Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A Little Birdie Told Me - Freebie Alpha!


Here is the final part of A Little Birdie Told Me - the Alpha!

But before I hand it over......some more LO's from my lovely SIL =D



ooooooooooooooh, lol

So here is the Alpha preview:

and you can grab it here:

Have fun!!!!!! And keep leaving the love =D I love reading your comments both here and on 4 shared!

Don't forget Lori, CBH and CraftCrave =D


Tuesday, March 30, 2010

A Little Birdie Told Me Freebie Kit - Part 2 :)


Time for the Elements!! =D

But first I have a couple of Layouts to share, hehehe

This one is the QP I made, with one of my fav pics of William in it =D

The next two are also the QP I did, but this time my sister in law has added her own personal touches to them :)


Cute huh??
And the last one is also from my SIL, of her two little boys Callum and Sonny (about three years ago!)

Hopefully they have inspired you to do some awesome layouts....that you're going to send to me to have a squiz at ! =D

And now the thing you're all here for................

the Elements!!!!

I hope you have a blast creating something with this kit! Make sure you come back tomorrow for the final piece, the Alpha!

And as always Lori, CBH and CraftCrave =D Love these guys!

Monday, March 29, 2010

A Little Birdie Told Me Freebie Kit - Part 1 :)


I have my latest free kit to share!
It's called A Little Birdie Told Me and it was inspired by my favourite outfit of William's hahahaha! I really like the colours on it and he's almost grown out of it so I thought I would base a kit around it, lol
It wasn't going to be an Easter themed kit but it just kind of turned out that way. But you can definitely still make a non Easter layout with it :D

Well, here is the full preview:

And here is the paper preview:

And you can download the papers here:


Make sure you come back tomorrow for the next part, the elements!

And thanks to everyone who has already downloaded my QP!! And please leave me a note if you download, I love reading your comments!

Check out Lori, CBH and Craft Crave for more free stuff :)



Sunday, March 28, 2010

Freebie Quick Page from my New Kit!!


Does anyone know how I get my background back??? I've tried everything!! lol

Tonight I have a freebie Quick Page that I made with my newest kit called A Little Birdie Told Me :) I really love this page and I hope you will too!

Here is the preview:

and you can get it here :

Let me know what you think!! Tomorrow I'll have the first part of the kit to give away =D

I'd really love to see any layouts that you have made with any of my kits, please please send them to me! I'll post them on here if you feel like showing off but I would still love to see them even if you don't! You can send them to me by clicking on the cute little envelope icon on the right that I got from CoffeeShop Rita :) She has the best stuff on her blog and its all free! Go have a sticky beak =D
I've also added a Share button at the bottom of each post, so if you find something that you like you can share it with your friends on facebook, twitter etc. But you already knew that, lol. Another little gem I got from Rita's Blog. Seriously, go look at it =D

Thats all from me for now, be sure to come back tomorrow for my new freebie, and in the mean time check out Lori, CBH and CraftCrave for more goodies!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Funky QP Freebie and some Layouts!


hmmm where has my background disappeared to.....

Anyway, tonight I have a freebie Quick Page for you, I don't know how many people like QP's, I always prefer to do my own but I've made one anyway incase someone wants it!

So here it is:

and you can download it here:


and now I have two layouts to show you that my lovely sister in law made with this kit (probably cause she felt sorry for me hahaha! =P)

The first one is my gorgeous niece Tillie :D

and this is my other gorgeous niece Tahlia!

and this last one is her little sister Emily :D

Hasn't she done a great job? Leave her some love if you like them!

Don't forget to check out my other freebies if this is your first time visiting my blog =D

And as always, Lori, CBH and Craft Crave for plenty more freebies!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Fun 'n' Funky Elements Freebie!



I'm back with the Elements!



You can download them here:


Enjoy! And please keep leaving your comments, I LOVE reading them!

And be sure to check out my other freebies if you haven't already :D

Don't forget Lori's, CBH and Craft Crave for more freebies!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Fun 'n' Funky Freebie Kit =D


I have a new free kit for you all!

