Some invites, a Hi-Tea and a big school girl.

Well excitement was BIG in our house this morning!!! Tahlia had been waiting for this day for so long and it finally arrived....Big school orientation.

This exact time last year I was holding Kyra's hand as we did our first walk up the street toward big school but today Tahlia didn't want to hold my hand, she held the hands of her sister and her best friend...how lucky can you get.

She had a great morning and wasn't scared in the slightest, she embraced every bit of it. She showed confidence and a calmness as She sat on the classroom floor and listened to the teacher say good morning, she was in her element. I could tell without her saying that she was just so excited to be entering Kyra's world.

Here is a picture of Tahlia and Halle, (T's bestie) with their colouring in.

Now to back track a little. Last year a friend up the road had a special morning tea for all the girls going to big school who lived in our street and Kyra just loved it. It was a great chance to meet other mums and for Kyra to start playing with girls that she would go to school with. So with Tahlia having her orientation this year I decided to do just that. A few weeks ago Tahlia sent out these little invitations that I whipped up (it's my scrapping effort for the moment). 8 little girls plus Tahlia enjoying cupcakes and pink milk...so cute.

Here they all are at the hi-tea table A special BIG thanks to my mum who stayed here at my house and minded finn for me and set up everything sdo that when we walked in the door it was ready. She also made soooo many gorgeous treats for the kids and spent so much time helping me. My mum and dad are always helping me out with the little adventure i go on....THANK YOU SO MUCH!

It was so much fun and all the girls got on so well and played and played whilst all the mum ate the most yummiest treats, it was great.

I love this world that I'm entering...having two children at school. It's emotional though. It means my babies are big and so not babies anymore.

So seeing as these invites are literally my only scrapping effort in forever I'm pleased to announce that if I don't have at least one page to show you tomorrow then there is something wrong! I'm scrapping with my guru buddies tomorrow and sooooooooo looking forward to it and of course all the yummy treats that will be consumed. Did you know that calories cannot be absorbed whilst in scrapping mode? It is such a known fact....well thats what I'm telling myself anyway.

Can't believe I'm sharing this...

Yes that's right, I can't believe I'm sharing this photo with you but I just had too.

Today I was surfing around blog land and went to a blog I visit regularly called The Simple Mom where her moto is "Happiness is making the most of what you have."...I like that alot. Anyway I totally started laughing when I saw the photo from her most recent post Frightfully Frugal Costume Ideas. Here is the photo

This is a modern idea I'm guessing for Halloween coming up but it transported me back to my own childhood dressup days for the bookweek fair night in primary school. This is me...a bunch of grapes on the grapevine. We thought it was a great idea 26 years ago.looks pretty similar...

too funny...

Anyway here are the last of my pages to share from the weekend away....soooo long ago now but I thought that i should share some scrapping since I haven't in forever.

Like I said these were from the weekend away so so many ideas shared and lifted so not much originality on my behalf but at least the story is down. Thanks for letting me lift girls :)

This last picture is upon Shannons request. It's the canvas I did for the girls wall so long ago now. It is a total lift of Nicoles canvas and if I possibly had a link to her actual canvas I would put it in as Nicoles is really great (If you have one nicole or have a picture to send me then I would love to add it in. Sorry about the bad light in photo) EDITED TO ADD NICOLES ORIGINAL CANVAS THAT I LIFTED. Thanks for the pic Nic :)

Here I am again...

Well here I am again after being in what seems like a vortex of bad luck and crazy life with my computer dying and taking forever to get fixed then only to bring it home and it still not work. When we finally got it back working a the whole next week we had street internet/cable issues.

I went on holidays with some girls friends and all the kids (just after my last post) whilst nick and the boys went to sinagpore for the F1. Nick has had time off work recently for the school holidays and I had a sore back during most of that time so I really haven't been myself lately....Time to get back on track.

I sadly haven't done that much scrapping (sometimes you have to really be in the right frame of mind to do pages and write journaling etc I feel) Anyway I have for a few months be working on some sewing projets. I love to get out the sewing machine when I'm having a scrapping break, so then I still feel like I have my creative outlet. I have a few projects happening which I will share with you in the next week but I will share now the mini room make over I did for the girls.

They have such a tiny room which they share and it's hard to make it not look cluttered. You know what girls are like having hundreds of little trinkets to put on shelves, beanie bears and toys all over the bed...it's a bit overwhelming but they love it and I would want to make them put their treasure things away in a draw, so I had to come up with a fresh plan.

This is the girls room before

The girls and I really loved the rainbow, but it chopped up the time room and with the busy Lilly and Lolly quilt covers it was just a bit much.

I really am into the Partridge family style birds and found some cute accessories in that style but the quilt covers were again way too busy. I kept searching for a quilt that I loved and just couldn't find one so i decided to make one. I bought a plain white quilt cover from ikea and then cut out a big bird to sew on. My mum (clever lady that she is) drew me a bird pattern on a huge sheet of paper and I went from there. Here is how it turned out including a picture of me late night sewing :)

The finished bird, I zig zag stitched all the way around each piece and used a cute button for the eye.
Finished room.
I bought stripy blankets for the ends of the bed and left kyra's bed with the plain treehouse quilt for the moment and gave her the bird cushion to keep the theme. I found some cute wall decal stickers that matched and put 2 on the bed and the rest on the purple frame I had been waiting to use.
I love that little bird! It's everywhere for me at the moment I feel like it's such my little symbol...now I'm inflicting it on the girls...but they love it too :)

I was excited to read this post from Sharon when I was catching up on blog reading, as it just fit perfectly into my sewing mode that I'm in. I feel inspired to attempt one of these tops just on the look out for the perfect material for it.

Here are some cool photos from last Wednesday when it hit close to 31degrees. How good is spring :) In saying that today is raining...not sure what is happening with this crazy weather. Anyway we had fun running through the sprinkler...the very exact same sprinkler that i had as a kid growing up...I so need to find a photo of me under the sprinkler to scrap them together. They just don't make sprinklers like this anymore. I love when you look closley at this first photo the water from the sprinkler is in a line.

Bring back the sunny weather...please!