Hello All

Yes I'm still here .......just been very busy!!! I have joined Stampin Up! So with working full time & running I have so much other stuff happening as well I have two retreats next month one with Stampin Up onthe gold coast & then one at the end of the month with scrapidoo at Landsborough the retreat is up at Maleny so I will be packing all the winter woolies for that one!!!!

On the scrapping front I have a few things in the pipe line, creating wedding invite for a friend & a canvas for a firends 40th birthday, then there is the wedding album that is coming along I have lost count of how many Lo's I have completed. And now that we are down hill run to xmas I have xmas cards to make as well.

I will be setting up a new blog site for my Stampin Up! So whatch out for that!!!

But for now if you would like to know more about my new venture please leave a message or
email me!

I have to go now and great some sleep it's been a big weekend!!!

take care everyone until next time
Keep stampin

Peta xo

Been too busy to Blog

Wow I can't believe that another month has passed & Winter is finally decided to arrive!!! I would rather it be cold than stinking hot....although I don't like having to get out of bed at 5am when it is cold. Work has been busy with 6 new staff in training, but that is for the best as now we will have the staff to handle the amount of calls we get in a day. Anyway enough of that boring stuff ......on the scrapping front I have been busy visiting a forum in the USA ...thanks to Alicia Barry for the link and invite. The Site is http://2croppincousinz.com/ if you join please make sure you let them know that I sent you. The girls are great and the site is wonderful there a few aussies on there thanks to Alicia. I have been completing a LO a week with Alicia's Page Plan Challenges & I even managed to come 3rd last week tied with a fellow US scrapper. Here is the Lo & card I completed for the 3rd .

I know this is a very short but sweet post but I am tired and have a crop to go to in the morning even though for this crop i do not have to leave the house i need to be up early as it is 2 croppin couzins 1st birthday online crop and I have completed all the challenges so far and I really want to finish this crop with them I had so much fun this morning.

So good night til next time

TTFN

Happy Mothers Day to everyone!!!!

I have had a very lovely weekend. Yesterday I was able to spend most of the day & night scrapping as Travis was playing PS3. So I have more lo's to post here as well as some card fronts which are just waiting to be mounted and given home to special people. So with out boring you all I'll post these so I can go create more........

New purchases means.......

new inspiration to scrap again!!!!!! Not that I needed any new scrapping supplies, but what do you do when you walk into the lls and they have a 15% sale on everything....... you buy up big!!!

The funny thing was there were a but three husbands in there, as well as Travis just as well as I managed to buy way to much and just had to use his visa card!!! Well it was well worth it as i was able to buy some new Rusty Pickle pp for all my wedding photo's. The two ranges of pp I have decided to go with are the Rusty Pickle princess bride pp's & the Basic Grey Scarlett Letter range. Travis loved the fact that they are simple yet arty!!! Yes I know I can hear you all saying now OMG!!!! But I'm glad he takes an interest in my hobby.

So without boring you all to tears any further here are some new layouts.

The Lo her on the left Friendship was inspired by the 2cc site and there april challenge for guest design team! Thanks Alicia for the link to the forum I ove there. here is a close up of the all the flowers on the Lo. But for now I am off to clean the house so i can then get into my scraproom and create somemore.

A change of face....

I have finally learnt how to do a banner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I may not be perfect but I like it.


Last night i went to Michelle's to scrap but only managed to get One Lo done and even that was not completed! Michelle on the other hand was on a roll with creating simple LO's. I however hope to finish the lo I started last night tomorrow.

I am very proud of the banner and my new blog ....... I hope everyone else likes it too!!!


But for now remember to play & scrap nicely!

