A New Baby!!!

We have a new baby.... She is a beautiful baby Labrador which we are going to call Ella... She is now 8 weeks old and waiting for us to pick her up upon our arrival in Brisbane in two weeks time. After the tragic loss of our beloved Coopydog, and now the stress of the house sale falling through... she will be keenly welcomed into our little family...

I decided to go for a female this time... and perhaps I might try breeding someday in the future... ... She is beautiful. The breeders have described her as boisterous, and attentive... So that sounds good??? And she will be our Christmas Present.... I found her via dogzonline a number of weeks ago but didn't want to say anything out of respect for Cooper....

.....But... Now I am excited and have to tell everyone.


I have been rather lazy lately after loosing my walking buddy, so I am really looking forward to hitting the pavement and bushland again with my new doggy soon......

Cheers....

Jodi

Ella: @ 8 weeks

House Sale OFF....'sob..bloody sob'

Sad news... last Thursday we learnt that the sale had fallen through for our house..... Bloody Finance Companies... We are not sure what we are going to do now. The contract with the agent ends in a week... (aren't they now keen and a little pushy) to get us to resign!!!! We are not sure what we are going to do!! We are moving in 3 weeks and with Christmas approaching and the house market quieting down it is difficult.. Cant afford to have it sitting empty for months while we try and sell it.... And we are mortified at how much a real estate wants in commission/ fees for us to rent it...

Justin has now sailed and gets back next week...so NO house decisions until then... and then the house contract will be finished and we will be free to decide!!! Something the real-estate is fully aware of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then we have the big packup and move... OH it is all so close now. I have this week and next week of work left which equates to 5 days!!! And the boys have 9 days of daycare left... and then Aidan is leaving his best mates Connor and Fraser... I am leaving my best Scrapping mate Tracey and Joshie is leaving his girlfriend Bronte....

But we will never be 'COLD' again!!!

Cheers

Will check in again soon.....

Scrapjack competition... November challenge

Here is my November layout for Scrapjack.... This months Scrapjack was Celeste Vermeend... I loved this layout... it was hard to decided what photo I wanted to scrap but I am very happy that I decided to scrap this Photo of my baby Joshie on the beach in Albany...

Blackhawk Personnel Christmas Party

The Christmas Party at work early this year.... Divya and Sam (boss lady and boss man) are going to Kenya for a month in December and of course I am leaving (only 3 weeks of work left for me now!!)...

So we had it early... the 17th October... at the Witches Cauldron in Subiaco. It was really nice. And what looked like a small restaurant was actually massive...

Hope no one minds me putting their faces on my blog... but here is a pic from last night.

It was a good night and Merry Christmas everyone (oh and thanks Divya and Sam)

Aussie Scrapjack

I have discovered Aussie Scrapjack... this is a great Scrapping Blog which runs competitions which require you to draw inspiration from a selected Jackie (scrappers talk for someone being 'copied')... They are running a design team competition and I have decided to enter.. yes a little late but hopefully that wont matter?

Here is my Layout for the October challenge: Scraplift Megan Stephenson.

4 weeks to go & a Scrapbooking Revelation!

The first set of boxes for our big move arrived on Wednesday... it kinda made it more real now... we only have 4 weeks to go and I am sure that that will go REALLY fast...

I have been scrapping up a storm of late.... mainly for Enchanted Scrapbooking... I am loving our packs and they have reignited my LOVE for scrapping and I have found that they have inadvertendly made me realise how to scrap to achieve the best results... This realisation is ground breaking... unless you scrap you just would not realise the significance of this realisation... IT is like finding God... I am a scrapper that relishes in scrapping with a few chosen products and (this is the important part) then matching the photo to those papers... and products... Trully this is a revelation!! I AM born AGain... Now just stop me from Scrapbooking.......

Lucky we got that 4 bedroom house in Darwin???? ha ha ha

Here are some layouts to share with you all

Our Christmas tree last year .... after Santa had come.

Aidan's 3rd Birthday... yes it was 10 months ago...
Remember I just had the scrapbooking revelation and only now know how to I should scrap... despite scrapping for 3 years now...





These photos are recent... This was taken at Araluen in
September...
I love this picture of the boys running... This LO was done with one of the Enchanted Scrapbooking Fairy fun packs... 'Fairy Circles'

Yes another set of photos from a while back... This is Aidan determinately doing his morning ritual at about 10 months old... indoor gardening...

This LO was done for our Enchanted Scrapbooking Design Team Challenge NO1... you had to use purple and yellow and have an animal ... see the perfect LO challenge for these photos!


Thats all for now... will get back to you all when I have something more to say.

Cheers

Enchanted Scrapbooking

The little scrapbooking endeavour Enchanted Scrapbooking, Tracey and I have launched is going pretty well. We started out small, and it is still small; but we now have much interest and we are pretty happy with where it is at...

Here are some recent layouts I have done with our Fairy Fun Packs....