I had a wonderful year full of new beginnings and challenges, but a wonderful year. A lot has happened in the last couple of days, I will have to talk about it and post here when the time is right, but for now, enjoy your holidays, family and friends. I wish you all the best and wanted to thank everyone for their love and support over the last few months.

See you next year :)

xoxoxo

Leora is having an awesome 25 days of Christmas event in her blog and today we are giving away a 10 dollar certificate to my store, check it out here.

Little Dreamers has also started the 12 days of Christmas sale, with a whole section of the store on sale each day and freebies on the blog, today is Quickpages, so all my quick albums are 45% off!!

Tomorrow my little munchkin is turning 6 years old, we will have a party for his friends at my place, so I have to get everything ready, but will hopefully get back with photos soon!

xoxo

Hi all, all ok here, Matty is sick again but started taking antibiotics and is on the mend, after being sick last week it was no surprised he got an ear infection. I had a busy couple of days with Alex's birthday, cleaning the house, being at Matty's school trying to break the air guitar ensemble world record, and other normal mommy duties including having a nap with my sick boy yesterday afternoon. My night scrap time has also been taken by Fei, my night elf hunter at World of Warcraft, so I havent been making much. Mom is coming to Australia to spend our birthdays, Christmas and New Years with us, so it is possible I will have a "holiday" of sorts unless she encourages me to create more instead :)

Enough about me though, I wanted to show you the new Fancy Pants Release:

  

Aren't they gorgeous? You can see some pages using these two collections on the Fancy Pants blog, including this page by me using the Frosted collection by Michelle Coleman:

and here is a little close up:

 

Expect more pages with these collections in the future :)

xoxo 

I have another AMAZING photography class giveaway by my dear friend Katrina Kennedy. It is called YOUR KIDS: CAPTURED THROUGH THE LENS, and it will run from Oct 12 - Oct 29. Here is Katrina's explanation on it:

Love photos of other people’s children? Do you wonder how they possibly capture their kids in such great ways? In six lessons we will explore methods to capture your children’s photos in creative ways and minimize the headaches you may have experienced in the past. We will cover ways to engage your children in the process and techniques to use your camera more effectively.
Learn practical techniques for capturing your kids from experienced guest photographers who just happen to be moms! Class includes their images and pointers for working with kids of all ages, including the speedy toddler, the uncooperative teen, and many other child archetypes you probably know well.

You can read more specific detail on the course website here.

Now, who wants a free pass to this class???? Leave a comment on this post and you might be starting the course this Monday :) Winners will be announced Sunday!

ready? set? comment!

 

UPDATE: sorry, comments closed!

Hi All, just a quick note to let everyone know I will be hosting the last chat at ReneePearson.com chatting live at Sunday 8PM Standard Time, 16 hours from now. That will be at 10AM Monday for me, I am on GMT +10 ;) Got to the website, register/sign up and go to the ReneeTV link. Bring your hybrid questions! Also, sign up for the Epson printer giveaway, you still have 8 hours until the giveway is closed and we will be announcing the winner during my chat :)

WARNING: Just wanted to let everyone know: 4shared has been hacked. It has been redirecting everyone to another website for the last five hours or so. I hope by the time you read this it is all ok again,but being a weekend it might take some time. The hacker's website doesn't look like it is doing anything at the moment, they might have done it to just prove they can do it, not sure. In the meantime, all my freebie links are not working, sorry! Will try to keep you posted.

UPDATE: 4shared seems to be back to normal :) yay! (just the thought of having to reupload all the freebies got me tired LOL)

 

Yes, you heard right, GIVEAWAY. My dear friend Katrina, who also happens to be an exceptional photographer is now offering a photography class and has generously provided me with the amazing opportunity to give away a free pass to her class, all you have to do is leave a note in this post and I will be drawing a random winner tomorrow!

Here are the details if you are not sure what I am talking about:

YOUR LIFE: CAPTURED THROUGH THE LENS with Katrina Kennedy
Sept 1 to September 18
6 lessons + 3 videos posted on Tuesdays & Fridays for 3 weeks.

