Wow 2 posts in 1 day!

Can you tell I had some time out from work... Am loving it!
So exciting just found out I won a little voucher for my bling shoes! I love how I slowly revise my picture of luck, draws and winning. Thought of myself as being unlucky... but beginning to believe I am a lucky gal!
Lotto next.. hmm need to buy a ticket some day!

Had such fun doing this LO for SBO September challenge, using 3 bugs paper and making your own cardstock embelli. I am in LOVe! That PC microglitter i's just amazing. One cannot see it so well in the photo but it sparkles like a 1000 suns in daylight!
My fairysister and my niece Oneder, love how they bring out the best in each other. They are two such special people. The the small journaling is about their special relationship and how glad I am to be part of it all.
I am so proud of them both! MY family!

Fun LO - making me grin!

Every time I look at this LO I must grin! It's kinda a bit over the top, just like the subject of the photo ;p
Journaling reads: OK OK I admit it. I am a closet Bling Addict. But I am ready to come out and dazzle my world.
This was my LO for the weekly challenge at SBO - Lyn's Glitter challenge. I had such fun putting those shiny sequins on and simply playing around. Wish I did that more often in general.
Arent these shoes just quite something else? They are so delightfully over the top, makes me feel great to wear them! Rainers workmate Michelle - bless her- told him to tell me they had cool sparkly shoes at The Warehouse.. how's that for sparkle networking! Naturally we had to swing by and check them out. Couldn't see them until Rainer climbed up one of those huge shelves and threw down a couple of boxes. Great delight when they fell out! For under $10 I had to buy a few pairs of course! Rainer grinned and said once they're bust I can cut them up and use them on some LO. My man is starting to think like a scrapper, love it!

Happy as!

Had a fun scrapping lately and will post some LO's soon!
Just managed to finish my metal LO for NZ dare. Suddenly yesterday eve inspiration hit me - love it when that happens! Quite like it. Tons of practise for the dreaded eyelet setting;p Proud to report I am getting quite good at it;p.
Ok better rush, photography class with Vicky soon and I didnt have any dinner yet.

Thanks guys for the support. Alas I am truely bad at leaving work at work. My head just spins of this continous what to do next list. I admire people who can make a clear seperation and please pass on your secret to me!

The office floor was covered in paper rubbish when I left today. We dont have a huge enough paper waste basket LOL. Plus it all needs to be shredded for safety reasons... and then the biggest bummer...likely it's against 1-umphty knows how many policies to use any photos I make at work.. *grumps* So Kelly there goes that idea... and I had no time to take pictures of the glorious freesias in the garden. Instead it was pictures of safety boots and sneakers;p TGIF tomorrow! Just hope I get everything done for the monday check up. Haha, dunno if my boss realizes that I am not scheduled on for Monday... I sure aint gonna tell her;p

On the plus, wasn't SuperNova cool tonight! Made my evening! Not surprised they picked Lucas. He kinda bridges the gap between the old rock boys ( Gilbie & co ) and the young, the goth , the punk and older audience and is a great performer. Loved his sparkly lipgloss tonight - I want some just like it.

More plus...
I finally got the last photo I needed for Kelly's family CJ. For days I wasn't sure how to do them and tonight suddenly inspiration hit me and I got my concept ! Even managed to get a start on that and had a play with photoshop. Think it'll work out fine. Made me happy. Gosh I love the way scrapbooking makes me feel!
Off I go to scrapbooking dreamland, where the shops stock everything I could imagine. Where everything is for free and deliveries take no more than 3 minutes worldwide.
See you there!

Should have been more careful about using a title with the word chaos in it... Life has a habit of noticing little things like that;p
Overnight my life went from happy chaos to stressed, full on chaos. Work, different audits coming up, as usual with minimal notice. Felt like screaming and throwing a tantrum when I heard that. And as if that was not enough this coming Monday the top bosses drop by with a check up visit to start the whole show off . Just found out yesterday... that simply left me speechless. Gone are my free days - desperatly trying to plow through all that needs to be done.
Could not have come at a worse time either as there are so many cool competitions out there. Had it all planned what I was gonna start this week...now I feel flustered and kinda bereft.
The forum girls were so sweet and understanding in their posts, made me feel heaps better - thanks girls! Kelly made a very good suggestion - thank you! She said to take the camera and snap the cause of my resentment for my BOM and scrap it once I got time. She's right better to see the glass half full than half empty and look for the good and opportunities in things.
Lesson for me - keep the 'scrap hat' on even at work and even in stress!

Glad I didn't pull out of Vicky's class last night . Really enjoyed it, the forum girls are such a nice lot and I learned a lot. Vicky has a great way of simplifying things and concepts into easily understandable bits. Once again it's all about perspective and perception, literally and in how and why we approach things. I need to befriend my camera more and be less afraid of all the buttons, technical terms and that fat book called manual.

Well time to go read up on the forums.

Decorations are up!

lol ...making this blog is a bit like moving into a new home. I put up the clock and hung the first pictures and now I wanna kick back and relax. Was a bit of a challenge getting the strip to go into its allotted slot. The stamp was a piece of cake. Love that it doesnt look so 'bare' anymore.
But oh oh, the time it all took...
Now I got a pile of photos to edit for work, health & safety, toilets, showers, mobs, plugs... how exciting... NOt.
Work tomorrow.... sad I love weekends when everyone is home and we hang out.

bling bling

Isn't this just the most gorgeous piece of super bling!
What miserable weather today. Rainer and I went to town and browsed through the new Dollar Shop. Love that place! Shelves overflowing with useful and useless things! A riot of colours and lots of flowers and bling. At the checkout counter I saw this ring. I mean how can you not notice something that sparkles like this?
Rainer knows me so well.. looked at the ring, then at me and said ' go get it'. Bless him :) Love that he totally gets me and supports my quirks! Nevermind the rain today, I have my own flower and rainbow- right on my finger and it sparkles like 10 suns!



Oh you wanna see what else I got? My answer to a cold rainy day. Bright flowers.



Had a great late lunch at Sorelle's our most favorite ever Cafe. I just adore that place and the owners are such fantastic women! We found out they are going to move to Kariotahi Beach in January. I love that beach but I so love the athmosphere of their current place.. Peaceful, stylish and luxurious, yet totally comfy. Hope the other place will match that somehow.
Well time to find something to nibble.

Had to happen eventually...

Yep, I joined the bloggers!
Strangest feeling... the private person inside me frowns but the rest of me is dancing around. That's my life.
A big learning curve, managed to add a picture and also changed some links. Will have to do something about the title. Too empty.
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