What happened in the past 2 weeks
Eeeeks! 2 weeks! It's been 2 weeks I blogged. So sorry... no wonder people are not coming to my blog ... dang. OK... let's see how much I remember over the last 2 weeks.
Oh bugger... not much. I've got brains like swiss cheese.
Last Wednesday. We were having dinner at my father-in-law's place. Kids had finished and was running around, playing. Phaedon tripped and fell, hit his head on a step. The step had one of those aluminium strips screwed onto it... and it made a gash on his head. Blood was oozing, and everyone was panicking. Amazingly, I'm the calmest person in the room, with him in my arms, trying to access the injury. 2 napkins later, he kinda stopped bleeding. And by this time, he was already trying to struggle out of my arms to continue playing. I had to force him down just to put a bandage on the wound. Then we left soon to take him to the doctor's to put some 'glue' on the cut so he wouldn't have scar tissues forming. The cut was about 1cm long, and it split a good 2mm wide.
Wednesday. We have been told by the swimming instructor that Ellen is ready for the next class in swimming. So we changed her swimming lessons from Saturday to Wednesday. Because Phaedon swims in the same class with her, we thought we'll put him on Wednesday as well, just a different class. The downside... I will have to take them both myself, no Peter. BUT we'll try it out for 1 week. Phaedon hated the class cos Ellen was sitting on the bench waiting for the next class, and not with him. He cried, whinged, screamed.... did all he could to get out of the pool. When his class finished, and Ellen's class was up next, he wanted to stay in the pool with Ellen. I swear... the mothers hanging around the poolside were all giving me the "I feel for you" look. On the upside, Ellen did fantastically well on her own. 2 other girls were in the same class with her. The girls will hang around the steps, while they wait for their turns to do solo with the instructor. And my show-off of a daughter would constantly dunk (or she calls that dive) herself into the water, sometimes long enough for some mothers to worry whether she was drowning. The other 2 mothers will always turn around and look at me in shock horror! I wasn't quite sure what their looks meant.... was it because they were impressed with what Ellen could do... or was it because I sat there and wouldn't move a muscle even though it looked like my daughter was drowning... or both. But I think Phaedon is going back to the Saturday class... and Peter will take him. They can have some father-son time.
Thursday. I got a call from Janet from The Scrapbook Scene.... a long-distance LSS in East Burwood. I call it long distance LSS because it will take me about 45 minutes to get to her shop. She had gone through my album and wanted me to be on her design team. YAAAYYYY!!! More free stuff! More discounts! kekekeke.... And the 1st layout I'm doing for her, is going to be displayed at Paperific, a Melbourne Scrapbook Expo. I got all the Making Memories Cheeky range of products, and used some of my own. This is the layout.
Friday. Nothing much happening.. except that I'm packing my scrapping tote. Tomorrow will be the Dylan Hartung Fundraising Crop. I've never been to a crop of this scale, so it should be fun.
Saturday. AND FUN IT WAS!!!! Man! It was such a huge success for the organiser, Jody White. They managed to hit their target of $10,000 for the Dylan Hartung Fund, and apparently, still counting. There was lots of games, raffles, auctions, lots of chat, lots of shopping, lots of ooohing and aaaahing over albums and lots of how-did-you-do-that over layouts. Oh, and some scrapping, of course. There was a game where the first person to run up to the host with a 1" circle punch, will receive a 12x12 scrapbook album. I didn't know my legs could do such miracles. Without tripping and making a fool of myself, I got there first and won the album! My whole table of girls just roared with laughter at what I did.
Just chillin' today. Didn't want to do anything. Didn't feel like it.
Just some layouts I did over these 2 weeks.
Title: Pure Joy
Photo by Katie Toland
Title: Be Brave
Title: White Chocolate Mocha .... with an extra shot of white chocolate.
Have a great week ahead, everyone! :)
mich
Oh bugger... not much. I've got brains like swiss cheese.
