Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

My day of dramas...

Ohh my god, what a day I had with the children today... I was in tears at their breakfast (I didn't get a chance to eat any) and Josh has spent the entire day being so naughty... My SIL thought it was so funny when I was on the phone to her as a sanity break and laughing all the time (thanks a lot Fi, great help that was NOT!!! It may have been funny to you when you are on the other side of Australia but not here when damm child is running across neighbours freshly planted grass seed!) I was late getting to mum's group as said child was just not behaving at all (thank goodness Nikki decided she needed a nap, either that or all the yelling mummy was doing was giving her a headache?) so I had one less to deal with for a short space of time.

At mum's group the other two mum's were also have problems with their children... Only it was just said children's attitude, little Miss and Mr... Josh is having an attitude problem, a personality problem, a behaviour problem and god only knows what else... I was ready to kick him out today... I nearly rang my MIL to get her to come over but I didn't because I figured I'd get the hmmm, ummmm sort of thing. When I mentioned it to her this afternoon, she said I should have rang her, she was only playing in the garden... Had I done that, I bet it wouldn't have been the response I would have gotten.

Drew is at the in laws tonight as my MIL usually watches him for a portion of Friday for me while I am at work. (He goes to childcare with Josh and Nikki the other day) but since I have stocktake to do tomorrow, end of month stuff, prepare for BAS, get all organised and get everything done for the end of next month before my 5 days away to QLD I have to put in some serious extra work (yuck.) Plus, Josh is having an operation on Tuesday so I won't be working then and can only work Wednesday depending on his eye etc.

I am thankful that Josh and Nikki were both in bed early and that Drew isn't here as if everyone was here right now bugging me, I think I would lose it. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids it's just.... at the moment I am like really hormonal or something (2nd period in 12 days, sorry for too much info...) and just yeah.... Blah about sums it up.

Off to do some more on my mini book and hopefully finish my layout from Kim's class. At least that is relaxing, and some ME time too boot!

Ros.

Yay....

I came home from work and checked my e-mail (as you do) and I got an acceptance for Scrapbook Creations, issue 32! Yay.... It is a layout I made for the winter call on Creative Cards and Papercrafts (obviously got rejected) so I am happy it has been picked up. Haven't subbed to anyone (aside from SM) for a while so must get back into it...

Not a lot to show for my craft efforts lately. I am working on a project to teach at Paper Doll so have been spending a lot of time on that. Am doing Kim Archer's class tomorrow, can't wait... Need to go and print photos for it. Probably should hang out the washing that DH forgot to hang out earlier first!

Bye all.
Ros

Delightful children...

All I have to say today aside from my children being monsters is the quote Josh said an hour ago...

"Come on Mummy, I love you!"

At least it was something to make me smile...

Ros

Tag

The lovely Willisa has taken me so I thought now is as good as a time as any to answer...

What scrapbook lines/products, etc. do you dislike? Ummmm, Alison Ellis Designs, I find her stuff really hard to work with... Ohh and I hate the SM paper in the mag... It looks crappy!

What is the hardest thing you have ever had to scrap? My birth... I was born 3 months premature so the photos are tiny polaroids (sp.) and gross looking.

What technique do you use more than anything else? Inking, painting and sewing.... Couldn't narrow it down to just one...

What is the smallest scrap of paper you save? Same as Will, a couple of inches... If I love it I probably save it all!

Have you ever had any scrapbook related injuries? No, just the usual paper cut...

Finish this sentence, "If I wasn't a scrapbooker/stamper, I would spend my money on... Clothes, shoes, me stuff... LOL, it is a good thing Nat doesn't know exactly how much I spend...

Give us your best storage or organizational idea. Open all your alphabet lettering that is 3dish and store in a huge container (almost one space for every letter) and you will you up your stash instead of stock piling it... It also makes it easier to find things.

You just won a week long scrapbooking cruise for 5. Who is going with you? My mum, SIL Fiona, Jude (a non scrapping friend who needs converting!) and all my new scrapping friends...

When you received your first publication notification, who did you tell? And if you are not yet pubbed, who will be the first person you share the news with? I think it would have been my mum, closely followed by Nat.

Gotta go, I have a birthday card to finish and some samples I am trying to make for Paper Doll...

