I love Fridays! Justin works from home, I teach stamping in the morning, we have "beano's" (strange family name for lollies!) and it is the weekend. Whoo Hoo.

so a quick update

• we have two new baby bunnies called sandy and sally, very cute indeed
• I have been accepted to do my certificate three in childrens studies (OMG homework)
• not long till Kiwi scraps - yeah!!!!
• My beautiful cousin just rang to see if I would be her bridsemaid - Of course I would!
• Livinia asked her preschool teacher to "pull her finger" today, when asked what she would do when it was pulled she answered " a big poppa" LOL - I was hysterical
• the grass is still green !
• I have finally paid off my camera with the help of the government and a tax refund!!
• I miss my friend helen
• I miss my brother and sister -in-law and baby Ruby

I think that is the short version.

The layout is one I did of Jere ages ago, yes I let him swing on the clothes line, just for the photo's, very naughty mummy.

And if you havn't seen "Tristan and Ysolde" then do yourself a favour.

thats all for now,

take care, Lisa

xxx

school holidays at last

I love school holidays! No lunches to make, no uniforms to iron, no rushing out of the house looking like a freak hoping that the kids don't want me to get out of the car!!! LOL!

So it is officially day one of the holidays and I had planned to just spend it at home getting ready for my MIL visit. Ha Ha. I rang Jere's kidney doctor because he has started bleeding again, just to get a script, but instead he wants to see him today and to top it off the referral has run out, so now I have to go to the GP, get the referral, then drive to gosford to see his specialist - true to Dr Rojers form will probably have to take jere for a blood test on the way home! GRRRRRR

I am teaching tonight to a full class and Have not even designed up the page! Boo Hoo!

Have you noticed that everything happens to us?? LOL.

Justin started playing indoor soccor last night, it was fast and rough - he totally enjoyed himself. Liv spent the entire game wanting daddy and made sure everyone knew about it.

Justins mum comes to stay for a week tomorrow - love it! we are taking the kids to the movies and to lunch etc. They always love it when liz comes to stay - in the words of Jere " nanny always has time to play lots of games with me, like uno and chess" felt a little guilty then realised I had no idea how to play chess so it didn't count!

Another layout of Lilli - at the farm, love the lounge in the background! couldn't be bother cropping it this morning!

Thats all from me.

Love Lisa
xx

P.S. Hi Aunty Sharron and Uncle Ross !!!!!!

I've been sick :(

Yep, thats right i have been having a shocker, and true to Pate form not just an ordinary sickness!! I ended up in hospital last tuesday with pericarditis ( inflamation of the hearts outer lining) - pretty impressive I think!

Poor Justin had to have a week off work to look after me cause I just couldn't get out of bed. It was just yukky, I have a few weeks before I will be fully well again but I cerainly feel better than last week.

Have been lucky to have a heap of scrap/stamp work my way - which is brilliant cause I am no longer working at the shop in wamberal. I love the commissioned stuff, I can do it around my family which is just brilliant so keep a look out in SM and Stamping and Papercraft and Cardmaking and Paperscraft. So loving stamping at the moment, I find it really weird that I found "sucess" in the scrapping world first, cause I am sooooo a stamper before a scrapper!

Anyway, I am off to cairns tomorrow to visit my bestie, Helen - Yipee. I think the sunshine is going to do a work of good.

The photos of the kids are from when we were visiting Justin's parents at their farm oer easter! So cute!


Talk soon

Lisa
x

Thank you friend

Hey there again,

Just wanted to shout from the roof tops about a very special friend, so there is no piccy's just words tonight.

I want to publicly thank Jackie ( you know who you are) for being the most amazing friend. Jackie you are kind, generous, supportive, encouraging, funny, and above all a wonderful friend.

You have supported me when I wanted to cry, and encouraged me when I just couldn't be bothered any more, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You rock!!!!!

Love Lisa
xx

Catch up

Well I need to play serious "catch up" I havn't blogged for ages. Have been super slack, but very busy - if that is an excuse????

• So here it is:

• Jere ran in the school cross country and came first! Then ran in the zone and came in in eigth place, he is now off to the state carnival!!! Go Jere Go

• Jere also ended up in hospital after another vomiting episode! terrible, but he is fine now.

• Had a fab day at Scrapbooking and beyond, learning new stuff, meeting new people and even meeting "Mr Rusty Pickle", when I get some photo's I will upload them.

• Still playing with my DT pack from Little Scrapbook Shop the above layout was done using the three bugs in a rug french provincial range, very nice indeed.

• Pool is in the backyard, but the backyard looks like a war zone, I can't wait for grass! LOL

• My cousin Belle is engaged! Whoo Hoo, she is having a Jan wedding, so I am looking forward to some new clothes and shoes for the occassion.

