Shopping

After a long day with both of my boys at home and constantly trying to run away to play with all of the kids in the neighbourhood (school holidays) I just had to go and visit my local scrapbooking shop "Daisychain" I had $50 left in my bank account and managed to spend $43.... oops. I do need them for a class tomorrow and hopefully she will like what I bought for her and pay me for them and if not more stuff for my stash. lol.
Just before my DH got home from work my eldest DS#1 decided to try and get out of the gate again and I caught him and gave him time out in his room and the punishement of not coming shopping with me (they both love the kids play area in shop) so he has been so upset about not coming with me and DS #2 that he didn't settle down until about 7pm. Cannot believe he could hold a grudge for so long.
Got to go my fav show is starting.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Spoil Me

Had the best Sunday night. My very good friend Miss Emica invited me over so she could spoil me for one night away from the house, husband and kids. This is one of her favourite thing to do for her friends and family. After finally getting away from hubby and kids I arrive to be greeted with a drink and the beautiful smell of dinner. As always she has cooked something that I would not normally eat (in this case blue cheese) but in her lovely manner she says "just try it please! I know you will like it because I cooked it" and as usual I don't know what she does but along with the rest of dinner it was just amazing. I had a lovely night with no cooking (except for the kids dinner before I left) no dishes, no screaming kids, no arguing about bed times, just relaxation and two good friends having a great time.
A couple of games of chinese checkers, a couple of bottles of wine and we are ready to watch a movie, can you believe that I had never before seen "Fried Green Tomatoes" never mind that I fell asleep before the end of the movie but I enjoyed what I watched. Then to top things off I woke up to breakfast in bed. So I just have to say a great big THANK YOU to my bestest friend Emica.
Ready for another week of screaming kids and a wingeing husband but great memories of what it is like to be spoilt every once and a while.

Thankyou

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Still Raining and Leaking!

Another day, another bucket of water, another load of washing still to be washed. Story of my life washing waiting to be done...........Two young boys who love dirt and worse still love the bath so from one to the other equals many towels to be washed on top of the many changes of clothes they go through. Alas every mother and wife would be in the same predicament as me. I have been surfing the web looking for some cool signatures to add to my Scrapboxx profile and found these cool time lines for my boys they change each day, apparently, can't wait to watch them move.
I have decided to get my hair all cut off and be a hair model for a local salon I have no idea what they will do to my hair but I am so excited and nervous all at the same time. I am lucky that my hair grows really fast, so getting it cut doesn't worry me (too much) but having a really freaky cut and colour does. I have done it before for another salon and had my hair cut to chin level and bleached till my scalp peeled and then half dyed purple, I loved it but only kept it that way for about 2 weeks. It's a bugger when you get bored and mess around with your appearance. This photo was taken a few months ago so my hair is longer and blonder now.


I will keep you posted on how it turns out. Wish me luck. Hope my kids recognise me.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Impatient

Well I am quite an impatient person by nature. I am waiting to hear if I have been selected to go into a magazine for scrapbooking, which is hard considering I love the page I submitted, and could not understand anyone not liking it. I am determined to keep submitting until I get selected. A friend of mine tried for a year before she got selected. So I am prepared for the long haul.
I have been scrapbooking for two years now and am sure that I can keep the motivation and passion up for a few more years.
I taught my first private lesson last Saturday for a lady that I have never met before and I was crapping myself. Turned out to be totally exhausting and not what I expected but still very enjoyable and rewarding, next time I will be more prepared. I really love doing group workshops because everyone bounces ideas off of each other and there is not so much pressure on me to come up with all of the ideas straight away. I didn't realize how much time I spend thinking about my pages before I do them until I had to come up with ideas for a whole album in one day. Like I said next time I will be more prepared mentally.
OK I am going to try and put a photo into my page so that I can cut and paste it for my profile so wish me luck if there is a photo in my profile you know that I have succeeded.
This photo was taken at a scrapbook retreat a couple of weeks ago the theme was "80's night".

Love Always
Tanya oxoxoxo

Rain Rain Go Away

Rain will it ever stop I know there are so many people that need it (even our dams do) but we have a leaking roof that nobody seems to be able to fix so every time it rains I just wish that it would stop.

Still having fun working out how to do all of this blog stuff especially the HTML stuff getting there slowly with a few mistakes along the way but how else do you learn hey?

Well here are a couple of my fav Scrap pages at the moment. Did a really nice one today but just sent it to the mags so have to wait and hear back from them till I put it on the web.

Bored.Bored.Bored.

well anthother meeting with a financial planner just so he could organise all of the money we dont have. I hate doing paper work but one of life's neccessities. Got the shits with my hubby because he never wants to watch what I want to watch on T.V. (he should be a work instead of watching T.V.) so I went for a drive to Mooloolaba OMG! I haven't been there for so long there are so many new shops and cafes and everything, it is weird to visit somewhere that you used to frequent regulary when you were younger to have it change so much in a matter of 2 years. Well along with the changes there is also the price change I cant aafford anything anymore ----> back to the problem of not having any money. Anyway having dinner at the inlaws tonight which is always nice especially since I dont have to cook or clean up. So I had better go and get the kids from daycare and get them ready and presentable.
Till next time.
Tanya.

Just Learning

Hi there just getting to know what I am doing here. I have been reading other peoples blog's and thought why not do one myself. I have spent so much time on the computer today I don't know how people do this for a living. I have a huge headache but a couple of glasses of wine has seemed to fix it for now. Going to make this entry short jsut till I work out what I am doing.
Till next time.
Tanya.