Turbulent Mess Maker !!!

Hello Lovelies !!!

2011-09-12T21:49:00.000-07:00

I'm coming back soon...

I've spent quite a few months with no artistic inspiration at all, my creative energies were exhausted creating this gorgeous masterpiece!!

Introducing

BABY JED

Since this gorgeous bundle arrived i've been inspired by everything. I'm rediscovering my need to create & design. It's just a matter of finding the time & space.

check back in a few weeks, our brand new house is being finished & i'll be fitting out my own art space.

I'm so excited!!!

Total Blog Neglect

2011-03-31T22:52:00.000-07:00

I made something!

Its been a while. Pregnancy seems to have suckered the creativity right outta me :( could also have something to do with the fact that all my stuff is in storage?!?

Not at all an original design, but very cute (pattern from the book of softies - designed by www.herzenart.com).

Hope you enjoy Tige xox

Before i ruin it completely...

2010-12-21T21:30:00.000-08:00

Ive been starting and stuffing up a few projects lately. Not a very satisfying feeling.

Before i stuff up my latest venture, ill post a pic of where im at. Going to be a struggle without correct pencils but i will go scouting tomorrow.

Its really hard to work with these chunky stix!

In the mean time im borrowing my daughters Mont Marte pencils and cant find a sharpener to fit the pencils GRRrrrr! finer details are a bit of a problem at this time. A lot more detail to go. Thankfully its just for practice.
sketching, sketching, sketching!!!
I ♥ suzi blu

Merry Christmas Trees + Angel ATC's

2010-12-21T17:15:00.000-08:00

Made these little guys for everyone who came to our ATC christmas dinner. Awesome night, funny ladies!!! Can't believe they marbled their coasters with cream and ink... ART IS EVERYWHERE !!! BRAVO : )

Brilliant cards swapped - looking forward to swapping again next year!! xoxo

My ATC Christmas Angel
(typically Kokeshi to finish the year)

I've been arting!

2010-12-17T22:15:00.000-08:00

This picture really inspires me! How awesome is the row of figures. I would love a replica of these. I may have to create my own sculptures instead. I'm sure I will at some point.

In the mean time i've just become a member of Suzi Blu's - Petite Dolls. Stay tuned amazing things to come! (lets hope so anyway).

I'm sourcing all my artful goodies from the US and can't wait to learn Suzi's techniques and get to the colouring and shading tutorials. I have a brain-space full of ideas already brewing! Look out world!!! Abundant art spurting out in 2011!!!

Above is an article from National Geographic Magazine that i've loved for ages. Check out my version below of the "scared weird little guys", i'll be cutting them out and adding them to various backgrounds, then i'm gonna hand them around for HitchHiker atcs. Imagine a page of the little penis's staring back from my album!!!

I'd be happy to exhange "Hitchhikers" (also "Jams") outside our local swap. You can email me begmychicken@hotmail.com

I can just imagine what my cheeky friends will come up with.

My daughter (chuckling) would not look at my naked men doodles, ha ha ha.What are your thoughts?!?

Fairy Sister

2010-10-10T02:38:00.000-07:00

I wanted to try my hand at a fairy in a cage, featured in SOMERSETSTUDIO.COM SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010 article ("captured fairies in cages" - Lenae May) they are divine!. My gorgeous man bought me a soldering iron and gave me a lesson where he made me an absolute treasure (his heart in a cage). It's so precious.

Soldering requires patience!!! Not sure how much more soldering I will do in the future, not convinced it's my thing. But i'm happy to have made my sister a unique gift for her birthday.

collage - time on earth

2010-10-07T16:38:00.000-07:00

There were a few days there when nothing came out, I was getting worried. I used a doll face image that Kyla gave me a while back.

I like all the subtle colours in this page. I think it's going to be a pastel week...

I LOVE EAR-KNOBS!!!

2010-09-30T17:49:00.000-07:00

I dub them "earknobs". I totally think EARKNOBS are cool!!! It's amazing what you can do with a tallboy. Last nights creation... (wonder when the journaling wave will hit ?)

Shopping list: crayons

tinkering at the table

2010-09-29T18:44:00.000-07:00

The bird collage isn't going according to plan so I've shelved him for a while. Here are 2 of my latest collages all ready for my journaling.

Teesha Moore Rocks!!!

xoxo

Art is happening... tweet dreams !!!

2010-09-24T15:31:00.000-07:00

An art work for the spare room, oh wait - we don't have one yet!!!

(must be an early bird {lame!!!})

I opened my garage door on the way to bed last night - i didn't close it again til the wee small hours).

Let's hope this continues evolving as easily as it started.

So much for my initial idea!!

I have really missed collage-ing xoxo

Playing with collage again

2010-08-06T18:28:00.000-07:00

Seems i'd hit a brick wall on a couple of up and coming ATC themes. (namely masquerade & boardgames, both are challenging me at the moment). The brain is in overdrive, i think too many ideas for future themes.

Last night i sat blankly immersed in scrap paper and other paraphernalia in the hopes i might come up with something...

Slowly i'm getting there, an idea is evolving.

Here's last nights dabbling. I borrowed Julia Gillard's hair and some text from an article on her, hence the title

"Girl Power".

Tiny Doll Making - Girl Guides

2010-08-03T04:18:00.000-07:00

made by the Guides

Miss Maryanna volunteered me to take the Snr Girl Guides for "Doll Making".

My eager students produced fantastic dollies!!

Made up some mini doll kits & even the adults had a go.

Started making the tins firstly, the house design was from my Stampin' Up “Neighbourhood” jumbo roller wheel roller stamp. The dolls are my original idea from my ATC Apron cards first created back in June 2010.

The girls all did brilliant work.

Creating the entire 3 projects took about an hour and a half.

Don't they look awesome?!?!

Well done little ladies :)

I dug out the sewing machine...

2010-08-01T21:55:00.000-07:00

Two gorgeous little girls are turning 1...

Happy Birthday very soon to

Ella Poppy -5th August

Savannah-Rose Grace - 9th September

From the book called Softies - these gals were made using the pattern Polly and quite a few of Rhianna's favourite old clothes. I adapted the faces a little. Love the result. Was fun to do some sewing after such a long time. Now to get back to the ATCs.

xoxo

ATC Aprons for our live swap.

2010-05-28T03:41:00.000-07:00

APRONS - Cool theme!

immediately had images conjured in my head. A gazillion possiblities -but like every other theme off I went googling for more inspiration and a starting point...

That's when I landed myself apon this little gem...

a "clothespin doll apron" (i'll let you google that one).

So cute, just what every little girl should have...

The ATCs are made with paper towel inserts instead of cardstock

the dolls are the height of a 20 cent coin

I had some little dolly pegs somewhere but they weren't quite small enuff!!! In a moment of madness I decided to make my own pegs. Ended up splitting skewers into threes, shortening the middle section then glueing all three sections back together again!!

Bought some beads online thru ebay-http://stores.shop.ebay.com.au/Theme-Beads (they arrived within 2 days of ordering and soooo cheap), my dolls came together nicely, I love em!! So many more to make... so off i go.

I have about 20 days wish me luck!!!

A Kokeshi to call my own

2010-05-25T00:48:00.000-07:00

Decided perhaps I should create my own little Kokeshi Girl images.
This is my favourite one so far. There are a few more in the sketchy stage.
Might be worth my while to have her turned into a stamp.
Something to look into...

