Hello Hello Hello...no I haven't fallen of the face of the earth....LOL

Just wanted to let all you guys out there in Cyberspace know about the HUGE Sale we are having at

CyberScraps

14 to 19 July - 30% off everything except the already reduced items and Bazzill


Massive Huh???....lol

we have the new Basic Grey Euphoria in too...lots of beautifl soft pinks purples, blues and greens...I mean who doesn't LOVE Basic Grey. I couldn't wait to have a play, so here's what I have come up with




One of the things that has been keeping me a little busy is Kaiser Craft asked me to do quite a few LO's for display at CHA...here's just a couple


I LOVE working with Kaiser, the people are amazing and the Products are Fab. Honestly, who would agree that they have come such a long way in such a short time. New things are coming out all the time and I am so looking forward to playing with the new stuff....boy papers, and it's not like I don't have a few of those....lol

Talking of boy's my Number 1 son turned 14 on Tuesday, and how old did that make me feel????!!!!!!, I know they have to get older, but does he have to get soooo big!!! he's massive really, standing about 6ft 1" already,with a size 15 foot, he really is far more man than boy these days, but honestly I still look at him and all I see is that tiny baby I brought home from the hospital. Kris was my smallest aby at just 6 pound 11, to me he was the tinest most perfect thing I have ever seen. To me he still so beautiful, both inside and out and my heart just burst with pride when I think of him.
Notice that there are only 4 candles on his cake.....OK so maybe I am living in just a wee bit of denial....lol
I love this pic of him and his littlest brother too, my bookends I call them. The older Ronin gets the more he looks like Kris, he'll be a very lucky boy if he grows up to be like him too....I so love my boys!!!!!....all 3 of the dirty, messy, grumpy little buggers....lol



And for my final excitment (well MASSIVE excitment for me anyways) we trading in the petrol guzzling tank for this cute little corrolla....isn't she gorgeous!!!. A week ago after filling the land crusier up and costing us $170 and knowing full weel that fuel wouldn't last a week, Kelly and I had enough and drove staright to the Toyota dealership and got rid of it...lol, Not a bad impulsive purchase for a Saturday afternoon...lol, we had the Corrolla on the follow Tuesday. She is so nice to drive and has already saved us money,.....she smells good too....lol


Anyways, I guess I have chewed all your ears off for long enough....people will start thinking this is Lu's Blog....lol....love ya babe

Have a Great and amazing day

HUGS

Cass xxxx

My Littlest man is 3!!!!!

Well my baby boy turned 3 on Sunday....so hard for mummy to believe. He is absolutely my last and therefore going to be my baby forever, but I do know he is not a baby anymore...far more a little boy. The little bugger was spoilt rotten, plenty of cars, trucks, and his current obsession, helicopters. Grandma got him a new night light and some cool clothes too....so the little guy did very well.

Of course he had to help me actually make the cake too....in my best Bridget Jones....Disaster

It is funny though I was only thinking the other day. Ronin still climbs in our bed in the wee small hours of the morning, snuggles right in and goes to back to sleep, right in between mummy and daddy. By the time all my others were 3 I certainly would have put my foot down on this way before now. All of the others would have been put straight back into their bed....I guess that's the advantage of being the baby.....mummy is alot more willing to hang on to those little things for just a bit longer.....lol
Happy Birthday to my surprise baby, the little guy I never expected to have, the one that just showed up.....that I couldn't imagine life without!!!!

Big Hugs
Cass xxxx

Scrapbook Convention

OK so I know it's been a while, a very very looooonnnnngggg while, but I have had a few computer issues...thatas another story, but anyways

I just thought I would share a few pic from the weekend that was. And what a weekend it was!!!!! phew, I had an absolute BLAST, too much fun, and my feet know it!!. It was the first big convention that I have taught at and I was so very nervous, but I was given so much fanstatic support form the SM ladies and from all the lovely ladies that sat in on my talks and came to my classes I need not have worried. Thank-you to all that came along and making it so much fun for me!!
One of my favourite things about these conventions is the people that you get to met and those you can catch up with. We all ahve such busy lives it sometimes seems that we all just hang out for these things to say 'hi' to each other....lol
I met so many wonderful people on the weekend, the lovely Fiona from Kaiser in particular, such a joy. Mel Lu, Fi and I had dinner on Friday night and I swear at times I think I nearly laughed til I cried!!!
I have really eaten well this weekend, Lu and I crashed the amazing Chris Miller's dinner with all her crew....I had something that sizzled, not really sure what it was now, but it was YUM!!!
And then on the Sunday night Lu, Mel and I had dinner with the beautiful SM girls and darling Leanne Stamatellos, such a joy she is...more laughter, and a little too much wine for Cass I think...I get a little silly on wine, probably hard to believe huh....lol
The 'work' (it's hard to call it work) was fun and the people fantastic, I had such an amazing experience, really looking forward to doing it all again

so heres a few pic that I have.......

