Here are this weeks 1. I am (and always have been) attracted to the art journalling and the whole concept of getting abit messy and random creating pages. I have been reading about people's experiences with art journalling and have been admiring their pages. You can see whose works I have been checking out lately HErE, hEre and HERe! I have just (barely!)...

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I haven't blogged much everyday 'goings on' in our life at the moment. This would most likely be due to the fact that we had school holidays and time just goes swoosh! Anyway, I thought I'd pop in and share some piccies of my fam and what we have been up to over the last couple of weeks or so... It's definitely Winter...

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Time for another list of my 1. My kids would love these headbands. I've popped this on my knitting 'to-do' list ;-) 2. My husband sent me this link via twitter last year. I re-visited it over the weekend at my husband's prompting that I probably should. No subtle hinting with him ;-) I know that sleep is important. I know I need...

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Just popping in quickly again to show you another challenge layout. This time its mine for the July 1-2-3 challenge.  With plenty of colour, arrows and some awesome thrown in too ;-) Here is my take on the challenge... I love all the brights against the white background! And I haven't just used the word 'awesome' once but TWICE!! hehe ;-) Supplies used:...

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So, we are in the last week of school holidays here. And... Jot Kids is back. Both Miss J and I were quite excited when this was announced. Kim Archer and fellow Jot girl, Lauren had been busy putting together a great little activity for the kids to enjoy and get crafty!  There was a mood board and some free printables to use...

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Happy Friday! Here are my week's worth of... 1. How to stop yelling at your kids! Find out this mother's simple tip. I'm generally pretty good at keeping my head and have even been praised for my level of calm amongst the kiddy storms BUT there has been some times where I have gotten to the end of my tether and resorted to yelling...

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And I'm back with another challenge layout for the D-Lish Scraps cybercrop!! This one is for Challenge #2 by Kylie. Kylie had supplied a sketch and her sample page. Here is what I came up with... I didn't have three of the one photo so I used patterned paper in the same size as the photo for part of the background. My attempts...

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Hiya! I'm back again with another layout for the D-Lish cyber crop. I mentioned it all in my first challenge post here. This one is for Challenge #8 - yeah I've gone straight from the first challenge to the last BUT when this technique challenge popped up, I was rather intrigued. I couldn't WAIT to have a go!  I'd never heard of or...

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Hi everyone! A new mood board is out NOW over on the Jot blog. Created by...ME!! Here it is... These are not typically colours that I use much in anything really, especially the mustard - but I just love this colour combo. I thought I would have trouble finding things to put a layout together but after looking, it turns out I had...

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Hi All! Over this weekend, Fri 4th until today Sunday the 6th, D-Lish Scraps have been celebrating with their 5th Birthday Bonanza Cybercrop.  There has been challenges, spot sales, games and just a whole lot of fun and inspiration going on this weekend. The first challenge popped up on Friday and I got stuck into it. It was a scraplift by Tarrah. I'm...

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Welcome to another week of my... 1. The title of this article attracted me straight away! We have recently had a few issues with our 5 year PrePrimary child having difficulty in some situations of conflict which we have 'nipped in the bud' and seems to have been successful. Reading this article allowed me to feel validated in our actions towards teaching our...

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