I am happy to share her, feel free to use her for your own personal use (not commercial).
Please link back to my blog if you do so.

"How" Friends !!!

2010-05-20T01:16:00.000-07:00

Here are my 10 little Indians for an ATC swap, themed-
"The Wild Wild West"
Have had lots of fun creating these little guys.
The TeePees open up to reveal....

(That would be revealing wouldn't it !)

I used the background from my doodled coffee cup.

Far out - it's been ages !!!

2010-05-17T22:41:00.000-07:00

I'm currently relocating my "scrap crap" back into the garage, the whole family is excited as we can almost see the top of the dining table again!
My new studio is freezing but I'm not going to complain -its big and I'm inspired every time I step inside. Who am I kidding, it's TOTALLY AWESOME.

In amongst the carnage I dug out an old clock I had intended to Up-Do. And then I got carried away and altered some other stuff too... (the clock is my favourite)

Seems I am in love with my Asian Doll stamps all over again.

My studio is my place away from it all, I wonder how people cope with life when they have no creative outlet?!?!

ATC burst !!!

2010-03-29T23:12:00.000-07:00

Instantaneous Inspiration...
a short break was all it took

My Gorgeous Girls - Hervey Bay

Here's Zuli, my April ATC for the live swap.

Inspired by the little African Doll I got at Eumundi Markets on our recent short break. I've made x 20 so if you are interested in swapping ATC's with me please email me ; begmychicken@hotmail.com International swaps encouraged :)

I've been keeping my eye on my feedjit,

it's awesome to see people 'landing' from all over the world

thanx for looking :)

Please leave a comment

New faces - New names

2010-03-02T22:46:00.000-08:00

I've been making those silly sticks again. Perhaps its the spirit of the rain?

I like the direction they are taking and i've come up with a new name....

Miss Stix - cool eh?

This one is for my friend Chee's birthday tomorrow, the red one is a work in progress.

I'm waiting for something very exciting to help me give it wings!!!!

I love the evolution of them,

they are starting to take on identities of their own and a bit more personality.

There will be more, there are alot of friends with birthdays this month... *wink*

100 ATC theme ideas

2010-03-02T02:30:00.000-08:00

I used to have a link to a site that listed 100 different ATC themes, I can't find it.
Been looking around for a while, have decided to write my own.

Its harder than I thought!!! so far here are 50.

Go on I DARE YOU, no I CHALLENGE you!!!!

(what's a bet I can't stop think thinking now)

friendship
owls
babushka dolls
magazine collage
cave men
my childhood
breaking news (today)
trees
snails
pruney old people
self portrait
retro butterfly
100% recycled
jelly bean colours
rain
castles
soliders
birds
little people
lady beetles
origami
one colour
letterbox
africa
beautiful skeleton
dolls
serendipity
love
thru the window frame
zetty
interactive
sleep
penguins
feathers
horoscope/zodiac
faces
angels
coffee
playing card
circus
seasons
mouse house
sunday mornings
medieval
tick tock
fish
princes or princesses
fairytales
underpants
wishing well

Have fun, make sure you add your own in the comments.

Fortune teller - Free image

2010-02-28T22:19:00.000-08:00

(resize to 50%)

Hello Hello,

Seems all the stuff i've been up to lately is based around magazine collage - I ♥ it!!

Have been wanting to try my hand at doodling Teesha Moore style, with her drawing tutorial. The face i've come up with is screaming "Fortune Teller" !

They have all been touched up with my sharpie pen cos the printer didn't reproduce the black ink dark enough.

Feel free to use this page of faces for your own atc's or whatever but please send me a link if you do :)

Waiting for change

2010-02-22T20:56:00.000-08:00

IN PROGRESS - Lashing Out

Not sure the rest of the world will get to share this journal page when it gets finished. I have a bit of stuff to say that some might find offensive. That's the beauty of journaling, hey? Lets just say, its time to make some changes!

I did scribble all over the background but i wasnt too happy with it. It needed to be painted over and re-done. The manager of our complex asked me if i was doing paper tole?!?! hmmmm

I am very happy to report that i picked up some additional Magazines this morning from the op shop (i was only 5 minutes late for work). Best 80 cents i spent in a while.

Happened apon an Australian National Geographic chockas full of PENGUINS. Yep stay tuned the little gliders are sure to frequent many future pages!

February ATCs

2010-02-19T19:34:00.000-08:00

This is a first- i'm usually up 'till the early hours the night b4 our Monthly Live Swap finishing off cards.
I started "Whooos side are you on" immediately after last months swap with the best intentions but they (the ATCs) got waylayed under piles of other projects. The prototype is still missing :(
The owl stamp I got on our last trip to Sydney. I agonised over whether to buy it or not. Glad I did !
I really liked Teesha's idea of printing of images from ur collages and re-using them. Rekon i'll do that again soon.

I ♥ stick people

2010-02-14T04:23:00.000-08:00

At it again

Spirits are Soaring.

Am wondering if anyone would buy these at a market stall?

hmmmm

Can't stop making them.

Happy Stick People

2010-02-10T03:58:00.000-08:00

WoW, Blog-land is an abundant source of artistic inspiration. I went googling for Chinese Fortune Sticks. Saw some the other day (for a small fortune) and decided to make a set. Started searching online for some inspiration to create my own.

Only, I stumbled instead apon "Spirit Stick People". Cute enuff. I treated myself to a Sculpey face mold, dug out my flesh coloured Fimo, and well here's my result...
Can see a few of these being made for a few special occasions this year.

Bestowing the spirit of happiness apon you all
xoxo

This is CRAZY fun !

2010-01-31T02:34:00.000-08:00

This is the collage I was working on when the girls came over the other night. This time in an altered book. Weird that not many of us Scrapbook at these nights anymore. So cool to see the stuff they are doing now too.

Anyway, this is as finished as it can be for now cos' I need to invest in a black pen that writes on Gesso, all mine suck :( It's been a tedious exercise to get it as far as this. I'll call it finished.

Any suggestions, i've been mainly using my sharpie marker and this time even resorted to the thick artliner to fill the larger black spaces.

bored doll

2010-01-30T19:59:00.000-08:00

There is a chart on our toilet wall, actually there are a couple of laminated charts, featuring ;

are your faeces healthy

what emotion are you today

the bristol stool chart

all make for interesting reading when visitors duck off to the loo.

Tay was busy running back n forward to read the faces on the wall.
"Which face am I mum"? she would say enacting all the emotions.
This is the little doll I created especially for her.
"Bored" was her most frequent expression... I stitched the "bored" face on some felt and added some legs for her to chew on. The "bored" doll was born.

Poor doll got left behind on the lounge when they left but was soon posted back to its rightful owner.

I must show you... A zetti Fairy

2010-01-30T19:26:00.000-08:00

More Found things!

I ♥ GOOGLE

This has to be the cutest thing and i hope the artist (Margaret Field, www.artistmargaretfield.blogspot.com ) doesn't mind me showing her here. She's made from a smashed up beer can.

Brilliant!

Guess what i wanna make now???

"My Sisters Eyes"- journal page 4

2010-01-30T19:08:00.000-08:00

It kinda evolved from a card to a page...

