Rough day...

Yep... it's been a crappy one. Unusual for me, but there ya have it! But having a good friend to talk to, who is there to listen and help if they can is the best thing in the world. Family, and friends you can count on - you don't need much more in this life do you! So now I'm going to have a much better night... and go to bed early!

Thanks Lisa, for being there... love ya!

DT sequel...

OK... I did it again and changed the one question that I hummed and haaared over and guess what I got...

Basic Grey!!

Now I can go to sleep feeling happy... LOL.. yeah I know, sad sad sad case!

What DT should you be on...

I found this on Tamar's blog, did the quiz and have almost p'd myself laughing at the outcome! Here's the link... go do it for some fun!

They reckon I should design for ... wait for it... KI Memories... ROFL!!!

Now if you know me you'll know how I balk at working with this paper!! Don;t get me wrong, its one of my FAVE papers {to look at}, the colours and patterns are divine... but I'm useless with it {in my head anyway}. Where Julie, Fiona and my gorgeous friend Karen come alive with it... I manage to mangle and distress it!!

Now why didn't I get Basic Grey!!

Might need to go do that little test again methinks!! But then again perhaps they are right... there's nothing like a good challenge to get me into ultra creative mode and work at my best!

Another Lazy Sunday

I love my lazy weekends. I did manage to cook Triple Chocolate Mess, and dinner and do 2 loads of washing and go up the shops... but the rest was spent chattering away with friends. I even did a LO - one of LC's weekly challenges. This one to use 3 or more photos on a LO - I got 20 on there!! No room for decorations though, but the fireworks are pretties enough!

Retreat Classes

Last night I booked my classes for the retreat that Scrapboxx have organised... now I am even more excited as it seems a little more real! I'll be doing a class sat morning with Nicole Wright on a mini album, sat arvo with Erica Glover on a funky looky canvas and on sun morning a class with Ali Stafford on a Friends LO. I'll be a busy bee! It was hard choices to make as there are 6 classes {3 sets with 2 choices on the same time line} - I wanted to do them all!!

How was your Aussie Day?

Ok... so I'm a bit late, but I hope everyone had a lovely day. We went to Minnawarra Park in Armadale to watch their fireworks with my ma & pa, sister, BIL, friends and extended family - it was gorgeous! This has become a family tradition for us and I look forward to it each year! This photo below is my ma kicking back relaxing... love the pic with the flag in the backgroung!

My Scrap Space take 2...

This months snap'n'scrap challenge at LC's was to snap and scrap your scrap area and use KI Memories Paper, a Frame, Ink or Paint and Brads. Tied in perfect with Julie's suggestion of share your space so I scrapped this today.


A proud moment for me... it's the very first time I mixed my letter fonts. I am so pendantic that the the whole word matches and have been trying to get this to work for ages... only to revert back to my matching fonts! It all came together today {well I think so anyway} although I did have to compromise with myself and have them all the same colour! LOL!!
Thanks ladies for your lovely comments... they really do make my day!!

My Scrap Space

I've had a nosey at Julie Love's gorgeous cosy scrap space and Karen's yummy filled scrap space so time to share mine! I have moved scrap spots 4 times in the past year! I've now taken over the activity room at the back of the house with the spiders and moths!! LOL, it's not that bad... I just I like to have the back door open when I'm here and they all wander in from time to time!!

So this is my scrap'n'chat desk... I have to have my printer/pootah/Basic Grey and camera all in easy reach!! My ribbons are all in the boxes... well the big 2 anyway!



This is my favourite storage thing {and I had to put my Chatterbox Luggage in the shot - I love it so!!}. This sits next to my desk at hands reach! These drawers are the BEST for all my storage. I have chipboard letters in one... all LC's stuff in one {well 3 now!!}, Heidi Swapp gets her own and Making Memories gets one as well! All my versacolor inks and small stamps are ink one, blossoms in another! And on top is all my little eyelets, embies and brads
inside my other fave thing my watch tins, my Fancy Pants Flowers and Making Memories Paints.


Then this is our old Bakers Stand I saved from a boring existence of holding knick knacks... it has all my papers and other embellishment stuff and all the foam stamps and journals up the top safe and sound!


And this is the big storage bookcase... all my albums and to do OTP projects, not to mention books and magazines!



So that's it... this is where I chat and create!!

Good day...

I'm doing 2 roles for the next 2 weeks and was really worried after last weeks quote workload... but today was a breeze. It was wonderful, a nice kinda busy... and I learnt something new, a iddy bit about data control. I like to learn new things, think it has something to do with the competitive side in me!! And the best bit... the computer I have to work from has INTERNET!! Yippee... not that I'd ever use it, nope not me - internetly challenged as I am... LOL!!!
That's it from me... nothing exciting, no new LO's, no new scans. Just a relaxed Mistra who had a good day!!

Another LO...

I was going to get the family out today... but Darren started working on the aviary, which really needs working on so I prefer he does that!!
So I scrapped another Singapore pic... I find these challenging.
1. I don't remember them so don't have a lot of references!!
2. The clothes were really tragic and hard to blend with today's papers!!
3. I want to keep them simple and I'm having trouble holding myself back from throwing everything on the page!!


This one was a nightmare! I loved the photos... but the colours... eeewww!!! Given that, I wanted to keep the colour and not make them b/w because they really reflect the 70's fashions!! Yellow was not happening! So I've opted for an apricotty colour {uuughh}, but it works!! The little coin was a perfect addition, this I got in a RAK from Karen... thanks Karen!