New Beta Blog

I just popped in to say hi and got invited to update my blog with a Google something or other thingy. so I thought why not I don't know what I am doing at the best of times so why not add some new confusion to the table. Ha.

Well I had my second ever lesson of Karate today and my goodness was it confusing. It is supposed to be a beginners class. My normal teachers were away today so I had two new teachers and they did so much more than what I was ready for. I looked like a total goose but it was still fun and everyone knew I was new cause I was the only one with out a uniform. I find it really hard not to just call out and ask when I dont understand something cause you know the whole respect thing, bowing and talking to your sensay (still not sure on the rules yet.) Still fun though.

So stoked!!!!!! I am doing a class with Zina Wright while I am down the Gold Coast (coincidence.... I think NOT!) and after reading her blog yesterday I am even more happy than ever cause she is cutting back on all of her scrapbooking commitments and classes to spend more time with her family. SO..... I have made it into one of her last classes for a while. So excited yaaahhhh.

Better leave something to talk about next time
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

I have My first comment

Thanks sissy for leaving me my first comment, now I know someone is reading my blog not that it is that exciting. Funny how you can get hooked on reading about other peoples lives it is very addictive. (for me anyway). How has the rain been? The wind has been pretty full on and the hail storm wow. My poor husband got stuck driving in it and his truck got a bit of a beating not too bad but you can see definite hail dents. Of course it dented the parts of the truck where the paint is good not the parts that need touching up. Ironic hey? My darling Seth was close by for the whole storm not scared but just cautious Tristan however couldn't give a stuff he was just annoyed that he couldn't hear his movie cause the rain on the tin roof is too loud. LOL (Dad in case you are wondering what LOL means - Laugh out Loud-)
I have been reading Elsie Flannagans book this week and I LOVE IT very inspirational. Would have loved to have gone to her class in Sydney last week end but alas....... maybe on her next trip to Australia or my trip to the U.S.? (never know it could happen.)
In other news MICHAEL is foing the MOVEMBER thing and raising money for mens cancer So if you would like to sponser him you can go to the website www.movember.com and then click on the sponser link and Michaels number is 43401 or you can email me.

Only two weeks till my holiday
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Thankyou Thankyou

Thankyou Retta!!!! for adding the header to my blog. God knows I tried but all of that html stuff just confuses me way too much. So just a huge big thankyou to you!!!!!

blog header

just trying to add a header to my blog

Rain

So exciting only an hour or so away some rain yahoo (I live close to Maroochydore if you dont know me) I love rain on a tin roof cant wait I am going to stay awake until it comes so I can go to sleep with the sound of the rain on the roof. Only one down fall we still haven't had our leaks fixed yet not that there is anything it can hurt except some shoes but they will dry tomorrow.
That was all I wanted to say today
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Halloween

So I know we don't celebrate Halloween in Australia but hey why not go with the flow if you are going to have kid knocking on the door asking for lolls you may as well have some fun with it.
So I got this pumpkin out of my Mummy and Daddys garden (thankyou) and as you can guess we had pumpkin soup for dinner. I didn't realize it was so hard to cut the flesh out of a pumpkin when you have to go through a little hole in the top. So I cut the whole bottom off and then stuck it back on with tooth picks after I had scraped out all of the pumpkin. I did a terrible job but you couldn't tell when it had the candle in it and it was out side in the dark. Then I didn't know where to put it so I got a bar stool and chucked a sheet over it and told everyone that it was a ghost.

Just thinking about all of the things that there is to do in the next couple of months and now my head hurts lucky one of the things to do is a holiday can't wait. Gold Coast here we come. Only a couple more weeks. The count down begins. Hope I win some money on Melbourne Cup day to pay for everything.

Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Boys Boys Boys

Too many boys in this house I need some female company to keep me sane. Boys stink and make too much mess and it doesn't matter how old or young they are they are all the same. Anyway can't help but love them. poor old me lucky my sister lives 5 Mins away for some female talk.

Got to do the page for that gorgeous photo I took the other day I am happy with how it turned out, I was worried that whatever I put on the page would detract from the photo but i think I managed to pull it off.