Here's my newest collage, thought i'd get busy and create a birthday card for my sister, Bren. She's having a big one this year!!

Her birthday isn't til October but sometimes (usually) these things take time. Much to my surprise the page is already complete!!!

So much fun cutting little treasures and oddments. Bren was up here at Christmas time and was at the table when i was creating my first lot of collages. I hope to pump out heaps more this year.

Blog Hopping

2010-01-11T00:15:00.000-08:00

The visitors have left : ( i am finding bits and pieces of them left scattered throughout the house (makes me miss them more). The house is empty and void of creativity, Kess is sleeping and the girls are sleeping over. I am left alone in the quiet with my brain seeking some kind of artistic distraction. Not interested in continuing any of the stuff ive been working on for tonight.

Ive spent ages tonight blog hopping & googling looking for challenges and techniques to teach me more about art journalling. then i found something exciting,

http://www.posemaniacs.com/?pagename=thirtysecond

- i have been scribbling on post it notes for a good 10 minutes. I have created some sketches, now to work on my journaling...

This is a fantastic sketch/drawing tool. i like the quick results, little spurts of challenge- just what i needed tonight...

I may not be the worlds best drawer but ill keep at it.

Something new to work on, My big chicken is gonna love this site too.

We have visitors...

2010-01-06T00:49:00.000-08:00

Kate, Todd, James, Ben & Tayla are visiting with us for the week. Its been about 5.5 years since we seen them last. As promised we are involving ourselves in some long overdue crafting. Check out what the kids have created. Brilliant, i have laminated them and stuck them on my fridge. They keep catching my eye. I took a photo of each kidlets face, then handed it to someone else.

A very happy new year to you :)

2010-01-03T20:46:00.000-08:00

This travelling art attack hit on the drive to Sydney, not much to see apart from trees. Thankfully my pen was sitting in the console. I had packed my new watercolour paints just in case.

I intend to keep journalling these pages at least 1 a week, hmmmm wouldn't it be nice.

I'm lovin' these crazy images of "oddity & mismatchment". Not sure what ill do with them yet or where they'll go. Ill keep my eyes peeled for a folder or something. I hope the new year is bringing you clouds of creativity.

Blog Candy - Prize for Mum !!!

2009-12-24T05:14:00.000-08:00

Move over Santa Claus!!! Imagine a sack full of this... :)))))))))))))
Check out the prize package at this Samantha's Stampin Up Corner...
http://www.thescrapmaster.blogspot.com/

The Night B4 Christmas

2009-12-24T04:40:00.000-08:00

Have you walked your penguin today?

Spent today at Mum & Dad's vegin out on the back verandah. 3kg of fresh prawns for dinner, great company, laughter & a handful of very excited kids splashin' about in the pool. Christmas is such a fun festive occasion.

My gorgeous man has finally met my sister and her clan.

Set myself a "reindeer" challenge and spent the day creating, it's really hard to know when to stop playing with these pages.

Move over ATC's - i've found a new addiction!!!

Merry Merry Christmas to you !!!

(thanx for the rum balls Sarah, i'll get stuck into them tomorrow)

Balance

2009-12-22T05:01:00.000-08:00

Well this was a whole lotta fun!!! Inspired by Teesha Moore and her awesome youtube tutorials... Bring on the next round.
I am planning on growing my texta colour collection an indulging in a new year of jubliant journalling. So much freedom, and choice. The randomness is fun to tackle. I love the brilliant images in the National Geographic magazines I bought to do the "Magazine Collage" Atc's. The pig ears just finished her off...
Wow, wow, wow.
Art is so much fun :)
Am hoping to challenge myself a little more in the new year. Can't wait to do a whole lot more ♥

Just quickly...

2009-12-09T20:48:00.000-08:00

My friend Diana suggested i might enjoy joining in a Paper Puppetry Swap she's a part of.

The original thought was to create little worm finger puppets from green felt. Then i was going to try my hand at those styrofoam cup puppets that you push up with a stick, that concept is something i might give a try in the up and coming school holidays....or not.

No idea where these came from but happy to have put my art doll stamps to use- finally!

These little guys are being picked up tonight . Cant wait to see what comes back :)

I am SOOOOOOO excited !!! Look what i got !!!

2009-12-01T04:05:00.000-08:00

Have just bought these for a record price at auction!!!
So stoked, can't wait to start sorting my piles of scrapping gear in the lead up to the new year :)
Ready to re-embrace scrapbooking.
My gorgeous man is going to pick them up for me as soon as practicable.
Totally Awesome, the arch stand even has wheels!

Magazine Collage - More Kokeshi Dolls !!!

2009-11-13T22:50:00.000-08:00

Ok, it appears Kokeshi Dolls are my latest obsession (in case you were'nt aware already). This set of 6 have been created for the live swap tomorrow at Helensvale.
Making ATCs from magazine scrap has been quite a challenge. Decided to keep it simple and stick with what i'm most familiar.

Already Hooked!

2009-10-18T04:05:00.000-07:00

Our local ATC swap was held today at Helensvale, quite a few (ppl) down but great fun all the same. Very happy those who can not make it still manage to have their cards available to swap.

We decided on Magazine (no computers) for the November swap. My idea hit immediately, but as usual i have created something not at all related to my original thought.

Bloody random brain!!!

I love what i came up with anyway, just unhappy that they are one of a kind and i dont get a copy!
This collage stuff is FUN, FUN, FUN !!!

Right back where I started from

2009-10-06T06:48:00.000-07:00

I have a great boss, she believes in me!!! Now I have a chance to do something other than office work, and a chance to go back in time, wish me luck...

Fourteen years after I first trained as a Nail Technician (among other things), im back in class re-learning gel nails!! Never wouldv'e thought. Nothing at all like riding a bike, quite foreign but day 2, and im improving already.

top x2 sets of nails are my model, Christina. Demo of colour Biogel application and then today's practice recap of "French". I'm getting the hang of them. :)

Back off to training again tonight. Maryanna was a very obliging model, and to think the poor little chooky had to forgoe a night of Guides (first week back too). Shes v. happy with the end result- hopefully enuff to coax her into growing her own...

(Maryanna's Endy Bitz !)

Let me know if u are prepared to be a guniea pig, I may need some more models...

Waterfall technique ATC Babushka

2009-09-28T23:44:00.000-07:00

ATC swap: The Stampers Hut - Ashmore

Month: September 2009

Theme: Waterfall technique

These cards have taken soooo long, first the idea, then mastering the technique, then creating all the fiddly bits and putting 12 cards together.

Am fairly happy with how they turned out. I could keep adding and adding to them, but think its time i just said ENUFF.

Now to get back to the housework i've been neglecting.

Upside down house

2009-09-26T06:38:00.000-07:00

An interesting view to finish the day...

Seriously strange :)
http://freshome.com/2009/09/11/crazy-upside-down-house-in-germany/
check it out

In the spirit of my slippers (farewell old faithfuls...)

2009-09-24T18:45:00.001-07:00

It was time, soles/souls destroyed. A new vamp on life was a little over due, goodbye my gorgeous slippers- and so the spirit of the slipper sisters are born. Here's #1, possibly destined to become a christmas tree?!

"My Kokeshi"

2009-09-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

These are my latest fascination, Kokeshi dolls i'm hooked!!

