We are nearly at the end of our Spring school holidays and boy have we had some fun and relaxing times!!

The week before school holidays began, some friends of ours who we lost contact with nearly 20 years ago, found us via facebook! Can you believe that? We were so over the moon to hear from them and we decided to meet up again to chat and find out what we had done with our lives. It was amazing to catch up and have our daughters meet for the first time.

 The next weekend Lisa was back for an overnight stay with her sweet daughter Jess. The girls were over the moon happy and so was Lisa and I.

During the first week of the holidays we managed to go up the coast to Kiama and visit the blow hole to have a look and to grab a yummy ice-cream.


 We took a few photos around the place before going further up the coast to do some shopping. We stopped at one of the girls' favorite parks on the way home to have a climb and a play.  usual the girls meet some kids to play with and proceeded to chase each other all over the park. Loads of fun!!

With the weather getting cooler here I am loving sitting in the sun and soaking up some rays to help wash away the icky sick feeling I have at the moment. The girls are still home from school and little Miss J's spreading her germs all over me. You can't NOT snuggle with your little one's when they are sick so now I have a cold.....woopy!!

I finally got around to posting a new digital page using some of Vinnie Pearce's gorgeous goodies.......wanna see...

Here is a little link list of the items I used on this page:

• Poised Full Kit
• Poised Solid Papers
• Art on Wings 01
• Grunge Script Masks
• Bucket Full of Sunshine

The photo was taken just after Christmas when we went up to Dorrigo Mountain where one of my 5 uncles live......such a beautiful place, remember this post about the clouds coming in the door....lol!! So very pretty. The photo was taken as we were driving down the mountain....the views were amazing! Here is the full photo:


I edited the photo using one of my favorite Photoshop action Urban Acid.......if any of my photos have blue sky in them I almost always use this action! The vintagey frame is by Rhonna Farrer @ 2 Pea's and the tape on 3 sides of the photo is the NEW Clip Art Tape Strips: The Solid Sequel freebie from PUGLY PIXEL! After I applied the tapes strips to the frame I added a small shadow to them and change the layer mode to MULTIPLY in Photoshop so they became a little transparent.....how cute are they....thanks Katrina!!

A gorgeous new mini kit Petit Jardin by Catherine Designs from After 5 Designs was released yesterday and I wanted to share a digital page I created using the April Shot as well as using some of Catherine's part of the After 5 Collaboration kit Little Garden:


Can you believe that this mini kit {below} is only $2.00!! Here's what is in Catherine's April Shot:




The collaborative kit Little Garden has some of the best digital scrapbooking designer's in the industry including:

When it rains it pours! We have all been quite ill once again in our house, sick kids running around with their heads cut off, having coughing fits and me with a huge ulcer at the back of my throat for 2 weeks now. I am taking a large dose of antibiotics at the moment so I am hoping they will help clear my throat up. I seem to be getting a sore throat once a month now and the doctor is getting a little worried. Last time the ulcer turned into what looked like an open wound at the back of my throat and that wasn't the first time. Enough about sick talk, I am totally over it right now!!

I have still made time to create which has been wonderful. Other wise I think I would go a little batty!! I also joined a new creative team last month. The super talented Vinnie Pearce! As you may know already she is now selling over at 2 Pea's which is awesome I tell you. The girl's over there are so talented and inspiring. The challenge's are loads of fun too! I recently played along with the Lift This! challenge, such a fun challenge lifting a paper layout and doing it digital! This page was for last weeks challenge, pop over their to see the new challenge! Here is my entry:


P.S A quick update on the up and coming news I have been dangling in front of you.......all will be revealed on the 22nd of April.....finally......lol!! xo

Having both of the girls home from school and preschool the last two weeks sick as well as giving me their germs really took it's toll on me this last week. I hardly got anything done that I had planned to do but I did manage to have a cooking day with the girls on Saturday. After cleaning the house in the morning we gathered our supplies ready to make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and shaved white chocolate on top.

As many of you know by reading my blog, I am a huge fan of KR {shock : horror} so I was over the moon when KR released digital scrapbooking goodies! And for those of you who are NOT digital scrappers, the best news is that it is so easy to print these goodies out and use them on your projects. As you can see I went over board on decorating my blog {snicker} as well as creating a digital page:

As you can see I chopped up papers, bingo cards, the flashcard frames and even pieces from the kit honey church. So imagine how easy it would be to print out these items and chop them up yourselves. Sky's the limit! I have to say I am loving the schoolbox alpha, look how cute they look on the page, so much fun!

It was wonderful to sit down at the computer with Photoshop open and create some digital pages. My first digital for the year as a matter of fact! As much as I love getting my hands (and art room) dirty, it was quite relaxing to listen to some music and play with an awesome digital kit! I am talking about this one:

The kit is called Re-Creation23 and it's a collaboration between Catherine Designs and Createwings Designs available HERE. It has so, so many beautiful embellishments included in this kit and the papers are stunning! Here are three pages I created yesterday using the kit.