tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50846241909111198052009-11-15T19:43:38.244-08:00Belindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15884524208186429006richarbl@internode.on.netBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5084624190911119805.post-16550540330897199602009-11-13T13:25:00.000-08:002009-11-13T13:30:42.346-08:00

Martin3 years since we married, 14 1/2 years since we met and fell in love, I could not imagine my life without you.I love more today than yesterday but not as much as tomorrow.love Belinda xxxxxx

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I had a little time for some scrapbooking.I made these two too small, can't really see all the details.Click to enlarge them. I had fun with some new stamps on this one.Throughout all these next two are a lot of products from my Qtea kits.Actually for the last few days both my girls have been sick with a gastro bug and it has not been fun for any of us. I camped out in the lounge with them and

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Deanna from Craft4less has added my design team projects to the site so now I can share. The supplies I was given to work with were - fibers, stick on jewels, felt, wire, magic paper clay, and beads. So these are what I came up with. I am using my photos of them as on the site you can't see the details as well (so sorry if that sounded rude) All red highlighted products are available at

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on etsy.I am stocking my shop with some handmade polymer clay embellishments. They are all different and I'll be adding some handmade/painted clay faces later today. These can be used to decorate your own art dolls and crafts.I also have some mini journals made with altered photos from my art works, something a little different and some fabric jewelery (this I love) can't wait to share this and a

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mixed media art kit.I am starting to add a few things into my etsy shop.This is a mixed media art kit "A touch of glam" and the possibilities for these kits are endless.(lots of shine and bling in this kit)I chose to create a couple scrapbook pages but you could also make journal pages, dolls, jewelery, collage or many other things.(please note alpha stickers not available in kit)(tiny stickers

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turning my computer off for a whole week, how many of you think you can do this? lol I know it will hard but I am doing it because a.) Georgina has been complaining of headaches and eye pain/floaties. I don't know whats going on there but she does spend a lot of time on the computer and reading so I am giving her a weeks break and then taking her for an eye test. And b.) well I do just spend so

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Princess. Today was a quiet day and I thought I'd go through some craft boxes and clean up/out some stuff. But as many of you will know going through craft supplies is a sure fire winner to getting inspiration. My inspiration came in the way of Lucy. She has grown so much lately that many of her little dress up clothes are getting too small for her, soooo out comes the sewing machine and tada -

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I thought I would share a little bit of news with you...... I was chosen to be part of a design team for a n online craft shop.The shop is called "CRAFT4LESS" and you can visit HERE and go check it out. It will be heaps of fun. I love challenging myself to try new things and look outside the box, so when Deanna (shop owner) sent me my box of goodies to work with I did just that. I can only share

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We had Lucy's second last speech therapy session and her therapist was happy to discharge her as she has improved heaps except for some tongue positioning which sometimes makes her lisp. We are thrilled and now she will be reassessed once she starts kinder. But I really think there will be no need in having her back. So we are happy all round for Lucy and apart from a complete medical check after

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and I am slowly gaining my mojo and energy back. After I started to recover from the flu I went away for a weekend to Melbourne with my mum, sil and a couple family friends and I came home exhausted and spent 2 days throwing up and just slept on the couch. Without Martin my poor girls would have gone unfed and I thank him heaps, especially looking after the girls so I could go to Melbourne. We

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to rest and get well. I am sick and just a little tired at the moment. I have a cold or something and it has gone straight to my chest, a draw back to having asthma is every time you get even a little cold it can effect the way you breath. So apart from feeling unwell I am feeling tired and I think things are getting a little on top of me. Georgina had a occupational therapy assessment and now

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We are home from a holiday and exhausted but happy. We stayed at Launceston and then headed to my mums in the bush for Georgina's 7th birthday. We had an awesome time and did some great family things. Movies, zoo, park, bbq's, play center and the pool. Here is a few of a great many photos from Launceston.Monkey's at the City park. They were very funny and rude lolView from the wobbly bridge at

