tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164494982024-03-13T14:03:19.585+13:00scrap peaCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.comBlogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-70881443920349530102013-07-11T13:06:00.000+12:002013-07-11T13:06:20.251+12:00MagnaPad by MagnaPix product review<div class="MsoNormal">
If your house is anything like mine your fridge sooner or
later ends up covered in magnets from all over the place… usually advertising
something or another that you don’t need or particularly want and usually not
that great to look at. They do have one
use though… holding those little reminders to do this or pick up that or don’t
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Well <a href="http://magnapix.net/" target="_blank">MagnaPix</a> have a solution and since you can personalise
it with either a photo or if you are like me and a bit of a digital scrapper then
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more uglies for my fridge not at all.
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One of the things I appreciated was the dimensions to create
the MagnaPad were able to be found on the MagnaPix website (under the <a href="http://magnapix.net/nz/about-magnapix/" target="_blank">AboutMagnaPix</a> tab). So after cranking up
Photoshop and opening up {creashens} For Like Ever kit I got to playing created
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One thing you will need to make sure of is that you keep a
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So once you have your design created, or have found the
photo you want to use and edited said image if desired. Now it’s onto uploading and ordering your
product. And the folks at <a href="http://magnapix.net/" target="_blank">MagnaPix</a> couldn’t
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One thing to keep in mind though the photo or design you
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So I ordered this MagnaPad on the 1<sup>st</sup> of July and
received it today (9<sup>th</sup> July) which I reckon is a petty good turn
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And the resulting magnet and pad more than lived up to my
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There is only one suggestion I would make to <a href="http://magnapix.net/" target="_blank">MagnaPix</a>… (and
have made it) is to stop the pad slipping up in delivery and putting a slight
bend in the magnet and to protect it during shipping is to insert a stiff piece
of card or perhaps create a sleeve similar to the one the fridge magnets arrive
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Really happy seeing the finished product hanging on my
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-55608778108465679952013-06-02T12:07:00.000+12:002013-06-02T12:07:01.336+12:00Some brand new purtiness...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-center;">It's true I love my little nuts... they make me smile regularly... even with the duck lips...</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-center;">Brand new gorgeousness from the newest resident designer at The-LilyPad!!!!<br />Dang I am so lucky to be allowed to play with the gorgeousness that Lynne-Marie creates...</span><br />
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My darling Anya took this photo of me on Mothers Day... awesomeness right there... </div>
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Also on mothers day... playing around with the gorgeous light spilling into D's room and my darling big girl...</div>
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While a few weeks back I caught my baby girl in what was really only a test shot...</div>
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don't you love it when test shots become fast faves?</div>
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-33614800699659602372013-05-20T21:18:00.000+12:002013-05-20T21:18:55.979+12:00I'm being teased and tormentedby Booking.com or more particularly by the emails they have sent me in the last couple of days...<br />
Now would be the ideal time to be booking a getaway to Italy... France or Spain... heck most of the European Union to be precise...<br />
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But tonights one was the worstest of all... and yes I am fully aware the worstest is not actually a word but I strongly believe it should be!<br />
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Why was tonight's worst of all? Well it was titled... Florence, Auckland and Empoli... <br />now while most of you would have a reasonable chance of knowing the first two the third might stump some... unless of course like me you have visited the area... and when you foolishly open the email and see the very hotel you stayed in the last time... well it drags you right back in... and makes you wish for wishes that will have to wait a little while longer... well unless someone offers to pay for my trip or I win lotto...<br />
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And I even found another hotel in the same small village that like the converted monastery is positively leeching history... this one is a converted convent... big sigh inserted here...<br />
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One day... it will come to pass... maybe I need to plan it for my 50th... now that would be a great way to celebrate a half century wouldn't it? Wonder if I could manage 50 days to celebrate 50 years?<br />
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What's you current dream?Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-80833158463232666252013-04-23T23:14:00.003+12:002013-04-23T23:14:51.179+12:00I've often wondered...<div style="text-align: left;">
why some times people just seem to "drop off" the face of the earth... now I know...</div>
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Life... It happens... and usually in fairly large doses and not always good... though not always bad either...</div>
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This is my new reality...</div>
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Me and my girls</div>
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and I have to say we are doing pretty dang good...</div>
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okay we have our moments but hey who doesn't?</div>
