Various artists...

2006-12-09T11:14:00.000+11:00

I hate blogger! They promised blogger beta would be better. It isn't! So I have moved.

https://libbymorris.wordpress.com

Please update your links, and link me if you want to, you dont have to ask.

Wordpress is fantastic!

Lib x

2006-11-28T11:52:00.000+11:00

It has been a while...

that tasteless bit of humour below, I found on Kendra's blog, got a kick, thought I'd share. There is no point updating with the latest happenings, you don't have time for that. Massive opportunities have been coming my way and its hard to juggle life, children and work, you all know what I mean. However, I am back blogging again. Im currently caffeine free and struggling big time with withdrawals... I know its nothing like a hard drug withdrawal, but it's bad enough and only day two... bring on the pain reliever... yes that's right swap one drug for another LOL!

Im in the process of cleaning my scrap room... a monumental task, the ladies are at day care and having a ball by all accounts. So Im able to get in and have a proper run. Can I just boast and say that Claire is the smartest kid I have ever known? Teach her a word once, yes once and bang it's in the vocabulary. She came out with 'ducks' this morning... My Mum always called the crusty morning eye bits... 'ducks' as they were yellow and I have blue eyes, hence ducks on the blue pond. Well I told Claire about it weeks ago and don't remember mentioning it again... This morning while giving her gorgeous eyes a little wipe with a wet one... She says... hmmm 'ducks'. She's a gifted genius that one. Charlotte is a quiet achiever, she doesn't say much, Claire is the spokes-twin but Charlotte misses nothing. Gradually getting back into the routine here after spending so long at Grannie's.

Seems to be so much 'stuff' happening. It's an odd ending to this year. Nothing like I've ever experienced, just feels abnormal. Maybe that's the haze of caffeine withdrawal talking, I should stop now and get on with the cleaning.

til then

Libby xxx

2006-11-28T11:50:00.001+11:00

'What" will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

2006-10-23T15:27:00.000+10:00

Well here's a start on my Shimelle class. I didnt really like the idea for titles and photos in a structured way and I wanted to just see what fell out of my head. So here are just random facts about me that even some of my close friends might not know. Not even nearly half way through yet... these pages all go together with big rings...

I love Red Bull!

Being an Aries I love anything blissfull or even sometimes a little hedonistic.

Great quote. Ive always been a quote collector, many live in my wallet. Inspired.

Yeah thats right... I cope... strong and determined.

Self explanatry - my proud page

Art photos of myself make me happy

2006-10-20T08:28:00.000+10:00

OMG! YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS! Click here!!! Yeah its an advert for Sony, but even so...

Imagine 1000's of litres of paint, explosives, a dis-used block of flats, a clown and a sense of fun!

These guys have made a mess! But its a beautiful mess!I absolutely adore shit like this! Quick go see now!

You will need to download the latest (free) Quicktime 7 to play the video, but its worth the wait.

Car is back on the road, $550 later and still carrying on like a busted butt!

cheers

and happy - no breaky-downy trails!

Lib x

2006-10-17T07:33:00.000+10:00

Hello all

Well thanks to Lee, (thanks Lee) I've signed up for Shimelle's class.. just what I love. There are so many chicks doing this class and easy peasy pay through paypal... gotta love cheap classes and theres so much inspiration from not only the class but the other chicks... Awesome!!

My car is dead... Im driving Mum's to and from work and its costing me a fortune and feeling like Im driving a tank... anyway something about the alternator... it konked out 8pm fri night coming back from Singo and we (Mum Dad Me and the ladies) finally got back to Mums at 1am after the NRMA towed the car away... somehow I think the stars have aligned against me lately.

This video is brilliant... gotta love an aussie in a mall looking kinda freaky with a free hugs sign... it made me cry, though lately thats not hard LOL!

I taped the Little Brittian interview (Enough Rope) last night and OMG my fav fav fav show is back on! Not only am I an Eastenders tragic, and the Sopranos, but I adore OZ! (SBS 10pm) Doubt anyone's heard of it... quite graphic and its about a jail in the US... but the interractions is what gets me... I love the twists and turns and who's loyal to whom. There's a guy in a wheelchair (I dont think he was killed last season) anyway his speeches at the end of every episode are truely champagne TV! The spitting on each other and language I could do without, but hey how real would it be to have em all sitting drinking tea and knitting???

gotta go

love youse all

Libby xxxxx

2006-10-14T12:24:00.000+10:00

Im really sad that Scrapbook Answers is no more. I love that mag and the DVD's were winners. Oh well...

lets see, it's my weekend off and the girls and I are bumming around at home, you know cleaning the kitchen floor, cleaning out and washing the car, pretty much trying to stay close to the air-con too. Silly hot weather for October. I wonder what is going to happen when this planet really starts to get thirsty. Funny thing is, some of the huge properties all along our rivers, who rob unfathomable amounts of water from OUR system, to grow bulk crops of whatever... I cant see the govt shutting em down. What is it going to take? Yeah the little bit of water you can save by putting buckets in the shower with you, is ridiculous when you see the amount of water used by those farms. The ones on the way from here to Adelaide and in QLD.

Entered the Hamby guest DT comp (see pics)... wanted to do heaps more layouts but time just got away... have done heaps of samples for Leanne at Stamp n Scrap in Singleton and forgot to take pics... but I'm going to start teaching soon at the Muswellbrook Scrap Shop ... such lovely people Stacey & Bernie. - The Scrap n Craft Bug 02 65413142.

So excited for Jackie.. after this mornings ultrasound it looks like she and Tony are having a girl!

One of the mares at work had twins the other day. Whoops, they're not supposed to and sadly both had to be put to sleep... not really formed properly... other than that there's only 13 mares left to foal now... on the downhill run.

My huge gardenias are about to bloom... I never knew they were such thirsty plants. The buds used to fall off and now theyre fat with promise.

I am wondering where my Scrapbooks and More order is... its been nearly 3 weeks and Im sure I only ordered from the arrived stock. I know theyre busy and notoriously slow slow slow with orders, but crikey its getting ridiculous. I emailed them and still no response. I remember I wanted stuff in a rush once and they refused to help. They have great stock, just good luck as to when you get it! I think I might change my name to Carol-Lea, LOL!

Anyway, might think of what I really wanted to tell you later.. Im dying to know what Nicole Rayner's big secret is.

Massive congrats to Miss Roz, who in legendary fashion won the scrap an ad comp at SCRAPBOXX, that's gold Miss Roz! She and the gang will no doubt have tales to tell after THAT scrap camp... what a great time theyll have.. a bit jealous here.

Lastly I wanted to say Hi Lissy, Im sorry I havent got back to you, norty of me really.. and yeah Im wrapping up a pony as we speak, hoping it doesnt wilt on the way to you LOL! and fantastical Miss Rachie, though I havent known what to say to you or write, everything I write sounds stupid.. I am thinking of you all and asking that your fam and especially Miss Zara is taken good care of and all ends up rosey. I hope your anniversary hol is everything and more... now hands over ears and la la la la la la dont want to know what happens la la la la la. Have a daquiri for me though.

Ah now that'll do pig. That'll do!

stay cool you lot!

Libby xxx

2006-10-02T17:11:00.000+10:00

Oh crap!

Full tilt once again...

um please don't fill your petrol tanks with ethanol... Unless you bought the car yesterday... I filled my tank with ethanol last Friday and my car has been shitting itself ever since... and I need the car to drive the 200klm a day to work and back... double double crap poo bum bitch bastard... No one told me that you couldn't use ethanol... should have rung rent a man first hey. Been going to visit Nana, whose just gone into a home, on my weekends off, so that makes for a fairly interesting flat out time too... so much to tell... so much no time to tell it in. Haven't even rung Megan (whose gorgeous Miss Olivia is a ROCK STAR on a CALENDARRRRR!) back from last week... Sorry Megan promise I'll call you tonight!

Once work finishes in Nov. I will be back with bells on. Thinking its prob a good time to start taking shots for the Xmas cards too hey... never bloody ends!

Ive taken valuable sleeping time to write to you all... and sorry that there's no real news...

ah but on my quick blog hop, I found this little beauty.. wish Id thought of it... a positive place for us to go! Go there and say nice stuff to each other!

anyway

once again

must 'off

love youse all...

but I love my sleep more...

congrats to all the mob getting on design teams Jen love the delicious page Jen!, Kelley, Jane.. hey I know famous people... at the moment Id pay someone to scrap for me, just to get through the mountain of stuff Ive been accumulating... anyone???

toodle oo

Lib x

2006-09-11T15:54:00.000+10:00

EAT, DRINK & BE........ MARY!

Now this is a quick little post so I can clean up a bit and get rid of these pics from the 'puter... While at Kiwi Scraps (Got the gift vouchers in the mail today- high tail it to the kiwi scraps website if you want one of those Junkits box books from the perspectives classes... kiwi scraps HERE!!! works out to be $18.50 AUD!), anyway... I took these pics and thought you all might like to hear the little blurb that goes with them...

During the CC event there was a ball running in the ballroom (funnily enough) for the SEAHORSE SOCIETY (No offensive material contained in the website) These are the pics I took of the decorated ballroom.. It looked like a fancy 80's formal (in a rainbow theme)... Now I don't have enough headspace to comprehend the chutzpah it would take to sit down with your spouse and tell them... You want to be/or dress as the opposite sex... to be totally true to your feelings no matter what the consequences... I admire these people and you know what I learned... I've made some huge, huge mistakes in my past relationships.. Been way too selfish and I've lost what could have been the loves of my life... Let this be a lesson to you, Oh best beloved's.. love the one you're with FOR their every thing, not what you see but also what you don't see...

There were wives (that too, in my humble opinion, takes a lot of courage, to step out with your cross-dressing partner), dressed to the nines out supporting their other halves at this ball, both dressed as women...

IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY, you shouldn't be denied the simple pleasure of frocking up and putting on a bit of lippy, even just once a year. I think I would be totally selfish and "what will the neighbours think???" if my partner told me, but I think that's a lesson I've got to learn. From my upbringing (It stems from my great great grandmother, an Irish Matriarch if ever there was one - hello Mary Kelly!) I've been told to worry what others think, and although I've kicked over the traces in most aspects of my life, my relationships with men have always been based on appearances and what the neighbours might think... Well here I am, 34 and Im running to the window to throw up the sash and scream.. I've had enough and Im not going to FAKE it anymore!!!"

Happiness at any cost... Kell, Mandy & I got to meet a 'lady' who looked much like Kell's FIL, who, resplendent in 4 inch heels and a gorgeous ensemble topped with a stole, explained and answered our questions with grace and dignity... I hope she had a great night!

(Reading back on this it almost sounds like a 'coming out' statement.. LOL! No Im not a cross dresser/lesbian.. not that there's anything wrong with that)

I will take this new found wisdom with me to the next relationship (God willing there IS another ROTFLMAO!)

So I raise a toast to men and women of the Seahorse Society... ballsy in more ways than one!!!

Now Top Gear is on... its time to go... oh the BMW M5, that would look great towing a horse float LOL! (OMG power V10 - drool drool)

Xx Libby xX

2006-09-03T15:17:00.000+10:00

CATFIGHT CATFIGHT!!! Nar two of the loveliest ladies in scrapbooking!!! Kell from Scrap Needs and Maria from SCRAPBOXX... Both so humble and genuine... I seriously admire these two and the businesses they're growing... What would we do without you?

OKee Dokey.. To the faithful...

I am so sorry you have been here to find me out... But at Mums I cant blog and Im not home a for long enough to do much but pay some bills.... Im LOVING work and the drive is a drag but there's just no time to blog... Work will finish up in November so Im using the good money to get ahead a bit... And so we can have a nice Chrissie! So that's where I've been... A laptop would be a lovely luxury then I could blog in the looooooong hours at work where NOTHING is happening... I do get to scrap a fair bit at work which is fantastic! So.... How are you all???

First things first... Kiwi Scraps.... Who can describe that feeling... Seeing familiar faces and wanting to run up and squeal like a girl... (didn't stop Lee LOL!) I had the enormous pleasure of being able to sit with the posse on the Thursday night, they saved me a seat and we giggled and waited for our dinner... Can I say the highlight of my whole weekend was meeting two or three (or make that heaps) of people... 1 Miss Rachie... She is a bright, bright star. 2. Brooke Lyons... is lovely. Maria from Scrapboxx is a champion, really genuine chick... There were other store owners who I found rude and incredibly snobby, get over yourselves!!! One kit producer was so rude to me I was a little shocked but not at all astonished... That's what happens sometimes I guess, maybe you have to be 'famous' to get to chat to them!!! Alli Paterson, what a hoot! What a MASTER!!! Drill entrepreneur extraordinaire, is there no limit to her talents? Miss Lissy, too cute and funny for words, we will always have the crazy after party, where we made our own fun out of nothing but tattoos, straws and red faces... Debbideedoodah, needs no introduction, is there anyone who wouldn't love her? I know I have missed some, bugger!

Now I have a stupid confession, Im sure you're all gonna get a good laugh out of this one... Miss Jen introduced me to Miss Lee in the foyer and I was so flabbergastingly embarrassed, basically I love everything Lee 'create's and shows us on her blog and Im sure she thinks I am a weirdo (cos she's so warm and friendly) she reached forward to give me a hug and a kiss on the cheek... I think I just stood there and like a statue I became all stiff and UN-warm, I don't know why.... But its been bugging me that I became a nutbag just at the moment I was trying to be my most impressive... I think I was starstruck, now the whole weekend Lee was so charming and fun and singing and vivacious, and I cant help feeling that I let myself down by being so over awed... LOL! Not like me at all! but there you go perhaps there'll be another time to make amends for my weirdo behaviour.

