Day 36 - Mum to the rescue..

M's tennis shoes should have been enough of an indication that price doesn't necessarily equal quality..or longevity in shoes. However having purchased Colorado's before, I really expected a LOT from her new school shoes. We tried on a heap of shoes before purchasing and these were the most comfortable. We hadn't heard the "lace up" black, polishable shoes mantra so as these were polishable black shoes I thought they'd be fine. One complete week after school started I got a call from M saying that her shoes were broken (see pic). Ugh! I rang the store and organised to swap them over at recess time. When we got there we made it clear that we'd be going for a different style "thankyou very much" and the tryons began again... We came home with Colorado's again (they really are a nice shoe) but this time they are lace up and quite honestly I think M is much happier with these as they are almost the same as everyone else's. AND her sandshoes should last longer too, with her not wearing them to school every day..you've gotta love a uniform!!

365 Project.

I've signed up for the 365 Project on SS. I'm really looking forward to it. By all accounts I should have an album completed by the end of 2009, with one photo/item from each day in the year. I'm really excited about it. It will go hand in hand with my new goal to do at least one page per week.

DAY 1
Here's my first photo for 2009....
Breakfast at Macca's to celebrate my nephew's (red) 5th Birthday. He spent the night at our house so his mum could go out and celebrate New Years Eve with her friends :)
After breakfast we did some shopping and my DN chose his own present - Australian Towel, Hat and Tattoos. Interesting choices as he would have got a DS Lite game had it been our choice!

My DS7 has just begun to see my DN as a friend as well as a cousin. It's really nice to see as I was great friends with my cousins growing up.

Happy Anniversary to US and ...stuff...

15 years today.
This photo is a little older than that, but it's a nice photo.

We had a really nice day together (with two of the kids).
I had planned on getting DH some nice drinking glasses, but couldn't find any I liked.
I gave him his refurbished wedding ring instead. It looks great - someone resized it with yellow gold once and it looked shocking. This time the jeweller removed the yellow gold, reshaped the ring (from where DH got it caught on something at work), remade the shank and polished it all up. It still fits!!!
We gave ourselves the treadmill as a combined "everything" gift, with birthdays, Christmas and our Anniversary in Dec/Jan it seemed a good idea. It was neat that it was delivered today.
I ran for 2 minutes and walked for 13. The kids enjoyed it too. My goal will be to increase by 10% each day until I get to a certain point..not sure what that will be yet!
Our 1st dd is away on a tennis tournament for 8 days. It's day 6 and she's finally played some tennis. She had two singles and 1 doubles match today and won them all. She only met her doubles partner when it was time to go on the court! They have to play each other in singles tomorrow! DD has a bad (?) habit of feeling bad for her opposition, so I hope that she doesn't take it too easy on her "partner" whilst they are playing their singles matches. She's missing us all, and we are missing her lots too! xxxxxxx

The dd8 and ds6 had a great time playing with the Treadmill Packaging. It was a slide. It was a car! They even managed to find some wood planks in the box which they used as "surfboards" in the pool at our friend's house! Gotta love their creativity - all we could see before they started playing, was M.E.S.S.

I'm back...

And what a mission it was! First I couldn't sign in. I tried to use my nickname instead of my "User" name - well, I won't make that mistake again, it took me about 10 minutes to sign in!
Then I decided to change my header...that was fairly easy, found a pic on my computer, adjusted it in Paint Shop Pro then played with it until I got it a size that would fit in the block on the template. I'll probably change it again - I'm not so sure I like the bevelled edges on my font..

I discovered that I won the competition on Wendy's blog - to rename it. It's now "Wendy's Scraptacular GSD's" instead of Don't Worry be Scrappy. I like it! My prize is a GSD off the site - I think she's trying to enable me with all this Craft Robo stuff!! Especially with Christmas Sales that are on right now!

I'm pretty sure I'm getting a tread mill for Christmas/Birthday. I think I definitely need to do some work on enlarging our house with all these new toys!!

My first post

Hi, well I stumbled across the fact that I could easily set up a Blog - through "Don't Worry Be Scrappy".. so I thought 'd give it a go!
Not sure I'll have much to talk about, but it might be somewhere for me just to hang out a bit....

My sister bought a new photo printer today... a Canon Selphy CP720 Compact Photo Printer

Photo printers are everyone's personal choice. I bought a HP Photosmart A716, because it's capable of printing larger images (5x7), automatically detects the size of paper and stores photos on it's internal memory. It also had a great longevity rating for the printing - just what an album maker looks for ... It's also GREAT for when I'm travelling and trying to work on my pages as I go.... I wanted to post a picture and a link - but they are no longer for sale :( Hopefully I'll still be able to buy the ink....it's only just become available at Cartridge World! It's not something I use all the time, but it's great when you are working on a page or a project and you need photos right away...

For example. My flower cards. I've made them for my Kris Kringle presents. I needed them quickly and I had them on my computer. Actually I ended up having to use some of the sample flowers in my system because it would appear that I've deleted the ones I took and have already printed.
I'll try to post an example of the cards I made in my next post :)
Thanks for reading!