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sometimes it's a normal regular kind of fun and sometimes its not...</div>
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and yes sometimes it involves a camera... and sometimes it doesn't...</div>
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So this is my life...</div>
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and mostly I really do kinda like it...</div>
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So here I am again...</div>
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and on Facebook too...</div>
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So say hello, hi, hola, buon giorno, buenas dias, bonjour</div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-4408118760321370472012-03-11T14:25:00.000+13:002012-03-11T14:25:34.810+13:00News and general purtyness...Okay so I seriously didn't think it had been that long since I had been here to post... oops my bad...<br />
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I guess I do kinda have an excuse...<br />
had my brother Kevin down for a week to help with some jobs round the house that seriously needed doing...<br />
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We added to our critter numbers too with the addition of four laying hens... and in the two weeks we have had them so far have got 2 dozen eggs out of them... not bad considering the man we got them off said they may sulk for 2 or 3 weeks before getting down to laying... Hah they must love their chook palace...<br />
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And the big news is I have a job! My first real job in 10 and a bit years... I am working from home as an in home educator for Selwyn Toddlers... so there was a bit of a mad dash panic to get things sorted out for that.<br />
Have two wonderful kids in after school care... so easing into things quite nicely...<br />
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And then there was the car accident on Thursday... seriously only I could have this happen to me!<br />
Not many people could say they have had a car accident standing NEXT to their car... but I can... At the local petrol station... person coming in hit the back of the car when they hit the accelerator rather than the brake... the handbrake on saved the car from frontal and rear damage but it did mean the car bounced forwards and bit me with the open door on its return trip... OUCH! A trip to the panel beaters is in order for it though... thankfully the company who owns the other vehicle has insurance... me? well battered and bruised but on the mend now... very thankful though, it could have been much worse!<br />
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I'm going to add some purty pages that I have created over the last little bit...<br />
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These first few have photos from our trip north to Whangarei in January...</div>
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More to come and I will try and make it back a whole lot sooner than I did this time...Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-55094556044869705992012-01-28T09:08:00.000+13:002012-01-28T09:08:27.615+13:00So once again it's been a while...And I have to say its been one heck of a month... again!<br />
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Christmas and New Years came and went just like it always does... and long summer holidays from school are now once again drawing to an end...<br />
It's been a hectic time... including a very unexpected trip for the girls and I to Whangarei... My darling Nana Robbie was not doing so well... so we took a trip north to visit her... and so very very glad we did...<br />
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I will never forget Anya and Dannielle wandering into Nana's room at the hospital... she had her back to them so it was only when they got right up close to her that she realised they were there... She looked at them in a slightly puzzled way and asked them how they got there... to which Dannielle replied in a quiet little voice "we scootered Nana" before breaking out into a huge smile and heading in for a cuggle...<br />
We spent a week up there... often popping in to visit her either at the hospital or at home... lots of nattering and catching up... lots of cuggles and lots of photos too! Like she expected anything else from me...<br />
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-24403791228342690872011-12-25T12:03:00.000+13:002011-12-25T12:03:42.421+13:00Wishing you a very Merry Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Je47aLtZnI/TvZaF6U_tiI/AAAAAAAABXs/zl-3OOBJTkc/s1600/25+page+twentyfive-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Je47aLtZnI/TvZaF6U_tiI/AAAAAAAABXs/zl-3OOBJTkc/s320/25+page+twentyfive-small.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">May your day be filled with family, fun and happiness...</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-24871644592844377582011-12-24T07:00:00.000+13:002011-12-24T07:00:29.121+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day 24<div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday... yeah well what can I say yesterday was a shocker!</div><div style="text-align: center;">figured it deserved its own day...</div><div style="text-align: center;">So it's day is the 24th but I made sure to add the right date on there...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I was so not going to displace Nana from her day!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oKZ9vZ4tDpA/TvTBYe9ITtI/AAAAAAAABXg/eMZPhVxPL7U/s1600/24+page+twentyfour-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oKZ9vZ4tDpA/TvTBYe9ITtI/AAAAAAAABXg/eMZPhVxPL7U/s320/24+page+twentyfour-small.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-62866750381919973882011-12-23T08:53:00.000+13:002011-12-23T08:53:55.018+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day 22 & 23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And its getting closer and closer now to Christmas... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just two days left now of my 25 days album...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say I am feeling really rather pleased with myself...