Anyway so it was sooooo very long ago and heaps of stuff has happened and I've had a great laugh at Kell's blog and her not needing to be validated by pics with the famous three... you know that is funny cos anyone who went to Kiwi Scraps, who wanted a pic with DD AE or CZ could get one, they only had to ask... so none of us should really feel special LOL!OHHHH look at me, look at me, yeah you and anyone else who went, not including the kiwi chicks the week before and anyone whose been to the US to CKU etc etc.... so nar no pics of me with them... I changed every project to suit myself anyway, so as I will only live once I aint putting no stinking ugly chatterbox paper on my wall.. (I like the rosey papers, just couldn't eat a whole room)ROTFLMAO! and I dont care if you dont get it!!!!

Went to a class with Alison Shearer at Scrapabout on the way home with Jen, star books! Another top chick, Miss Allison (How's the fighting fish???) as is Miss Leanne from Scrapabout (Great store!! Parramatta)

and then last week, norty norty I went here... got me some doo dads! (Stitches & Craft at Rosehill)

So yeah it was wildly fun and too great to be soon forgotten, but life goes on... so her are some random shots of my view of scrap camp! This one time, at scrap camp.... yeah yeah girls its still funny!!! Anyone who didn't go, sorry but it WAS THAT GOOD... Next year they're gonna have to hold it at the ent cent. move over Robbie Williams the scrappers are coming to town. I won the name badge comp... thanks David! and bought a couple of extra packs for my Mumma to play with... she's scrappin up a storm lately... crazy stuff... like a 'what you say and do at two' for the girls.... The girls... the ladies are great by the way, in some ways spoilt rotten by living at Mums, in others they are becoming little girls. Its great to have some backup finally in the tantrum and discipline stakes. They eat sensibly at the table and ask please to be excused, proud moments for me!

No more photos... bloody blogger! I had Donna sign one of the bits of wood we used with the penis drill... and took a photo of her with this sign for Reg, just as a retreat reminder! LOL!

ok thats enough... now

that'll do pig! That'll do!...

Xx Lib xX

and I will leave you with a slightly 'tired' Ali Edwards and her late night party trick... hey all she had were these straws and.....

2006-08-28T07:31:00.000+10:00

OK OK I will offer up the simple excuses... this is my life at the moment... get up at 2pm, wrangle girls for the afternoon till Mum gets home, hand over, get in car at 6.30, drive 100klm to work, start at 9pm work till 6, actually leave at 6.30am drive 100 klm back to Mums sleep for a bit get up then go back to bed till 2... ok can you see a window to blog??? Anyone??? I didnt think so! Best bit... I get to scrap at work! x

2006-08-24T07:45:00.000+10:00

Sorry for absenteeism! but I have a note!

Will update with pics on Saturday! tee hee

Be sure to have your weet-bix!

Lib xxx

2006-07-28T07:39:00.000+10:00

Well this time (well 9am) 2004 Claire was born... closely followed by Charlotte (9.03am)... yep my girls are TWO! I was going to mushy on about it... I think I will spend the time telling them the story...

Ive been asked to start work tonight... so if you dont hear from me for the next 3 months... I will be in vampire mode...working all night... sleeping all day.. no pics.. remember camera is stuffed... kinda looking at new cameras.. I really want to show you all what I do... its such a fabulous job.. being a midwife to horses...

I was gonna prattle on about how angry I am with Damian (C & C's father - I use that term loosley) but there's two sides to every story (we were in love once) and I probably should shut up complaining when I really have it better without all his drama... so I will instead be thankful I get to spend so much happy time with the ladies...

I got a phone call last night (So did Marion.. so far thats all Ive heard.. congrats Marion!)... Im in to the top 100 for the Masters competition... Im more than happy with getting that far... whatever happens from now on is a bonus...

and lastly... I got the photos back from Rachel... I sat in the car and cried and cried and cried... such happy happy tears... they are the MOST gorgeous photos.... This is not an ad at all... but Do yourself a favour... organise a photo shoot with this amazing woman... then you too can cry in your car LOL! Unbelieveable! Truly remarkable photos... I think from the photos, my girls could be models (doesnt everyone think that about their own kids? LOL!) just please please please DO IT! Ive had plenty of studio photos taken of them and these candid beach shots blow the studio shots out of the water! So go do it!!!

thats all
Im in a funny mood today

be good!

Lib x

2006-07-24T22:09:00.000+10:00

Just quickly!

This photo gives me happiness... the two outfits packed in the car the night before heading off to the central coast...

An this is the calm before the storm... this is THE photo I got from the camera before dunking it in the sea!

Still shaking my head at myself!

I love the photo...

Lib x

ps not long to Crafting Connection now! Getting into my homework and getting tools together!

2006-07-24T11:11:00.000+10:00

So do you want the good news or the bad news?...

OK the bad first! While at the photo shoot with Rachel Greig on Saturday, I dropped my new camera into the surf... dum dum dum dum... yep thats me DUMB DUMB! So peeved with my stupid self... I was trying to save these plaster angel wings (see below) from being carried away by a freaky wave and I dunked the camera.. It still works sort of.. but the shutter button no longer works so I cant take pics.. So I am a scrapbooker with no camera! Hello my name is Libby and I'm an idiot! Fancy trying to save a $30 plaster wing with a $600 camera ... Oh well now I know what I will be saving madly for until Christmas... I will have to ask for my old Kodak back from Mum for a while I think... poop! Never mind...back to the best news... Please anyone who reads and can do it... get in touch with Rachel and get your kids to a photo shoot with her.... more than Brilliant! More than value for money! The girls had so much fun... everything went so beautifully and Mum & Dad were so happy to be included in the day ... secretly I think Mum & Dad had more fun than the ladies.. we collected cuttlefish, (and avoided blue bottles LOL!) sticks and shells... we will going to the beach heaps this summer... its so refreshing to take kids to the beach and see the delight in the little things... really adjusts the old personal perspective.. Miss Greig is unreal too ...so down to earth and straight forward.. I've done a few professional photo shoots with the girls where the photographer is a bit precious.. you know ... "I have the expensive equipment and just stay over there and make the kiddies laugh" but Rachel is so relaxed and the preview of the pics is awesome.... I'm so happy...

A couple of the pics I was trying to take before I dunked the old camera...

*I am a doody head!*

Rachie (the philosopher) has tagged me - thanks Rachie!

Four Jobs I’ve Had :
1) Driveway attendant at the Servo close to home (while at school)
2) Equine Vet Nurse - thats a horse midwife in a nutshell
3) Scrapbook shop class teacher
4) Secretary/Data Entry

Four Movies I Can Watch Over And Over :
1) Fight Club - Brad, of course and the deep and gorgeous screenplay... plus Se7en too
2) Casablanca - hilarious for me more than romantic
3) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - again brilliant!
4) How To Marry A Millionaire - Lauren Bacall.. what a siren and fantastic story... the wrong guy was the right guy all along LOL!

Four TV Shows I Love To Watch :
1) The Glasshouse
2) The Bill (this is hard to admit publically - please dont think less of me LOL!)
3) Funniest home videos - mainly to watch Claire in hysterics laughing at others misfortune.. she's her Mothers daughter... what can I say?
4) Eastenders - when I go to Mums I try to catch the highlights... when I had pay TV the world stopped for Walford! ROTFLMAO!!!

Four Important things to me :
1) Claire & Charlotte, then the rest of the family...
2) Money In the Bank (for security)
3) My car - I couldn't go to work or any of the many many places I go, without it!
4) Laughing hysterically every day... with measures of thankfulness for our great life

Four Tunes That Play In My Head :
1) Hotel California - The Eagles -Me too Rach
2) California Dreaming - Mummas & the Papas
3) Heaps of Ella Fitzgerald songs
4) The Letter - favourite shower song - the Joe Cocker version!

Four Favorite Food Dishes :
1) Hot hot hot stuff - chilli and heaps of it .Mexican & curries
2) Chinese - Schezhuan beef
3) Cherry Pie
4) A good cheesburger, homemade!

Four Websites I Visit Daily :
1) My email
2) about 700 blogs
3) Scrap Needs
4) Scrap shops all over the world to see whats new

Four Scrap company’s I like :
1) Heidi Swapp
2) Basic Grey
3) 7gypsies
4) Making Memories

Four Favorite Colors :
1) Black
2) Pink pink pink
3) Red!
4) White

so did I make you laugh Miss Rach? Wasn't that funny was it? ... Anyone who wants a tag... your wish is my command...

but if you do want a rib tickle... how's about you go here ... http://scrapbookcritic.blogspot.com/ there are some 'interesting' comments on some people we know and love and worship or not! Just goes to show... women are the same the world over...!!!

and wow to Claire & Krystal being evicted... hmmm

ok now that's probably enough from me

cheers everyone!

Lib xxx

2006-07-17T08:28:00.000+10:00

Dogs & Nature...

Been at Mum's all weekend and Im working tomorrow and Thursday... so... very exciting stuff happening next weekend.. It's Miss Marnie Rose's first birthday party on Saturday.. we hope to get there.. but the very EXCITING news is that our 2nd birthday photo shoot with the ever fantabulous Rachel Greig {at Forresters Beach} is on Saturday afternoon... Grannie & Grampa are coming along to watch (No photos of adults!!! LOL!) and Ive been waiting for so long, planning what to dress the ladies in (something warm) and what to bring... going to try to leave disgusting blankie in the car.. but Sinclair bear will have to be in on the action... cant wait very close now!

Here are some random pics of Mums dog Indy... long story as to how she got her name... I fell in love with Rhodesian Ridgebacks while I was living at home and so I needed a name for my new RR puppy. I wanted a name that was bold and brave and stood for protection.. cos these dogs are lion hunters in South Africa.. apparently they used to take the females out hunting and leave the males at home to guard the homestead... you wanna know why? Cos the males make too much noise.. they bark and are clumsy... Its the same with Bedoins (desert tent dwelling arab clan), they take the mares out raiding neighbouring tents cos the stallions whinny and snort when they see another horse.. I think there's something in that for all of us.. typical Males! always thinking with their little brain!!!

anyway I was rambling.. back to the story.. so the name I came up with was Indiana Jones, but, I didnt like the name in its entirety and because she was a girl puppy.. she became... Mrs Jones...

Mrs Jones was a lovely sweet gorgeous girl... then one day at Mums the truck driver who delivers the oats into the silo, ran over her with his 20 ton truck.. very sad day... I was pregnant with the girls and it hit me pretty hard.. but it hit Mum really hard... so she bought another RR puppy and that's her there... Indy (Indiana) see the theme.. and arent you glad you know all that? A day for rambling information obviously...

This is one view from Mum's while t was still wet from the rain... only 16 mls... but better than no rain... how bare are those paddocks?

And I leave you with random pics of lichen... feel free to copy them if you like... why I hear you ask? I dont know!

OK that's it...

Lib x

Oh alright two more of Indy... she was sitting on the hay with the iron behind her... Ive paid heaps for photos in a studio made to look like this ROTFLMAO! Was too cold and wet to get the girls to the shed for pics.. but I will remember this spot... Lib x

2006-07-13T14:12:00.000+10:00

You never know what life has in store... do you? This time last year what were you doing?

Well I posted off my Masters entry yesterday... wasn't completely happy with the way I presented the CD... Didn't quite come out the way I had planned it in my head. However, I'm totally thrilled with the way the actual projects turned out... SO congratulations to all those who entered and good luck... My goal is to become a Master within the next 5 years... so for my first run I'm really happy... this time last year I was madly scrapping but had never heard of "The Masters" and had to ask the girls on Scrap Needs what the hell the competition was exactly... then Roz, Mishell & Erica became Masters and so I found out a bit more about it... I guess in the back of my mind I've always been going to enter this year & collecting my favourite scrapping supplies, just waiting to be able to use them on something big! So its been about 150 hours on my BTP and I lost count on how many hours the other tasks took... but the preview has gone to SM and now I'm not going to think about it... there are some ladies who I think SHOULD be Masters this year... we'll see Nostra-morris LOL!

So that LO is one I did at the Scrap Needs CF fundraiser day thought Id upload it for a looksy... I don't really put a lot of layouts up cos really I dont punch out that many... I have to wait for inspiration for the title first after looking at the photo... so thats the way I do it...

Nicole's feature in SC has wrent me speechless... Im searching for words to describe how much fabulous stitching work they contain and how beautiful the layouts are.... Go here to see them cos Nic has them on her blog...

We've all had the flu (hence I am not at work today) bit fuzzy and cant remember what I was going to write ... so it is with much regret that I must bid you ...

aideu...

Lib x

2006-07-07T09:14:00.000+10:00

Has anyone seen the All Blacks doing the HAKA with their handbags???? ROTFLMAO!!!! Funniest thing Ive ever seen... channel 7 take a bow!!! thats gold! for anyone who has no idea what Im talking about dont worry... an all black hit a team mate at a pub with a mates girlfriends handbag.. the whack broke her phone... but that's where the ribbing comes from.. rugby's full of piss takes...

