Happy school holidays

Yep it is that time again - school holidays - 2 whole weeks. Jaymin is driving me nuts already - ha - no not really but there is an attitude adjustment needed I be thinking. Just a tad lack of respect happening and I’ll tell you I’m not putting up with that. Okay enough of the rant. I do like the holidays - no making school lunches in the morning, no routines, no time watching - yeeha. Jaymin went out in Terry’s (my cousins husband) truck this morning while he was delivering furniture. And he is heading off to Auckland with him tomorrow too. Keeps him busy and out of my hair lol so that is a definite blessing.

And guess what I scrapped - it’s been a while but I did the bossy scrapper last night and with Nic’s cool instructions I got a lo done. It is a saying I love and something I am really working on.

What else, since I haven’t been in here for a while again. Oh yeah I am still pain free - yay. Just waiting for news on the op though. I was told that I need to let my insides all heal and get healthy first though so just waiting I guess.

Okay well that’s it for now then I guess. Not much to update. Think I will go and wash the car now as I think I have half the dirt in Whangarei on it and in it lol.

Laters peoples. Have a good one and keep happy and safe.

Do you get it??

Whoo whoo Wednesday

Okay I know I can find some things to be happy about.

*I am feeling fine right now - painfree

*I found out by being in hospital that I have a fantastic support group of family and friends - both in real space and cyber space

*I have done some scrapping today - woohoo

*It was a beautiful sunny day today

*Buying undies on special - $1 a pair, so I have 20 new pairs - should keep me going for a wee while (lol at that pun)

*Chicken nibbles and rice for tea - yummo!

*Friends taking Jaymin to the school concert so I can stay home

*Washing getting dried on the line

Yep lots of nice things to be happy about. Talking of happy I read this fantastic quotey type thing today and it really stuck with me. It said “Bring happiness TO your experiences, rather than trying to extract happiness FROM them” Now isn’t that just fab.

Okay so here’s the scrapping I have done.

First I’ll start with the lo I don’t like that much. I cut these cars out months back and then had no idea how to do the blimin page. But it was somehing I really wanted to scrap so just went with it in the end. It’s ok - not great but at least it’s scrapped.

I love the saying on this one as it is something I have to keep reminding myself of - can’t escape one’s own mind lol

And this one is for NZ Dares - using large and small somethings.

Thanks so much everyone for stopping by. I am slowly getting back into the blog world now that I feeling better so look out for me - I’m a coming to stalk you soon mwahhhhhahahaha

Okay over and out.

Quick update

Thank you for all the kind words and huggles. Just popping in for a quick update - let youknow what happened. I ended up in pain on Wednesday night and still had the insane intching going on all over my body so got my friend to take me up to the hospital. They admitted me as my liver count was still really high. Gave me morphine which is such spinny stuff but I was in such pain I needed it. Anyway went for a scan on Thursday to see what was going on and yes I do have gall stones - about 2 or 3 in the gall bladder but one had got stuck in the bile duct on it’s way out which was causing the high liver count and the itching. Anyway I wasn’t allowed out of hospital until my liver count was down to 20. When I was admitted it was at 47. If it didn’t go down it was looking like I would have to go to Auckland hospital to get it vacuumed out. Theytold me on Sunday morning that my liver count was still too high and I wouldn’t be going home again and Aucks was looking imminent. I of course burst in to tears - sook! lol. It wasn’t so much thatI was in hospital butmore the fact thatI would have to go to Auckland and be away from Jaymin and my family and friends. At least up here I knew they were close. Didn’t help that Jaymin got sick on Saturday night and rang me up in tears - (just a upset tummy and the starting of a cold I think) So after my cry I had a talk with the nurses and they said I could go home for a couple of hours to have a break and I was outta there real quick lol. While I was home my nurse rang and said my blood results from that morning were in and looks like my count had gone done enough for me to stay home - YAY!!!! My nurse was just finishing work so she brought my stuff home for me and took out my lure. But if I have any symptoms at all then I am to go straight back up into hospital - so cross your fingers for me. I am booked in to have my gall bladder removed in about the 2nd week of October to stop it happening again.

So that is where I am at right now.

Thank you all so much for all your kind supporting warm words. Very much appreciated.

Sorry I haven’t been round to visit your blogs but I can’t be bothered at the mo - but hey when Im 100% again - I’ll be back lol

Hang in there chickadees.

Love yas.

Just me.

Hi my friends

Just doing a quick pop in to let you know where I am and what’s up with me.

