Wet Chook Productions

2012!

2012-01-04T20:55:00.005+11:00

Hello to 2012,

We brought the new year in by trying to get an early night, but some morons were letting crackers off to every time I was about to drop off!

Our little man has been sleeping well, most nights he sleeps through, which is great. We have started a bed time routine, which consists of a bath, a change into some pj's, story and feeding. We have been doing this for around 5 nights now and he is going to bed a little earlier every night, which is good because it was after 10pm before we were getting him to bed. He was asleep by just after 8.00pm last night and didn't wake until 7.00pm, he likes his sleep, just like is Mum and Dad!

Because he sleeps so much during the night, he doesn't sleep that much during the day, but I would prefer my sleep of a night.

Here are some more photos of the little man. He is smiling alot now, which is nice to see.

This is a picture of Owen watching the cricket with his Pop.

Here is Owen passed out in his car seat, with Harold the Hog.

Here is Owen, glued to the tv!

Father and son.

Just chilling on the couch with mum.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Owen.

Update on Owen

2011-12-22T19:50:00.004+11:00

Hello All,

I have been asked if we had stopped taking photos of Owen as there had been no posts for a while. As if we have stopped taking photos, it is just finding the time to actually getting the photos up. All is well with the little man, he has been sleeping through the night for us and I cherish each night that he does it. He is now in his cot as he was getting too big for his bassinet.

He had a check with the health nurse this week and he is now weighing 6.1kg and measures 61cm and he is now 12 weeks old. He is becoming a little boy and losing his newborn look. Here are some photos for you. I will try to add more on a regular basis.

He is now starting to smile, which is nice to see.

On Sunday mornings we try to have a sleep in, when Owen wakes up, I will feed him and put him in bed with Colin and myself. We generally end up with the two cats on the bed as well. It is quite the treat!

Just Add Ink Sketch Challenge

2011-11-22T10:02:00.003+11:00

Hello There,

We had a working bee in our garden (or should I say yard of weeds and overgrown plants) the other weekend and a few of our friends were good enough to volunteer their time to help us. We got alot of work done and we are very grateful to our friends for their help. I made a thank you card for one of my friends utilising this weeks Just Add Ink sketch challenge.

I wasn't to impressed with the challenge but I think my card came out reasonably well.

This is not the usual type of card that I would make, so I guess the sketch challenge has worked as I produced something a little bit different.

Just Add Ink Colour Challenge 93

2011-11-16T21:13:00.003+11:00

I decided the utilise this weeks Just Add Ink colour challenge to make a card for a friend who recently had a baby girl. I thought the colours worked really well for a welcome baby card. The colours are:

And here is my card:

Just Add Ink Challenge 92

2011-11-08T10:48:00.002+11:00

Hello,

I needed to make a birthday card for a male, so I decided to try this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge of just add a tag or bookmark.

Here is my card, I used the top note tie as my tag:

I am quite happy with the end result.

Owen

2011-11-08T10:40:00.002+11:00

Hello,

Thought that it was time to add some more photos of our little man, who is not so little anymore. After a battle with feeding and him losing weight, we finally got him above his birth weight just before he was 5 weeks old. He managed to gain just over 500 grams in two weeks so that was a big effort.

This is my grandfather, myself, Owen (not impressed) and my father.

All vested up!

Owen is just learning to smile, which is nice to see.

Asleep, just the way I like him!

My good friend James came up on the weekend to met Owen for the first time and to have a hold.

Well that is all for now.

JAI Colour Challenge 91

2011-11-02T16:47:00.003+11:00

Hello There,

In between feeding, nappy changes and settling of Owen, I was able to find a few minutes to put together a card for a friend using this week's Just Add Ink Colours, which are:

As with a lot of my card designs, I generally don't know what I am going to do when I start making the card, the idea just evolves, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully this one has worked!

The neutral that I choose was Naturals Ivory and I am loving the Precious Butterflies set at the moment so I utilised that again.

One Stamp Set - Three Cards

2011-10-28T10:48:00.003+11:00

Hello There,

I needed to make some cards the other day, so I decided to set myself a challenge of using the same stamp set with colour combinations from the Stampin Up Colour Coach. The stamp set I used is one of the new hostess sets in the 2011/12 Stampin Up Idea Book and Catalogue, called "Precious Butterflies". Here are the cards that I made:

The colours I used for this card were, wisteria wonder (one of the new in colours), pink pirouette and cherry cobbler.