{This one's for George}

Amber's hubby... (he of the outstanding photography)

This is at Mum's place yesterday morning...

and following is a sequence of photos from before sunrise... remember people ... if you want to take photos of GRUMPY 'morning head' - 'not yet fed' horses... then go out before sunrise and ask the horses to co-operate... every photo has a grumpy head in it LOL!!! that makes me smile... even those of you who aren't 'horsey' will be able to tell what a grumpy horse looks like... see yellow pony below...

First photo I took yesterday... when I should have been on the road.. its 70klm from Mums to work via Day Care... I should have been in the car driving .. but I was out in the paddock freezing... taking photos to show George... not sure if he'll see em but one of the girls might direct him here... Im glad he's such an inspiration for me to take more 'everyday' photos ... cos whats everyday for me is totally different to anyone else ... thats what its all about!... for me!

Nice pink glow... no grumpys in this one

This is Morning Star.. the most beautiful pony in the cosmos... tee hee.. just ask her!!!

This is her grumpy head... hey Michelle.. check those nostrils out.. what a dragon!

Arty??? or just a weird angle???

Another grumpy horse LOL!

OK well bills are calling me... so some chores then some lunch then back to the scrap room...

have a great weekend If I dont 'see' you... Go the Wallabies for the Bledisloe Cup! Chilli nite for that...hmmm

take care everyone! oh geez I nearly forgot to document JACKIE IS PREGNANT!!! my great mate JAck is FINALLY going to be a Mum ... so hooray to Jack & Tony... so bloody beamingly happy for them... Jack rang me yesterday morning to tell me the news... due in January... silly planning there LOL! Too hot to be pregnant then... but YAY for them... a few false alarms have made them a bit wary... happy days!

xxx Libby xxx

2006-07-05T15:35:00.000+10:00

{Quaker!}

earthquakes! Well AN earthquake ... here in my town... pffth! Didnt actually feel it, we are so used to having mine blasting quakes all day every day...

I am peaking about the Masters! Getting through it and glad this weekend is coming up where I can finally finish it all.. Thats making me happy too...

Not much to say really... Jase left FINALLY! and started another new job... its nice to have the house back to ourselves...

teaching tonight in Singleton... new owners ... scarey!

{This is a PS photo of the 'bear'... finally Im spending time reading how to use PS CS and wowsers cant you just have a ball with that sponge tool! Her eyes are blue just not THAT blue! LOL! }

and lastly...

THANK YOU, thank you, thank you! ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR ALL THE WELL WISHES AND FABULOUS COMMENTS ABOUT THE SCRAP NEEDS GUEST DT SPOT.... geez it really does make me grin... love that you ladies took time out of your day to say nice things.... so thanks so much! Love ya all to pieces! Happy days!

and thats all from me...

much love (whether you want it or not!)

Libby xxx

2006-07-03T18:18:00.000+10:00

{HA HA HA}

This is a bomb disposal expert... and his 'good' mate... {the one with the brown paper bag LOL!} and this is how I feel... time is ticking... I am wasting time blogging here aren't I?

This is me today... I am busy busy busy...

The Big Brother scandal is weird... It does remind me though to get a posse of my gal friends who happen to be more than 60kg and vigilante style - give Mr Silvestri (from the P & O scandal) a slap! ...HE (and the guy who raped and killed the 8 year old from Perth) must be the most hated men in Australia... What a pig.. and what an attitude.. Did anyone else think he was a little more than arrogant on TV while he strutted to and from court???

Anyway bath time ....

thanks for dropping in .. it was great to see you...LOL!

Lib x

P.S. Check out Scrap Needs... Sally Clifford and I were asked to be guest design team members for the June Newsletter... Loved that! Loved the newsletter... do yourself a favour and sign up! Makes me appreciate the DT more... it's tough coming up with something you think someone might actually get inspiration from...

ok Im going this time!

byeeee

2006-06-29T21:51:00.000+10:00

Does anyone else go nuts buying 'bargains' this time of year?... My elbows become sharper and my height, well... heightens... Today after work, I was very nearly knocked over by a smelly woman who obviously wanted the rashie shirt more than me.... speaking of me.... LOL! This is a photo I snapped of the ego itself yesterday... I was trying 'Elsie Flanagan' shots. I have a fringe now... ummm

Congrats to Chris Millar and her front page of For Keeps... a little birdie also told me she cracked the next For Keeps cover too... wow I wonder how that feels?... one day perhaps...

I cant seem to make a bloody decision atm about what Im going to do for work... this week I think I want to go back to night watch (Its awesome money and great fun bringing baby horses into the world - its almost like touching God I reckon... 3 o'clock in the morning... poor Mumma pushing her little heart out... then slip slop slap out they come... great job - and it only runs for 4 months a year) We'll see what I decide to do next week...

The night out last night was hilarious... about 15 of the local gals including Mrs Sarah Moore (bloody legend that one!! and she's looking so much better now after her little illness) and we ate laughed shopped etc... laughed then ate some cake... Denise's daughter made a 'thankyou' power point presentation.. that was cool! Pressies were handed out... What do you give a woman who owns a Scrapbook shop??? Another Scrapbook shop??? LOL!

Hopefully a peaceful weekend this weekend... no visitors... that will be a nice change... and getting really stuck into the Masters entry... it has been so much fun... Im not sure I will want to send it away... if Im lucky enough to get through to that stage...

Claire is all about words this week... she's copying every word she hears... so cool... we'll be chatting together in no time... I never did shut up from 2 till 32 LOL and poor baby Chuck is finding back molars are a nasty thing to happen to a girl... nothing is sacred... everything has teeth marks in it... she's taken a doll to bed with her tonight... loves being tucked in... the doll freaks Claire out and she wont even hold it... Claire looks at Chuck like she's got two heads when she picks up the doll...

finally Rachie...

I am jealous of... every living thing, every inanimate object... every single thing has unique talents and gifts of which I am jealous... The pure snow, the clever fox, the blue sky, the true love... I hold my jealousy dearly... I freely admit when I am jealous... Im an enigma wrapped in a riddle arent I? Jealousy often is the catalyst to my success... that doesnt make me bad.. it makes me human... OK I have faults, flaws.. I am not perfect... never have been, never will be... but I am the best Libby I can be... I am jealous a lot. Every day. However...

I also know that the grass is not as green as it seems from here... Scratch the perfect veneer... and lo... it is just veneer... there is no infinate wealth/beauty/talent/happiness/love/etc (life is hard work) jealousy has a negative connotation, as opposed to envy. Envy doesnt seem to have the nastiness associated with it that jealousy has. That's all I have to say about that...

So its yawning that I leave you...

nighty nite

Lib x

2006-06-27T07:57:00.000+10:00

{Im not a bad blogger as such}

I just haven't been here...

Last week my Aunt came to visit us and we packed heaps of fun and park and shopping into 3 days... The day she left and that afternoon Jason (one of my best friends - apparently when Jase gets married, Im going to be his best man LOL! makes me sound like a lezzie LOL!) turned up for a few days on his way down to Melbourne to his new job...Sunday was the CF FUNdraising for Scrap Needs and Friday night I caught up with Regina and Jen... thanks Jen for the bed and your gorgeous hospitality... your home is so warm and your studio awesome... and this month, Jens "Heidi" fabric packs are unbelievable... so anyone who can, should either attend an upcoming class with Jen at Scrapabout at Parramatta (the class samples are amazing!!!!!) or an online class with Scrap Needs or grab one of her fabric packs through Jen's blog... anyway enough about Mrs Hall! anyone would think she sponsors me... Actually its Regina who sponsors me LOL! (wink wink) thanks for that unofficial tour through your amazing garden Reggie!!! Regina grows the best flowers... she has a HUGE garden and gave me some of her flowers to take home... so generous and so appreciated Mrs Murdoch!!! thanks!!! and so last week was full on....

Jase saw the scrap room and my albums and said " So you're really into this craft thing then?" Yeah Jase I guess I am... Jase and I have been on some amazing adventures together... lots of drinking Coronas, lots of great times (think the Sydney olympics, 2 Robbie Williams concerts etc etc) and Im a bit like his big sister or his buddha... We have very deep discussions and I can speak as freely with him as I can with anyone. Probably the only person who knows all about me... and still loves me ROTFLMAO!

But right now Im off to Muswellbrook Races... the ladies are at day care, its is so sunny outside it hurts... so I want to take a few horse-y shots and there's some great opportunities at the track... just a spur of the moment decision... I might even have a small wager or two... fingers crossed.

So I hope everyone is as happy as I am at the moment.. the Masters is causing me a small amount of (good) stress... and tomorrow night all the LSS girls are taking Denise out to dinner as its her last Wednesday night before the new owner takes over... so lots and lots of crying and blubbering there... take care everyone

Im trying to ignore the fact that my cold wont go away... and I will update you all soon on the brilliant philosophy I stumbled upon while researching my Masters entry... beautiful stuff... I will leave you with a small tidbit... (great word that... say it... t i d b i t)

"When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad."

Gotta also say that I enjoy Helen Williams blog entries... do yourself a favour and go take a look when you get a chance... she makes me laugh...

and if you want a good "there are happy loving gorgeous marriages in this world" go see Nathan's blog... Im so happy to have read that... big heaps of love for them...

So bidee bye

Lib x

2006-06-18T08:59:00.000+10:00

Sunrise asked this morning... Do you feel sorry for Britney.. Yes or No....

um wahhahahahahahahahah snort Waahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! OK so they ran the Japanese whaling story first.. but come on... do I feel sorry for a white trash stupid chick who, when interviewed up close, I mean real close, was chewing gum throughout the interview???... errrk! I love gum but I think I would take it out to be interviewed... and the running her hand up her nose while snorting back snot & tears made me want to puke... I still watched... and laughed at her... I dont buy the mags who's photographers hound her but... Hell no I dont feel sorry for her... she explains she drove from Starbucks with her baby on her lap because the paparazzi were hounding her... and that she used to do the same thing with her Dad cos "we're country" What the??? OK I'm country too but stuffed if I'd put either of my girls on my lap to drive anywhere.. I used to have nighmares about them sitting on the passenger seat when I drove... this girl is just a man made celebrity and the dumb stuff she does is because she is young and dumb... So instead of learning from the experience letting her bodyguard keep the press away... she gets right in there amongst it and ignores the bodyguard (as she did when she nearly dropped the kid on the street trying to get into her mammoth SUV) she loves the attention and only gets narky when it backfires and they get a shot of her stuffing up... then yells at the press "Thats why I need a gun" She's an idiot, they will never leave her alone cos she's easy money, always doing some white trash thing to get on to the front page of the tabloids... why didnt that interviewer tell her that??? She's going to try to raise her child as normally as possible ROTFLMAO! GOOD LUCK!

Hope everyone's having a great weekend!

and Megan.... my God yes it gets just as cold in Singleton.... you may as well know now! LOL!

Big shout out of congrats to Nicole Rayner and her fantabulous news... What a thrill!

thats about it

I will jump on the bandwagon - and Go the Socceroos... I'll be watching...

its time to go...... Katie!

& Libby

Double Eviction! LOL!

xxx

that was just a random pic btw!

2006-06-17T16:37:00.000+10:00

{At this point in my life I wish} ………………………

I could write what I wanted too... Ive just deleted my thoughts... for the billionth time...

This is the finalised page for my Wonder Woman poppet... I had a Maccas toy, took a photo of her, took my head photo to go with the idea for the journalling and whacko....

Happy weekend all!

Do something that really makes you feel warm inside... and think happy thoughts!

Thanks for dropping by and for all the comments ... love this blogging caper, love reading everyone elses...

just love

Lib x

2006-06-16T09:15:00.000+10:00

{At this point in my life I am}.........

finally growing up... making decisions where the consequences are carefully considered, instead of pretending I'm 10 feet high and bulletproof. This doesn't mean Im having LESS fun, just different fun. Accountability. Im also realising that I can't have everything, I can't do everything, and I can't help everyone... that life is so short and the thing I want most from life is no regrets. I want to be able to sit knitting at 90 and laugh at how my life was a Busby Berkley spectacular, a glittering show of which Barnam & Bailey would be proud... to ahhh and ohhh at my amazing feats and thrill at the colour and movement that became the ride of a lifetime....

Oh and Im also potty training... the ladies...

This however didn't stop me from forgetting to lock the car last night... my phone and camera were in the car... and I park the car around the back of the house... It's all still there.. phew! Silly girl! but Id come home from shopping after work and I guess i got side tracked feeding/bathing/getting the ladies ready for bed... Thanks to my guardian... I say that every day.. its a full time job for 3, being my guardian LOL! but they do a great job.

I am also happier than I have ever been. Most definitely one of the reasons is....

for the first time tonight Claire gave me a huge loving, both arms around my neck .... CUDDLE.. we were watching telly on the lounge... her sitting on my lap and she turned to me and we were discussing the coffee cup on the table (well I was talking and she was GKJADSUFGIWBEF'ing) and she turned and cuddled me... she'll be 2 at the end of July... Chuck has given me cuddles before and doesn't it make your little heart burst? Honestly I felt a surge of tears and happiness and pride in my little possum... and then she went on to hug me a further 3 times... Im guessing that she thought there's gotta be good stuff to come when Mum goes on & on like that... so we shared some M & M's LOL! and so far so good with potty training... I loved giggling at Mishell Lancett and her potty training wins with Miss Daisy Lou and her poo in the loo... yeah yeah I know it... so here's to getting that right LOL!

