I have the winners from my ‘pay it forward’ giveaway. I did the random generator thingie, but can’t work out how to put the results up on my blog. So they are as follows:
Winner #1 – Butterfly cards – is comment 15 – Virginia!!!!
Winner #2 – Round scallop cards – is comment 10 – Heather Maria!!!!
Winner #3 – Little tree cards – is comment 2 – Dawn T!!!!
Congratulations girls and please send me an email at cmmillar@optusnet.com.au with your addresses and I’ll get those cards out to you later in the week.
My sister is home from the Northern Territory on holidays so we’re taking off to Sydney for a few days for a little sister time together! I’m really looking forward to it. The kids will go and have a few days at Nanna’s and all will be happy – including Jason who gets to have the house to himself for a few days which he loves too!!! Not long after we get back from Sydney he’ll be going to work up at Emerald for about a week or 2 (Emerald is about 7 hours drive from here).
A few things to share.
I did this layout for the Hero Arts die cut challenge a couple of weeks ago. Love how it came to together.

And a couple of cards


And lastly, facebook. Whilst it’s been a great way of catching up with old friends and keeping in contact with interstate relatives, it’s also been a way of finding out sad news. Last week I found out that a girl that I worked with died just last month from cancer. She was only a little older than me and has a 12 year old daughter. I also found out that another work friends husband committed suicide last year.
I really appreciate the scrapping friends that have wanted to add me as their friend on facebook, however I do like to keep facebook just for family and old friends as this is my way of communicating with them, and I have blogs for keeping up with my scrapping friends. I’m sure you will all understand and appreciate that.
Have a great week everyone and I’ll see you when I get back from Sydney!!
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Proud to be one of these tonight!!!!

It was a fabulous game – lots of screaming going on in our house, especially when Crocker kept dropping the ball!!!
We made history in the end though!!!
QUEENSLANDER!!!!!!!!!!!
Back with the winners of my pay it forward in a couple of days.
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Recently I was lucky to have won a ’pay it forward’ on Ros’s blog and now I get to play along in the pay it forward.
I will make something special for three people who comment on this post, and those commenters can do their own “Pay it forward” on their blog.
I will make and send off the goodies sometime in the next 2 months.
If you are interested in playing leave a comment on this post, I’ll draw 3 names from the comments and you can then play “Pay it forward” on your blog. Edit to add: If you want to play along and don’t have a blog, that’s fine too, I know that you, my lovely crafty friends will pay it forward in some way even if not via a blog.
I’ve already created the following 3 little gift card sets to send to the names I draw out.



I’ve just loved creating these cards using some new nesties and stamps I purchased recently as well as some diecuts (how cute are those trees?)
The gift of poetry. We went and visited Jason’s Nanna on Monday and each time we see her we’re saddened by her decline further and further into alzheimers. This time she has lost weight and no longer wears her teeth. She can’t talk really at all other than a few simple words that are hard to understand and we’re unsure if she knows who we are. She sat pretty quietly the whole time we were there, however when Jason and his Mum started reciting poetry to her a light clicked on inside. Her eyes got wider and she started moving her mouth trying to say the words. The more they got into a rhythm with the poem the more she came alive. It was a poem Nanna had taught Jason as a youngester called ‘The green eye of the little yellow god’
It was such a beautiful, yet teary moment.

And lastly, I’m getting one of these!
I’ve purchased the bottom left one with the 2 gorgeous babushka dolls. These of course were created by the lovely and talented Kate Mason, if you want to purchase a Kate original you can check them out on her blog here. I can’t wait to have this hanging in my home!
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Want the chance to win some goodies? My lovely friend Leisa is celebrating the 4th birthday of her store Scrapsidaisy See details below about what you need to do to be in the draw to win.
Also, drop in and say hello on the forum, we’re a very friendly bunch of girls who love to chat all things scrappy and non-scrappy! 
Part of our celebrations will be a “Make us a Birthday Card” competition! All you have to do is make and send us a 4th birthday card. We will choose 2 cards we like the best and the creators will receive a prize pack of scrap goodies worth $50 each! One entry per person please.
Just send your card to us at 107 Isabella Street, Wingham NSW 2429 AND if you mention this competition and link us on your blog (let us know you have done it in the comments section so we can visit) we will put you in the draw to win a special blog candy pack worth $30! Open to internationals too!!!
Good luck!!!!!!
And something to make you all clucky – I took some photos of my new nephew Ollie with his Mum and Dad on the weekend. Just love this one.

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Shayla headed off to Grade 6 camp this morning and now the house is so quiet! Not that she’s very noisy, but there’s no squabbling going on!!LOL Here are a couple of pics of her before she got on the bus

Jason’s work got cancelled, so he was able to see her off too!
With her best friend Ebony.
We miss her already! She’s gone down to Boonah, south of Ipswich, so she’ll probably be freezing to death!!!!!
I have a new love………

You have to try one of these if you haven’t already – Naughty, but divine!!!!!

How cute is this little foxy stamp?? I totally scraplifted this card from the very talented Kelly Booth. Just love Kelly’s work, go check out her blog. I also was the lucky receipent of a blog win on Kelly’s blog a few weeks ago and she sent me heaps of goodies!!! I felt very spoilt, thanks Kelly, and I even got a Kelly original card and here it is (isn’t it gorgeous!!)

And lastly, here is a layout I did of Shayla a couple of weeks ago. We’d curled her hair this day, but it was a couple of years ago when she first had her ’spacer’ put in her mouth and it created this big gap in her teeth. It really changed the whole shape of her mouth.

Have a fabulous week everyone!! And thanks again for dropping by!
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How generous is Debbie, here she goes again with the most amazing blog candy I’ve ever seen! I priced Copic pens at my local Office Works this week and they were $124 for a set of 12 and here Debbie is giving away 36 of them! 
So check out Debbie’s blog here
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April 29, 2009 by Chris M
Girls and boys you have to go and check out the generosity of Debbie at Passion for Crafts She has the most amazing blog candy up for offer and she does the most adorable cards with amazing copic markers work!
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April 25, 2009 by Chris M

ANZAC Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day we remember all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.
**Photos – Annaliese 2004 (oldies, but goodies)
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