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Hi I am at home preparing for a trip away up north for a break. Georgina started some school holidays yesterday and we all need a little break for some family fun. We are having a jam packed week of fun and games and this lot here will keep the girls busy in our hotel room of an evening.We are hoping for nice weather so we can go on a boat trip and to a chair lift but we have lots of indoor

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we have had. Georgina has had so much going on at school. She has had 2 major projects this term and received an A+ on her first and we hand the second in tomorrow. She had to dress up for book week in Animal clothes for safari, we managed it just, it has been so cold so we still had to rug her up. She looked cute, she didn't want to wear her splints but she knows she has too (no harm in asking

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I have been making some fairy dolls and thought I'd share a little tutorial on how I make them, I've never created a tutorial before so go easy on me ;)Step 1.) -Making the headThe head is made from Sculpey clay, which I then painted with black paint with a top coat of gold.Step 2.) -Forming the body-I used copper wire for the body of the doll but you can use any wire as long as it is strong.cut

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This weekend just gone I was quite productive on the creative front. I have made a new art doll and taken many photos to do a tutorial, will post shortly. I also got out all of my scrap booking scraps for the girls to craft with and decided to join in and I came up with my version of some art work I love on Katie Kendricks blog, love her faces. Anyway here is mine, I added lots of words and

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Life has found me extremely busy but in a good way. We have had a couple of weeks of ups and downs, the first being that Georgina went back to her Doctor for a follow up after the botox and although her muscle movement in her feet/legs has improved slightly for now; she has some signs of the cerebral palsy effectnig her hands/arms. I was the one that asked the Doctor to assess her movements in

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is sure to put a smile on my face. I want to share with you a gorgeous atc and charm that arrived as an early B'day (my b'day is Tuesday) present from Sherry. I love her little charms they are so sweet. Thank you Sherry I love it.Speaking of thanking people I want to say a huge "THANK YOU" to everyone who has given me support and well wishes for Georgina and my family. I do not take it for

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Etsy, at last.Ok can you believe that I signed up for Etsy back in August 2008 and it has taken me almost a year to actually start putting anything in it lol oh well better late than never. I have made up a few mixed media art kits on Etsy. These kits are so versitile and can be used for almost any craft and jam packed with colour and texture yummy. I am in the middle of taking stacks of

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so much has been going on in my life lately that I feel like my head is spinning. I have made myself sit back and take stock of what I really want to do with my life. Most of my work history has been in the hospitality field and it never satisfied me at all. I decided to study Disability services as I worked in the kitchen of a nursing home and wanted to work where I could help others, half way

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are horrible yeh ok I said it, I do not like them and well my daughter she is just good at hiding that she hates them too.I do know that they are to help Georgina and she will be wearing them for a long time to come. Yesterday she wore them to school for the first time and I couldn't believe the stares she got not from the kids but from the parents. Georgina is very aware of what she looks like

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Edited to note- ok silly me anyone who's read this already will realise I never added the blog picture lol anyway it's here nowI received a blog award from Sharmaine Please find the time to visit Sharmaine"s blog her scrapbooking and mixed media art is really beautiful as are her 4 gorgeous girls.The Love My Friends Award is given to those blogger's who aspire, inspire and share the most

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Hi Well I finally got together some photo's of all the pages I completed the other day, all very different and some with old photo's too.(If you click on these pictures they should enlarge)For the last two days I have been de-cluttering and cleaning my dining room and kitchen and I have removed 2 garbage bags of rubbish, unbelievable how much unwanted junk we collect. Martin and I have decided to

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I have subscribed to Qtea kits , a mixed media kit full of interesting bits and pieces. If you are not a fan of the usually run of the mill scrapbooking supplies this is the kit for you. My first kit arrived and I made up a page straight away, I can't wait to see whats next. Check out the site hereHere is the kit for July, horse theme.and here is my first page, but there is enough stuff left to

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can go a long way ;)For a while now I have been collecting all sorts of balls of wool and really textured threads. I use them for doll making, scrapbooking and all sorts of other things. I wanted to make something that used up a lot of them together for two reasons 1) the textures and colours together are gorgeous and 2) because well I just have too many and need to use them up. I thought I might

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