Some of you may remember back in May when I ended up in hospital, well, I haven’t been feeling well again for the last week, had a similar pain last Thursday and then have been feeling yuck ever since. Took myself off to the doctors and got the results of blood tests yesterday. And my liver results were so abnormal that something is def up with me. The doc said they were so bad that it could just about be hepatitis but he doesn’t think it is. He tends to think that is gall stones or gall bladder related. So now I am waiting on the hospital to fit me in for a scan to see what’s up. I am on painkillers and anti nausea drugs and feeling like crap.

But I just thought I’d do a quick update for you all let you know why I am laying low at the moment. Hopefully I can get back to you soon with some better news.

 Take care everyone.

today

I really do have a problem coming up with blog titles lol

Okay just want to ask a question. Now that you are all grown ups - (well pretending to be then lol) do you worry about what your parents might say to you if you do something they might disapprove of? Do you stop yourself from doing if because of them? And I’m not talking major bad things just something that isn’t going to hurt anyone. Okay like for example getting a tattoo or a piercing or bright pink hair - that you know they won’t like or approve of. Do you do it anyway and just say for goodness sake I’m an adult and suffer the disapproval or do it and then hide the fact (unless it’s bright pink hair and you always wear a hat lol) or do you not do it all?? Just want to know how others feel. Thanks gals.

Okay 2 lo’s to share. One is from Kelly’s bossy scrapper last night - another fun night - so many laughs.

The photos are of Janine and that cute as squeak. He is just so sweet.

The photo of the lo is really crap - it is all washed out looking - blaming that on the rain (yep still raining) Might take a better pic tomorrow.

And this another lo I did of Janine’s other cute as boy - my special little mate.

So loving the little size photos. Now that Janine has told me how to do them on the HN machine I can see me doing heaps in that size. Cool fun.

Okay that’s me for now, just a quick post.

More scrappy pages

Can you believe how much scrapping I have been doing lately? I can’t, but then I haven’t been doing any painting and I have to do something creative - I just have to!!! So will share my pages in a minute.

First I got to go see Janine and her boys today. Ooh that baby Micah is just the sweetest wee thing - I so could have stolen him. And my wee friend Ethan was a little cutie too - me and him are special friends - I’m sure that’s just cos I like Thomas - or was it that I’m silly? lol Anyway, Janine is looking good and doing such a wonderful job of being Mummy. Oh and sorry can’t share the photos I took cos they’re on the other camera - you know the one that doesn’t have the software loaded on the computer yet - doh!

Okay, what else. Oh yeah my boy is finally over the germy bugs. They hung around a long time and really knocked him about as he slept so much. He went back to school on Tuesday though and seems to be fine now - yay. He did poke himself in the eye yesterday though which was a concern - he jumped off the neighbours trampoline right into the clothesline - ouch. Lucky he didn’t poke his eyeball out. He also came out in the worst case of hives on Wednesday night. He was so red and itchy - an allergic reaction obviously and the thing I think it was - bamboo!!! Yep  - seriously bamboo! He had been playing in it and stripping the leaves and then a few minutes later was a red scratching mess. All gone by morning and always good to know what allergies he does have I guess.

Okay on to scrapping.

Have to share this first pic cos when I take my pictures of my lo’s I do it on the front steps outside and I was all ready to take it and the cat came running up the stairs with muddy paws and was just about to run right over my lo - so I had lightening quick reflexes - save the lo - rofl.

And this is said saved lo. I didn’t like this lo and couldn’t undo it as I used glue - eep, so just kept chucking stuff at it - the chipboard, the buttons, some ink and in the end I am happy with it. The journalling is about Jaymin over coming one of his major anxieties which was the sleeping over thing - and it’s hidden only cos there was 2 pages of it.

Another Jaymin page - I seriously love this one. And yep he seriously is a gossip. Gets me into all sorts of trouble at times lol

And some me pages. I have come to the conclusion that I have been using my scrapbook as a journal of kinds for me lately. I love journals and have started heaps but they all seem to only last for a while and then they get left alone. But doing them as a scrapbook page seems to work better for me. And eventually I will put all my pages in a seperate album - and have a very awesome bom journal scrapbook type thing lol

Seriously have you tried this chocolate??  TO DIE FOR!!!!

Think this one speaks for itself lol

HHmmm maybe if I stopped eating so much chocolate I might get a man rofl

Oh and just realised that I really must add the word ’seriously’ to my lo of things I say often cos I use that allthe time.

Okay well folks that is me for now

Till next time stay save, stay warm, stay happy.

Peace out

Keeping it real

I love that saying right now - trying to do more of that - ya know - keeping it real. And I have just stolen that from Sasha’s blog - cos she is such a cool scrapper. Oh oh hope she doesn’t mind me linking here her.

So anyway while on that note a few more lo’s from me.

First one is for the jack me up challenge which finished yesterday but sshh don’t tell them I’m late ok?

