Category: Blogging

(The idea & questions for my round up come from Katie the Scrapbook Lady.)

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? Scrapbooking Memories, That’s What I’m talking about by Shane Crawford

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month?
TV – Cold Case, Law & Order, Bones, NCIS
Movies – Iron Man 2, Beneath Hill 60

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? Caught up with rellies.

What gifts did I give and/or receive? Hubby bought me a spot in Shimelle’s Journal Your Christmas.

What special or unusual purchases did I make? More Christmas shopping.

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? I’ve been fine but hubby has had a nasty cough.

What were my accomplishments this month? learning to cook scrambled eggs properly – every time I tried they either burnt or tasted yuck – I found a great recipe and it makes perfect eggs every time.

What were my disappointments this month? Not keeping up with the housework.

How did I do on my goals for the month? (Or any current short or long term goals) Still journaling. Still taking lots of pics.

Anything else noteworthy to include? nothing really.

Tasks to do

1. Back up all digital pictures. Format memory cards. Sort all November photos into 2010 folder. Make a backup copy of the photos onto my desktop computer and EHD. DONE
2. Backup any other documents or files as needed. DONE
3. Backup my blogs. DONE
4. Clean off my work area, empty my inbox, and clean up my computer files.  DONE

Goals for December
Journal every day.
Take more photos
Work on Journal Your Christmas album
Try to get at least one day with mum scrapping
Work more on my art journal

P.S. Happy December 1st! Not long to go now so we’re going a little festive 😉

(saw this on a friend’s blog & thought it could b fun)

The ones in bold are the ones I’ve read. If it’s got a star I’ve seen the movie LOL

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – the first one
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible – bits of it
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy *
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – my favourite when I was little (like 12/13)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell *
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams *
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis *
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe *
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden *
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery *
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding *
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert *
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens *
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker *
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett *
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (& I’ve seen the musical)

Hmm 29 out of 100, not too shabby. A few were read as part of High School English classes.

How many have you read? Feel free to copy & then link back here with a link to your post

Today on my wishlist is this (well it’s more for hubby than me lol – he’s a Star Wars tragic)

Star Wars pancake molds

Cute hey!

I’ve also applied for a couple of Creative Team spots – wish me luck 🙂

(I’m hoping to make this a weekly thing)

I used to design digital kits, then life got in the way. I would love to get back into it all but feel my style needs to evolve. Hence todays wishlist.

I really, really want to take The Art of Digital Design course at Jessica Sprague. but holy heck, $325!! really not on the list of affordable things right now (& I know hubby wouldn’t let me spend that much)

So I need to start saving

What one thing is one ur wishlist at the moment?

a new washing machine *yay*

and the thing I’m super excited about – a new series of Gourmet Famer

and Divine Digital had their relaunch party. was great fun.

and I’m thinking of getting back into digi designing. not really sure about it – need to update my style

not much else going on today.

Ok so it’s sunday. I need to have a mini rant lol
I am over spammers! There, said it, feel better!
What spam prevention measures do you take on ur blog?

On to happier things. Journal your Christmas 2010. I’m on the hunt for supplies so link me up to your favourites – either paper or digi. I need some inspiration.

Just a short post today, Feeling really tired as not much sleep in the house cause of a teething bub. Might go have a nanna nap

means Day one for NaBloMoPo.

What is NaBloMoPo, I hear you ask?
Essentially, it’s a group of people who have committed to updating their blogs once a day for an entire month. (from the NaBloPoMo site).

So everyday between now and Nov 30 I’ll be posting every day. Look for more posts from me. Might be digging my blog list out from Shimelle’s blogging class.

Anyways I’ll be back tomorrow with something new

I’ve redesigned and moved my blog.

I’ve been working on my art journal – got a couple of digi pages done & will hopefully have some hybrid pages done soon.

Was going to take part in the Enchanted Scrapbooking CC this weekend but bub had other plans 😉 as 4 month old children often do.

