Not quite as brave as she thought she was...

Miss K chose how she wanted to spend some of her birthday money...

She's pretty proud of herself now but!

WARNING: Circle Journal image overload to follow!!

Just over a year ago I 'met' this lovely lady. We became great friends and when we met in person it felt 'right'. Just a few months later, by some bizarre fluke, we discovered we were related. Very closely related! So I had stumbled across my 'long-lost-cousin' online. Surreal. We have been the best of friends since and I am so very grateful to have her in my life.

Together, we met a bunch of great people through her store, Keep'n the Memories and when that closed down last month, one of the regulars on the forum, Kathryn suggested we make something for Toni. And the Circle Journal was born. It spent the last month travelling Australia and on Friday we gave it to her at our regular crop night.

I'm probably going to be in trouble for these shots, but I have to share!!

PMSL. We had a lovely night, Kathryn was down from the Mount so we had an extra squeezed at the table. It was fun. So, for the girls who were involved, but didn't get to see the whole thing, here's the individual pages, blogger is doing some interesting resizing of all my images, so excuse the dodginess...

The covers (Toni loves green and brown and vintage)

Instruction page (we all did a personal details tag in a pocket with an uplifting, inspirational or friendship quote in a monochromatic scheme)

Thanks for your contribution Suzi, Fran, Belinda, Chloe, Kathryn, Chelle, Kerryn and Tess.

Little Princess

I am allowed to share my Little Princess stuff now!

I have only done one card and one layout so far, but I have barely touched the surface of this kit yet, so hopefully I have the time to do some more very soon. I just love all the pretty girliness of it.

Karen and Tam are taking pre orders for this kit now, but it won't be shipping until December. I'd recommend you ask them to put one aside for you though if you're interested, they have almost sold out of their November kits already! YES! ALREADY!! You get 2 entries in the Xmas draw too just for pre ordering. It's sooo lovely, all those who like doing girly layouts are going to adore this one.

Wicked Princess Giveaway!

WOW! Check out these prizes:

Karen and Tam are giving away a bunch of cool stuff for Xmas! Check out all the details HERE

I have been playing with the GORGEOUS GORGEOUS Little Princess kit (available for pre-order now, shipping in December) I can't show you just yet, but have a sneak peek at the yummy sweetness in this girly kit:

SO PRETTY!!!

Busy Busy Busy

Sorry I took so long to get back - what's new! Have had a big deadline as usual, plus workmen here paving, I've planted out my vegge patch for spring/summer, been painting the cubby, throw in a sixth birthday girl and it's been slightly hectic here! My DH just drew Toni's name out of a 'hat' for the blog draw. Congrats Toni! I'll get it to you this week. Have you visited Wicked Princesses yet? Last I checked they were about a moment away from selling out of their October kits! If there's any left, make sure you grab one, coz they are donating $5 from every kit sold between now and 15 November to Breast Cancer Research.

it's all VERY EXCITING!

wooo hoo!

How freaking exciting is this.....

wait for it...

I am a Wicked Princess!

YAY! I am such a kit addict, and how awesome do those kits look!?

SO very honoured and excited to be invited to design for Wicked Princesses. I will be playing with a November kit soon, you can check it out on the 1st of the month!

Joining me on the team are:

Marni Telford

Sara Noendeng

Melissa Corbett

Lu Benson

Malin Dahlstrom

Karin Kreijen

What a talented bunch!

FUN FUN FUN!

So, to celebrate my new position (and apologise for the terrible blogging of late) I'm giving away a RAK:

6 gorgeous pieces of double sided Autumn Leaves Heather Bailey papers, a 12x12 pack of Fancy Pants clearly big acetate diecuts, a Jenni Bowlin die cut paper and a coordinating pack of K and Co Amy Butler glitter chipboard.

Leave me a comment and I'll do a draw on the weekend.

And just one more time, YAY!

ooopsie

I forgot about my poor blog! Thanks for all the comments and emails nudging me to update. I might have to come back later with a sorry RAK te hee.

It's official - I am going to the escape2create retreat in March 09! WOOHOO! How freaking exciting is THAT?! I booked for me and Toni and Kerryn and Tessie as soon as registrations were open, and lucky! Because they sold out the same day!

A couple of layouts I haven't shared...