderful day I know Im going too, one of my presents today was from my darling son and his oh so clever girlfriend (who knew what to buy me) was a dymo label maker,  I have been looking at layouts for MONTHS now that have labels used for journaling and thinking I wish I had one of those but have not got around to getting one yay now I have one, thanks Scott and Mel you rock xx chris

wow where did that week go?

goodness did anyone else notice that first week back at school went really fast??  so what did I do this week... Monday with Eilish making Mothers Day cards (and did you know I made my mum an awesome card popped it in the post so it would make it on time and pooh forgot to take a photo).  Tuesday was spent with my dear friend Kerry cleaning out her shop (well not anymore hurrah!!).  Wednesday mmmmm ok Thursday ooh thats easy I went into ccf (child cancer foundation) to drop off 18 sweet adorable trays of chocolate ready for our mothers day mini pamper day on monday.  If you want to see this is the link to kerrys trade me listings too sweet too she has some yum stuff and some delish tins just right for scrapbooking stuff!  Layouts well here is yet another from the wedding :)



luff ya all
xx

better do some scrappn

look better scrapbooking's April news letter is out click and have a read.  http://www.betterscrapbooking.co.nz/ some of my fellow design team have some great ideas.  I had to do the OTP item and made some awesome covered boxes for Miss Geo.

cute I know.  this month I also attended my beautiful eldest nieces wedding, Miss Geo was the junior bridesmaid and guess who I took the most photos of?? yup Miss Geo, did get a couple of family snaps and some lovely ones of Master Scott and his lovely lady Mel.  Here is the layout I did

Mel has a crown on just because I like to tease her that she is the future Queen.  And just because I love to share with you all here is my two kids together (awwwww I hear you say)

ten years between them ....sigh, they grow so fast, And just to add here is the little monkey that is between them, those wonderful nieces gave me the big flowers from the church to take up to Josh's grave sweet I know

They where so big they covered up his whole headstone,  Nice though as on the 2nd May it will be 13 whole years since josh died,  Im not sure where time has gone, until I look at my kids and think....thats where it went!

to finish on a happy note I just sent some time away in Whangamata with my bestie Kerry and our two girls, lots of scrappn and laughing and drinking, last happy snap of Miss Geo and I

catch ya later xx