The colours for this card are calypso coral, baja breeze and daffodil delight. When I got the card stocks out for this colour combination I didn't like all the colours together so I decided to use the colour in small doses. I usually like to have something happening in the background of my cards, but I think this card works quite well with just a plain background.

This last card uses rich razzleberry, old olive and pumpkin pie.

I made all the cards for either friends or family and I thought of one of their favourite colours and turned to the colour coach for inspiration for colours. The colour coach can be quite a handy tool if you are looking for inspiration.

Just Add Ink Sketch Challenge

2011-10-26T11:08:00.004+11:00

With my Uncles' birthday fast approaching, I thought I would utlise this weeks JAI sketch challenge to make a card for him. I am finding that whilst I am breast feeding I have a lot of time to think about things, especially cards! So I thought of this card early one morning. Here is the sketch challenge:

And here is my card:

I used the torn frame technique that my good friend Sharnee showed me, as well as sponge daubers to create the background for the image inside the frame. I am quite pleased with the result. I just need to get it in the post pronto as my Uncle lives in Scotland!

The Arrival of Owen

2011-10-25T14:14:00.008+11:00

After 41 weeks of pregnancy our son arrived on Thursday 29 September 2011. He was delivered by c section, which was not the original plan. I went for a check up on the Tuesday and was told that the head of the baby was not engaged and I would therefore need to have a c section, which was a bit of a shock to me. It turns out that the reason for this is that the head of the baby was quite large, it measured 40cm. Our midwife, Judy, said she have never measured a head that large. So I am thankful that I didn't go into labour otherwise I would have been in an awful mess!

We named our son Owen John Glenn Butterworth. We were thinking of Harry, but Owen was on the list and he seemed to suit the name when Colin said it, so that is what we went with. John, comes from my father and Glenn comes from Colin's Grandfather. I have two middle names so we decided to go with two for our child.

Owen weighed 10 pounds 5 ounces and measured 54cm in length. The c section went well and before I knew it I had my son draped across my chest in recovery enjoying some skin to skin time, which is an absolutely magical experience.

The Mid Wives at the LGH were marvellous, I cannot say enough about them. We went home after five days in the hospital to face the shock of realising that we had a small human that we were responsible for. I can honestly say that this was a complete shock to both our systems and I was convinced that we had made a huge mistake. But things have gotten alot better and I think we are coping quite nicely now.

Owen has changed so much since he was born and continues to change everyday, which is amazing to watch.

Owen is the first grandchild for all parents and they are all really happy. However my dad is the dotting Grandfather and obviously loves Owen to bits and looks forward to when he will be able to do some painting with him (my dad does oil paintings of Tasmanian landscapes). This is my Dad holding Owen as his first visit in the hospital, I love the look on Dad's face!

One of the things I look forward to is dressing little Owen for an outing because he is in triple 0 in clothes I can put him in some cool outfits. I particularly like this one:

My brother, Matthew, was down from Queensland last week and although he doesn't have a paternal instinct in his body, he did have a hold of Owen (only because his wife, Heather, who couldn't come down wanted pictoral evidence of Matthew with Owen).

There have been many photos taken of Owen and I am sure that many more will be taken. But one of my favourites is when he was looking really crabby, this photo always makes me smile:

I was determined that my child wouldn't be having a dummy, so naturally he has a dummy! It calms him down at times, which helps in trying to get him off to sleep. His dummy is called David and he loves it to bits (at times, other times he doesn't want to know anything about it).

Well that is all for now, I am sure there will be many more blogs about Owen in the coming months.

Long Time, No Post

2011-10-24T15:17:00.002+11:00

Hello,

Yes I know it has been a while, but the arrival of a baby tends to eat up a lot of one's time! Yes that is right our little bundle of joy, a boy, arrived on 29 September 2011, we have called him Owen John Glenn Butterworth. I promise that there will be lots of photos of Owen, soon.

Before the arrival of Owen, Colin and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. I have no idea where the time went, one minute we are getting married and enjoying our honeymoon and then the next we are expecting our first baby and we have been married for a year. We have decided to try and stay with year appropriate anniversary gifts, the first year is paper, which is right up my alley. I put together a little album of our story thus far, which Colin was very chuffed with. Colin arranged for me to be a sponsor of the Red Pandas at the Chester Zoo in England, which we visited on our honeymoon. I managed to get a photo of the baby red panda as it popped its head out of the nest (which doesn't happen very often). So my name will be added as a sponsor for a year and I got a certificate (which Colin had framed) stating this. I thought it was a very thoughtful gift.

