CMH Challenge #26

I have to say I feel very little guilt for sitting back watching the Olympics on days like these. MN is certainly pulling out all the stops on us here in Christchurch, ensuring what is left of Winter be cold and dreary. And thank goodness for that! How else would I be able to watch TV mid day unashamedly
like I have been!

The weather has also given me a chance to finish this Challenge #26 for the girls at Challenge Me Happy. We had to use the word 'Today' in our title so I did this one of James' birthday that was recently. And thanks to Hannah I was able to finish it off with some of the goodies she sent me for her RAK prize from the Hoopla Comp. Thanks so much, loved loved loved my loot!

Its not often you see something girlie from me, but when my bestie's sister had a baby girl recently how could I resist! I'd admit it! I loved the pink. The flowers, and I am currently indulging in a lot of "fussy" cutting of my gorgeous Spring Jubilee Pack that I gratefully received from the lovely ladies at Challenge Me Happy for winning Michelle's challenge in their recent Hoopla competition! I was blown away. Not only as I have never won anything before from scrapbooking, but also the competition was fierce! Man there are some talented scrapper's out there...thanks Michelle. So watch this space for what I create with this scrummy line.

Ok, getting back to my card. Probably not very "babyish", but sweet and girlie all the same. Congrats A and B, such wonderful news...

Love Belinda

Sticking to my guns

Im sitting down with a wine. I have watched the clock for the last hour thinking half four was really too early to crack open a bottle, 5 o'clock, now thats more reasonable. A little less desperate. Who am I kidding, I'm desperate! This afternoon has been somewhat challenging yet I sit here with a somewhat smug look on my face knowing that "I HAVE WON!" Won a battle with my darling six year old, and I stuck to my guns and saw through the punishment! I never do that! I'm usually so weak and give into the crying, pleading, and apologies. Not this time. No rugby practice for Jesse. That will teach ya! Mum is strong, a force to be reckoned with. She will see through her threats...

I do have a problem with myself though in how I handle these outburst's from my boys at times. I get the giggles. And laughing just makes it worse! I'm not sure what comes over me but their tantrums can be so highly amusing that I find it hard to hold back. And try carrying a screaming child into their room for time out whilst cracking up. I can't! All my energy gets sucked out of my arms and they turn to jelly. Just pathetic. So now Im going to be not only a force to reckon with but one with arms of steel.

So no layout today to share, just loving memories of my wee man, who is so fierce that I love him with a fierceness back.

It's all about the girls.

Today is a great day. Today I get to take my two older nieces out on a girlie day. There will be shopping, for pink stuff. There will be cupcake eating. There will be Katy Perry movie going (we love you Miss Perry). And I really cannot wait. What up! The day just got even better! My lovely man arrived home with coffee and ginger cake! Im in love, and what's more he's taking my car back to get my WOF! What!! No one ever has done that for me before, I'm a lucky lucky girl. So today was a great day 10 minutes ago. Now its just bloody fantastic!

And to celebrate this girliness here is my latest installment from the Challenge Me Happy challenge that  Michelle posted, to use the word Happy on my LO. What could be happier? Cupcakes, pink, and an adorable little face like this...

Histeria and Heartbreak

Since when were we such big German Football supporters? Someone must have slipped something into James' Milo this morning cos things were just not right in our abode today, and all because Germany were losing to Italy! You would've thought Jesse had told him that Santa was taking a break this year, or that Disneyland and been swallowed up by a theme park eating monster. But no, Germany were losing. There were tears. There were screams. We had hiding under our blankets in our room refusing to go to school. Life was not fair. Jesse was not fair. Germany were losing to Italy! For heavens sake, when did we become such avid Germany Football Fans? Clearly I missed the fact that this was the end of the world as James would know it. So off he went to school, in a grump. I came home, looked around my living room, and asked myself "What the hell just happened here?"

By the way here is my 2nd installment for Challenge Me Happy's One year Anniversary Challenge, this one from Norine, and the theme being 'birthdays"

...oh and by the way, GO ITALY!

Challenge Me Happy Challenge

Sometimes I need a wee kick up the bum to get the scrapbooking juices flowing, and since I can't really participate in the Scrappin Patch Stars in their Eyes comp, the one on CMH was the perfect jump start I needed. Isn't it easier when someone challenges us or gives us the prompts to start? Anyhow I have enjoyed standing at the dining room table today with the winter sun streaming in, doing this "recipe" layout challenge from Hannah, which had to include card stock, patterned paper, a stamped image, staples, words in the title and stickers.

The card stock and patterned papers were the easy part. I then added the gorgeous chipboard stickers from Crate Papers Story Teller range, stamped some circles onto some twine to create a garland effect, added some word stickers from Simple Stories Summer Fresh Alpha Sheet, and threw in a couple of staples for good measure...I think I ticked all the boxes! Thanks Hannah for the wonderful inspiration.

It's raining cotton buds!!

How perfect is this! Fire blazing whilst snow slowly drifts from the sky. I could sit at this table forever and gaze vacantly at our backyard, it just looks so so pretty.

Doesn't everything though when covered with snow. Even our munted house in the "Red Zone" looks beautiful, rather melancholic, sitting there cold and lonely in a blanket of white to cover its imperfections.
I do have a longing to run out there (the snow is a lot thicker than above now)and cast my snow angel in the snow, yet I know how my not 10 year old body will perform. I will be like a cast sheep, struggling to heave myself back up. It will be cold. And it will be wet. I will admire the snow from this position right here I think.

I am really enjoying scrapping to challenges at the moment, maybe its my competitive side coming out, and this one I have completed from the recent Challenge Me Happy girls would have to be one of my fav's.

I have also done this one too which I can definitely say was inspired by Jessy Christopher I am really loving on her style right now too...