You crop and compose your scrapbook pages, how about exploring the same techniques with your camera? Learn to see through your viewfinder the photo you want on your page and take control of the buttons and knobs on your camera for results you love. Class includes weekly videos, live chat, forum support, and 6 written lessons. In each lesson you'll explore:

*How to use a composition method
* Buttons and Knobs – demystify your camera’s features (point and shoot & dSLR)
* Putting It Into Practice – how to use your camera’s features
* On Assignment – practical step by step instructions for capturing photos
Practice, ask, share, & learn:
In addition to written lessons that you may download and print, you'll improve your photography skills through interaction with Katrina and other participants in the private class forum, sharing your photos in the private class gallery, and participation in live chats. The class covers techniques useable by both dSLR and point & shoot users.

You guys know how much I love photography and I think this is an amazing opportunity to start getting things right first up instead of spending hours (like I do) editing out your mistakes. I am taking this class, who will join me?

 

 

UPDATE: Sorry this giveway is closed, comments are closed now! Check back soon for the lucky winner!

Mateus - 7 months. He was starting childcare and doing so well, just a couple of hours a week though, we spent most days just the two of us. I had just got a new job, my mom was coming to visit the next month. What a great couple of months!

I love browsing through my old photos :)

xoxo

It has been a great couple of days, except for being sick, I had a LOT of people shooting good vibes at me and really pushing me forward on everything I want to do. Even the guys at work gave me a *nice* gift certificate to the craft store which I can use to make more art supplies to do what I want :) Spoke for hours with a good friend over the phone, got a ton of e-mails from friends supporting me and helping me. I mean, what more can I ask for? And now that I am not sick anymore, I just feel over the moon :)

Yesterday I posted my page for Pencil Lines Sketch 142 at Two Peas and got selected as featured layout:

 

got love that too :)

aaaand, if you head over to the Create Well... Create Often blog, I am the guest designer this week! Such an honour to be listed amongst the other guests, wow, what a line up! Thanks so much Jen for the opportunity!

I am still working on that alpha from the sneak peek, I realised it could be a pain to recolour it so I am making lots of coloured versions so people can pick and chose their favourite :) I really like how it is turning out. Check back soon for more news!

(drum roll)

Kelleigh Ratzlaff

and

Wanda Bell

Kelleigh has won a Train Album and Wanda has won a Wings album. I am still waiting on address confirmation from Wanda, but decided to announce the winners anyway :) Congratulations girls, hope you like playing with the templates and albums!!!

As some of you may (not) know, I have been away visiting family in Brazil for the last 3 weeks. It was short and sweet.. maybe too short. I certainly didn't do everything I wanted to do and didn't see everyone I wanted to see. But as usual I was crazy to get back home by the second week. I miss my routine, my bed (even though I need a new bed), my friends and my usual life :)

All the posts I posted while I was away I put together and saved as draft before I left. It was a pretty busy couple of weeks in March :)

Happy belated (inter)National Scrapbooking Day. Yet again I missed all the fun of this special day :( I was away last year too, we went to Sydney for the weekend. So I missed all the wonderful sales, promotions, challenges. I didn't even participate on the LDD collab for our birthday celebration (that got me sad) but at least I was part of the sale and I had my Kaisercraft Giveaway. By the way, I already send out the e-mails with the Kaisercraft Giveway winners. I will announce them as soon as they confirm their address so I can send them the albums :)

Ah, and once again I didn't nominate for DST's Scrappers' Choice Awards. Lucky people are wonderful and I got nominated for my hybrid projects. Thanks Laura, Léa, Jule, Monic, Dúnia and Christina for nominating me, you guys rock!!! I was just frustrated I didn't get to submit my own projects and specially because I didn't get to nominate some pretty incredible projects by some very talented people! Maybe I will have my own little awards post in the future :)

As you can imagine I have a crowded inbox to go through, so if you sent something urgent feel free to resend it to me so it doesn't get lost with everything else. I didn't take a laptop with me but I did take my camera. Talking about my camera... I have 2200 photos to go through. Not too bad, I figure it could have been worse. But now everyone is waiting for the photos and I have to edit all of them extra fast. Yes, ALL my photos have to go through Lightroom. And if I really like something I edit it in photoshop too hehehe.

Sorry about the eye candy-less post. Right this moment, I don't have photos or pages or projects to show you and I am way too busy to do a hybrid feature with an older project.. I have yet another load of laundry to get done and with the jet lag the kids are waking up in the middle of the night so what I really needed is a nap, but I have to go grocery shopping before picking the kids up in less than two hours! I hope to be back with photos soon, thanks for stopping by!