Heaps happening

Got a spare $10? ...please spend it supporting this amazing woman and support her in raising money for Breast Cancer awareness... if you have never heard of Ngaire... get out from under your rock....

This is her and Emily & Heidi after Miss N had dyed her hair pink for the cause.... some one else dyed their hair...hmmmm who was that???

Ngaire has a few books out too and if you could think of something you could contribute to her auction then Im sure she and the charity would be eternally grateful... and thats gotta make you feel good! Not to mention good for womankind... Hooray For Boobies! (did anyone else buy that Bloodhound Gang CD of the same name... so funny??)

Ngaire has as her blog banner a couple of flowers which distinctly resemble boobies too... very cute

Hmmm well my blogger problems are very odd... so this entry was started days ago and is finally letting me post... so thanks Big Blogger! LOL!

like I said

shhhhh everyone

shhhhhhhh

It's time to go......

Libby x

2006-06-15T00:17:00.000+10:00

Bare with me if you are a regular visitor... Blogger trouble... I need to deleate that photo to see if Ive reached my limit ... Trust me I know what Im doing ROTFLMAO! Off to work soon.. well after a quick sleep... and it's going to be -2 this morning... so bye bye feet... wont be feeling you for ages... Imagine what Charlotte-the-sleepy (the one in the middle) is going to think of the cold early morning...?? She sits eating her porridge in her chair with her eyes shut as it is LOL! Cheerio

Lib x

2006-06-14T10:12:00.000+10:00

Its begining to look a lot like FROST-MAS!!

This was the view for us this morning...

Yes Im in a silly mood... but thats a good thing... now this is my second post today... you will notice however there isnt another post here to read... this seems to happen to everyone... you finish an entry and when you publish it says No! cannot find server or some such rot... so you go back and the whole post has disappeared... ho hum... there's an hour Im not getting back.... bugger!

This is my lovely ornamental plum... if anyone out there is thinking of planting a large lovely tree in their garden you cant go past a Manchurian Pear love those large blossom trees... Coolmore ripped out all the poplars and planted these pear trees and they're awesome... just thought Id add some tree info LOL!

Claire's been wearing my winter heels around and has found that the acual heels make a fabulous squat seat... tres comfortable - she's all class that girl. Charlotte has been up to her old tomboy tricks, at daycare yesterday she rode an old rusty dinky she found at Chris's up to the top of the concrete ramp, turned around and took her feet off the pedals and flew down the hill into the pool fence... talk about Crusty Demon... I was right You Can Follow Her But Its Gonna Hurt!

The wild woman herself!

The Memory Bugs Design Team has been announced... I applied but got my thanks but no thanks email yesterday... Huge congrats to the girls who got on Way to go Bethro!

The HS newsletter is out and fabulous... wonder what the new Summer CHA thing she mentioned is? (See the top of the wine cannister)

Dying to find out who the new guest designer for Tarisota is... imagine trying to keep that a secret... a new designer is joining them too... wonder who? ... I read Tamar's blog and wonder secretly if she gets more than 24 hours a day to achieve what she does. I didnt apply for the Tarisota Designer but I wanna know who got it...

Mrs Hall's fabric packs have sold out! She's thrilled and Im so happy for her... Even got an overseas order... Jen has a brilliant sense of colour and design so who better to take the overwhelming choices for fabric and cut out the hassle... so very proud...

Ive been having dreams about being pregnant and seeing as though I havn't been within coo-ee of a bloke in years Im going to have to consult the resident dream guru Nicole about it...

Speaking of Nicole... its Wednesday and its time to go to confession... my Wednesday confession... I have two washing machines... one is new and a front loader.. the other is an old second hand top loader which I cant seem to bring myself to sell... admitting this is hard... this old machine reminds me of the incredibly tough time when Damian left me after 3 years together... I was 7 months pregnant with his girls and had to quit my job, move out and find a place to live and pay $135 a week rent for a two bedroom flat in the worst part of town... a dealer lived above me... So I managed to save up and bought the old girl... she has never let me down and still works... the lady who sold her to me was lovely and mentioned she'd never washed in warm water only cold and had really looked after the machine, so it was with a sense of utter desperation that I saved the $90 to buy the machine... That machine means so much more to me than a lump of old whitegoods and I seriously cant bear to sell her... I know this sounds nutty and those who know me will find it hard to believe... but attached to that machine is all the emotion of a 32 year old woman who was very close to the edge... I had my car (which was unregistered at the time 'cause I couldnt afford it - Im still paying the car off) and a washine machine and I was living week to week. I had no idea what I was going to do, where I was going to live and how in God's name I was going to raise twins by myself.... I look back now and it seems a long way off .. but that machine .... she was with me then... at my lowest.... so I think I will hang on to her until Ive perhaps done a BOM (Book Of Machine) on her and then maybe I will find her a good home....

Im crying now

see ya

Lib x

2006-06-08T18:32:00.000+10:00

Finally the photos work... well I think they do...

Once I load this I'll see ...

2006-06-07T13:28:00.000+10:00

This one's for Nicole!

I collect, but not necessarily display picture frames .. I own .. hang on... 143 picture frames (*insert red faced smiley!*) most are stored neatly in the scrap room... unopened... but I have them! Target on special is my favourite, some were only $3.. bargain!

*cheesey grin*

Every wednesday... I can do this! We may be here for a while!

Lib x

2006-06-07T12:26:00.000+10:00

IN THE MAIL TODAY!

My Crafting Connection (Kiwi Scraps) class passes! and timetable! Oh God I need to sit down and rub the letter on my face-cheek and moan a bit! Hmmmm!

and those of you who havn't caught the croc sensation

let my Ladies be the judge - (theyre not REAL crocs but so close and comfy!)

Big W have $8 mini kiddy croc knock offs (pink, navy & sky blue)! Your kids will love em! My girls get up in the morning and run to the shoe box to put on their new (fake) crocs! They had em on all day yesterday at DayCare (with sockies) ... so comfy, lots of grip (for mini clutzes) and pretty cute too.. (still cant upload photos - coming soon - I know its not the same without pics LOL!)

Does all this sound like an ad? Wasnt I just saying that more blogs are sounding like Danoz Direct?...

Come on Down! Top dollar - Big Spin!

We surveyed 100 people and came up with these answers... pth!

Lib's selling out! x (LOL!)

2006-06-03T19:42:00.000+10:00

Wow I'm slack/busy/tired... and this post will say the date with which this entry was started... now finally ...

helloooo everyone!

Well can I start at the beginning?.... Two Saturday's ago (LOL! Yes its been that long... I appologise to those of you who have turned up here to find me out - I've been considering whether I wanted to continue blogging - everyone goes through it Am I right?- its normal and Im back!) I drove to Jen's for her almighty mighty pj birthday party! After doing a bit of shopping first LOL! I arrived to find no one in their jimmy jams... hoh! There was Ange (congrats Ange!) & Kell & Janelle & Kelley & Sara & Regina & Carol! So we were all a bunch of excited -ready for a party- nellies... twittering around stuffing goodies into the very orifices with which we would later ohhhh and ahhh with! ...I mean scrapping royalty were coming to honour Mrs Hall for her birthday... Julie Love, (who's blog I read every day, (and who is also in the footy tipping comp) Vicki (in the footy tipping too I think) & Maryia, Kim Archer (who I have been in the same room as before though never met LOL) and Fiona Carter (GURU!) Now I know Jen really well and consider her a great mate... She is warm and kind and creative.. & so now I know her the awe factor has worn off in the sense of when Im around her she is 'Just Jen' (Of course when she's scrapping is a TOTALLY different story- I go back to being a wide eyed admirer) Im not sure what I expected from Julie, Kim & Fiona but I think I expected musical notes or bubbles or glitter to come spewing forth from their mouths when they spoke... these women are hard core scrappers.. they must have forgotten more than I may ever know about design/colour/placement etc etc So my expectations were higher than high... I almost wanted one of them to walk in and ask "Where's the damn bowl full of only red M & M's ?"...LOL! I guess I watch too much Entertainment Tonight! (Or maybe I had confused these ladies with Paris & Nicole LOL!)

anyway

Either way I was excited to meet these women (who Ive admired and read so much about) at Jen's birthday party... you know just to see for myself that ...they're just chicks... you know... they came in... got introduced to every one... sat down and chatted... coming into a room (Jen's studio) with all these other women, a whole studio stuffed to the rafters with goodies and albums and toys... well it must have been a little overwhelming... I didn't get any holy visions... no epiphanies... nothing... Mind you I didn't get to chat much... Im just saying that it was a party for Jen and so it was... No one tried to outdo anyone else (though I made a huge booboo and woke poor cutie-patootie Maryia up with my hooting and clapping while singing Happy Birthday to Jen (felt about 2 inches tall then) little chicken had just had a bottle and got off to sleep and clutzy me... woke her up... sorry kiddo... but she didn't cry... just carried on like the little champion she is...)

So then after we ate Fionas delicious cupcakes, had photos taken and cleaned up a bit and Jen cleaned the whole house so Will had nothing to whinge about when he got home (bloody Men!) and we went to bed... Admittedly it was early in the morning... so then up and at'em for a little more shopping then the Scrap Needs monthly crop day... a great weekend...

I have finished my projects for Singleton Crafts & Scrapbooking... the new owner Joanne takes over on July 1 and I've gone a bit mad with the next two classes... ladies better have your weetbix... we've gotta get through a fair bit!

The best little bit of news is this....

I came runner up in the Scrapbooking Memories Canon Advanced Simplicity challenge... So on Thursday afternoon, after work, I picked up my new Canon printer with a paper pack & an A620 7.1MP powershot camera... now this little baby makes the old 6.1MP Kodak look like a box brownie... the Canon has so many settings too... manual, my colours and the super fast start up and processor! Sound like an ad? You betcha! For those of you who like me cant really go spending the sort of moolah a Rebel ... I personally think this camera is the bomb... been mucking around with it and got some awesome shots... it really makes a difference, makes you a beter photographer when you have more control... and that makes sense! & I didnt even win! I was runner up ... so whoever won the big prize has themselves the top of the range powershot!... happy days!

The winners layouts will be in the August issue of SM...

Of course NOW I cant load any pics from the Canon on to here.. not sure why but I will get to the bottom of it!

What else to tell? If nothing else blogging has found me a great mate... I love that! You know who you are! ;-)

The Ladies went to separate Family Day Care houses yesterday... its just the way it has worked out. If I want day care... I have to work with what they can give me. SO it was amazing, dropped Charlotte off with the new (Mum) and as soon as she hit the ground, she was off... she ran for the half an hour I stood there making sure she would be ok... This new Mum Chris is unreal.. her backyard is 1 acre and specifically made for day care.. Huge shed, massive cubby, TV, big blackboard, my goodness its a kids paradise... Chris took Charlotte to playgroup with her during the day and they had a sausage sizzle (Charlotte doesn't mind a feed! & she smelt of sausages when I picked her up... Chris said she ate 3 LOL! That's my girl!).. the kid's got it made... so then back in the car to take Claire (Claire screamed and yelled at me as we drove away... she knew we'd forgotten Chuck LOL!) who has to have a blankie and is a little more reserved went to the usual Day Care Mum Shannon.. What a difference! When I went to pick up Claire, Shannon couldn't believe how different Claire was without Charlotte... Apparently she was so independent, clever, not whingy, put her own shoes on after nap time and really had a brilliant day without her sister... WIN WIN! Im so happy!

The homework for Crafting Connection is up on Kiwi Scraps... Im so excited about that event that I'll probably need oxygen while Im there... Cathy Zielske has a great post at her blog about rock- sand, well worth the quick read... That's my idea of scrapping, It aint about the product .. its about the trigger, the emotion left after reading that jounalling.. you know when youve hit the spot if after you read it back and you cannot stop the grin... or the tear...

Still cant get damn photos up! argghh! I think I have a cookie issue! Well I know I have a chockie chip cookie issue LOL! Ive uploaded about a million photos and they're going somewhere, just not to blogger LOL! Anyway Im back now after a long think about why Im blogging... hang on to you hats!

Everyone needs to read this post from Rachie! http://underlockandkey.id.au/

Now some revelations from me LOL! It seems to me that there are women in 'our' scrapping community who use blogs more like advertising space (And there's a plug for Robbie in December!) Im of the opinion (and Im not having a go - I do it too)... it just something Ive realised and want to say - a bit slow on the uptake aren't I?) that some blogs I read are more for advertising upcoming events and products (hey you've gotta be able to make a living too) than for an insight into creativity or the process of scrapping... through reading blogs I have made many observations and my 1st thought of 'a blog' was the deep an anonymous blurbing of people with interesting lives (like New york hookers or wry and amusing middle aged G.P.'s LOL!)... (Ive been reading blogs like that for yonks), but our scrapping blogs are more of a network to keep up with industry happenings... no real opinions are being expressed (which may hurt others - N.B. !!! this, I think after some consideration is the way it should be - there should be no lists of what wrong with women LOL! (Not having a go at Alison either! - just that the idea of making a list of what's wrong... is dwelling on the negative - and yeah you have to acknowledge before you can fix etc etc.. I could go on but I wont!) - there should however be a healthy supportive (without turning into a whingefest!!!) community of creative women with a common interest - where the wild and the pretty things can come together and be themselves and most of all be CREATIVE!) I haven't come across any open, frank and obvious bloggers (unless of course you read this from the U.S. http://2peasinmyazz.blogspot.com/ funny!) Im not asking for a blog to start up to critisise and upset people... Im just observing that occasionally when you meet someone you have such a lot of background info on them (from their blog) ... I guess thats the stuff of life.. and the best bit is that here in Australia we are such a good community to belong to...
but with a craft as broad as scrapping as a common interest.. there's always going to be a bit of mystery and something to chat with your buds about... cos we all do it.. we put on our blog faces and blog away.. then we 'chat' about things we heard, read etc (insert gossip there, hell you know what Im trying to say) we are made that way.. hard wired to disect and discuss... Most of what Ive just said is obvious and ultimately what Im saying is that my blog isnt for my deepest thoughts and feelings.. after all where would that STOP! you never reveal all of what youre thinking to anyone.. why should you here? Id like to think my blog is a little insight, a little humour and a little of the core of me... hey just like the way I scrap! What was I worried about?

