Its Monday

Im feeling all rejected, Its 'that' time of the month and I have a hangover! Not a good mix on a Monday morning! Hubby and kids are staying well clear! lol!
But how is everyone else?
Ive decided not to do this again -apply for DTs that is ...Its just too disheartening to get rejected all the time. So from now on Im just doing it for me and my family. If a magazine sub comes up I may put one in but probably not.
Congratulations to those girls who got the nod at SE. Your work is stunning.
Thats it for me on this crappy Monday Morning.

My Kirby

Well I promised Megan that Id take a photo of my carpet and my kirby so here it is...I cant get over how clean my house looks just because the carpet is clean for once! lol
And heres another couple of Los to share. The first one is for SO's October Ad Layout competition. I used completely different colours and enjoyed it ..very quick and easy to do as basic colourblocking really! Photo didnt really go with the pp but what the heck!
The second Lo is for SE's Metal swap challenge. My Secret swapper gave me a pack of DCWV metal tags and I had to do a Lo with it on. Really enjoying the Cosmo cricket pps and those chipboard in the cigar box is just bloody fantastic I tell ya! Andrea took this photo of Jennifer and I just love it as she is really looking at you! Ive just got a series of photos reprinted and enlarged of her and Rhys. They were flood damaged photos so really pleased to be able to use these in my LOs.
Well had better get onto cleaning out the garage so I can start rummaging around for any old coins to bank tomorrow. Going to keep some as well just for history. Oh and start on making 10 cards for my sisters card swap shes running...I didnt sign up for it but have been told Im doing it! lol and I struggle with making cards! I know its all in my head!

well I didnt

get a spot on the DT at Scrapbooking by Design but looking at all the entries Im going wow that mustve been a hard decision! Never mind...onto the next one which is SE and fingers crossed for this one! I have to say that its my best work yet(I think anyway) so I get to show you my latest (well some of them)these are the entries for my up2scrap/SBD DT. The fan I just had to have when I saw it and took me ages to do but was right up my alley! here is the other side...

and the final one was a bit over the top for me but I just loved the colours together.
been busy with Cubs and Keas this past couple of weeks and am also taking Duncan to puppy classes...dianna is there with Cleo and both of our pups are doing nothing, misbehaving the lot...lol ..good to have Andrea there last week to help out and sort some probs out with some of the dogs...im amazed at these people (especially my sister)as they just know how dogs tick! But alot of it is common sense i think...treat your dog like a spoilt child and you will get one spoilt dog! Anyway Duncan is progressing at least...baby steps!
Still loving my Kirby and still havent taken a photo sorry Megan! will do in the weekend. it looks sooooo clean!

Purple Challenge

Here you go Dianna! lol but the coffee catch up is on the menu for next week okay?
Yolande has challenged us at SO this weekend to do a purple LO (a colour she hates) . Jen just loves purple and I have been using a bit of it with my SE DT submissions. Just loved the Bg lily kate to work with and gotta have some cosmo cricket pp ..just loving that range atm!
looking forward to getting the christmas pps too as I have bought two red shed tins that I am gonna alter for the kids ..instead of santa sacks.
Yesterday I was supposed to be a. paying the bills/doing a gst return
b. scrapbooking and finishing my SE DT OTP
c. doing several challenges for SO.
d. doing a cj and organising jen with her kids cj she is doing
e. doing 5 loads of washing
but instead I was entertained with a freebie carpet clean that took 3 hours..you see they were selling the Kirby vacuum cleaner...and we bought one!(glad that hubby actually wanted to buy it for me too without any prompting or tactic!) .. mega bucks later I am rapt with it as my BLUE carpet is the carpet from hell! It picks up any little speck and hair possible and has been basically been too hard to keep clean..like i have had to take the nozzle of my electrolux and clean it with the hose pipe...which takes ages! Looking forward to having a clean house now!! (dont laugh Andrea!)..My Mother was impressed this morning and thats saying something as my Mum is a clean freak. Its an upright vacuum cleaner/carpet cleaner that really does the job especially as I am an asthmatic. Hubby is too but both kids arent ...as they were born over in WA...not much carpet there perhaps?
Will take a photo of my new acquistion tomorrow along with the 5 loads of washing in my wash house because of 2 disgusting kids.