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Okay so its not your normal type Christmas album, but then what is normal for me?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Very happy to announce that she loved it... loved the fact I made it for her... that the green beads match her new lazy girl chair and from all accounts is really rather comfortable to use... so yeah go me again!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday Mum... Love you big time...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have had a couple of nights filled with sleepovers... Anya had a friend over last night and now its Dannielle's turn... okay so there has been a little bit of late night (well for them anyway) chatter but now thankfully all is quiet... well except for the racket the cat is making outside...</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-25356239832288465452011-12-21T08:09:00.000+13:002011-12-21T08:09:59.817+13:0025 days of Christmas - Day 20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With just four days left now till the big day we are in kick back, wind down mode here...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Check out the Christmas crazies... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">okay so the water was a whole heap on the chilly side at only 19 degrees so needless to say they </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">didn't stay in very long... they spent longer like this than they did in the water...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Day 18</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My little chick full out concentrating on the wii game... it was just me and D at home so we had a bit of a wii challenge... some I beat her but on the whole the little chick whipped butt...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Day 19</div><div style="text-align: center;">and show me some crimson flowers on the beautiful New Zealand Christmas tree...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seriously pleased with myself for getting this far through... with just a few days left to go now...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">HUGE thanks go to Suzanne at Roadside Designs for the awesome templates...</div><br />
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the template is sized at 8 x 8 which is fantastic cause normally I end up reducing all my pages from 12 x 12 down to this size... so this is a score for me... the reason I print my pages at 8 x 8 is purely for cost reasons... ever try print a photo book at 12 x 12 and you find out really quick like that it's not cheap...<br />
though I do have to add that by printing them at the smaller size they also fit much neater on the bookshelf I have for them... and if you happen to be gifting them to someone else they are much cheaper to post around the country/world...<br />
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Where do I get them done?<br />
Well I found this site www.artscow.com they are based in Hong Kong and I love their printing... and they often have awesome offers which helps reduce the cost too! There has only ever been one page that I wasn't really keen on printed up... but I didn't stress about it since "I" had run a action over the photo which when printed came up a bit orangey... NOT enough to melt down over that's for certain!<br />
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I love the quality of their books from the binding right through to the printing... and the site is easy to use...<br />
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And yes I will be using ArtsCow to print the 25 days of Christmas pages up... why change a good thing?<br />
Hope that helps some...Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-79362130800073649972011-12-17T08:21:00.000+13:002011-12-17T08:21:26.157+13:0025 days of Christmas - Day 17<div style="text-align: center;">Well you had to know sooner or later food was going to be featured... </div><div style="text-align: center;">I mean seriously a girl can't have a voluptuous figure like mine without working on it!</div><div style="text-align: center;">and what better way than with Raspberries and Cheesecake!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now how is that for torture at 8.30 in the morning!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now I want some... but don't have any...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bummer!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-1090926223289173912011-12-16T11:23:00.000+13:002011-12-16T11:23:58.085+13:0025 days of Christmas - Day 14-16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say I am really proud of myself... for not fizzling out on this project... and I think I know why...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Suzanne's templates make it so easy to create a simply gorgeous page... and by having pre chosen a select number of kits or element packs to work with all I really have to think about is the photos...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And with two gorgeous models aka as my daughters well its NOT hard to find photos either...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">speaking of which check out my leggy first born...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">she's only 10 but easily stands shoulder height to me...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">before I know it she will be towering over me...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">should be used to that though with tall parents and even taller brothers!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I am thrilled to bits that both my girls were happy to get a Santa photo taken this year...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have had one done each year... even appearing in a few of them myself when they were much younger...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">And check out their new shoes... naturally there had to be some bling involved for both of them...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't forget that Suzanne is still giving away a page a day over on her <a href="http://roadsidedesigns.blogspot.com/">blog</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but if you have missed out and haven't got the whole set she will have it up for sale soon...