Another LO to share

Have been MIA for a week. Joel has been sick - conjunctivitis (blergh!) and and ear infection and a molar coming through. How's that for doing it tough. Poor little love. He's been so tired and sad and mopey - it's been horrible to see. It's only really been today that he's perked up a bit. I have had a bit of a head cold too which hasn't been nice but I'll live!

Just wanted to share another LO - as Joel has been sick, I've been home all week so had a bit of spare time to do some scrapping. I have another two almost done as well!!

This was done for the 1,2,3 Cybercrop challenge (this one is the first challenge!)

Wasn't allowed to use Patterned Paper and had to have a stamped background, so I got to use my new KI Memories Block stamps that I bought at Paperific last Friday. I love them.

Anyway, I'm going to go and keep scrapping. I might just leave you with a couple of cutie photos I've taken of Joel in the last couple of weeks.

At playgroup last week (look at my big boy in his cap!)


Fun at the petting farm at Ringwood Salvos Family Fun Day

Playdough fun at the Family Fun Day


Joel and his furry best friend Ali! They love each other!

Anyway, till next time

Scrapping shares

Just a quick update. We are all well. Life is moving quickly heading towards Christmas - what an awesome time of year. Joel is doing really well. Learning and trying new things everyday. We are very much into pushing buttons at the moment - the VCR, remote controls, on his toys, the dishwasher (which makes pretty sounds and lights when you push the button). Joel has also learnt how to turn the TV on using the buttons on the front of the TV!!! And turn the volume up and down and change channel - granted he just continues to push the same button - it's not like he's chosing which station to watch. Just about wet myself the other day when I turned the tele on and it came blaring on - the volume was at 50!! He's been pushing the volume button!!! But it's all fun!

Just thought I'd come on here and share a few of my latest LOs. The first two were done for the Battle of the Scrappers challenges at 3 Angels Scrapping and the last 2 were done for Scrap of Faith's September Challenges.








Anyway, that's about it for today.
Will be back hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday for a photo update.

Till next time!

Joel Sleep Eating 1

This happened Sunday night. Joel hadn't slept all day and we got to dinner time and it was all a bit much to eat tea!!

The Toilet Paper Adventure

This is some video footage of Joel's toilet paper adventure. Please note the bucket in the bathroom is not cause we have been sick - we are trying to be water savers!!

The Toilet Paper Adventure

I went to work last night for a couple of hours and when I came back Andrew showed me what Joel had gotten up too. Luckily Andrew is the husband of a scrapbooker and knew to take photos. Andrew said he was preparing for school on the computer and it had gone all quiet. Then he heard a swishing noise coming towards the door and this is what he saw.





Crazy kid. I love him so much!!

Am going to try and scrap tonight so will hopefully be back in the next couple of days to show some stuff off!

Joel Photo Overload

Ok so it's been a few weeks so I thought I'd better say hi in case you think I've moved to a foreign country or something (i wish hey!!)
Life is good - Andrew is on holidays and I have been working a lot so haven't had much time to blog. Joel is doing well. Loves to walk everywhere, loves going outside - often cries by the back/front doors to be let out!!
He loves to "read" books at the moment. He'll sit there for ages and look at them, reading them out loud. He babbles away.

Another love of Joel's at the moment is the TV show In the Night Garden on ABC. He will sit through the full 1/2 hour show and not avert his eyes from the screen. He doesn't do that with any other show. It is quite a cute show. It has become a daily ritual to sit down and watch that together at 9am!

Just wanted to share a few (ok a lot) of recent photos. We have been enjoying the spring weather and going for walks down to our local park which has a big pond with ducks. Joel loves to try and chase them. They are way to fast for him though. It's fun to watch him try though! He also loves the slide. Very cute to see him starting to play on the playground and stuff.
So here are some recents (especially for my sister Beth who is currently in Egypt and missing her nephew!!)





Sorry there are so many (actually I'm not) but they were all a bit too cute to cut out!
Anyway, we are going for a walk down the park again so better fly

Till next time!

Joel looks just like his Grandpa

My dad noted that a photo I posted of Joel last week looked like him around the same age. I dug around on the computer to find old photos of Dad and voila! It was like looking at Joel all over again. This is a pic of Dad and a couple of his brothers (he has 4!) with Father Christmas and then my little dude. What do you think??


Freaky hey!
And just wanted to show my latest LO. Pics are of my gorgeous neice Sadie. How cute is she!! This was done for the first round of SYTYCS (So you think you can scrap!) We had to handcut PP designs, have some space, layering, clustering and a couple of other things. I really wanted to do a girlie LO so Sadie was the perfect choice for a subject. I really love how it's turned out!

Anyway, that'll do.

Till next time

Strawberries, sunshine and sandwiches

It was such a gorgeous day here in Melbourne today so I decided that Joel and I were going to have a picnic lunch - in the backyard. He loved it. And the dogs did too. He even shared his lunch with them!! I managed to stop him sharing his drink bottle with them though.

