Not a Lot…

….going on here today, I looked up how much it will cost to take the car on the ferry to the Mainland with Mum and if we go on the Saturday we can get a day sailing which is only $99 each and $61 for the car, so that’s not bad!! I still have to book the flight down and the flight from Brisbane back home again. This I shall do when the credit card has gone down after Michael’s payday!!

My Poor Darling… you have to put up with so much from me I know, you are so gorgeous for tolerating me and my to-ing and fro-ing between here and Tassie, hopefully after Mum is settled things will settle down for us too!!God I wish we were back home, things would be so much easier and so many things would never have had to happen, sigh!!

Okay, enough self pity!!! On to some layouts. The first one I did with a new kit I made last night, I basically did the layout to make sure that it was all in working order so to speak!! I think I’m pretty happy with it!! I did two kits so getting somewhere LOL!!

The next one is with TerrellS’ Alex’s Asian Kit, fabulous colours in this asian feel kit but so versatile that you could scrap almost anything with it. The pic in this is when we went out for dinner in September before I headed home again. The four of us at the back of the pic went to Melbourne for 4 days on a girls weekend and had a ball!!

My Mum is in the bottom right corner and Alf and Bev are in the foreground. Christopher took the photo for us!!

This next one is My Dad (where the arrow is) it was taken in Singapore at Changi!! So it was the perfect thing to use Alex’s Asian by TerrellS again for this very important photo of my Dad when he was only 19 and training to be an Argylle in the British Army, that was when he met my Mum, well not met her, they became penpals and then he met her when he returned home to Scotland.

Don’t you love the hats they are wearing LOL!! My Dad was a real catch too, not bad at all, very easy on the eyes LOL!!

Okay well I am going to run off and see some TV before bed. Michael is working and so I’m on my lonesome, but it also means I get the whole bed to myself, LOL. I hope you are all well and taking care of yourselves and eachother LOL!!

Hugs

Tracy

MooTwoDesigns Layout of the Day & Divine Diva of the Day

Well I had a lovely surprise email to tell me I had been chosen for Layout of the Day at Mootwodesigns on January 15th.

There are some super talented scrappers over at mootwodesigns and if you go here you can see the other Layouts chosen this week and at the end of the week you can even vote for one of them to become Layout of the Week.

They also have Layout of the month which will be up for voting, you guessed it, at the end of January LOL.

Here is the layout that got it. I was so pleased that I got such great feedback for the new kit Dear Diary. It always makes my day when I get such great feedback LOL.

But wait there’s more, on 12th January I was chosen as Divine Diva of the day for my layout “Gran and Pappa” which was created using Terrell Sanzone’s kits. I had so much fun doing this layout of my Grandparents’ wedding photo and it was such a surprise to be chosen.

They have a thread where they put up a scrapper’s layout every day and members leave you love, which is always nice LOL.
So things have gone quiet here over the last few days, we have been having early nights with Michael back at work and I guess tomorrow night when he is working night shift I might do ome scrapping and pull an alnighter, we’ll see LOL.

Above is a calendar I did with Gloria Val Verde’s Template for the paint the Barn Challenge at MooTwoDesigns.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you about the FREEBIE over at Terrell Sanzone’s Blog she has her Artsy Kit up for her readers so if you want a fabulous layout head on over there after you’ve finished here at my place, LOL. There are some really cool elements in it and the papers rock too!!

Also if you go to Stone Accents Studio and check out the Designer Give Away Challenge you can get TerrellS’ Twilight Dance Kit at 50% off and when you do a layout with it and post it in the gallery then post the link in the Challenge thread you’ll get a really cool add-on to complete this awesome kit!!

Okay, gotta run and get some housework done and work out what I’m going to do for dinner, maybe pitta pizza and salad, hmm, yeah that sounds good!! Have a great day!!

