the amazing adventures of rachy

How cool did this one turn out?

The challenge was buttons... had to use at least 15 buttons in three different colours and three different sizes. Took a while for the mojo to hit for this one but it was worth the wait.



This one was a sketch challenge... love it... soft and pretty. I was fairly happy with how this one turned out too.


And finally an eclipse mint tin scrapped to be used as (I am thinking) a container for panadol to go in my handbag. Its really pretty cute irl.

So thats it for today...

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I have discovered one of the coolest scrapper blogs ever!
Jen Hall's blog is totally worth a look... her work is amazing... so funky and bright and fun!

Still loving Mystical Scrapbooks... lots of funky scrappers hanging out there!

What else funky is there to report???????

Jed's birthday last wednesday was a great day.... he loved his presents, his cake and his whole birthday! Gonna wait til school goes back for his party... we have learnt that it is difficult to organise a party before christmas for after christmas so figured we would try waiting an extra couple of weeks and have it once school went back.

Here are some pics of Jed's big day!



Did a bit of scrapping last night... havent got pics yet though so will do them tomorrow. Need to do a couple more pages for mysticals monthly comps too. Hopefully will find time this week... I also want to get the house a bit more organised before school and dancing goes back. (Clean out wardrobes etc.) So will see how we go. Then theres cards... one of my goals that was part of being more organised was remembering peoples birthdays and actually sending them cards... anyone who knows me knows how hopeless I am when it comes to posting stuff. But part of the goal was that they were all going to be hand made cards... Im sure I can do it... but I need to get started on them! lol. Then there is the all important shopping for school stuff to be done sometime in the next week as well. Arghhhhh I need to lie down just thinking about it all!

So until tomorrow! Cya!

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All this stuff... lol. (and right now I also love flickr and this mosaic maker!)
Quick post tonight... its late and Im off to bed!


1. kids, 2. car, 3. fan-ceiling, 4. 80s music, 5. Candles, 6. Spotlight, 7. learning, 8. man, 9. roast dinner, 10. funky fabric, 11. My Camera, 12. presents, 13. Lilly, 14. Coke, 15. kermit, 16. singstar, 17. parents, 18. grease, 19. BBQ, 20. Blogging, 21. shower, 22. brother, 23. doodling, 24. Bling, 25. Summer Heights High, 26. computer, 27. parcel, 28. Robbie, 29. Pink Glitter, 30. girlfriends, 31. Smock Tops, 32. Martha Stewart, 33. music, 34. Paint, 35. Freckles, 36. family

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

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A total of twelve 12x12 layouts so far this year! Not bad... just under a page a day! I wonder if I can keep it up... a layout a day for a whole year? 365 pages? hmmmmmmm


1. amazes me, 2. drew, 3. love being your mum, 4. walking with you, 5. a walk with dad, 6. disco jed, 7. rainbow, 8. safe, 9. sweet funky cool, 10. creative resolutions, 11. moving on up, 12. happy 2 b me

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Two more layouts for challenges at Mystical Scrapbooks!

Love how this one turned out... for once the idea in my head actually worked out ok!



This one we had to use lots of ribbon... lol... see the rainbow... its all ribbon hand stitched! Took a while to do but the effect is sooooooooo worth it.





Ive done two more layouts tonight for the cc at LSBS thats on this weekend... still got a few more layouts I would like to get done before my visitors arrive on sunday! So keeping my fingers crossed that I can get them done!
Will upload tonights work tomorrow after I get pics in good light!
Thats it for tonight!