Libby xxx

(back from outer (head) space)

ps Elsie's F's coming to Australia in November.. Im guessing its for ISC at Penrith... Hmmm save them pennies gals another bunch a classes!

2006-05-26T08:43:00.000+10:00

This post is all about Mrs Millar! Well mostly! The song, you silly duffer, is Stevie Wonders' Superstition... a classic! Now quite a while ago I opened my mail and what should be tucked in a beautiful stack of ribbons but this:

Now I am so cute if I do say so myself.. Couldn't stop giggling like a schoolgirl when I saw me! Mrs Millar is suredly the queen of the poppets... forget that Claudine Hellmuth! (this has been edited cos I done got the chicks name wrong... sorry lady!) Anyway... So my Mini Me has been in my bag for ages cos I showed Kellie & anyone else who stood still long enough.. then I stuck me up on the Monitor here... then I came to the horrific realisation that I had not shown you lot! Tisk tisk! I cant show you the ribbon, cos Ive used it LOL

but I can show you the photo swap Kellie "the Cosmopolitan"/scrapping's answer to Nelson Mandela".. (-she puts up with so much shit and still smells good and is so wise!!!) owner of Scrap Needs!!! so here is the magnificent creation Kellie made for me... (Kellie is my lunch with famous people) Kell blanket stitched all the way around the page and there's so much detail I sit and look at it all the time... like a meditation ritual... I ohm and ah (LOL!) then I can scrap... So hopefully today i will finish the one I am doing for her and can upload that too...

Newcastle Show is on today (they call it Hunter On Show now) and I can help feeling ominous about Mum & Dad's rumblings that they want to sell all the ponies... cos they dont get time to play with them anymore... Im going to have to take photos and show you why this would be such a tragedy ... the poonies are so lovable.. Im sure M & D dont really WANT to sell them but with no rain around they are hand feeding all of them and they are being wasted... I mean there's a chance (LIKE HELL!) that the ladies wont like horses... humpf! So maybe in a few years we'll (the ladies and me) will be heading up the road at 5 am with a truck full of wumps for to catch us some bows... (translation- taking our Welsh Mountain Ponies to the show to win some ribbons!) So here's to Morning Star, Fabio, Fat-Nat, Huelog, bloody Sarah (beautiful but a bitch - think Zsa Zsa Gabor) and hoping they dont have to go!

Computer says NO!

Libby x

2006-05-25T20:40:00.000+10:00

Happy Days!

I have no secrets!

but I have a big congrats to Kelley for all her huge achievements this week... I am a little jealous LOL! but very happy for her.

My lovely neighbours are moving to their dream home (theyve been waiting for 2 years)...

Work was awesome again! and the funniest bit of history came back to haunt me today... bare with me... About 6 years ago I was working at the Easter Yearling Sales at Randwick in Sydney (biggest in Aus!) and I was rooming at the hotel with my best mate... One drunken evening she brought a guy back to her room... well our room... so, she and this guy did the wild thing on the fold out sofa.. (very classy) I remember getting up to get a drink and seeing this man's bum in the air and the most horrific noises coming out of him... he sounded like a wounded rhino.... anyway bringing you forward to now.... this (still married-doody head) is now the guy who ultimately has the ear of my boss... I was told the guy wanted to call me today to find out how I was getting on with the job ... (he hasnt called yet)... but the first thing I could think of when I heard his name was.... RHINO-MAN!!! ... ROTFLMAO! My how things just get odderer and odderer! How am I going to take him seriously?.. I mean this guy is a huge wheel in the thoroughbred game!!! Ah the tragic, tragic truth! Jilly Cooper has nothing on the stuff Ive seen! LOL!

anyway Mrs Millar, poor Mr George has fainted! He had no idea! LOL! N.B. remember to take foot from mouth!!! LOL!

There's no secret... unless Powerball calls in the next 5 minutes... Dream, dream, dreaming of a holiday, Its so nice I think Ill stay!

Anthea was saying she had the Bambaloo song in her head.. thanks now so do I... I really get stuck with that one for days...

OK shoosh everyone......Its time to go....................

Libby!

xxx

2006-05-24T13:20:00.000+10:00

Ive added the last song I will probably ever add!

This is my favourite song! Ive been trawling the 'net for a great copy of it! Search over girls! Here it is! Press play to make it work... it freaks me out a bit when I visit blogs and suddenly songs come blasting out of your speakers... 'spec those thrash bands some American chicks have... whoa calm down boys... drink Camomile much?

Nothing new today... though I might have a little secret .. then again... I might not...

TEASE!

Go the Bluroons! I couldnt care who wins the damn football! Sour grapes from a bottom dweller of the footy tipping.

However I spoke to Jeremy yesterday and he's up for blind dating Shae, Mrs Millar's cousin... Im picking out my dress for the wedding as we speak.. nothing little a little enthusiasm..

have a great one!

Lib x

2006-05-23T21:18:00.000+10:00

Cant type....

hyperventilating...

to see why go here... the new BG bookplates, the new PRIMA EVERYTHING! & the Petaloo... whoa! Im scratching that itch ladies!

http://www.bluebazaar.com.au/index1.php

2006-05-22T21:18:00.000+10:00

Right O!

I bet you cant stop yourself from grabbing your nearest and dearest and dancing to this one!

Would you like some cheese with that???

You might have to press play! Half way down on the right! press the little play button on the very left bottom corner! You can miss this!

Jitterbug your ass off! and dont forget to click your fingers! Happy days!

Lib x

2006-05-22T20:37:00.000+10:00

All I need is a stray 13 grand!

I've been drooling over at the Canon website again... Why do I torture myself in this particularly desperate fashion... The sexy.....

oh hell have a gander at this bad boy

16.7 damn megapixels... makes me bits quiver just thinking about all those massive poster size images... Im talking pinheads in full and glorious colour at A3 dimensions!!! Whoh!

Its an EOS 1D Mark II there's a lesser model but its only 8.2 MP... piddling in comparison

Thats probably enough about that!

My favourite coffee is on special... gotta love that... seeing as though I drink about 6 litres a day... and Im finding those Maccas Almond Toffee's way too moreish... obviously today is the place for random thoughts...

Mrs Williams is such a funny bugger... she had well I think she HAS a crush on Axl Rose and loves romance novels... now this is a woman whose DVD's on scrapping Ive watched about 76 billion times and just quietly I can picture her hubby now as a jodhpur clad long haired, tight thigh'd, individual who has a penchant for tying long scarves to his post hole shovel... have I had too much coffee???

Ive gotta go... I will get back to you in the fullness of time!

love ya work!

Lib xxx

2006-05-19T11:32:00.000+10:00

Well I'm going to miss lunch with famous ppl... funny how some days no matter how hard you try... thangs gest dont work out! Having potty/poo issewes (Way too much information) BUT at least I didnt feel the need to tell all and sundry about my "troubles" on an online forum... Im getting just a little pissed off with some forums at the moment and the sad sack "everything is wrong/bad/sad/terrible/yucky/pathetic/ someone did this potentially horrible thing to me/ or my kids and lets all pat me on the back and give me heaps of attention" Fair enough if you are looking for advice/an ear... whatever... but could you try to post happy stuff that happens during the day too... Im slashing my wrists with the boring, and blown out of all proportion posts!

(there! THAT FEELS SOOOOOOOO GOOD TO FINALLY SAY IT!!!!!!!!!

Im taking a big break from commenting on all this PATHETIC CRAP! I mean stuff like that happens to me every day too... but I say

"Thank God nothing went wrong... I will now put it behind me and carry on in my own inimitable fashion ... speading joy and smiles and happiness!"

When something TERRIBLE does happen to you or your family I will definately say a prayer for you all.... however I am not praying or giving a rats arse about your insignificant happenings where something MAY have happened... Go down to the burns unit and look at the parents and kids there and then tell me you have it bad!!!! FOR FUCKS SAKE!

ok now I will put this behind me.... I would rather say exactly how I feel than pretend to care!

Reggie can I just say I admire you for being so strong and capable in your trials with Autism...

Kell and your strong and so bloody clever self... running a household & a large business... and dealing with all the loss lately all while raising the cutest fairy and being the best wife you can be! You astound me with your wit, wisdom and insight... I would love to be as capable...

Kelley your blog post (you know the one) was amazing, such an insight and heartfelt... this my girl is what should be in your Make It Meaningfull album!!!! I bet you feel better too! Lucky, lucky thing you! What a gorgeous family you have now... I bet you didnt think you were going to be so blessed at the time... best of luck with the new job chick! I so glad you did it and you wont look back!

and last but mostly to my great buddy Jen who I havent spoken to in ages... have I told you lately that I love you! You ooze ideas & I can physically feel the fire to create when Im around you! To take on more than any woman possibly could and raise someone elses family + you own and be such an artist of life and then DO SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR FRIENDS as well (I just saw the Rach layout!) well I admire you more than you will ever know... Im not sure what as prompted me to write this... perhaps its because I needed to temper the way I feel about the forums.

Can everyone please try to COUNT YOUR DAMN BLESSINGS! and try to smile a bit more... the lady in my newsagents said Im known as the smiley lady with the twins... now how's that for a boost to the wrinkles!

...lol but look at this... the latest from me to you!

I think Klala might be rubbing off on me ;-)

GET OVER IT!

Lib xxx

2006-05-19T08:49:00.000+10:00

A quick All picture post~

This donkey is me! This is how Im feeling right now... and there's still stuff I havent got around to doing... Work was fantastic... we did the annual rollover yesterday... where you are able to now enter the details for mares for the coming year... (service dates etc) and everything I touched turned to GOLD! Had a brilliant day and cleared my desk... I had the sinking feeling about some of the tasks I had yesterday... but once (and this is typical isnt it) I sat down and methodically went through it ... well I shouldnt have spent a minute worrying it was too easy... now Scone Cup is on today (though in the hospitality marquee Ive never seen a race) and Im not going for the first time in ages... all that fun and frivolity and champers... and Im going to miss it! Oh well... lunch with famous people is on again today so... I sould really pull my finger out... couple of pics...

The Diva herself... beads and a flower in her hair

and this is from an email... HAHAHAHAHA!

Love the LEAVE button... Im sure this device would save so much time... and who'd need MEN ARE FROM MARS... WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS!

peace out!

libx

2006-05-10T14:44:00.000+10:00

Hiya

Just a quickie

Im teaching at Singleton Crafts & Scrapbooking tonight.. Mothers Day noodle box/paper flowers (will take photos) and working tomorrow... So heres a quick layout I created for the cyber crop at Scrap Needs... was really quick to do... Anyone whose entering the Urban Lily DT comp... did you know it closes on Friday, that went quick... I havent entered just cos I ran out of time/motivation whatever and so on to the next project... Ill have to check the wall... I love how a competition gives me a direction for the creativity. I need directing LOL!

Working tomorrow... hmmm... trying to be very organised today, lawns mowed, cars washed and vacuumed.. house is clean and Ive packed various bags to both go to grannies tonight while I teach and day care tomorrow while I work (*sure does make the week go quick)

and this is the layout I created for Donna Wilson in the footy tipping comp...

and Im watching telly while I do this... the funniest show... "Straight Plan For The Gay Man" its QEFTSG in reverse... hilarious... gay guys who want to appear more straight for instance in a blue collar job. Absolute crack up... theyve sent a guy who works for Ralph Lauren off to work as a .... wait for it...... MEAT PACKER! ROFLMAO!

and thats about it ladies... so be good and toodle oo...

Lib xxx

2006-05-08T19:30:00.000+10:00

A layout and a link

This is recent...

This is a mad mad mad american girls (birthday/whatever) site where you can plan your kids party... kicks a Maccas party in the goolies, but Im not too sure whether I could handle the whole thing. I mean what do you do the next year, cos sure as shit its gonna become a competition amongst the girls you invite. Enjoy... mums of pretty things!

Club LibbyLu

I got the gorgeous rub-ons last week. Ive been drooling on them... will that stop em rubbing on? LOL!

Lib xxx

ps Should I have put a disclaimer in, telling you not to let your little girls near the screen while you are looking at that??? Probably for the best ladies! :-) take it easy... enjoy Sara's song...

