Just found out....

that SIMPLE SCRAPBOOKS is closing it's doors after the May/June issue.... sad news that another scrap magazine has to do this.... you can read about it on Stacy's blog as well as at Simple Scrapbooks.

I guess I should be THAT surprised having had subscriptions belly up on me before.... first Paperkuts (got transferred to Memory Makers, thank goodness), then Creative Reflections which thankfully got transferred to Time and About ... and I've just heard that they might also go the same route... why oh why did I take a subscription out???

Well guess I'll have to find something else to read then.

Last lot of scrap pages...

I had written a whole blog post of my weekend and the scrapping I had done and was just waiting to get my layouts ready, but seeing as it is now Thursday I don't think I'll post all that stuff... just the many layouts I did... brace yourself:

I had a good weekend scrapping (as you can see) and managed to do 13 pages!!! hehehe. I haven't scrapped since then but reckon I'm still pretty much on target of a page a day... should start keeping a running total. But I have now managed to whittle my 2005 pile down to just 26 outstanding layouts... hope to get some more scrapping done this weekend, inbetween doing washing and play dates.

School pics

Grade 2 has started. Aaron was excited to go yesterday morning but also a bit scared and nervous... but the report back I got was that it was a good day and he likes his new teacher.... yippee. So here's pics from yesterday:

I wish my little guy the most fulfilled year of learning and growing in knowledge... enjoy the adventure!

Oh and for those who were wondering.... we made it with plenty of time to spare... left home at 6:50, got stuck in a small amount of traffic but went our normal back route and missed most of the traffic. Arrived at school around 7:20 with not a tear in site. Got to say Hi to other moms and kids and great old teachers too.

Another birthday wish goes to....

my cousin Liezel....
All the best for your day today... hope you have a great one.

Here's wishing Helen a very...

All the best for the year ahead Helen. Hope it's a successful one with all your little adventures in cyberspace.

School starts...

tomorrow. Back to School for us in the morning.... Grade 2. Will hopefully be able to post pics once I'm at work or later at home... but please .... wish me luck in the traffic..... we don't want to be late (like last year!).

Congrats

go to Jacki..... she reached the 20000 blog visitors mark.... wow I don't think I'll EVER get that many readers.... I'm not nearly as popular or well written as she is. Anyway, I digress..... to celebrate Jacki is doing a RAK... she is giving away butterflies and/or a photo-editting session.... so go check out this post, leave a comment and who know's we all might just win something.

On target

I scrapped both on Wednesday and Thursday... managed to do two pages each day... so am definately on target for this year.

I also worked out how many pages I have outstanding for each year to do...

2002 - 6

2004 - 1

2005 - 38

2006 - 2

2007 - LOTS

2008 - LOTS

2009 - haven't started planning yet but have taken a few pics

I thought that I might try my hand at doing a digital page or two (use some of my freebies that I keep downloading) so thought that the 2004 & 2006 ones I would do digitally.... here's hoping!

I plan to scrap a bit this afternoon too once home from work and then tomorrow I'm going to Theresa to scrap before fetching my friend Judi from the station... she went to her Mom for Christmas by train... soooooooooooo exciting!

Okay, off to do some blog hopping.

ps.... just remember that I also forgot to tell you.... I did some baking yesterday afternoon and also cleaned house... all before rewarding myself with scrap time. After supper Aaron asked me to help him build his bionicle that he got for Christmas from my brother and his family..... weird weird monster thing, but we got it done and this morning before I left for work he was busy playing with it... having fun!

hehehehe

I've just been reading Stacy Julian's post about making calendars and adding silly holidays to it. Well I popped over to see the list... and just for interest checked out 20 November... my birthday... to see what holiday they had... and it is called.... wait for it....

ABSURDITY DAY!!!

hehehehehe... fits right in with my delightfuly bizarre sense of humour!

Been scrapping again

I scrapped with a friend yesterday afternoon... was a very productive afternoon too... I managed to do five layouts and then last night I did another and finished off the journaling. So by the time I went to bed I felt very fulfilled. Here's the results:

So now that is 5 less of my 2005 outstanding layouts done. At this rate I might even get to my goal of 1 layout a day.... let's see I did two on Sunday and 6 yesterday so that makes 7 by the 7th of January... hehehe... quite on track what?! Let's hope it lasts. Happy scrapping.