Spellbound in Pink and Very Vintage

Hey there Bloggers!
Look at me go - 2 posts in a week, people will talk ;)
Just thought I'd very quickly share a couple more of the classes I'm teaching this week.  I warn you though - the first one is very pink!

 

These are the cards for my 'Spellbound' class - ie they use Spellbinders dies.  I've used 3 of the newly released dies as well as a couple of Tim Holtz stamps.  The flower is actually a Martha Stewart punch (Chrysanthemum) but I just love it so I snuck it in there ;)

I'm not normally a pink girl (I can hear a few of you saying- 'der!') But these papers are so pretty that it wasn't a hardship at all to use them ;)

 

These are my 'Very Vintage' cards.  They are a lot busier and girly than my usual stuff-I pushed myself out of my comfort zone a little with them.  I used a lot of the fabulous new embossing powders, glitters and Mica from Stampendous.  LOVE the new stuff, it's so addictive.  Everyone was mocking Fiona when she confessed that she was more in love with them than anyone should ever love an embossing powder, but seriously, once you use them you HAVE to have them and you get a bit twitchy if you can't ;)

Anyway, I don't have time for this sort of nonsense, I've got to get ready for work!

Thanks for peeking,

B

Have Computer, Will Blog

Hey there bloggers,
Well, I bit the bullet yesterday and went out and bought a brand new computer.  I know, I know, I tortured poor Rachel for many weeks, making sad eyes at her so that she would come over and spend hours trying to beat our old one into submission, but it was finally glaringly apparent that no matter what miracles, voodoo or curses she performed the computer was too ancient to play the game (pun intended).
So now I have supplied the males of the household with their long awaited super-computer and I have the off-cast computer.  Which I'm actually pretty darn excited about as it's perfectly adequate for my needs, and now I don't have to wrestle people out of the way so I can get stuff done.  This must be similar to the excitement felt by those with a second bathroom ;)
So here I can sit, perched next to my froggies (and closer to the coffee machine ;) pinning madly away whilst pretending to type up class instructions.
Hooray for Rachel and her technologically savvy brain ;)
B

Vintage Christmas, Bottle Caps and a Couple of Kits...

So, I've been a tad busy ;)  Still battling the flu' (now downgraded to an enormously persistent and lingering cold) I've been super-busy getting classes ready for the new schedule as well as 2 shop kits done - a scrapbooking one and a card one.

These, obviously, are my 'Old Fashioned Christmas' cards.  (my class is over-booked on Saturday, which should be interesting).  I got to play with the new embossing powders, mica flakes and glass glitter from Stampendous for these ones (such a hardship ;)  Not to mention their new stamps, they have got it all going on at the moment.

These are Bottle Cap Cards.  I used the new decorative bottlecaps that we got in for these ones, they have matching images that you just punch out with your circle punch and there are even epoxy stickers and clear cabochons that you can put on to to use instead of Glossy Accents or Dimensional Magic.  I'm loving Basic Grey at the moment, I think I'm still not-so-secretly pining to do their Pages of the Month.

These are my pages for this month's Scrapbooking Kit of the Month.  I realised after I'd done them that my Mother-in-Law features in 3 of them and my Mum in 1....hmmmm...I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that...that I really do love my Mother-in-Law perhaps ;)  She's a sweetie.

 Lastly these are the cards I did for the August Card Kit.  It was very purple with lots of (vintage) Sassafras Lass. 

Anyway,
I'm off to watch Life on Mars (the English version as insisted upon (and supplied) by Rachel)
Now I've done a mega post I'll try not to leave the next post so long ;)
Have a great week!
B

Fighting the 'Flu Funk

Hey there Bloggers.
As the title of this blog post suggests I have been in a bit of a funk (creatively). What can I say, it's super-hard to be buzzing with creative ideas when you are coughing and spluttering and aching all over.  Normally I shake these things by now, but this years 'flu has been agreed upon as being a tenacious bugger. (When you can't even face a cup of coffee and start drinking hot water you know you are in trouble ;)
There has been alot of new stock come into the store lately though, so I'm hoping that some of it will inspire me to do something.  Plus one of my super gal-pals Rachel helped me sort out my craft space last week and as I continue to tidy up the chaos the miracles she wrought are slowly being revealed and realised (lets just say we moved everything and painted everthing white ;)  When I have tamed the clutter I shall post some pics. 
Anyhoo,
I'm off to feed the ravening hoards, and fingers crossed the inspiration fairy will visit me ;)
B