Michael just put a movie on for us to watch better go
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Beautiful Sunshine Coast

I took this morning I have been driving past here for the last week and finally remembered to take my camera today. It was a little overcast which was perfect so there are some clouds in the background.
I went to Sizzler to have lunch with my friend Karen, and her family. So funny to be there and hardly know any of the staff considering we both worked there for so long and haven't been gone that long. Ate way too much, still full now.

See ya Soon
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Good Morning

Well I had a fabulous day yesterday. Went to the Brisbane Quilt and Craft show at the Southbank Convention Center. Love that place!!!!! My friend Nikki had never been before and I loved her reaction when we walked in the door." Wow!! I didn't realize that it was this big!" So because it was her first time it made it even more exciting for me because she was excited.
We met the lovely GIGI from the Scrapbook City Store she did a couple of demonstrations, the one we watched was about making a mini book which was so cute. We also watched a demo. by Rachelle Minette which answered some questions I had about covering tins and other objects. Anyway we spent way too much money (I bought a Xyron 510 and some cartriges for it) and had a very long day of walking back and forth but loved every minute of it. When I got home I pulled out everything that I bought so I could show Mick and the boys and can you believe it I only bought 5 little embelishments for scrapbooking and everything else is an "off the page" project. Now I just have to do them, I will definately be posting some photos as soon as I have done them.
The boys all had fun too lots of boy food and motorbikes and watching car racing. Both of the boys were all flaked out by the time I got home.
I had better go and do some painting some stuff.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Scrap Challenges

I have got my scrap groove back!!!!
I questioned my hubby about if he was working on Thursday secretly hoping he wasn't so I could go to the Craft Fair with my sister and her Mum in law. He looked at me like "as if I wouldn't be working" and asked why, I put on my cute face (hahaha) and said just wondering, just in case you weren't working if I could go to the Fair with Donna. Then he let slip that he wasn't working all weekend, before he knew it I was on the phone to my friend organising our day to the Fair. He was just laughing and said I suppose Me and Shawn (partner of my scraping friend) will be having a Daddy Day Care Day. Yes indeedy!!!!!
I had already come to terms with not being able to go and now all I can think of is scrapping. LOVE IT! I have got three pages done this week in no time at all. For each page everything has just fallen together. I have been doing the challenges from Scrapboxx and Scrapbook City. Great challenges too.
Got to go and scrap now!!
Bye Bye
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Bikes and Karate

Can you believe it I used up my internet mega bites again in just 12 days WHAT AM I DOING? to be using up so many megabytes? Well doesn't matter anyway cause I upgraded to 1GB so hopefully it wont happen too soon again.







My darling boys have had a very exciting week. SETHY learnt to ride his bike all by himself no training wheels yah!!!! SO EXCITING That was last Thursday and then this morning he jumped on the electric motorbike and rode it ALL BY HIMSELF!!!!!!!!!!! Now this is a little boy who up until a couple of weeks ago wouldn't even hop on the electric motorbike even if someone else was on it with him.





And Tristan got his yellow tip at Karate. I love it how he bows. So cute. Tristan thought it was very exciting that he got another certificate and some special yellow tape around his belt. As you can see Seth wanted some too. So hard to get a photo without him in it.

Everything else has been good. Lovely dinner cooked by Em on Monday night Thankyou my darling.

Now time to go to bed.
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

E Bay

I ordered a Karate outfit for my DS #1 through eBay yesterday as it was only $31 including postage I ordered it at about 1pm and paid the extra to get express delivery so he can have it for his next lesson thinking it would take a couple of days and I couldn't believe it when the posty arrived with it this morning at about 9.30am which if I had have ordered through the club it would have cost me $50 and taken a week to arrive. How cool is that I am still so surprised at how prompt the sellers were I know it is their business and it was probrobly just luck but wow I have never had a parcel delivered that quick. Cant wait to take heaps of photos of him in it next lesson cause he is getting his yellow tip. Very exciting for him he loves getting the certificates. Here is photo of him getting a certificate for trying hard. He was so happy he kept saying the whole way home - I won, Mummy, I won! So beautiful.

