Announcing the Scrapbook Essentials Design Team....

Well the decision has been made and in the end we have asked 4 extremely talented ladies to join our Design Team - funnily enough they all received the news with one sentence .... 'Are you serious'!! They all also said yes so without further ado here are the members of the brand new SE Design Team for 2006/07


Megan Renfree


Beverley Warwick


Jo Burney


Janenne Sloan


The decision was a very difficult one as we had so many amazing entries and I had a couple of sleepless nights but we have selected a team which we think all compliment each other and all four of the members bring a different dynamic to the team, and we are really excited to welcome them to Scrapbook Essentials!
I will posting all the entries as well as the new DT members in the Scrapbook Essentials gallery so you can see all the gorgeous work that was submitted and perhaps gain some perpective on how difficult a decision this was!

DESIGN TEAM

Today is the last day for entries for the Scrapbook Essentials Design Team, we have had some amazing entries to date and it is going to be a long weekend trying to decide, a big thank you to all those who have taken the time to enter and for also allowing us a bit of an insight to you and your work, we would love to have you all but there can only be 3........

Tagged.....

Heck tagged for the first time by that pesky American up north (just kidding Christi) so here goes


1.Things that scare me:
- my children getting ill or hurt
- the state of the world we live in today
- dying before I have done everything on my to do list

2. People who make me laugh:
- Paige, Millie and Max
- My friend Sharyn aka Bird
- The girls on the Scrapbook Essentials forum

3. Things I hate the most:
- having to repeat myself
- rude and inconsiderate people ie pushing into queues
- being tired and grumpy

4. Things I don't understand:
- MEN!!!!
- rude and inconsiderate people ie pushing into queues
- how 24 hours is never enough to get everything done!

5. Things I'm doing right now:
- typing on my laptop
- feeding Max
- looking at the new Cosmo Cricket alpsa etc to load

6. Things I want to do before I die:
- visit Las Vegsa and Aaron and I get married again Elvis style!!
- take Aaron to Europe and show him everything I saw when I lived there
- take the kids to Disneyland

7. Things I can do:
- talk!!!!
- make the perfect G&T
- spend money!!!

8. Ways to describe my personality:
- perfectionist
- generous
- impatient

9. Things I can't do:
- waterski
- ride a motorbike
- go to bed early

10.Things I think you should listen to:
- your children
- your gut instinct
- your mother

11. Things you should never listen to:
- insincere people
- negativity
- one opinion

12. Things I'd like to learn:
- tai chi
- how to be a better mother
- manage my time better!!

13. Favorite foods:
- sushi
- cheese
- anything Japanese, especially Teppan food

14. Beverages I drink regularly:
- water
- coke zero
- sprite zero

15. Shows I watched as a kid:
- Playschool
- The Muppets
- Fraggle Rock

16. Persons I'm tagging:
- Tanya
- Delys
- Heidi

Finally

I am sharing a layout with you all of our Max, now go easy on me as I haven't scrapped too many boys pages yet and I just can't embellish like mad like I would with photos of the girls, I love this photo of Max, he's so serious looking in it just like his Dad!! The patterned paper is Denim Dot from the Urban Lily range, silhouette stars are from Heidi Swapp, these are seriously cool and I will be loading this to the site later today, they also come in words etc, the word sweet is a laser cut from Sarah Heidt, very simple but I wanted the layout to be about the photo of Max! It's funny as I haven't really had the time or even the urge to scrapbook that much since he was born but after completing that layout I want to do more!! So looking forward to scrap camp next weekend and being able to scrap away to my hearts content!!
I did the grocery shopping this morning while Max was sleeping and found these - YUMMO!!



They taste kind of like jaffas and the kids totally would have inhaled the pack if I hadn't hidden them, try them if you love choccy, they rock!!
Had more boxes of stock arrive this morning and included was the most gorgeous chipboard in very cute cigar boxes (totally alterable) from Cosmo Cricket,





there is 101 pieces in each box including the full alphabet and extra letters, buckles, punctuation and more, also arrived is their new Xmas papers etc which are also gorgeous, we have something very cool planned for next month using these papers so keep an eye on the website....

