Another Christmas done and dusted......

Well Christmas 2009 has come and gone!!!!!!!We had a wonderful day.....To begin with the weather was so much cooler this year and we were lucky enough to have rain early in the morning right through till mid morning.....It was so well recieved let me tell you and the yard grass has become green again overnight......In the paddocks the dust has settled and tinges of green are peeking through.....Heaven...... Well back to Christmas........as I said we had a great day with all the family for a yummy hot lunch.....Roast pork, glazed ham and roast turkey with all the trimmings.......Everyone left the table full and happy.......Everyone did well with their pressies and all in all everyone was happy in their hearts!!!! Time now to look forward to another year......

Just before Christmas 'lets get shabby' announced the December winner and honourable mentions.......I was lucky enough again this month to be named as one of the honourable's so that was the begining of a wonderful christmas for me ...... Here is my entry........I love it.....Happy is me.....Thanks DT at 'lets get shabby'..........The next challenge is also a beauty and cant wait to get a chance to have a go at that one (with our very own Lisap!!!!!!!!!)

The beautiful Melinda gave me an award for my blog last week.......I have uploaded it BUT havent answered the questions yet BUT I will get to it......Thanks heaps Melinda.....luv ya!!!!!!

Well I hope you all had a great and loving christmas spent with family and friends and those you love and I also hope you all have a great and safe new year......

Till next time.....

Cheers

Luv marg xxxx

Happy week......

Well this week has been full of christmas goodness.......I have recieved lots of gorgeous christmas cards and wonderful treats from the girls at LSBS ........Loved them all thankyou........AND my SS pressie arrived and even though I put it away for a few days, the temptation just got the better of me and last night I just had to open it.........These beautiful goodies were inside........THANKYOU SHANN..............This year we had to make a little handmade gift and mine is a mini canvas that I just adore and will treasure always........

In other news I am up to date with all of the LSBS 52 pick up challenges........

Challenge No 48 was from Tracy and she challenged us to use mixed media......I had these gorgeous photos of Ryder kissing his mum's pregnant tummy.....I used a piece of an old pizza box, paint, a heidi swapp mask and lots of other bits and pieces....LOVED this challenges.......

Challenge No 49 was from Kerryn and we had to make the paper flower and use on our layouts.......This photo is over 20 years old and I just love how it turned out......I will be using the paper flower's again thats for sure....

The next layout is one I created with the gorgeous photos I got of lachie in the pool.......

I only have another week of work then its 3 weeks off for me.....Of course like everyone else its just a mad time of year but I love it anyways.....I have almost finished off my shopping and only have all the food things to buy and to pick up all my ordered meats but will leave them till a little closer......

We had a few days in Sydney with DS and DIL and little Lachie as we had tickets to see 'Fleetwood Mac"......It was just awesome and we all thoroughly enjoyed it....We had a lovely time shopping and got a lot of chrissy shopping done......It was lovely to spend the time with them all as Adam especially has been extra busy at work of late.......

Well till next time.....

Cheers

luv marg xxx

Lets get Shabby........Challenge No 6......

Its that time of the month for another wonderful challenge over at 'Lets get Shabby'......Of course this months challenge is to make either a layout or something to do with Christmas......As I (along with many others) LOVE this time of year, I jumped straight in.....I have had this little chipboard stand for ages, so decided to make a little decorated canvas for it......I have a gorgeous antique wooden table in the entry and it looks just perfect on it...... I decided to just 'age' the chipboard stand a little as the colourings seemed to work perfect as it was....

I have used a printed photo that I have always loved and some old sheet 'christmas' music which I have aged even more with glimmer mist. I have also covered a brad in the same papers. The red and cream lace and the tickets are all vintage.........I have used a string of beads to frame the whole stand.........I loved doing this so once again thanks to all the DT for the inspiration.........

Here is my take.........

Thanks heaps for looking.......

Cheers....

luv marg xxxx

OMGoodness.....

OMGoodness I am just so happy ........ This morning I woke to find the 'Lets get shabby' Challenge no 5 winners and honourable mentions announced and I was chosen as one of the honourable mentions.... To be among such talented ladies is enough in itself BUT to actually get mentioned is amazing.......Thankyou all at 'lets get shabby'.... Bring on the next challenge....

Here is my entry.....

