My girls know

The jig is up. Their Dad hasn't been home 3 nights. Something's up :p Upon letting them outside yesterday and retreating to the mac room, I heard a meow behind me. Mischa was back inside... She sometimes plays a game where she commands us to do things just to for kicks, like fill up her biccie bowl. ("Oh, I'm not hungry yet, silly" *walks off*) I decided to play the "Come outside, play with me! Oo, butterfly! Byeee!" game (yes, she speaks with that many exclamation marks) and followed her out the back door. She didn't run off. I came back inside and she followed me. Am I really that lonely looking Mischa?


Tibby loves to have loving time with David before bed and last night she sat on my bedside table for a good half hour while I played tetris, but no amount of coaxing or cooing could get her to love me. Poor girl. She is so much a Daddy's girl and I can't help but feel sorry that she is, because he's going to be to-ing and fro-ing whereas Mischa has (and demands attention from) me majority of the time. The worst bit is, I won't ever be able explain it to Tibs, like I could a child.


Speaking of children; I met little B's nephew last night. His name is Chase and he is the cutest little ranga you ever did see. (I can say this, because I, was a ranga, lol!) He seemed scared of me at first, but after playing on the gym equipment out the back, introducing me to "ma max" the dog and me volunteering to wash the chocolate off his face and hands... we were tight. So much so that after giving auntie B a kiss goodbye, he (without any pestering from me!) decided he would give me one too. *sigh* I want babies.


These photos of my current babies were taken last week after David's work dinner. I could totally be a pageant mum with a girlie like this. A face like this needs to be on a cat food can or something :p Hope you are having a super weekend! I'm off to work for 3 hours and then gonna get my bake on for an engagement party I am attending tonight :)

Down and (P)up!

I bit my inner cheek while eating last week.. I have no idea how I manage to do that. I mean, really?  I vaguely remember doing it in the past but not for ages and I don't remember it ever hurting this bad. I'm actually going to the dr's tomorrow because the cut has turned into a wicked bad ulcer and the pain has drained me all week. I'm fine in the morning, but by 11am I'm ready for a nap, my face aches so much. Craziness!

In other news... I've been having a heap of fun with my new camera as of late. Tash asked me to go and get some shots of the new family pup Coco last week. (Like she had to ask!) Let me tell you, working with dogs is even harder than cats - but we got about 20 good shots of all three of their gorgeous labradors in the end. Not bad for an hour's effort... really makes me want a puppy of my own though! ;)


I love love love this shot of Mr Coco - isn't he the sweetest? I'm pretty proud of it because this is straight out of camera - it didn't require any processing at all.


This is Gypsy. She's such a kind and gentle dog and I think that personality really shines through in this photograph :) You can always expect a good lick from Gypsy... she'll offer her slobber up to you unless (read: probably best to stop her before she starts) you tell her 'No'.


There were actually quite a few good shots of Snoop - but this is my favourite. It's just such a unique capture and a fleeting moment - again, I'm pretty proud of myself for being able to snap it.


The money shot! Tash and Coco... they are ridiculously cute! I'm so glad Tash thought of me when she wanted to get some shots of Coco as a pup for the family :) Speaking of public recognition, Emily (jokingly) asked me to do her wedding photos the other day after seeing my quick captures at Amanda and Travis's wedding and Grace even came to me for camera advice! Makes me feel pretty special. Now to learn how to shoot in manual, haha.

Anyway, I'm gonna take off before I pass out from the pain. An hour and a half left at work alone... I'm gonna get off the computer and try and sit as still as possible :p Fingers crossed no customers come in, unless they wanna speak in mime. Gonna get some painkillers into me before we go out to Thai tonight for David's work leaving do.

Preserving memories

Scrapbooking to me is about telling a story, focusing on the journalling and the photos. I guess that's why I don't really stack on elements or just decorate a photo - I mean some people do that and they are AMAZING works of art, but that's not what I'm about. I was pretty damn proud of my pages last month. So much so that I printed a few of them out and have them hanging above the iMac. Hoping it inspires me to create more, I'd love to be all up to date by the time we move so that I'm just scrapping as I go from then.




I feel the same way about blogging. I want this to be a recollection of my memories and ideas, triumphs and fails. (Speaking of fails I didn't make Lauren Reid's Creative Team and I'm pretty bummed.) I'm not the sort of person that can just fill this place with photos I find on tumblr, again, I have nothing against, heck I admire some blogs that do that, but it's not my style. I have a few weeks of blogging to get caught up with because I'm terribly uninspired to write when I don't have my guy around. Weird huh? Guess he's my muse :p

But he's back! So I'm full of creative juices and admiration for him, as he was thoughtful enough to get me an amazing birthday present while in Vegas. *sigh* How awesome is that?

What's the best birthday present you've received?

New amazing digital store!

If you ever considered jumping into scrap booking now is the time! A brand new modern, funky and just generally awesome site opened up and everyone's a n00b, so you wouldn't be joining a community as the outsider ya know? 9th and Bloom. Amazing. Getting a few pages done so far this month, my creative mojo is back :D

Okay okay, enough of me trying to make you all join me in my scrapping adventures... hehe. Good news with David's nose! Because we live in such an isolated area, he gets a free flight to Perth to get it re-broken and all fixed up :D Yay! The fair is on this weekend! I'm going tomorrow afternoon for lunch with Tash and then tomorrow night with the guy for the fireworks and a real look around. Note to self: take photos you terrible blogger! Haha.

What are you up to this weekend?