Joel's mouth - always has food in it!

Our gourmet lunch - cheese and vegemite sandwiches and strawberries

Feeding Ali

I love that they are both looking the same way in this one. Too cute

Life is good at the moment. Enjoying my work, enjoying the time I get to spend with Joel, enjoying being a mum, enjoying my journey.

Playing catch-up

Haven't really posted many photos of Joel on here lately (Probably much to my parents misery) so I thought I'd share a few recents.
We went to an indoor playground with playgroup on Monday and Joel loved it. He really loved the ball pit too which is extremely bizarre as he is usually afraid of balls. There were no other kids there so our littlies had free reign. A few of us went up on the big play equipment. Joel loved climbing through the tunnels. He looked so cute (and so small).



And yesterday we went out for afternoon tea with Beth (my sister) to say goodbye - she is off overseas for about 6 weeks. We took a few happy snaps there too - Joel had a baby cino and fairy bread - which he loved (getting all over himself!!)





And we have a new face that is being flashed around quite regularly. We call it The Grump Face. It's usually pulled out when he's being told off or we do something he doesn't like. It's so very hard not to laugh. He was grumpy here cause his little girlfriend Tilly was playing with his fave toy. It's called sharing sweetie!

I have a couple of scrap LOs to share too but I will do that over the weekend sometime. Don't want to overload you with photos.

Till next time!

Quick Update

So I've been MIA for a few days but I have been so busy and Andrew has been sick (gastro -blergh!!) and home for the whole week so it's been crazy around here. So just a quick update and then hopefully a bigger one in the next couple of days.

I didn't make it through to the next Round of Idol. But I am so ok with that. I am just stoked that I got to round 6. I totally wasn't expecting too make it that far at all. But this comp has helped me find my scrapping mojo so that's a big fat positive. Thanks to all of you who voted for me.

I have a couple more LOs to share but need to find time to take pics of them and post them. Maybe on the weekend.

Apart from that, I really have nothing much else to share. Just wanted to let you all know we are still alive (andrew only just!!)

I'll be back later with some photos and other stuff.

A NEW LOOK

Don't flip out and think you are at the wrong blog - it's still Megan here. Just thought I might change up my blog a bit. Found this super cute template and wanted to give it a go. What do you think?? Cute hey!

So I am through to the next round of Idol but they have decided to change the voting for the last couple of rounds and only let those who are active members on their forum (that have had at least 10 posts) vote. So thanks to all you guys that have got me this far. If you really want to become more active in the forum and then vote for me, feel free but I am totally not expecting you too.

But here is my LO anyway. We had to make all our own embellishments. And use metal, plastic and fabric. Talk about a challenge hey. I used bottlecaps, bread tags and some felt on mine. I really like how it turned out.


Joel is walking all over the place now. It's his preferred mode of getting around now. He is such a cute little walker. Really must get some more video and post it on here.
And my birthday is coming up next Saturday - another year older! 29! Getting close to the big 30!

Ooo oo and I had some extremely happy yummy mail this week. On her blog a few weeks back, Jamie Waters (see sidebar) had 2 kits from Work in Progress Kits, to give away all you had to do was leave a comment on her blog. AND I GOT PICKED. Well the kit arrived this week and oh my oh my. It was huge and so pretty. I seriously don't want to use any of the papers. Check it out...

Well that's about it for now. I am going to go and veg on the couch and watch the olympics with Andrew.

Till next time.

IDOL ROUND #5

So it's voting time for Embellished Idol, people. I'll put the instructions on how to do it again and also show you my latest creation.
The criteria this week was to scrap a non-person LO. I channelled my inner girly girl and went we a yummy pink, blingy creation about my love of cupcakes. I am really happy with how it turned out. Hoping others do to!! :)

And a couple of close ups!

Now for the how to (i've just cut and pasted from last week's post!)
1. You have 3 votes so to find the other 2 people you want to vote for go to the Embellished Idol blog link and check out the entries for Round 5
2. Then head over to the Embellished Forum
3. Click on the Round 5 voting option and then at the top of that post is the poll. Vote for your top 3 people (my name is megan_s) and then submit. PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO THIS FORUM TO VOTE. SO IF YOU AREN'T REGISTERED, PLEASE DO SO - THERE IS A REGISTER BUTTON IN THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE SITE PAGE. ANYONE CAN REGISTER - YOU DON"T HAVE TO BE A SCRAPBOOKER!!
4. If you are looking to find people to vote for, my friend Jodi from mothers group is also in this competition. Her username is batnbub so feel free to throw a vote her way.

So there you go, if you are still having trouble voting, leave a comment and I'll try and help you out.

Thanks again for all your support guys. I appreciate it.

Till next time, stay positive and (vote fore me! LOL)