So... What Have I Been Up To?

A few of you have asked what've been up to lately? Or more to the point why haven't I been updating my blog! Well there's no real excuse for it I'm afraid...what can I say, life has been very full down here in New South! I have been doing a bit of creating though, and while I definitely wouldn't go so far as to say I have my mojo back...but I'm getting closer!

Here's a few more pages of scrapbooking I've done of our Broome holiday last year. The photos are really bad, I'll have to find a better way to take them. Unfortunately I don't get the good direct light on the outdoor table down here, so I've been taking them on the concrete which is not the best look!

These feature mostly non SU! products, but I tell you what - I cant wait to get my hands on some of the new SU papers and textured cardstock coming out in the new Caty next month! (trust me its so worth the wait - just gorgeous!) Anyway here are some of my recent pages:

Happy New Year from Beautiful Port Stephens!

Hi Everyone! Happy New Year!

Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas.

Sorry its taken me so long to post...I totally underestimated how massive it was going to be to move interstate and start a new job at Christmas time! But we are here in beautiful Port Stephens now and loving it!

We had a good drive down from Katherine, checked out the Queensland outback, caught up with some friends and family, went to Australia Zoo and had a few days on the Gold Coast.

The biggest shock to the system for me was going back to work. I started a new job as OHS Advisor at Onesteel Waratah Steel Mill (the old Comsteel - which is where I worked before I had Breanna - but in a different job) only a couple of days after we got here (before we even moved into our house!). It's going to take some getting used to!

We moved into our house just before Christmas and have been madly unpacking and getting settled ever since. Its fantastic to be living in our own home again and having family around us. Unfortunately we had quite a bit of furniture damaged in the removal so my office is minus a desk and bookcase which is a pain, but otherwise its all unpacked now and I'm itching to start creating again soon!

As I haven't made anything since leaving Katherine I don't have anything new to show you, but I do have a couple of Christmas gifts I made before leaving. The first is a quick calendar I decorated for my Mum. It features the new Enchante DS papers (love them!) from the Summer Mini caty...

The next pictures are from a mini book I made for my Brother and his girlfriend of their trip to visit us in the NT last Aug/Sept. The book and papers are CM (thank you Lyn!) but I have done most of the titles with SU! stamps. If you'd like any more detail on products used please email me (kaznrik@bigpond.com). Here it is:

It's a Mad House!

Hi there, I haven't posted for a while because its an absolute mad house here at the moment!! As if it wasn't enough to have to pack and clean the house and everything in it ready for an interstate move and 3 weeks living out of a suitcase - I've been sick as well!! I think it was all the stress and not eating or sleeping well that gave me sinus & ear infections. Oh well, thankfully I'm on the mend now. Good thing seeing as the removalists will be here at 7.30am tomorrow!! So before the computer gets packed up I thought I'd share a few more recent creations...

This first card is one I made for 2 of my lovely downlines - Natasha & Nerine, who were promoted to Senior Associate recently. Well done Girls! The card features new stamp sets from the Summer Mini Catalogue - Carte Postale & French Flair. The colours are Pale Plum, Perfect Plum & Certainly Celery - Inspired by the card on the cover of the Summer Mini.

Here's two more quick Christmas cards made with left over Scribble This flowers after I finished making my wine boxes. The cards also feature the Holiday Thyme papers.

Here's two more scrapbook pages for my Broome holiday album. The first one features ]the Scribble alphabet ('Breanna'), and the second page uses some of the really nice wide chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon (coming in the Summer mini). All other products are none SU!

Well I hope you like some of those and they get your creative juices flowing! I'll be back with one last post before signing off for the big move!

RAK from Kristy

How nice is this! Kristy recently gave me this lovely card and fold-out mini book she'd made. Thanks Kristy for your kind words, it's been a pleasure to spend time with you and I'm glad I was able to help you out! We'll definitely stay in touch and hopefully you can continue to stamp with the other Katherine SU! girls. Cheers!

Finally Some Scrapbooking!!

Ok, I'm excited I got some scrapbooking done but really bummed by how bad these photos are! Anyway, I decided to start an album of our recent holiday to Broome. As I've said before the colours of Broome are just soooo beautiful - I couldn't wait to scrap them! (never mind the thousands of older photos waiting for my attention!) So this first page is the title page, its non-SU (except the hodgepodge) and it really does look much nicer IRL.

This next one is a shocking photo - sorry, I didn't realise it was so bad till I uploaded it - I'll try getting a better one tomorrow. The page is about the Japanese Cemetery in Broome. I don't know what it is about these places (I remember feeling the same way when seeing the one on Thursday Is), I think it's the thought that so many lives were lost for the sake of a piece of jewellery, the fact that so many were used and abused and that so many of the deaths were preventable, and that they were so far from home. But anyway I felt I had to scrapbook it. This one is mostly SU with the exception of some ribbon and the white rub-ons for the title. I used the Artfully Asian and Symbols of Solitude stamp sets, cardstock colours are Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Confetti White.

Thank you Dannie

I got the best surprise in the mail today! My friend Dannie sent me an absolutely gorgeous butterfly necklace! It came beautifully packaged in a bag-a-lope with matching card - she did such a great job I just had to show everyone...sorry the photo doesn't really do them justice...

Hi Helene & Dannie

Hi girls, thought I'd do a special post dedicated to the both of you - the first two people in the world that I've told about my blog! You are great friends and given that neither of you are in Katherine at the moment I am really missing you both. You are the first to know because you understand and share my obsession with pretty paper things!

Also I thought it a fitting place to show another of my recent scrapbook creations. This one is non- Stampin' Up!, I completed it a couple of Saturday nights ago at Lyn's (Hi Lyn!). The connection here is that I did it for Dannie's album about our night out for Helene's Birthday last year - Hope you both like it. Anyway, here's the finished page...sorry another crap photo - but you get the idea...

The striped paper on the left hand side is a flap which opens to show some hidden journalling about our 'eventful' night out. I sent the completed page off to Dannie last week and she got it today so it's safe to show this now...Dannie also got a card with her scrapbook page, this is it:

The card is all Stampin' Up! and uses the Looks Like Spring stamp set. The cardstock and ink colours are Pixie Pink, Certainly Celery and Orchid Opulence. Ive also used stampin dimensionals again and a brad from the Hodgepodge hardware set.