Cheers,
Ros

Layouts and early wake up call!

Josh decided to wake up nice and early this morning... 4.45am to be exact. It was when the alarm went off for Nat to get up for work and do you think he would go back to sleep? No way... Of course not, that would be asking wayyyy too much... So obviously I am a little tired today. It's a good thing it was a child care day or else I would be a little snappy at the kids...

I got to have some me time today and did a Kim Archer class. Yay... It was a funky foam stamping class. I am also doing another one of her classes next week too... More yay for me. Below is my finished layout...

I don't like the way the letter "t" is on things but then isn't there usually something you don't like about every layout? Well for me, I always manage to find just something I am not happy with...

This is only a quick post as I have to rush and pick up the kids from childcare if I don't get moving soon. Dinner is cooked at least (it has to be as Josh and Nikki are so grumpy when they get home from child care they have to eat and be bathed straight away.)

Here is another layout I also finished today of Miss Nikki. I have had the paper weaving done for ages but didn't have the right photo to use (weird since I have loads of photos to scrap!)

Also here is my BG color me silly layout of Josh reading... Or weading as he calls it (well he did in September 2005, when the photo was taken.) SM rejected it but then again, what is new there!

Cheers,
Ros

Yay for blogger. I can upload pics!

I forgot to post yesterday that it was DT Monday at Paper Doll and this week it is me! Yay... LOL.... You can see my DT submissions and my Heidi Swapp chipboard letter (which I posted on here a little while ago).

Now, if Blogger is going to play nice today I will upload the pics of my friend's birthday present to show you all. She loved them and I got quite a few comments so I was "glowing" with all the praise... LOL!

This is the front cover and the inside showing the envelopes holding the photos and the quotes onto "mini layouts"

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are - unknown" Is the quote on the mini layout of a bunch of school friends in ahhhh 1994

"Your friend is the one who knows all about you and still likes you - Elbert Hubbard" Quote for the deb photo mini layout, August 1997

"My very best friends are those who know without ever being told - Authine Steinbeck" Quote for layout of Jess and I, September 1997

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are - unknown" Quote for layout of friends and I on my 18th birthday, July 1998

"A friend is like a good bra, close to your heart, hard to find and supportive - Anonymous" Quote for layout of last day of year 12, October 1998

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young." Quote-ish thing on the last mini layout with birthday wishes etc.

Thanks for checking my updates out and hopefully blogger will behave in future as I am doing a Kim Archer class tomorrow and want to share!

Bye.

Damm blogger being done... Won't upload pics

A quick summary of my weekend and today... We went out for dinner on Saturday night for my friend's birthday (blogger is being dumb so I will have to upload pics later) and it was different. We went to a Thai restaurant in Brunswick Street and were seated on the floor on cushions. (Not good for my hips and pelvis, I am still in pain from sitting on the floor for so long). I ordered chicken and cashew which had chilli's in it and I don't do hot food so that was the end of my meal and Nat ordered some chilli thing and it had no chilli in it at all! He wasn't the only one to experience lack of chilli in a chilli based meal.... It was good to catch up with friends again but we left early and didn't go for drinks afterwards as we got a lift into town with Nat's dad and a friend gave us a lift home (beats a taxi from Brunswick Street!)

On Sunday I went to Chadstone for a Scrapboxx meet (thanks Sarah for driving me and the other girls) and meet up with Nic Finno (Nicole Finlayson), Squiggle (Jane), Sassyone (Sarah), Scrappa (Kim), Brooke and Subbies (Tam), Zina Wright, Charmane and Lou Spiden.
It was great to meet all the girls and they only one I knew was Sarah...
(Photo to be uploaded later)

Today Nat went to the Commonwealth Games to see shooting and I was stuck home with the kids after a terrible night with Nikki. Neither Nat or I hardley got any sleep so I am hoping tonight will be better. I want to scrap, but am quite tired and Desperate Housewifes is on as well as Commonder (sp.) in Chief.

Not a lot really from me other than I wasn't home much this weekend and am working tomorrow so it doesn't look like any scrapping will be happening then either. At least I know I will get some scrapping done on Wedensday I am doing Kim Archer's online class.