This one is called Fun 'n' Funky and it was good practice using the tools in PSE and also textures :) I got the colour pallet from my new cushions hahaha!

So here is the full preview:

And you can Download the Papers here:


Be sure to came back tomorrow for the elements!!

And please let me know what you think :)

For more great freebies check out Lori's Freebie List, CBH and Craft Crave

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Just checking in!


It's been a couple of days since I posted so I thought I'd better pop in and let you know what's happening!

I've had a bit of a stressful weekend (neighbour troubles *sigh*) so my next kit isn't quite ready yet, but I should have it up by Tuesday at the latest! I don't think this one will get as good a response as my frangipani's but we'll just wait and see :)

I'm blown away by how many downloads I've had!!!

I've also been working on some layouts for RebeccaB =D Very exciting!!

And I stumbled across the CUTEST Easter Kit the other day that Kristi W Designs was giving away on her blog for a few days only, I can't wait til I get around to playing with it! It has the most adorable little bunny's =D

and just so this isn't a boring post with no photo's, lol, here are two pic's I did of William for Hubby's birthday:


Our lil Wallaby =D. Hubby loved them, I did a Wallabies layout for him and framed it =D

Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with a freebie!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

My Violet Streak Layout


Just a quick post to show the layout I did with Scrappy Bug's Violet Streak Kit that you can find on her new blog FREE2SCRAP :)
I really really love this photo of Charlotte, I used a photoshop action called B&W Splendor that I got from CoffeeShop Rita =D Check out her blog, it's awesome!



And just cause I feel like it, two fantasy photo's I did a while ago =D

The first one I did for my little niece Tillie:


and then this one is a photo of Charlotte and my friends little boy Cooper:



how cute are they??? They were walking down our driveway together, but this looks much nicer I think!


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I finally got a chance to do some layouts!



Yay, I have 2 new layouts to post! I've been so busy making kits I hadn't done any in ages but yesterday I got 2 done, woohoo! lol

The first one I made with Scrappy Bug's Little Boy Blue kit, which I've been dying to use since I downloaded it! You can get the kit on her old blog, it was the last one she posted before she started a new blog for her free kits called FREE2SCRAP. I'm in the middle of a layout with her new kit Violet Streak, it has some awesome papers in it!

So here is the Little Boy Blue layout:

Isn't my little moo cow cute!?

The second layout I've done is another one with RebeccaB's Theabella's Tutu kit. The photo's are from the day William was born, lol, not very ballet-y but there were some lovely blue things in there and I thought the mauve paper matched the colour of my gown and the colour of his fresh lil footsie!

Awwww, my completed family :) And yes, I had to use a star to cover up his business, lol. Charlotte kept uncovering him to look at it!!

Well, back to my layout now, and don't forget I'm working on my next 2 kits so keep checking back for them!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Download Links For Frangipani Sunset Freebie Kit!!


Hi
So, I just realised that the Frangipani Sunset File is really big so if you would like to upload the Papers and Elements separately here are the links:

Papers:


Elements:

Hope thats easier to download!!

And don't forget Lori, CBH and Craft Crave for all your freebies!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Frangipani Sunset Freebie Kit!


Hi!

I finally have my Frangipani Sunset Kit to post =D It's pretty much the same as my first kit but with the pink frangi's instead, all from our garden :)

First though I want to thank everyone who downloaded my first kit - all 113 of you!!! yay me =D My Alpha is going pretty well too =D

So here are the previews:

The Papers


and the whole kit:

And you can download it here:


I hope someone likes it!

Phew! Now that I've got that all finished I can get back to doing some layouts!! It's no fun doing them with my own kits, I like to use other people's, lol, and I've got some good ones waiting!!

Plus I'm already working on my next 2 kits =D So stay tuned!!

And as always, Lori, CBH and CraftCrave for stacks of freebies!

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Frangipani Fresh Alpha!!



