Been busy creating...

I have had such a productive week! I have completed 14 layouts now bringing me only 11 months behind now :( hubby has been on nights this week so with the kids in bed I got lots done.

On top of this I have completed a mini canvas for my daughter's friend. It was actually Seekara's idea. She was watching me do my large tile canvas and asked if she could do one for her friend for her birthday - I thought it was a fabulous idea. Seekara helped with the painting, gluing, sanding and inking. See even four year olds can join in with projects like this!

I have now started some mini canvases for my Mumsy, Mother in law and Nansy. I am officially addicted to tiles! Hopefully I will have them ready to show by next week.

Here are a few of my fave projects completed for the week:

Gift for Seekara's friends birthday - using collections tiles, making memories paper, Kasier wood embellishment, Love Elsie buttons, K & Co embellishments and other bits and pieces. Broken jewellery and children's trinkets make great embellishments on these canvases. Even better - go through a man's shed - its amazing what bits and pieces you can find. Check out Tracy's blog - her hubby found some old cupboard handles whilst cleaning out the shed - perfect for a canvas!

My brother Kade and his beautiful wife Jacqui on their night - layout using K & Co papers & embellishments, Letters by Carolee's Creations and Basic Grey. The flower was made from ribbons and some spare material.
Seekara adores her Uncle Kade and Aunt Jacqui - papers and embellishments from Basic Grey Infuse Collection, Scissor Sisters paper, Bird and brackets from Collections, Hambly Screen Prints rubons.

Its not everyday a Newman kid gets to make a sandcastle on the beach - I think Seekara enjoyed it too :) hehe Papers by Creative Imaginations, Seven Gypsies, Collections & ProvoCraft. Letters from American Crafts. Castle and lettering from Cricut Storybook and Stretch Your Imagination.

Me - 7 months pregnant and proud. Basic Grey Granola Collection, Kaiser pearls and Fancy Pants stamps.

Thanks for looking!

Wilson Canvas

I finished my canvas tonight and was so excited that I wanted to share! I want to complete more now. It was so much fun! I cant wait to hang it up!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! Hope you had a lovely long Easter weekend. We certainly did. Lots of photos for Cheekah's very first Easter - that girl loves chocolate. Here is a cute little pic of Cheekah devouring her choccie...

Rhonda and I returned from SIA a few weeks back and just starting to get back into the swing of things again. As well as staying in Sydney for SIA we holidayed in Sydney and Canberra for 9 days with Rhonda and Ken. Together the 4 of us saw heaps, including two tours. Darryl and I (pictured above) loved the Featherdale Wildlife Park. This is only a smallish park but the animal keepers were very helpful and allowed you to touch most of the animals including a python, a tawny frog mouth and a koala. We loved it. The park was part of a tour to the Blue Mountains with Activity Tours Australia. We had a fantastic tour with guide Steve. Steve was so knowledgeable and really made this tour thoroughly enjoyable.

We were also very lucky to have our very own tour guides in Canberra (Paul and Robin Dearlove). Robin is a dear old friend of mine and lives in Canberra with her hubby Paul. They showed us so many things about Canberra. My highlight was the Parliament house tour - the tour guide was extremely full of knowledge and made the tour very interesting. Best of all - its free! The war museum was another personal favourite - this place is amazing. I thought Canberra was really nice. There is so much to do there and best of all most of it is free or a gold coin donation entry fee. We have to go back to see the rest at some stage because two days is just not enough!

Here are a few recent layouts... Enjoy

Using new Pink Paisley range

Using new Kaiser food range
Our kids class from Thrusday 16th April. The girls really loved this class and

did some gorgeous pages. The girls ages ranged from 6 - 13.

Tenaha :)