Oxford Lane - Assemblage Clock

I arrived in perth yesterday and we were straight into crafting! Emma let me raid the shop and purchase some new goodies before they went up online. I love doing off the page projects, and couldn't resist this assemblage clock from Tim Holtz. I love the little blurb/definitions that Tim Holtz puts on his products

ASSEMBLAGE CLOCK: A hollowed clock for collecting and displaying timeless trinkets.

I started by painting the  base of it with Kaisercraft Acrylic Paint, added papers from My Minds Eye - Kate & Co - Oxford Lane.  Prima flowers, Pink Paislee Hope Chest collection butterflies. HOC lilly  flowers. Random charms from Emmas personal stash.

Heres a clearer side view of the clock.

Western Australia again, here I come!

Here I am sitting on a Virgin flight to Perth for a much needed holiday. This has to be the most crappiest flight I  have been on recently. The reason I'm still working away on my blog is the fact that there has been some technical difficulties with the aircraft, mind you they tell you this after your strapped in and the doors are locked.

I arrived at Sydney domestic terminal at 5:15am this morning for my 6:30 flight. I was nervous enough about travelling alone and just wanted this to go as quickly and smoothly as it could. but Murphy's law tells us that things just never go to plan. When I boarded this plane this morning, the sun hadn't started to come up yet, so here is the sunrise sitting at gate 42 at Sydney airport.

Edited to add;  Flight arrived an hour late and my headrest TV didn't even work! I was disappointed in the fact that I asked the stewardess to fix my TV and she said just sit where I  was and plug into the next seats headset. I got to watch one movie this way, SAFE HAVEN! Brilliant, very emotional! I find it funny how just watching scenes from a movie, or just hearing a line from a movie can get you so emotionally involved and moved by it. I am a big girlly girl when it comes to movies like this. I had had a big arse cry about it!

Suddenly 30!

Today is my thirtieth Birthday!

I celebrated with my most fav cousins on earth! I was treated to lunch at Penrith Panthers, they have a great little noodle bar in there. I got some awesome balloons that my god son picked just for his there was fairys, dinosaurs and butterfly printed on them and not to mention the blatantly obvious 30 balloon.

 

I also received a gorgeous watch from a very special guy in my life. Spoilt me! Pierre Cardin goodness!!

Most recently you may have noticed that I have been blogging about Project Hotness. I chose an outfit that would compliment my personality and show off a pic of my style. Teal is my colour of choice lately,  and crocheted clothes make up most of my cardigans too. 

My gorgeous and charming god son, Alexander. He is my special little guy.

New Tattoo! The White Rabbit

As some of you are aware, I like tattoos. I always have and I suppose, I always will.  I decided quite a while ago to get the right foot done too. I looked incomplete with only one foot done!  I knew what I was getting even before I had gotten my left foot done. Im a big believer in getting body art that you love and that has a meaning to the person, Im not one of those tattoo fans that just get work done willy nilly, mine have been in place since I cant remember when. All my tattoos have meaning and I gladly tell people to really think about what you are getting, I don't see myself as part of the ink generation. I am using my tattoos for inspiration and meaning to who I am.

Do tattoo's hurt? Of course they do! Why would you think that oscillating needles wouldn't hurt? If your thinking about getting some art done, think about the pain. I am lucky I have a extraordinarily high pain threshold. 

I wasn't actually planning on getting a tattoo today, I just saw an opportunity and took it. I walked in to Inkhouse at Macarthur Square and the wonderful Marty decided he wanted to take on my foot. He told me there was a lot of work in the shading and outline of this piece. In keeping with tradition of my previous tattoos (The Mad Hatter on my left foot) I went alice in wonderland inspired. 

What the white rabbit means to me; Im never on time! Im always late (well apart from going to work).

So here is the final product, still a little bloody and Red, excuse my chipped nailpolish as well - not a good look! My Tattoo is not shaded like normal, this one here was all hand etched every little detailed line was covered. Marty did such an awesome job!

My big arse man feet all pretty and finished! A Little blurry but will take some cute ones when its all healed. 

Family Holidays - YAY Moonpie and My sister came to visit!

Moon Pie and Me chilling on the bed, he was stoked he got to play with aunties phone

Pullling Silly Faces for the camera, We tend to go a little crazy when we see each other!

Happy Easter!

This is the Pavlova I decorated in easter theme! I cracked open a hollow chocolate egg, and dolloped whipped cream and then some passionfruit in there to resemble a cracked egg.

New Tattoo - The Mad Hatter

So I went with my cousins to the Sydney Tattoo expo. There was more clean skins there then I had expected, I went presuming there was an abundance of bikkies, druggies and housos. Yes that was stereotypical of me but that is how i perceived a tattoo expo.

I had had this tattoo planned for so long I cant remember when I first started thinking about it. What the mad hatter means to me; Im a little crazy sometimes, but I'm passionate about what I do and want. He's hate also states, "InStyle 10/6" which funnily enough is my birthdate!

