So Darn busy

Busy Busy Busy.........getting oranised for the LSBS retreat THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!

I am teaching again this year, and can't wait. I love teaching a big crowd!!!!!

But with work, and getting myself a chest infection, Justin being away for work, Pead appointments for Jere, and a suspect mole taken out yesterday ( ouchie stitches!!) , and my white blood cell count lower than it ever has been- I feel like I havn't been able to catch my breath for weeks.

I know it will all work itself out, but it is a little stressfull in the process.

Jus and I spent Sat night away at Pokolbin, our FAVE PLACE EVER!!! We did lots of wine tasting and laughing, and just having fun together - and even got to see Jana Pitman ( I can't remember her married name!!!) she was tasting wine too! LOL right next to us. Of course I had no idea and could't work out where I knew her from! I thought it might have been school.

What I dag!

anyway - whatever you do this weekend, know I am having fun!!

Love Lisa

xx

Simple Things....

I love how, the girls can play for hours outside, riding their bikes, "making stories", digging in the dirt.

This is one of their new pastimes.... taking charcoal from the fire ( after it is cold of course) and drawing all over the driveway...it looks so much COOLER than chalk.

Yep, they get black hands, but they LOVE it.

Onto some *seriously exciting* news!! Our tickets were booked today for LONDON!!!! I can't believe it really, it finally all seems real.

Still so much to organise, but OMGosh - we are taking the kids to LONDON!!!! ( also Shanghai for a few days on the way home). Time for a count down ticker I think :)

Hope you are all warm!!

Love Lisa

x

My Rockin' Dad

How cool is he???

Playing is brand new "Gretsch" guitar ..... it is red and just gorgeous. I would like to hang it on my wall :)

I am planning to take a few piccy's of it, I reckon they will be Fabbo!!!

thats all really, just wanted to show you how cool my dad is!!!

Love Lisa
x

Loving where I Live

We are almost at our 12 month milestone of our move to Cooranbong, in our new (old) house.

Not much done on the renovations end, as we have decided to head to London in October instead! And we are busy saving our pennies for that.

But so much to be thankful for.

I love the community here, I love that if you go for a walk everyone says "Hi", I love that I can walk down the street for a latte :) . We love the school, and new friends. WE love that we are closer to our church. I love that I have a dream-job working at the preschool connected with my kiddies school!

But one of my most fave places and things to do is to head up the Watagans. A beautiful mountain range, 5 mins from our home. It is another world. We ventured up last sunday morning for a BBQ breaky and a walk.

so much fun!

xx

Brisbane FUN!!!

I can't even put into words how much fun I had in Brissy.

Shann and her gorgeous family put up with both myself and Helen, it was AWESOME. Scott William outdid himself as an amazing taxi service, cook and general "whatever you want girls" kinda guy. I do think we may have scarred him for life though!!!! Shan's gorgeous daughters Tee and Ellie were so serisouly cute, they made me miss my babies so I gave the poor things lots of cuddles :)

I don't think I have ever laughed so hard or so much. We also had a few tears watching "PS I LOVE YOU" even that was funny cause we were all sitting on the lounge sobbing together! PMSL!!!!

Maya Road classes were fabbo, shopping was great, but the funniest moment was at the SM stand having our "I am so famous moment" Kerryn had to have her puffa, she was laughing so hard.

So here are a few piccies.

Once again thanks to Shann, you are such a beautiful, generous ( and very norty) soul and I love you to bits.

Helen, if you don't know by know how much I love you, well - you are silly.

Kerryn, seriously you are a total GEM. Gorgeous, funny and just lovely to hang around.

Onto the pictures!!!

Vertigo Girls

My girls, doing their thing!!!! Totally cracking me up, I dont think we have brain wash them tooooo much ................. well perhaps a little when it comes to U2!!!

A New Hobby????

From this pile of cut fabric

To this block of a quilt :)

So is it a new hobby??? or perhaps a revival of an old one???

I have been avoiding and avoiding quilting/patchwork for years, because I knew once I started it would soon be a new obsession. From a very very young age, I have been facinated with sewing. I will remember my mum ( a non sewing type) teaching me - at about age three - how to sew by hand with a rather large darning needle.

