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!!

A new bunch of ranunculus for my desk this week in pale oranges, peaches and light yellows. I adore these pretty flowers, they make me smile every time I look at them and the best thing about them is that they always last for a full week! Gotta love that!


We had an appointment with Miss O's pediatrician yesterday to update her asthma medication as she has had 64 days off school just this year. As soon as she catches a cold {which is like every few weeks with the weather we have been having} or a virus, her asthma seems to flare up. Late last month I had to sit up most of the nights watching her breath and listening to her chest as she coughed in her sleep every 30-40 seconds. I had to wake her up every 20-30 minutes to give her some ventolin. {If you know quite a bit about asthma then you know I was totally pushing the boundaries with 20-30 minute intervals and she should have been in hospital} I just hate the way the nurses scold you and look at you when you bring your child in for asthma related problems, they are always nit picking and judging you even when you produce a slip of paper with meticulous records of how much ventolin has been administered and at what times. {I find it easier to write every thing down so I am ready for any question the doctors or nurses ask}


This year I have noticed that her asthma has worsened and thought it was time to head back to her pediatrician for an asthma plan update. Miss O's pediatrician has been treating her since she was transferred from hospital in Sydney, down to Shoalhaven Hospital here in Nowra, {Miss O was born premi at 24 weeks and 1 day, read more about that here} so he has watched her grow since she was a wee little baby.
He has added prednisolone and replaced her qvar with a new preventer flixotide to her plan. I am very hopefull this this will be a change for the better! Fingers crossed!


Had some extra time today as things start to settle down with doctor appointments, teacher, school counselor and AEO meetings, and opened up photoshop and some gorgeous designs from Vinnie Pearce's Journey Back Collection.



This collection is massive as well as being such an inspirational kit to work with. I look forward to creating something more with it in the next week or two but here are two digital pages I have created for now...




I love the photo I used on the above page, I found it by accident when I was looking for a different photo and as soon as I saw this one I knew it was perfect. I love the way Miss O is lowering her head down to meet Miss J and the cheeking looks they have on their faces.




I found this photo in an old folder transferred from my old pc. I had to laugh when I saw it because it is so like Miss J to be chewing on a bit of wood at this age! She would chew, suck or eat anything just to see what it tasted like, even dirt! Miss J was only 2 when this photo was taken, gosh time flies doesn't it. She starts kindergarten next year {sniff sniff}




I hear the bus rounding the corner.....time for Miss O to arrive home so I had better get off the puter and get snacks and cut up the vegies for a baked pork dinner with loads of apple sauce....mmmmmm!!

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!!

......to the Kenner Road blog and snag yourself a desktop/iphone wallpaper for May!! Here's a preview of what it looks like:

Here is a page I created that I used for inspiration to make the wallpapers:


No I ♥ Sunday or Much Love Monday this week as I have had a killer of a sore throat.....my throat swelled up so much I could hardly get anything down!! I was in bed for two days sleeping I was so ill and that doesn't happen very often at all {staying in bed whilst sick I mean...lol} now the two girls are home with sore throats, Little Miss J is actually quite worse than Miss O. I had to take her to the doctor's as I couldn't keep her temperature down....she is feeling a bit better today thank goodness. We slept on the lounge together last night as it was easier to monitor her temp and give her some medicine but I hardly got any sleep at all. You know when you start thinking your little one is about to go into convulsions because their temp is way too high. Crazy things start to form in your head until you are too scared to go to sleep. I hate that feeling!!

Off to get dinner ready, girls bathed and pj's on......then early to bed tonight.......zzzzzzzzzzzz

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:

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.