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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Today sucked.
I finally got an appointment to get this tooth seen to thats been bothering me for a while. Only appointment I could get was this afternoon. It was pouring rain and because Rod couldnt get off work early enough I had to get the bus. 2 buses infact. By the time I got to the dentist I was soaked. Then to top that off they were running an hour and a half behind. So I sat there wet and cold waiting. Then they told me the tooth needed to come out. Yeah OUCH.
Thankfully the one bright spot was that Rod managed to get off work and picked the kids up and eventually picked me up. The plan was he was meant to go back to work once he had picked me up but when he rang them after we got back home they told him not to worry as it wasnt worth him going back... by the time he got there he would have been almost knocking off. Excellent right?
Well not really. When we left the dentist we went to get some pain killers from the chemist (I wanted the stronger stuff not panadol lol Im a wimp) but the parking was awful so I said to rod not to worry I still had a couple at home and he could come back later when the doctors etc were closed and get it (the chemist is open later). No worries. We get home and he basically makes a couple of phone calls for work, makes a mess in the kitchen, drives to the take away and gets some chips and stuff for dinner, comes back, eats and goes to bed at 6pm. Didnt end up going back for my pain killers. Basically didnt do anything to help me out.
Now I am normally not a sook, if I am sick I just muddle through, if I am in pain I just deal with it. I know this was only a tooth getting pulled out. But it friggin hurt and its still sore and I have no pain killers left. When he said he didnt have to go back to work I thought cool I can be a bit of a sook and he can deal with the kids etc. For just one night. I know he works hard. I know he works two jobs. I know he has to get up really early.
My head is telling me not to be selfish, at least he came home and picked the kids and me up and got dinner. But I cant help feeling like crap because while Im sore and sorry for myself I still had to deal with the kids and tidy up etc and get the kids to bed etc. Would it have killed him to stay awake a little longer to help me out? After the whole rain thing, the waiting, the tooth pulling and allllllll that would it have killed him to tidy up a little to help me out?
Anyway.... now that I have all that off my chest. I need to get some sleep. Sorry todays entry has been more of a vent. Hopefully things will be better next time.
Night all! xxx

Written by Rachy at 11:20 PM 1 comments

Well kids dancing is finished for the year... their concerts were amazing! Cant wait till next year now! So proud of my ferals! :-)
Scrapping has been pretty quiet lately... havent done much really. Have made a couple of fancy tins for chrissy pressies but havent taken pics yet. I made some rocky road to go in them and am told it is rather nice so happy about that. lol.
Took a stack of photos this week... decided I needed some new pics of the kids for scrapping etc so we went to the beach and got some great shots. The yesterday Michelle & Jess came over and we decided to do the kids up and take some pics of them. (Amazing what bordom does to mothers eh pmsl.) Then waiting for Abbee and Jess to get their first lot of make up off I convinced Chelle that she needed me to do some glamourous pics of her! I have to say I got some AMAZING pics of Michelle. I was very pleased with myself!
So this week is not very exciting... lots of cleaning and stuff to be done, hopefully some scrapping and who knows what else?
I will post a few of my fave pics from this week for ya!

A page I did for the december cyber crop at LSBS...




The kids at the beach...

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Got another challenge done today!
This challenge came from Scrap The Music... another pretty cool blog I found.
Dunno if I am completely happy with this one or not... it was a tough challenge and I spose I am my own worst critic.



So that was my day... lol. Nothing exciting, dramatic or eventful. One more page for my album and some housework done.

This is the pic I used... I played around with it in psp and used some different effects on it... might post some more of them tomorrow to show ya.

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So the challenge from the journal jar was "What are your favourite sounds?"
This is the page I scrapped for it...


Ive used bazzil cardstock, lil davis paint (licoriche), bella chipboard alpha's, black ink, bottle caps, glitter, dimensional magic, white signo gel pen and various ribbons, lace, fibres and beads from my stash.

As naff as it is... and I know everyone says this about their kids laughter etc being their favourite noise or sound or whatever... and I mean you can see why everyone says it. So honestly number one on my list of favorite sounds is my kids... laughter, voices, singing, even the annoying little sounds they make. There are other sounds I like... but none of them make me feel the way my kids do.

Ok thats the end of the naffness for now! lol.
I hope you like my page! Thanks for looking!

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From The Journal Jar... looks awsome and has an unreal idea of themes being pulled from a jar every week. Good thing about this too is you can either scrap it or blog it. Look forward to doing lots of stuff there!

Scrap Mojo is another cool blog with scrap ideas and challenges which looks really really cool. Ive done one challenge for there (see last entry) and I was pretty happy with how that turned out... so looking forward to doing some more stuff from there too.

Now just to find some $$$$$ for more scrap supplies! LOL

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Been flat chat around here... kids dancing concert coming up on the weekend... so the lead up to that has been hectic as usual.
I have managed to do a couple of scrap things lately though...

I made this for one of Abbee's dancing teachers who turned 21 recently.



And I made this for a comp at Scrap Mojo...




First time I have done a layout with no photos and my first time using felt. Im pretty happy with how this turned out.
Im hoping that once everything settles down a bit I will have more time to do stuff to show off on here and to keep this blog updated a bit more regularly.
Anyway... thats it for now!

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Welllllllll I think I am happy with the new graphics on here... lol.
I got the digi challenge done for the LSBS cc and the ribbon challenge. Will post pics tomorrow.
Otherwise not alot going on around here. Getting to the busy end of the year... all the kids dancing concert stuff starts happening soon... photo days etc. Exciting stuff.
And on to thinking about christmas. I love christmas... but it drives me mental too. Some people in the family are sooooooooooo hard to buy gifts for. Thinking caps on people!
So thats it. Boring huh? lol

Written by Rachy at 9:34 PM 0 comments

On the off chance someone popped by here in the last few days they may have noticed I have been playing around with my blog design etc.
The new title at the top was made in psp with elements from Shabby Princess (a digital scrapbooking site that totally rocks!) and the font is from Fontologie... isnt it funky?
I have also played around with my slides on slide.com to get them to fit better on my side bar thingy.
Im loving some of these widgets and decorative things. A girl could spend all bloody day funkafying her blog!
So what else is going on......
this weekend is the girls night in/think pink cyber crop at LSBS so might have a go at some of the challenges happening there.
Gotta finish off a couple of little things for swaps I am in over there too so I can post them asap... (especially since they are already late)
Need to go shopping for some pool toys for the kids now that the pool is all sorted and the weather is getting warm enough for them to actually go swimming lol.
Kids go back to school on monday (YAY)
And then there is numerous other things like washing, cooking, cleaning and so on that will no doubt need doing.

And thats about alllllllllllllllll for now...
gonna post another page Ive done...
this was a challenge in the cc last month at LSBS where we had to create a layout using the idea of "incognito"... this was my take on the idea...



And also I just wanna say thanks for popping by and reading my blog! I know its not that interesting and Im working on that! lol

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