This is my younger brother Craig with Nate at a celebration for Craig's birthday at Sizzler, we all had a great time, with Nate being the entertainment for our meal.

I just love this photo of Nate and my old dog Maxi, they are great friends, here you see Nate in his new pjamas which come with that bright ball attached. At night if I do scrapbooking Nate gets the chair from his special table and chair set and brings it out and scraps with me, this involves getting a pair of scissors (yes you heard right) he is very profficient too, but this particular night he decided to cut open that bright ball and see what was inside, then after the mess is made and the damage done he walked over to me and said "dooonnnne" which is Nate's GONE. It was so funny, and that was the short life of the bright blue ball.

I got these gorgeous flowers today from Josephine, crazy Josephine, the card read, miss you, hope your feeling better, well when the interflora van turned up I would never have thought it would be coming to me, but wow, that just made my day, and yes I do feel much better now.

I finished this layout when I first started scrapping, probably about 18 months ago, I love Rouge De Guarance patterned paper, and I love this beautiful photo of my grubby little prince.

I am still not fully recovered after 7 days with a severe chest infection, it has really knocked me for a 6, so no new layouts to show, but this is an amazing quilted mat (I guess that is what you call it) I was totally blown away by these talented quilters at a church fete I went to. The Scrappin Kats challenge this month is to design a layout based on something we have seen or are ispired by, the challenge is from Ames, she is what I call my Australian Ali Edwards, she really gets us all thinking, I love it, I am going to use this amazing quilt somehow, and am going to combine fabric into my layout. Stay tuned.

This is Nate with his Aunty Julie (my little sister) and he just adores her, she never fails to come out with some crazy photos, which make scrapping pages of her and Nate heaps of fun, you can see why Nate loves her.

This layout I did approx 12 months ago, thought I might start adding some of them as a indication to see if my style has changed. I am so inconsistant with my style though I go from limited embellishments and lots of photos, to filling the whole page with stuff so guess I just haven't defined my particular style as yet, I love it all ways.

My favourite scrap magazine is Creating Keepsakes, I have to admit for me some of my favourite pages are ones I have lifted from this magazine, usually Ali Edwards original designed ones, although I haven't been able to quite grasp her concept to use only a few photos (select the best) I have heaps of trouble with this so I try to scrap them all. But I still appreciate the inspiration I get from attempting to copy her layout, usually turns out nothing like the original which to me is a good thing. This layout was one of the ones with me holding the camera in front of me and just snapping away whilst we were being silly. I love these times, we both laugh and carry on like fools. Hope he remembers these times.

Isn't this the most awesome card, I actually see this as a layout, Kellie Winnell, a Stampin Up! Distributor, which is awfully dangerous, as they have the most awesome stuff, has become guest designer at two different locations, do yourself a favour if you want to be spellbound by her awesome cards, I first met her at my favourite scrapping site, The Scrappin Kats, and she is a great person as well as a very talented lady. This card is just one of the many gorgeous cards she has made (she could make me 10 kits to make these cards and I would buy them) she is just that talented). I wish she lived closer but I would love to have a few days of paper crafts with this lady. Anyway just wanted to showcase this as the nicest card I have ever seen......Big comment - but this is Me.

My favourite photo of us, this is in the frame on my duchess. Love you Josey

Just more crazy Jo.

And this is Jason the "must love Dogs" boarder, who boarded with me whilst in Hervey Bay, he is a chef so the meals were awesome, he also played the digeradoo and was very good. He is crazy also but they may come with knowing Josephine. lol.

The crazy lady in this photo is on her way to my house right now, I first met Josephine when I put an add in the paper for a boarder whilst living in Hervey Bay, the heading read "Must love Dogs" because my animals share the house with me (and I mean share) and Jason moved in with me and I met Josephine and her partner Rob as a result of this, I am so grateful I did, because she is an awesome person, she means the absolute world to me and although we don't see each other as often as we used to, I miss her gaiety, positive and down right craziness, I would imagine those of you lucky enough to know Kellie Winnell, would think of my Josephine like her, although she isn't into scrapbooking YET! I am working on her, and she pours over my albums when she is here. We will be planning a trip to Sydney later in the year to spend some time with her and her family so lots to look forward to. God bless all the crazy friends we all have out there, they make life so much more enjoyable.

This is my good friend Jan, she conveniently lives 8 houses up the road and loves scrapbooking but makes cards also. We usually see her every day and she has a wonderful husband who Nate calls Uncle Col, they are very special people so alot of pages are dedicated to them, just to remind Nate when he gets bigger.

I did this double layout as a tribute to my beautiful top dog Maxi Taxi, we call him hoggy for short as he loves his food, he would rather try any food first and then if it doesn't appeal to him, he just spits it out, whereas his son Stanley sniffs the food first, predetermines whether he will like it or not. We much prefer this option. Max is 12 now, I have had him to the vet Friday as he has 2 big lumps the size of ping pong balls (well just a tad smaller) under his front and back leg, after $102.00 antibiotics and $57.00 non medicare (lol) consultation fee the verdict is they are fat lumps, so that is a relief to the system. (My system especially as he has been through 12 years of my life - good times and bad times) and I don't want to lose my most trustworthy, best friend.