Feeling better about not making the design team, I got an email from my fav scraper Erica Glover and I was stoked that she would take the time to respond to a comment I left on her blog site. I know it is a big comp with only one spot and 100 women compeating for it. OVER IT.

Till next time

Love Always

Tanya xxxooo

Didn't make DT team

Well finally got the email to let me know who made it into the next round of the Scrapboxx Design Team and boohoo!! I didn't! So devestated but life goes on I just need to practice more. LOL




I have spent the last week painting and fixing up my DS #1 bed room I didn't realize what a big job I had set myself up for. Each wall took 3 or more coats of paint and then there is the set of draws and the shelves and the shadow box. So sick of painting but at least it is done now.

So one very big week end of painting, house work, mowing and gardening plus a visit to the annual Coolum Kite Festival and Sunday dinner at the inlaws with all of hubbys family and one very sleepless night with my darling son I am very buggered.

Morephotos to come next time
Love always
Tanya xxxooo

Scrapboxx Comp

I have been sweating on waiting to hear if I made it into the next round of the Scrapboxx Design Team only to recieve an email today to say that the haven't recieved my layout yet possible because of the internet problems that they have been having. I started stressing that I had sent it to the wrong address or hadn't added the attachments or something like that so I went into my sent emails folder to check and there it was all sent correctly on the 26th of september. I sent it all off again hopefully all good this time. Here I have been wondering why are they taking so long, when all along they didn't even get my email, to think I could have missed out and wouldn't have even known that they didn't get my entry. The suspense back to waiting again.

I HATE Bunnings. Hahaha went it to grab a couple of things this morning and of course forgot the lawnmower blades to match them up, one of the main things I went there to get. The other was paint for Tristans room. The last tin of paint I used I got from the markets for $10 suede Effects paint thinking a 4 litre tin would be plenty but the walls are so old they just soaked the paint straight in. The suede effects paint from Dulux is $74 for a 4 litre tin I knew it was expensive but didn't think it was that much. But one of the other brands had the same thing heaps cheaper and the colour didn't matter cause I wanted to go darker anyway. So then after a little walk around I found heaps of other things I needed unfortunately for my poor credit card.

Still trying to master the Adobe photoshop had another go the other day.


Love Always
Tanya Reedy xxxooo

P.S. If there is actually anyone other than my Dad who reads this feel free to leave a comment and your blog address so I can check out your blog.

My speed is back to normal

Lets see how long it takes me to use it all up again.
Well I have been having a terrible time trying to get a cable to connect my mobile to the computer so I can upload my photos. I went into Tandy the other day and asked the guy behind the counter if they had any expecting the answer to be no, much to my surprise he said which one would you like. To me it was like striking gold i have been hunting in phone shops for ages. Got it home and loaded it all up after a couple of hours trying to get it to work I realized that it just wasn't going to work. Thinking it was too good to be true. I rang him and he told me to bring it all back and he would connect it to his laptop so we could work it all out. So after stuffing around for 1 hour I end up with a more expensive proper Nokia cord instead of the generic cheap version which is just not compatible with my phone (even though all of the packaging said it was). So here are some of the fab photos I have been dying to get.





Had so much fun this night!!!! My friend Emica and I went to a fashion parade to raise money for the local kindergarten.

I have been trying to plan our yearly holiday for the Gold Coast and last night Michael said to me "How about we go to Fraser Island?" I was so looking forward to going to the Goldy. Now I have to get prices and compare which will be better cause we have free tickets for Movie World.

Until next time (which souldn't be too long now everyting is faster)
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

Only 1 week to go

Only one week to go until my broadband goes back to normal speed. Can't wait!!!!!!!!! So sick of waiting bloody 10 mins for a web page to open. So at least I have been getting practise on my programs that dont rely on web speed. Like Adobe Photoshop for example:-










love Always
Tanya xxxooo

More hair stuff

Well got my hair done again. Just cant help myself. My friend is doing her appretiship through TAFE and I thought that I would be a test pilot for her. She did a great job I love my hair cut and she also did some blond foils but my hair was too fragile to do too many but I will be going back for more later.

