A Delicious Challenge (Cat from Fiskateers)

Well I think it was a couple of weeks ago I stumbled across Cat's message on the Fiskateers board about her first challenge on her blog ( http://catiscrafty.blogspot.com/ ) and looking at what the inspiration was - a chocolate bar wrapper this is what I came out with for my layout - I know completely different to what youd think - youd think I would have been inspired by the colours on the wrapper - but nope it was more so the almighty goodness of chocolate and candy and the fact I was eating skittles at the time I came across the challenge! :p

June Bakers Dozen Challenge (fiskateers)

Well I took part in Groovy Deborah's Bakers Dozen Challenge for June on the Fiskateers Site.

I dont know why I left it to like 2 days before the day it was due lol...but yea Ive just been busy with Uni and stuff...

So this is what the challenge called for -

Items you will be using:

1.ink

2.transparency

3.Stickles Glitter Glue (or comparable)*

4.metal

5.journaling

6.shaped pp-no right angles!

7.elephant

8.crown

9.paint

10.handkerchief

11.Rain Dots (or any Fiskars sticker product)*

12.buttons

13.bleach (white gel)*

Though I didnt have the handkeychief - I used Lace as a sub for it...I didnt even think to take the napkin from the hot chocolate i had in these pics. But then it was just plain - had we gone to GPK lol for lunch - I would have gotten one from work to use on the page....but oh well....

Lots and lots of buttons - and its HERE!! My new toy!

Well its 1.20am on Saturday Morning I guess and its really windy and raining outside - I havent long gotten back from the airport I was meeting my best friend there between her joining flights from WGN to AKL to the UK - only well after two hours I couldnt find her anywhere at the international terminal... :( I was almighty sad as we havent seen each other for 13 months now - I can say that winter is here alright. I picked my niece up from school today - my mum and her brother were in the car waiting...and I just cant get over the number of little kids in this weather - in WINTER in tee shirts and shorts for the boys and the girls in their callotes... (sp???) - and BARE FEET!! I saw my niece with no shoes on coming out of the hall and when I met her in the class room I pointed to my shoes with a questioning look and she lifted her foot up to show me she had shoes on - they were slip on jandel thingies...so it was straight to the shoe store to get shoes for her and my nephew who had none on - its hard buying shoes for him he has semi clubbed feet and they are really chubby and big and wide and yea! But we got him some gumboots (wellies as his dad calls them since he's english - or MY BOOTS as my nephew says) and my niece some black school shoes. With stritch orders from me saying these are your shows for school for the next two terms - till october...and when ever it is raining - your roman sandles are for the other two terms when its sunny and hot. No wearing jandles or sneakers to school - this is your uniform...

I was going out to get me a laptop for uni - only to find out that the one i was looking at and the deal was actually from last week...argh..and the guy was trying to sell me a different - i ended up screaming I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT COMPUTERS!!! And I stormed out of the store after that. Im waiting for one of my other best friends to tell me which one would be better to get - actaully what would be better was for him to come OUT with my shopping for it - hes my IT guy...my computer nerd...he knows this stuff...he can put it into simple terms for me this jargon stuff....like I said to him mother one night at dinner - if you asked me what a beef sirlion with red wine jus and garlic mash was id say to you a steak with red wine sauce and mashed potatos with garlic in them..lol

Anyway - when the weather was somewhat fine today I headed over to Claires and we went and got a refund on the fiskar cutter thingy she got me....bless her big heart she has...lol. They over charged her for em...We then went and had a perve at more scrapping stuff - I walked out with a punch thing for my thank you package for my friend Anne whos putting me up with a place to stay when im in CHC. And then I also got me a bag of small zip lock bags to put me buttons into for the button swap on the Fiskateers site...(and a nut and fruit bar for me to eat - since I hadnt eaten at all...)

So yes...who knows maybe tomorrow i will attemp some pages....before I go to work at 6pm for my 7pm start...

My first baby Card...

Well I did it I made my first baby card - seriously card making just isnt my thing to be honest. But hey its fun to get handmade cards - as they say you keep them more than you do store brought ones that are computer generic or what ever....but then you can buy some really nice handmade looking one in the shops - My dad and step mum tend to get me alot of those cards that have things stuck on them and stuff....or i think my step mum makes some for me...

Anyway heres the card.

Scrap that...

Ok i found refils for my album!! yay!! I got a 50 pack too - instead of the normal 10 pack I get...

Got me buttons for the button swap in Fiskateers - just need to get some bags to put them in since I gont have 14/15 on hand...*sigh*

Going to go attemp finishing this baby card for my manager - if only I could find an outfit to give...I know shes having a girl but I want it to be unisex so that she can use it again if she had another baby and its not a girl....kinda thing.

Why cant I find refills??

For some weeks now - probably months - I have been searching high and low for refill pages for my scrapbook albums. Im almighty fussy with what ones i use. Ive found some but they arent the ones I want! Ive been to both spotlight and the warehouse and they dont have the ones I want. Spotlight have the ones I want but I want them with white inserts not black. And if your wondering what Im wanting - its the 12x12 Grant Archival White Inserted pages. Since those are the albums I have. And I have like 10 layouts that arent in pages....

I have to get these pages done - for challenges....! And I have to get buttons and lots of them for a swap...why oh why did I take part in these when I have so much on my plate with sorting Uni out?? Haha...

Im getting a new toy again next week!

Well I thought Id say after my day at KMart not being able to get my Fiskars Cutting System Starter thingy my friend Claire (who was with me that day) rang up and put in a complaint about it to the head office, who told her that they were wrong in saying what they did, that the ads were for NZ - not Aussie that theirs is different....and she would track down one for her as their shipment is delayed due to stocktake- this was about 8am or so in the morning, then not long after that she said she got one!! But wont be able to get it till next week...so yay!! I have such a good friend in Claire...she's awesome I tell you!

Meanwhile I thought Id also do an update with Uni related stuff - Im now enrolled for my Diploma and I start on the 21st - I have till the 30th of June to pay my invoice I got which is only for one semester looking at it..thats only 1/4 of the fee - but ive applied for my student loan so I will just let them sort things out. I dont understand half of this kinda stuff sadly...its just to far beyond my understand I tell you! I had my application for the student village bumped to the top of the list as I was trying to sort all this stuff out with student loans and allowances etc etc....so have an offer of placement then and have till the 26th of June to pay my bond by - and may I say I have enough stress at work I dont need this kinda stuff...!! Trying to get a loan with the bank they said NO...I went home angry at anything...so angry I was crying and my windows in my car had fogged up and I got impatient on my street which thankfully is long and windy and yea I just took my fustration out in my driving but going fast - then screaming in my car when i got home at the cat to move....I calmed down when Claire came over with more fire wood...so I have this BIG HUGE pile of wood out the back...my dog was running around with a biscuit in her mouth...which she eventaully didnt eat i found it inside...

My darling mummy rang the bank after I vented my fustration about it and failing attemps with my other bank to get a loan (I have 4 bank accounts and a credit card - two accounts with one bank and the other two and the card with another bank)...she rang up and explained things and I had such a lovely lady on the phone helping me and told me about a letter that was sent to extend my credit card limit that i never got but she accept that extension for me and also told me to go for the over draft on my account...which I have to do tomorrow - though dont know when because my boss has rung me to ask me to come in early...

Sooo stressful I tell you! I move out of home in 2 weeks time into the student village - three weeks before I even start...gah! Lets just say now I know why I didnt go to Uni in the first place and only went to Tech...I only going to Uni because I want to do this diploma and my tech turnts me down...and it would have taken longer to do with them.

I wonder if I should attempt scrapbooking now...haha