Artist was Jamie Sunday from Collective Ink Tattoo in Redbank Queensland. He was also the nicest tattooist there, he had open booking for the Sunday, and most other tattooist looked at what we wanted and just said "no". Patiently waiting! My cousins were behind the camera for most of these shots.

Preperation; applying the image and getting ready for the fun to begin!

In the beginning, Jamie starting the outlining of the mad hatter.

Outline done, this is about 45mins in to it, they say the outline is the most painful part of it.

Now to start on the shading. This poor artist sat like this for more then 1 1/2 hours!

All Done! What do you think? I think he is very very me! I need to get my nails done! This picture is a great reminder of that.

Back from Western Australia!

What an absolute ball! Catching up with my sister & nephew was so much fun. Plus it gave me a chance to get plenty of photos so I can scrapbook some more, I was getting low on photos. My Mr. Was also enjoying the time off from work also.

My little nephew aka Moon Pie, has just had his first operation in early October he suffered from a condition called Craniosynostosis. This is a birth defect that causes one or more sutures on a baby's head to close earlier than normal. The skull of an infant or young child is made up of bony plates that allow for growth of the skull. The borders at which these plates intersect are called sutures or suture lines. The sutures between these bony plates normally close by the time the child is 2 or 3 years old.

Early closing of a suture causes the baby to have an abnormally shaped head. Which in unbeknown to us we thought he had the most gorgeous features, yes we are biased but still he looked very very normal to us per operation... Moon Pie had Mild Metopic Craniosynostosis.
See for yourself, cute no?

and now check his gorgeous face out, after his operation.

He has the most cutest round face ever now. So hence the nickname, Moon Pie. Not only was it exciting to see them but it was my first trip on a plane sine I was five years old. I highly recommend not watching Air crash investigations before flying though! Yes I was silly enough to do that. I found it educational though, like how to select your seats, things the plane is or isn't supposed to do etc. I was mesmerised by the "snow" forming on my window as we were flying over the Great Australian Bite. Mr. Was concerned that I was a little crazy because I was telling hi how  I knew that it was forming as our altitude was high and we were heading into a cold front. Yes the crazy things you pick up on TV.

I flew pretty well I reckon, on the Monday it was just a relaxing day a littleScrapbooking and arty discussions about Scrapbooking and she art, then some time to sort out what we were going to do for the week we were staying. Then off around town we ventured, I dipped my feet into the Indian Ocean now i can say i have been in two different oceans. We also climbed some look out tower, this is one of the views from the top.

Tuesday was Melbourne Cup which was unusual as the race was run at Lunchtime over in Perth. Tuesday was also Copic's with Carolyn day, and boy did I have a blast teaching 6 wonderful attentive ladies. I was grateful for all the compliments on my teaching style. I always get very nervous if its a bigger class, I try to get everyone going at the same speed, and I always encourage questions. Questions are vital in the way we learn. To me today's class was huge, I've never had that many people in a Copic's class. 

Wednesday was exploration day, we travelled to Margaret river region and visited the Duckstein Brewery for Mr. and we also stopped in and had a fabulous lunch at the Bootleg Brewery. To top it all off we then visited the famous Simmo's Ice creamery which no one "over east" knows of. 

Thursday - Mr. and I headed up to Armadale near Perth, oh the drive was long and boring!! 2.5hrs whilst Mr. Slept most of it. We pit-stopped in Haynes, only to find our end destination was two mins more up the road. Then back down to the south west coast of WA. That night we tried Chili Dogs from Joe's pizzeria, it's like heaven in a pizza dough coating, it amazes me how someone can come up with something so tasty, you can choose how hot you want your chili 1 being a tickle on your younger 10 being the hottest, what number do you think I went??? 10 of course, Mr. And I shared the goodness. It was a hot hot mess. I don't regret it at all. 

Friday - Was a day of rest and we made the decision to go fishing. What a great idea that was! I was jumping around in the water with Moon Pie, till I saw a large grey fin in the water! Grabbing Moon Pie and telling Mr. there was a shark, he laughed and said seriously, you are a Blonde! I'm standing there shocked, Why?? I replied, Mr. calmly said its a dolphin! how exciting, it was playing around the boats that had anchored in the small harbour. Still it was enough for me to be a little more intimidated of the water!

Think he is having fun? I then managed to put a rusty hook through my finger! So, off to the Drs I went to get a tetnus shot.

Graphic 45 - Little Darlings

Here is my double layout using the Graphic45 Collection - Little Darlings. I cut the peony roses type flowers from my magnolia doo hickey. Showcasing more adorable pics of my nephew Ryan.

Army brats

I am an army brat, but not your typical one. You see my dad was in the Army, based in Holsworthy for the last ten years or so of his service. He was always posted with the barracks, one year we were told we were moving to Queensland (Townsville) to be exact but I don't think mum was to keen on it, made for an interesting week or so at school telling all my friends I could be leaving. When I saw the Great Southern Land collection from kaisercraft I just knew I had the perfect photo to use!