Album for cousin Toby

This little album is created with an acrylic base and various scrap pieces...

A terrible mother

I've just been reading a great blog, Never Been Hip. And was reminded of a day after school last week. I was at school to pick up Vincent, when I saw him start a fight with another kid. A teacher went over and sorted it out. The mum I was chatting to said "oh, look at that". I said "yip, I'm looking, and I'm going to ignore it and let the teacher sort it out!" Later, that teacher and Vincent's teacher came over for a chat, and I said "well, when he's sick, he's just a little shit". I mean, it's true, why the shocked faces? Or is truth a terrible thing for a mother in public? Should we pretend that it's all sweetness and light all the time?
Normally Vincent is a practical, empathetic kid, but being sick makes him surly. It's just the reality of it.
Of course, parenting as a competitive sport doesn't allow for reality. Either your kid is super-perfect or is super-terrible and you have 'such a hard time' as a parent. Give it up - some is good, some is bad, and everything is MORE! Kids give you more happiness, more frustration, more laughter and more moments of complete terror than life without kids will ever give you!

An update

Ok, so I've been crazy busy lately and have completely ignored by blog. But I have a guilty reason to update: a competition to win a few trips to Brisbane to wax lyrical about the place and encourage people to visit. Tourism Queensland have such great competitions!

The idea is to write 250 words about a place that I have discovered in my current locality. And our family should be the ideal people to do this. We are, as friends once said, always having little adventures. I don't think it will be the drive to find the waterfall that the town of Waterfall was named after - that was somewhat underwhelming, plus it rained like crazy and we ended up totally soaked! Perhaps our favourite haunt for a rainy day, the Powerhouse Museum. Full of cool engineering things and a couple of fantastic playgrounds. Then there is that other cool engineering location, Cockatoo Island. We love to explore all the old machinery, run through the tunnels, and climb up to the top and look out over the gorgeous harbour. But I think I'll run with the Sydney Ferries - it's the cheapest way to get a harbour cruise and see all the sights of the most famous beautiful harbour in the world!

Some creations

The quad bike one is using a Kaisercraft sketch.

The kitchen one is Week 6 from LSBS.

And one of Fergus, just for fun!

School Bus (Kaisercraft)

Scrapbook Divas gave me the new Kaisercraft Class of 87 collection to play with. Here is a layout using their march blog sketch (#1): First Day.

I also used the Scrapbook Divas month sketch to do this layout:



And of course, the bus album:

And a bit more... gee I've been busy!

For my Two Tips post on Scrapping Shoebox, I created this purple layout.

A bit of creativity...

This pyramid/star album was made for LSBS's 4-7-11 Week 1 challenge.

The photos are from our recent camping trip to Port Stephens. On the way home we went for a swim in Fingal Bay (where that famous spit is), and the 'wallet' sized photos seemed perfect for this little album.

Instructions can be found here.