2006-05-05T09:57:00.000+10:00

Hiya

Thursday was my first full day back at work (and boy am I tired), the work was very easy, (I've done it before) but there was so much to do. Anyway the boss is an absolute gem, so easy-going (he's a Kiwi and I've never met an uptight Kiwi LOL)

I love being back at work, and I love the fact that I don't actually have to start at 6am and work with bloody bird-brained thoroughbreds. Touch wood I've never been seriously hurt at work, but it was only a matter of time... Being a vet nurse you are always underneath them and there have been times when I've been lying on the floor of the crush with flailing hooves above me. I remember once I was pulled out by the jacket from being kicked to smithereens by a large angry weanling. Oh yes those were the days. When I think back to the crazy stuff we used to do... Shaking my head... There were countless times I stood back brushed myself off and said "wow, that was close" ...But I've always had brilliant guardians... Whoever is up there looking after me has had their hands full a few times, but I am very blessed, touched by 'something/someone' who always points out the options and if I go with my instincts, amazingly everything always works out for the best for me.

Im feeling back to the old Lib now. Im wishing Kell would take less on her shoulders...

So Im opening up my blog page and just writing stuff as I think of it during the day, coming back to it and writing more... I think that way I will get all the stuff out of my head and on to the blog... Heaps of times I've thought of stuff to write and been buggered if I can remember what it was when the crunch of writing a post came LOL...

This is the cutest layout from Carole Janson from the footy tipping photo swap... all those flowers 'pop' out from the page and there is so much beautiful work in it... I love it so much and I cant help but laugh, that I used to think that photo of Chuck was so cute... well now I look at it she looks like an alien baby with alien eyes LOL! but those cheeks!

Hmm not really sure I have much else to say.. I need to do much more scrapping, I've printed a heap of photos and they are laying crying in the scrap room. Its so cold in there at night I have to rug up to be creative LOL... Im trying to save power this year, the girls room is heated and that's the only heater I want to use... So the scrap room becomes a tomb at night... And my brain freezes LOL! So I should use this glorious warm Autumn day to get in there and get some done... Don't know if Miss Jo reads this blog ... but if you do... thankyou so much! You are more generous than me... (Jo passed on some awesome gorgeous prizes from an Online Shop to me last night cos my computer was too slow to get in on the fun) I whinged and bitched and Jo felt sorry for me... I turned into the whinger from hell last night, but it was so frustrating... anyway... this time Im really going... plans for this week BE ORGANISED! BE ON TIME FOR WORK! AND FOR THE CLASS IM TEACHING! and create something great for Mum for Mothers Day

the funniest thing is that the ladies have made me something at day-care for Mothers Day, I wont see it till thursday, but how cute my first Mothers Day gift... I cant believe I helped to create these cute, smart, gorgeous chicks. My girls ROCK da house!

Have a great Sunday afternoon! Chat soon!

Lib xxx

2006-05-02T20:16:00.000+10:00

I will post more later

Im just so very sad

not depressed

just terribly sad

sad for Michelle

Jen & her gorgeous T-Bird & Lolly

Kell & her family

Im not depressed at all... Ive just been hearing only the sad stories lately...

I hate hate hate being sad... its not me, I want to be happy and realise these things havent happened to ME! but they have happened to people I care about... Im also being stuffed around a bit by a few people (work) and there's so much going around in my head, just stuff that people (distant family) have said and since they over analyse EVERYTHING, my brain is trying to do the same and Im fighting it....

I dont much like reading other chicks blogs when theyre like this post, so Im sorry for this melancholy blerb....

Scheduled programming will continue as soon as possible...

Thinking of you Kell, Jen & Michelle...

On a much brighter note I got Carole's layout in the mail today and the photo she sent does NOT do it justice!!! The layout pops right off the page, Very 3-D! So as inspiration I have put Kell's and Carole's and Jen's 3 on my wall... they make me VERY happy! Thankyou so much one and all! Congrats to Kelley, youre on a roll chick! and a few more goals to tick off soon too I hope!

and Miss Chris made me into the cutest poppet imaginable... Can you forgive me for not posting pics tonight? Chris sent a ribbon card filled with lengths and lengths of truely stunning ribbons and my poppet... wasnt expecting anything so that was a huge happy sunshine surprise!!! thankyou Chris, my poppet is well travelled, it been in my handbag and Ive shown everybody I see, but now she's blue-tac-ed to my monitor as I spent most of my freakin day here in front of the 'puter...

cheers chicks

Im off to de-choly myself, whatdya reckon? A long hot bath and a nice brewed coffee, then watch The Bill then bed! (She leads a very exciting life doesnt she?)

Gabu (Dad) is dropping in tomorrow and maybe FINALLY the damn house swap ferals will turn up to look through 'the palace'. Fingers crossed xxx

Lib xxx

2006-04-28T10:03:00.000+10:00

Well Ive deleted heaps of photos from my hard-drive and pissed off MSN chat and lo & behold my computer is running REAL fast... Who'd of thought?

The other day the ladies and I went down to the Rugby League footy ground to run a bit of energy off, cos we were going shopping after that and I thought they might SLEEP in the pram... Well they didnt sleep, but I got some great pics of me! Who'd a thought? It was ANZAC day so no one was around and at the entrance to the ground are these old stone and iron gates. See

So I plonked my self in front of one and snapped away... and whoo hoo got some goodies! I look a bit cranky pants in this one hey but its great in Sepia...

Ive developed them in B&W too.. cant wait to scrap em.... wonder where the girls get the blue eyes from? Well amost that blue, even though Im squinting LOL! ...doing a bit of comp entrying atm, wanna win one of those Epson picture mates so Im struggling with 'advanced simplicity', I really need to see examples LOL

anyway, have a gander at THIS! Dapper rubons.... drool drool... from Blue Bazaar

and tell me you HAVE to have them... Amazing products coming out lately... Im having coffee with famous people soon, so I have to run to the bank and get the Tiara out of the vault... toodle - ooo!

Lib xxx

gimme gimme gimme them dapper babies! LOL!

2006-04-26T08:00:00.000+10:00

Ive been tagged by Michelle, thanks, and your new poonies are gorgeous, youre right about the ears.. teehee

Born: March 1972 (yep Im 34)
First Job: Fuel pump jockey (we lived not far from the Mobil in Tamworth. I used to ride my ag bike down to work lol!
Fondest Memory: Definately yesterday! I mean EVERY yesterday. Cos every day the ladies AMAZE me with their quest for new words and knowledge... Happy days! and of course their birth day! 28/07/04
Last thing purchased: I was desperate to buy a lotto ticket yesterday 15 million, never got to, so the last thing purchased was probably cotton wool buds for my nail polish remever... (isnt this fascinating?)
Fish, Chicken or Beef: ARRRGGGHHHH Drool drool BEEF! then chicken second, not a fan of fish! but I love love love cow meat! (NOT veal mind you!)
Movie: The last movie I saw was Waking Ned Devine (was on telly at the weekend) - funny.
Retreat: The beach or my scrap room.
Flower: Too many favourites to list, I love them all
Day of the week: Not fussy, any day I can scrap lol!
Indulgence: Scrapbooking supplies and expensive luscious meals with mates
What scrapbook lines/products, etc. do you dislike? Most pp, Im very picky about my pp.
What technique do you use more than anything else? Definately paint! I paint on everything.
Who or What are your biggest influences on your style? Keisha Keisha Keisha! I love her attitude more than anything. and of course magazines and the 'net. I trwal the net for scrapspiration!
Have you ever had any scrapbook related tiffs with your Husband? BWWHAHAHAHA! NO cos he deosnt exist! and if he did, he would bloody well wear it!
Finish this sentence, "If I wasn't a scrapbooker/stamper, I would spend my money on..." Geez there isnt anything else... probably more Fred Bare etc, yes I would be dressing my kids in more designer clothes.... cos lets face it, it REALLY impresses my two! HAHAHAHA you know makes them feel worthwhile as human beings ROFLMAO! (NOT!)
If there is one person you have met through blogging that you know will be a life time friend who would it be?: Geez I wouldnt want to lose any of em, I dont have any friends outside scrapping anymore lol! except Jase, but Jase is forever! He's asked me to be his Best Man at his wedding! ROFLMAO! We've been besties for years!
What music do you listen to while you scrap? ABC radio, overnights with Tony Delroy informative and sometimes I call in too. Occasionally I get to scrap early and I catch the early session. Helen Razer does from about 2am and there's times when Im still up to hear her too! If Im feeling in a CD mood, Ella Fitzgerald or Jimmy Buffet, it varies.
Obsessions?: um this is obvious buying new stuff, its getting ridiculous, who needs to pay their power bill, oh yeah then the sewing machine wont work LOL!
Do you have an addiction?? None of your business! oh you mean scrapping addiction, Heidi Swapp and Basic Grey and Scrap Needs
Out of the box, (well on it ) who do you lust after on TV?. Brad!
You just won a week long scrapbooking cruise for 5. Who is going with you? Well we all put in half the fare and we take another 5 so there's 10! and even then Id be sad to leave some behind...
When you received your first publication notification, who did you tell? First person I called was my LSS owner Denise LOL! then Mum then everyone Ive seen since PMPL! Tho I suspect the neighbours knew straight away too!
One quote that defines you: Hasnt someone shot you yet? LOL!
After answering the questions, tag four of your buddies I tag Regina, Kelley, Id tag Jen but she is doing her A - Z ROFLMAO! and cant afford the time... so (Mrs Incredible) - Carole J & Donna Wilson...

2006-04-24T21:29:00.000+10:00

Damn those Blogthings!

Go to blogthings and waste hours of your precious time having a computer game/quiz tell you what SATC chick you are, what Muppet you are, what Goddess you are etc etc... enjoy

You Are A Lily

You are a nurturer and all around natural therapist.People see you as their rock. And they are able to depend on you.You are a soothing influence. You can make people feel better with a few words.Your caring has more of an impact than even you realize.

What'>http://ynr.blogthings.com/whatflowerareyouquiz/">What Flower Are You?

2006-04-23T16:06:00.000+10:00

Got Blue eyes?

as Charlotte dips into her Easter basket!

isn't that a great shot.... ? "any more?"

Danmit I've cut her fringe again tonight and she looks tragic.... way too short!

Bear gets into it!

A girl can never have to many vessels with which to carry her Easter eggs...

Chucks super duper yellow bucket!

My little bit of evidence of perfection. I love her!

Is the humiliation over now Mum?

..... and I've just GOTTA show you the absolutely stunning layouts Mrs Hall created for little old Me! Mrs Hall presented me with a birthday album at the Club Mac crop day. In the gorgeous hot pink album were these two examples of how Mrs Hall can capture the essence of someone... Shit Mrs Hall! I love them! and I love you! This is how bright my hair was and I was never without my plastic Princess Tiara at the Scrap Needs retreat!
Princess Pink!

another 1 by Mrs Hall!

Lion Tamer! That's me! This is me riding the huge Lion which sits outside the Chinese restaurant in the grounds of the Apollo Resort... (we were all there for the Scrap Needs retreat! Im sure lots of people get on these Lions and have their photos taken... dont they?

2006-04-21T21:20:00.000+10:00

Thankyou special fairies! XXX

Well at the start of this year I wrote down my goals.... um I need new ones now

I wanted to be published! Done!
Then I wanted to be published in the different mags. Done! (all 3 aussies anyway SM SC & FK)
I still wanna CK bow but this will do... for tonight I am resting comfortably on my lovely laurels!
Im a goal driven chick and to have this achieved I feel very proud of myself...

this is the latest to be published (well as I write that I hope Im not jinxing myself, the email says they might publish it, they need to see it first!) LOL

huge update later tonight, just wanted to be a big shot LOL!

cheers chicks!

Lib loves ya! xxx

2006-04-13T21:46:00.000+10:00

(My bit)

Hello there,

What's happenin out there?

Here, Charlotte is all better, Ive been creating a storm, again waiting for paint to dry... lol.. the story of my life, Teaching was fun last night, met two amazingly interesting women. They are parole officers who scrapbook, the girls work together and while we saw their softer side last night, they assured me they could be iron tough lol. funny isnt it, the people you meet, I was saying I hope I never need them in the professional capacity lol... unless things go very wrong with my next lotto ticket and I decide to rob a bank, well you just never know what's in store for you lol...

the girls were telling me they deal with home detention and how they have to go around to those detainees homes and breathalise them... it hadnt occured to me that people on home detention couldnt drink cos obviously you cant drink in jail... (Senior moment!)

Now this is a project I came up with after seeing a Making Memories Kit on their website, so I hope it gives you some inspiration... Ive hung it on the lounge room wall and I love it! Vintage frames and bits and pieces from the dwindling stash...

geez Im tired, I took photos last night of the class, but forgive me if I dont put them up, I need to catch some zee's. So I probably wont be back to blogland until next Tuesday, cos we're going to Granny's for Easter. Everyone whose travelling stay safe and look out for Easter bunnies on the road, remember every 2 hours to stop and run around the car... have a cuppa and a few deep breaths... Im going to the Scrap Needs crop day on Saturday... it will be great to catch up with everyone... Im planning on making myself thouroughly ill with chocolate over Easter, and I hope you do too! Please take care and I will chat soon... thanks for dropping in... Ill put the kettle on shall I?

(Claire's bit)

(Chucks bit!)

Here in all its glory

The bottom of the wall hanging

enjoy yourselves, kids, family, holidays! Cheerio!