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OK so we all have those times in our lives where crap happens... well this week has been one of those times for us. Its nothing drastic really... our health isnt in jeopardy, we have a roof over our head and so on. It was our car... it pretty much went crazy and the end result was us forking out a fair bit of cash to get it fixed. It was pretty stressful for the past few days... not sure what to do... get it repaired, trade it in, sell it... we had so many people telling us what to do and so much advice coming at us we just really ended up confused. In the end every option we had was going to be a gamble in some way... and I think we have made the best decision we could as far as what we could afford to do and what we knew to do. Some times I guess you just have to hope everything turns out ok and have a little faith in your decision.
This is going to have flow on effects naturally... our plans to get a second car in the near future are now completely out the window. Im not sure that I will be able to get my licence before the kids go back to school... depends on how much thats going to cost. And then when I do get my licence we have one car... making it difficult because Rod works so far away its not fesable for me to drive him to work.
But we have come up with a plan... Rod has decided that he will catch the train to work! So this is a positive because not only does it mean I will get the car to run the kids around etc but his train fare each week is going to be way less than what he is now paying in petrol to get to work every week. On top of that we should save money on petrol as well because I wont be doing as much driving as he does now. (mostly short trips to drop the kids at school or dancing). Then add to that the bus fares we will be saving... hopefully we will at the very worst come out even to what we are now... but I am guessing we will come out better off. (And certainly better off than we would be running 2 cars, paying rego, maitence, insurance etc)
So out of something crappy has something good I think.
And here is hoping that we have had our quota of stress and crap for 2008.
Other than that... I got two layouts done today... the light is too crappy right now for pics so will have to take some tomorrow to show off.
So thats todays entry... Im doing well so far this year... lots of blogging getting done!

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As promised... pics of the present I made for Abbee's friend...



Very pink and sparkly!

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Did this layout for the cc at Mystical Scrapbooks... the cc there is now over for this month! But there are still a heap of challenges to do.



Then there is LSBS who has their cc on this coming weekend! Plus I believe their monthly challenges will be posted this week soooooo plenty going on for me to get into!

I finished the present for Abbee's friend... havent uploaded the pics yet so will do that later and come back to show that off! (Turned out really nicely if I do say so myself! lol)

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Got two more pages done today! Both are for the CC over at Mystical Scrapbooks. Only one more page challenge, a card challenge and a photo challenge left for me to do by midnight tomorrow... should be able to do it!

Uncle Rod & Aunty Rachy with Drew



A very proud cousin Jed and Drew.




Cousins!

Abbee & Jed are quiet pleased to have a cousin finally! Jed even wrote a letter for Drew... it said "Dear Drew. I hope you have fun. I hope you are a good baby. I love you Drew. From Jed" That kid is way cute sometimes!

So now its time for me to go to bed.... need to get alot of stuff done this week... got reletives visiting week after next, got family coming here on sunday for a get together to meet Drew (having it at our place coz its bigger than Bil & Sils place) and got a few scrappy type things I need to work on too (as always lol).

So Goodnight Bloggers!

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This is what I did last night for a challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.

Just a quick post tonight... its really late and Im tired lol.

Exciting event today... Rod's brother & his girlfriend had their first baby early this morning. Rod and I have our first nephew! Very exciting for us to be the aunt and uncle for the first time ever! (biologically anyway lol)

Anyway... I have several projects on the go... hoping to get them done tomorrow and monday, gotta go visit the baby (and his parents lol) tomorrow and alllllllll the usual cooking, cleaning etc. So hopefully I will have time to post some more pics and stuff tomorrow night!

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So this is my effort for the first challenge in the We Dare challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks... I was very very very happy with how it turned out.... nice and bright and cheerful!


Looking forward to the next challenge in this series now!

But there are lots more challenges to be done... Ive got a list of about 7 (I think) more challenges for Mystical Scrapbooks, plus they have a cyber crop on this weekend so theres another few challenges! Lots of fun stuff to do... lots of being creative to be done... and basically lots of mess to be made.... AND I LOVE IT!
So thats all for now... might see what else I can create today! If its good I might post it tonight!

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Ok so Im a little late but better late than never! Hope everyone had a wonderful christmas and that 2008 is a brilliant year for you all!

Whats been going on here? Well christmas got hectic, had heaps of school stuff happening, trying to get presents and so on organised and then we went to canberra for christmas which was lovely! So now all the busy stuff is over its great to finally be able to take a breath and do some relaxing!

The scrapping front has been a little quieter with christmas etc all happening but Ive got a few things to show off.



Made up these little bags of reindeer poo (chocolate coated saltanas) for the kids teachers as a gag.









This was a gift for Jed's teacher. I filled the tin with home made rocky road.



And this was the one for Abbee's teacher. (Also filled with rocky road.)

I was rapt with how good these turned out... not bad for former milo tins!


And finally... Kayla put me onto a brilliant new scrap shop/forum.... Mystical Scrapbooks... go check them out! They have soooooooooo much happening and great prices on their stock too!

And check out Kayla's blog HERE... she is an amazing scrapper and considering she has only just turned 17 I reckon she has a very bright future ahead of her!

Anyhoo... thats it for today!

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