Lots going on LOL AGAIN!!

Well we have had a busy week. This weekend we have had Michael's best mate staying and so there are a few photos here of his stay. Plus a Freebie from the contest at amandadykan.com, my March Journalling Challenge Posting Bonus Preview and A New Store. Busy Busy Busy!!!!

You can grab the link at the gallery HERE

My March Journalling challenge is now posted over at SAS and this month the theme is spring so hop on over and join in the fun, for participating and posting a layout you'll get this Fairy Garden Mini Kit.

I am now selling at http://www.scrappinfreestyle.com/ so if you are interested in checking them out the link is with My Stores in the upper right column. Till 10th March I am having 25% off my entire store. (Still uploading stuff LOL)

Well we have had Michael's Best Mate up for a few days and we did some stuff. I took him down to Bowral to the Don Bradman Museum and we got these shots. Also Here are a few of them at home mucking about. Plus we went and saw the Cat Empire's free concert at Bondi Beach on Saturday, that was awesome. thanks Tuffy!! Okay gonna leave it at that for now. I still have heaps to do getting ready for some big events in March HINT HINT!!! so have a great Sunday all!

Tracy ;)

New Kit Party Girls

I have a new kit out today and for the next two weeks it's on sale for 30% off. You can grab the whole kit or just the elements, papers or alphabet. How's that for a deal and they are all marked down, but be quick, it's only till February 's end.

Available at both my stores and by the way when you go to TTS make sure you save the new site to your bookmarks, yes it's all changed and so new and fresh, you're gonna love it. We do!!!
It's going to be a very busy March for this little duck LOL.

Check back during the week cause I'll have some freebies up to go along with the announcement of this kit too!!

I have another anouncement coming up and it's very exciting. Plus check back later today as I have a huge announcement about a collaboration that I have participated in. Especially if you are an Aussie reader, this one will be of great significance to you.

Okay gonna run, remember the links to the stores are in the right hand margin!! Have a great weekend all!!
Tracy

Victorian Bushfire Appeal Collaboration Kit

Spirit of Summer is a charity collab benefiting the Victorian bushfire Appeal. Not only has this effected Australians, but human beings the world over. 29 Australian and international designers have banded together to help support many Australians, animals and communities decimated by one Australia's worse national disasters.

What happened? On Saturday, Feb 7, the temperature in Melbourne was 33'c by 9am. By noon it was 40'c and by 2.50 pm soared to 47.9'c (a state record).Thousands of people were also about to start running from the inferno that would become one of Australia's worst peacetime disasters. Trees ignited in the blink of an eye. By the time people heard the roar, it was too late to flee ahead of the flames.Unfortunatly no one or thing could have stopped this inferno that wiped out communities, bushland, and lives within minutes. Many towns now cease to exist!.After watching interviews with survivors, many say that they cant put into words what they went through, saw or felt on that day.Here are just a few pictures(courtesy of google,The age,sbs &abc Aust.) of this horrible disaster:

Why is this charity kit different?No money will change hands at Snap N Tag (our host website). We are asking for your support by donating DIRECTLY to one of the following charities:

Donations
can be made
here: The salvation Army or here: Australian Red Cross

What do I get for my donation and where: You will be helping the people of Victoria, Australia most importantly, but you will also receive this amazing MEGA kit (see below).
There are 167 papers, 326 elements, 2 Alphas and a glitter syles pack as well.How amazingly fabulous is that and you can receive all of this for as little as a $5.00 donation.(**Vouchers will be emailed upon receipt of proof of Donation**)
But thats not all! For showing us how much you all really care, you not only get the MEGA kit but receive a Quickpage Album if you donate over $10.00...WOW how awsome is that!

To receive your Charity collab go here at Snap N Tag (** Don't forget your receipt of donation**)Donated! Wear your blinkie proadly: (made by Michelle Filo)

I want to personally thank those invloved in the creation of this MEGA kit? Dont we all! 29 ladies have done an amazing job planning, creating,collating and Advertising for this Charity appeal! Below is a list of blogs with the names of these 29 people. Please leave some love for them all to let them know how appreciated there efforts have been.

