Where have I been...hmmm...???

Well over the last weekend I was lucky enough to have been teaching at the Scrapbook and papercrafts convention here in Brissy. Doing some clases for the FAB girls at Scrapbooking Memories, and let me tell you I had a Ball!!!. The Classes went really well (well from my end anyways) and I would really LOVE to thank all the beautiful womens that came along, each and everyone one was an absolute pleasure to teach and and really nice chicks to chat with, made me feel so comfortable...even during the odd brain blank or coughing fit..:):):) Also had the pleasure of helping out a bit in the Fiskars classroom, with Jilly. So I was pretty darn busy, good way to be sometimes, but if I missed saying hello, I am sorry...:(

From my end it was nice to hang out and catch up with friends and make a few new ones, scrapbooking ladies certainly know how to have a laugh, something I really have needed after the last couple of months stresses

Anyways, back to reality now I guess, unpack all the boxes in my scraproom, and clean up the house too I suppose...Kelly just doesn't seem to see the same things I do, but how he misses the trail od monstertrucks and barbie dolls down the hallway I will never know...LOL

Big Hugs

Cass xxxx

The Great Coat

This is my 14 year old son....whoooping great geek, in his most prized possession....I just LOVE him to bits right now!!!

 

 

 

For ages now he has been telling me that he wanted a trenchcoat, and while I was West End the other week I went into a Vintage clothes shop that I passed by, and here was this coat. I wasn't sure about it myself, I mean I thought it was a bit cool, but I am not a 14 year old, so I brought him back with me on the Saturday. And my poor boy fell in love...:). Now he has researched the damn thing and apparently it is actually called a 'great coat' and the army stopped issuing this particular type in the mid 70's, so this one is probably Vietnam war issue, although he wore it to scholl today for 'dress differntly' day and his english teacher thinks it might be WW2....who knows. All I know is my son has his own sense of style...and I like it...lol, I mean how GORGEOUS does he look!!!!?????

enough gushing...have a great weekend

Hugs
Cass xxxx

I wish I had duck feet

I so hate the rain....and there is just so much of it right now. For some reason rainy days always put me in a crabby mood. I hate the 'wet feeling' of everything. I think I could happily live in a desert!!

Anyways...whinge over, how pretty is this!!!.............

 

All my life I have had a deep love of chanaliers, yet have never had one. Kelly painted Lily's room a couple of weeks ago and my parents bought her this, which my Daddy (an electrician) put up for her over her bed.
No wonder the girl BELIEVES she is a princess....and behaves accordingly....:)

Hugs
Cass xxxx

Hey Maxine!!!!......:)

You would be the ummmm....'winner'....lol of my little RAK, so if you would like to e-mail me your addy, I can post that wee canvas off to you....:)

And as for me, well I have been a bit of a busy bee the last couple of days, so as ussal I thought I would share.......














It's been nice having a bit of mojo back, hope it decides to stick around....:)

Hugs
Cass xxxx

Now if everyone can think back a bit...a fair bit actually...:) I did a dressing table set for Lily that got published in SM. It was in Basic Grey's 'blush' range (when it was brand new) and had a paper skirt and punched circles on it. It was pretty....WAS!!! it had a little accident, we will call him Ronin. he pulled off all the stuck on bits, tore the skirt and basically scribbled over the remaining skeleton. There were tears...floods of tears, and not just from Lily. Anyways taking the opportunity by the horns, and much to appease the frantic daughter I told her I would fix it up for her, make it a 'prettier' pink ...yadda yadda yadda.
So here is the 'recycled' dressing table set, and Miss Lily is pleased....Phew

 

 

 

 

It did occur to me though that some of my older OTP projects are a bit dated now, but I just don't have the heart to pull them all apart to re-do them....hmmmmmmmm, maybe if I just them the around at 3 year old height and see what happens, you never know my hand may be forced in to action again. Sort of like leaveng the keys in a car that you hate....worth contemplation me thinks...:)

have a great weekend all

hugs
Cass xxxx

 

Oh my does she look smug or what!!!!!
Well I suppose it only stands to reason really, with all the males in our house wrapped around her little finger. Oh miss Lily, it's hard to be humble isn't it....LOL

Just thought I'd share...:)

hugs and happy mothers day to all those out there!!!!
Cass xxxx

a wee RAK...and alot of fun!!!!

