Mini Album and other scrapping stuff

This is my week three instalment for the Reality Scraps comp at Scrapbook City the criteria was "Back to Basics with Bazzill"
- So we couldn't use any patterend paper or any other embelishments
- we had to make our own embelishment with the basis of the embelishment being Bazzil
- we had to use either (or both) of decorative edge Bazzill or Bling Bazzill
- and 2 other bazzills of our choice and at least one photo.
- Plus we had to do our own hand cut title and have journalling somewhere on the page.

So I made my embelishment by tracing around some Heidi Swapp masks onto the Bling Bazzill and then cutting around them, then added some crystal flowers to make my embelishment and hand cut title
I used green, purple and black bazzill to mat my photos and I journalled around the photos

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Tristan's New Shoes

Firstly Tristan can write his name all by himself. This is the first time I have ever seen him do it without any help. I am a proud mum.

Secondly my parents bought Tristan a new pair of school shoes on Tuesday and he insisted on wearing them to bed. After his bath he got his school uniform on for the following day and put his shoes on and went to bed (EARLY!!!!!) I just went and checked on him tonight and he has put them on again for sleeping. How funny, I love it when kids latch on to something unexpected and just wont let go.

Thirdly HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY!!!!! Hope you had a lovely day.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

SETH'S 3rd BIRTHDAY

My baby turned three on Saturday. He had a lovely day with visits to see Grandma and Grandpa in the morning. Nan and Pop came over in the afternoon for some birthday cake and more presents. We asked Seth where he wanted to go for lunch and he said BREAKFAST ????I dont know where he was talking about so instead we went to Sizzler.

Happy Birthday Sethy We love you lots and lots!!!

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Birthday Party

Tristan had his birthday party yesterday at Hungry Jack's and believe it or not I forgot my camera!!!!!!!!! But my friend had her camera there so I took some photos and will just have to get them off her later.

I did my first Friday Night Games with Scrapbook City which was fun. Our {the ones who aren't in the top 20} challenge for the night was to do a 6"x6" page on our day today. I haven't ever done a 6x6 before and found it really hard. Plus I had just bought some new stamps on Friday and was dying to use them so after I had stuffed around with them for about an hour I only had about 10mins to assemble my page, take a photo of it, resize it and upload it. So I kind of threw it together wasn't happy with the end result but I have since turned it into an 8x8 and I think it looks much better.

Third week of prep tomorrow lets hope we make it there without any tears {PLEASE!}

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

5 Years Old

Tristan had his birthday yesterday I can't believe I have a 5 year old son!!!!!!!!!! I know he is only going to get older, and everyone says it goes so fast but it isn't until you look back that seems to have gone so fast.

So because he got a couple of presents yesterday morning and he was having heaps of fun playing with them I once again had a really hard time trying to get him to prep and actually into the class room. The teachers aide had to come out and get him again and I had to leave him there screaming. This morning I let him take one of his toys for show and tell so he was much happier to stay and let me go.

I didn't make into the top 20 for the Scrapbook City Reality Scraps competition but a huge congrats to the girls who did. Hope you all have a blast and challenge yourselves to do something new each week. Even though I didn't make the top twenty I am still going to play along and do all of the challenges so that I can challenge myself which is one of the reason I entered in the first place.

Untill next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Birthday Tears

Well I started off my birthday by dragging myself out of bed not feeling very well from a sore throat and a head cold to get up to two grumpy kids and I had forgotten to turn the dishwasher on before I went to bed so there were no clean bowls or Tristan's School lunch containers.



Then Tristan didn't want to get ready for school cause he didn't want to go. After getting him there with a few obstacles along the way we made it just inside the gate and that's where he stopped, with lots of frustration and feeling sick and worry about why he hates prep so much that he could put on such a performance I just lost it. When the teachers aide come out to see what was going on I started crying my eyes out!!!! I didn't want to but I couldn't help it. Even more frustratingly, as soon as I started crying he was really good come over and gave me a big kiss and a cuddle and said goodbye and went into his room without a struggle. LITTLE TOAD!










Mum came over at 2.30pm and walked up to the school with me to pick Tristan up and then My girlfriend, Emica, come over for dinner (with lots of alcohol). So after dinner we jumped into the spa and partied the rest of the night away with Hubby doing the bar tending and photography and childminding. I love the photo of Tristan's butt funny what kids will do to ruin a photo. And I am so proud of Michael's attempt at fancy photography with the Margarita glasses and us behind them, ALL HIS IDEA!!!!!!
So by the end of the night I felt heaps better and surprisingly I felt better this morning than I did yesterday morning.



Michael was home from work today so he walked to school with us all this morning which was really nice. Tristan rode his bike so he could lock it up at the bike racks, very exciting for him since he has wanted to do that for years.

Time to go and pick up my big boy from school, picked a good day to ride the bike it is about to rain here any minute so I guess I will have a wet tail by the time I get home.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo