You know those days that are just awesome? When you feel like you’ve done something good, you enjoy your day, and you go to sleep content? That was yesterday. I took my senior English class to some workshops yesterday, one of them run by an old lecturer of mine from uni, and they were awesome. I learnt a lot. They learnt a lot. We had a good time, and had some really interesting thought-provoking conversations. I found a totally divine second-hand book store, and brought a couple of books, one of which I’m about half way through and LOVING. I could have done some serious damage to some of those shelves with someone else’s credit card!

The big deal, though, was the workshops. They inspired me to stop just dreaming about doing some post-grad literature study, but to actually start doing it. I’ve decided that a PhD is probably a bit out of my ball park at the moment, so I’m researching Masters Degrees …. anyone know any good distance ed English Lit Masters courses around? I spend an hour or so searching around last night, but I’m so out of touch with academia – I don’t know if I’m looking in the wrong spots, or what I’m after just simply doesn’t exist!

So, after some research research last night, I did some scrapping. And I got HEAPS done!! Pretty happy with them all too, so that’s a good thing. Do you wanna see? Well too bad if you don’t … go and check out someone else’s blog then! lol

I finally finished a layout for Scrapping the Music in time to enter it … amazing really! I love the song that was the prompt for this week.

This was my totally sexy hair cut, just before my current sexy hair cut! lol I seriously hardly EVER go to the hairdressers, and I’d just gotten this ‘do done about 4 weeks before I shaved my head … what a waste, huh?

Two layouts of the girls at physi this year – I didn’t deliberately do them using the same things, it was a bit of a mistake, but they look really good sitting next to each other in my album.

These two are some yummy American Crafts products – still on sale at Scrap Therapy until the end of the month. The Christmas one is over in the forum as a step-by-step, if you want to have a go at it!

Well, I think my bath is ready – hot water, bubbles, a glass of red, candles, and a new old book. What could be better? Night all!!

You know what I love about the site I am sooooo blessedly on the Design Team for? Scrap Therapy has an awesome Manufacturer of the Month thing going on … affectionately called the MAN of the month. The forum is buzzing every month, just before the announcement, not only trying to guess the real MAN (as in scrapping manufacturer) but also coming up with a new MAN – a real life, hot, often shirtless one – that Julie will scrap into a cute little ATC each month. It seriously rocks! Check out the Scrap Therapy blog for this month’s MAN … nice, very nice!

So, the REAL MAN of the month is one of my faves … American Crafts!! Gotta love the colours. Gotta love the variety. Gotta love the ALBUMS!!!! Gotta love the cardstock. And, most importantly – GOTTA LOVE THE THICKERS! The really exciting thing is that every month, the MAN of the Month is on sale – 20%! (hence the shirtless thing, I think. 20% off … roughly 20% of the outfit would be a shirt … get it? Yeah, I know, I’m grasping at straws … shutting up now. lol) So, this month American Crafts is on sale at 20% off the prices listed in store – the reduced price will come up as you go through checkout. This applies to everything but the cardstock, which is already at the rediculously low price of 55cents, so buy up big on that anyway!

Here are a couple of MAN Creations that I’ve done so far – both are using the Amplified range, which is vibrant and gorgeous, but also really versatile. So many of the sheets in this range are embossed, die cut, or foiled – just beautiful! I’ve also used the obligatory Thickers, and the journalling blocks are done using the AC clear stickers – love them to bits!

This one isn’t AC, but I wanted to share it anyway – this was a layout I did just after attending the Relay for Life in Blacktown. It was such an emotional event, and I came home finally ready to scrap this amazing man. Love ya, Pa! (Basic Grey Granola, in case you were wondering!)

Ok, that’s about it for me … I’ve got so much going on here at the moment I can’t even see straight! Reports to write, stuff to scrap, floors to mop, kids to nurse (Kieran has tonsilitis again, Tayla has an allergic reaction to something, and I’m feeling crappy!) and at some point in all that I need to remember to breathe. So what do I do? That’s right, I blog … of course! LOL

Oh, a quick note – I haven’t forgotten about the rak draw for people who donated to the head shave thing for breast cancer research … I’m just waiting on a few names from our lovely GNI organisers, and I’ll get it done.

K, all, off I go – cya later! Mwah!!