A sad day...

It was a sad day in RAAF history today when we formally farwelled the DHC-4 Caribou from Australian service. There was a ceremony with lots of important people there say good-bye and thank the RAAF and the Caribou for 45 years of service in the ADF. Unfortunately after 45 years the plane was too old to maintain anymore so it was time to go - they will be keeping one at the War Memorial in Canberra and another at the RAAF Museum in Point Cook, Victoria.


It was great to see Nathan in his service dress and marching for once instead of his dirty old cams! The kids loved it, especially when the Caribous did a "fly over" right over top of where we were sitting. Very proud of Nathan today and happy to say he was a part of hisotry in working on these planes! Now we're looking forward to the new challenge next year when he gets to work on the new C17 Globemasters that have only been in RAAF service since 2006.


So after the ceremony they had a big "open day" where they opened 38 Squadron up to families and let them inside the planes. They also had a FA-18 Hornet, Chinook and a Black Hawk as well as some Bushmaster tanks for everyone to look at. The kids thought it was awesome that they got to sit in the cockpit of a Chinook and also a Caribou! There was a free jumping castle, balloon animals, face painting and snow cones for the kids and a bbq lunch. Was a great day all round!

So, do you like the new look?

Well I've been busy trying to update my Blog and made it look a bit more important! I'm still trying to figure out a few things but I think it looks great already!

Lily is finally all better and back to her old self! The weather is starting to get a little warmer now, so we've been locking ourselves inside during the middle of the day with the air-con on! I've nearly completed all my Christmas shopping as well, and the tree is up and looks awesome! And of course the kidlets wanted to pose in front of it wearing their Christmas shirts!


A couple of LO's to share as well for Round 2 of the competition going over at Bon's Scraps.

This one was for the Felicity's November Sketch
And finally this LO was for Charm's 123 Challenge


I think I need to get better at photographing my LO's!! xo

Heaps of scrapping done here lately...

So I've been very busy scrapping this week - I probably haven't scrapped this many pages in such a short time ever! These were all for a competition over at Bon's Scraps.

Here is my Round 1 LO for Skye's Scraplift Challenge. Requirements were to follow the sketch and include a heart, staples and masking tape.

This was for Bon's Round 1 Colour Challenge. Needed to include red, green, dots and a slogan or song for title.

And here was my take on Felicity's Sketch Challenge -


Haven't done anything else new in the last few days. Lily is sick with a virus and has had very high temps for 3 days now. It's horrible with her being so sick cause she just wants to be held all day and isn't eating much. Hopefully she'll get better soon. xo

Bon's Scraps 4 week competition!

So there's a great little competition going on over at Bon's Scraps but you need to complete the first round by tonight so you'd better head there quick and get crackin! The prize is a 3 month subscription kit valued at $118!

It's a great site with loads of challenges that are keepin me busy!! I'll post some shares a little later.. xo

Check out this freebie up for Grabs!

Head over here for your chance to win an awesome prize from Bon's Scraps!

Lots of shares this week!!

Well I've been doing a lot of creating this week and really enjoying what I'm coming up with most of the time!

This LO was for the October Sketch over at Scrapbook Capital. I've used some of the new Kaisercraft "Rewind" collection.


Then this LO was from Inspired Blue Prints Sketch #32. Used another Kaisercraft range here!


Then looking for some more sketch challenges, I stumbled across a site I haven't been to before, Bon's Scraps. So I took up their October Sketch challenge as well just for fun!


And my last share is my Kaisercraft Advent calendar I have just finished!! I am sooo in love with it!The more time I spend in the Scrapbooking community the more I want to learn! There's some really talented people out there and I'm dying to get as good as them. I've decided to get a bit serious with my scrapping next year and my goal is to be published in Scrapbook Creations and maybe even try out for a DT spot somewhere... I want to get my name out there and learn from the best!!

A Birthday, a published LO and a small share!

Well we've been back from Brisbane for 2 weeks now and been super busy since! We've changed the rooms around in the house and created a "kids lounge room" as we got a new 42" LCD TV for our lounge. We also stained Lachlan's new bunk bed and set it up in his room and I think it looks great! We moved Lily into Lachlan's low single bed and packed away the cot - my little girl is all grown up now! We also celebrated her 2nd Birthday while we were in Brisbane and she was spoilt rotten!
Baby News - only 8 weeks and 5 days to go and counting!! Time is really flying by, I've set up the bassinet in our room now and washed all of the baby things. I should probably get on to packing a hospital bag in the next few weeks as I'm willing this bub to come a little bit early. We only have 18 days between my due date and the day we move back to Brisbane so I can't afford for bub to get too comfy!!

On the Scrapbooking front, haven't got alot done since I got back!! The Kaisercraft Q2 release came out and I got a copy of the magazine - with my first published layout!! I also went a little crazy and bought most of the new ranges they released! So far I have done a LO using the "Rewind" collection (photo by Ali Russell) and I have nearly finished the wooden advent calendar using the "Dear Santa" range.