Helloooo

I've just had a crack at making an alpha, lol. It coordinates with my frangipani fresh kit ( I hope ) and it was a pain in the bum!! =D

Here is the preview:


and you can download it here:


Hopefully you can use it! And if you haven't grabbed my Frangipani Fresh Freebie Kit you can get it here. I just need 2 more people to download it and I will have reached the 100 mark!! =O lol

Please leave a comment if you like it!

And don't forget Lori's Freebie List, CBH and Craft Crave for stacks more free goodies!

Friday, March 12, 2010

Thank you everyone!!



I'm so stoked with how well my first kit has done! 96 people have downloaded it =O Probably not much to the pro's, lol, but I'm thrilled =D And thank you for the lovely comments too, they are very much appreciated!

This is just a quick post to say thanks and my next kit is coming soon, it matches my first and is called Frangipani Sunset :) We only just got back from our holiday so will get cracking on it asap, better unpack and stuff first though! I also have 2 other kits in very early stages so stay tuned for them too. There just isn't enough time in the day!

We had a great time away, took lots of photo's of course!! I just want to share this one with you all now, I completely fluked this one!! It looks fake but I can assure you its real, lol

see? pretty cool huh? lol

hopefully I'll have my new kit ready very soon!!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Frangipani Fresh - My first Digi Kit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So the time has finally come to share with you all my very first digi kit =D

It's called Frangipani Fresh - I came up with the idea when I was photographing our frangipani tree's after the rain. As I have no idea what so ever how to make elements, lol, they are all made from the photo's I took! And the frames were just made in PSE. I had a go at making buttons too, lol.

Here is a preview of the papers:

There are 6 patterned papers and 3 photo papers, which I think came out pretty well!

And here is the full preview:

I really hope someone out there likes it!!!!

You can download it here:

If you download it please leave me a comment to let me know what you think! I'm actually working on a coordinating kit that I will be putting out next weekend (I'm off on holidays tomorrow!) so I would really love some feedback to make the next kit better!

I would LOVE to see any layouts that you make with it, you can leave me a link to your blog or gallery or send me an email =D

Let me know how I did!!!

Enjoy!!

And for more freebies go to Lori, CBH and Craft Crave!!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Freebie Quick Page with MY OWN KIT!!!



Yay!! Today I have for you a freebie Quick Page that I made with my very first Digi Kit!!! It's called Frangipani Fresh and I will be putting it up tomorrow =D Hopefully, lol

I hope someone out there likes it =D

Here is the preview:

And you can download it here:

Please please please let me know if you like it!

And be sure to come back tomorrow when I will have the full kit up!

And don't forget Lori, CBH and Craft Crave for lots of freebies!!!


Friday, March 5, 2010

New freebie!!!


Hi everyone =D

I have another freebie quick page tonight!!

But first I'm going to share a photo I did in PSE, it's one of our wedding photo's and seeing as it's our 5 year anniversary today I'm going to put it up =D


I'm very proud of this pic =D, one of the first I did where I had to build the whole picture! I'm stoked with how it turned out =D
I love making this kind of picture but I just don't have the time! There aren't enough hours in the day!! Having a toddler and a baby is very time consuming, lol, but they are so much fun =D

Anyway.....you're here for the freebie so I won't make you wake any longer! It's a quick page I made with RebeccaB's Tweetledee kit, which you can find on her blog :) I love love love the bright colours in this kit :)

Here is the preview:


And you can download it here:

Leave a message if you like it!!

Oh and hopefully I will be posting my very first kit tomorrow or Sunday =D!!!

Don't forget to check out Lori's Freebie List, CBH and Craft Crave for more awesome freebies!!


Tuesday, March 2, 2010

A new freebie!


Just another quick post today, I'm typing with Willy asleep in my arms, lol.

I have my second freebie today!! Its another quickpage, made with RebeccaB's Buzz Attitude kit =D Thanks Rebecca!
It started out as just a frame, but then I kept going, lol. I hope someone out there likes it!!
Here is the preview:

And you can download it here:


I hope someone out there likes it! And please leave a comment if you download it, pleeeease =D

And......my first kit is coming along nicely!! It'll be pretty basic because I don't know how to make anything but I think it's going to turn out ok!