OK so I was down at Bunnings on the weekend (don't ya's just love hardware!!!...I'm serious), and they were selling out of some mosiac tiles. Now I have never ever mosaiced anything in my life, but I had a bit of an idea, so I thought I would give it a go, what was the worst that could happen??...I'd have wasted about $2 in tiles...worth the risk I thought.
Anyways I got my Daddy to cut a couple of peices of Ply wood to 13"X14" and drill 8 holes in the top of them both. And using my tiles...smashed to wee bits, and ALOT of black gesso, this is what I came up with...


You like???
I am going to use it as an album for arty pages...like an art journal I guess
Here's a few close ups




And as a bit of a RAK, I used up a few bits of the left over broken tiles and a few other bits and peices to create this little 5'x5' canvas. If any of you would like it, please leave me a comment and at the end of next week I will get one of the kidlets to draw a 'winner'...they love doing that...:)



Well I am babysitting my newphew today and I have SOOOOO much paper work to do, and offcouse start to get ready for the upcoming Brisbane papercrafts convention....so looking forward to that one!!!

Best be off WW3 is breaking out...gotta love 3 year olds....LOL

Big Hugs...and don't forget to leave me a comment...if you want that little thingy anyways....:)

Cass xxxx

OK, so you would think that after knowing myself for 34 years that I would have worked out by now that me, rushing, and electronic equipment don't mix...lol, THANKS so much Lynn for letting me know about my posting error...all fixed now and the below LO's are now the right way up...lol...not sure if they look any better though...:)

Anyways, I have just gotten back from picking the kids up from school...don't ya's just love the school run, all the kids talking at the same time, getting louder and louder to be heard!!!...Lily always wins in our car, I think because she whines the most and the boys find it just as annoying as I do.

So all has been pretty good here in the Glass house.....pretty quite....got 2 new dunny's on the weekend, that's about as exciting as it has gotten though, mind you there is something nice about new toilets. All clean and un-used, right up until the boys have a fight about who is going to be the one to christen them. The worst part about that is that they are serious and the Daddy won....and was proud!!!....gotta love men.

Well best be off to make the dinner, Tuesday night is Hell night around here, Lily has Tap class, Scott has soccer training and Kelly plays cricket, takes a bit of organisation and preparation to get everyone where they need to be and fed....oh the joys

Anyways, catch ya's on the flip side

Hugs
Cass xxxx

P.S.....can anyone tell me if there is ever a more miserable creature than a teenage boy with a cold!!!!!....and before any of you go saying that it can't be that bad, trust me , NO ONE has EVER had a cold as bad as Kris has, just ask him.....lol

QUICK quick...off to get the kids from school...done a few LO's...thought I'd share....:)





Have a good one

Cass xxxx

ANZAC day

Hi, Hello, How are ya??
Well it's ANZAC day and for us it's the first ANZAC day that our older boys have been in the air force cadets, so they are off marching this morning and I am just so proud!!!. Kristofer hasn't been issued his blue shirt or hat yet so he is not too happy about the polo idea and I guess you can see that in the pic, but I think they both look so beautiful all the same. The Uniform really suits Scott, and he is just loving the cadets...I think you can tell...:)

Oh and guess who's been scrapping....lol
I know it's been a while, and I think you can probably tell that too, but I am starting to get my mojo back after the moving break, so lets consider these ones warm ups hey???....:)


I have actually done these two out of the new Kaiser paper ranges...




Well I guess that's it for me for right now, hopefully I will be back in the swing soon

Have a great day

Cass xxxx

WHERE HAVE I BEEN !!!!!!!!!!

