Christmas as a Kid...

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The best thing I remember of Christmas as a kid was the silly hats you get in the bon bons. We have so many photos in the kings and queens hats, too funny. I make my family wear thenm now too. Lol.

My parents had the policy if we got up before 7am, we didn't presents so we used to wake up real early and sit in our rooms, staring at the walls and fidgeting till it was 7am.

We used to rip our presents open and play straight away with them then when we were finished, we used to stack thnm on our beds, we always had a huge mountain of presents.

Christmas lunch was at out grandparents house then at night we used to watch the fireworks locally, we used to stand on the verandah and watch them crackling above us.

Christmas Wishlist...

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This Christmas, the one thing I wanted was to go visit my husband's family for Christmas to sho off my little girl, then Peter's nana got diagnosed with liver and bowel cancer so we really want to go down now.

My material wishlist is:
* iPod Nano- to store my images on.
* Albums for my scrapbooking.
* Tim tam gift pack.
Tim tams are chocolate biscuits and are too die for. Lol
In the gift pack, you get 2 coffee mugs, a packet of tim tams and a packet of Vittoria coffee. Yummo.

Merry Christmas girls.

Re-do Christmas.

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The best Christmas I have had was Christmas 2005. It was the first Christmas in 8 years that my dad was home with us as he is usually working away.

Mum, dad, Peter (DH) and myself (and bubba in tummy) went to the beach where we had the traditional lunch (chicken, ham, turkey) with prawns, oysters and salad.

After lunch we sat under the trees and had dessert and a drink, which at this point I didn't know I was pregnant then after we had enough, we came home and ate more, drank more and watched DVDs.

It was that special that we are planning another beach Aussie Christmas this year.

Merry Christmas Girls.

New Blog.

Hi girls....

Check out Through our Eyes for my new blog.

Have changed to typepad again.... so sorry for the trouble. Lol

Time to update...

I have not been too well this week. Peter started back at work after 5 weeks off and the baby blues hit me so I have been quiet this week.

Mum and dad have been so helpful this week, helping me with Lillee and just being there for me.

I love this photo of Lillee. It was taken at the window, she was looking out into the back yard and I couldn't resisit the adorable look on her face.

Will upload a LO I have created tomorrow.

Talk care girls.

October 1st.

October 1st and this marks Lillee being 1 month old.

Its hard to believe that 1 whole month ago I was having contractions and facing the scary labour process.

My... how my baby has grown in 1 month. She has put on so much weight and has moved into 000 clothing now.

Last night she slept for 7 hours between her feeds, it was a great nights sleep too.

Mum and dad brought her a bouncernett and it has a music box on it and it vibrates, She loves it and goes to sleep as soon as you turn the vibration on.

Well, going to scrap now and will update later.

Guest Design Team Work....

Guest Design Team work.... for Scrapbook Dreamer.

As I am September Guest Design Team member, I got sent a huge pack of baby girl papers and embellishments so I had fun creating a frame for Scott (my father-in-law), a canvas for Lillee's room and a beautiful layout about Lillee.

I still have more papers from the pack so will be creating more and uploading it too. So check out the gallery at Scrapbook Dreamer and chat with the girls there, they are all so nice.

Laura has great products in the shop and great prices too.

The frame was a How-to tutorial so there are step by step details on the forum.



Scrapbook Dreamer is looking for design team members now so check out the details on the main page of the shop: Scrapbook Dreamer DT

Here is a link to my gallery so you can see more of the creations I made with my pack:
Scrapadel's Gallery.



Thanks for looking at my work and thanks for all the comments.

My Angel...

I know Im a bad mother but I brought Lillee some Angel wings.... well they are really butterfly wings from the discount shop so I could take a photo and i might use it on our Christmas cards.I had to get Peter to hold the wings up so I could still see her face.I have started a new blog.... Through Our Eyes. This will replace Adel's Creations as I have uploaded all my layouts into a gallery there and it will be mostly a blog about Lillee.I have started this as most of our family and friends live interstate and this is a great way to let them know how much she has grown and share photos so if you want to check it out, the link is in my link side bar.Feel free to leave a comment, I will upload photos and post message daily (I hope, Lol)

L for Lillee.

