Moved.

Well, the move is done, just tidying up the pieces now.
We are well, but exhausted!
Will be back soon with a full update and some pics!
Hope you are all well.

Cleaning and Packing

My Demonstration at the GNI on Wednesday went really well . Took about 20 minutes, so only a bit over time. Everybody took notice of what I was talking about and there was lots of ooohing and aaahing over my LO's, so all-in-all, I'm pretty happy with it. Has given me a bit of confidence, that Yes, I do have the ability to teach scrapping. Now to follow up with the other teaching lead.
We got the keys to the new house yesterday - did some cleaning there today and took up a big heap of boxes.
Haven't been scrapping much - even tho I haven't packed my scrap stuff, the whole house is in chaos (worse than usual)! So, has been a bit difficult to scrap - I received the Brown Pen I was waiting for, so now I can complete my most recent page. And I think then I will just pack everything and wait until we are settled in.
More cleaning and packing tomorrow.
Will post some pics of our new house when we get all our stuff in there. Loads of space, it's going to be fabulous.

Wish Me Luck!

I'm doing a quick Scrapbooking demonstration tomorrow night at the local Library for the GNI Fundraiser! Only have 15 minutes (yeah, right)!! I have tried to keep it very simple and short, focussing on Matting Techniques. Not nervous yet, but ask me that question tomorrow...............I'm not worried about speaking in public, I'm a pro at that, but I haven't "taught" scrapbooking before. Would really like to start teaching some classes here in the New Year, so this will be a good way to see how much interest there is. Hopefully we will get a good crowd there.
I have completed 2 LO's this week - for a friend from SM Forum, so will get her OK before I post them here.
Hope everyone's had a great week so far. Thanks for dropping by.

Inside.

Managed to get a look inside the house today. The current tenant was there when I went past, so pulled in and asked to have a look. It is HUGE!! Just so much space, with built-ins all over the place! The laundry is almost as big as Tyla's bedroom here................can't wait!! LOL!

Did some scrapping last night - page is not quite finished but I need a Brown pen to do the journalling - have one on order so hope to get it finished next week sometime.

Thanks everyone for your comments on my last post!

Rollercoaster!

Wow - is life a bloody Rollercoaster sometimes or what?? Things have just been crazy here lately - hence the lack of real blogging, apart from the occassional pic! The house we are renting is on the market. Has been for about 3 or 4 weeks now. We don't have a lease. The landlords didn't want to renew it when our initial lease expired. Now we know why. They have told us if the house sells, we can have 60 days before we have to leave. Which was good............sortof. Problem is, we live in a small country town - population around 900 (I think) and rental properties aren't easy to find. Specially what we are looking for. So I have been totally stressed out about what we are going to do. We had plans for the girls for Xmas that we couldn't do. Didn't know if we should just wait and see what happens or look for something else - and move unnecessarily (sp)? or stay here and find we have nowhere to go if the place sells. I have been really stressed. Specially cos we are buying our house where we lived before - that was meant to stop all the worry about where we live. Anyway - on Thursday last week, found out about a house that will be empty end of October. Went and had a look - it's just what we want..........phoned the owners straight away, and was asked to call back Sunday. Now, I was trying really hard not to get my hopes up - really hard! I figured that she wouldn't have asked us to call back if the place was already rented. Called her sunday, and yep - the place had already been rented :-(( They just needed to confirm with the person if they still wanted it or not. I got really upset............my whole day was a misery. By the end of Sunday I was ready to pack up and move back to where we came from - kick our tenants out and go back to our house - even tho I don't really wanna go back. It would relieve a lot of stress - somewhere permanent to live and I have a good job waiting for me there - I'm on maternity leave from ANZ and there is no ANZ here. Monday night the owners of the house phoned us - the person who was moving in only wanted a 3month lease - that wasn't suitable for the owners, so the place is ours!!! Talk about rollercoaster! We will have a 2 year lease - rent is only a bit more than what we pay now and the house is fabulous!! Lots of space - a playroom for the girls and also a room for me..........and a fantastic outdoor area. Very happy! And OMG how good it feels to have the stress gone.........................can you hear that??? That's me laughing for the first time in I don't know how long!

Now to add to that, Peter got a Payrise today - I know it is across the board, but Peter is on above award wages so his bosses don't have to pass on the payrise - but they have, so that is fabulous. AND - today he has been offered 2 other jobs - one to go for an interview, the other is there if he wants it. He's not going to take either just now - timing isn't right, but I think he is very sad about saying no to one of them - with an Abalone Company - what he wants to do in the long run, but it would mean moving town again - starting all over again, once again! We only did that 9 months ago!! It's just amazing how things can change in less than a week. If this offer had come up a week ago, we would have said yes, no hesitation.

So, anyway!! I am now packing - how much easier to just be moving 4 blocks instead of a couple of hundred k's! Am very excited and feeling good! The best I've felt for a long time. And after Xmas, I'm going to look for a decent job here.

And now................

.............a picture of a Rollercoaster!! ROFL! Peter and my brother are right at the front.

A Poem From Pete

Peter wrote this about 2 weeks ago and asked me to put it on the blog - ooops, forgot to do it earlier, sorry babe!!!

"My husband has abandoned me,
The kids have all left home.
Now that scrapping is my company,
Will you please just leave me alone"

Do you think he's trying to tell me something............ROFL!!!!

Just Quickly.....

A couple of completed LO's.
This was done for the Sketch Challenge on the Scrapchat site - link over there>>> Didn't vary much from the sketch which is not like me at all.............quite happy with this, altho my sewing machine is giving me a hard time lately.Me as a baby - a bit difficult to see all the detail - there is a piece of Tulle under the photo, stitching around the edge of the page to "hold" everything together and pearls scattered throughout the flowers. Am waiting on some hatpins, will probably add one somewhere when they arrive. Have tried to embrace the "white space" theory, but just can't seem to get it!! LOL, I guess I'm a "more is more" kinda scrapper.

Anyway, that is 2 more completed for Mum's Album - slowly getting there. Still waiting on photos from just about everyone. If they don't get to me soon, sadly those pages won't make the album for the due date. I s'pose can be added later, but that's not the idea of this.

TFL please let me know what you think of these.