Well here's the story morning glory....:)

The week before Christmas last year the rental house that we had lived in for 4 years was put on the market...bummer huh?, anyways we were desparatley hoping an investor would buy it, but to no avail and in mid march we were given our marching orders so to speak.
Now let me tell you finding and then renting a property is HARD....really really really HARD. I can not even begin to explain the trama, and we have 4 kids and more stuff than I ever thought humanly posible. I guess it was made a little more difficult by the fact we didn't actually want to move. We were total set up in our old house and finding anything comparable within our tight budjet was a nightmare. Yet finally we have. It is an older home, built in about 1988 and hasn't had any renovation, so it's a bit like stepping back into my teenage years, with the lovely exposed brickwork and the racked ceiling....not to mention the delightful grey plastic taps, but it has 5 bedroom and enough space for us all, and a HUGE bonus for the kids is the beauiful big inground pool...happy joy.
The packing, the moving, the cleaning, and the setting up of this new place has totally occupied my life for the last 3 months, and then there is the school holidays .....man !!! well I guess now I can at long last exhale. My scrap room (I have renamed it Lazarus) is all ready to rock and roll, and I am 90% of the way having things where I want them. Kelly has already re-painted 2 of the bedrooms (peach is just not our colour) and over time and many weekends he will get them all done, and the rest of the house too.
PHEW
I am so hoping that as the kids go back to school this week I will get back into the swing of my life, I miss my paper and glue, I miss the escape to create...lets just hope after this little hiatus I still can...:):):)

massive hugs and I promise I will be back real soon....maybe even with a few pics of the new place...minus the smokey plastic taps....lol

Cass xxxx

3 bits...just for fun...:)

 

Cass xxxx

Hello...:)

How are we all....:)
just a quick post, I am a bit here there and everywhere today...like most I guess, but anyways... offcouse the new Kaiser ranges....ahhhhhh have been realeased too...so here's a LO from each of the new ones




OK...will try to get back and update later...gotta run, things to see, peiople to do...ummm.....cut that ...revearse it....lol

have a great day
Cass xxxx

A bit more Tarisota...and my ...ummm.....Valintines day

Well then, Hi, Hello, How are Ya????

How was everyones weekend???. Mine started on friday when Kelly's brother and children arrived from Bundaberg to stay and then Kelly and his bro went to the cricket, so I had 7 kids including 4 teenagers at home with just little old me for the night...phew I don't know how these ladies with so many kids do it, I thought I was slightly mad having the 4...but 7!!! it's a wonder these women can get out of bed in the morning.
Now Valintines day...pretty uch a non event in my house...Kel NEVER remembers, so generally I just try and make him feel bad by buying him a box of chocolates while I am grocery shopping...which we both procede to eat after the kids go to bed....as I said HUGE event ussally....lol
Anyways all was good, and on the Saturday afternoon, kelly took his brother and a few of the kids shopping, so I stayed home with the others. About 5pm (this is where my Valentines day gets interesting) My little Ronin climbed up onto his big brother bunk bed, reached over at least a foot to talk to his sister below and then put his head into the ceiling fan!!!!
GROSS OUT WARNING FOR THOSE A LITTLE SQUEMISH
there was blood everywhere, I swear it was gushing out all over me . I paniced and Ronin was going hystrical. I called the Ambo's who were AMAZING, they gave him a shot of Morphine and took him off to hospital. We were there til nearly midnight in the end, as my poor baby boy had actually cut his head so deep that you could see a hole about the same size as a 5c peice of his skull. LOTS of stitches, which isn't easy on a 3yld. He was really lucky though, no cracks, and only a mild concushion (please forgive my spelling). Happy Valentines day mummy!! So offourse I have spent the last couple of days watching him like a hawk...too many medical shows for me, as I watch for signs of internal clotting or hairline fractures and something terrible, but really the boy is 100% fine, apart from the massive bandage on his head, he hasn't even complained about a headache...he's a tough little thing

So I do hope everyone eles day was nice an romantic and didn't involve blood and trips to the hospital!!!

Just to lighten things up a bit ....Here's a couple of things I did for Tarisota this month, Check out my naffy pen, isn't she cute, all fabric flowers, not really practical I guess...but she looks cool...:):):)







Okey Dokey then, I guess I am off...Lots to do today!!! lets all hope that I don't just crawl up onto the couch and go to sleep....mmmmmmm sleep

Hugs

Cass xxxx

Kaiser sneaky peak

Looks a bit cool don't it....:)

Cass xxxx