Wonder why I insist on having a few creative drinks the night before live swaps. Thank god the footy was on tonight or there would be no way i would've had these lot done by morning! Have not spent too much time creating lately- that i plan to change :)

What a day... Hours n hours sitting at Allanah's karate tournament (proud mum of a daughter sporting a new rather impressive trophy), usually i take some creative stuff along to occupy me - not enough time to get that organised this morning waking up to 6 little vampires who had hardly slept a wink!!!

Thankfully its only nearly 10:30 and there are a few hours left before sleepy time to get the "Vintage Babies" cards finished off, fingers crossed they'll be ready by the morning. Off to google the perfect quote... sweet dreams ♥

Recycled Cardboard

2009-07-05T23:47:00.000-07:00

I stumbled across an article in one of Sarah's, Cloth Paper Scissors magazines. Just had to have a go at making one of these gorgeous little houses. Sat at the table on Saturday night and scrapped together my version from a cardboard box. Now im a bit addicted these two are the most recent versions i am working on, the bigger one is a drawing pad for Claire's 6th Birthday. Totally addicted, love em. xoxo

I went shopping ♥♥♥

2009-05-31T23:30:00.001-07:00

I went bargain hunting today and bought the cutest little storage basket for my cuttlebug!!! The colour is a great match. They also had pink, dark blue and orange, such a hard decision...

Belynda and I have been looking into storage options. I couldn't resist this one today at only $7.95 from the discount shop in Ashmore (the one where the Stampers Hut is). Isn't it just so cutey patooty!!!

All welcome :) ATC Breakfast swap

2009-05-30T01:54:00.001-07:00

LIVE SWAP
Unfortunately I never seem to be able to make it to The Scrapbook Cupboard's Live Swap on the first Saturday of each month. Something always seems to fall on that day, I won't be able to make it next week either :(
So, I'm inviting anyone who's interested along to an ATC breakfast meet - in the area outside the food court at Westfield Helensvale, on the 3rd Sunday of each month. Starting June 21, 2009.
9:30am start til whenever.
Spread the word, it's open to everyone!!! More the merrier :)

You can come out now!!!! :)

2009-05-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

Its all good,

Rhianna has been in the zone for at least ten minutes now- wish i'd known about this earlier...

Should i be worried, she's started swaying???!!!

She does however appear very relaxed and is not yet levitating or talking in tongues...

xoxo

Optical Illusions ATC

2009-05-23T17:00:00.000-07:00

SPIN OUT

There were soooo many images i wanted to use for this card.

I have wasted a few hours looking at images for the theme, even sites in other languages!!!!

have bookmarked a few sites. FASCINATING !

Hopefully I will get some others done in time for the next swap.

This card was really hard to photograph, tried to create it in 3 dimensions...

Can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with :)

Am off to dig out the exercise DVDs, this wet weather has been a great excuse for not being able to enjoy my walks. I'm on a quest for a treadmill (watching a couple on ebay), but if you know of anyone who's not using theirs and wants to loan or sell please lemme know!!! asap :)

4 Walls

2009-05-22T23:04:00.000-07:00

Amazing the power of the universe, ask and you shall receive!!!

My pyramid accidentally came together today, knew exactly what I wanted... just couldn't find what I was looking for- and here it is! Cost me a cheesy $2.50.

Borrowed the "poles" from mum's floral arrangement and got some hair elastics from the junk shop. Now just have to find my black onyx :)

I am so impressed with my new ZONE

A haven to get away from it all, any old place I see fit. Calm baby Calm :)

Brilliant (link)

2009-05-21T19:26:00.001-07:00

This website has some cool stuff, must take scissors n scalpel to the toilet next time i venture in there!!!?!!!

Just Stuff ....

2009-05-21T01:28:00.000-07:00

I ♥ my Asian Doll Stamps!!!!!

Soooooooooooo happy with my new stamps!!!! love em, love em, love em!!!!!!
Have got twenty kazillion ideas floating around my head...
I also bought the Babushka doll set, haven't played with those ones yet, but have some ideas churning ova!
Very inspiring!!!! Am stoked with how they came out on the lantern.
We (the girls n I) made these at a workshop for the Festival of Light, we took Kess with us last weekend.

Another fabulous weekend with Kess n the girls, life couldn't get much better!!!

NEW RELATIONSHIP !!!!!!Kess' "Soup Man" and my Voodoo Doll have found each other. Perfect match don't ya think? Kess has had Soup Man forever and I sent him the Voodoo Doll. Don't they go great together? Love is everywhere!!!

"Spreading a little bit of love around the world"

I found a really cool concept on Dottie's (?) blog, check it out and get involved- it's random hand-made gifting. Very selfless, love it!!!! Gonna get busy n add it to the to do list ...

http://www.thetoysociety.blogspot.com/

I am still on the hunt for a reasonably priced meditating pyramid... no such luck yet... i'll keep looking, let me know if you know where you can get them for anything under $200 ??? $200 seems a bit rich, especially when it doesnt even fold up!

ATC - Roses (Briar Rose)

2009-05-10T15:22:00.000-07:00

A quick blog before breakfast....
Ooooh... Isn't she so sweet?!
I love the two images together, this is what i've come up with for the Hut ATC.

Just "quaint" .... (my word of the day)
Quaint:
- attractively old-fashioned: with a charming old-fashioned quality
- pleasantly strange: strange or unusual in a pleasing or interesting way
- eccentrically outdated: amusingly or irritatingly inappropriate to modern circumstances

♥♥♥

Something So Strong.. (L.O)

2009-05-05T06:59:00.000-07:00

M'Okay, not the most flattering of photos but hey... Nice to have a refreshing new 'topic' ! ♥♥♥

Can't wait to fill a whole album!!!

ATC clowns

2009-05-05T04:21:00.000-07:00

My Whimsy Clown

This card had me stumped for a while, but i'm pretty happy with the end result... Love working with transparency n paint!!!

Latest Brain Fart !

2009-04-20T21:09:00.001-07:00

Adaptation from my ATC

This little guy is my latest thing to come out of my creation-station,

have made 3 so far.

The kids + the neighbours kids have had fun making their own too...

Gotta ♥ felt!

Ewww "hello"!!!

2009-04-11T08:14:00.000-07:00

I am at such a happy place right now, expect to see a river of creativity flowing from the treehouse some time very soon. Got some all loved up pics developed today, should be fun to scrap.... xoxo

Look Look Look

2008-12-08T15:09:00.000-08:00

OMG something came over me last night. Haven't scrapped into the twighlight hours in such a long time. This layout is a result of a sketch on page 20 (i think) of my page maps book. Kerri's purple was really inspiring. Hope I can pop out a few more layouts before Chrissy xox U like?

A PILE OF STYLE ♥

2008-11-07T23:06:00.000-08:00

Very excited to pick up my copy of Page Maps today!!! am gonna immerse myself in the sketches and hopefully re-invent the mojo! Keep a lookout for some serious scrappin soon!!!

Have some plans to get the sewing machine all revved up!! a couple of projects floating around in the brain space.

Are you getting ready for Christmas yet?

My Earth Angel (ATC)

2008-10-13T16:08:00.000-07:00

Wow! Totally not what i had intended to create, infact nothing at all like it! go figure. had planned on making little felt angels to put in pockets (theres an idea for a live swap). just need a perfect quote or heading now. off i go to google ♥

Just dribbling...