We of course made cards for each other, this is the card that I made for Colin:

And this is the card Colin made for me:

As usual Colin put a lot of thought and effort into the card he made for me. So I had to step up and try and make something that would come up to standard. I was pleased with the card I came up with and loved the card that Colin made for me.

Two Birthdays on one day

2011-09-07T14:42:00.003+10:00

My husbands father and my mother were born on the exact same day, which is a little freaky when you think about it. So I got to work making a male birthday card, which is sometimes easier said than done. I used the Stampin Up Colour Coach as inspiration for the colours and the fact that I wanted to use a rooster image, this is what I came up with.

I am quite happy with the end result.

Just Add Ink Sketch Challenge

2011-09-07T14:33:00.003+10:00

I have even had time to make some cards! This first one is for this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge, which is a sketch challenge.

I needed to make a card for my mother's birthday, so I thought I would use this challenge as inspiration. I always like to include a bird on the cards I do for my mum as she doesn't like them, but I am determined to get her to change her mind. She actually didn't see the bird at first and made the comment that there was no bird on it. I took great delight in pointing it out to her.

Here is my creation:

Some Honeymoon Photos

2011-09-07T14:10:00.004+10:00

Hello,

Yes I am still here, just been busy getting ready for the arrival of bub and being tired. It shouldn't be much longer and our little one will be with us. In the meantime I thought I would share some of the photos I took on our honeymoon, which was nearly a year ago! I cannot believe it. Under the guidance of my husband I have done some work on some of the photos I took on the honeymoon, I really got into photography whilst we were away and got a real buzz to see what I had captured at the end of each day. I think I took around 2,500 to 3,000 photos whilst we were away for 6 weeks. Hopefully I will get some more photos up one day.

This is a glacier called Edith Cavel, near Jasper in Canada. It was awe inspiring to be so close to huge chunks of ice.

This is Colin at Maligne Lake, again near Jasper. To his right is "Spirit Island", which we had to get to by boat. Again the weather was absolutely beautiful, which is was for the majority of the time we were in Canada.

Above and below is the beautiful Athabasca River, near Jasper in Canada. I fell in love with this river, it is just so stunning. If I need to clear my mind and think of a happy place, this is it!

This is Pyramid Lake which was located close to where we stayed in Jasper, we stayed on a lake called Patricia Lake. Everywhere you looked there was an opportunity to take a photo.

And finally, this photo was taken somewhere in Canada, not sure where though!

Hope you liked these photos.

Welcome Another Baby!! Just Add Ink Challenge 78

2011-07-29T00:01:00.000+10:00

Another challenge for Just Add Ink and another baby! This time for my very good friend, Hilary who welcomed her little boy, Christopher into the world. This week it is a colour challenge and I thought that the colours were perfect for a little for a boy. These are the colours:

Here is the card that I made:

I embossed the image of the giraffe and used a sponge dauber to soften the edges of the punched out image as well as for the edge of the card.

Welcome Baby - Just Add Ink Challenge 77

2011-07-22T00:01:00.000+10:00

This weeks challenge for Just Add Ink was a layout challenge. I did struggle with this one challenge and this card is was my second attempt at the layout challenge. The first card that I made I was not happy with at all and then one of my friends, Sarah gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and that was the inspiration that I needed to make this card. I was very chuffed with the end result. Here is the layout challenge:

Here is my card:

I used the free gifts from this months Stampin Up special and stamped the birds on glossy white card and I think that it really works well.

Just Add Ink Challenge 76

2011-07-15T00:01:00.000+10:00

Hello,

Another challenge for Just Add Ink this week for which I am a guest designer for the month of July. This week it is a photo challenge, and it was quite a challenge. Here is the photo:

I decided to do a scrap book page using a photo of my Nan (in law), who passed away on June 16. Although I had only known her for a couple of, I believe that we bonded instantly and it wasn't long before I was calling her Nan and felt comfortable doing so. I have always lived a great distance from my grandparents so Nan was the closest thing that I had to a grandparent so her passing hit me quite hard. Here is my page:

I used water colouring, with an aqua pen to create the back ground and some bleach in another aqua pen to create the clouds.

I think that it was good therapy for me to complete this page and I am quite pleased with the result.

