9 layouts dancing!! Cos I can make that many and more with a wonderful Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium pad along with the matching Tags fa la la la You know the drill - comment on the blog.. .. and stay tuned for the next 3 days for a scrappy giveaway each day! Ooohhh we are gett...

a Nordic card kit from Basic Grey - to make Christmas cards with - because I am behind - and running out of time - oh this will avoid a catastropheee You know the drill - comment on the blog.. .. and stay tuned for the next 4 days for a scrappy giveaway each day! Oh you are wanting to kn...

lots and lots of fun christmas goodies ..............so I can be a Kaisercraftie You know the drill - comment on the blog.. .. and stay tuned for the next 6 days for a scrappy giveaway each day! Oh you are wanting to know when you know if you have won??? ALL the winners will be announ...

fiiiiive gooold thingsss You know the drill - comment on the blog.. .. and stay tuned for the next 7 days for a scrappy giveaway each day! ...wanting to know if you have won??? ALL the winners will be announced at the end of the giveaway days!

a fantastic kit from Maya Road ...filled with all sorts of goodies!! oooh sparkly! You know the drill - comment on the blog to be in to win! .... and stay tuned for the next 8 days!!

I haven't used Glimmer Mist very much, but I love the look of it so I decided to play with it and make my own background paper. This is the finished result. The bee and "bee happy" are free digi stamps from Paper Smooches. Heres what I did: First I drew a bunch of clouds on a piece of paper ...

to my Mum!! 6 July is her magic day (yesterday in NZ). We skyped with her last night and it was a lot of fun all of us singing Happy Birthday to her across the miles. She will be here in a couple of weeks (with my Dad) so all her pressies were for goodies and yummies when she gets here. W...

and some of lots of other stuff!! While setting up the new store - and after the NSD Crop and Retreat that I had on this month - I have been going through all my inventory - making sure my count is right - and generally having a sort through of all it. As a result of all this - I find I have *...

this Saturday - for National Scrapbook Day - I am holding a large crop at Presentation Center - where I hold retreats - and everyone is getting a Green Bag O Schwag. This one is CHOCK-A-BLOCK with goodness. As well as the goodies from me - there are goodies donated by GlueARts, Thermoweb, SR...

Yes I know it is Thursday *shhh* - don't tell! Been busy around here with friends from NZ over - so having fun with them - and also getting the new store to rights - no it is not OPEN OPEN OPEN yet *LOL* This week's *WW* is a royal concoction of prince and princesses - love - and fairytale stu...

well I am still head down bum up entering new products into my store - but I finally finished entering all the new Kaisercraft goodies - so I thought today I should give away a selection of their new papers from all the new lines. It will be a lucky dip of papers from Nan's Favourite, Bubble...

All is calm, all is bright except that it wasn't this morning which is why this post is going up so late. I had to go to the Post Office to get some parcels off to New Zealand so thought I would be up and at 'em and beat the rush. Only thing was - about 5 bazillion other people had the same i...

I am setting off very soon to set up for everyone for the Scrapgrlz Retreat which starts tomorrow up in the Sonora area. 40+ women arriving for a weekend of fun, laughter and SCRAPPING and probably not a lot of sleep! If you want to know what this wonderful retreat is like check it out here ...

oh I am still here - despite my pathetic lack of posting over the last week. I have to be honest and say the earthquake has put me off kilter a tad. I keep checking in with home, checking the NZgeo site to see how things are, refreshing photo pages over and over just astounded at the da...

Ok it is official I am old – because today my youngest daughter, my baby Caitlin turns 20 . When did that happen?? The last I knew she was here And now she is going to college completing her degree in animation. Who knew all those years of watching anime would pay off! ...

otherwise you could sneeze out a hernia!! S'truth! Just ask Mick - cos that is what he did 2 weeks ago :-( One large sneeze - one extra large hernia Spare a thought for him this morning - as right now he is having a hernioplasty to have it repaired. The surgeon seems gre...

Bonjour mes enfants! Aujourd'hui c’est Mercredi et le temps pour la semaine cadeau! Confused? Don’t be – you are at the right blog – but of course – it is 14 juillet – Bastille Day! – and my French heritage is coming to the fore – so there will be smatterings of French throughout th...

It’s a busy couple of months around here over June and July when it comes to birthdays. We start the ball rolling with mine at the end of June, followed by my Mum’s yesterday, on the 6th of July. Today (1 day later!!) we have my oldest daughter Hannah’s birthday. *sigh* ... just taki...

well officially it was yesterday... in New Zealand - but it is today here! Here she is with my Dad on his 75th birthday last year in NZ. She opened her pressies from us just before (thanx so much NZ customs for holding on to it and making it arrive a day late BAH!) and once she saw what ...

Ooh I have been a slacker... no posts all week. Well I haven't really been slacking - I have been busy as trying to get ready to go away tomorrow morning or we might even leave tonight! I have had the best of intentions of posting to my blog - and have written so many amusing, fun and pithy...

Phew finally here I am with the winners of the 50 Fab Fings giveaway and the Wednesday Winner as well! And not a moment too soon by the looks of that angry mob! I swear sometimes I blink and a whole day is gone. But never fear I am not going to let you hang out any longer. I have spu...

Well I never did get to post the photos of my birthday bash and beyond yesterday - in fact I barely got back to my computer yesterday. So as today is WW day - I guess it will have to be tomorrow... For now though ... I will let you into a little secret. Well those that know me.. hmmm not su...

Well all I can say is FECK I am FIFTY. I am VINTAGE! Actually at 5.03am US pacific time yesterday is when I really became a prime and rare model of ME! – cos that is when it was 20 June 12.03am in New Zealand which is when I was born. But the date on the calendar today here...

To celebrate the release of SEI’s On the Coast (which I SWOONED over at CHAW this year) – this week’s giveaway is another of SEI’s new releases – Jocelyn. Jocelyn is trendy, glittery and bright, with colors like pink riot, aqua shock and chocolate fix. What would be better for a g...