It’s been a while… but you guys (all 3 of you ) are all used to that aren’t you… I bet that doing your blog rounds today you nearly fell off your chair when you saw this! ;P

Anyway, having a forced day off today as Julieanne has the dreaded loogy. She came home from school yesterday and fell asleep on the floor in front of the heater so I knew that something was up. No better this morning and much to her disgust she agreed that she should stay home.. to make it even harder for her, today is Grandparents day at the school and she was looking forward to spending it with Waynes mum, at least it makes me pretty sure that she is feeling pretty bad, she hates missing school.. fingers crossed it stays that way!

Not much else happening here… well apart from the general truck issues that seem to be plaguing us. The gearbox in one of them went the other week… expensive excersise that was! All seems to be running ok now though (hope you’ve kept those fingers crossed)

Ummm.. what else… Oh yes! I’m so excited about last weeks annoucement about Canon releasing the 50D in the next couple of months… and I’m so glad that the money that I had for the 40D ended up getting spent on the business (well not really but you know what I mean lol), because it means that I can get the 50 instead… drool… all 15 mp of it…although I dont’ know how my harddisk is going to cope with those huge image files… hmmmm.. new external might be on the way too, or it might just mean that I need to start organising my files… shock horror! Am also still on the lookout for a “magic drainpipe” (get your mind out of the gutter Lee!! ;P) Canons old 80-200mm 2.8… but it seems that they are still on the pricey side too.. sigh… should buy a tatts ticket I think..

Last but not least, I’ve done some painting.. am starting to get the hang of Painter, but it’s still a slow process. Still not 100% happy with them, but I might get there one day

This is Isabella at Easter 2 years ago. With the help of the people at digitalpaintingforum I’m almost happy with this…

And a Moody Julieanne. Wayne HATES this one, as it’s too gloomy for him… lol, she’s not always happy, and I like pictures that show emotion other than happy ones sometimes.. anyway do you guys think it’s ok, or too depressing?

Ok will leave it there I think, nothing else to say

TTFN!

iPhone. Just downloaded the wordpress app, and I’m really not sure as to why as I really don’t warrant a portable blog LOL, being the bad blogger I am!

Oh cool I can even attach a photo!

No idea

Anyway, won’t write much as I really don’t have anything to say apart from “sorry no LO this week”.. but I do have a few pictures lol….

First up is Wayne and Julieanne picking up the SHEEP poo for the compost…

Next is a daff that I just had to take a picture of, as it’s skin was still attached..

a few Disney on Ice shots from Thursday.. needless to say that I got my best shots from the Little Mermaid, and apparenly the skater the plays Eric is a local boy… Anyway, I took over 400 shots, so good to see that at least a couple turned out.. oh and yes I was sick of taking photos by the end of it lol..

and last a shot of Julieanne next to an ice tree at Docklands the other week. They had a winter wonderland theme up, and these cool looking little trees along the boardwalk.. go and have a look!

And a smudge of my sister.. CC most welcome on this too as I can’t seem to get the balance of painterly look right..

Ok will leave it there as I have to get another ep of LOST in I think.. have been having withdrawals as I haven’t watched on for at least a week now

TTFN

a super quick post today only because I had to share this before I forgot it…

Watching the news earlier tonight Julieanne saw a shot of the Prime  Minister Kevin Rudd.. anyway she says to me “Isn’t the prime minister the brother of the old prime minister?” LOL, I had to laugh and say no, but yes they do look a like don’t they?

Also have to add the I’m typing this on the old PC (as Wayne is hogging MY imac) and boy does it feel weird to type on this keyboard… I love MY slimline mac keyboard, and now every other one feels just plain odd.. also had issues when I went back to work this week and had to use their cruddy old one ;)…

TTFN, and there might be a LO coming in the next few days…. (well I made a promise to myself that I’d a least attempt one.. thanks to Sarah at DD )

First off, I’d like to apologise to all you that read the last post (all one of you Lee.. well apart from those spammers grrrr ) anyway, it was a bit complainy wasn’t it? LOL, hopefully no whinging in this post… well not too much anyway.

I have been attempting to do something a little out of the norm for me in the past week or so, and that has been sewing! I used to do hand embroidery (before digiscrapping took over my life lol) but machine sewing i”d never really tried (even though mum and dad bought me a machine for my 21st Birthday ) anyway I found this and had to give it a shot. The instructions were for an 18 month old so I had to do some math and improvise.. needless to say that I didn’t have as much success as I’d hoped.. I think that I need MORE fabric.. oh and this one was the second attempt too.. if you are going to attempt this, don’t be fooled into thinking that normal chiffon will work… it WON’T and will fray something shocking.. I couldn’t find any nylon chiffon though and tried it… ::sigh:: went back later and got some of this fairyfloss fabric which was a lot easier to use, and a lot cheaper too!

Anyway, here is the result (the skirt)… finished this morning, and just in time as Julieanne wants to wear it to her school disco tonight… hmmm, can’t say that I’m very happy with it really… grrr, I hate never being satisfied!

Can never get an unposed shot of Juileanne either….

Oh no I can, generally it looks something like this….

Oh and found this too: adobe cards. Takes a little while to load (well it did for me) and once it does drag the slider all the way to the right and watch..

