Here's my latest page for Show Us Your Stuff.....

Your second challenge for the month is to use this rather decadent image as your inspiration.....

I combined the Try This texture paste challenge on mine to create the "chocolate" heart (texture paste mixed with brown acrylic paint) then sprinkled it with microbead "hundreds and thousands".

The photos are of Bethany's exciting win at the Inverell Show last month - Junior Champion for her double choc chip muffins!!!!

HEY....

Don't forget to encourage your kids to enter our very first Sophie's Corner challenge - especially for the younger scrappers!

You have until next Saturday to get your pages uploaded.

Check it out HERE.

WOW....it's been busy here at the Hackney household!

Had visitors almost every weekend for the past month.

Then it was our big trip to Sydney so Kate could see.....

....she was blown away by her first big concert.....I was completely jealous!!!

Photos of our city adventure to come, once I download them off the camera.

Last night Kate and I went to see.....

This is a FANTASTIC movie.

Not OK for younger kids though.

Kate's 12 and she loved it but thought it was a bit full on.

If I'd read the book first I probably wouldn't have let her go.

The violence is not hidden or suggested - it's graphic kids killing kids.

Whole concept is scarily possible for our future.

But a must-see I do believe!

Enjoy your Funday Sunday.

xxx

My High School Years.....

Nothing was more important than the music back then......all my pocket money would be spent on LP's and I would go down town in my lunch hour to the music store and order new release singles (and spend ages browsing through the band posters and t-shirts!)

My Uni Years.....

1989 was a bit iffy when it comes to good music.....but I listened to anything and everything. I know these ones got a good work out on my chunky red boombox in my dorm room AND in my little blue Suzuki hatchback (on cassette tape naturally!).....

I'd love you to share the soundtracks of your youth with me!

...using Design Dollies latest colour challenge....

GREEN GREY & WHITE

The prize for this month is rather cool.....

.....all you have to do for the chance to win is to enter at least ONE of the 4 colour challenges the Dollies will throw at us during September! Easy!

Another DD layout to show you using this sketch.....

Three circles, three gorgeous girls....what else would I do???

Well....check it out now.....

GREEN, LUSH and BEAUTIFUL

and full dams as well!!!!!!

We've had 50ml of rain in the last few days (in other words.....HEAPS)

....even broke the banks of the MacIntyre yesterday arvo.....

Had to drive hubby's 4wd to work to get through our driveway which was flooded.

Today has turned out gorgeous and sunny - just in time for Kate's soccer semi's - everything looks amazing....it lifts the spirits and gladdens the heart.

Bring on Spring!

Father's Day....began with pressies in bed, then a BBQ picnic in the backyard.....

(notice the lawn mower in the background - we had to actually mow a spot to lay the rug out!

So RELAXING.......

Tuesday it was off to Tamworth (kid-free!) to see Powderfinger....

....which was totally awesome and had me wondering why we don't go to live shows more often.

Yesterday we celebrated Kate's 11th birthday......

.....so excited about her purple iPod and alarm clock/docking station along with lots of other bits and pieces. This arvo we're off to the circus with a few of her friends.....great timing for a circus to come to town!

Mars Bar cheesecake in the fridge all ready for the occasion.

Managed to squeeze in 3 days of work in between. Phew! I'll be glad for tomorrow...(a sleep-in is on my agenda)....oh, hang on, Tim's asked me to help him re-clad the front of the house tomorrow! No rest for the wicked....