Just Add Ink Challenge 75

2011-07-08T00:01:00.000+10:00

Hello,

July is the month that I get to be a guest designer on Just Add Ink and what an honour that is! The challenge this week is a colour challenge. Here are the colours:

I wanted to make a thank you card for my mother in law for her help and generosity in setting up the nursery for our baby who is due to arrive in September. I used the Eastern Blooms and Sincere Salutations stamp sets. I also used a technique which I picked up from the swaps from the Stampin Up convention in May, which was using the rock n roll technique with a clear mount block. I was very happy with the end result, hope you like it.

Preparing for our new addition!

2011-06-13T19:25:00.000+10:00

Hello,

While some people may have been using the long weekend to relax Colin and myself have been busy moving furniture (well Colin has) and putting furniture together for our first baby which is due in September! We have a two bedroom house, one of which was used for our crafting/hobby room, which we have now had to give up and change into our bedroom. Poor Colin is exhausted from moving alot of things around, it is quite frustrating not being able to help him, but he would tell me off if I did. Colin's Mum, Anita, was kind enough to spoil us with all the big items for the nursery so we were busting to set it all up, plus my nesting instinct is setting in and I want to get things organised. I am quite happy now, just need to sort out where were are going to store all of our crafting goodies! But we will get there.

Black and White

2011-06-13T18:23:00.000+10:00

With the Just Add Ink team setting a colour challenge of black and white, I decided that they would be ideal colours for a birthday card for a friend. Having no real idea what I was going to do, I sat down with a piece of white card and a piece of black card and came with with a card rather quickly. I utilised one of the Big Shot embossing folders and the torn frame technique that my upline Sharnee demonstrated at the Stampin' Up Convention in May. I am quite happy with the end product. Some time it is good to go back to basics!

Baby Shower

2011-05-29T19:18:00.001+10:00

Hello,

I had the pleasure of attending a friend's baby shower on Saturday afternoon, so of course I had to make a card to go with the gift. I used this weeks layout challenge from Inkspirations for the inspiration for my card. Here is the layout challenge:

I knew that I wanted to use some patterned paper in the background so I decided on which paper to use first then picked some colours to go with it. I didn't want the card to be over the top baby, as that is not me or my friend. I was quite happy with what I came up with.

Embellish Challenge

2011-05-26T20:56:00.000+10:00

I had a birthday card to make for a very special friend and the colours for this Embellish Challenge reminded me of her.

Here is my card:

Again I have utilised some of the techniques from Convention, even some by Shelli herself!

Just Add Ink Colour Challenge

2011-05-25T22:01:00.000+10:00

With my Grandma's Birthday coming up I needed to make her a card and decided to utilise the colours from this weeks Just Add Ink Colour Challenge. The colours are:

Here is my card:

I was able to utilise a few techniques that we saw demonstrated at the Stampin Up Convention, including tying the perfect bow and bleaching.

Alice turns 2!

2011-05-23T17:44:00.000+10:00

Our lovely God Daughter, Alice recently turned 2 and of course there was a celebration in honour of this event. I thought I would utilise the Inkspirations Colour Challenge as an inspiration for the card for little Alice. Here are the colours:

Here is the card I made, I used a technique that was shown at the Stampin Up Convention, double cut butterfly by the lovely Kirsty (hopefully there will be more about convention later).

Kirsty also showed us a gorgeous butterfly banner, which I just had to make for Alice.

Of course there was cake to be had and then fun on her present from her mum, a trampoline. Needless to say Alice was exhausted after all that birthday fun and I am told she was that tired, she took herself off for a nap!

Andrea with her beautiful daughter Alice.

Tim and Alice go in for some birthday cake.

Action shot of Alice on the trampoline.

JAI 66 - Just add a Flower

2011-05-04T21:16:00.000+10:00

I've finally managed to complete and post a challenge before the cut off time. I have been doing challenges each week but haven't found the time to post them to the internet. This week my lovely husband has made sure I get something posted.

Just Add Ink's Just Add A Flower challenge was a perfect opportunity for me to make a mothers day card for my grand mother.

Along with doing this challenge both my husband and I have been busy making swaps for the Stampin' Up convention next week. We are both attending and are looking forward to the whole experience. We hope to see you there. :)

Titten Waits for a Bird

2011-04-26T14:59:00.000+10:00

You may or may not be familiar with our gorgeous little cat, Titten, who is of course a model. She was originally from Melbourne and I believe it is her life ambition to one day catch a bird, she spends a lot of time on the deck just waiting for a bird. She cannot understand why the little birdies don't want to talk to her. I took some photos of her the other week, waiting by the bird seed bowl outside and on the hand rail. Here they are:

She is yet to catch a bird, but she is very good at catching the little lizards and bringing them inside for me to to catch and return to wild. She is always pleased with herself when she manages to bring one in.

