Scrapbooking Made Simple

If you get a chance to check out Angela Daniels blog you may be able to let me know what the Bento Boxes are? I don't know about these Bento boxes (not big in Brisbane) but thought the picture looks COOL! Angela was talking about Omega 3 and how she has been taking supplements and this has overcome her dislike of eating fish, though she wasn't sure what Omega 3 did......BTW: Omega 3 is for your brain. It's supposed to make the kids smarter and stop us older people from losing too much brain power. We take ours in juice format as my kids wouldn't swallow a pill. ( www.my-monavie-juice.com ). I also saw a cool study where they measured the effects of Omega 3 supplements on pregnant women. Apparently the children born to these women proved to be smarter than their peers...... the downside..... the babies heads were bigger (Ouch!)

Get Your 500 Scrapbooking Sketches Now... Click here! This is the layout I completed to go opposite the "Proud Parents" Page of my 8x 8 album. This layout is a very simple design and the mirror image of my Proud Parents layout so they match beautifully in the album side by side. This is the last photo I have to scrap of my mother-in-law so I hope there will be some more coming. I have asked my father-in-law of photos of her childhood etc so I can get copies so the kids will have those photos to pour over when they're older. This photo is of my son who was the first grandchild and the only one she really got to know before she died. My husbands' sister had a baby boy a few months before her death who she did get to see as much as possible but with her illness I know it wasn't as much as she would of liked. My daughter was born five days before her death and though she knew she'd been born she was in a coma when I took her down to meet her so she never met her g...

Well we're fast approaching Mothers Day, which is not my favourite time of year as you all know. However I do enjoy focusing on my kids and my mother's day and it's a perfect time to update my scrapsupplies or tools.... but this year.... I don't really know what I want. I don't really need anything as far as I know anyway.... Do you have a favourite tool that is the best buy you've ever made? I really want to hear about it! I am looking for something I need but don't know I do... if that makes sense. I'm getting worried. It's getting close and I don't know what to ask for .... which is dangerous in my house as DH will get me something that is WAY over priced! Which is why I now decide what I want so he doesn't spend too much. I usually pick a few options and DH and DS and DD go shopping from that list... LOL or should I say circled and highlighted junk mail. HELP! What should I ask for?

My best scrap buddy and I had a FABULOUS evening on Saturday night. We went to our Local Scrapbook Store (well not too local.... five suburbs away he..he..he) for a five hour scrapathon! This was a good evening. There was lots of scrapping and gourmet pizza. We had a good time sharing techniques and ideas with other scrappers. The evening was hosted by a store at Lawnton called "Paper Addiction". This is a great store. Fabulous layout. Lots of room in the scrapping area! BUT... I was a little disappointed as there was no introduction to the tools etc available to us or what food and drinks were available for purchase..where the toilet was? I've been to other scrapbook evenings and there's at least a hi this is how we run our evening you can find (such and such) tools in (thingamajiggy) place. You know? So although we had a good time and got a bit done we've decided we'll have to experience other scrapathons to compare.... HE..HE..HE... so now the only hard par...

Well its a beautiful Anzac Day here in Brisbane (Veterans Day for all you who are overseas). My DH and DS went off to town for Dawn Service. DD and I slept on! Our new adopted pop is a returned serviceman having been to the Sinai Desert for active duty in the New Zealand Air Force and DS really wanted to go march with him. So we've had the morning to ourselves. We've had porridge and hot tea and lots of cartoons and cuddles. DD can be such an angel when its just her and me. Last night when DS went to bed (early because of having to get up at 3:30am this morning) she climbed up into his bed and gave him a big hug and kiss. Told him she loved him and she'd miss him. Isn't that cute? I love how great they are together. Now that she's preoccupied watching play school I thought I'd take the chance to blog about a technique I tried two days ago. It's really simple. I read about it in Scrapbook Creations (which I borrowed from the library). I don't like buying ...

I love reading Angela Daniels Blog: http://angeladaniels.squarespace.com/random-thoughts/ If you're looking for someone else to read.... I mean as well as me..LOL I can definitely recommend her. Anyway I left a comment on Angela Daniels Blog the other day about my favourite author. Angela was looking for new reading material. Something happy. I have to say I think Janet Evanovich fits that bill perfectly. She is a VERY funny author. When I read a book or watch television or watch a movie I either want to be educated or amused. I really don't like scary things.....I fail to see the point in scaring the crap out of myself. Gosh there's enough on the news to do that for you... (Which I don't watch by the way... too scary or depressing!). Janet Evanovich has a character called Stephanie Plum. This series is so funny. In fact there is one book that I read of hers where I literally fell off my chair laughing! My mum took an hour to get through one page of that book cause s...

Here's one of my wedding layouts. I'm doing a traditional album but have also decided to do a smaller album digitially. Just the main points! So I can print this for the kids to pour over. I had alot of photos taken at Movie World as that's where we had our Reception so there are lots of photos that don't really tell the story they're just pretty. Anyway here my mum walked me down the isle. She was really happy to be giving me away. Her friends told me it was the happiest day of her life. My dad and I were estranged at the time. (We were up until Mum got sick. We're o.k. now) Hard to believe this was 12 years ago. We got married in a little church at Oxenford as the priest I wanted to marry me had retired and had to borrow a church. So we didn't get to choose our church, which was O.K as the church he borrowed was really cute! Then the reception was held at Movie World on the Gold Coast in the set from Casablanca. (Casablanca was the first old movie I intro...