Here is a photo of Miss Lillee with her big L. I am working on a canvas for her door using her Making Memories Monogram. I wanted to get a photo of it next to her to show how big the letter is.

The monogram canvas is part of my Guest DT creations for Scrapbook Dreamer. I was honoured to be chosen as the September Guest Design Team member.

I have also completed my "How-to" tutorial and now am working on my layout.

I love this photo of Lillee and Peter, how relaxed they both look.

Just wanted to say, Anthea, Shane and boys we are thinking of you and praying for strength for the funeral tomorrow.

If there is anything we can do for you, you know where we are.

New Toy.

Well I got my new toy on Tuesday and I have been taking lots of photos of my baby girl.

I love how crisp and bright the colours come out when using the Rebel.

Short post this time but another toot for me, I have another LO getting published in ScrapStreet Ezine. Its one of my EDM LOs for Family so I will have to do another.

Will link when the Ezine comes out.

Thanks for all the comments.

New Layouts Created.

These are the layouts I created this weekend.

We had a cyber crop over at Scrap Needs. For the 1 hour timed challenge I created the Remember LO and won first prize (for finishing first) and won myself a set of the Heidi Swapp foam Stamps.

Then over at Scrap Street we also were having a cyber fair and I created the Scrap Street LO and the So this is Love LO.

The LO titled "Scrap Street" is about my excitement of being published in the Scrap Street Ezine (online magazine).

I have a LO titled Sweet Girl due to be published in November.

If you want a great laugh and a great time chatting and scrapping, check out the Scrap Street link.

All the girls there are amazing, some I know from Scrapbook Dreamer but most I have only met.

Well my new post will have a photo taken with my new camera. I got my Canon Rebel yesterday and I am having a great time playing around with it.

The photos come out so crisp and bright.

Thank you for all the comments. Unfortunatly, I was eliminated from DT Survivor but i am happy to make it as far as I have.

Round 5.

Round 5 of DT Survivor at Scrapbooking Swede and there is now only 8 people in the contest with 2 more weeks to go.

If I was voted off now, I'd have to say Im pretty proud to make it this far. Out of 30 contestants that started, I am in the top 8.

So here is my LO this week. We had to draw inspiration from the colours in the pictures. Firstly yes i have her in blue Lol so I drew inspiration from the pink, yellow and white that is on the blankets and the Chatterbox PP matched the balnket so well.

The journalling reads: "Lillee, you amaze me with all the little things you do.
Like how you hold onto the blanket when you are asleep or how you hold the bottle in your little hands.
Its amazing how strong and independent you look at 2 weeks old when you do these gestures.
I love you Lillee."

I hope you like this LO of Lillee. Thanks for all the comments, I muchly appreciate them all.

Stay safe, Melanie.

First Layout of Lillee.

Here is my first layout of Miss Lillee. This was done for a Design team Call at Scrapbooking Swede.

Over at Scrapbooking Swede, they are having a competition to offer Design Team positions.

Just like the television show, you have to do challenges and contestants get voted off each week. I am currently in my fourth week of DT Survivor.

This weeks challenge was to use florals so I had to use some of the Oh Baby Girl range from Basic Grey that the lovely Jaimie sent me.

I hope you like this LO of my little girl. Thanks for all the comments, I really appreciate them.

Tagged by Alanna.

1. Which famous person would you most like to learn that you are descended from?
I have always admired Audrey Hepburn for her beauty, classy attitude and talent so I would have to say her.

2. Which famous person would you hate to learn that you are descended from?
Being German, I'd have to say Hitler or a Nazi.

3. If you could be ancestor to any living famous person, who would it be and why?
These are really hard questions. I think I would have to say Father Chris Riley, who I admire for his work with homeless youth in Australia. I'd be very proud to say he was a relative (if only I could).

4. If you could go back in time and meet any known ancestor(s) of yours, who would it be?
My grandmother Mabel Lillian, she was mums mother and my daughter's namesake. My aunty said nana would have been proud to have a great grand-daughter named after her. Unfortunalty she passed away when mum was 17 so i never got to meet her but have heard so much about what a wonderful lady she was.

5. Tag five others.
Anthea, Francine, Tess, Karen Haywood and Penny.
Have fun girls.

Introducing Lillee.

Our precious baby girl arrived on Friday September 1st at 10.35pm.

