A new card

Ooh, I’ve been a naughty blogger.  I have made a few things that I can’t blog yet because they are currently in transit to their recipients and I don’t want to spoil the surprise.

Right now, the wonderful Yahoo group I am a member of is holding an ‘Unconvention’.  For those of you who aren’t Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, every year Stampin’ Up! holds a big Convention which is the most amazing experience.  Our lovely Yahoo group for Aussie SU! demo’s decided to hold an Unconvention for those of us not lucky enough to be able to go to the real thing. 

Unconvention is a virtual thing.  We all meet up in a chat room and Lisa, the wonderful co-ordinator has been setting us daily card and scrapbooking challenges and projects.

The picture above is for the first challenge I did (still working on the rest of them).  The challenge was to pick a project from the SU! catalogue and to use the same layout, but change the stamp sets and colours used.  The card I picked is in the photo on the right.

On to the card details:

Stamps: Embrace Life
Card: Cameo Coral textured card, Whisper White, Afternoon Tea dp
Ink: Night of Navy, Versamark
Other: White Gel Pen, White EP, Cocoa thin grosgrain ribbon, Word Window Punch, Scallop edge punch, Ice round rhinestone brad

amused

Youtube never fails to amuse me!  I know, I know, small things and all that…

Anyways, while we were cleaning up around my craft area this afternoon, we were listening to mp3’s and Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’ began playing.  I remembered this really funny clip I saw a looooong time ago with a guy doing funny miming to her song.  This is that clip…

Of course I had to go find it on Youtube…  but in doing so I found something even funnier!

Had both me and Brett chortling away.

Now, all celebrities should have such a good sense of humour! 

Okay, now that I’ve shared that very useful information, I shall go back to trying to organise the chaotic corner that is my craft space.  Maybe then I can get creating again.  It’s been a mess for too long and it just turns me off trying to be creative. 

Wish me luck! 

cute overload

I can’t help myself, checking out CuteOverload is like my daily happy pill.  And I’m addicted!!

Check out this funny little clip…

I WANT one!!!!!!!!!

oooh new schtuff

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okie dokie, I’m testing out Windows Live Writer to do my blog posting…  lots of cool things you can do with this little program…  Like the nifty photo gallery above ^^^

    and cute bullet lists
    and emoticons
    and fancy smancy symbols  © ½ «
    and nifty Wikipedia links
    and pics that look like polaroids…

what fun!!!

sneak peak...

This is a little sneak peak of Mr Wiggly, the crochet critter I have just finished making for my dad for his birthday that's coming up soon.

Maybe it was Mr Wiggly that threw the evil yarn needle onto the rug on the lounge room floor so that it could become embedded in my toe... Baaaad Mr Wiggly!

Anyhoo, Mr Wiggly is my own design and luckily for me, he worked out very cute. I think I did very well for my first go at making something without a pattern :)

more wildlife pics

Well, here's something nice for me to blog about on a day where things keep going wrong! It's one thing after the next today... then I stepped on a yarn needle and it went half way through my big toe... OWEEEE! And it was the 'eye' end of the needle with yarn in it... of course! How that wicked needle got on the floor, I have no idea, because I had them on the coffee table all together with my crochet hooks. Bad, bad needle!

Here's a couple of shots from my back veranda. The fellow that owns the back paddocks sometimes has his llamas and miniature ponies in there. (Okay, so I know they are actually called alpacas, but I like the way the word 'llama' sounds so I shall call them llamas because, honestly, it makes me happy.) And here they all were this afternoon. So out comes my camera so I can click away. I'm lucky I have a digital camera with a 7x optical zoom so that I can actually see the critters in the far paddock. Imagine the shots I could take if I had a bigger optical zoom... mmm...

young mr kooka

just some more wildlife shots taken today after the rain. isn't he so handsome?

blue for you

Another little card making day today. I'm still feeling really crappy, so didn't get up to much today.

We were going to make a much fancier card but I just wasn't up to it. Still, I managed to come up with this one on the fly. I call it 'blue for you'...

The photo I tried to take of it during the day today was blurry!!! Go figure. Have to blame that on having the shakes! My exucse and I am sticking to it. The only photo that wasn't blurry was my 'creative' shot above. So you will have to make do with this next photo taken at night.

Mr Peacock was at my back door all day today. Something had him upset and he was honking a fair bit. You know, those birds are loud! Here's a shot of Mr Peacock having a bit of a stretch on our back lawn. His new tail is starting to grow in. I wonder how long it will take him to grow it fully...

crochet critters magnifique

hmmm... obviously I am on a crochet fad at the moment. I'm getting a lot of satisfaction from making these cute amigurumi. It's fun to be able to start and finish a project in one day.

First one done is this cute little ducky. He's about 4 inches high. If you are interested, the free pattern can be downloaded HERE. Free registration is required. I used the yarn my friend Maria gave to me.

Next up are these adorable little kitties. Free pattern is found HERE. These little guys are sooo small ~ 2.5 inches tall. Their tails and ears were quite fiddly for my big clumsy fingers! But they really are so fast and easy to make. And cute!! Ruby Red Slippers kitty now belongs to my mother. I made the grey Bijou kitty a little pink scarf. And no laughing at my (lack of) embroidery 'skills'... Try though I might, I could never get the hang of embroidery... I'm super neat at cross stitch, but embroidery... *sigh*

Mr Kooka and other random photos

Oh dear, Patches the stray kitty is most definitely pregnant. She looks like she's carrying an army of kitties in her belly... *sigh* honestly I don't know what to do about her. I have already taken her to the RSPCA once because she was practically living at my backdoor and getting thinner and thinner and thinner. Her owners collected her from RSPCA and apparently she had been lost for a long time. Her first night after being collected, she was back on my door step. She's still here several nights a week. But this time she's not getting thinner and thinner, she's getting bigger and bigger... What do I do? I'm not feeding her, and she obviously hasn't starved to death... But poor kitty is probably only 7 or 8 months old at the most. Dilemma...



An interesting photo I took of a bug. I thought it was a pretty cool photo, so I will share it here. No idea what sort of bug it is. Brett tells me it's a kissing bug... no way on this planet that thing is going to kiss me....... bleah!!!!!!!!!!!!

And finally, Mr Kooka paid me a visit this afternoon. Isn't he glorious?