• I am flying to see Helen in a few weeks time, my hubby bought me tickets for mothers day.

• J and I are off to the hunter for a few days break child free on sunday, can't wait. I am not even going to take anything to scrap!!! Just some books to read.

That is all my brain can think of at the moment,

Thanks for reading,

lisa

What a week !

Have you ever had "one of those weeks"? Well this week was just that for me!

It started at some silly hour of the morning on Monday with Livinia throwing up, and continuing to vomit every hour, on the hour.

By wednesday she was feeling better, so that's when Lilli started thowing up!

I got called by my mum on sunday arvo to say that my dad was in hospital with chest pains, rushed to the hospital. Took mum home for an hour to have a break and then Jere started vomiting! Just too much. Mum went back to the hospital and I am pleased to say that my dad has pneumonia and not a heart attack, but he is really really ill - they even had to give him morphine for the pain. Feeling very very tired!

But there were good things as well! My class at picture perfect scrapbooking was wonderful. the ladies finished their 7 gypsies mini album that they have been working on for three weeks and they all look totally beautiful.

And I am really excited because I found out I am going to be part of the Little Scrapbook Shop's design team!!!!!! It is going to be so much fun, I already feel really welcome and I know that we are going to have a blast.

So some good and some bad this weekend.

Oh, and the layout was just a quicky of Lilli, just love chatterbox!!!!

See Ya,

Lisa

My Girl

Hey there, don't some pictures just make you smile?? This is my Lilli, and both she and her little sis were absolutely obsessed with me painting their faces a few months back. Not that I was any good at it! LOL. So here she is as a tiger. A very cute smiley tiger.

Love this layout, just so simple. Really over layouts that take hours. I just don't have hours. Need to have more hours.

I am really excited cause I am going to visit my beautiful friend helen in a few short months, she lives too far away!!! Past Cairns even. So I am going to visit in June, little scared about the hurricanes, but I am sure I will survive. I just find I can really have a great break when I go there, lots of scrapping and chocolate........can't wait.

Oh and my wonderful hubby got me a new computer today! What a legend, even a scanner, so no more crappy shots of layouts! Whoo Hoo.....Love you J xxx

Thats all, hope you are all well???

Lisa

Hey there, thought I better share. It isn't anything new - just a scrapbooking memories urban lilly challlenge that I did a couple of months back. I really adore these photo's of my dad and Liv. Really natural and fun.

So what's new with you?

Nothing much here, just the usual - housework, kids, more houswork LOL - never ending mountains of it!

WE are about to start renovating again! We are renevating out house from the top to the bottom and at the moment are about half way through. Justin had a well deserved break over summer ( played cricket even) and we are about to start again. On the list of things to do are : downstairs skirting and doors, window dressing. Downstairs - bedroom walls ( yes we sleep in an open room) finish painting, window coverings. Outside - Pool (yeah!), fencing, grass, gardens and anything else you can think of. It seems massive, but we are sick puppies and enjoy it.

Had a call from giorgi at Picture Perfect today to say that my classes are filling up! I love a full class and all the buzz. You really have to check this shop out if you are anywhere near wamberal/terrigal. Totally beautiful.

Thats all for now, kids home, better feed them or something. LOL

Lisa
xx

Well after a push from the wonderful brooksie I am back at my blog. Thanks for the shove girlfriend.

Well life has been hectic as usual. Lilli's party was just brilliant. I know it isn't brain surgery but girls are so different to boys! LOL. We had three extra boys for Jere's birthday and it was loud and rough, but the girls ( eight of them) were just so...well.... girly! that sat and scrapped their little hearts out, and ate fairy bread and I didn't even have to break up one floor wrestle!


I am really excited on a work front because I am about to start doing some work for a beautiful boutique style scrapbooking shop at Wamberal called picture perfect gorgeous, beautiful shop. I am teaching 6 x 6 layouts using 7 gypsies, what more could a girl want. So if you are anywhere near check out the shop and come and do a class.

How is everyones scrapping?? I have taken lately to "speed scrapping" my version of no longer spending hours on every page. I have got to the stage that if I want to scrap for me it has to be fast and effective. So the above layout was done in 15 mins ( this is only part of it cause it is really a 11 x 8.5 layout. I even did two layouts on the phone today while talking to my friend ally. LOL. I might actually put a dent in the mountains of photos I have.

Thats all today......but if anyone knows how to get their children to eat ( not Jere, just my girls) dinner that would be great!

Talk soon - ( promise)

My Groove Thing

Well yesterday afternoon I finally got my "groove thing" back with regards to my scrapping. Feeling very very relieved. I have no idea what happened to it.....it just went. I do think it had something to do with being named a as a "master" I gave myself so much pressure and I lost my style in the process. So I am officially back scrapping in my style and loving it. I am just dreading the next few challenge layouts that are comeing up in SM, because they are not me.