Warmest regards from blogland,

Lib xxx

2006-04-11T21:41:00.000+10:00

This is my favourite page that I created at the Scrap Needs retreat...

This is the Mongolian hat page...

This is my challenge page... it was a lot of fun, but the hours I spent faffing about could have been better spent chatting to cool chicks..lol... I put WAY to much pressure on this page... freaked myself out trying to get it finished...

and this is my birthday pony from Kirst lol

I was whinging last week cos I didnt get a pony for my birthday... and lo and behold, Sparkle arrived at my house today... So naturally I saddled her up and we went for a ride this afternoon... Then we shared a few secrets and an ice cream.... so thankyou Kirst! she's a wonderful surprise birthday pressie and I hope your computer gets fixed asap!

So Im off to create some more ?stuff? Im right into competitions atm... Jo and I were unable to be separated in the Kellie 80's blog challenge... (geez those women are tough) Jo's tough cos she is as tragic as me and a worthy opponent lol, and Kel cos she came up with the hardest bloody questions... my brain is mushy right now...

and I'll show what I made last night soon... too tired to load more photos... Charlotte had a lovely BIG spew this afternoon, but after some fluids and Neurofen she's sleeping like a , well like a baby lol, poor punkin, she had a little bit of a temp... and gratefully Kelley's Miss Alicia has been cleared of any harmful medical conditions today, and Kelley created a tribute to her fears about the situation on Scrap Needs (check out the links to the gallery)... its a gorgeous heartfelt page and reminds me why 'I' scrapbook!

Good night, Im stuffed, teaching an accordian album tomorrow night, funny cheeky Wednesday night girls, the pressure is on to have the nails perfect for Pauline... and so I probably wont be back tomorrow... tra la til then... you perfect individuals!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz xxx.

2006-04-11T10:00:00.000+10:00

This is Miss Chuckie-Doo-Dah in her Mongolian Hat (Gabu (grandad) brought this ceremonial hat home with him on one of his China trips... We thought we were quite 'special'.. More evidence of how I can see her name in lights on Broadway... Just loves a costume LOL I turned these photos into a Ghengis Charlotte page... LOL

The previous poem and a little explanation

It's basically saying that love is not a verbal experience, you cannot question why or who you love, it happens to you and this guy (who wrote the poem) could not live without his love... She gives him and is his life... Deep and I carry a copy of it in my wallet... It just means heaps to me

It was such a thrill to have a cute (tho it will NEVER happen LOL) blog comment from Sheridan, Jen Hall's mum. Sheridan is a spunk! I'd love to sit down with her one day over a coffee and get a few juicy stories out of her... she is one strong woman who, it seems to me, has really lived... thanks for dropping by! and by the way, 'that' senario will NEVER eventuate... cos it frightens the crap out of me LOL.. Two Leos ganging up on me... the ladies are so bloody smart and Im afraid of them ganging up against me... lol their Dad and I used to have great arguments (sorry, frank & open discussions) I loved these tough conversations we used to have... he used to amaze me with his general knowledge and how he could debate a topic... and he's a Leo! - can you imagine what its going to be like for me when the ladies hit 15 hell @ 13!!!.. well we wont worry about that today Scarlett...

anyway having a shocker with my win tally, tho I did win $25 last Saturday Lotto. Ive been scrapping heaps.. but as usual Im waiting for paint to dry.. Ill put em up when their done. Teaching tomorrow night at LSS... so I need to do a bit to get ready for it... Oh and I forgot to put up here my retreat pages .. so Ill do them too...

I love the addition of music to the old bloggaroonie...

It warm the cockles of my heart to think chicks I love come and visit here to have a gander at what we've been up to...

so hug ya loved ones and ignore the rest of em

Love ya good things!

Lib xxx

2006-04-09T23:19:00.000+10:00

The universe gave me the following poem in high school, thats why Ive changed my blog name... its the way love was meant to be... its beautiful...

Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.

Christopher John Brennan

2006-04-09T16:11:00.000+10:00

Im as mad as Hell & I'm not going to take it anymore!

OK When I said I cleaned the house... well I neglected to say "all except the scrap room". I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!... I’ve had it up to pussy's bow with looking at freaky-clean organised, stuffed to the rafters, not a paperclip-out-of-place scrap rooms... Now I’m one of the lucky ones who can afford the luxury of a whole room (the master bedroom, no less! - its huge! but it's also cold in Winter and hot in Summer lol and therefore not conducive for restful slumber lol) ... but I have a rather meaty bone to pick with all the anal neat freaks out there...

I was over at the effers blog tonight and I decided, that’s it! I’m taking pics of my scrap room... to get it off my tiny chest! However, there's a catch,

"My name is Libby Morris and I’m a scrap-pig!"
"Hello Libby"

...take that as your warning! All the anal neat freaks should look away now!... stop reading! Place your mouse to one side... close the browser, have a cup of camomile tea, and come back in early May! lol

I scrap amongst the most ridiculous mess you have possibly ever seen... and I love it! No gorgeous teak floor to ceiling armoire for this little black duck... Give me a square of carpet and I give you my filing cabinet... most of my stuff is on the floor, where I like it! I can get up and put my hand to any little thing I may need!

So I guess what I’m saying is I’m out of the closet... and all over the floor lol and here are the pics to prove it. I don’t clean up after every project either...

and that noise ladies and gentlemen, was the audible gasp of Miss Kellie C and a thousand like her...lol

It's very LIBerating to post "my scrap space" pics here.. The secret's out!... You see, unless I was as financially secure as Oprah, I feel that spending money on scrapping 'furniture' is like 'fucking for virginity'... - totally pointless... when I’m going to 'place' things on the floor anyway. If I cant see it... I wouldn’t be pushed to use it. So all my cupboards would have no doors and then I can’t see the bloody point of having a cupboard.

Although I love to potter through Freedom and Ikea... I wouldn’t go letting any of their blonde-wood, not-assembled, making some Nord filthy-stinking rich, clever, {did I mention not-assembled} cupboards and natty filing cabinets through my scrap room door. (I might add that other rooms of the house would warmly welcome such aforementioned items) lol

So suffice to say here I am, bared to the world as a newborn to a Doctors slap.

Scoff, laugh, titter, think of me what you will, but its the truth.

I have the courage of my convictions, and I aint gonna clean my room!

*Folds arms and pokes out tongue*

Miss Megan (Of the perky breasts) dared us on Scrap Needs to move out of our comfort zone, you know, if you always use flowers, dont! ... so here is my challenge entry... cos Ive never done a heritage page, and well this is my effort.. when I look at it now I reckon the photo should have been sepia not B&W, but its as heritage as I get at the moment... I liked the boundary push and Im going to do some more 'heritage'. (the photo of the page is a little (?Little???) wonky, sorry about that)

Hmmm well now I can start the new week with a clear conscience and a cleanish home... {tongue is placed firmly in cheek}

Hope all had a great weekend! Im crossing my fingers I win Miss Julies Easter bunny, the scrap needs challenge and Kellie's 80's challenge and the footy tipping ... but apparently you can't win them all... you CAN however give it a RED HOT GO!

Happy thoughts to all of you who are going through some difficult times... and bubbles of happy sunshine to all of you.

with much love

Lib xxx

2006-04-08T22:26:00.000+10:00

Hope everyone's having a great weekend... we are... here's a challenge page from the Scrap Needs cybercrop last night... was a hoot... and the layouts are amazing.. what a talented bunch we are... Camera battery needs charging but I promise more photos tomorrow... feeling very smug right now.. house is so clean you could eat in it! lol Ive been Autunm cleaning, chucking out crap like huge weird shaped pieces of styrofoam... now obviously ?something? came in the styrofoam... but maybe the something has been thrown out too?.. so my bin is chockas and I feel NEW! Took a heap of stuff to St Vinnies... my bathroom has been scrubbed within an inch of its life and I think the bleach/ajax fumes made me high enough to Autunm clean the rest of the house lol...

So I sit here smug and satisfied, the only thing that terrifies me at the present moment is the lingering feeling Ive gone VERY badly once again in the footy tipping lol... Oh and hearty congrats to the connections of Miss Finland who outshone the boys to win the AAMI Golden Slipper today...

and what a brilliant filly is Serenade Rose (obviously at left) who won the Arrowfield Stakes today, (look out for her, she's in the Oaks) my best mate Jase foaled down and prepped Rosey for Brooklyn Lodge and I was lucky enough to have seen her as she was being prepped for Inglis Easter Yearling sale ($400,000) on the farm while I was working there... she was tiny and very backward, just goes to show what someone believing in you can do... Rosey's mum is Rose Of Tralee, a truely gracious and gorgeous mare. Beautiful type and great mover... she's worth a fortune now... so I raise my coffee to ya Rosey... Jase is very proud!

tomorrow ...

Lib xxx

2006-04-06T20:35:00.000+10:00

I took these photos of shirts in Big W, ok ok... Im cheap, -instead of buying them (I have too many clothes Ive bought for scrapspiration lol) I took pics of them, now that would have been hard to explain to store security... "Have you had you medication today Ms Morris?"

Anyone else able to give me a little help... Id love to update my banner with something more creative.. as Im someone who took 3 months to nut out by myself, how to edit the 'blogs I read' links (STOP LAUGHING!) I now know how easy it is... (rolls eyes) I love Medium (Id love to be a medium lol not in the Jan sense or the sixth sense..lol.. just the medium instead of the XXXXXXL lol..) so Im watching Medium and Im gonna do a bit more scrapping.. Im doing the Megan C (she of the perky breasts) challenge and I will show soon... but back to the banner! I need help.. Ive got Photoshop but I dont know how to link.. any help would be greatly rewarded! well greatly RAK'ed

cheers wonder women!

ps Claire loves to create as well! pthft!

2006-04-05T15:57:00.000+10:00

Hey everyone,

Im warning you now! There's a few photos here lol ...
I love this shot.. Claire and her first sparkler.. this is the night of my birthday... It was a great party with Mum, Dad, the ladies and my aunt Stevie... great food, lots of laughs and about 10 packets of sparklers.. the girls had a ball

I totally want you to go out right now, and buy some sparklers and try night shots, you can write your name and draw pictures.. such good clean fun!

When the ladies were born mum bought two David Austen rose bushes and planted them out in her front yard... a Charlotte rose and a Claire rose.. this is Doo Dah Charlotte with one of her roses... happy days! Im sure no one can tell I cut their fringes myself... pfft

Now I have small issewes with all you ladies who love a rebel.. esp those who dont know how to use em... yes Im madly jealous... yes I want a Canon 5D but my digi Kodak does do a mighty macro.. Im so proud of my camera... 6.1 megs and such an faithful girl... I thought Id show off some of my garden shots (Plumbago at left) and some of the gorgeous flowers Mel Megan and Regina sent me while I was in hospital... they were stunning and lasted so long...

Close up of David Austen Charlotte... ohhhhh!

Now this is at Mums... I just had to show you my fencing team...lol

and Claire latest fetish... wearing pegs.. what a fashion plate! When she goes outside she has to have her pegs on... some women wont go out without makeup.. not the bear.. no way! Its pegs on your shirt or nothing... I dare you to post on your blogs a photo of you out and about wearing pegs lol

'Walworth Fabio' (the most beautiful man in the cosmos) lol he thinks so... mums pony stallion, he's a sweetie, looks a bit rough there, but the ladies are still a bit wary of Fab... the other ponies are cool, but Fab's is a bit too forward for them.. he's always looking in pockets for treats lol

Macro in the afternoon (sounds like a Whitlam's song lol) of the bunch of flowers...

hey that Gerbera is a top shot if I do say so myself.. Ive printed some out on glossy at 6 by 8 and Ive gotta say they are freaking awesome!

Lillium, how exotic!

Now this one was good enough for anyone... oh and by the way you can all stop emailing me to take pics of your families (roflmao - no ones emailing me)

Pollen ... its bee food!

Um... Did I mention the pink Gerbera?...

The actual bunch of lovelies... I have so much stuff to do so Im off to do it ... have a great night all..

Im doing Kellie's challenge ... see her blog above... cool 80's reminiscing

see ya soon... thanks for dropping by and the comments you leave.. even if you dont comment... thanks to you too... I do heaps of trawling blogs myself... nice to be back home and in my bed... love Lib xxx

2006-04-04T22:05:00.000+10:00

ps gotta tell ya

see the page below with Claire and her finger up her nose???

SC have picked it up

happy happy joy joy!

and on the downside... I am going SOOOOO very badly in the footy tipping... honestly hang my head in shame! 2 points last week... what a Barry Crocker! You can tell Im a really a footy tippin diva hey? lol

2006-04-04T19:18:00.000+10:00

Geez its hard to know what to write as a greeting...
Salutations!
Its been a HUGE few weeks... first the retreat (which was amazing) I should have spent less time scrapping and more time introducing myself to the other chicks... but it was a truely specacular retreat... I won the name tage thingy... Ange won the challenge... which was so well deserved and and she was 'gracious' in her win lol I was so jealous (hence her dig lol) about Jen winning the raffle lol... it hurt more cos the tickets were only a few number from mine... Im over it now tho lol... Kelley won a mag and Sara won a hangover lol Our table truely was a winners circle! Scrap Needs Kell's a bloody legend and while we're on the subject of legends... can I just say Miss Jane is one of the toppest chicks Ive ever met... what a champion! What a room-mate! What a fantastic fun sheila... thanks for the card and rak too... Reg was a scream (hope ya jugs are feelin better) lol Kelley was a hoot, when she wasnt up to her elbows in green paint and Sara kept us all going with lollies, chocolate, fantastic inspiration and fun. Kelley and I went surfing lol great photos, great afternoon at Shelley beach... look out Rachel Greig! I wish the retreat had been a week long!

