the midnight scrapper

tag, i'm it...

I love reading all these random tags and finding out things about people that I would never have guessed LOL, and yet when I get tagged I panic and wonder if my answers will seem strange / insane / pathetic! So here goes with a few I received lately...

I was tagged by the lovely Lee  for this one:

10 Years Ago:   

Byron was nearly 2 and Oscar had just started school.  I was finishing up my Associate Diploma in Library Science and was a stay at home mum.

Things on my to-do list today:

1. Washing (this is always on my list)

2. Fill my new MM carousel with all my most used tools, so everything is right at my fingertips when I sit down to scrap or craft.

3. Work on my final cards for emily's art journal challenge. I am so close to finishing and have even made the album to put them all in.

4. Catch up on all the new shows I tapped this week (Aussie TV ratings always start with a bang and the old DVD recorder has been working hard all week!). Of course I plan to combine this task with the one above LOL.

What I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire: 

I always joke with my boss that when I win big I will leave a "see ya" note on her computer and she will know exactly what it means LOL. After that hubby & I are heading to Sydney to the nearest Tiffany store and we will purchase the classic tiffany setting 3 carat solitare diamond ring set in platinum (yes I know the exact ring LOL). After that, it's travel, travel and more travel.

3 of my bad habits:
1. Stay up to late, even though I am bone tired.
2. Spend to much time on the computer when I know I have other (more pressing) things to do!
3. I spend way to much money on magazines & books (I work in a library, you would think I would get my fill LOL)

3 places I have lived:
1. Wagga Wagga
2. Wollongong
3. London

5 jobs that I have had:
1. Check out chick (my part time job when I was 16 and at school)
2. Nanny (to 2 kids, when I was working in London)
3. Travel Consultant (what I did when we came home from living & traveling in Europe)
4. Library Officer (what I do now)

5 Things people don't know about me:
1. I can't sleep without a sheet or doona over at least a small portion of my body (even when it is 40C I still need to feel the sheet on me somewhere.
2. I love all things "Little house on the Praire" . I have just reread Laura Ingalls Wilder's series of books for the umpteeth time and I still love them so.
3. I want to have Martha Stewarts craft room (the green one) more than is considered normal. Ha!
4. I love action movies (think Rambo, Die Hard etc) even though I live and die for a good musical (think Grease, Dirty Dancing etc).
5. I love, love, love chocolate but I will only eat Cadbury Milk Chocolate (plain or with almonds; their scorched peanuts are THE BEST EVER). People buy me Lindt or some other exotic brand as a gift and I nearly cry...give me my cadbury people!

I tag:

Mel, Kim & Katy

The second tag I got was from the wonderful paper artist Sarah...

Old Favourite: You Tube - I can loose days roaming around there LOL (is it wrong to have so many 80's video clips in your "favourites"?)

Food Favourite: I am so not into cooking and the only site I have bookmaked (hangs head in shame) is one for my crock pot. I sooooo love coming home from work in winter and a hot dinner is ready (summer is easy - lots of salads which can be made in 5 minutes)

New Favourite: Loved this site at Christmas for all the great ideas melissa shared - One Crafty Mumma

Challenge Favourite: I usually just find things on people's blogs / websites (see reference above to my habbit of spending too much time on the computer LOL)

Movie stuff Favourite: I just use google when I want to know anything about a movie!

Clothing Favourite: I never look at clothes on the web so I will link up a jewellery site that I play around in...My Pandora Jewlery (see how quickly you can spend your money in the bracelet builder section - I about died when I added mine up LOL).

Creative Favourite: Can't go past Ali, the new garden each month, and the simple studio.

Guilty Pleasure Favourite: Martha Stewart - what's not to love on this huge site, Pioneer Woman - because it's such a fun read and she takes cool photos, Pink is the New Blog - for all my celeb goss and Trent cracks me up, A librarian's Guide to Etiquette makes me laugh because they get it so right!

Paper Favourite: Compendium, Amazon (books are made from paper!!), Print & Pattern.

OK, enough about me, I tag...

Elizabeth, Jen, Susanna

sorry...

a day to be proud.

birthday greetings, more ali and kiwiscraps revisited...

Due to the fact that Flickr & I did not have a good couple of days...I missed being part of the blog party (and collage) for Cathy. I did get my photo done Cathy, but could not upload to save my life therefore missing the deadline blah, blah, blah. All that aside, I hope you had a very happy birthday.

I also took ali's weekend challenge (again) and started rummaging through the stash for pink papers (and with 2 boys to scrap, that was harder than it sounded). I had a heart punch on hand, I found a black frame, a piece of cardstock, some pop dots and got to work. It turned out great and I will bust it out on the 14th to add a little lovey happiness to the house LOL

 

I also photographed my OLW 2008 - BALANCE a couple more times, I plan to make a teeny tiny album of all these random "balance" photos that I take this year.

Once I was on a roll after ali's challenge, and all my scrappy mess was out, I decided to pull out my half finished albums from kiwiscraps. I stayed up till 3.00am (the midnight scrapper, get it!!) and finished the acrylic album ("my world" ) I made in a class with Nic Howard. This was my very first class with Nic and I have to say I loved it and wish I had taken her other class. Anyway, very happy to have this one completed and on the bookshelf.

And yes, those photos were taken in the bathroom (I'm sure the tiles gave it away LOL). I saw it on another blog and thought cool, a really light room. Didn't really work to good here, my tiles are cream, as you can see. I will continue the hunt for good light another day. Ha!