2008-10-13T15:43:00.000-07:00

Having several problems in the creative department...

1. I am not feeling at all creative today

2. Ive been wracking my brain on what to do for the "All about me" ATCs, when in actual fact i should be concentrating on "Angels". - I just had an idea, will i get them done for tomorrow? (very much doubt it)

3. My whizz-bang printer has lost all power and is seemingly DEAD. And just when i finally got myself stuck up in a tree (looks cool eh?), I have my girls to thank for the photo :)

Off to get things sorted- wish me luck ♥

Sleepy tonight

2008-09-24T05:23:00.000-07:00

It's getting late, been talking to my sister- planning for Christmas. It may be happening in QLD now...
Managed to get the computer up and working again tonight, which i'm most happy about. I must busy myself finishing off my Nursery Rhyme cards, i started today but ended up almost completing a lo instead.
As promised here is my take on the shared sketch.
Apologies but thats it for tonight :)

Bit of a technical glitch...

2008-09-22T03:16:00.000-07:00

Am very pleased to have made it to Kerri's house, after 12 hours sitting on a hard wood seat at Alley's karate competition, I wasn't sure i had any energy left in me. Surprise, surprise- i finished my layout too!!! Thanks for the loan of the sofa (i didnt attempt to make it home)!

Would really love to post my sepia interpretation of the sketch we took part in but the usb slot has dislodged itself from the front of my tower. I need to pull the whole thing apart to get to it!! :( I'll see if i get a chance to fix it tomorrow. sorry!

September Photos

2008-09-18T05:24:00.000-07:00

Our family wouldn't be complete without
"Salsa" (pics, taken on Maryanna's B'day).

This was the first swim of spring!!
Was very lucky to catch this photo.

currently working on "nursery rhyme" theme

2008-09-08T04:57:00.000-07:00

PROTOTYPE:
Here's what i've come up with so far, you can even see the sticky tape. I found the owl image on a kids singlet top in target or kmart (i get them mixed up). Had to snap a piccy of it with my phone.

Here's my interpretation and the cat just kinda evolved.

Just need some tracing paper 'cos i'm not gonna draw all these ones x12.

I'm quite happy with it so far.

I obviously need to make it a pea-green boat- i'll raid my felt stash tomorrow.

a quote site

2008-06-03T05:46:00.000-07:00

I just found a new idea site....

http://www.scrapbookingtop50.com.au/quotes/index.php?section=18&page=-1

gonna be very busy cleaning for my inspection (Tuesday), so dont expect much until then...

see you at my party!!

My Pieces (for swapping)

2008-05-31T00:35:00.000-07:00

These are the pieces of puzzle I made for the puzzle swap,

even though you've all seen them!

Haven't stuck anything on here in a little while so....

I'll put some new stuff up soon.

Topsy Turvy (2 views)

2008-05-19T20:24:00.000-07:00

Remember these old dolls?

(the dress lifts to reveal something different)

I so badly wanted one of the red riding hood/granny & the big bad wolf dolls...

Who ever would've thought one day I'd be able to personalize a "Topsy Turvy" of my very own.

I love this...

(still in progress)

ITS A ScRAP ATTACK

2008-05-14T04:32:00.000-07:00

5 layouts in production atm, doesn't happen often.
Heres the 3rd one finished.
I'm really liking the look of the felt letters
(am printing them from word art).
The LO's are very slap-stick but thats the
way i'm liking them at the moment.

'Tis nice just trying to use up stuff from
my stash thats been laying around for
far too long.

Have got the next x2 layouts brewing in
the brain, time to go create!!

One lucky mum

2008-05-12T00:41:00.001-07:00

Had a fantastic mothers day!!

My little chook, "Maryanna" made me this

most gorgeous surprise - all by her self.

I feel like the most blessed woman alive.

What talent !

and how extremely thoughtful.

My little sprinkles !

2008-05-05T16:56:00.000-07:00

I made this little Dottee for Jess.
The little pet made her quite at home.

Here's Hemi adorned in some seed beads,
I still have a few more to add. It's quite
relaxing sewing them on, a nice change
from scrappin'.
I got a bit carried away and decided
to fix Una up abit, i'm thinking she'll
always be a work in progress.

Allanah is having a crack at a Dottee,
I'll post her when she's done.

MAKING THE MOST OF WHAT I GOT...

2008-05-03T04:38:00.000-07:00

I have finally managed to stitch together a Dottee Doll. yay!!

This is Una, she's (ANOTHER) a work in progress - I couldn't find a needle to stitch her together so I drove up the mountain to VeryKerri's house. (Thanks chook!)

The needle unfortunately was too big for my seed beads so I'm thinking a trip to Spotlight is in order tomorrow, New fibres for hair a priority too.

The start of something new to busy myself with under the blanket on a wintery eve.

Farewell little friend

2008-04-29T04:06:00.000-07:00

Sadly Rhianna's, best friend in her class is moving back to England.

I wanted to make something that each of them could cherish.

I got the bag in an op shop when I first moved to QLD, PERFECT !

The latest prototypes

2008-04-27T04:28:00.000-07:00

I have had the fun-est weekend creating ATCs. I am
in major production mode and lovin' it. Hate having
to mass produce everything so I'm thinkin' I may only
make a couple of each card....

Here they are

The Owl & The Pussy Cat,
minus The Pea Green Boat :(

swap "Cat"
Drawn in fabric paint
&
swap "Owl version II"
on transparent background

"Tree"
yet to receive their titles (top secret)
&
My first "Zentangle"
(I've done it Diana!!)

Personalised "Art Doll"
-("VeryKerri") Groovy Baby !

A peek at a verykerri card by me

2008-04-24T04:09:00.000-07:00

This card was mistaken

as a VERYKERRI design,

so i guess i got the whole

vintage thing right this time!

Gotta B happy with that.

Sorry Kerri, for stealing a

design of yours from my

"unconcious"state of mind.

(See the similarities?)

One Colour -todays best effort

2008-04-22T02:49:00.000-07:00

Who needs housework, today I set out to completely tidy the house.

My priority's have not changed ; - )

I'm happy with what I achieved none-the-less...

This is the May swap- "One Colour".

There are 11 of these in existence.

Friday Nite Owl...

2008-04-21T03:50:00.000-07:00

Musk sticks, jaffas and clinkers (why are there never enough pink ones?) = 2 new layouts- hopefully many more to come. here's one of them, took forever but worth the effort.

sLIghTLY siDE TraCKEd

2008-04-17T06:10:00.000-07:00

Oh god something new to obsess about...

I'll blame Diana for tonights little google-ing episode. Funny how you can sit infront of the computer for so many hours and just lose yourself.

Diana sent me on a mission to investigate "Zentangles"... and somehow from Zentangles- I wound up finding these little dolls ("Dotees"). They are just the sweetest little things. I HAVE TO GET ME SOME. so you can guess what ill be toying with this weekend?!

I gave up sewing when I started scrappin'. There's a whole box of material around here somewhere!

I'll let you know how I go.