Tracy

Well I am officially hitting a goal!!! I have lost over 10% of my Bodyweight, Woo Hoo!! I only lost 200g on tuesday but hey after 2 big weeks of losses (1kg and 1.3kg the next week) I am still happy enough!! I have been riding my bike and have decided I should do the shorter route but do it every day so that I keep up the condition, otherwise when you do the long one after a break it kills you LOL. We are thinking of extending our long route which is currently 26km round trip, to Kurnell, which is the same distance again so all up a round trip of over 50km, wow, don’t know how I’ll go with that, will definitely need a rest in the middle of it LOL. At least I have a more reliable bike LOL.

Thanks to all the people who left me some love for the Sea Breeze Freebie!! There have been 46 downloads and about 1/3 of the people who downloaded the kit left me some love, so can’t complain too much about that.
Have you joined mootwodesigns and got the newsletter in the last few days, I got mine yesterday and I am the Featured Scrapper, woo hoo!! How exciting, I did ramble on a bit in the interview and there are a few typos (on my part LOL) Also over at Mootwodesigns, TerrellS’ Alex’s Asian

Kit is on special and so is Tracy’s Love,

the kit she made for me (Gotta love

that Gal!) so go grab some Beautiful

kits of hers while they are reduced in price!!

The layouts to the right, the ones with red in them LOL, are all done with Alex’s Asian Kit by TerrellS. Very versatile and so rich in colour! I really love it!!

Also over on TerrellS’ Blog she has an Artsy Freebie, 80meg of gorgeousness!! This was a freebie at one of the sites but now she is offering it up on her blog so get in while it is there!! Don’t forget to leave her some love!! And don’t share her files, just send people who want the freebie to her blog to get it themselves, you know the drill LOL!!

The layout to the right here I made with Shannon Fahrnbach’s Winter Kit which she had up on her blog as a freebie in 3 parts. If you’re lucky it will still be on offer over there!!

The photo is from our wedding in 2004. This is us with my Family. From left along the front there is Steven (My brother) Mandy (his Partner) Auntie Frances, Auntie Mary, Me (In the White Meringue) My Mum, My Auntie Hellen, giggling on the end there, the back row is My Auntie Betty (also My Godmother) My uncle Bobby, Chris is poking up behind Mary, Auntie Joan from Italy, Michael blowing in my ear LOL, My cousin Linda and her mum and my

autie, Charlotte! The littlies at the

front are My Niece and flower girl

Gabriella and Linda’s daughter and

my second cousing Melissa, phew!!!

Okay this next one is of me being a Bride!! We were just going to use our own cars and not bother hiring any but Michael’s Mum and Dad booked us two Statesmans, very nice, leather interior and with the ribbon and Tracy Doll on the hood of the car, as you do LOL!!! I love this pic of me getting out of the car, I had to tell Chris to help me out and instead of taking his mother by the hand he grabbed my wrist, so dainty LOL!! I had to be so careful that I didn’t catch the dress on my heels LOL. So glad I had it altered and the train taken off. Sue came to the rescue at the last minute and fixed my sleeves too!! Thanks Sue!!! That’s my Auntie Sue

on Michael’s side of the family,

I love her to bits!!

Okay here’s another one, this is me and michael in 1996 or 1997. Ah when we were younger LOL. He had a bit of a Shakespearean thing going on with the hair and goatie then LOL. He was also drum-majoring for Derwent Valley Marching Band and went to Canada that year with them to the Calgary Stampede!! This is also the last time I was really thin, although I was a bit too thin in the face at times and, wouldn’t you know it, I still had a big bum and thighs, only answer to that is amputation LOL!!

The kit, I hear you ask!?? Well this is the second kit I have made. I am trying to get the colours to be a bit more subdued than the blues were in the last kit. I even made the feathers, which I was quite chuffed with. And there are some Bookmarks and a pencil and heaps of papers, it’s called Dear Diary, by Ambowife aka Tracy Rundle. It does go quite well with that photo, hmmm!!

Alright so now that I am getting into the designing side of digi, I thought I better make a No Piracy sign for the files, LOL. I thought, I can’t use anything then I remembered old George (Michael’s Recent Skeleton Purchase, LOL) and I went off into the study and took some snapshots of him, extracted the skull and two ulnas (I think that’s what they’re called, you know the upper arm bone) and made a skull and cross bones. Then I thought, he looked too white and new, so I started to grunge him

up with some over laid texture and used to burn tool then took some teeth out and deepened the eye sockets and voila, much more Piratey!! I just was so pleased with the result and Michael was amazed, LOL. Oh and I did the cutout and burn thing on the paper like a treasure map thingy LOL.

