August 09 Round Up

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? Another book in the Sookie Stackhouse series (the basis of True Blood) and What to expect when you’re expecting.

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month? NCIS, plenty of AFL,  Law & Order

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? Moved our bedroom around (yup that bout the most exciting thing that happened this month

What gifts did I give and/or receive? A new doona cover, some baby clothes

What special or unusual purchases did I make?  some scrapping goodies. a clothes dryer

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? a runny nose.

What were my accomplishments this month? Moving the bedroom around. getting hubby to agree which room will be the nursery

What were my disappointments this month? the hawks not getting in the finals

Anything else noteworthy to include? Nope, nothing I can think of

A new AAM challenge blog

Check it out!

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I’m working on the first challenge at the moment, which is “Your challenge is to create a layout focused on what you wish for.”

They are also having a Design Team call and I’m seriously thinking about applying.  Cause I love me some AAM scrapping (even though I hates having my photo taken).

Will hopefully have some pics to share with you all tonight or 2morrow…… just have to find the cable for the camera LOL

okies off to scrap! (yup the missing mojo seems to have returned)

July 09 Round Up & some bloggie goodness

First let’s get my July Round Up out of the way 🙂

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? Another book in the Sookie Stackhouse series (the basis of True Blood) and another book which name escapes me atm.

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month? Loads of NCIS, plenty of AFL, Time team. That’s bout it really

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? Not much cause I’ve been sick. 🙁

What gifts did I give and/or receive? Nothing this month

What special or unusual purchases did I make? The first of many maternity items

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? Had gastro. Found out I’m preggers.

What were my accomplishments this month? finding out I’m having my first child

What were my disappointments this month? how Hawthorn has been playing

Anything else noteworthy to include? Nothing really.

Now onto the bloggie goodness.

Challenge blog Scrap the Girls is under new ownership – and the lucky new owner is the very talented Kayla Renee *hugs*

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New Blog

Wanna keep up to date with all things baby? Well head on over to From The Wolf’s Den for all my latest 🙂

Not much is happening here atm. still feeling queasy of a morning & evening. trying to keep myself busy 😉

Lot’s happening at Roll 2 Create

First – we’re moving the forum to a Ning community. Second we’re ending July with a week long Christmas in July event. Lots of fun & games. and finally sign up for the next competition – Casino Royale has opened.

Check out the blog posts here & here. Hope to see you all there 🙂

Hope you’ve had a great weekend. Mine has been good. Still haven’t managed to do any scrapping. Seriously having a lack of mojo atm.

Well my lovelies

went to the doc today and our family is to be plus one in 7 months (all going well)

Very excited. on the downside – I have morning sickness 🙁 just waiting for my first ob appointment. kinda hanging out for the first scan lol

grinning like a loon one minute then crying the next, all good 😉

Monthly roundup – June 2009

well the daily posts didn’t work – I got a stomach bug. anyways here’s my monthly roundup

(Questions sourced from Katie the Scrapbook Lady – check her site out it rocks!)

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? The first three books in the Sookie Stackhouse series (the basis of True Blood). I LOVE this series. Marley & Me (now to watch the movie). Just started reading The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month? Loads of NCIS, plenty of AFL. don’t think I’ve watched any movies recently (have a heap of DVDs to catch up on)

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? Went out for tea with mum, dad, J & gran for mum’s b’day

What gifts did I give and/or receive? Gave mum a Pandora bracelet & some beads for her birthday. Got a couple of new beads for my Pandora

What special or unusual purchases did I make? Mum’s birthday pressie

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? Both hubby & I got a tummy bug. had weird cravings – well not so weird just feel like ice cream, bananas & choc ice magic.

What were my accomplishments this month? nearly finished my TAFE course

What were my disappointments this month? getting sick

Anything else noteworthy to include? The sad news of the death of Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett. such a shame & loss to both the music & film industry.

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I’ve been tagged

on a quick side note. a serious lack of scrapping here…. well a bit of digi has been done & I made a card. will share laters. Onto the tagging 😉

Michelle tagged me with the list of 8s
so here we go

8 Things I Look Forward To

1.  Weekends
2.  Spending time with hubby
3.  Scrapping
4.  Spending time with my family
5.  Cuddling up in front of the fire with my laptop & The Sims 3
6.  Summer
7.  getting stuff I buy online
8.  Going to bed with a good book

8 Things I Did Yesterday

1. Went to Bass & Flinders Centre
2. Helped plan the 2010 wooden boat festival in George Town
3.  Cuddled hubby
4. cooked tea
5. played The Sims 3
6. surfed the net
7. checked emails
8. slept

8 Things I wish I could Do

1. get a decent part time job
2. finish renovating the house
3. finish my scrap room
4. upgrade my computer
5. find some warm socks (my feets r cold lol)
6. Work for HFC
7. win lotto
8.  drive a car

8 Things Or Shows I’ve Watched Lately

1. NCIS
2. Time Team
3.  stuff on the History Channel
4. Ghost Hunters
5.  Dirty Jobs
6.  stuff on YouTube
7.  Torchwood S2
8.  Strassman DVD

Blogs I am tagging….

1.  Wendy
2.  Kayla
3.  Ruby
4.  Rachy
6.  Kylie
7.  Susan
8.  Kirsty

Okies off to get ready to head off for another day. Catch ya all laters

Still a slack blogger but

I gots to share the love for one of my favourite button sites. Seriously these girls are AWESOME & their buttons are totally rocking.

I can hear you say, get on with it woman, who are you talking about?

KITTYROBOT, of course. These girls rock the handmade sculpey buttons AND their Australian!!

They make buttons (I think I already said that LOL), like these,

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Keyrings,

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Necklaces and so much more. Can you tell the cupcakes & owls are my favs lol

Normal blogging will resume shortly 😉

Enabling – Attention WordPress Users

WpRecipes –  It’s an awesomely useful site by the author of Cats who code (check it out if you haven’t already). What’s it about? giving great tips (or recipes) and how tos for WP users

Subjects have included how to allow your blog visitors to send your articles to their friends via email (read it here);  show related posts without a plug in (read it here); and so much more.

So check it out some time. you’ll be glad you did 🙂