Little Shop of Sketches

Well my time as GD for little shop of sketches is almost over. I am not sure if its finished already or not, I havent heard from Tanya Leigh so cant be sure. Nor has she posted last weeks layouts on the blog so I hope everything is ok with her. I know she is very busy getting the new shop up and running. I dont know how she does it, a new shop, classes, at least 2 blogs and the forum and on top of that, children and visting international students…makes my head spin reading her blogs sometimes.

I totally love the sketches shes been sending, shes got a real talent! I felt so lucky when I got picked as a GD and have had a great time doing the layouts though its been hard at times with being sick and Katie getting sick etc, all and all its been a bit of a tough month. But its been a very good scrapbooking month lol.

here is my latest layout, I used some of the stuff from the latest SBO kit which was AWESOME, nothing like bright colours to brighten up a miserable winter

girl at play

 

now i am off to eat the beautiful fluffy omlete that Steve made me for dinner, hes practicing for his cooking class. and I hate cooking….works out good for both of us and he makes the best fluffy omletes i have ever tasted.

later one and all

hugz

Vicky

confession time

i have a confession to make, I love cheerleader movies lol…I watched the 4th Bring It On movie on Sunday and it was good. I wish I could have been a cheerleader, looks like a lot of fun. I was a gymnast for years when i was a kid but I always secretly wished I could be a dancer. I hope Katie gets a dream like that and gets to follow it. I never got the chance, the joys of growing up in a small town I suppose.

Katie is a very sick wee girl at the moment. She had me up half the night last night, shes been coughing so hard its scares her and me too. I took her to the doctor this afternoon and she has a pretty bad ear infection and a chest infection as well as a bit of croup, poor wee honey. shes asleep on the couch next to me at the moment, she wont be separatedfrom me at the moment She has slept with me for the last few nights and no doubly it will be a couple of nights before she goes back to her own bed. I would rather have her close when shes like this.  Last night I rung the healthline, she was so lethargic she wouldn’t wake up properly at about 6ish, she had been asleep since 4pm and I thought I would have to take her to the hospital she was coughing and had a really high temperature. The nurse on the healthline said it sounded like croup. the doctor has put her on penicillin so hopefully it will fix her up. i hate it when the kids are sick, you feel so useless.

To make matters worse I still have a bad cough left over from the chest infection I had last week, I just cant shake it. the Dr gave me an inhaler and I have been using that far more than I would like but it does help but my chest hurts from all the coughing so I can only imagine how much Katie’s wee chest hurts, her cough is a lot worse than mine. Poor baby. I brought her a wheat bag today that has lavenderin it and looks like a stuffed monkey and that seems to help her breatha bit easier.shes cuddling it right now. She cuddled up to it on my lap with a wee muttered “my monkey monkey” and went straight to sleep at about 7ish. Now I am waiting for her to stir so I can give her some more panmol and cough mixture and get her PJ’s on. she wouldn’t let me before and I didnt see the point of upsetting her. Its all about keeping little Miss calm at the moment.

Mum and Dad left for Haast and the whitebait season on Sunday and as usual its far to quiet around here.  But peaceful lol…I love living with my parents but its good to see them go away for a while, it gives all of us some space. Though it looks like this will be their last year going to Haast, most of their friends arentgoing any more and its a long way to go. With Dad’s health its not a good idea for them to be so isolated but does he listen? hell no! MEN!! lol of course that means I might get to go to SENZ next year if they will be home to look after Katie lol…heres hoping…depends where it is of course.

anyway time to get this girl changed and get her into bed. night night

hugz

Vicky

whoo hoot wednesday

I havent done this for a while, and to tell the truth I dont feel much like whoo hooting cos I am still sick and have been for almost 2 weeks but heres trying to look at the bright side of life….ohhh great now I have that silly song stuck in my head…always look on the bright side of life hehehe….

anyway to whoo hooting lol

1. I have been enjoying being this months guest designer for Little Shop Of Sketches its been a real challenge and great fun.
2. I can finally enroll Katie at the new pre school opening in Richmond in october! YAH, got the enrollment forms yesterday.
3. Steve has got 30 credits toward NCEA, most of his subjects are externally assessed so he is going to have to make sure he does really well in exams, which i am sure he will.
4. Dad has recovered from his operation. even though it took lectures from all of us to get him to rest enough to recover and he is still insitant on going to Haast for the whitebait season next week. At least he is well enough to go.
5. I got this months SBO kit and its yummmmmy….and I also brought 2 lots of Doodlebug flock and 2 lots of Dooblebug glitter which Andrea sent with the kit and they are all to cute for words…havent had a chance to use them yet but cant wait, might have to do a girly layout of Katie just so I can use them lol.