Finally, but most importantly, check out this awesome layout by Doreen aka Beachnut999. Thank for doing wonders with Sea Breeze Doreen, you Rock Girl!!! I love this picture of you!!

Okay I’ve chewed your ears off enough for one day LOL. I hope all is well on your side of the world or where ever when ever you are.

Have a great Day!!!

Tracy

Found My Marbles!!!

Argh!!! I was offline, and suffering withdrawals LOL!!!

What a week, we had no phone or internet for the week. There was a guy working on the line in our street and when he’d finished, whatever he was doing, we had no phone but still could get broadband. Then the broadband went and I thought poop I’ll have to reinstall it all. Then they said that we had the phone back, yeah right, with someone else’s number, bugger!!! So the internet thing ended up being because of that, then today the guy finally fixed the phone line and I spent ages but finally got the web back on. So much stuffing around argh!!!

But here I am back in my element LOL. Thanks to the people who left me some love for the freebie, always nice to get some feedback too!! It is always greatly appreciated. So I have a lot of catching up to do LOL.

I have not sat here doing nothing though, I did some layouts and will post them to the digi sites after I blog. First Things First eh!! I also used the new printer, we’ve had it for quite a while but I was using the old one to use up the ink. So I did a little insert to put on my Weight Watcher’s book, I was really pleased with the quality although I think I will have to check out what color settings i have in my program, things are seeming a bit bright at the moment LOL. So here’s a photo of my little book and some layouts to share.

This is the front of the weight watchers book, family pics to keep me inspired LOL.

And here is the back, what I looked like last time I lost all the weight, I’m on the right, my pregnant cousin is on the left LOL.

This is my Mum sitting by the Trevi Fountain in Rome when she and Dad visited Italy, I have an Auntie in Rimini, Italy. I used Terrell Sanzone’s Love Whimsy and the hearts are cut from one of her Love Whimsy Papers. The Glitter scattered over the page is mine.

This one is of my Gran and Pappa Turner, Dad’s parents, it is their wedding photo, they had to get married while they had a leave pass during the second world war!!

Lots of Terrell’s Designs here. Kits I used were, Doodle Gems (the butterfly elements with the doodles on them) Heritage Kit, (the quill and document envelope), Tracy’s love (the Paper and frame) Glitter n Gold (the hearst) Donkey Love Blog Freebie, (the wine crate and the ribbon stitching)

This one was fun to do too. I used Terrell Sanzone’s Hazel Kit Butterflies and recoloured them underneath, Girly Denim for the background, Doodle Gems, (the butterfly doodle gem and then overlapped and rotated several layers of it to get the element under the flowers, The flowers are recoloured from TerrellS Bakers Dozen Pretty Garden (for personal or commercial use) and the vellum under the pic are from TerrellS’ Memories of a Garden, the white one is just the red one recoloured. The Photo is of my Mum’s Fridge, where she has pics of us!! And the pink glitter scattering is me again LOL. I am playing with glittering things up as you might have guessed.

Okay this is the last thing I did before the Crash LOL. This is from Terrell Sanzone’s Kit Love Whimsy and I used some Tracy’s Love too, Plus I used the Glitter N Gold hearts to overlay on the top of the envelope, the Template for this is from “Fabella” at Treasures to Scrap, and of course the Lyrics are You’re the Best Thing by Style Council, a blast from my youth in the 80’s. LOL. Isn’t Chris a Cutie Pie here!!

Okay well that’s it for now, I better go and check some blogs and sites and see what I’ve missed LOL.

Have a wonderful day everyone, I will now that I can get online LOL.

Tracy

Freebie Time!!!