Stay tuned!

For more freebies visit Lori's Freebie List, CBH and Craft Crave :)

Speed Freek Layout


Hi :)

Just a quick post tonight, busy busy busy! Poor Willy had his 6 month needles today :( but he's a brave little soldier, only a few tears :)

So I'm just going to post a layout I did with the awesome Speed Freek Collab by RebeccaB, Kelly-Jo's Scraps and Scrappy Bug.

It's Charlotte having a turn on her cousins little motorbike. She's all smiles in this pic, then daddy jumped on behind her and took off, lol. Poor little thing was terrified, then she asked for another turn!

So here it is :

I have lots more photo's from that day so hopefully I'll get some more layouts done with this kit!

I should have a new freebie to post tomorrow! I'm working on it now...not sure if it's going to be a cluster frame or if I'll make it a quickpage...we'll see, lol. So check back tomorrow!

I'm very happy with how my first freebie went!

And, I've taken the first steps to designing my first kit!! So so so excited about it! But it will be a while, lol. It's hard to find the time with a toddler and a baby!

xx

Monday, March 1, 2010

William is 6 months today =D


My little man is 6 months old today, I can't believe how fast it has gone! I felt like I would be pregnant forever and suddenly he's 6 months!
I have a photo to put up, we had a pregnancy photoshoot booked for 4 weeks before William was due...and my water broke the day after we had them taken, lol. I'm so glad we had them done, I would have been devastated if I had missed out. I had really awful pregnancies and I wanted one positive memory of being pregnant and the photo's are it!
So here is my absolute favourite photo from the shoot, and then I added one of William's ultrasound photo's in PSE :

I love love love this photo :) definitely the best shot on the day.

Next I have a quick layout I did of most of the pregnancy shots (except for the topless ones, lol) (well, topless but you can't see anything =D)
I used Kelly-Jo's Scraps kit called Girls Night Out. lol, I think my last girls night out was 5 years ago! Seriously. How sad, haha. But I loved the grey's and silver's in the kit. Especially the nameplate and the alpha looks engraved into it :)

I'm not 100% happy with this one, I was a bit rushed and did most of it with William on my lap, lol but I think its ok.

Oh and the photo's were done by the lovely Jas at JasArt Photographic Art

Now...I'm going to post my pregnancy story with Charlotte here. Plese feel free to skip it, lol, its LONG and pretty gross hahaha! I wrote this down in my other failed blog I had about 18 months ago, lol but I don't want it to get lost so I'm going to put it in here :)

If you want the short version - I had Hyperemesis (vomiting 24/7 for 9 months), Gestational Diabetes and was very depresses and yuck the whole time!!

So here it is: (Remember, if you're going to read it, it has a lot of vomiting in it!)
"Ok, so I thought I would tell the story of my pregnancy on here, just so I have a record of it somewhere. I keep meaning to write about it in the pregnancy journal I started and was too sick to finish but I just can't be bothered!

I'll try and keep it short. I had Hyperemesis while I was pg, which basically means severe morning sickness 24/7 for the whole 9 months. Although, it wasn't like any other ms I'd ever heard about. At 5 weeks I was queasy, 6 weeks I took my first sick day and by 9 weeks I had had my first visit to the emergency room.

I could not stop vomiting. I couldn't keep anything down - not that I felt like eating anything in the first place. I went to the ER and was put on a drip so I at least had some fluid in me. I spent the night in emergency and the next morning they weren't happy enough to let me go home so I was admitted to a ward and stayed one more night. They gave me a script for maxalon, which I was already taking and insisted it would work, eventually. It didn't. I was back in emergency 2 weeks later, back on a drip. I was a mess. I hadn't showered in god knows how long, my hair was a giant rats nest and I stank!

This time the Dr gave me a script for Zofran Ondansatron wafers which I had to dissolve on my tongue. These helped but man were they expensive! $60 for 4 wafers. I had to tear them in half and just have half a day, unless I was in really bad shape then I'd have the other half at night.

