Halloween Hijinkx

I've never had much time for Halloween, I've always considered it to be an American thing. My friend Char is a Halloween freak, she loves it. She invited us to her Halloween BBQ - so we figured why not? We even got into the dressing up. Chas went as a pirate - even not shaving for three days to achieve some piratey stubble. A frilly shirt, some belts from the op shop and some piratey bits from the junk shop and he was almost complete. A quick trip to Big W in search of a parrot found us putting a patch and skull and cross bones to the weirdest looking penguin you've ever seen to sit in his shoulder and he was done. Me - I was going as a witch, black wig, spooky makeup, a witches hat and some cute striped socks and I too was complete. We had a really good time, Char had some games for the kids to play - my fave was making a mummy. 3 adults, 10 kids and a pallet of toilet paper kept us all amused. Even the weather didn't dampen the Halloween spirit. The kids did plenty of tricks to earn their candy and a good time was had by all unfortunately the pirate came home as a drunken sailor.

Relay For Life Echuca

Saturday night saw hundreds of people give up their time and nice warm beds to Relay around the Moama Sports grounds. It was awesome to see so many people dedicated to the cause. I was there supervising a team of 13 year old girls - on the night shift - who decided they wanted to put in a team. These kids are awesome - they managed to con their mothers and a few others like me to participate and raised more than their very realistic target of $600. They organized a walking roster and not once did they miss their time to walk. The event was very well organized Kudos to the committee - my only complaint was the coffee man went at one am - very glad to see him  back at five am and it was VERY cold. I went prepared and put a new layer on every hour - Cass was sure I'd look like an igloo with a head when she got up in the morning. All in all a fun night had by all.

 Ty recently went to the snow. He had such a great time tobogganing and talked about it for days afterwards.
The snow flakes are from Twiddly-bits and have been embossed and then smooched. The center denim strip is an old scrap I've had for ever and I tarted it up with my new Martha Stewart Doily punch. Papers and transparency is from the Fancy Pants Christmas Magic range.

Chas and I take Ty to Fryerstown Antiques Fair every Australia Day. It was a hot day so Ty and I headed to the cafe area for an icypole. I looked around and here he was oblivious to the crowd playing happily amongst the feet in the dirt. The Cogs are cut from grunge using the Sizzix Big Shot. Dirt Magnet title is Scrap FX and both have been painted then inked. I used the EK Success notebook punch and I used assorted Kaiser papers.

Halloween in Wonderland  papers by Graphic 45 were perfect for this wacky  photo of me in Sydney, I've been trying to scrap for ages. I used Kaiser mini alphas for the title which reads "sometimes I wonder if we go through life not playing with a full deck".

This one is using the Pink Paislee Starlight Collection and was really fun to do. I used tons of  Kaiser Pearls and the coordinating stickers were perfect for these pics of Alex playing on his jeep.
 

 Another Starlight layout of Chas and Snow, this time using the I Rock for bling. I used the coordinating stickers and alpha sheets

This layout is one we did in class, Karen did the sample so I grabbed a kit because it was perfect for these pics of Alex crawling on the lawn on our Lazy ass Sunday a  few weeks ago. Using the Big shot and Cuttlebug, some inked Kaiser wooden leaves and loads of circles it was really good fun to create.

Happy Scrapping H