Here we are the Kaiser Craft crew....lol Rachelle Minette, Me, Melissa Kennedy, Jilly GG and ofcourse the lovely Lu....quite a gang we have huh???

Catching up at the Scrapping Outback stand, Sandra Gerdes, Petrina McDonald, Alana Steadman, Lu and me.....check out the fantastic windmill!!!

This is our Saturday night dinner out with some fantastically talented ladies, Chris Miller, Debbie Kingston, and Michelle Grant, just to name a few!!!

Lu and Mel....love these girls!!!!

This is me with the Scrapbooking memories chicks, Cassie, Kristy and Jo, and offcourse Melissa Kennedy

We I guess it's back to reality now....and I promise I will update my blog just a little more regularly....fingers crossed.
I have one pig of a house to clean up now, men left on there own, in my house anyway, rarely see what is lying under thier feet!!!

Have a great day everyone....

MASSIVE HUGS

Cass xxxx

New Papers!!!!!

Few things in this world get my scrapping heart racing as much as new yummy paper!!!
At CyberScraps we just got in the new basic grey and Creative imaginations papers ...so offcourse I had to have a play!!!!!


This one is Kaiser papers (also in the shop) but the Lo is of my 12 year old son and his...ummm...little friend Jemma, aren't they just too cute!!!!! it was so funny tring to get a photo of the two of them, they kept giggling and poor Scotto went as red as a beetroot, so sweet, so innocent, so made me wish I was 12 again...for about 2.5 milli seconds!!!!!


Anyways on an ironic note, for those of you that read the previous post about Kris's bottom lip (which BTW is heal FANTASTIC, and he played footy on the weekend no worries). I took Ronin to kindy on friday, just got home after dropping him off and I get a phone call. 'better come back, Ronin has tripped over getting out of the sand pit and has put his bottom teeth through his lip!!!' CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!!. As it turns out is wasn't too bad an injury, a bit of a scrap on the chin and a small cut on the inside of his lip (same place as Kris's funnily enough), but the poor little guy was so scraed that thought he had to go to the hospital, like Kris, because there was so much blood!!!. He's fine now..if not a little concerned about his blood coming out his body again. I tell ya's I was very tempted to make Scott play soccer in a motorcycle helmet on the weekend...cos things come in 3's apparently, but he just laughed at me...and I was half serious!!!! that lip of his MUST be on borrowed time!!!
Neither boy will let me take a photo either..I had visions of a photo of the two of them with thier lips sticking out titled Busted!!...but they wont be in it, and it doesn't help when all Kelly says is 'just wait until Scott busts his and then you can do all 3'...men can be soooo funny...NOT!!!!

Anyways, hope everyone had a great weekend...and a great week to come!!!!

HUGS

Cass xxxx

Where have I been!!!!

as the song goes...'Ive been everywhere man'!!!!

I have had an incredibly busy few weeks, met some asbolutly AMAZING people and had some real fun!!!Lu and I were lucky enough to be asked to man the Kaisercraft 'shed' at the stitches and craft show here in brissy. Met the fantastic Melissa Kennedy and Claire Stewart (formaly of SM and now working for Living Creativly). Was sooo much fun, even if were so incredibly busy and by the end of the 5 days I could barely feel my feet...lol. The car rides in a out of the covention center were a real highlight, as Lu and I car pooled with the ever wondeful Jilly GG, I don't think I have laughed so much while driving ever!!! (BTW Jill, thanks for letting me drive your car...love it!!!)
Claire is such a beautiful girl, real pleasure working with her, and she made giving those demos super easy. Here's a pic of Lu, Melissa, Me and Claire inside the Kaisercraft shed (thanks again for this one Claire)


I have also been busy preparing for the up coming Papercrafts convention too...so looking forward to that should be fun

And ofcorse 'OUTBACK SCRAP' is coming up in August too, so I am getting classes ready for that.

I did manage to get back to my supplies long enough to do a few LO's though...my beautiful bench has been calling me....lol, so I thought I would share a few of those