An Interesting Life

I love how there is a curse that goes 'may you lead an interesting life'.  Some days (to be honest, alot of days) I crave banality.  I yearn for uneventfulness (if that is such a word) and boredom.  There always seems to be some sort of drama lurking around the corner.
For now, though, I am choosing to focus on the good events that are occuring.  Only 3 more sleeps until 'Operation Tregenza'!
I can't remember if I have mentioned that that is what Rachel and I are calling our upcoming trip to Adelaide to do an All Day Scrap at Seriously Scrapbooking which is Jane Tregenza's shop.
I'm very excited, I've never been to Adelaide, and am only slightly worried that I will probably freeze. (it's Winter, but here in Brisbane I get away with wearing a t-shirt and jeans most of the time during the day) One very helpful customer today said that I should quiz the very next elderly lady I see and ask her where she gets her thermals.  I thought that might be a bit too risky and I'd end up being beaten over the head with a sturdy handbag ;)

Anyhoo, I'll leave you with this pic, I took it last week or so during the school holidays.  It's of Connor (in the middle) and his BFF's BJ and Noah. I was walking behind them with Hamish so it's a bit blurry but I don't mind, I love it.

Look after yourselves, Bloggers, be kind to each other and to yourself, you never know what life will throw at you.
B

Barbara's Birthday Bonanza

You gotta love the names given to some of the classes we run at the shop.  Fiona's mission is to get 'So You Think You Can Stamp' on the schedule, whereas mine is 'Fun With Flock and Glitter' (try saying that 3 times fast) so far we are at a nil-all mexican stand-off.  Although we are all so tired at the moment they both may end up in the next schedule just because we can't think of anything else ;)
So, after having a semi-frantic phone call yesterday reminding me that I had a class this Friday involving 6 cards and the one card I had actually already done was lost somewhere in the chaos that is my craft desk I then proceeded to stay up until 2am this morning making cards in time to be put in this morning's newsletter.  Ah, such fun. Check out those moustaches though - I HAD to have that stamp set when it came in.  Anyone who has known me for 5 seconds or longer knows that I compulsively turn all manner of objects into moustaches.

Not too shabby really.  The wheels spin on the bike and you pull the icing part of the cupcake up to reveal the birthday message.
Only 11 days until Operation Tregenza (yay!) I am a little worried that I am going to freeze, so I may just have to wear every item of clothing I own at once. (I hear the Michelin man look is very in this season ;)
Anyway, I'm off to wrestle the chocolate from the children, and finish cleaning out the car.  It's off to the 'Car-Doctor' (Hamish-ism) tomorrow for an indetermined amount of time (sniff). Fingers crossed it wont be too long.
Have a great night,
B

Life, The Universe and Everything

I'm warning you all now that I'm in a bit of a weird mood today. 
I don't know whether it's 1. the freezing cold (I mean really, 4 degrees?  Couldn't it make the effort and warm up a little?) 2. the consistent lack of sleep (mostly my own fault - I've become addicted to Craig Ferguson's late, late show - honestly, I'm powerless against a mad Scotsman with a sleazy gay robot side-kick ;) or 3. the fact that I'm coming to the conclusion that I must have accidently set off some catastrophic Mummy curse at some stage (my only logical conclusion - I mean, now someone reverses into the front of my car?  Has it not suffered enough?)
Anyway, that's enough whinging.
So, I've been driving my poor gal pal Rachel mad by torturing her with my complete lack of computer savvy.  If you witnessed the weird-looking appearence of my blog for 12 hours or so - that was me torturing Rachel to help me change my blog, failing miserably and then ringing her at an un-godly hour begging her to teach me how to change it back ;)
So, any ideas or tips for revamping my blog without losing my header (or making it green) please, bless me with your wisdom ;)
You may have also noticed the little BublTree etsy store jigger on my blog (if the whinging didn't scare you away ;)
The aforementioned Rachel and I have just opened our own etsy store together where we will be selling all manner of crafty goodness. 

 

(check out my super fuzzy crocheted coathangers ;) we are still slowly adding the items we've made so bear with us.

It was Hamish's birthday last week - he turned 5 (eek) and is very cross that he isn't going to school now.  

Check out the awesome Dino cake that my gal pal Lyndal made

I've also been super busy at work, teaching lots of classes.  Most recently my 'Creativity Journal' which is really just a fancy name for a folder that you can use for organising stuff.

We also had our all day Christmas in July class yesterday.  Where there was far too much laughing and guffawing going on.  (let's just say that I'll be suspicious now whenever Dion cooks dinner ;)

Anyway, I'm off to make 19 sets of dog-tags for a 7yr old's birthday party (fun) and need to get off the computer before Connor's head explodes with impatient fury.

Thanks for stopping by.
B