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Friday, July 17, 2009

A true conversation:

Overheard at the dinner table tonight at our house:

Do you like cuddles Mummy?
Yes I do like cuddles

Do you like kisses Mummy?
Yes I do like kisses

Do you like poo in the toilet Mummy?
Laughing… ummm… not as much as kisses and cuddles!

Do you like wee in the toilet Mummy?
Ummm…. looking at Phil to help me out, but he was laughing too hard
Lamely: Not as much as kisses and cuddles!

Jamie has had pneumonia this week. It has not been a fun week. He has spent the last three days lying on the couch with fevers. I hope that tomorrow he will start to show an improvement. I am getting cabin fever from not being able to go out at all.

Anyway, I hope your weekend is a good one!
Kathie

Monday, July 13, 2009

Special Sounds

Thank goodness for ABCKids. That's all I can say. It is my 10 minutes of sanity in a day that's otherwise filled with "building houses", playing "superman caught in spiderman's - aka Jamie's - evil web" and a variety of other raucous games that entail getting down on all fours and crawling around on the floor.

I have used my moment's break today to post over here.

I made a "Special Sounds" book recently, using a Scrapware Allsorts Album. It's designed for use during our daily exercises for Jamie's speech pathology. I hope it helps.

We are making progress. This week Jamie's finally incorporating "h" sounds into his language. We have been working on "h" for the last month, so I cannot tell you what music it is to finally hear "mummy, can you come to my hhhhouse?" or "mummy, hhhhow do you do this?".

(For those of you that haven't heard Jamie speak, nearly every word used to begin with the letter "g". So "house" was "gouse", but so were any number of other words "mouse", "bounce" etc. "Hello" was "gallo". You get the picture. We still have to work on learning to say "f", "s", "t", "l", "y", "th", and any number of clustered consonants like "fr", "cl", "fl" etc.... It's a long process. A couple of years at least they are telling us.)

I guess that, without this background, people who may have overheard me at the shops on the weekend would have wondered if I had lost my mind when I congratulated him enthusiastically for every "h" utterance. Oh well ;)

Have a great week!
Kathie

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

And another one

I just got a cheque in the mail for a project I had in Creating Keepsakes Aussie Reader Gallery. So I'm assuming it's been out a while - it's in issue 14(6).

Glumpf
Journaling: It's a sign of the times that when I see the frog on your hat I think of the nursery song about the frog who says "d'glumpf!" I used to know all the songs on the hit-parade. These days it's nursery rhymes in my head!

I am busy making chocolate cake and tidying up. We have several children from playgroup coming over to play tomorrow morning. I'm looking forward to the onslaught!

Have a great evening!
Kathie

Monday, July 06, 2009

Magical

I have waited almost a year for my article to appear in Scrapbook Creations. There was a time when I thought it would never appear. But finally it did! It's in issue 67. The article is on adding magic and make-believe to scrapbooking pages.

Magical
This is my mum, tee hee.

Make-Believe
Journaling: "The Milly Molly Mandy series were a favourite when I was little. The quaint village lifestyle, the whitewashed cottages; oh how I wished I could visit!"

A Day in the Life
Journaling: Sometimes when I see you staring into space, I wonder if perhaps you're seeing some fantastic scene unfolding in front of you. Perhaps a scene full of robots and spaceships?

Little Princess

Before You Met Me. Just to show that castles and stuff doesn't have to be just for the kiddies :)
Features the lyrics to "Fireflies" by Faith Hill. "Before you met me I was a fairy princess. I caught frogs and called them prince and made myself a queen. Before you knew me I traveled 'round the world; I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream. I found mayonnaise bottles and poked holes on top to capture tinkerbell. They were just fireflies to the untrained eye but i could always tell. I believe in fairytales and dreamers dreams like bed sheet sails, and I believe in Peter Pan and miracles, and anything I can to get by. And fireflies."

In the ten or so months since I designed the article, fantasy layouts have really taken off in the digi world, and some of the digital pages are really inspiring me at the moment. I'm itching to buy a couple of digi kits and have a go. When I get some more time...

Have a great evening!
Kathie

Thursday, July 02, 2009

I'm teaching again!

Just a heads up, because I don't take on very many teaching gigs these days.

I will be teaching at Seriously Scrapbooking, Colonel Light Gardens, on Saturday 19 September.
I'd love to see you there.

Details are available from the shop :).

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I meant to thank you all...

Sorry. I forgot to say at the beginning of my post last night that I am grateful for all the messages I received in response to my post before last. Thank you.

I have tried to respond to you all individually; if I haven't it's because you didn't leave me your email addy and I don't have it already.

(If you're a regular reader/commenter of my blog, you might like to drop me your email address - I like to respond back to people when they take the time to leave me a comment. Of the two thousand or so visitors I have every month, only a few people say hi and I appreciate that!)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Gotta be in it...

I thought I might just try out for the Cosmo Cricket design team. I have loved working with their products while working with the Shop and Crop design team. So, here are some of my pages. Unfortunately several of my very very favourite pages using Cosmo Cricket products are out for publication at the moment and so I can't show them here. But, oh well, you get that. These are several of the ones I can show.