Scrappy Kea

I got to play with some of the new Basic Grey Ranges for The Scrapbook Outlet last weekend...I love Nook & Pantry even more in rea life! I also had some My Little Shoebox papers and die cuts to work wtih...keep an eye out for the Scrapbook Outlet Ezine! Saturday Brunch. Best Pancakes! The Quince Tree. Yay, Term Break! I am going to an Inspiring Local Thinkers Conference in Invervegas next week, then do some work, then off to the Beach!

Really enjoying having my own classroom rather than teaching in a few each day - even if they were daily teaching times in the rooms, there's something about at least having a cupboard to keep my stuff in! My blogging for fun has been really useful with my class blog and as my class grows it will be fantastic to keep parents/whanau up to date and informed, am hoping the children in the class can do some of our videoing and photography for it so it's a real ICT experience for them too. Have some scrap creating to do this weekend - will be nice to take a break from school stuff and get paper everywhere. A bit of nook & pantry in there too....loved this stuff from the sneaks and cool to have it to play with for the ezine! Queenstown Scrapretreat Workshops and Day registrations are all go over there! Smiles.

Picked up this issue at Whitcoulls yesterday - cool comp if you buy it at Whitcoulls at the moment too... My girls have a page each in this issue, they loved seeing their layouts about dad in print when I showed it to them last night. Thanks Up2Scrap :-) I signed the papers yesterday at work to take on a 'roll growth' new entrant class till the end of this school year, start in a week's time! Very exciting and daunting, not much time to get organised...have two school visits this week with some of my class coming in. What do you remember from your new entrant class? I especially remember 'Where the Wild things are' by Maurice Sendak because my teacher (Miss Potvine) did a corner of the room up like the land of the wild things...hanging vines and all!

Cool competition at Scrapbook Outlet ! GOK inspired - check out the details here and the first catwalk is here Prize is a Slice machine worth $260.00 and lots of spot prizes. Looks fun :-)

Queenstown Scrap Retreat - Spring Workshop.

just posted some variations of the card organiser on my handmade blog as well as some cute list pads I have finally got around to re-making after selling all the other ones earlier this year.

the group photo. lovely creative ladies :-) Thanks Sharon for the photos!

Yesterday I went to a Stampin Up charity event where we created 3 cards/projects. It raised $900 for the Southland Hospital Intensive Care Baby unit! Some of the ladies had been working on some card organisers in their monthly classes so I wandered around the internet and found instructions which I used to make the above using some of the older October Afternoon Paper collections (too busy just looking at the new ones I got this week from Scrapbook Outlet )...did a couple of things my way (of course) and would do some things differently next time but can see many ways to use the ideas in this project for other things! I have been keen to do something with paint so last night got out my paints, glitter and buttons and created a wall canvas...at the moment it's up in the lounge while we decide where it should reside. Fun. smiles, Lara.

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Week 7 at Aussie Scrap Source :-) Above is my take....check out all the entries at the Aussie Scrap Source site! Smiles.

I would love to see this happen in Dunedin....or Christchurh as a second option.... Go vote on the SENZ site!

Saw a link on Penny's blog and thought it looked interesting...perfect interiors, yeah right! I have 3 children and am not the tidiest most organised of people! But I do like what I see in the magazine cover :-) Check out your style here.

vote for your fave this week at Aussie Scrap Source . I found this weeks colour palette really hard to work with...but think I got there with a lot of help from 3 Bugs & the slice with a little cosmo cricket. Earthquake last night shook us all up a bit...was busy playing Settlers of Catan (board game) with my Parents in-law and I felt like I was rocking....it just kept going so we all got under door frames in the hallway (including the kids who had been sleeping soundly till we woke them). Eventually it stopped, then started, then stopped, then started...then stopped. It was 7.8 on the Richter scale. The kids took a while to get back to sleep. Was a rolling quake rather than a short sharp shift. Term Break almost over. Smiles.

Check out the Hero Arts blog for a big week of giveaways, competitions and inspiration :-)

Here's my layout for the colours & words comp at Aussie Scrap Source :-) The blue paint looks a little different IRL. There are only 3 entries this week! The next couple of weeks colour challenges are on the blog too, check them out, give it a go & vote for your faves :-)

Check out Clare's blog for info! Love the frog & I've been eyeing up the homesewn mag for a while...

I came up with this pattern by following a pattern but doing my own thing LOL...how very typical, sometimes it works. I used a possum merino wool from the Milton Woolen Mill so it's really soft! Thanks for the papers Kim, will get this in the post to you. Smiles.

for early bird registrations...not one, not two but three of the handmade bags that were part of the giveaways at the Winter Fest Retreat....get your reg form and deposit paid by July 31st for a chance to win all three of the different colour ways. See the Queenstown Spring Scrap Retreat Blog for further info. I'm currently working on workshops for the retreat...any suggestions are welcome! I'm thinking that lots of gift ideas would go down a treat in November. I wonder what the chef will come up with to delight us for the A La Carte dinner on the Saturday night this time??? Smiles

These ones wouldn't fit on the previous post unfortunately! the Storybook Cricut fave cut, pearls, SU stamp, Prima Flower and more SLICE acetate - this time in silver. Love these Prima Flowers!

Created a few layouts...and some cards that I am uploading here. Enjoyed playing with a 'big kids' design card for the SLICE - cut the dinosaur above using this card and some of the SLICE acetate, lots of people loved the acetate. I used the acetate in one of the circles on the 'be happy' card just below too and couldn't resist some of the Sassafrass Brads ( the red one in the centre of the circle below is one of them). the scalloped square is also a 'SLICE' cut - from Basics 1 Card that comes with the Slice (the circles are from this card too). collected these prima flowers from the table where I sat (thanks Andrea ). More delicious flowers but this time mixed with some bling brads and my favourite cut from the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. Had a nice weekend away - refreshing to sit back, away from my family and reflect on what I love about them all! Nice to be home again too. My favourite part of the weekend (other than watching everyone's reactions...