So here is the layout that "set me free" so to speak. It is all fabric except for the photo matts. I just so enjoyed making it, it was stress free scrapping at its very best! The girls coming to my class tonight will be making their own version, so that should be fun to see their spin. It always amazes me how when you teach a layout everyone does it slightly different and you come away with so may variations. Love it.

Everything else is fairly normal at home. Lots to do and not enough time to do in it. Feeling really ill from the methotrexate I take for my RA (rheuamatiod arthritis), but life goes on.

Hope you are all having a fab day.

Lisa xx+

Class with Kim

What a wonderful way to spend a sunday. Just had the pleasure of doing a class with the one and only Kim Archer. Check out the above layout and mini bag, the photo is pretty lame but you get the general idea. The class was great fun, and Kim was a really relaxed teacher. Thanks Kim you rock !LOL!

Met some new friends - saying hi to Janelle Wind and Rachel Greig - and had a laugh with some old friends ( hi Donna and Jess).

On a home front everyone seems happy, I have to try and organise Lilli's party for this friday night. She is having a scraping party - Lord help me - her request. So I am going to have twelve six year olds attempting to scrap together, feeling very very scared! Not even quite sure how they are going to fit upstairs in the renovated part of a half renovated house. Perhaps McDonalds might have been a bright idea.

On the scrapping front, plenty to do, and plenty of classes to organise. I am teaching a "scrapbook sewing class" on tuesday night and as yet nothing is done. Also have classes booked for friday, nothing done there yet either. But on a more positive note, stamping and papercraft have accepted a second lot of cards so I am sooooo excited.

All in all, Life is Good in the Pate houshold.

talk soon,

Lisa aka Patey

been tagged

Ok I have been tagged by trish so here it goes? I know I havn't quite done it all right but here it goes!

Here are the questions:What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was working in chatswood, hoping that I would fall pregnant soon!

What were you doing 1 year ago? Enjoying being a SAHM

Five snaks that you enjoy:Chocolate, Lime and black pepper chips, strawberry's, cheese and crackers,Vanilla slices

Five songs to which you KNOW all the lyrics :Anything by U2, and a number of kids nursery rhymes

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:Pay off mortgage, finish renovating, travel to see Kris and Sea and baby ruby ( brother), pay off parents mum and dads house,buy lots more scrapping supplies

Five bad habits:Perfectionist (yes it is bad), don't do exercise, waste time on the computer,let peoples opinions annoy me, drink too much caffine

Five things you like doing:Scrapbooking, talking on the phone, reading, swimming, being silly.

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get again: Wrong fitting bra/undies, bubble skirts, jellie shoes, glo socks, acid wash jeans (child of the 80's)

Five favourite toys:Camera,Computer, Sizzix, sewing machine, car

5 People I am tagging:

Kris
Ally N
Alli Patterson
Yasmin
My Mummy


Exhasuted just thinking about it all ! talk soon people.

Lisa
xx

Kindy Girl

Well today was the day, Lilli finally started "big school". I can't begin to explain how proud I am of her. Lilli has always been our quiet child and I really wasn't sure how today was going to go. She was so determined to be a big girl, no tears, no seperation problems, she just went on her way. OMG she is grown up!

So now there are two at school and one at home. Poor Liv is going to miss her sister soooo terribly. I am secretly going to enjoy having Liv all to myself, already planning what we can do together. I really want this time to be special for her. I want her to enjoy some "Mummy and Me" time. I have always felt a little guilty that she has had to adapt to a busy family and that perhaps she didn't get as much time with me as Jere and Lilli did. Time to make up for that.

Tonight we are off to celebrate big school with Lill's fav, fish and chips.

Took some great pics today so I am really looking forward to scrapping those. When I can clear some space on my desk! LOL, I must be the most disorganised scrapper around. I always claim it is because I am sooooo creative LOL. I think I am just a "messy" at heart. Oh well.

Lisa

Follow me to the sea!

Finally worked out how to post some photo's !! Yeah for me ! Anyway I love love love this photo, christmas afternoon there is nothing better than an impromptu swim in the ocean, undies and all!! I can't imagine Jere being keen on swimming in undies for much longer. It was such a warm day he wasn't going to refuse.

I have spent way to long working out this blog thingy today, school starts tomorrow for Jere and kindy for Lilli on wednesday so there is heaps to do, oh well I have had fun!

Lisa
xx

Well here it is

Well here it is my very own blog, as yet have not worked out how to make it pretty but I'll work on that soon, just excited that I've got it this far.

Not quite sure what I'm going to write and if anyone will be interested, but I think I am going to enjoy journalling my days in this way.

Anyway, off now to work out how to add photo's etc...

See ya,