I need to lay off the face cake (!!)

I saw this on someone's blog a little while ago... not sure who sorry! And not even quite sure when? LOL... But I have been meaning to share.

Just for fun, open your fave search engine and enter (your name) needs.

Share your top 10 on your blog and leave a comment to let me know you did - I'd love to see!

So, I did a google search for Nicole needs:

1. Nicole needs a new computer! (hmm, good idea!) 2. Nicole needs no food when she can shop til she drops! (SO NOT TRUE!!! I ALWAYS need food!)

3. Nicole needs money (who doesn't! Especially after the big shopping spree I just had HERE)

4. Nicole needs a loving home (got one!)

5. Nicole needs dairy to protect her bones! (oops! TRUE!)

6. Nicole needs a real man! LOL

7. Nicole needs a reality show (Well, I AM addicted to them!)

8. Nicole needs photoshop (GOT IT!)

9. Nicole needs an Urban Love Nest! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

10. Nicole needs Jan's help (!!) who's Jan!!??

There were some other good ones too.. Apparently I need to eat my burger! I need a stylist and an interior decorator! hee hee PLEASE! I also need fried chicken YUM! and I need to act my age!

Bu this one is my alltime fave: Nicole needs to LAY OFF THE FACE CAKE!!! PMSL!! What does THAT mean!!??

TRY IT! Funny stuff.

I'll leave you with a LO done for the August KTM CC. Belinda's challenge was to use only red, black and white and at least 2 different alphas in your title:

puzzle pieces...

I have started a challenge blog! A totally spur-of-the-moment decision, but it will be soo much fun! Check it out HERE And a tag from Toni, about a million years ago!! Oops! Q1: Ten years ago.....I was 21, working at the State Theatre Company, about 10 kilos lighter! no kids! And definately NOT scrapbooking! Q2: Five things on today's "to do list".....pay the mortgage, clean this pigsty, make amendments to a document I'm working on, prepare a disk to drop off to the printer's tomorrow, finish the layouts I have started using my KTM Sierra kit Q3: Snacks I enjoy.....anything savoury Q4: Things I would do if I was a millionaire.....Buy a freaking big house with staff Q5. Places I have lived.....ADELAIDE! that's it! I'm not tagging anyone this time. Check out my CHALLENGE BLOG!!

it's all happening in here...

FAR OUT!

So so so busy, my life is stupid crazy sometimes.

2:30am has been my bedtime for over a week now, and I am SO not loving it!

I'm not complaining. Honest. I chose this life.

But it's HARD.

I really really want to be able to stay at home with Sharna. I want to be available to pick K up from school.

But I also want to earn a living. I want work with adults. I want to be useful outside the home.

I DO actually HAVE IT ALL. In theory my life is sweet.

I have a creative job I love, I make bloody good money working from home part time. And I get to spend my days with my beautiful baby.

But I am starting to lose it! I want my nights back! Once the girls are in bed I'd love to 'turn off" and sit in front of the tele. Or scrapbook! But that is when my working day starts. 8pm until at least midnight I am on the computer. I never planned on working quite so many hours, but I'm going with the flow, building a (mammoth) clientele and preparing my business for the day that Sharna starts school and I can have my nights back.

It's a sweet sweet thought!

My latest LO for We Challenge You blog:

4 different patter papers, 5 flowers, 6 buttons and a transparency. Give it a go! You have ALL MONTH! (I have since journalled, but am too busy/lazy to re photograph it! LOL)

I'll be back to do my tag soon Toni!

A challenge?

Check it out: There's still time to enter the June challenge over at the We Challenge You blog.

Create a LO with 4 photos (LOVE multiple photo LOs!) distressing, chipboard, ink and beads and you can win an Allcraftz voucher!

This is the LO I did:

all of the products used were provided by Ebony at Allcraftz.

You JUST missed their massive stocktake sale! NER NER! I didn't!

oh!! I nearly forgot! I won the major raffle prize at the Allcraftz National Scrapbooking Day too! An AMM tote-ally cool tote (!!) Fancy Pants chipboard, a mammoth bazzil pack, Daisy Ds paper pack, rub on tool and a million rub ons, Prima flowers, bling and pearls, dimensional magic, DST, Grungeboard, an album, Heidi Swapp goodies, BG precision file set, oh what else... MORE!!

YOU ARE SOOO JEALOUS!!

busy, busy, busy...

I'm too busy!!!

If it wasn't for challenges, I don't think I would get any scrapping done at the moment!

Here's a couple of crappily photographed (HATE this overcast lighting!) recent LOs...

The challenge - to use all of your products from the one manufacturer:

The challenge - use circles, numbers and multiple photos:

I'm sure there's more...? oh and this was a sample for the KTM CC the other weekend:

and a 'just because' (these are few and far between lately) I used my Donna Wild celebrity kit from Keep'n the Memories:

I SO don't have a 'style' do I??? Every LO is different. I feel like I want a 'look' all my own. Been admiring Belinda's work a LOT lately. I love it. I think '123 ready? GO!' may have been inspired by her??

Sometimes I think I get all caught up in the 'decorating' and when I look at it afterwards I feel like while it may look nice it seems a bit over the top. Fussy for fussy's sake.

I have these moments of wondering if it is all just a really stupid thing to do!!?? Does anyone else doubt scrapping's worth sometimes? Or is that a form of blasphemy!? I do love doing it. I just feel 'silly' decorating a photo sometimes...

Oh and some cards, again for a challenge! to use a card base plus cardstock x1 and pp x1 plus embossing:

There's another 3 in this set - on orange - but blogger doesn't like them. I don't know how to emboss, so I used a pre-embossed Love, Elsie cardstock. Cheater!!!

new stuff...

I recently applied for a DT spot with Allcraftz. I had to submit a LO, card and OTP created especially for the DT call. These were my application pieces: I was advised last week that I was shortlisted to the top 3, then the top 2, but at that point the team had trouble deciding between us! So they went backwards a step and opened it back up to 5 or 6 applicants who were then set a challenge - to scrap with THIS GREEN piggy pic! WHAT a challenge that was! Then the forum members voted and Krissy was the lucky winner. Congrats Krissy.

They never got to see these pieces, but I am able to share with y'all now!

the girls...

are coming over tonight. YAY! I love a scrap date! Did this one recently:

I LOVE Everlasting Keepsakes nested frames! I LOVE polka dots! And I LOVE my cute bubba.