My Nan is an amazing woman with a sewing machine, and I spent hours at her home, sewing. She always encouraged and helped.

But alas, the general busyness of life and the other little hobby I have ;) made me put my machine away and just ohhhh and ahhhhh at other peoples creations.

So I was just admiring other peoples work like Janelles , and NOT STARTING another hobby

then...................

Well a trip to Nundle did it :) OMG I was in fabric heaven and came home with a very naughty amount of fabric!!! Enough to make three raggy quilts ( one for each kiddies) and I signed up for a block of the month. It is by Natalie Ross in Stitches and it is proving a very quick learning curve!! You can see what it will look like here. I have done both block one and two ( well minus the applique!) and will be starting block three hopefully tomorrow.

ahhhhhh, can you smell the new fabric??????? LOL!

Love Lisa

x

where has the time gone?????

Look at my babies!!!!

Jere went to his first "youth event" in Newcastle on Friday night ( made me feel so old). He has an awesome time, came home minus his wallet ( which I half expected!) and also minus a molar tooth!

It was so cool to see him so excited, and dressed all spunky :)

Miss Lilli is again proving that "hormones" are ruling the little vixen! LOL - she is such a sweet, shy thing - then bang. Miss monster appears. We were heading out the door on saturday, just me and the girls to a birthday party 30 mins away and we were running late, I had to get petrol and a pressie. I asked her to get into the car, to which she answered "Muuum, I havn't put my lipstick on yet" What the?????????? ahhhh, neither have I honey.

and Miss Liv, is spelling words out phonetically ( sp?) and doing her sisters year 2 maths homework - I seriously feel sorry for her Kindy teacher next year.

Thats all for now!!!

Love Lisa

x

Wednesday Sharing

Been very busy with a new DT kit from LSBS here is some of the stuff I have been up too :)

Hope you are having a happy wednesday!

Love Lisa

x

Loving PS Actions

I know, it is a way to "cheat" with editing your piccy's :) But it is sooooo much quicker!!!!

So I am haing fun, surfing the net for freebie PS Actions, if youknow any good sites, let me know! LOL

I *LOVE* how this photo turned out. I loved the photo anyway, my girls floating in the ocean on their boards, chatting away, and their scute little bots.

Too cute.

Time for a share

I realised today, that for the volume of work I produce for LSBS and the mags, I actually don't put much up on my blog!
So beware, I am going to start uploading some work :)
and some exciting news! Both my girls are excited to be published in this months SBM!!!! They both have a digi layout ( that they did 18 months ago) and can't wait for their cheque!!!!

The gorgeous Miss Liv

My brother and his baby girl Ruby

Miss Livinia *finally* asleep!!!

Having some fun with my brother and our kiddies when he was visiting from England!!!

and lastly if you want a giggle - this is my SIL in the middle of London during her lunch break! Too cool Seana :)

http://www.vimeo.com/1007258

Love Lisa

x

Bling

What girl doesn't love a bit of bling????

Justin bought these home from his latest trip overseas, they are green saphires and the photo just doesn't do them justice. The are a beautiful green, the pendant goes from a very light green to a dark dark green.

I wore them today for the first time, and was paranoid I would lose them. Need t get them insured.

Feel very very lucky today, to have a hubby who knows what I like without even having to tell him.

Love Lisa

x

Hello Friends

I am so thankful today for friends, you know the kind that would DO ANYTHING for you???

I spent the weekend with my bestest bestie Helen in Cairns, and we had such a hoot. But what I love most about this girl, is that not only do we laugh till our sides hurt, but I can have a "moment" and she just knows the right things to say. Love you chuffy :)

We also drove into Cairns to meet up with Relsi and Honey wine, you girls are so much fun. And we met a few other new friends while we were visiting. Shouting a big hello to Belinda and Kerry.

*yes I will update links soonish* LOL

and some very exciting news.

My coolio muso brother, has released a new single which you can download for free here http://krismorris.com/

His blerb "The full release pack includes two mixes of the song, an iPod ready version of the music video, and the artwork. Just download it, unzip it, and enjoy - and then tell some friends about it or facebook it to help spread the word. On the website you'll also find some news concerning rumours of a full album project too. Yippee!"