Welcomed Mum & Dad home from their trip – Singapore, England, Scotland, Crete & Canada *sigh* wish I could have gone too.

Seriously wondered where the cold weather has come from…. it was ok then *bam* frosts & really cold. Welcome to winter – bring back summer.

Have done a little bit more in my scrap space – still can’t see the desk but I have a bookshelf now & it is semi organised 😀

Not much else that I can comment on really. working on a few ideas, just need to see if they will be viable or not. Does the scrapbooking world need another challenge blog?

Note to self – get off butt & get the store done during your daughter’s naps!!

Until next time ppls 😀 Be happy!

here’s the original post

I have bolded those I have done. Comments in italics

1. Started your own blog. got in down to a couple
2. Slept under the stars.
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited The Great Barrier Reef.
5. Stood under the stars in the outback, the real outback – think Uluru.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to the Gold Coast’s theme parks
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis.
10. Sung a solo.
11. Bungee jumped, jumped out of plane, been paragliding or hang-gliding, hot air ballooning – you get
the idea, you’ve been hundreds of metres about earth in a seemingly flimsy contraption.
12. Visited Melbourne.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch.
15. Had a child. Raised a child. Worked with children. Had my first in Feb
16. Had food poisoning.
17. Been to the Snowy Mountains.
18. Grown your own vegetables.
19. Visited the Brett Whitely studio in Surry Hills, Sydney.
20. Slept on an overnight train or bus.
21. Had a pillow fight.
22. Been backpacking.
23. Taken a mental health day.
24. Been buried in sand with just your head and toes sticking out.
25. Held a possum, kangaroo or koala
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Been in a fun run.
28. Been on the Blue Mountains cableway.
29. Seen a total eclipse.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset.
31. Played, or watched, summer cricket.
32. Sailed, kayaked or canoed our beautiful waterways.
33. Seen the Daintree.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors.
35. Visited an Aboriginal settlement or mission.
36. Learned a new language.
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied.
38. Toured the Sydney Opera House.
39. Tried rock climbing (indoor or outdoor), abseiling or just simple bush walking.
40. Visit Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art.
41. Been to the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
42. Sunbaked at Bondi.
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant.
44. Visited Broome.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight. no but I might have to talk hubby into this
46. Been transported in an ambulance.
47. Had your portrait painted.
48. Gone fishing.
49. Seen Tasmania’s old growth forests. Would u believe no
50. Been to the top of Q1, on the Gold Coast.
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling.
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud.
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre.
55. Been in a movie.
56. Driven the Great Ocean Road.
57. Started a business.
58. Taken a martial arts class.
59. Visited Norfolk Island.
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Guide biscuits.
62. Gone whale watching. kind of. we usually get whales near George Town every year
63. Got flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma.
65. Gone jet boating.
66. Visited Port Arthur.
67. Bounced a cheque.
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favourite childhood toy.
70. Visited the Australian War Memorial.
71. Eaten Caviar.
72. Pieced a quilt.
73. Stood in Federation Square.
74. Been on the Murray River.
75. Been fired from a job.
76. Travelled, or climbed, over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
77. Broken a bone. dislocated my finger
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle.
79. Seen the Three Sisters at Echo Point, Katoomba.
80. Published a book.
81. Visited St Mary’s Cathedral, in Sydney.
82. Bought a brand new car.
83. Been to Hermannsburg.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper.
85. Read the entire Bible.
86. Visited Parliament House.
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating.
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life.
90. Sat on a jury.
91. Met someone famous.
92. Joined a book club.
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Saved a pet.
95. Been to the site of the Eureka Stockade.
96. Swum in The Whitsundays.
97. Been involved in a lawsuit.
98. Owned a mobile phone.
99. Been stung by a bee.
100. Read an entire book in one day.

So the new blog look is coming soon I promise 😉 just working on the header design atm

and more organising posts too.

All is going well here. Haven’t done any paper scrapping still but have got my Project 365 layouts up to date…… will update my P365 page here soon.