well thats a wahoo hoot from me this week…..this is my latest layout for LSOS sketch #13

the photo doesnt do the colours justice and I had to reprint the photos thanks to Katie’s overwhelming need to help, she took a pen to the orginally pictures…apparently she thought she would look better coloured blue. I didnt think she did. And now I have a lock on my scrapbook room door lol…another wahoo hoot…Katie cant get in and destroy my scrapbook room any more…while i was sick she got in several times and tipped things out and made a huge mess so the other day I went to Mitre 10 Mega and got a slide bolt and Dad put it at the top of the door out of madams reach,…..now if I could just lock it from the inside…I would never come out lol.

anyway this isnt getting things done

have a good day all

hugz

Vicky

MAN FLU!!

it isnt just men who can suffer from Man Flu…seems like I have a good dose of it myself. On Friday I was feeling a bit peeky but went shopping in town anyway since I had to pick up Katie’s Pixie Photo. By the time I made my way around the warehouse and picked up the photo I was feeling pretty light headed and slightly nauseated so instead of going to Spotlight I packed Katie back into the car and heading home. I spent the rest of the afternoon scrapbooking and fighting the inevitable.  Saturday I made it as far as the couch and that’s where i stayed all day. Then Sunday morning after being up and down all night with Katie who is also sick, I got up with her at 8ish and lay on the couch feeling totally out of it. When Mum got up about half an hour later she sent me back to bed and I slept from about 9am until somewhere around 4ish. Still felt like someone had pounded me on the head with a hammer repeatedly not to mention shoved corks up my nose. and i havent got any better since then…well my throat has now joined in the fun and every bone in my body aches.

thank heavens for Mum, shes looked after Katie and Me as she always does, where would I be without her?

And now I am lying in my bed with Katie sound asleep beside me and thinking I really need to get that layout for Little Shop of Sketches done, I did have it finished but a certain little miss who shall remain nameless took a pen and scribbled over the photos yesterday, not to mention tipped out 2 containers of brads and who knows what else. I rue the day she learnt to open doors around here, nothing is safe any more. Think I will need to get a lock for my scrapbook room. I will just need to reprint the photos and replace the wrecked ones I hope, I have only had a quick glance at the damage.

well I am off to catch up on a bit of email before I have a snooze. take care all

hugz

Vicky

falling behind

Cousins

with all thats been going on lately I feel like I am falling behind in the forums and challenges. I have managed to get the important one done, the little shop of sketchesdesign monthly designer layout which i completed on Monday and am well into completing next weeks one, thanks Tanya Leigh for sending the sketch early, it gave me time to formulate a plan of attack lol. this is my layout out for sketch #12, its a truly terrible photo, the light was all wrong but the PP is Heidi grace and is beautiful with flocking on some of the birds and shimmery background, the background pp is making memories and i did a bit of digi manipulation with the photo, framed it and such. not all together happy with the whole layout but considering what i was dealing with at the time i don’t think its to bad.

Between Dads operation and recovery, Steve and Katie both coming down with a stomach bug that took them almost a week to shake, then Katie got a cold, conjunctivitis and an ear infection and has been sleeping in my bed more often than her own lately which means I don’t get to sleep much. Its been two weeks since I had a decent nights sleep and now its showing, I am getting sick. I have picked up Katie’s cold which means I cant take my injection today. I’m not allowed to have any infections when I take the injections because it lowers my immune system and can make it a lot worse very quickly and since I don’t have time for pneumonia again I will leave it until I feel better, it means I am going to have to rely a lot on codiene but hey thats life, I am use to it and swearing and throwing a taddy wont get me anywhere lol.

I took Katie to the doctor yesterday, it was a locum as my normal lovely dr was away, and he couldnt get over the fact that Katie was so big and so intelligent. His daughter is 3 weeks younger and isnt even doing half the things Katie is. But then we spend so mucht time teaching her, she picks everything up s quickly it makes it fun for both of us.

that and the fact she is just the most beautiful, intelligent and cutest little girl ever born lol…dont all mothers think that? The doctor didnt know I had RA and was really surpised when I told him, He called me amazing lol…to me its just what I have to do to raise our little 2 year old hurricane.  I am really lucky in the amount of help I get and having Mum and Dad here to jump in when I need them. It would be easier if I didnt have RA but I do so I just have to get on with it. 

And talking of hurricanes, time I gave her some medicine and then palm her off on her brother for half an hour so I can do some more work on this layout. Mum’s cooking tea…lucky lucky me…I hardly ever have to cook….my family dont trust my cooking for some reason….dont know why…I’ve havent killed anyone…yet!!! lol….have a good weekend all and hope its nicer weather at your place than it is here…its cold and wet sigh…again…roll on spring!

hugzzzz

Vicky