Kraft it up March challenge, the lounge

Hello everyone, hope you and your family's are well as you read this. The above layout is for Kraft it up this month, and this is Nate pretty much every day, and he is definately my greatest gift. I hope you like it, the criteria this month was to use these words "there is no greater gift than today".

This is my computer area where I am typing right this very second, I like to call it my oasis as I am usually here because Nate has had tea and watching a dvd - which is "Marmaduke" by the way tonight. This is not where I scrap - I use half the kitchen table but will show you all that next post.

This is the leather lounge which has a few rules attached to it, all is good so far. I love fresh flowers, they make me feel good and I am guessing due to all the rain here are really cheap at the moment. And underneather the coffee table is the old hog Maxi just relaxing. 

This is just a room that is off the entry and as you can see my wine rack is empty, and hasn't had a bottle in it since Nate could crawl. I love a glass of wine on an occassion like a birthday etc, but it may have to wait a couple of years before I am game to stock it. The pic on the wall is one Dad and Mum left here in the house and it is the first picture they ever bought together and so it has some sentimental meaning to me.

Okay, it's Sunday night - "Who wants to be a supermodel" then probably to bed to read and look through the latest SBM mag. Love to you all, be visiting soon. Melxx

White with 1 Feb Challenge, Kraft it Up Feb Challenge

Hi everyone, well after 5 days of unbearable heat it is overcast today which has relieved the scorching temps just a little. Hope you all had great weekends, we went to the outdoor movies to see "Alvin & the chipmunks 2" and it was wonderful, Nate was mesmerised.

The above layout is for the White with 1 challenge this month, I enjoyed pulling apart a pattern to make the frill on the outside edge and added a sentitment I hope Nate will read one day. We were mucking around in the backyard in this photo and he was giving me kisses then just licked me.....well it was just a stage he was going through I guess because it hasn't happenned again and I just had to document it.

This is my layout for Kraft it Up this month, Black orange and Teal were the criteria and this is Nate and Cooper looking out at the view from the new bridge in town that links Riverlink to the Mall.

And well this photo is Nate (with a milk moustache) responding to me when I asked him to look at me as this is sometimes the only way I know he is actually listening to me......."I see you mum" he said.

Hope you are all well wherever in the world you are, off now to check out your layouts for some inspiration. Love Melxx

Screen to Scrap and Kraft it Up

Hi everyone, hope this post finds you all well and happy, the above layout is my entry for Screen to Scrap this month, taking some inspiration from "Sherlock Holmes" screen poster as I have not seen the movie, I used my very own Detective, following the criteria of Teal in the layout, something metal and a block title. In the days when taking photos of Nate suited him, (only a few short months ago) I managed to snap these photos of what he does when you ask to take his photo, he is a born model, smiles and tilts his head to one side and then the other, now I get a hand straight out and he says "NO mum" I mean I hear some mum's saying their kids don't like photos being taken but surely I thought I would get a few more years in before this happenned. Looks like I will be taking more candid, "I got you" photos from now on.






This is my entry for Kraft it Up this month, the criteria was to use 4-6 photos, and of course use Kraft cardstock. These are some pics of Nate servicing the mower, or should I say his mower as everything is "Mine" at present, he did have a big learning curve here as just after these photos were taken and I was thinking just how gorgeous "The Help" is around the house, I put the camera away and came back to see him putting grass that he had just cut using (not my faves thankfully) my scrapbooking scissors into the poor Victa's petrol tank, thankfully I caught him quickly and only a small amount was in the tank, he is certainly quicker than the eye, but I put it down to the imagination of a 3 year old. Will have to get better help. lol.



Good friend Wati Basuri sells these gorgeous flowers they sell for $3.50 SGD which is approx $2.75 AUD and can be purchased through paypal. I have just ordered some and cannot wait to receive them. Just click on HERE to see more gorgeous colours in these flowers.

This week looks busy again, follow up Speech Therapy appt today, Lady's morning tea tomorrow, bring on Scrap Wednesday lol as for apart from cutting out bits and pieces I probably won't get paper to page until then and let me know what you think but for the mum who has everything I decided to make her 15 or so birthday & anniversary cards & bought a nice box to put them in, I got this idea from Stacey Cohen.

Hopefully, I will have no more eco friendly fuel experiments in the lawn mower to report, until then dear friends, I will visit you all and see what you are all up to. Love Melxxx

Kraft it up, Noel Mignon

Morning dear friends, wow a little chilly here this morning, and I am off for my fortnightly scrap day with Amanda Taylor, the photo above shows Amanda's boy Connor doing sound for Master Nate while he sings, he is so excited to be going and has been saying all night "I go to Con's now?". I just try to explain he has to sleep first...

The layout titled "Beautiful Grins" is my entry for KRAFT IT UP this month, the criteria is you have to use a Kraft background and utilise heaps of white space. The layout titled "While you were sleeping" is using a Noel Mignon technique where you use the default letters from their casings and mist. I just love this idea and am actually going to use this again today. When we come home from our day trips with Jan and Col, we always bet how long before Nate falls asleep, he is usually so quiet, which is just the opposite on the going to trip, he now yells 'DUCK' when we go underneath every bridge, which Uncle Col taught him to say, but this day he just crashed and it was my turn to have a little fun without him knowing.

Well I must be off, time to leave for Amanda's, heaps of traffic usually, and so many bridges to DUCK UNDER. Hope you all have a great day. Look forward to catching up with all of you soon. Love Melxx