Yes I have actually designed a Kit called Sea Breeze!
You know, a real one LOL!!
So to Celebrate it and to celebrate my weight loss being over 10% of what I started Weight Watchers at, I am offering it up as a freebie. So if you would like to have this kit for personal use just click on the links below the preview to the right.
I hope you all like it! If you do download Sea Breeze, please please please, DO NOT SHARE the links, as always, if you know someone who also wants to use it, please direct them to my blog here. And of course give credit where credit is due and leave me a little love too, it only takes a click of the mouse.

Sea Breeze Elements

Sea Breeze Paper Pack 1

Sea Breeze Paper Pack 2

A huge thanks to Terrell Sanzone for her guidance through the past year and for casting her eye over this kit for me, Terrell is like my Mentor!! Thanks Hun, you’re the best. And I would also like to thank Doreen aka Beachnut999 for all her support and being such a fabulous CT buddy, love both you ladies!

Credit Must also go to:
I used Shannon Fahrnbach’s Beads Galore CU kit to create the beaded element and to create the lined papers I used Royanna Freitshmann’s GettinLinedUp CU Kit. Awesome Kits ladies and thank you!

Okay now that I’ve said all the necessary conditions of downloading, here’s a little taste of it with a layout I did of my Dearest Michael. This is way before he was my Michael, LOL. He used to sail a lot in his 20’s and I found this cute photo of him. He’s a bit slimmer now, but I still think he is super cute in this pic. That smile is just so darn cute!!!


So I am off to do some serious bike riding, that ought to improve my chances of a good loss next Tuesday when I weigh in LOL. I lost 1.3kg when I weighed in Yesterday so I am hoping for a similar result. They will probably tell me I am losing it too quick if I keep this up. Can’t please everyone all of the time I guess. But I suppose if I lose it slower it will give me a chance to tone up what’s left LOL. My face has really thinned out, I really notice it when I see photos from last year. Anyway I hope everyone is well and that you are all recovered from the Silly Season LOL.



Be Good! And if you can’t be good, Be Careful! And enjoy your freebie!

Hugs
Tracy

WOO HOO!!!

Woo Hoo, look at my Swish New Bike!

Isn’t Michael just the Best Husband?

My old bike which, by the way, I have only had for about 4 months, was dying already. I don’t know if it is because it had to support my Hefty frame or what but the gears had died, I only had the middle range. And I was forever getting punctures and breaking bits of it. So we decided I should Upgrade!!

My Trek is “24″ Speed and has groovy gear change levers plus super braking system, Metal Pedals and a comfy seat!

Here’s a layout I did and I did it with all my own elements and papers, I used the commercial use kit from Shannon Fahrnbach to create these elements and I worked out how to do patterns and made papers too.

Also you may notice that I updated the look of the blog. Thought it was time for a change.

Okay well I’m off to bed now. I am off to Centennial Park tomorrow for a bike ride on my own. Michael’s bike is being serviced. I’ll let you know how I go, LOL!!

Have a great day everyone!

Happy New Year Everybody!!!

A quiet one for us, we did see the fireworks on the tv and managed to make it to midnight but we didn’t drink. Michael had to work the next day and so we had a quiet night in.

BIG NEWS FOR CHRIS

Well my little boy is a Licenced Driver!! Yup he passed his test on 2nd January so he is probably going to be spending every spare dollar on petrol. LOL He did it all mostly on his own too, it’s a manual Licence and the only one of us that taught him anything manual was Michael, here in Sydney. I taught him the steering and all in the automatic before we got him Lessons in a manual car, and now he’s free as a bird!! No more lifts from Anyone, although he’ll probably be borrowing money for petrol all the time instead LOL. Here’s a layout I did for the occassion.

I just sent it to him in an email so I am looking forward to a response LOL, it took me a while to do the flames on the L plates, but that’s what he’ll be doing with those LOL.

Things have quietened down a bit here now, I am not committed to anything outside cyberspace until February, when I go back to Hobart to help Mum move to Queensland. It’ll be fun, like a bigger version of the roadtrip I did last year. So IVF is going on hold for another month.

More Big News, from Me this time, I won Layout of the Week a few weeks ago at mootwodesigns.com, there were three winners so I was in good company. Also in the next MooTwoDesigns Newsletter I am their Featured Scrapper, so keep an eye out for that in the next week.