(click the title to see what i'm on about)
more, more, more...

http://dotslifeandart.blogspot.com/search/label/House%20shape%20ATC's.

check out the other ones on this blog...
http://dotslifeandart.blogspot.com/search/label/Dotee%20Dolls

I have loved dolls forever! Especially little mini gems.
xoxo

Don't fall over... Its a layout!!!

2008-04-16T04:42:00.000-07:00

MOJO RENEWED! This pic is only 8 years behind.

I have a whole new simplistic approach to getting layouts done... when I figure out the formula ill let you know. ha ha.

Anyways 'tis my first attempt at stitching a whole page together -

as you can see I have a few hours of practise ahead of me,

but you get the jist i'm sure.

I'm thinking red is my colour of the week.

xox

Sometimes i forget how old i am...

2008-03-24T06:03:00.001-07:00

Sometimes you just need to take a break from scrapbooking-

Kerri's husband, Andrew volunteered to take some "nice" photos of Kerri and i for her brand new blogsite (which mind you is rather amusing). http://www.verykerri.blogspot.com/

Never would have imagined the state these photos would leave the pair of us in.

An innocent artistic inspired photo shoot turned to extreme leaking laughter!! Havent laughed so hard in years.

Started simply with some wedgey skipping and ended up with a rusty yellow shower :)

Go figure...

fantasy

2007-11-17T03:15:00.000-08:00

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.
Terabithia

THERE'S A FAIRY ...
Theres a fairy at the bottom of our garden,
or so my Mummy said,
with pretty wings that sparkle bright,
and a crown upon her head.
Her eyes as bright as diamonds,
her hair as gold as sun,
her dainty feet,
wet with the dew,
her laughter full of fun.
I know she watches me all day,
I know she's there at night,
I know that she looks after me as any fairy might.
As I play in the garden,
She stays so still and calm,
making sure that I am safe,
and coming to no harm.
I have sat and stared for hours,
at the place she's meant to be,
amongst the leaves and fallen twigs,
beneath that apple tree.
Even though I've never seen her,
and never spied her glow,
I know she really lives there,
'cause my Mummy told me so.
Submitted by Ann Dawson from Sussex,
UKe-mail: anngd@anngd.co.uk

A TEA PARTY
The table is set and everything's ready.
My doll can sit over there next to teddy.
I invited two others to join us for tea,
but I guess it will have to be just us three.
I'll pour the tea and you serve the cake;
this is the one that Mom helped me bake.
It's time to clean up and put things away.
I'm so glad we could all get together today.
I really enjoyed it - I hope you did too.
Having tea parties is a fun thing to do.
Submitted by Marian L. Longfield

FAIRES IN MY GARDEN
There are fairies in my garden,
lifting up their sleepy heads.
Fairies by the hundreds,
resting in the flower beds.
Wings bedecked with rainbow colors,
emerald green are all their clothes...
How did they come to be there?
No mortal really knows.
Melinda Robinson

BEDTIME FAIRIES
by L.C. Gerstenfeld
Fleeting glimpses hard to find,
Imagined wonders of lovely kind.
In night times waking in pleasant dreams,
In the moon's gossamer, silver beams.
Fairies dance the night away,
Gone at dawn, in flight of day

We are all captives of the picture in our head -
our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
~Walter Lippman

Love

2007-11-17T02:45:00.000-08:00

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

""Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

in the eye of the beholder

2007-10-20T05:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.middlepath.com.au/eyesite/struct.php

awesome site relating to the iris

backed up faves

2007-10-18T04:53:00.000-07:00

goodness, there are so many here....
half these links probably no longer exist.
just feel safer knowing all my faves are backed up! considering my luck with crashing harddrives :)

free fonts http://fonts.tom7.com/fonts98.html

http://www.all-about-tanya.blogspot.com/

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://scrapbooklady.typepad.com/katie_the_scrapbook_lady/images/lift.jpg&imgrefurl=http://scrapbooklady.typepad.com/katie_the_scrapbook_lady/2007/01/index.html&h=348&w=400&sz=60&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=Pno6aH1CYyIZcM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2Bfantasy%2Bscrapbook%2Blayout%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/kfonts.htm

http://www.instructables.com/id/E3P1Y1Y6KCES9J7SYL/?ALLSTEPS

http://flickr.com/photos/creative-scrapbook-layouts/457745817/

http://www.littlescrapbookshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1197_1255

http://scrapbooking.families.com/blog/gift-idea-deck-of-cards-album-making-the-pages

http://www.scrapbook-crazy.com/scrapbook-album-instructions.html

http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml

http://spiritsong.com/quotes/

http://www.minti.com/groups/48/Quick-n-Easy-Food/

Hot Links to OTP ideas

2007-10-11T03:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.scrapbook-crazy.com/scrapbook-album-instructions.html

lots more quotes, i love quotes... had you noticed? http://www.lexscripta.com/desktop/dictionaries/quotes.html

Sisters

2007-10-09T19:42:00.001-07:00

Sisters make the best friends

Moments Together ~ Memories Forever

As youngsters they may seem like arch enemies at times, but as they grow older the ties that bind become as strong as the love between them.

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."
Margaret Meed

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.
Author unknown

My Sister, My Best Friend
We laugh together
We shed tears.
We may have harsh words,
And pulled some hair.
But against the world
We are a united pair.
Now that we are older
Our times together are few,
But that’s ok, because I love you
Sister on the internet

When they were alone together,
doing the things they enjoyed,
the two sisters were quite complete
in a perfect world of their own.
D.H. Lawrence

Now I see all our childhood adventures
as irreplaceable links in a chain
that will hold you close to my heart
forever.
Michelle Boisvert

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident - it is to have a soul mate for life.
Victoria Secunda

They may seem like arch enemies at times, but as they grow older the ties that bind become as strong as the love between them

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood & sisterhood can be.
Rebecca Wells

It is what we discover on our journey as sisters that opens our eyes and minds to true understanding of each other

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
A.A. Milne

Joined in heart, May the two of us never part.

Profound Thoughts

2007-10-09T19:32:00.000-07:00

"It's not the years in your life that count,It's the life in your years..."
(Abraham Lincoln)

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreamsare reflected
Anna M. Uhlich.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

A dream is a wish your heart makes,when you're fast asleep
Cinderella

When you have a dream you've got tograb it and never let go
Carol Burnett

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
George Carlin

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn

A face without freckles is like the sky without stars.
Unknown

Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr Seuss

With every experience you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey

My hands get jealous of all the work my brain does.

Don’t be ashamed to cry.
The pretenders

We can not touch another persons heart with anything less than our own.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

If you want something badly, let it go free
If it comes back to you it’s yours forever
If it doesn’t it was never yours to begin with

Life is an echo. What you send out- you get back.
What you give - you get

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint- Exupery

You can not stop what hasn’t started

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Do not go where the path may lead,
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world of reality has its limits,
The world of imagination is boundless.

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go
Keith Urban

I just felt that we weren’t meant for each other.
Rhianna age almost 7 (Re:Connaugh)

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live
Flora Whittemore

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
Wilma Rudolph

“Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.”
Doug Larson

This life is yours.
Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life.
No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy.”
Susan polis Schutz

There are many things in life that will catch your eye,but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.
Unknown

The question is not what you look at but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Don’t hurry, don’t worry, you’re only here for a short visit, So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
Walter C Hagen

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.
Oprah Winfrey

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Picnics are green grass & story books.