Last Wednesday. We were having dinner at my father-in-law's place. Kids had finished and was running around, playing. Phaedon tripped and fell, hit his head on a step. The step had one of those aluminium strips screwed onto it... and it made a gash on his head. Blood was oozing, and everyone was panicking. Amazingly, I'm the calmest person in the room, with him in my arms, trying to access the injury. 2 napkins later, he kinda stopped bleeding. And by this time, he was already trying to struggle out of my arms to continue playing. I had to force him down just to put a bandage on the wound. Then we left soon to take him to the doctor's to put some 'glue' on the cut so he wouldn't have scar tissues forming. The cut was about 1cm long, and it split a good 2mm wide.
Wednesday. We have been told by the swimming instructor that Ellen is ready for the next class in swimming. So we changed her swimming lessons from Saturday to Wednesday. Because Phaedon swims in the same class with her, we thought we'll put him on Wednesday as well, just a different class. The downside... I will have to take them both myself, no Peter. BUT we'll try it out for 1 week. Phaedon hated the class cos Ellen was sitting on the bench waiting for the next class, and not with him. He cried, whinged, screamed.... did all he could to get out of the pool. When his class finished, and Ellen's class was up next, he wanted to stay in the pool with Ellen. I swear... the mothers hanging around the poolside were all giving me the "I feel for you" look. On the upside, Ellen did fantastically well on her own. 2 other girls were in the same class with her. The girls will hang around the steps, while they wait for their turns to do solo with the instructor. And my show-off of a daughter would constantly dunk (or she calls that dive) herself into the water, sometimes long enough for some mothers to worry whether she was drowning. The other 2 mothers will always turn around and look at me in shock horror! I wasn't quite sure what their looks meant.... was it because they were impressed with what Ellen could do... or was it because I sat there and wouldn't move a muscle even though it looked like my daughter was drowning... or both. But I think Phaedon is going back to the Saturday class... and Peter will take him. They can have some father-son time.
Thursday. I got a call from Janet from The Scrapbook Scene.... a long-distance LSS in East Burwood. I call it long distance LSS because it will take me about 45 minutes to get to her shop. She had gone through my album and wanted me to be on her design team. YAAAYYYY!!! More free stuff! More discounts! kekekeke.... And the 1st layout I'm doing for her, is going to be displayed at Paperific, a Melbourne Scrapbook Expo. I got all the Making Memories Cheeky range of products, and used some of my own. This is the layout.
Friday. Nothing much happening.. except that I'm packing my scrapping tote. Tomorrow will be the Dylan Hartung Fundraising Crop. I've never been to a crop of this scale, so it should be fun.
Saturday. AND FUN IT WAS!!!! Man! It was such a huge success for the organiser, Jody White. They managed to hit their target of $10,000 for the Dylan Hartung Fund, and apparently, still counting. There was lots of games, raffles, auctions, lots of chat, lots of shopping, lots of ooohing and aaaahing over albums and lots of how-did-you-do-that over layouts. Oh, and some scrapping, of course. There was a game where the first person to run up to the host with a 1" circle punch, will receive a 12x12 scrapbook album. I didn't know my legs could do such miracles. Without tripping and making a fool of myself, I got there first and won the album! My whole table of girls just roared with laughter at what I did.
Just chillin' today. Didn't want to do anything. Didn't feel like it.
Just some layouts I did over these 2 weeks.
Title: Pure Joy
Photo by Katie Toland
Title: Be Brave
Title: White Chocolate Mocha .... with an extra shot of white chocolate.
Have a great week ahead, everyone! :)
mich
posted by mich at
16:33
8 Comments:
woah! that is a lot of layouts done! all of them look great! next time don't leave too long between posts...lol
I was going to send you a gentle reminder this morning about you being a slack blogger LOL I had a great time too an Saturday and I will say that your mad dash for the album was done very gracefully!
Stunning layouts as always Mich just beautiful.
Wow...love your pure joy layout!!
It was great to catch up with you Michelle; love the layouts, they're just beautiful.
Hi Michelle,
Those layouts are just stunning..I especially love your pure joy layout..
Have a great day..
Hi Michelle
I have just come across your blog and must say your layouts are truly gorgeous.
Have a great weekend
Joanne
What a memory!!!
Great layouts. Love those flowers.
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