Okay here are some layouts from the last few weeks. This one I think is my favourite for the last few weeks, I am really pleased with how it turned out, of course it helps when the subject is so special and photogenic!!

Here is a layout of Amelia while she was visiting her Grandparents last year. She’s just so pretty, isn’t she!

Amelia is one of the three nieces we have on Michael’s side of the family.

These two were created Using Terrell Sanzone’s Posting Bonus Kit from her SAS sketch challenge, if you got the SAS newsletter you would have been able to download this as a freebie Kit, you have to participate in the challenge to get the other part, which is just as gorgeous as this section.

I used Terrell’s Impressions Kit for this layout of Chris when he was still learning to walk.

Isn’t he just adorable!!

TerrellS’ Love Whimsy kit is used here to create a layout of Gabriella as our Flowergirl. Cuteness must run in our family LOL.Michael and his homeboys, these photos were taken on the walk down to the Rotunda at the Royal Tasmanian Botannical Gardens in Hobart, goofballs LOL!! None of them remembered the buttonhole roses so luckily Michael’s Dad, John gave Michael his to wear, Chris forgot his too and My Mum’s Corsage was left in the fridge as well, sigh, there’s always something LOL.

This is a photo that I found amongst Tuffy’s Dad’s photos, hard copies, so I scanned it and did this layout, its the only photo that shows a closer look at me signing the register with our Celebrant showing me where to put my signature, Kath Venn was a lovely choice for our Celebrant. I used Shannon Fahrnbach’s kits for this, including Ribbon Rounds Download a Day and her Grab Bag for November

And here’s Robbie resting in the Sunshine in Mum’s backyard, He’s so darn cute!! Told you it ran in the family LOL. I used TerrellS’ Roses for Mom kit here. I love the softness of this kit.

I am just in Love with…TerrellS’ Love Whimsy Kit, it goes perfectly with the kit she created for me Tracy’s Love.

Here we are signing the register again LOL. I know, I know, “More Wedding Layouts!” I hear you all moan but ya haven’t seen these ones they are from Tuffy’s Dad’s hardcopies and it took me ages to do them cause I had to get the speckles and noise out of them before I could scrap them, so whisper if you want to I’m not listening ROFLMHO!!

I can see some Valentine layouts coming from this kit too with the heart theme running through it.

Hee Hee I just did this one for TerrellS’s Sketch challenge over at Stone Accents Studio, Don’t you love TerrellS’ Template?!! I did this at, like, 2 am this morning so I was feeling overtired and a bit goofy hence the jokiness of it.

The pair in the sleigh is Hayley and her dog Nemo aka Rudolf LOL.

I used TerrellS’s papers from her collaboration kit that she did with Shannon Fahrnbach called Cozy Christmas. The Background I recoloured with a pink overlay and the presents were part of one of TerrellS’ Christmas Tree element which I extracted them from.

The Santa is from the Christmas Wrap kit by Deedee Smith.

Okay well I think that should keep everyone up to date for another week. I hope you are all having a great holiday season and if you are working don’t work too hard.

Hugs all round!!

Tracy

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Not the best pic of us because the lights down the side of the photo have ruined it but this is us at Michael’s work’s Christmas do!

I know I have been MIA again but what can I say… Life gets in the way!!

So we were apart again at Christmas but today is Boxing Day and I am home. LOL and Michael is on night shifts today and tomorrow. But all that said we have had our exchange of gifts and things are relatively back to normal.

I took a heap of pics while I was away and so they will reappear in layouts no doubt in the next week or so. I had a lovely christmas lunch with Mum and Chris and then dinner with John and Ila so I had a lovely day. I also went and saw the new warehouse for the company I used to work for and on Christmas Eve I did attend their breakfast and stayed to help out until midday. I took pics at that too LOL, off course. Like this one where chris is acting silly dressed up as a robot, yes, that’s my son in the cardboard LOL.Chris has his new used car and I had a drive of it when I was home. Nice and easy enough to drive so he is pleased. Cross you fingers for him, he has his driving test in another week.

