Pizza boxes and an ambulance!!!!

I had a couple of pizza boxes delivered to me in the last couple of weeks and so have had some yummy new products to play with. Hence these layouts.......

This is Ella when she was little ....isn't she a cutie! These are using Graphic 45 papers.

I think this is my new favourite...love the spray of flowers. Sass Lass pp's.

Ella at the beach on Straddie. Her name was washed away about 5 seconds after this photo was taken.

Some yummy new Basic Grey papers. Photo of the girls taken last year.

On another note I had a little accident on Sunday 12th.

I fell off my bike!!! And Ella fell with me!!! Actually I was strapping her into the baby seat on the back and then was trying to turn around to face the right way and my foot got caught on the bar and over we went....... my bum hit the pavers and my back hit the verandah post which is metal and not forgiving!!! For a few minutes I couldn't move and couldn't breath properly, luckily Dave was there and several other people (yes all witnesses!!!) Ella is ok just a little scrape on her arm.

They helped me to get upstairs and tried to lie on the bed but the pain was unbearable so Dave insisted/rang an ambulance and the paramedics came and took me hospital and gave me some lovely morphine on the way. (get seen to straight away if you arrive in an ambulance!!!)

Several hours later and some x-rays revealed I had severe bruising so off I was sent home with a script for some anti-inflammatories. Monday morning I had a phone call from the hospital to say that a radiologist has looked at my x-rays more extensively and I have slightly fractured one of the vertebraes in between my shoulder blades.

"Depression in the Superior end plate of T8 with a little flattening of T8. This is a recent fracture."

It will heal itself over time and just to take it easy in lifting things for a little while. I have to go back to the doctors next week. My butt is black and blue and red with a whopper bruise!!!

Hopefully everything will be ok before we go to NZ in a couple of weeks!!

Thanks for visiting.

Elise x

And some more Layouts!!!!!

I have been scrapping up a storm lately (something to do with yummy new products I think!!!)


So thought I'd share them with whoever is interested!!!! LOL!!!





This one is done using some yummy new Websters Pages and a Prima flower. Loooove these papers...there will be lots more of those to come LOL!!!


A quick simple one of Ella running through the Sandunes at Straddie.

A vintage beach one....got the page from an old Enid Blyton book I found at the Lifeline bookfest! It fitted perfectly with the background paper I got the other day!



Using some of the gorgeous new papers from October Afternoon.......

Another vintage one using yep! some more Graphic 45 papers...I can't get enough of them, they're awesome! This is my Dad when he was little.

That's all for now people.......

Thanks for looking, it's nice to share some of what I've been doing otherwise they just sit in a pile waiting to go into the albums I have to buy.....might go and do that now.

See ya !!!

Elise x

Better share some more.........

Layouts since most of those I've just shared have been picked up for publishing! Yeah...some more extra money for scrapping!!! (not a lot though LOL!!!)

These ones are a few weeks old if not more so. One of a typical weekend afternoon on our jetty with friends.

Love this one of Aunty Raine and Ella at the beach.

A wedding one....using some of the vintage items from The Boxx Vintage swap (thanks Kathleen!)




Thanks for looking and have a great week!

Elise x

Yeah !!! Some scrapping!!!!!

I have been doing some more scrapping lately and here are the finished products! I am absolutely loving doing vintage / shabby at the moment. I am sooo in love with these Graphic 45 papers and you'll be seeing a lot more of these on other layouts (I have heaps of them LOL!!





I have also been having a play with some new chipboard designs from Leeann Pearce. Get her designs from here....http://thepaintbrushgoesspottie.blogspot.com/
Used some crackle paint on this for the first time and got these gorgeous roses from Spotlight.

This next one is using some yummy Prima papers and some Basic Grey. The flowers I picked up from the Craft fair a while ago ...Check out the rest of their stuff here......http://www.whimsicalimaginings.com.au/catalogue/it's absolutely stunning!

Think that will do for now.......

Thanks for looking.

Elise x

Floods and Holidays

To start with I'll show you some photos of our flooding that we had a while back when SE QLD got that torrential down pour. Ningi actually got 412 mm in a 24 hour period !!!!!!! We had about 2 - 3 inches downstairs in the hall!!! It seeped through half the office carpet, so we had smelly carpet for a few days but I consider ourselves quite fortunate when you see the others on the news whose houses were completely under!

The front side garden

The other side front.

Looking towards the backyard, it's hard to tell but it was a raging river down here! Dave is way over his ankles in this pic and that was a little shallow up that end!

Looking from the back towards the front.

This is where it was all coming from.........and to the left slightly is the back door and it went through that way too!

Queens Birthday Weekend we went and stayed at The Marriott Hotel in Brisbane for 2 nights! It felt a little strange having/asking people to do things for you but we soon got used to it! LOL! We got a great deal and will definitely be staying there again!

Saturday the girls and I went to the Scrapbooking Expo at the Convention center while Dave went to the Caravan & Camping show at the show grounds. We discovered the Lifeline bookfest was on also so the girls and I went on an Enid Blyton book hunt and came away with about 40 odd books plus about 6 board games. Then we realised we had to catch the train to the showgrounds fully loaded!!! It was ok, Dave met us at the show but had parked the car about 2klms away! So I bought a little trolley to carry around our purchases!

This is us Saturday night having a Seafood Buffet in the Marriott Restaurant.

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Sunday we went to SouthBank for a looksee, this is us outside Buddah's temple.....

Then we all went on the Brisbane Wheel......

We had an excellent weekend, was nice to spend time together as a family.

Little Ella had her first dancing concert at St Michaels fete a couple of weeks ago. This is her with her costume and the hair do that mummy spent ages on. She did a dance to Mama Mia and she was very good!!!! We have it all on video, no photo's as I wanted to enjoy it.

Thanks for popping by, leave me a comment so I know that someone out there reads this thing!

E x

Some more Layouts

I have actually been scrapping these past few weeks and have some more Layouts to share with you.........(there are more too but I had 3 picked up for publishing last week by Scrapbooking Memories!)

This one is for the Creative Team monthly theme at Blossie's ..........this months theme was Monochromatic. It was very hard not to use any other colours in this one! This is our girls before we headed off on our Fraser Island adventure last Christmas.

This is another for the Monochromatic theme......But I couldn't help myself here and used another couple of colours as well. Found these awesome greeting cards at a local church the other week so I bought a heap and cut them up! Also used a few "OLD THINGS" from the stash in this too. Feels good to use things up that you've had for a while ( like a few years!)

This one was from the month before for the theme of stitching........

Thanks for stopping by .........Love E x

More Layouts........

Thought it was time for another Layout share...........mind you these are all pre-knitting!

This is my beautiful family......Using the new Cosmo Cricket PP's (Love these!)

This is Olivia on her 7th Birthday.......using a Miss Pearce Technique of using up lots of Chipboard letters

I Love this one! Love the photo, the colours and the old Enid Blyton book I ripped up ( which Olivia told me off for!)

Just a quickie one using up some stuff in the cluster .

I have a few more but they got picked up for publishing!!!

I have also been doing a little more scrapping so will share those when I take photos of them!

Have a great weekend!

E x