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,