So get downloading!!!!

Some work to share - most of it oldish, but hey what the heck :)

This layout was in SM a month or so ago. I forgot to buy a copy! LOL silly me.

These are in stamping and papercraft, either this issue or next? Can't remember!

and these lovlies were in the last issue of stamping and papercraft and one was even on the cover! Cool Hey????

Love Lisa

x

melbourne

Was fantastic!

We shopped,we ate, we drank coffee, we ate icecream, we say the sights and visited friends.

I love Melbourne!!!

Here are the kids at the airport. How excited does Miss Livinia look!

Ahhhhh, Lygon Street! Best coffee ever.

The Tram ride that Liv just *had* to have!!!

We had the bestest time with Relsi and Steve and kiddies! Livinia keeps talking about "tom tom" and the bigger kids have Meg and Tom firmly planted in their hearts as friends. They just had a fabbo time, eating chuppa chups and playing in the kids area at the tavern. * The Adults * talked the afternoon away. Just lovely!

and onto one other thing :) I have another blog www.art-of-worship.blogspot.com it might be your thing, or not :) But I am having a whole heap of fun with it!

Love Lisa

xx

check this out

http://www.krismorris.com/

This is my little brother.

He totally rocks. I am in awe of his talent.

Gosh he even made me cry I miss him so much :(

BRING ON OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am heading to London town to hand with the bestest brother in the whole world!!!!

new blog

this one is staying, but you might want to check this one out as well!

www.art-of-worship.blogspot.com

loved

Completly! Unconditionally. Life is good!

Here we are

Funny, time goes so quickly.

Wasn't too long go we were newly weds, with a life time ahead of us. Planning dreaming. Now here we are, living the life we have chosen. Three beautiful children.

It will be our 13th anniversary in a few short weeks. I am amazed what we have been through, how far we have come.

Life has certainly thrown those naive newlyweds, challenges that would defeat most people. Chronic disease, a child with a life threatening illness ( all good now - no panicking people!), house moves - lots of them!, tonsillectomy's (SP?). grommet's, lots and lots of visits to just about every specialist you can imagine, miscarriage :(, hemorrhage after one of the tonsillectomy's!

But how much fun have we had???? Holidays ( lots of them), camping, beaches, wine! Kids and Family and Friends .Playing in the park, planning and still dreaming, dreaming BIG BIG BIG ( isn't that the only way to dream?)

I wouldn't have done it any other way thought!

ahhhhhh, isn't love grand :)

What's Missing?????

Miss Ruby is :(

Funny how life goes on, school starts and you put thoughts of Missing Ruby, Kris and Sea to the back of your mind. Just to protect yourself. So that you don't feel sad. Then one moment and you realise just how much you miss them.

I had that moment today, while my kids played with their water pistils in the rain, and all of a sudden I *knew* Miss Ruby would be in there, giggling and laughing and getting into mischief with my kiddies the "cousins". It just wasn't the same without her.

I went for a run today ( yep back to it) and realised that if she was here Sea would be up for a run/walk. That I probably would have somone to run with, and laugh with.

and then to top it off, Justin is sitting here watching the "one dayer" on his own, and I *knew* if Kris was here, they would be watching it together. Not saying much, just enjoying the company.

Bring on October !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cause we are heading to LONDON!!!!!!!!!!

back to the blog

LOL - well trying, sometimes just not enough hours in the day!

We had a chld free evening last night, thanks to mum and dad, and that meant I had a child free day !! Very nice, though it was soooo darn quiet. I managed to do a bit of creating for LSBS which will be uploaded later :)

I have *started* editing the hundreds of photo's I took while Kris and Sea and Miss Boo were here, here are a few to share.

Do you think My little ( by 14 months, not ny height) brother and I look similar? I don't, I look like the "Moriconi" side of the family ( my mums) and Kris looks like my Dads ( Morris side). Funny.

I had the pleasure of speaking to Kris and Sea this week, so nice to talk. And Miss Boo has been asking about "uncle justin" ( from the sound of it allllllll day!) so nice to know that there has been a connection made. We love that little cutie.

anyway, till next time,

Love Lisa
xx