I have used all of my internet limit up for the month and I am only 16 days into the month so I wont be posting much for a couple of weeks cause my speed has slowed down to 28k tooooooo sloooooow!!!!!

My cousin had a baby boy HUNTER 7 pound 6 ounces Congrats to Suzel and Brian on another boy. (looks like you have to go again to get that girl)

Thats it for now
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo

P.S. And heres to the neighbours being so entertaining. Ha ha ha.

Aunty again!! Yay!

My sister in-law had a baby boy today at 12.08 Lunch time today. Her waters broke yesterday morning then nothing all day and night and then again this morning she got up and whoosh again. She went into hospital and they said yes your waters have broken we will get a bed ready for you to wait until you start contractions and labour by the time the nurse got back to say the bed was ready she was in full on labour 1 and a half hours later she gave birth to a 7 pound 14 ounces / 53cm long / HC 33cm baby boy. Ashton David Reedy born 14th September 2006.
I went to pick Tristan up from daycare and told him that Aunty Nicole had her baby, Tristan went crazy running around the playground saying yay! I have 3 cousins now yay!!!! Telling everyone it was so funny.





I did an introduction to hairdressing course last year and meet a couple of really nice girls and have remained in contact with them. One of them is getting married next year and asked if I could help with the invitations. I was so happy that she asked me. The three of us got together on Tuesday and had a great old gasbag. It was just what I needed a day of paper craft and talking and eating (don't need the eating side so much). and the invites turned out really nice.

Till next time
Love Always
Aunty Tanya xxxooo

Rude people.... Why?

I can not understand why some people have to be deliberately rude!!!! Our newest neighbours to the street are totally rude and ignorant. The mother is permenately frowning and never acknowledges that you are there, you could be standing two meters away from her and she will look the other way instead of saying hi and now her children are the same. Why????? I have no idea. The day they moved in I went over and introduced myself and my family and to welcome them to the street, the next day I offered for her children to play in our back yard so she could unpack and she said that "we are not that type of people we like to keep to ourselves we are a very close family" What the *&^% is that supposed to mean. Sorry but I have never had a neighbour who would not even wave or say hi as you walked past them. And it is not just me she does the same for the whole street and when you live in a culdesac you really notice things like that.

Other than that I had a fabulous day went to the markets with the kids and my Dad got 3 skirts and a shirt for just $10 for the lot. The boys were so well behaved. Then come home for a relaxing afternoon a little scrapping a couple of beers and a gasbag with my friend, Em, while watching Sweet Home Alabama (just love, love, love that movie). Michael has gone to a friends place to watch the footy and me and the boys just had pizza and garlic bread -great for the waistline-and then we are going to watch The Sound of Music can you believe that I have never watched it before.

Bye for now
Love Always
Tanya

P.S. Thought are there for Peter Brook's Family another legend who died doing what he loved. Two legends in one week how horrible.

Friday

I love Fridays, don't know why, since everyday is just another day but it must come from the days when I worked although every job I have ever had I always had to work weekends at some stage or other. Maybe it is that pay day thing, that is always exciting.

My poor baby boy has horrible eczema on his legs in behind his knees and it is so bad it is blistering. Makes me so sad when my boys are sore or uncomfortable and there isn't much I can do about it. Just had to spend $40 dollars at the chemist buying cream and special saop and special medicated bath oil for him. Hope it works even though he just cried himself to sleep after I put the cream on. My poor baby!!!!

Had my sisters footy tipping break up (sounds funny) this afternoon I didn't do to bad I was surprised out of about 12 people I got about 6th considering I know bugger all about footy (Rugby League) and Mum was close behind me so not a bad effort from her either. Sissy got 2nd last she was pissed that she couldn't even lose properly.

Well here's hoping for a fabulous Week-end!!!!
Love Always
Tanya xxxooo