Cheers till I am back to upload photos...
Ros

Photos

I have got some more photos of the kids to share... It is amazing, I have 3 photos of each of the kids I am happy with taken in the last week. This never happens... It is about as rare as getting a decent shot of the 3 of them all together... Or a family shot.... I love my little "bucket boy" shot. I have no idea what is Josh's fascination with buckets at the moment but he is driving my crazy everytime he goes in the laundry... He takes all the washing out of the buckets and jumps into one of them.... Nikki was wearing a top my mum got for her the first time this morning and looked so cute that Nat delayed putting her into the car (to go to childcare) to take photos of Miss Nikki.... (How well trained is he getting?) The one of Drew was taken this morning after we got such good ones of Nat and Nikki... The other kids were at childcare and Drew was quite happy (as per usual). I hate the fact that Nat has his legs up on the wall behind Drew and you can see them in the photo (totally ruins it!) I tried getting rid of them but it looks like I am hiding something (like legs) on the photos... I can't get the colours right. Anyone have any ideas? After I took these photos of Drew and Nat we started taking a few of Drew and I. Of course he decided to bring up his milk from an earlier feed all over his clothes... (Yuck!) At least he had the good grace to not dirty me just before I was going to work. (Must be getting him quite well trained as well... LOL!)

Hoping to get scrapping soon once naughty DS#1 goes to sleep... He keeps on getting out of bed saying "I go toilet."
It is not like I can really say no is it if we are toilet training! I was working on 2 layouts last night but they weren't working for me... Nat was on nightshift and I just needed someone to bounce ideas off... Hopefully tonight will be more productive, although Nat is at work again tonight too.

Cheers,
Ros

I want to scrap!

I so want to scrap but do you think I can find the time? It took me all afternoon yesterday to print out 3 pages of photos! In amongst cooking dinner and blog surfing of course!

Nat and I had a great morning kid free (all 3 kids were in care, Drew until 2pm) so I went grocery shopping before breakfast, then we went into Frankston and I had a me shopping time. I got 2 new bras and ordered a new pair of shoes (so yummy). We got Josh and Nikki a winter outfit each too and then went scrap shopping (only briefly as Nat get's bored!) and had lunch at Davey's.

It was so great having some time away from the kids and feeling like a couple again and not lugging all the kids stuff around too. I love our kids to bits but it was definetly great for some "us" time without kids interuppting.

I watched a little of the opening ceremony last night, (wow) but fell asleep as the teams where marching in (not because it was boring but I was soooo tired...) I woke up later to the kids and couldn't go back to sleep for ages!

Josh is improving on the toilet training front, yesterday at child care, he didn't have any "opps" at all... This morning he came and got me after I feed Drew his bottle to show me he did a pooh in the toilet and then ran down to the other toilet (we were in the ensuite) and sat down to do some more pooh. He gets up (off the toilet) and said "I did more pooh!"
I checked and there wasn't anymore pooh and I told him that and he said "I get some more!"
LOL, kids say the funniest things sometimes.

Cheers,
Ros

So tired...

I had work today and what a busy day... I was ready to chuck in my job too as my dad was being a pain in the ass! (I work for my family in a timber yard) and it has its benefits and disadvantages... I had a really busy day and then came home and cooked dinner. Nat offered to start it but has no idea how I start the roast chicken and it will be too confusing for him to make sense of what I said over the phone.

The kids (Josh and Nikki) were really ratty when I got home and after politely telling to leave mummy alone, do you think the older two would listen? Hell no! That would be too much like listening to mummy. Instead Josh was saying to me, "You cranky, mummy!"
All you can do is laugh when kids do something like that.

I have uploaded some new pics of my little bubbie Drewie. How cute does he look.... Ahhh my little bubbie. All my bubbies are good tonight, all asleep including Josh who went to bed no problems and didn't get out of bed once.

On the toilet training front, yesterday Josh was awesome. One accident (I think, can't really remember) and even a pooh on the toilet. Today, not so... He only got one sticker which meant he went on the toilet once. Yesterday I had him in a nappy as he didn't want to put his "big boy jocks on" and it seemed to work better. Today (I was at work) and he was in training pants/jocks and weed all over the place... Hopefully tomorrow will be better at childcare. If not, I will put him in the nappy again and try that and see if it still works well.

All from me now. Off to create with my new BG my SIL sent over from the Scrapboxx retreat.
Bye!