Bleaching Class.

As I said in my last post - I have been playing with Bleaching lately. These are the cards we did in a Class.

A New Year Challenge...

Now that it is a New Year, it is time to get back into Weekly Challenges! It's a great way to try new things - layouts, techniques and colour combos.

So the first one that I have participated in for the Year is a Sketch Challenge from Makeesha. And this is what I made.

I have used the Bleaching technique on this card. I was doing something very very similar for a class that I am running at the moment so combined the sketch and the bleaching to come up with this.

I will post some pic's from the Bleaching Class soon.

One Template / 3 Projects.

I have a few projects that I have not posted yet. So I thought I would start playing catchup now.

After going to the Perth Regional's last year I have been playing around a bit with taking one idea and doing a number of projects with it. I decided to do this in a class so that I could share the idea with everyone else. And this is what we made.... 1. A little Love Note.

2. A standard size Card

3. A 6 x 6 Layout

Ouch!

"I hungry" Sarah said as she ran to the pantry. Standing on tippy-toes she started to sort through the shelves to see what she could find.

Just as I came up behind her she found something and pulled it out....unfortunately she knocked a can of Fruit salad - off the shelf straight onto her big toe!

After a few seconds delay (during which I thought she'd missed her toe) she screamed!!

So we then spent the rest of the morning nursing her sore toe.

Here's a pic of it.....DON'T LOOK though if you don't like sore toes.

But one day later...she seems to have forgotten she hurt it.

Santa came to stay....

Merry Christmas everyone.

Sarah un-packing her Santa sack.

Santa came to visit today. Here's Santa sitting on the couch. Sarah was a bit scared of getting to close to him but ripped into the present that he brought her. Sarah started her day with a large chocolate Santa for breakfast. I don't think she had any real food till about 8.30pm after waking up from a 4 - 5 hour afternoon sleep. Last night before I went to bed I hung some small Chocolate Santa's on the Christmas Tree for everyone to eat - but Sarah sniffed them out fairly quickly this morning and ate all but 1 of them during the course of the day.

We have had a great day with the family coming for Christmas lunch. Sarah loved hanging out with her cousin Cody. They played in the sandpit and did colouring in together. We received some fantastic gifts. Some of the favourites were a Talking, moving baby and a View master.

Here is Sarah asleep at the end of the day with her new baby.

Quiet time at the Park (sort of).

At this time of year - everyone is busy and there seems to been 1000 things to be done - especially on the day of Christmas Eve.

So it was nice to go to the park in the morning yesterday to meet Michelle and Janet and their children. The buzz buzz of busy-ness seemed to be a world away. And our children had a ball playing together while we sat and had a coffee and a breather.

We all exchanged Christmas gifts and the children spent a good 1/2 and hour running around blowing bubbles and trying to catch them.

Sarah giving Toby a gift.

Then we all went to the play ground to burn a bit more energy.
Here's a pic of Sarah and all her friends. (L to R) Alyssa, Sarah, Darcy, Kyle & Toby.

Trimming the Tree!

Merry Christmas! This morning we went and got ourselves a Christmas Tree. The original plan was to get a real one (like we did in NZ)...but they were so small and expensive that we decided on one in a box. Doesn't it look lovely.

Most of the decorations are in one area on the tree - cause that is where Sarah could reach. She enjoyed putting them on and playing with the tinsel. I asked her what else we need for the tree and she said "Presents".

She keeps saying "I miss Christmas". I remind her that Christmas will be next week and that the things we are doing now is just to get ready for Christmas.

She went to see Santa in the mall - sat on his knee quite happily. He asked what she wanted for Christmas and she said "Presents" so he said was there anything special she wanted....Answer: "Presents".

She also saw Santa at the Day Care Christmas Party...he must have been scary cause all the kids cried. One started...and that was it. They were all bawling. Since then even if we just walk past Santa in the mall Sarah covers her eye's and says "I NOT see Sana"