Okay so that’s it for now, I’m off to make myself some dinner and then I’ll get stuck into some Layouts and commenting on the sites. Have a fabulous New Year if we don’t get back here before then. All the best

Tracy

Remember Me LOL

I know you all must think I got sucked into a black hole or something, but to tell you the truth I have just been super concentrating on the Diet Fitness and IVF this last few months. We have changed Clinics and made a lot of life changes to improve our chances of getting Preggers so I figured since we are making all these changes and sacrifices and Michael is having to work his butt off to pay for it all I guess I should give it My All. So I have. We are due to have our hopes crushed on Thursday, and if by some twist of fate I don’t have a visit from the witch, (you ladies will know her as intimately as I) we are due a test on Friday. So I guess now that I have said it out loud it will all come crashing down around my ears. sigh.

Well Onto other news. As you will have seen Michael has had a few interesting events happen in his work life lately, the Presentation of the Zoll Watch you will see in a layout shortly. LOL.

I don’t however, have a pic of Julia, she did get me to take a pic of her but I haven’t got a copy of it from her. It’s an interesting time with 2 students in the house and trying to do assignments at the same time lol.

Weight Watchers – well it’s slow and steady wins the race, sigh. I have lost 7.7kg total, but it’s taken me 3 months. Although I have to admit I did retain a lot of water and bloat on the drugs I was on for he IVF. I am hoping that I will be preggers and won’t mind that kind of weight gain. I have come across some great recipes along the way too, guess I should think about posting them sometime LOL.

Christopher has finally bought his first car!!! So exciting and he did it all on his own. He asked Michael’s Dad to check it out for him too just to make sure it wasn’t a total lemon and it looks like a great deal for a first car. Here it is, lol I made him go take pics and send them to me. Kit is TerrellS Tracy’s Love.

Well apart from TerrellS moving house to another state and being incomunicado, (no internet yet) I am sort of keeping updated by Doreen, I jump on and visit Doreen’s blog to see how things are going for her and Her Hubby and as a bonus get an update on TerrellS too, LOL. Doreen (beachnut999) has updated her blog and changed her header I noticed today. I am enjoying catching up on their comings and goings over in the states.

Okay here are some layouts. Now I have a few I guess since I haven’t been on her for a while so I probably won’t put them all up, just a few hee hee.

These are layouts of Melissa and Nick’s wedding. Nick took a lot of pics at our wedding. This is Tracy’s love Kit by TerrellS. It just goes so well with Melissa’s dress!!

And here are some pics of Hayley’s Japan trip she went on with her mum. This one is at Tokyo Disneyland and the kit is by Shannon Fahrnbach, November Grab Bag.

Okay this is jut Michael after we returned from a bike ride. Just a half hour one as it started to really pour and it is so much harder to ride when you are drenched oh and when your brake is stuck in the on position LOL, that was me anyway. This is TerrellS Kit Autumn Freebie and the matts are from her corrugated set.

Okay well that’s it from me, I am off to bed now, sigh, so tired lately, and no it’s not a sign LOL.

Have a great day!!

It’s Taz the Ambo!

Hello world, I’m back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I just dropped by the blog to see what Tracy had been telling you and found ‘Bupkiss’. The holidays are over and I’m right back into the saddle again with the same probationary partner I had before I left. Good thing I like him.

I guess Tracy will let you know what our success is with the IVF cycle that we’re currently on, when we know.

I have finished my very first semester of university distance education, I’m happy with what I learnt and my results so far with the sociology course, but the emergency care of mental health,,,, it sucked. Lots of information, none of it useful to me and my job of pre-hospital care.

One really cool thing that has happened, 1st Dec last year I was doing overtime at Randwick station and we got a cardiac arrest patient back, the ZOLL company that manufacture the defibrillator that saved his life, present a watch to all such patients and I had the pleasure of making that presentation on the 16th Nov – 49 weeks to the day after I first met George. George brought his son (about my age) along and Tracy took some photos (see above) it was special. It made it into the Ambulance Service newsletter and the local scandal sheets, the newspaper photo even made it to the local hospital Accident & Emergency Dept.

Well, that’s a pretty go spray from me I’ll go now.

See Ya’