Now quick update on health matters!
. My gall bladder is gone gone gone! None too soon btw! In the last two weeks Ive been the tiredest, sorest, grumpiest, most bored, frustrated and miserable than I have been in a long time... nothing went to plan... but all's well now, Ive had no real health problems before and I made the most annoying, painful patient... enough about all this crap... 3 of the sweetest, most adorable bubbles of love sent me some flowers while I was in hospital... so thankyou Mel, Megan & DT Regina... Loib loved them and took about 50 photos of them... Ive blown up the photos and will scrap them... Seriously girls those flowers made my mouth water... they looked like about $500 worth... Beautiful orange chilli's, about 10 exotic lillums (I LOVE LILLUMS) singapore orchids, and gerberas (whose photos are amazing)

So I included a few random shots and comments... plus my girls holding one of the lillums.. that photo shoot was fun... and frightening... Claire just wanted to rip the petals apart... it was hard to watch such a beautiful natural thing torn asunder by someone you love... Im sure there's a metaphor there ...

The delightful Jan and DT Regina 'relaxing' in the sumptuous foyer of the Apollo Resort...

(Im in love with Jan... but after the retreat I know there's a few of us in the same boat)

Here Reggie looks Super Glam, I look suspisciously insane, and Jane looks like she has a secret... arent they cute?

I always knew Reggie had a halo... Isnt she a rock-star?

Oh look Mummy...

TWINS!

Why oh why? Im begining to think maybe I am certifiable...

the delightful Mrs Hall... isnt she cute... you could just eat her with a spoon... I have appologised profusely for not getting back to her while I was at Mums... but I will do it again... sorry Mrs Hall, and can I just say to anyone else... GET YOUR ARSE TO HER BLOG! She has had so much great stuff happening, she must be farting fairies at the moment... so huge standing ovations to you! Love ya!

OK a picture says 1000 words... Chris is giggling, Fee is non-believing, look at the way she's suspisciously lookin at the hair! lol and Miss Kelley is having a demon moment! lol I could have cut that out... coulda shoulda didna! hahahah *evil laugh* hey I kept my chins in! look at that... more chins than a Chinese phone book... tee hee

Miss Chris sent me a fab pic of us together... thanks Miss Chris... love you to pieces.. love the photos on your blog of your cute kids too... the latest FK has a gorgeous, meaningful page with a junior Millar! Check it out!

Look at this athletic specimen... Go Kelley!

I love this kid! huge big kisses doo dah!

Hey Bear! whatcha thinkin?

Rachel Greig your job aint safe babe... roflmao!

But wait there's more...

tomorrow hey?

see ya

Lib xxx

2006-03-15T07:36:00.000+11:00

Crikey!

No pics of it. Just an update. My hair colour matches my crocs lol... dont want to spoil the surprise for my Scrap Needs buddies...

Life just gets better and better... I must be kissing a fairy a day lately.. never been happier! My hair is sooooooo very hot pink... I LOVE IT... Ive always wanted to dye my hair hot pink and since I dont have a best beloved to say to me "I wish you wouldnt!" so i did... teaching tonight at Singleton Scrapbooking.. my billy class... such fun... I make all the ladies wear Tiaras... as you do!

Now Im a little (hugely) excited about the retreat... and Im taking quite a few photos to scrap.. I wanna get some done... other than chatting/singing/laughing/eating... Can we do it? YES WE CAN!

Need to get the ladies out of bed... lazy bones... nail appointment at 9.30 this morning... me not them... and there's a sniff of romance in the air... wonder what he'll think of the hair ... oops.. never mind it washes out.... eventually lol

The latest page for Aussie Icons (SM) not sure yet if its accepted... we'll see... my town has a 'big blue heeler' lol that's actually a great photo of him... IRL he looks like a seal... funny stuff.. the locals hate him... very hicksville..and Aberdeen which is a few klms down the road argue that Aberdeen is the home of the Blue Heeler dog... HA! we've got the "big" statue to prove it HA! Eat PAL Aberdeen!

See ya

Lib xxx

2006-03-07T20:37:00.000+11:00

Does anyone else love these little trikes.. printed these photos at a kiosk in the Chemist... most amazing colours if you adjust contrast/brightness awesome ... the ladies love these babies.. of course we had to master backwards first.. now there's now stopping them ...

Ive raised miniature David Attenburough's we have collections of leaves, grass, rocks & our favourite twigs... yep on the way to and from the car we collect a twig ... fascinating... and oh so cute... yes sir thats my babies...

What is she saying?... Charlotte is obviously telling Claire something incredibly important (note the emphasis of the pointed finger) Claire has obviously picked up the fact that Charlotte is sitting sideways on her trike and looks to me as though she might be thinking.. "yeah right.. ya rabbit! shouldnt you be sitting on the seaty-thingy bit?"

But look at that style... I tells ya .. Claire will be a Crusty Demon, that I know for sure! (Motocross stunt-show)

Feet of a champion! Hey at least the trike's up the right way lol

Steering isnt her forte... just as focus isnt mine lol

This is the most fantastic Christmas present... a hot pink ukelele... man that thing is a beast! We've broken a string... but I think theyre fishing line anyway ... Grandpa bought us a red one a few months ago as well.. highly recommended thing to buy your kids... total crap-up (Lali-ism) We're off to "the con" (Muswellbrook has a consevatorium of music - what the?) tomorrow for music classes.. its our 3rd week.. we already know Ring A Ring A Rosey and Insy-Winsy... my girls are gifted lol we finger paint in the morning and music in the afternoon and collapse at night... love it!

Great balls of Fire... she's good!

Good like a tragic japanese lawyer at a Karaoke bar!

Nite muffins!

Im tired xxxxx

xx The Libster xx

2006-03-06T18:41:00.000+11:00

My swelling head!

Mrs Hall has been raving about me... god love her

these arent recent but from my old blog in case you are new here

This was my scraplift of Keisha Campbell.. she had it on her blog in case it looks familiar ... the dymo reads you can dress them up... gotta love the finger up the nose while wearing your best Fred Bare lol

This one I love ... its inspired by a Howards Storage World ad... Dont you love Castlereagh Street in Sydney?.. even if it is only window shopping... so deliciously exclusive... just to drool on their windows.. makes you LOVE being a girl.. even If I am a VERY commercial girl... Louis Vuitton's window has my DNA all over it tee hee

the ad (a little crumpled) from which I took inspiration...

This is my gorgeous chicken-pie Claire, gotta love Target for cute winter jackets.. I have a permanent lay-by at Target.. love it and love the storage from Target.. seriously scrappers there is so much luscious storage, they have black drawers at the moment with sexy silver handles, perfect for 12 * 12 pages... they come in 2 or 4 drawer cabinets. Plus I bought a super spunky hot pink and a lime green 12 * 12 storage box.. they too have sexy silver handles... rowwwrr!

This is my country-ham Charlotte, this page is ages old but I love the sunshine behind my ham's head and her genuine smile...

Chuck again! Would ya have a go at those cheeks! Edible huh? Love bonds too.. we have a constant layby from season to season on Bonds stuff... even my super dooper monsters cant wear a hole in the stuff before they grow out of it...

Just thought Id share...I promise I will put up some new stuff soon (Bloody swap tags arrrgghhh!) hope everyone is as happy as me about life... whats not to love.. Ive booked for Kiwi Scraps too... Donna D, Cathy Z and Ali E.. what an awesome combination... what an awesome year!

Im in Julie Loves footy tipping comp.. so much fun... look out Lauren your Bronco's are going down baby! Come on Storm!

chat soon muffins, Desperate Housewives is on tonight and my other favourite show at the moment Shameless on SBS at 10 pm

XX The Libster XX

2006-02-27T23:11:00.000+11:00

Hey my page NAHM is going to be published in For Keeps #44

At about 3pm was your world shattered by a blood-curdling squeal? Sorry...

I found the following on Wendy Smedleys blog

Why I Blog, part one

Why I Blog

I have been reading a book called, Who Let The Blogs Out?, by Biz Stone.
He discusses the reasons people blog— some of his most compelling reasons are…
“Peer-to-peer publishing
-Future of our connected lives (Lib loves this one)
-Flexible way for people to communicate that
which they care about with networks of friends
-Democratic self-expression
-Promote a group or culture”
So I have yet another blog ‘goal’ I want to write a mission statement for my blog.
I will leave this as a permanent link so people can understand why I choose to blog-
Plus it will remind me if I forget- More coming…

Now I challenge you to a statement-off.. no prizes just do it ok!

Did I happen to casually mention my page is being published? Not sure... couldnt remember... silly old me lol

Now the ladies and my good self, pottered up to Club MacQuarie Argenton to see the ladies.. Miss Ange and the gorgeous Grace were arriving as we did and it was great to see everyone... Kelley gave me this cute, amazingly decorated bin (there is so much work in decorating it) thanks Kelley! xxx) ...sorry about the dodgy pics

and the fabulous Mrs Hall gave me her swap page of Chuck....

Chucks loves it... Im going to find a frame and hang it over her cot... Mrs Hall is an amazing woman with an amazing studio.. and I know you all go there anyway but incase there is one of you in the dark click here to visit her blog.... thanks Mrs Hall I am truely indebted to you for the swap page. Lucky me also was given this

all this by Mrs Hall.... (I call her Mrs Hall out of the reverent respect I have for her) lol thankyou Mrs Hall xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So here it is Tuesday...need to finish my altered toolbox/tote so we will chat again soon...

have a scrap hap happy day

xx The Libster xx

2006-02-25T22:15:00.000+11:00

Hey Miss 'e' has made me win her freestyle book! tee hee funny that with time, good can come from such a catastrophic event lol (not in the serious sense of the word... it just made me too embaressed to leave the house for a few days) I still wander around in the nick tho.. so no lessons learned lol

now what to tell... Mumma and the Papa have gorne to Miss Sally's wedding and so I cant go to Jen's scrap night tonight.. right about now (the funk soul brother.. sorry Fatboy Slim moment) the girls will be laffin it up eating junk and giggling their chi chi's off.. bugger Im here abloggin... *sigh*

I am gonna try to get to the crop day at Club Mac tomorrow to have lunch with the girls.. last get together before the retreat lol I need my Kell fix as I havnt been stalking her lately *laughs nervously behind her hand*

what news? I got my eyebrow jewelery "Miss Sara!" ... its a daisy with pink crystals as the petals ... its noice.. its unewesual... its different. This is a photo of my dear shiny blue mower, and the masochistic way in which I must keep it mine all mine.

Regina has all these great random shots of 'art' around the home.. I think its a brilliant idea.. so do it... and Regina I dont know what to say other than 'crap poo shit bum bugger bitch bastard' ... repeat the aforementioned until you feel better... I hope it's soon (turn that frown upside down, put on a hap hap happy face, and whistle a happy tune) when youre thru with that you'll forget what it was that was getting you downI call this one "Magpie poo atop driveway cement with leaf" tee hee one more..this one is "tubby shrubby" as my sphagnum moss planter has 'grown comfortable' with its surrounding metal ... ah ya gotta love a bit of give

may I leave you with this?....

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. - Dorothy Parker

& perhaps this also...

There is no excellent beauty that
hath not some strangeness in the proportion -Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)

which leads beautifully on to a wise woman...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
And it may be necessary
From time to time to give a stupid
Or misinformed beholder a black eye -Miss Piggy

couldnt have said it better myself..

nite all you gorgeous individuals

mwah mwah

xx The Libster xx

2006-02-20T21:05:00.000+11:00

Miss Milly, her cake and her girlfriends... what more does a girl need? The cake was hand made and decorated by Mrs Jen Hall... see her talents just go on and on... now I know she will be astonished that Ive told you... but there it is...Mrs Hall is a Master Baker too!

The girls were invited to Miss Amelia Hall's second birthday last Saturday.. was unbelevable fun! Here are the pics lol the top pic is of the fairy food table, complete with flowers with the family's pics in the middle...

Miss Marnie Rose in party mode

I wonder what she's thinking? Chuck deep in thought... Im guessing its "Yes one more cupcake... that will fit!"

thats it... only one photo of Claire, and Im too tired to wait for it... lol off to bedlam

nite all

xx The Libster xx

2006-02-20T14:28:00.000+11:00

Thanks for joining me here ladies.. my old blog is here

Miss Kelley directed me to this place (thanks Kelley) I wanted to upload heaps of pics and the other blog wanted a photo host ... very very disturbing.. well I found it disturbing.. so Im here now and so far Im loving it.. many more posts too cos Im on a roll with blogging...(Kelley keep an eye out for Pablo matey.. cant thank you enough)

So I havnt updated since the markets so I thought I should start with that. So

It took a fair bit of convincing that dragonfruit existed.. it looked like rhubarb/kiwi fruit to me. Apparently dragonfruit is a cactus, bit like prickly pear and anyway should have bought some of the relish just to say I had tried it... I didnt mybe next month.. Did you know dragonfruit is $30/kilo those dragons must be raking it in!

anyway next post soon.. off to finish the pasta bake for the ladies

xx The Libster xx