Hello There

2011-04-26T14:39:00.000+10:00

Hi

Me again, no I haven't dropped off the face of the planet, sometimes life just gets in the way of blogging, which just doesn't seem right! I have been making some of the challenges but just haven't been able to get them in on time. One the of challenge cards I was please with, but didn't submit was the Just Add Ink, Chocolate Wrapper Challenge. I am not a big lover of chocolate, but my chocolate bar of choice at the moment is a triple choc Mars Bar, I thought the colours were interesting so I gave it a go. Here is my creation (with the chocolate bar in the photo for a comparison).

The chocolate bar is still in tact!

Colin and I are off to the Stampin Up Convention being held in May in Melbourne so we are busy planning and making some 'swaps', which are cards that you create, make in bulk (we are making 50 each) then swap with other. It is a good way of collecting ideas and a great way to met fellow stampers. We are really looking forward to Convention, it will be our first and my upline, Sharneewill be demonstrating at the Convention, we are looking forward to seeing that!

He Stamps and Cooks!

2011-04-03T20:11:00.000+10:00

With Colin showing an interest in learning to cook I recently suggested that he should have a go at cooking tea, which he has now done on a couple of occassions. He plans the menu and cooks it, I am always on hand to answer any questions, but I generally just let him do his own thing in the kitchen. On Saturday the menu was Parmasen and Parsley Veal Schnitzels, mashed potato with bacon and roast pumpkin. It was a lovely meal and I am very proud of the effort that Colin puts into his cooking and it is always nice to have a night off from cooking. This is the meal he dished up:

Here is Colin, enjoying the fruits of his labour!

What a fabulous husband!

After that wonderful meal, we headed over to Sharnee's to do some stamping. We had such a great evening, chatting and stamping and we all managed to get projects done, which is always good. Here are Sharnee and I enjoying the night:

And here are all our projects for the evening:

One card that I was particulary pleased with is this card that I made for a good friend of mine.

I used a new stamp set called Nature Walk and my favourite colour at the moment Marina Mist.

Another card I made was for my brother and sister and laws wedding anniversary:

And this is the masterpiece that Colin created:

It was a very productive evening!

Paper Dolls

2011-04-03T19:50:00.000+10:00

Every month (for 10 months) I attend a Stampin Night which is run by my Upline and friend Sharnee, which is called Paper Dolls. It is a good way to learn new techniques, play with new goodies, have a chat and make some new creations. We usually get two projects done in the one night. These are the two that we did last week:

Embellish Decorative Trim Challenge

2011-04-03T19:35:00.000+10:00

After seeing the card that my friend Sharnee put together for this weeks Embellish Challenge, inspired me to give it a go today. I made a card for my Mum and Dad's upcoming 40th Wedding Anniversary, it is not until June but I have gradually been getting cards done that I need throughout the year and this challenge seemed to fit the bill. The colours are as follows:

Here is my card:

Inkspirations Colour Challenge 64

2011-04-03T18:22:00.000+10:00

Hello there,

Over the past few days I have been able to do a lot of stamping with friends and my husband! I will endeavour to do more blogs to show the results of these stamping sessions. During a stamping session with my good friend Sharnee and my husband, Colin we all had a go at this weeks Inkspirations Colour Challenge 64. When Colin first told me what the colours were I screwed up my face and said "I guess that is why they call it a challenge" as this weeks colours are certainly not colours I would choose to put together. The colours are:

The colours certainly say autumn so I decided to do a scrapbook page using a couple of photos that Colin took of me fooling around with some autumn leaves in Bath, England when we were on our honeymoon last year. Here is my page:

I used to Big Shot to cut out some leaves and also used the Lovely as a Tree stamp set.

My Manly Stamper

2011-03-27T17:07:00.000+11:00

My lovely husband, Colin who presently dying of man flu, dabbles in some stamping every now and then and thought that he might get on board with an online challenge, he combined two challenges in one. This is Colin stamping up his creation:

And this his creation, which you can also view on his blog Colblue Photography

I think he has done an awesome job, but he always thinks that he can do better, typical stamper!!