TTFN, have to go check on dinner (early one before Julieanne goes out)

::subtitle driving lesson 101::

OK, as there is no one here, I get to complain online about this issue which has annoyed and puzzled me for a few years. Why is it that in heavy fog, like this morning, people insist on driving with their parkers on? Or worse no lights at all?!?! Crossing the 4 lanes of the South Gippy Highway this morning was quite an experience.. anyway, heads up to all you parker user drivers: PUT YOUR NORMAL LIGHTS ON!!! The parkers are useless (well unless you have parked the car and you need to see where it is, hence the name) you might as well not have any on at all (which quite a few people are doing too)… OK, feel a bit better now….

Yes I’m a singstar! granted it was on easy and it was singing The Rolling Stones’ Painted Black (which consists of a LOT of hmmmmm-ing, which really made me feel my sinuses) but I did get that result.. which I’m only guessing is the top score. Anyway it came about yesterday when Julieanne asked if we could play it, sure I said being a closet performer lol… anyway we play in duet mode so we each get a turn of singing, but turns out that she didn’t want to sing this song so I was stuck with both microphones doing the old switcheroony.. pretty good of me I must say… LMBO ;P

It was Stewarts Birthday on yesterday too, so we picked him up on Friday and went out to Chinese for tea.. which was nice.. he only stayed the one night as he’d organised a party at his house the Saturday night.. anyway, turns out that even though he’s had his ipod touch since Christmas he still didn’t know how to buy songs from itunes, so I got him a $50 voucher (amongst other things) to spend up on.. Big W had them for $30, so that’s 40% off! I really should get another one I think as Wayne wants me to do a CD for his dad of old Aussie songs….

Umm really not much else to say so will leave it at that I think.. .unless I think of anything else noteworthy

TTFN

BTW card was made using Anna Aspnes FotoKardz template No 1, and boy do they make life easy.. took me about 2 mins to put it together… though my printing took much longer.. for the life of me I can’t get my printout to match my screen… anyone have a good printer profile for the canon MP530 multifunction?

Ok, so the 4th season has finished, but I’ve been getting back into the first season of DVD (lol, that I bought without ever watching an episode….!) Anyway, last night a saw the episode of when Claire and Charlie get taken by Ethan, and Claire has a dream sequence with Locke in it, where he has a white eye and a black eye (good and evil of the island??) anyway she asks him what is wrong, and he says something along the line of: it’s all wrong because you gave him away….. Hmmmm could this have something to do with the “bad stuff” that is happening on the island after the 6 get off… is it because Kate now has Aaron??? But then why would Claire be telling Kate not to bring him back… or was she meaning Locke… and what did that psychic actually see in Claire’s future?? he did say that Aaron needed Claire’s goodness to raise him…

It’s all doing my head in but….. I LOVE IT!!!!

Ok, and just for you guys that have no idea of what i”m going on about here is a picture of Stewart I did….

TTFN.. and remember:

Everything happens for a reason….

That’s all I can say about tonights ep of LOST! Yep it’s pretty late for me to be still up (it’s 12.18) but I’m still all pumped from it lol, have been checking all the threads at yahooseven too.. anyway, if you’re not a LOSTIE you don’t know what you are missing

On to other things.. this week has been a bit of a bbsp one (lol MAC girls will get that one ) Wayne is back doing the Adelaide run, and blew a tyre the other night.. expensive episode that was… I think that the actual trip cost us… oh well such is life I suppose… reminds me of a video Karen had on her blog.. check it out, pretty good stuff

I was attempting to get a LO done this week, but it just wasn’t working so decided to do a smudge instead.. here is my result.. didn’t know which was best so have uploaded both versions.. also the original just so you could see how messy her hair generally is lol…

Original

This one had LR preset by Nicole V applied after PS…

This one (and the one above) texture by Nancie Rowe Janitz (I hope that spelling is ok)

Am attempting to do one of Stewart, but it doesn’t seem to be working so well… stay tuned…maybe…

Ok will leave you with this….. Julieanne got the DVD on the weekend so it’s been running EVERY DAY here.. thought you might all like to hear (and see) what i’ve got running through my head lately lol…

Ok, TTFN for now.. better get to bed, as I think that I’ve calmed down enough now lmbo

thank Lee for this post…. she tagged me so I guess that I’d better do some of the thing… of course like usual I won’t be tagging anyone (lol, only partly due to the fact that I really don’t have enough friends too tag ) but i’ll list the rules anyway….

~ Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog
~ Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
~ Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
~ Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog .

Ok, 7 facts…… hmmm.. oh, this is harder than it first seems…

1. I was born in the Netherlands

2. I don’t have a middle name.

3. we had family portraits taken when Julieanne was 2 and they still haven’t been hung up!

4. I feel that I’m getting more cranky as I get older

5. I didn’t win last Thursdays 40 million Powerball, but am just thinking it’s because I’m set to win the 50 Million this week (lol, I suppose I’d better get a ticket then although the odds are about 27 million to 1!)

6. I don’t scare that easy but have a fear of really deep water

7. just incase you haven’t guessed yet, I’m a pretty boring person

Well there you go all done… now just to pretty up the post here is a LO.

I did this quite a while ago, but dug it out of the archives last night to find out what the font was I used in it.. incase you are interested it’s 2Peas GG mix…

Anyway, hope you all have a great week.

TTFN