Peta

Photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(1)
Ok I can hear you all saying it's about time I posted these ....

so they are from left
(1)this is a better photo of Alicia Barry's sketch 9 & right a closeup,

(3) is the Layout completed at the SBC crop this was the progressive lo which I adore ....thanks to all you added there bit

4.below here is the Lo I complete also at the SBC crop while Alicia was home this was the 123 follow me class..... these are the first two photo's from the wedding I have scrapped
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So now that I have uploaded these I'm off to Shells to finish another project I started last week so watch for the next post coming soon....

take care and happy scrapping

sorry no new photo's yet!!!!

I no I'm slack I have not taken the photo's I wanted to take to show you all but well life gets in the way sometimes......

Friday the 13th of April was fun I started the day by waking at 4.30 am to get ready for work pack the car with scrapping supplies then off to park the car near Scrapbook City as I was cropping with the lovely Alicia Barry & the girls at SBC. What a great night we had met some new scrappers and caught up with some I have not seen in awhile....Amanda, Leone, Sara & of course the reason for it all Alicia!!!!!

The lo's we created were great I had so much fun!!! I promise I will post these this weekend as I have no plans to go anywhere this weekend except to my scraproom to tidy and scrap some more wedding pic's.

Tomorrow is ANZAC DAY .....so we are off to the service in the morning. Then off to Michelle's to scrap for awhile.

Take care have a great day tomorrow but remember the reason we have the day off ...remember the ones that have fallen so we could have the freedom we have today

Lest We Forget.......

My Scraproom.........

is starting to come together. Thanks to Michelle for the help in re-arranging & sorting out products so I now know where most of my stuff is. Isn't amazing how you don't think of putting a set of shelves on its side so it fits in to the built in robe...now I have this amazing storage in the robe which gives me heaps of room. I will post some photo's here tomorrow as the light will be better then.



And since the room is tidy I have been inspired to scrap again!!!!!lol...... I have two LO's to show you all. This photo was taken by Theresa my sister inlaw ...thanks Tess for this great photo I hope you like the way I have scrapped this.





This next LO is a sketch from Alicia Barry's planned pages blog I just new which photo I was going to use so here you go Alicia this one was inspired by you, thanks. It's not the best photo I will try again tomorrow in better light!

This photo was taken in Vila while on the cruise. This is one of the small waterfalls we didn't go right to the top because we thought we didn't have enough time but never mine we will just have to go again sometime.

I must say that since before the wedding I have not scrapped for the pleasure of it but because I had to get things finished for the wedding. But now that my life has returned to normal again I find i have the time to scrap for myself again & i'm really enjoying it. I have signed up for not just one Retreat this year but two!! Yes that is right two retreats in one year as I have so many photo's to scrap the first one I will be going to is with Scrapbook City in July and the other one in August with Tess and this one is with Scrappidoo at Landsborough, so both will be winter retreats so i will have to take all the winter woolies with me.



Over the last four days i have been in Cairns with work. I was lovely to go up there, I can tell you that for the first time I can honestly say that I was home sick! What can I say I thought it would be nice to see where I grew up again but I well I don't know the place has changed so much.

I did get to check out a few Scrap shops and I can honestly say they have some talent up there.
One shop I found online before I went up there called Ruby St Designs. Kris sources vintage items from lots of different places. Check out her site here http://www.rubystdesigns.com.au/ I spent sunday afternoon with Kris looking at the goodies in her studio wishing that I had a few hundred dollars to spend. I was able to see the collections for this month IRL and I can tell you that they are worth every cent I will photograph the goodies I purchased tomorrow just so you can see what I mean..... Michelle you will love them!!!!

The other shop I was able to go to in my lunch hour as the shop was just up the road from the office this one was Paper Possibilities this store has a great range of papers some of which I had not seen before so I had to buy them & they also had some lovely ribbon that I just could not resist.....I will post photo's of these tomorrow as well.


Well if you are still reading this thanks and I will post more tomorrow. And just a little wedding photo's update I will post some professional shot tomorrow as well.


For now remember play & scrap nicely!

Thanks for reading,

Peta

Quick update

Tess (my sister inlaw) has placed some photo's on her blog the link to the blog is here so please feel free to have a look ..... professional pic's still to come!!!!

