SOLD!

We have sold our house! The settlement date is the 7th of December. We are planning to rent and then build another new house. Really looking forward to starting the next chapter f our lives together. The signing of the contracts came at a really good time. Today was our 6th wedding anniversary. We have spent the weekend celbrating. Last night we went out to our fave Chinese restaurant in Bendigo ( which I will miss dearly) with Baz and today we went to Daylesford for lunch. Our trip to Daylesford included a visit to here. Without Loz with me I could have potentially spent a lot of money!
Things have been very busy lately and I have not really been doing any scrapping. When work finishes and we have shifted I plan to get back into again. I have 100's of photos I want to scrap and lots of new goodies to play with!

NZ

Yes it has been over a month since I last blogged. Sorry. A flat out me means no blogging. From the 18th to 27th of September, Loz, his parents and I went to New Zealand for a bit of an explore. Really exciting stuff as it was my first overseas trip. We flew into Auckland and spent two nights there. Then onto Palmerston North via the scenic train. Onto Napier and then two nights at Paraparaumu. One night at Kaikoura and two nights in Christchurch. It was full on and exciting to see so many new places and new things. I have completed my travel journal and will upload pics of it soon. I am also going to scrap some ( possibly lots) of the photos we took in NZ (all 1500) 0f them!!!

And in other news, our house is officially for sale. After getting back from NZ, Loz and I spent the last 6 days finishing the landscaping and making the house look good. Will keep posted how things go!

Journals

Two journals that I have slowly been progressing on over the past few days have now moved to the status of finished! The first is a circle journal and my theme is collage. The second journal is my travel journal for when we go to New Zealand in 2 and a bit weeks. It is based on this one made by Shimelle Lane. It was good to have something ready to go before we actually leave.

Little Miss 5

Nicola turned 5 yesterday and here are some of the photos from her party we went to on the weekend. Thank goodness for Crackles the Clown! She entertained the kids, painted their faces, played games with them and made them balloon animals and shapes.

Happy Snaps Happy Mail

Happy Mail- book rings from Ozition (- similar to ebay), new Tim Holtz stamps from Ebay, Handmade Help Cookbook which I have two recipes in and my new owl cuttlebug embossing folder also from Ebay.

Happy Snaps - the blossoms on the way to work, Oscar, the full moon, and a journal I made for a gift.

Meme from Pip
Making : a circle journal
Cooking : steak, vegies and chips with herb butter
Drinking : water
Reading: latest copy of Cloth Paper Scissors
Wanting: the pain in my shoulder to go away
Looking: at my hair and deciding if it needs a cut
Playing: tv shows on my ipod like the Librarians
Wasting: time
Sewing: in my dreams
Wishing: winter would last longer
Enjoying: sharing a packet of smarties with Loz
Waiting: at the doctors
Liking: scotch fillet steak
Wondering: whether or not my year 11's will finish their history assessment task tomorrow
Loving: spring blossoms
Hoping: the dogs dont burry their bones in the fresh dirt
Marvelling: at how a bobcat and truck could remove 14 tons of dirt from our backyard
Needing: sleep
Smelling: berry scented body wash
Wearing: my pjs
Following: the Bombers
Noticing: that lots of women are wearing tight leggings and short dress thingis that dont really suit their body shape
Knowing: its the weekend tomorrow afternoon
Thinking: of looking up places to visit in NZ
Feeling: tired
Bookmarking: too many to mention
Opening: my Pearl Jam tickets which arrived in the mail today
Giggling: at Loz and I trying to sneak up on Oscar under the bed when he was actually outside
Feeling: smug

Focus album catch up

I haven really had much time to scrap lately. It sort of feels like every weekend is consumed with packing, doing loads of washing, cooking and organising for the next week. Let a alone having a chance to get over the previous week.
I thought it was time I caught up with my FOCUS album. This year I chose Focus as my Ali E word. It has been a good word for me to have this year as we have a lot to focus on and our focus is constantly changing as we look to the next chapter in our life.

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The new look of my blog? I downloaded the banner from here, got one of the gorgeous girls in my homegroup who is very clever with photoshop to add my blog title and then I found the background on Shabby Blogs. I love how it looks! Thanks E for helping me!!!