Now on a personal note, my elest son decided to give me an early mothers day pressie...NOT!!!
He had an early footy game on Saturday (he plays rugby league, by early I mean 8.30am. Not 15 mins into the game he for some reason thought it would be a good idea to stop the oppositions forearm with his FACE!!!!, he ended up putting his bottom teeth clean through his lip. He was tackling some guy one minute and the next there was so much blood I though someone must have ripped his nose off!!!. It was gushing out everywhere, so off to the hospital, and they transfered him up the the Mater childrens for plastic surgery to re-construct his bottom lip, which let me tell you looked alot like mince meat. I have to say though throughout it all he never cried, whined, or complained, he is only 13 and all the doctors and nurses were amazed as they said most grown men would have thrown up or passed out because of it all. The operating theaters were all booked up til 9.30pm that night so at about 2.30pm they came to us and asked him weather he would be willing to have a go at doing it under a local anathetic. Which believe it or not he did. I held his hand throughout, and it took over an hour and 30 stitches to put all the muscles back together and to recreat a bottom lip line. I will say though the doctors did an AMAZING job, although his lip is still very swollen it hardly lloks like the injury that indead it is, just looks like a bit of a split lip. So all in all he (and me) came through it all very weel, and he is still pretty to boot!!!
Now all you ladies out there with only daughters can breathe a small sigh of thanks!!

well thats it from me for now, hope everyone has had a great couple of weeks and I will really try to update a little more often

BIG HUGS

Cass xxxx

Brisbane Papercrafts convention- June 7-9

(OK so this is just a little self promotion....and I promise I won't do this sort of thing too much)

As some may already know Scrapbooking Memories asked me to represent them and tutor at the papercrafts convention in June.....SUPER exciting for little'ol me.

Here's a couple of sneaky peeks...but I think there's more infor on the site
-Papercrafts convention

you can book classes there too,with not only me, but some truely AMAZING scrappers from here and the US





Thanks for putting up with my little advertisment....:):):)

Have a great day

big hugs
Cass xxxx

What have I been up to...hummmmmmm

Well Cath has just gotten her brand new stuff in and I just have been having a play!!

I did this album to tell the story of how I met Kelly. The letter to Lily and Ronin is hidden inside...so you have to open and unfold in order to read it....lol






well busy days ahead...fun stuff though
hope all is well in your little part of the world

big hugs

Cass xxxx

Just quickly.........

well I am sort of super busy, but I thought I would quickly share a couple of LO's




isn't it always right now!!!???

Thanks for lookie....have a FABO day

Cass xxxx

Well I broke her in!!!

I couldn't wait for Lu to start scrapping on my new bench. My poor bestie has been sooo darn busy trying to get her typing business up and running I have bearly seen her. I miss her, but you know, we all have to do the things we do!!! Thinkin' of ya babe
Anyways, I am not sure that I came up with anything mind blowing here but it was really fun to just play for a while




Well it's crop night tommorrow night and I will be catching up with Lu then and all the other lovely ladies, hope everyone has a fantstic weekend

Big hugs

Cass xxxx

She's done...and she's BEAUTIFUL!!!!

Well it has taken me all week, but my new improved scraproom is done...and I am feeling totally special and LUCKY!!!! I can't remeber the last time I had my OWN room, to with what I please, but here she is in all her FANTASTIC glory!!. Every little bit and bob has it's home and I know where it all is. Now the challenge will be keeping her this neat and tidy.

There are a few little things that I would like just to dress it up a little bit more, but apart from that to me this is perfect, all I need right at my finger tips. I am soooo in love with my bench I can't tell you how much!!!!







So anyone what to come play over at my house??????, as I think you can see I have probably got evnough stuff for abot 100 000 LO's....LOL just kidding, but I was totally amazed at just how much stuff I have gathered

Well School holidays are nearly over, and Kris has plenty of study to do before then so I had best go put my size 9 foot up his bum...LOL

Have a great day

HUGS

Cass xxxx

Fancy Pants...yum yum yum!!!!

We have now got the brand spanking new Fancy Pants range in at CyberScraps, and I had a good old play with it today. I am soooo in love with it. The colours are just beautiful!!!!




(Oh this one isn't Fancy pants, but the new 'Little Yellow Bicycle' stuff...so boy like!!!)



Hope everyone had a great weekend. Kelly and I have been so busy it isn't funny. Hopefully on friday I will be able to actually show you guys some pic of my new improved scrap room....and my fantastic new beanch!!!!

Have a great week

Cass xxxx

Old for new....at CyberScraps

Want to get rid of your old stash and replace it with some brand new goodies? CyberScraps is having its first New for Old sale on Sunday, 13 April - registration due by Saturday, 5 April - read all about it here. Doesn't matter if you're not in Brisbane - we can do it by mail!

SIA sneeky peeks

Scrapware have some fantastic new realses coming out of SIA and I thought I would share a couple of little sneeky peeks...very cool stuff here guys, and really fun stuff to work with too

My Fabulose new Bench

Can you see it in there underneath all that crap!!!!???????

Isn't a beautiful thing just a joy forever!!??, My Darling Daddy and DH made this for me on the weekend, and it is waiting to be painter. Kelly has decided to do the whole room while he is at it, so as a consequience my room looks like a tip...I am feeling totally spoiled though....isn't she Beauitful!!!

Just a quick Shaires..............

Big Hugz
Cass xxxx