I just went with the title of Yvette’s lo and did some of my boys faves right now.

Another Jaymin page - quite the fisherman he is. I still have those fish in the freezer cos they are a bit small to eat but hey I can’t just throw them away.

Next I love this photo of my Mum taken last Christmas.

And one more just cos - I was just really feeling the love for my son at the time so what better time to do a lo of him and I. We were probably arguing not long after but hey that’s life.

Can you tell I have a new favourite toy? I think I have used it on all these lo’s. I got given it as a freebie back at Crafting Connection 2 years ago and thought then - what the heck - I’m never gonna use this thing. And well I never did until…..I found it the other day and thought i”d give it a try and you know what I love it. Well can you guess? It’s my Heidi Swapp edge distresser - LOVE IT - seriously. Can’t stop using it. It’s just so clever.

And this was my lo for bossy scrapper over at SBD. So much fun. Lizzie was a good boss and I love this lo.

Anyway that’s it - it’s all about the lo’s this time.

Jaymin is still home sick today. Has been since Monday last week so not much happening here - just doing all the good Mummy things.

Laters chickies

About time…

.. for another post me thinks. I seem tobe a bit slack at this blogging thing again but I do think I go thru stages like that.

Anyway thank you so much to all the wonderful people who left me comments last time, very much appreciated. I have a few questions that need answering from then so will try to do that in this post too.

Thank you for the comments on my last lo I shared, when I flick thru my album it is still my most favourite page. Some of youasked about the cardboard background - well I just ripped a cardboard box up and ripped some of the outside layer off to expose the corrugated bit and then did some dry painting on it in a few pale colours. I am really loving the whole cardboard look at the mo so am thinking it may feature on some of my pages soon. Oh and Trace the title letters are ‘bella chipz’ or something similar about $5 a packet from Spotlight.

Oh and thank you so much for the lovely words on the painting done for Janine, anyone wanting something done just ask and we can discuss it. I’m not the fastest painter so could take a while though. If you scroll back thru my blog there are a few that I do have available for sale at the mo. About April/May there is a Kowhai one and a Tulip one. Okay now I sound like a pushy car salesman rofl.

Right what else do I have to waffle on about. Maybe some scrapping to share. The first 3 are all for SBD, 2 for bossy scrapper which is so much fun and is happening again this Sunday night so come check it out if you haven’t already and one for the quick fire challenge.

Wasn’t I just the cutest wee gal - that’s me when I was about 8. I so remember that dress - love the pointy cuffs lol

And this lo was just because - I heard the Nik Kershaw song on the radio and at that particular time it really spoke to me so just had to do a lo on it. Oh and Mrs Mummy moo don’t you dare comment on my photo rofl. I have some new ones - I just like these at the moment hehe

Well that’s me for now, who knows when I will be back to blog again - could be tomorrow could be next week lol. Thanks again to all my lovely scrappy friends - you gals rock!!!

Yep tis me!

I am still alive. Been fighting a few personal demons lately which have seen me lying low but I’m back (said in my best Arnie voice)

Okay I will do a few whoo whoo since it is Wednesday - so here’s my list:

*Good friends who come round for tea and bring takeaways and wine

*Jaymin making leaps and bounds with controlling his anxiety

*Old friends letting me get blotto and then looking after me while I did (and making fun of me at the same time lol)

*Getting lots of old mags and cool books at the Zonta book fair

*Janine’s painting finally on it’s way to Wellington (it will be there today ot 2moro)

*Spotlight getting some basic grey papers in - nice!

*And this cool rak from Niella - love them, thanx chickie.

Okay sounds like I have been hitting the bottle a bit lately but I haven’t honest lol Just needed some down release time and that is what worked at the time.

Okay now onto scrapping. Here is my latest lo for SBD’s bossy scrapper. Sonya was a very nice boss and I love the layers that she instructed us to do.

Now I also have a couple of things I need to say.

One - sorry I haven’t been around much to comment on your blogs. I have been reading them but have just been really stuck inside my own head lately. But hoping now I am getting back on track that I can now get back into leaving comments on my friends blogs - just so as you all know I still love yas lol

And lastly no nasty comments are needed on my lo’s thanks. After I posted the lo’s in the last post there were a couple of people that felt they needed to let me know that it wasn’t right that I put them out there so that I could have people praise me and tell me how good a person I am. That is not why I post them - I was sharing my lo’s - comment on those not the journalling if it is a problem for you. And this is my blog and I will post whatever I like, if you don’t like it then please feel free to piss off and not comment. Okay piece said. (And this is not directed at any of my friends who leave me lovely comments - these were sent through email from people I really don’t know) Okay moving right along.

That is it for now.

Laters