Creations From The Heart

Neat website

I found a link on Nicole Seitler's blog to this website call Craft Critique and it's well worth a visit on over (to both Nicole's and the Craft Critique ones).  I've pasted in a blurb about what the site offers:

We are a collective of experienced crafters (some professional, most not) with strong opinions to share on the craft supplies you want to learn more about. Our staff is entirely volunteer.

There's anything to do with all sorts of crafts including scrapping and digi scrapping.  Reviews on tools, books, techniques, decor, etc.  Go on over!

Late-night inspiration

First I must say GO PIES!!!!  Yes, we won, we won and are through to the AFL semis next week...can't wait to see how we go against the Eagles but after tonight's ripper performance, we'd be in for a great chance....we had a Footy Party tonight with the DeYoung family - hot dogs, sausage rolls, lollies and more....but the kids didn't really make it to watch the start of the footy as they were all a bit hyped up on lollies I think....so early to bed for both of them...and little over half an hour ago, Toby's decided to bring most of it up in his bed so I've just put a load of washing on and he's gone back to sleep...if it's not one kid, it's the other (Ryan had his turn on Thursday just gone)...why us I always ask!!

Well, after cleaning up Toby's bed, thought I'd so some quick blog-hopping and checked out Linda Albrecht's blog and here's some of the layouts she's posted recently - they just have this unique, warm and beautiful feel to them don't they?

And I've officially kicked off our first circle journal group - there's 10 of us in it and we've just organised our albums and sizes and now it's up to each of us to cover our album, choose a topic and scrap the first layout in the album before we do our first swap to the next person in the circle.  In 10 months, our own album will come back to each of us with a layout scrapped by each person in the circle so this should be heaps of fun.  Found this pic of a circle journal going around that Kim Archer has done for Julie Love....

And I was checking out Janelle Wind's blog the other day and she's done these gorgeous felt bags which are gift bags for her daughter's birthday party... and these are the invitations that she did for the party made from fabric (how adorable!).. .

Have done a little scrapbooking lately - just finished one of Donna Loughnan's kits - the July one which uses some yummy My Mind's Eye "Tres Jolie" papers...have two of her kits here for sale for $29.95 if anyone is interested and my layouts from the kit are here to view too!  Used photos of the kids swimming at the local pool in Dec 2005...so nothing much for me to post but plenty of other works of art as you can see from this post, by checking out a few blogs!  Nighty-night!!!

Love this blog....

Love this blog - Housemartin.  Go to it for a bit of inspiration in decor, colour, craft, fabric, etc not that I can replicate any of this type of stuff, but one can only dream!!  Just love all the colours and style!  Found some other pics by blog-hopping too....   

Today was Dad's 62nd  birthday so the family went to their place for afternoon tea.  The kids and I made Thomas the Tank cupcakes (from a packet of course)!  Mum laid on cakes, fruit, biscuits, chips and icecream cake (a Freddo Frog one that the kids have to have for every birthday in the family)!  So by the time we got home, none of us required tea!  Just watched Australian Idol and the first 3 guys tonight were just sensational - love Jack Byrnes but Ben is just a standout (he's so young with a voice that doesn't sound like it's broken yet with a cute pimply face but did a knockout rendition of Mad World).  I haven't watched much of the audition shows and still have to watch the girls from last night.  I just love music of many kinds and these young 16 year olds, especially Matt Corby, are just stunning.  Here's some pic from the family celebrations tonight...

Blog of the day....Linda Albrecht

I love this ladies blog - Linda Albrecht.  She was recently a guest designer over at Tarisota Collections and her work is just gorgeous - check out this exquisite baby girl layout using the May Tarisota Collections kits....

There's also another version of this layout she's got on her blog which again is just stunning - Pene, some ideas for your new baby girl layouts? 

Who's reading my blog?????

Hey, who's out there????  Anyone, anyone.....some of you may have noticed that little cluster map on my left hand sidebar right down the bottom of this blog.  Well it's supposed to be tracking where readers of my blog live...pretty cool isn't it?  Now the bigger those red dots become, the more hits I've got from that part of the world (or Australia so far!).  I'd love to know who's reading my blog and where you come from so jump on and leave me a comment....don't know if you know how to make a comment...just click on the COMMENT link under the relevant blog post and it will ask you to pop in your name (this can be your real, nick or fake name!), enter your email address then enter what you'd like to say and click POST.  Once I approve the Comment, it will show up under that Comment for that particular post.  For those of you new to the world of blogging, Comments can say anything at all.  A comment about the post, a hi to someone who's commented, feedback, say whatever's on your mind.  I'm just curious where the hits are coming from out of Melbourne where I live, so c'mon, come out and say hi to all of us!!!!