My Aunty Ann is so stoked that Lillee was born on her birthday. So Im introducing Lillianlee Louise to all the cyber aunties.

We had a fairly good labour. Had minor contractions since 11pm Thursday night, then on Friday at 8am they started to get a bit more regular and we took a trip to the hospital at lunch time for a checkup and some testing that my GP hadn't done.

They sent me home as I wasn't dilating but by 6pm, they were coming on so strong and at 8.30 pm we left for the hospital again. Travelling 30 minutes to get to the hospital and by the time we got there, I was 8cm dilated. Lillee was born 1.5 jours later.

We are so stoked to have a healthy baby girl, she is sleeping great now that she is on the bottle.

Thanks for all the well wishes, the emails and phone calls. Can't wait to scrap some of these photos and share with you all.

Challenges at Scrapbook Dreamer.

I am having fun at Scrapbook Dreamer. We are having a month long cyber crop in the style of Back to School. We have been doing Layout challenges along the lines of maths (using top 10 lists on your page), literature (using book titles as page titles) and much more.

I am goign to miss it when it is finished at the end of August.

This is the store that I am guest Designer for in September, check out the link.

The above LO is a mini book I am making to document all the new emotions I will feel as a new mum e.g. fear, scary thoughts, happiness. Its about 6x6 and spiral bound.

I hope you like it.

Blogger is playing up.

I think Blogger is playing up on me. When I open my blog it doesn't show anything.

I hope you girls can read it.

Well Im still here, waiting patiently for bub, Peter is not though. Everyday he has a stern talking to bub to tell bub its time to come out. Lol

This is a 6x6 canvas I did at Shop and Crop, they had a cyber crop on Friday night and we did this Father's Day canvas in a class with Sally Donovan. I love this canvas, the whole canvas was so easy to make and i think it looks great.

Well better be off to bed, Im hoping you girls can see this.

Great news and an update.

Just thought I would update the photos of my belly. These were taken today so I am exactly 39 weeks.

Mum took the one of Peter and I and Peter took the one of me alone.

Good news. Over at Scrapbook Dreamer, they had a Guest Design Team call. I was emailed today to say I am Septembers Guest Design Team member. This is an American store so I am very excited to be part of the team for a month.

Laura even asked me if I wanted to pick what supplies I recieve but I said Id love to get a surprise and get a pack right out of my comfort zone. Can't wait to recieve my pack and start.

Today was mums birthday so we baked her a Roast chook and baked vegies, also a chocolate cake for dessert and choc chip cookies for a snack. It was a great day and we all had fun.

Will post a LO tomorrow, been very slack this weekend. It has been busy but also with the pains last night, scrapbooking was the last thing on my mind last night. Lol

Thanks for the comments girls, I really appreciate them.

I did a Layout class with Beth Jarrett on Friday night at The Scrapper Stash and this is the LO I created. Beth, I loved this class, love the chat and loved the whole atmosphere. You did a great class and should be very proud of yourself.

Been cyber cropping this week at Zig Zag but so far haven't completed my challenge LOs.

Last night I wanted to scrapbook but started to get painful contractions/BHs and walking around was all that could help it so we decided to go to bed at 11.30 to get an early nights sleep but when I woke up this morning.... nothing. Grr When is this baby going to come out and meet us?

Its mums birthday today so she is hoping I have bub today but it really doesn't look that way at all. Stubborn bubba must want a birthday all for its self. So we are having mum and dad over for tea, a roast chook and baked vegies and mum and I are going to do some scrapping.

Will post later if anything else happens.

Good news about bub.

I went to the doctors today for a check-up and he said bubs engaged and finally head down bum up.

This is great news as I was dreading the possible breech situation, althought I would have done anything to ensure bub arrives safely.

Peters getting nervous and everytime I ring him at work, he thinks its time. Lol

Mum and I are going in to Kmart tomorrow as they finally have a white cot and as the sale starts on Thursday, the lady said we could layby it early. I have been wanting a white cot but couldn't get it in so now Im excited that bubs white theme is going to work.

Well better go, will upload my LOs to Adel's Creations. Just editing to say I completely forgot to upload my LOs so have done them now. I also added my Masters LOs.

Its 10.30pm here and Im buggered so Im off to bed. Pregnancy must be catching up with me now. Talk soon.