Inkspirations Challenge #63

2011-03-26T15:38:00.000+11:00

Using new goodies from the Autumn-Winter mini I gave the Inkspirations layout challenge a go. I decided to do a scrapbook page using one of my wedding photos as my Wedding Album is a work in progress at the moment so I thought it was a good excuse to get a page done. Here is the layout challenge:

And here is my scrapbook page:

JAI Challenge 61 - Just Add Stamps

2011-03-26T15:02:00.000+11:00

Hello All,

It is a gorgeous Saturday here, especially after the rain we had during the week. Our little princess Titten, was none too impressed when it was raining so she was making the most of it today and was soaking up the sun on the deck, one of her favourite places.

I needed to make some cards using the new goodies in the Autumn-Winter Mini, which starts on 1 April. My lovely up line Sharnee and I are holding a launch of the mini and it is always nice to see cards etc made with the new goodies. So I gave the new JAI Challenge a go, I had to think about this one, only stamps, ink and card stock. It was nice to get back to basics and as I drifted of to sleep last night I thought about what I might create. Here is what I came up with:

I have used a new Stampin Up set called Clearly for You, hope you like it.

Inkspirations Colour Challenge

2011-03-20T20:46:00.000+11:00

Having enjoyed my first colour challenge so much I thought I would have a crack at theInkspirations. The colours for this challenge are:

I decided to do a scrapbooking page of our super gorgeous god daughter enjoying being outside picking one of her favourite foods, strawberries! This is what I came up with:

JAI Colour Challenge 60

2011-03-20T20:12:00.000+11:00

Having caught the online challenge bug, I decided to give the next Just Add Ink Colour Challenge a go. Unfortunatley, I had to make a sympathy card for a male friend and thought that the colours would work well. Here are the colours for the JAI Challenge:

And this is what I came up with:

JAI Design Team Submissions

2011-03-18T15:51:00.000+11:00

I decided to have a go at submitting some of my creations become a Just Add Ink (JAI) Design Team Member. I didn't think I had a chance of getting the job, but thought that it would be a worthwhile process to get some creative juices flowing. You had to submit a card (new or old) a scrapbooking page or card, created especially for the challenge and a new 3D project that hadn't been seen before. These are my creations:

I didn't get the position to be on the design team but I have been invited to be a guest designer along with some other talented ladies, so I am pretty chuffed with my efforts. Here is a link to the announcement on the JAI site JAI Design Team Announcement

Just Add Ink Sketch Challenge

2011-03-14T19:06:00.000+11:00

I decided to give the JAI Sketch Challenge a go, this is my first attempt at an online challenge and I really enjoyed the process. This is the sketch challenge from Just Add Ink:

And this is my card:

The Origin of the Wet Chook

2011-03-14T10:28:00.000+11:00

Some of you may be wondering where the name "Wet Chook" came from. Our chickens previously belonged to my parents and we adopted them when they moved house. They also had a water tank, which Dad used to give the chickens fresh water, on his way to the chicken pen of a morning, he would turn the tap on, go and feed the chooks and then would promptly forget to turn the tap off. This happened on a number of occassions and as the chicken enclosure was on a hill we got talking about how with all the water running down the hill that the chickens would soon be white water rafting! Colin got to work on some images of the chickens, putting a helmet and life jacket on one and then putting her in a raft. A sign was made for the water tank to remind my Dad to turn the hose off! It worked. So that is how we came up with Wet Chook Productions! Here are the photos that Colin did.

My First Blog

2011-03-13T14:37:00.000+11:00

Hello, This is my very first blog so I thought I should introduce myself. I have just turned 34, I live in Launceston Tasmania and got married last year to my darling husband, Colin.

My darling husband Colin.

I am an Independent Stampin' Up Demonstator, so from time to time I will be showing off some of my creations here. This is me on the Athabasca Glacier in Canada, on our 6 week honeymoon:

On our honeymoon we visited the USA - Grand Canyon and New York, Canada - Vancouver, Rockies, Toronto and Nigara Falls and the UK - Scotland and England. We took over 15,000 whilst on our trip. My husband is into photography in a big way and so am I as I discovered whilst we were away. I got a lovely new camera at the end of our trip as Nikon D3100 (we had to buy something duty free, didn't we!) who I have called Nigella. I also have a "point and shoot" Canon G11 called Gavin. Here is a self portrait of us in Bath, England:

We have two cats, Max and Titten and three chickens, Maggie, Gerty and Ginger.

Our lovely boy, Max.

Our special little girl, Titten.

The Fabulous Girls, Maggie, Gerty and Ginger.