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-85090881027052055692011-12-15T10:11:00.002+13:002011-12-15T10:18:54.995+13:00<div style="text-align: center;">Catching up on posting my December Daily pages...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tucked up under the Christmas tree...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s400/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686095027849403090" /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Favourite Santa ornament</span></div></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VB2xkAetkyM/TukRTvALt9I/AAAAAAAABU4/4DT9IBmjMGo/s400/10%2Bpage%2Bten-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686095035264382930" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">New family photos...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" style="text-align: left; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iiUbfa94Gy8/TukRUJkXnrI/AAAAAAAABVE/yc_AeL0aGVM/s400/11%2Bpage%2Beleven-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686095042395479730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5Uva2pjruMM/TukRUUSfDFI/AAAAAAAABVM/uBdV0MoSShU/s400/12%2Bpage%2Btwelve-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686095045273259090" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Girls with their teachers...</div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XlZRpR2onDw/TukRUWHAh-I/AAAAAAAABVc/JxokQSA_Uz0/s400/13%2Bpage%2Bthirteen-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686095045761992674" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uHVY76XBVLE/TukRTTYUGtI/AAAAAAAABUs/89mkLSSP-mk/s1600/9%2Bpage%2Bnine-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span><br /></div></div></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-38634834170394123072011-12-11T21:24:00.004+13:002011-12-11T21:30:09.841+13:00One little word 2012<div style="text-align: center;">Spent the day with some good friends and their two kids today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love how rejuvenated I feel right now... </div><div style="text-align: center;">and I have to say I am super blessed to have such amazing friends with huge amounts of talent...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I now have some amazing new photographs of my darling girls and I also have a wonderful piece of recycled wood art which embraces my "one little word" for 2012</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My word is... Hope</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today I am with Hope... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Will post a photo or two from today here tomorrow...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-46452481757268929642011-12-10T11:38:00.003+13:002011-12-10T12:10:30.556+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day Eight<div>I have a new tradition in the making here... handing the camera over to the girls to take a photo of each other and together at some stage during the month of December... I love how they see things and aren't afraid to try something a little different...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wrG36gabk_I/TuKP_qNCpTI/AAAAAAAABUg/yMeiWynLZr8/s400/8%2Bpage%2Beight-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684264003518506290" /><div><br /></div><div>Both the girls asked the other night if they could borrow my camera to take some photos of each other... you have already seen a combined effort involving a mirror... well this is one D took of Anya... and quite simply I adore it! so naturally it had to make it into my December Daily...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-52033595052588189542011-12-08T21:22:00.003+13:002011-12-08T21:29:32.431+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day seven<div style="text-align: center;">wow...</div><div style="text-align: center;">not only two posts in one day </div><div style="text-align: center;">but two pages posted </div><div><div style="text-align: center;">and I am seven days into the 25 days!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Go me!</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tpuU7f-UjyQ/TuB0HgpRM7I/AAAAAAAABUU/-j8izd8vYh4/s400/9%2Bpage%2Bseven-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683670402112500658" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And I think I know the reason why...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">First up <a href="http://roadsidedesigns.blogspot.com/">Suzanne from Roadside Designs </a>creates awesome easy to use templates</div><div style="text-align: center;">and I am NOT stressing over trying to pick papers and elements fresh and new each day...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have found a few old fave kits and added some new bits here and there and I have to say I am loving the result! And best of all NOT feeling stressed at all!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> enjoy and don't forget to go visit <a href="http://roadsidedesigns.blogspot.com/">Suzanne's blog</a> each day in the lead up to Christmas and pick up your own album templates for free!!!! Suzanne will be putting them in her shop soon as well... if you just can't wait or have missed a few... </div><div style="text-align: center;">so never fear you can get them all one way or another...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now I might just have to go and get some shut eye though since one of those wham moments has just struck...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Night night all...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-7796298882340871722011-12-08T20:46:00.003+13:002011-12-08T21:02:03.997+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day six<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Well yesterday seemed to be one of those days that is sent to try your patience and then... then if you are really really really lucky it really tosses something nasty at you... <div><br /></div><div>mine yesterday was a hugely swollen left hand ring finger... the whole lower joint was swollen so badly it wasn't funny... bigger than it had gotten the four days previously and after much muttering every single time I hit said finger I decided to haul my tootie to the Dr's to be told what I already knew, given the script for antibiotics and then charged $40 for the pleasure! And that's not including the script that I may yet have to go back and get a repeat for... </div><div><br /></div><div>Apparently you should if you wear gloves (think gardening, dishwashing etc) change them regularly... I mean I thought I was doing the right thing and preventing dirt born bugs from getting at me... apparently gloves harbour even nastier germies... and considering gardening is NOT one of my all time favourite things to do... do you see how it might make me think again about gardening...