The trials and tribulations of a scrapbooker

I am fine..sort of! On some antiflamm tablets that Andrea gave me last night along with the nurofen plus...and Im fine! Hehehe! geez they are good!
For those of you that dont know..I fell off the vat stand after yesterdays morning milking. We were late as we slept in an extra hour..and that hour made a difference in the amount the cows gave and overflowed our vat..7613 Litres the tanker picked up yesterday out of the vat but there was probably another 30 litres that went down the drain. This was a first for us.
So i go up there to take a photo of it with my new phone...has a camera in it..yahoo! And I misjudged the edge of the vat stand and ended up on my side on the ground..a metre below! The phone was fine i have to tell you! lol! So I thought oh S#*t Ive broken something and lay there for a while..hubby blissfully unaware milking the colostrum row. Got up and then took a photo also realised I was also videoing it too along with my moans and groans! too funny! The things you do when youre a scrapbooker aye?
Went into A&E department and Doctor doesnt think it is broken but if it is come back on Monday and have an xray as they dont come in in the weekend unless its an emergency! Lovely! She said that even if it is they cant plaster it as that bone they just put it into a sling. This morning I realised i have also hurt my neck too but that antiflam tablet is working a treat!
Kids and hubby been great and doing things around the house for me which is great.

Yummo Tarisota Prize

Ive had a great week of getting new supplies...my pizza box arrived on Tuesday from Tamar at Tarisota. This was my prize for winning the Tarisota Designer Discovery compettition. I went ooh and ahh over everything...and have already done a Lo and started on a OTP project with some of the stuff from it. Creativity in a box her collections I reckon! I got some yummy Cosmo cricket paper and Lilykate BG..love the Lil Davis paint kit too! I have also been shopping at a couple of other stores too this week so lots of yummy stuff to play with!
This morning (7.30am) was interesting as the cows busted out on the road (they were waiting to go over the road)and decided to go visiting the Kiwifruit pack house instead across the road! Major embarrassement for us! Luckily it was just some of the pack house staff and a whey irrigation guy who saw it all and helped us out. Normally theres like 50 cars going past at 100kms/hr so very lucky there! have to have a laugh about it now but at the time it was a wee bit stressful as the naughty baggages wouldnt get out and back to the paddock they were going too..grrr! Our AI mating also started this morning and our technician is new and took ages to inseminate the 22 cows that were in heat.
Anyway got home to find an email from Meg at SE to say that I had won the August swap compettition for my LO below. My prize is some awesome altered buttons by Adrienne Looman (she judged the comp) ... I am rapt as love love those buttons and anyone who knows me knows how much I love buttons aye?
Alright am off to do some more scrapping...stuff the housework!

A pinch and a punch for the first of the Month

And NO RETURN!
Daylight savings! Yuk for us cow cockies for the first week but I have to say that I love the extra daylight hours at night time. The poor cows were still asleep this morning and didnt milk all that well either (its amazing what an hour makes to milk production I tell ya).
Im still doing bookwork but occasionally I have been sneaking away to do a LO or Cj or two! Got so many more to do as there is heaps of challenges atm! This was for a Button Swap challenge ..you have to use what you receive in the swap on a LO. I got star buttons and some of them were broken so only had 4 to use. This SEI paper was challenging for me I have to say. I havent been doing many LOs of Rhys lately so I wanted to do one of him. I also have done another one on Rhys for the SBO Get real comp but I couldnt get a good photograph last night to get it entered into the draw for the Monthly prize but at least it is done.
Wahoo..yesterday I got two pizza boxes delivered as part of the Scrapbook Essentials Pizza box swap. Basically one is filled with pp that people dont want and the other is an embellishment pizza box. Totally brilliant idea Janine! So if you take out 10 papers..you have to put 10 papers back in etc... same with the embellishment one if you dont like anything, you dont take anything out. So I was rapt to find some Heidi Grace paper in there and a few more bits of yummy paper. What someone doesnt like..someone else does!
I am awaiting my Tarisota prize pack this week so will take a photo of it when it comes!
Better get onto the book work. We have a herd test tonight/ tomorrow morning which is taking a sample of each cows milk and it going off for testing. We do this so we know who has got mastitis and who is great and who is useless! Hence why Im madly trying to get the herd records up to date! Typical me leaving it till the last minute!