A tidy craft table

Well here it is, a tidy craft table. I'm still shuffling things around while I find out where things are best housed so have only labeled my draws with post-it notes for now. Lets see how long it remains so organised for.

First day of school...

And a new chapter begins. Our eldest daughter started school today, she was up at 6am getting ready as she was super excited, she didn't show any shyness and was happy for me to go and leave her in class, she made me proud. No tears, but I did feel nervous for her as we were walking to school, it was strange. Can't believe my baby girl is 5 and going to school already, where have those years gone? Now I'm hanging out with my two younger daughters waiting till we can go get her. Hope she's had a great day

Daycare thank you

Tomorrow is Miss K's last day at daycare, she's been going to the same daycare for 4 years and a couple of the carers have been there since she started so it's a big day for our family. I've been busy making some little thank you gifts, I've put some Hersey's Kisses in the pillow boxes and have put the carers initial on the label.
I've also used this for the Southern Girls challenge this week, which was to make something to say "thanks".

Craft space - before

Ok so here's a picture of my craft table in an utter mess. I hope to post a photo of a more organised space within the week.

Happy New Year

Ok so my New Years resolution is to update my blog at least once a week, and now I have the iPad app I hope I can manage this. My eldest daughter turned 5 on Boxing Day so no longer can I say I have 3 under 5, and now have a school girl. I can't believe how fast the last 5 years have gone. There hasn't been a lot of time for scrap booking lately but my darling hubby rearranged our bedroom so that I can permanently have a craft table in the corner, now I just have to organise it. Will post a photo soon.
I wish every a happy and safe 2013

Spring is in the air.

I love Spring, it's my favourite time of year, not too hot, not too cold and the garden and farms are springing into life (excuse the pun). I also think it has something to do with growing up on a farm, I loved helping with the lambs and calves that come at this time of year.

Today our baby had to have her 3 month old immunisations, I really hate having to take her to the doctors but hey it has to be done and although she screamed at the time she's been really good since and is having a huge sleep, so I've taken the time to make a birthday card for the boys 3rd birthday that our Miss 3yr old is attending this weekend. I also took it as a chance to do a colour challenge this one from
Dynamic Duos.

Here is my creation using Stampin' Up!s "Make a Monster" stamp set:

I also wanted to share my first effect with Project Life. I discovered Project Life at SENZ this year, just 3 days after my third daughter was born and feel in love with the concept immediately. With three girls under the age of 5 I just don't have the time to do the scrapbooking layouts that I was doing, at least not for everyday life but I hate just popping photo's in the run of your mill album without any journeying (cos lets face it, that never happens) so this fits with my life. I can have my photo's at the ready to be viewed but still get to journal and embellish them and I really am loving it. It's got my creative juices flowing again, where I had almost given up on the idea of scrapbooking and had turned to just making cards. Here's a look at my first couple of pages.

I love that I can combine all my Stampin Up and other products with Project Life, now I just need to find more time to sit down and get this years album up-to-date...

I'm back....

I know it's been a really long time, but I'm back and am going to try to get the hang of this blogging thing. Our beautiful baby number 3 is now 12 weeks old, our third little princess we named Sophie and we just love her to bits. Sophie has completed our family just nicely and her big sisters are besotted with her.

So today I have my BFF over to do some scrapbooking and she done a lot more blogging than I have so I'm going to get her to help we upload the scrapbook layout I've done for the "spots &/or stripes" Southern Girls Challenge, also the first time I've done a challenge.