</div><div><br /></div><div>and I have to say between the infection and the antibiotic given to get rid of it I feel like I have been sucker punched... do okay... get a few things done and then wham... and have to drag my sorry butt off for a Nana Nap! Darn it all I am NOT a Nana!!!!! Well not just yet anyways!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I did get this page done though... just one of those wham moments happened and I didn't get round to posting it yesterday...</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm loving the photos... might just have to get them printed off and framed up...</div><div><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b1KvPtr1QAQ/TuBrqBkuxuI/AAAAAAAABUI/Lnxef2sNDUI/s400/8%2Bpage%2Bsix-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683661099462739682" /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Sahlin Studio</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Paper – Brown Paper Pack</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Tape – Washi Tape</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >cherpea designs </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >White Paper – My christmas (retired)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Lisa Sisneros</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Number Stamp – Cracked2 alpha</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Font – Saint Nicholas</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; ">Creashens</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; ">Branch, paper snowflake, hanging bell – Falala (retired)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Red paper - Wondrous</span></p></div><div><br /></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-67999778408206207452011-12-07T20:47:00.003+13:002011-12-07T20:54:57.976+13:00If you are a digiscrapper and love gorgeous papers<div style="text-align: center;">then you really need to go check this out... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The uberly talented Lynne-Marie has an awesome offer on right now! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Remember the page with little Miss D? Well that was created using these amazing papers and elements... and hey at this price and with these offers well you would be crazy to not pick them up!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click on the image below to go straight to Lynne-Marie's store...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hmojCdNWQK0/Tt8aVd9i16I/AAAAAAAABT8/dJ9wjR6dLAE/s400/lm_BOGO_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683290210887194530" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Available at this great offer for a limited time only...</div><div><br /></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-29364130200726702142011-12-07T09:54:00.003+13:002011-12-07T09:59:45.150+13:00I haven't just been scrapping the days of December though...<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>I have been fitting other pages in as well... right along side all the stuff Mama's have to do anyway...<div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oP3cpOddq0I/Tt6BcLAm1TI/AAAAAAAABTk/MZ59Fztd-OM/s400/treasure.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683122100779799858" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>Credits - </div><div>Pink Reptile Designs (guest) @ PickleberryPop</div><div>Paper, flower, frame, mesh, ribbon, stitching, scatter - So Chic</div> <p class="MsoNormal">Darcy Baldwin @ Sweetshoppe Designs</p><p class="MsoNormal">Font – DJB Angel Baby</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PNqpAMiqh9k/Tt6BceMaaGI/AAAAAAAABTw/dkio49iZE9A/s400/unwritten.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683122105929590882" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Credits</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Lynne-Marie @ Catscrap</p><p class="MsoNormal">Paper, border, tape – Unwritten (Papers and Elements)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Font – CK Ali’s Hand</p><p></p>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-27229375567961023082011-12-06T16:14:00.004+13:002011-12-06T16:24:58.851+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day five<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jHIkkx0HJhw/Tt2JZCvAUuI/AAAAAAAABTY/WzNJQy5TFp8/s1600/7%2Bpage%2Bfive-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jHIkkx0HJhw/Tt2JZCvAUuI/AAAAAAAABTY/WzNJQy5TFp8/s400/7%2Bpage%2Bfive-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682849368135193314" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">How could anyone not be happy with peony's and a fruit plate to greet you on a hot summers morning... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Loving the abundance of relatively cheap fresh fruit available again... makes for yummy breakfasts...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Templates from Roadside Designs (25 Days of Christmas Album), Brown Papers from Sahlin Studio, number from Lisa Sisneros, Bell, tape and star from FaLaLa (retired) by creashens, Flower Ashalee Wall</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16449498.post-48789893753488686912011-12-05T07:41:00.001+13:002011-12-05T07:43:57.558+13:0025 Days of Christmas - Day four<div style="text-align: center;">Another day closer to Christmas... another photograph taken... another memory recorded...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jKGs2M1RwfA/Ttu--Tw6irI/AAAAAAAABTA/Rwj2iaeDNM4/s1600/6%2Bpage%2Bfour-small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jKGs2M1RwfA/Ttu--Tw6irI/AAAAAAAABTA/Rwj2iaeDNM4/s400/6%2Bpage%2Bfour-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682345332524616370" /></a>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104792741117414017noreply@blogger.com0