Everything made me want to throw up. Weird stuff. Like thinking of our Fiji holiday (???) or turning my head to the left, or the sound of the door knob turning. I couldn't get out of bed, except to vomit. My mum would come over and try and cheer me up and get me out of bed. She'd say 'Do you think you might like to try a shower today?' and I'd stumble into the ensuite 3 steps away and vomit. I'd peel off my clothes and vomit. I'd get in the shower and vomit. The feel of the shower spray and the heat made me feel worse. Meanwhile, mum was quickly stripping the stinky sheets from the bed, replacing them with clean ones. I'd struggle into one of MK's tshirts and crawl back into bed, my hair still wet from the shower, the smell of my freshly shampooed hair making me gag.I could only lay on my right hand side. It would ache from laying so long but I couldn't move. I ended up with a rash on that leg from sliding in and out of bed to vomit so often.

I tried to get some food in me but it wouldn't stay down. I was just having orange powerade and orange sunny boys at one stage. They'd come straight back up but at least the taste wasn't so bad! I tried yoghurt - big mistake, and watermelon; have you ever thrown up watermelon?? Its so gritty.

I just layed in bed all day drifting in and out of sleep. I knew I had to keep my fluids up but couldnt manage the trip downstairs to get anything. MK used to leave half a dozen glasses on the bedside table, some with water, some just full of ice cubes, so that later in the day I would have cold water still. Even though water felt like acid when swallowed.

I couldn't even change the chanel on the tv. We wheeled the spare one into our bedroom but it could only play whatever chanel was on the downstairs tv. Normally Ch 7. MK offered to program in a bunch of shows and leave it on Foxtel but it was too much to deal with. I used to have to lay through an hour of infomercials everyday. Not fun. I still feel a wave of nausea when I see certain shows I watched during that time. Then I went through a phase where I could only watch Dante's Peak, Twister or Jurassic Park. I had them all on video so MK could just pop one in and I could just rewind it all day. But it had to be before the credits started rolling, because they made me vomit. I couldn't look at any sort of writing, especially on my phone. It was switched off for months. I guess those were my 'comfort' movies.

I vomited so often, I guess it was inevitable that I would start vomiting blood. The first time it happened, I completely freaked out. It wasn't just a few spots, it was a great big gush, like someone had poured a can of red paint in the toilet. In my foggy, pregnant brain I thought that I had somehow thrown the baby up. Impossible, especially since I was about 5 months along then, but I was out of it. I screamed for MK to come. I couldn't breathe properly. He was so calm. He just sat on the floor behind me, with his arms and legs around me and told me to breath with him, match his breaths. I remember having a white knuckle grip on his slippers, until I eventually calmed down. He said 'I'm just going to flush this away, so you don't have to look at it, and we'll go for a drive to the hospital.' I didn't want to go. I made him go and get the phone so I could ring my Dad. He told me to calm down, go and lie down and if it happened again then go to the hospital. He said I'd probably just torn my throat from all the vomiting. I got back in bed and made it the whole way through Jurassic Park before I had to be sick again. More blood, so off to the hospital we went. We went to Emergency and I went into the triage nurse straight away. He said it was more than likely my throat was torn but he would like me to be seen anyway. 3 hours later we were still in the waiting area. I was so exhausted and my bum was really sore from the hard plastic chair! MK went to the desk and asked how much longer it would be. They didn't know, I kept getting bumped down the list for more urgent cases. We decided just to go home. If they weren't concerned enough to see me then it musn't be that bad. They said they would rather I stayed and waited but I had had enough. I took an extra wafer when I got home to make sure I would have a break from vomiting to give my throat time to heal. It did happen again through the rest of my pregnancy, but not as bad as that first time.

Hmmm I said I was going to keep this short...... maybe I'll leave it at that for now....."

See? Gross right?? lol.
So next time I will hopefully have a freebie to post =D
And no more gross stories!!

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