Sketches 4 all, Crate Challenge Layout, Christmas Photos, Page Maps2

Hello everyone, hope you are enjoying your weekends, wet again here, we had 2 dry days though which was nice to get some washing dry....Well we had our busy week here, we went to see Frosty and Nate had a great time, and Thursday I stayed home and did the layout above which was for the colour challenge on the Crate Blog. I treasure it when Nate comes up and kisses me and says " I wuv you muumm" so I just wanted to document these great shots I took using my other hand.....

This is the great photo I got when we went to our local shopping centre for their photo shoots with Santa. It was great. They said it was such a success they will do it over 2 days next year. I was on a waiting list until the Friday before this shot was taken so feel lucky I made the cut....
Stanley is on the left and Maxi (his dad) is the greyer 14 yr old hog.

Bought myself this book as an early Christmas present a few weeks back and just love it, the layout for the Crate blog challenge is from this book, I have completed 2 layouts so far using it, it takes me out of my usual style and I am enjoying using it.

At Sketches 4 all this month, there is so many fantastic prizes up for grabs, you just have to come and join in, I have just won the ECHO PARK BOY papers and am stoked as I just love them. The above layout is for Fia's sketch challenge, and again the prize is just amazing, and I also have a great rak up for grabs to the winner of the "Scrap your traditional colours for Christmas" challenge. All you have to do is create a Christmas layout using the colours you love for Christmas, I am a red green and gold girl but there are some amazing colour schemes in the GALLERY.  Just press HERE to check out this sensational challenge blog.

Love to you all, I hope you and your family's are well, thank you for being my extended family, you all mean the world to me. Love Melxx

Get Picky Inspiration Challenge, Anna's craft cupboard

Hello everyone, hope this post finds you all okay and the weather isn't creating too much havoc where you live.....for all the overseas visitors, it has been raining fairy consistently here for over 13 days and in some parts of our country their are terrible floods and people are trapped in their towns. We are okay here but the yard is a mess and everything stinks because of the dampness.

The layout above is for the GET PICKY INSPIRATIONAL CHALLENGE this month, it was a beautiful Audrey Hepburn Quote. I guess for me, I just love how Nate and I can sit anywhere and be silly and act crazy, he is so much fun and I really enjoyed using the WRMK papers for this layout.

Over at Anna's Craft Cupboard, they had a gorgeous sketch by Wendy Smith this month and again I used up some WRMK papers to show how Nate tries to fool me into thinking he is asleep. The arvo sleeps are not happenning so much anymore and he perhaps lays down 2 arvos at the most depending on the energy he has expended. Just another milestone I guess.

This morning we went to a little show and story telling morning tea at Riverlink and Nate met Frosty the Snowman, Mrs. Claus and some Christmas Elves. He had a great time. We had our Ladies' group Christmas party yesterday which was just wonderful and Monday a High Tea at a friends place - she is an awesome cook and I just loved the awesome delights she made so its home tomorrow...yay!

This is me and "the Junior Hog" Stanley, although I gave his mop top a cut just this week he still needs a bit more cut off, I love the way he shows the white in his eyes when he looks at you. He is my older poodle Maxi's son and is 8 years old. I will post the photo I got recently of the two fur kids and Nate with Santa, it turned out beautiful.

Only 17 sleeps until Santa comes, scary hey. Love to you all. Melxxx

Artastic December challenge, Frosted Designs.

Hello dear friends, hope this post finds you well and happy, well it may be Christmas but there is no stopping the challenges they just keep coming, and this month at arTASTIC it was a doozy, for the full diva demand points you have a stable, gold embossing and and angel displayed on your page. I called in the big guns for this, prima papers, my a2z window which is actually looking into my stable and I gold embossed the word child and the star above the "i", the angel is on the right and is cut from a diary I once had. Hope you like the end result.

I just love arTASTIC, Shazza always manages to set "out of the box" criteria and I always really have to think about my layouts. Isn't this pic of Nate super cute....he is so gorgeous with his angelic face when he sleeps.

Friends Deb and Ange are on the DT for "Frosted Designs" so I participated in their Blog hop today, it was great, so much eye-candy and great prizes too. The layout you need to create has to incorporate bling or sparkle. I created this layout of "Angel" she is good friend Amanda Taylor's beautiful dog and I added kindyglitz to all the flowers and the trail of the butterfly and was totally guilt free as their is no Nate in this layout....

In this pic Nate is flying a kite but he let go of the string and it just flew off and luckily I caught him laughing his head off as he ran after it. We had a wonderful day at the park. We have tried several times since this day and unfortunately there has not been enough wind to fly the kites again. So I guess this makes this day extra special.

A few weekends ago we went to the O'Neill yearly Christmas get together and Nate got to catch up with my cousins kids, it was just wonderful, here is Harriet and Nate just looking out over Wivenhoe Dam. I had a great time catching up with my cousins, Aunt's & Uncles, and to see our kids playing together was just priceless. This photo is just another example of Nate growing up. Wow he is growing into a little man right before my eyes...SLOW DOWN......not too fast.......just a little longer.....

Love to you all and your families. Melxx

Bo Bunny Challenge, A2Z sketch challenge & Wedding photos

Morning all, not sure what is happenning but I just seem to be getting up earlier and earlier, Nate stays in bed until 8am and I am up around 5am. It is raining here and apparently is not going to stop in the near future, so their may be a great chance to get lots of scrapping done.

The above layout is one I did for the "Bo Bunny" Challenge - which was design a layout and say what you love most about YOU. I had these one handed photos I took of Max and I so just had to use them. Now the gorgeous flower I made using a great tute from Julie Dudley which you can find HERE, these are my new fixation. The round yellow crepe paper flower is from Chelley Bean Designs and the little flower centre and gorgeous ladybug pin are from Mel Pizzinga Designs.

This is my layout for A2Z for November, I used the gorgeous We are Memory Keepers papers "Maple Grove, this is a picture of Nate sitting on our wooden seat up the back yard eating star fruit.

And here are some gorgeous pics of my sister's wedding, Nate was the page boy and really did a great job, my sister looked simply stunning.

This is the pre Ceremony photos of Julie and Morrie's wedding, Nate  looks debonaire and little Lolita (Morrie's Granddaughter) looks stunning.

And this is after the ceremony, no music just lots of Boogie happenning. Just love the shirt hanging out, it's a boy thing.....

Love to you all, hope you are all happy and you and your family's healthy. Love Melxx