In other news last sunday I got to spend the whole day (and half the night) with the gorgeous Melinda (beaver). We went on the train to Melbourne to attend the Melbourne 'Paperific'...What a day filled with shopping, laughing and such friendship.... thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to next year!!!!

I am up to date over at LSBS with the 52 pick up challenges.......These are my last few entries......

Challenge No 43 was Tracy's challenge and she had us using 'fabric' on our layouts.....

Challenge No 44 was from Deanne and it was an inspiration challenge.....The cup was orange and black and thats where I drew my inspiration from....

Challenge No 45 was from Tara and it had 3 requirements....1/overlapped photos 2/photo under the p/p and 3/elements on top of the photo........

Challenge No 46 from Belle was to use at least 14 different ribbons and staples....

And finally just a couple of random layouts to share......

Thanks for stopping by......

Cheers till next time...

luv marg xx

Challenge No 5 at Lets get Shabby......

Challenge No 5 over at 'Lets get Shabby'.........

Another great and inspiring challenge.....This month the challenge is to make your own embellishments.....(loved this one!!!!)

I have just about finished making my very own album that I plan to keep all the vintage/heritage pages I have been doing......

I decided to do a 'layout' that I am actually going to use for the front cover of my new

album......(must post a piccy when its finished!!!)

So here is my layout with a hand cut/hand made picket gate that I painted then crackled BUT it

didnt work out the way I planned but I loved the effect anyways......I also made the flowers out of an old prayer/hymm book using my scalloped punches....... I have used an old 'Rexona' picture they used for ads that was on an old postcard.......Happy with the end result....

Thanks for another great challenge......

Thanks heaps for looking......

Cheers...

luv marg xxx

A productive few weeks.....

Well I have had a very productive few weeks and more than happy with what I have achieved....

A couple of weeks ago LSBS had the October CC and I managed to get 3 of the challenges completed and loved them all!!!!!

The first was the sketch challenge and the very talented Tracy certainly did it justice with her interpretation......

I loved how mine turned out too!!!!

The second challenge I completed was the Guest Designer's challenge. Tarrah did a great job and we had to use some sort of fence in our layouts. I loved this challenge too.....

The other challenge I managed to complete was the step x step challenge by Nic. It was to make a house and include this on our layout. Happy with how mine turned out....

Last weekend the gorgeous Helen held the WCMD. It was a great idea and lots of the ladies got heaps of cards made (and such beautiful ones at that!!!!)

The first challenge was to make a set of birthday cards (matching)...

Here are mine...

The second challenge was the sketch challenge and I have used this sketch many times before and love it.....I love the card I made too....

The third challenge was to make 'some' christmas cards. I made four slightly different ones for the comp then managed to almost finish all mine for christmas using the same four designs. Gotta be happy with that.....

Great weekend Helen........

Cheers and hope everyone has a great week.

luv marg x

Just a quick edit to update with some news.....

The october cc winners were announced yesterday and I was happy to recieve a win for the layout I did from the challenge from Tarrah!!!!! (thanks Tarrah) .... I had some layouts ready to email off and included this one which was picked up by one of the mags. Very happy indeed...

Also Helen announced the winners of the WCMD comp and I won the sketch challenge so double happy dance here!!!!!!! Thanks helen I loved that card.......

Take care

luv marg xx

Lets Get Shabby No 4 Challenge.....

Lets Get Shabby Challenge No 4.....

OMGoodness I cant believe how quickly the months are flying by....It will be christmas again before we know it....

Well the 'Lets get shabby' team have done it again with their amazing challenges they mange to come up with each month...This month DT member Julie has set the challenge and its a sketch which is just cool as........ We are to also use something vintage either in the photo or some embellishment...

I got given some old photos of mum and dad's a few weeks ago and just love this one that I have used for this challenge. It is some relation to mum BUT she is a bit unsure just who it is and on the back of the photo is only the year 1922, so I used it for my vintage part. (I have an aunty who I will be able to get some more info from regarding the photo so will finish my journalling then) . I also got given an old music book and by the looks of it it is very very vintage so have also used a page from this.

I thought the Ruby rock-it p/p's fitted perfectly so have used these with a touch of red...

I made the flower from some old lace.

This is my take on the challenge.....

Thanks for another great challenge......

Thanks heaps for looking.....

Cheers

luv marg xxx