Photo's from the cruise .......

this was taken at the captain welcome on the second night of the cruise.

























This is one of the bars at Port Vila called the Waterfront.

Still waiting on some from the wedding ....... but I do have this pic of ange as she was getting ready

I will up date again soon as I get more photo's....... the professional pic's will be back in a week or so so keep watching!!!!! Thanks to all that wished us well for the day!!!!

my first post as Mrs Peta Schirmer

Hello to everyone out there that sent good wishes for our big day !!! We had a very lovely wedding.... the weather was nice to us but it was extremley hot!!! I was tradionaly late due to a lack of comunnication from everyone but hey I got there in the end.

At this point I would like to say a huge thanks to my Matron of Honour Shaz, my wonderful daughter Angela & last but not least Katrina honey thank you so much for being there on the day there were a few times i think with out you all there I would have cried my eyes out...... there are so many people to thank ....I will be sending thank-you's to you all as soon as the photo's arrive.

The cruise was wonderful I never got sick once which I am so thankful for as the last two days were every rough. I would recommend this cruise to anyone the food, service and the whole crew were awesome. There was always something to do or if you wanted to you could do nothing at all..... which was very hard to do some days. I did not use the pools or the Spa's so for those that want to know about them sorry...they looked nice but they were just not for me!!! (to many kids & people in them all the time)

I have a few pic's from around the ship and a pic of the sunrise as we returned to brisbane yesterday morning which i will post shortly once i have resized them .... I have to run now paper crafts is calling me talk to you all soon .....

bye from Mrs Peta Schirmer

What an awesome weekend

Well waht a great weekend with all the girls!!!!!!

Dracula's was great to say the least .....we all had a great time I don't think i can remember the last time I laughed so much at a show! The food was great & for me that is saying something!!!!
If you have ever thought about going to Dracula's on the gold coast all I can say is GO!!!!! it is well worth it!!!!

We were very lucky to have The Master come and sit with us at our table for a chat. Well we found out that he was a sydney boy and he started chatting to our sydney girls and they must of made an impression as we all receive one free cocktail on the house!!!!! this was awesome!!!! as we were all a bit short on cash over the weekend!!!

I would like to say at this point .....thanks to all the girls that made it to the weekend I had the best time...... and thank you for all dressing in black red or whitefor drac's !!!!!!I love all the photos!!!!

So well you all may be wondering how long it is until the wedding now wel it is 20 days away!!!
And yes I am freaking out !!!!!

For those of you that know me and would like to attend the garden ceremony you are more than welcome we will tie the knot at 11.30am in area 9 in the brisbane city botanical gardens, but please if you have not received an official invite as we have been told that we will be charge for extras at the reception if there is more than the number confirmed. sorry but this is the way it is.

Wel thant is about all for now if you would like to see photo's fromt he hen's weekend please visit Milly's blog http://scrapmillayahoocomau.blogspot.com/ as Milly has photo's on her blog already....

ciao for now girls!!!!

Peta


Kat honey, I will be making you a very lovely wall hanging after the wedding of your photo with The master!!!!!!

8 Weeks to go until I'm .....

a married woman again!!!!!!

I can't beleive that it is only 8 weeks out from the wedding!!!! And for those that are going it is only 4 weeks til the wicked hen's weekend .......

Have you all got Your outfit DON"T forget the theme Black Red & White !!!!! dresses or top and Skirt...Personally i thingk it will be nice to dress up. If you have any ideas for games feel free to plan one or email me with Ideas

On another note I will be off line from monday night so if you need to contact me the mobile number will bethe best number to get me on as we are.........

************Moving house*********

I have no idea yet when i will be back on line but i do hope that it will not be to long as I still have a lot of wedding stuff to do and wedding emails are starting to flood in with final arrangements!!!!

So for now it's good bye from the mad house shoe box at Bald Hills

Remember scrap and play nicely