Dreaming hitches the soul to the stars.
Anon

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E.E. Cummings

The idea is to write so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Someone to watch over me
Ella Fitzgerald

If you happen to be in the clothed, vertical world, at least take your shoes off.
Sark

Very little is needed to make a happy life,
It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
Oprah Winfrey

Give thanks for unknown blessings are already on their way.
Native American Saying

Little by little one walks far
Peruvian proverb

What ever you fear most has no power – it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey

Hitch your wagon to a star
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be awake to life.
Risto Rein

Life is like a coin,
You can spend it any way you wish,
But you can only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Lamartine

Among other things

2007-10-09T19:30:00.001-07:00

IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY, BE.
Henry David Thoreau

Celebrate this day and embrace all the reasons to believe in wishes again.
Flavia

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte

My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams,
The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
Abram L Urban

If you are going to do something wrong,
at least enjoy it.
?Suep

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Memories

2007-10-09T19:24:00.000-07:00

I still have to sort these, some are repeated...

Family life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce - and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Thomas Moore

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom

I am learning that simplicity is more meaningful. It brings more memories because you have the time to enjoy things and relish the moment.
Dionna Sanchez

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather

The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
Ben Affleck

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
Gloria Gaither

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel Alexander

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart ill stay there forever.
Winnie the pooh

But it’s no use going back to yesterday,
because I was a different person then.
Alice in Wonderland

The scenes of childhood are the memories of future years.
John Overton Choules

Be thankful for your blessings all
The happy memories you recall
For time, which every heartache mends
And oh, be thankful for your friends

Pleasure is the flower that passes;
remembrance, the lasting perfume.
Jean de Boufflers

Footprints on the sands of time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Back on its golden hinges
The gate of memory swings
And my heart goes into the garden
And walks with olden things
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,
the things you are,
the things you never want to lose.
The Wonder Years, TV Show

Each day is a gift,
and as long as my eyes open
I'll focus on the new day
and all the happy memories I've stored away,
just for this time in my life.
Author Unknown, from Each Day Is A Gift

Some memories are realities,
and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Sibert Cather

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright

Creating memories is a priceless gift.
Memories will last a lifetime;
things only a short-period of time.
Alyice Edrich

Treasured memories are an incredible gift that can never be taken away.
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day.
It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
Cathy Allen

When you find a golden memory, savour it.
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time
Barbara Kingsolver

You never know when you're making a memory
Rickie Lee Jones

A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.
Author Unknown

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Jeremy Irons
Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, The memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face.
Helen Steiner Rice, from Christmas Cards

Everybody needs his memories.
They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow

Don't wait. Make memories today. Celebrate your life!
Author Unknown, from Life is for Living

We must always have old memories and young hopes.
Houssaye

I wish we could learn to live our lives in a way where every day we are striving to consciously make family memories that will stay with us forever.
Rachel Paxton, from Keepsake Quilting

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
Gloria Gaither

If I could command the shining of the spring,
Could grasp it without putting it out,
I should wish to send it to that beautiful person at the border of heaven.
Li T’ai-po

But it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Alice in Wonderland

The scenes of childhood are the memories of future years.
John Overton Choules

Be thankful for your blessings all
The happy memories you recall
For time, which every heartache mends
And oh, be thankful for your friends

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
Jean de Boufflers

Footprints on the sands of time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Back on its golden hinges
The gate of memory swings
And my heart goes into the garden
And walks with olden things
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
The Wonder Years, TV Show

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away, just for this time in my life.
Author Unknown, from Each Day Is A Gift

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Sibert Cather

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright

Creating memories is a priceless gift. Memories will last a lifetime; things only a short-period of time.
Alyice Edrich

Treasured memories are an incredible gift that can never be taken away.
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day.
It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
Cathy Allen

When you find a golden memory, savour it.
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time
Barbara Kingsolver

You never know when you're making a memory
Rickie Lee Jones

A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.
Author Unknown

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Jeremy Irons
Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, The memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face. Helen Steiner Rice, from Christmas Cards

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow

Don't wait. Make memories today. Celebrate your life!
Author Unknown, from Life is for Living

We must always have old memories and young hopes. Houssaye

I wish we could learn to live our lives in a way where every day we are striving to consciously make family memories that will stay with us forever. Rachel Paxton, from Keepsake Quilting

Heaven holds your hand,
I hold you in my heart.

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
Pierce Harris

Random Quotes

2007-10-09T19:21:00.000-07:00

When a child laughs you can hear the spirit of their happiness.
Oprah Winfrey

The best thing about having a sister was that i always had a friend.
Cali Rae Turner

May you always find warmth in each others company and comfort in each others embrace.

Capture a moment, keep it forever.

Lead me, Guide me, Walk beside me.

Im not a finisher, but i do like to start alot.

My hands get jealous of all the work my brain does.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
?Suep

Celebrate this day and embrace all the reasons to believe in wishes again.
Flavia

We can not touch another persons heart with anything less than our own.

Dreaming hitches the soul to the stars.
Anon

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E.E.Cummings

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides throught the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Motherhood

2007-10-09T19:16:00.000-07:00

Sweet baby of mine you embraced my heart and stole my breath away.
Unknown

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
A.A. Milne

Joined in heart, May the two of us never part.

There came a moment quite suddenly a mother realised that a child was no longer hers. ... without bothering to ask or even give notice, her daughter had just grown up.
Alice Hoffman

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood & sisterhood can be.
Rebecca Wells

to My Beautiful Daughters
I made you this book especially to show you,
That together, the two of you
Make my heart complete.
May you always have each other to love,
& remember with every heartbeat
a piece of your heart belongs to your sister.
Love Mum XOXO

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
Mistinguett

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

Sweet baby of mine you embraced my heart and stole my breath away.
Unknown

A child fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.
Anon

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Being a mother has made my life complete.
Darcy Bussell

My mother is my mirror and I am hers.
What so we see?
Our face grown young again.
Marge Piercy

A man never stands so tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Knights of Pythagoras

It is what we discover on our journey as sisters that opens our eyes and minds to true understanding of each other

You make every day special just by being you.
Fred Rogers

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart ill stay there forever.
Winnie the pooh

A mother’s love is a blessing that knows every emotion for it endures them all,
So know that no matter what,
I will always have the strength to catch you if you fall.
Wendy Silva

I love thee
I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
and the stars grow old

No joys on earth bring greater pleasure than a little girl to love and to treasure.
Unknown

Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.
Benjamin Franklin

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
Virginia Satir

God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections.”
Mary Howitt

“This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
smiles when sadness intrudes,
rainbows to follow the clouds,
laughter to kiss your lips,
sunsets to warm your heart,
hugs when spirits sag,
beauty for your eyes to see,
friendships to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe,
confidence for when you doubt,
courage to know yourself,
patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.”

“Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.”
Pamela Glenconner

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley

EXCUSE THIS HOUSE
Some houses try to hide the fact
That children shelter there;
Ours boast of it quite openly.
The signs are everywhere.
For smears are on the windows,
Little smudges on the doors;
I should apologize, I guess.
For toys strewn on the floor.
But I sat down with the children
And we played and laughed and read;
And if the doorbell doesn't shine,
Their eyes will shine instead.
For when at times I'm forced to choose
The one job or the other;
I'd like to cook and clean and scrub,
But first I'll be a mother
Author Unknown

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
Abigail Van Buren

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug."
Cathy Guisewite

Children

2007-10-09T19:13:00.000-07:00

"It is a happy talent to know how to play."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”
T.S. Eliot

Play is the highest phase of child development—
of human development at this state…It gives therefore joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world. It holds the sources of all that is good.
(Froebel)

Play is the spring board for the imagination. From this comes dreams. With dreams come invention. Thus through play the future is full of boundless possibilities only inhibited by one's opportunity to play and imagine. Foster a playful environment for the children and see what wonders they will create.

"Children engage in such (free) play because they enjoy it--it's self-directed. They do not play for rewards; they enjoy the doing, not the end result. Once they get bored, they go on to do something else--and continue to learn and grow."
Sheila G. Flaxman

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Randall Jarrell

That’s Why God Made Little Girls
Play dishes filled with hopes and wishes.
That’s why God made little girls.
Flowers on pockets and necklace lockets.
That’s why God made little girls.
Dancing and twirls with hair all in curls.
That’s why God made little girls.
Baby dolls and bouncy balls.
That’s why God made little girls.
Wearing ribbons and lace with charm and grace.
That’s why God made little girls.
To give the gift of daughters, sisters and mothers.
That’s why god made little girls.
Wendy Silva

All the dreams
I prayed you’d be
are all the things you were, once my little girl
& now my shining star.

BUTTERFLY WHISPERS
The day you are ready to breakaway
from the safety of your protected cocoon.
The transformation will come quickly,
Like the changing from sun to moon.
The colours that adorn your body
are more beautiful than you can ever know.
And although I want to keep you in the safety of glass,
I know that you must grow.
After watching you practice with newborn wings
you spread your wings and fly.
I coud not be more proud,
for you have become the most beautiful butterfly.
Wendy Silva

You make every day special just by being you.
Fred Rogers

A child fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.
Anon

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff

The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager
Danish romantic poet and dramatist
(1779 - 1850)

Picnics are fun and laughter
Blue skies
Sunny days
Fresh air
An opportunity to scooter
Any time any where, any day.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things -
wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”
Eda J Leshan

Her pretty feetLike snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep
Did soon draw in agen.
Robert Herrick

Friendship

2007-10-09T19:09:00.000-07:00

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

The friends we meet on the path of life make the trip worth while.
Author Unknown

"Though we drifted apart in distance I still think of you as being right here.
And although we have many new friends,
it is our friendship that means the most to me."

Life without friendship is like the
sky without sun.
Unknown

I am thankful for the delightful surprises I’ve discovered in our friendship.

In everyone’s life at some time our inner fire goes out,
It is then burst into a flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweintzer

"For always"

Little friends may prove great friends.
Aesop

To attract good fortune spend a new coin on an old friend,
Share an old pleasure with a new friend
And lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese proverb

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Author Unknown

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb

True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine
Thomas Burke

"Think of what a better world it would be if all of us—the whole world—had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon, and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation, and other nations, always to put things back where we found them, and cleaned up our own messes.

"And it's still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it's best to hold hands and stick together."
Robert Faughum

Birthday Messages

2007-10-09T19:07:00.000-07:00

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:

That word is love.
Sophocles

Attention is the most basic form of love;

through it we bless and are blessed.
john Tarrant

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Leave the fingers open and it stays.

Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker

Love is friendship set on fire.
Unknown

Love is everything it's cracked up to be.

That's why people are so cynical about it...

It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything,

you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
Margaret Walker

Love consists in this,

that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Where love is, no room is too small.
Talmud

Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Mark Twain

Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
Nicholas Sparks

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Browning

Mr Right is coming but he’s in Africa and he’s walking.
Oprah Winfrey

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
Gloria Gaither

Draw a circle,
not a heart around the one you love,
because a heart can break
but a circle lasts forever.
Unknown

We can not touch another persons heart with anything less than our own.

May no gift be too small to give,
Nor too simple to receive,
Which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
And tied with love
L. O .Baird

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint- Exupery

Love is a special way of feeling,
Joan Walsh Anglund

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love

2007-10-09T19:05:00.001-07:00

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles

Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed.
john Tarrant

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker

Love is friendship set on fire.
Unknown

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
Margaret Walker

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Where love is, no room is too small.
Talmud

Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Mark Twain

Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
Love is sustained by action,
a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
Nicholas Sparks

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

Love doesn't make the world go round,
love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Browning

Mr Right is coming but he’s in Africa and he’s walking.
Oprah Winfrey

Line by line,
moment by moment,
special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
Gloria Gaither

Draw a circle,
not a heart around the one you love,
because a heart can break
but a circle lasts forever.
Unknown

We can not touch another persons heart with anything less than our own.

May no gift be too small to give,
Nor too simple to receive,
Which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
And tied with love
L. O .Baird

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint- Exupery

Love is a special way of feeling,
Joan Walsh Anglund

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

Fantasy

2007-10-09T18:56:00.000-07:00

Raindrops are like fairy whispers.
Unknown

You are the star, the dreamer, the creator of your destiny,
Unfold your wings and weave your magic.
Adele Basheer

Angels, pixies, faerie dust,
Treading love and living lust.
Jaesse Tyler

"Wish magic"

YYY
In a magical land,
A most wonderous place
Sits a beautiful fairy
In sparkles ‘n’ lace

Dancing & singing
Her voice filled with cheer
Enchanting soft melodies
Only children can hear

My daughter my princess
My gorgeous little girl
Flutters her arms
As she breaks into a twirl

I’ve been watching for hours
For days and for weeks
As her mind runs away
To the fantasy she seeks

I hope that for years to come
My daughter will be
Just as she is today
A little blessing to me
YYY

If you see a fairy ring,
in a field of grass,
Very lightly step around,
Tip-toe as you pass.
Last night fairies
frolicked there.

And now they’re sleeping somewhere near.
If you see a tiny fairy,
lying fast asleep,
Shut your eyes,
and run away.
Do not stay to peek,
Do not tell,
or you'll break
a Fairy Spell.

Grandparents

2007-10-09T18:54:00.000-07:00

Grandpas Sparkle
A wrinkled face marked with endless stories and adventures of the past,
I am given a great big hug and told that I am growing much too fast.
Joy lights up his face as if there is nowhere else he would rather be,
And I know that the sparkle in his eyes is there because of me.

I have a special kind of love for him,
And towards me I know he feels the same,
he has given me a friendship like no other.
And grandpa is his name.
Wendy silva

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley

A man never stands so tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Knights of Pythagoras

Laughter

2007-10-09T18:36:00.000-07:00

A laugh is simply a smile out loud
Christopher S Beverly

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Laughter is sunshine in the heart and wings on the soul.
Unknown

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Thackeray

Happiness

2007-10-09T18:35:00.000-07:00

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world.
Then you can love, and do what you will."
Dan Millman

Happiness walks on busy feet."
Kittie Turmell

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly,
one-directionally,
without regret or reservation."
William H. Sheldon

Fashion

2007-10-07T01:37:00.000-07:00

Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads

- at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.
Levende Waters

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley

Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls;

Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;

Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in;

Dresses in which to do nothing at all;

Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

William Allen Butler, (Nothing to Wear)