Update on Layout

Will upload in the morning, have just tried to take a photo to load it and the lighting is terrible in my scrap room and you can't see it properly, tried using the flash but it makes it worse..........

Bling Bling

I have a lot of fav's when it comes to scrapbooking Basic Grey, Maya Road etc but there is a new one now BLING!!!! I have just had arrive this morning my order of Heidi Swapp Bling, it is COOL!!! There are square frames, oval frames, bling borders, pink bling, green bling....... this will be on the site later today for purchase!!
Now I have had a few of you say that I never show my work which to date has been true, 2 reasons mostly I haven't done a heck of a lot since Max arrived 12 weeks ago and the site is growing so quickly that we have been working flat out behind the scenes to improve the whole experience as well as coordinating a few new things that will be happening soon but just to prove that I am a scrapbooker and not just a shopperholic of scrapbook products I will post a layout hopefully by tomorrow that I have been working on so watch this space......
I have decided that I have to start running again, I have no excuse for not having got back into it, just been really tired and super busy but since we have decided that our family is now complete, it's time to get the baby kgs off and the quickest way to do that is running for me so there it is, I am off to buy new runners tomorrow and then my sister and I are out pounding the pavement, my sister is the most singleminded person I know and a great motivator (I hate the sound of my mobile beeping with her texting me at 5.30am telling me to get up!!) but once I am up and away it's great! Aaron has a dine and dance coming up for his end of year do so that is my goal to have dropped 6 kgs by then - that's the 9th Dec so countdown is on........

RAK WINNER.........

Drum Roll please......... Heidi!!!!! Well done, can you email me your postal address at info@scrapbookessentials.co.nz. Hmmmm, that was quite interesting to see
how many people do actually read my blog, the counter shows me that people visit but until now I didn't really know who!!!! Might have to RAK on a regular basis!!

RAK....

Okay forgot to put this in the last post, I know that there a quite a few scrapbookers that read our blog so I am putting a RAK here - leave your name in the comment section and on Friday this week will pull a name out of the hat - the winner gets this gorgeous chipboard from Cherry Arte.......

How to make a 4 year olds day............

Thank you so much to Lesley C - Millie just loves this wee notebook you made her and has to take it to bed with her at night to write in it!!!
Well holidays are O V E R thank goodness, getting anything done around here has been virtually impossible with three children running around but back to kindy and preschool they go (do I sound a little too enthusiastic??)! Have loved having them home but 2 weeks is enough and I think they are looking forward to it as well!!
Crazy weekend again - boxes of stock to unpack and load to the website, both girls had swiming lessons yesterday morning, then I had to take Paige and Max to our ante-natal group fortnightly get together, then rush home, get Millie changed for a birthday party, then come home and get things ready for dinner as we had 2 lots of friends over and then back to collect Millie from the party she was at, stopping via the supermarket again to get a couple of things I had forgotten, then home with 15 mins to spare before our guests started arriving!!
Anyway we had a fab evening and it was nice to have a glass or two of wine - thanks Lara and Jase by the way for the gorgeous bottles of wine from Waitiri Creek where Jase works, you have a new fan here!!!! Any chance of a bottle or two finding it's way to scrap camp Lara LOL!!!!
Sssshhhh ............... can you hear that............. it's silent here, Aaron has taken both the girls swimming, Max is in bed and I am finally getting some work done!!! Speaking of Max, here is with his Mummy




Can't believe he is 11 weeks on Tuesday - where the heck has that gone!! He's so smiley all the time now, just love cuddles with him and he has that gorgeous baby smell!!!
Sneak peeks of some new product coming, Caroline Lau who co-owns Maya Road with her sister emailed these to me prior to leaving for the next big trade show in the States, very cool wouldn't you agree!



We are having some major work done to the website in the next 2 weeks, the site is growing quickly so we have to make some changes in order to keep up PLUS we are launching something pretty exciting at the start of November - watch this space.......