A work in Progress-designs by Vicki
Ambowife Designs
Carjazi Designs
Carolyn Kite- Co-Owner of Scrap N Tag
Chaos Lounge
Charlie's Digiscraps
Color with Caryn
Desert Designs
DigiLover's Addiction
Emcee Scraps
Flergs
Gillian Foley- owner of Snap & Scrap
HoleyCow Designs
Jeanette Bollinger Designs
KimB's Designs
KylieM Designs
Laitha
Lindsay Jane Designs
Mel_h Designs
mITSYBELLE
Piggyscraps Designs
SKrapper Digitals
Scrap'it Designs
Scrappin happens/Julie C Designs
Shazbutt's Digi Scrapz
Sweet Blossom Designs
WenchdGrafix Designs
Zesty Digi Designs
[ksharonkdesigns]


Personally i would like to thank Vicki and Shaz for all the organing this wonderful collab and to Carolyn for hosting this at her website, collating and doing the previews.You have done an amazing job ladies. Also to my fellow designers, without your generosity this Charity Kit would never have happened...well done!

Here are some layouts created by CT members of some of the designers to show off this awesome kit!! Thanks for looking and for helping out in this huge disaster relief effort. We are all doing what little we can to try and help!

Tracy

SAS Feb Mega and This Week's Freebie

We've had a little hiccup with the SAS-y newsletter this week and so here is a preview of the February Mega Kit. Don't you love the Cherry Blossom Theme of it!! Check it out at Stone Accents Studio now!!
And here is the link to the Newsletter for this week if you didn't get it, better late than never I always say LOL.


And here is my submission for this week's challenge over at amandadykan.com. click on the image to go to the gallery and grab this free kit that has 12 papers and 12 elements plus a full alpha including numbers. Available for a limited time only. There are a lot of lovely kits up for grabs over in the gallery and there are some awesome designers in this challenge so check them all out and leave some love while you're there.

Thanks for looking and have a great night!!

Tracy

Dawne's Challenge

Firstly let me just say, Thank you so much to all of you who sent us your comments and condolences on our IVF failure and the end to our IVF journey, as hubby says, we'll be doing it just for fun now, and we'll get on with our life together.

My friend Dawne challenged me so I am doing what the challenge said but I am not going to pass this onto 6 other people. If I did all of these kind of things that got sent to me I wouldn't have the time to design a thing LOL.
And honestly I feel like they are sort of like the new age of chain letters. remember those things. Like those emails that say to send it on to get good luck, yeah right, well we know Luck is not my strong point.

Anyway I am supposed to go to my photos folder, find the 6th folder and the 6th photo in there and post it. I am sorry it's not a more interesting photo LOL. This is my hubby's Aunt and her son at a lunch we attended at the Spot in Randwick, the restaurant is a cafe called Teascapes and they do great breakfasts and you can have them alfresco too.

So, oh Michael's mum is in the pic to on the far right. They are looking at photos of her dragonboat team in action.
Ila (Michael's Mum) flew off home to Hobart today. She arrived on 6th for a dragonboat contest at Darling Harbour and had stayed on to visit with us apart from 2 days she spent with Michael's Auntie that is in this photo too. She didn't get to spend a lot of time with him as he was working most of the time she was here, though we did go out for Japanese meal on Sunday night and that was Yummy!! It was lovely to have her visiting and we got to spend some time together too.
Okay so I am off to do some designing, I didn't get a lot done over the last few weeks and really need to do some catching up LOL.
So get ready for some announcements soon.
Have a great remainder of your week.
Tracy

Negative - Big Bummer

We are not going to be having any babies it seems. We just used the last of our frozen stock for IVF and the test was negative so we have decided to let nature take it's course and if it happens naturally it happens. We have spent so much time, money and heartache trying to get pregnant over the last nearly 6 years and I think it is time to accept that it isn't happening this way. So we will concentrate on getting back to an even playing field financially again and see what life brings. Not the best way to spend Valentine's Day. We are both devastated as are our families. Thank you to everyone who hasn't been able to function for the past week with all their fingers and toes crossed for us. Sometimes all the love and prayers and luck in the world still doesn't bring blessings to a deserving couple who would have made a wonderful set of parents together. All of this makes me feel so blessed that we have Christopher and that he has turned out to be such a great person due to our influence as well as his unique character.
Chris is 21 on Sunday and spending it away in Tassie so we will be missing him terribly. But thinking of him constantly.

Hugs
Tracy and Michael

SAS-y Valentine Blog Hop freebie

DOWNLOAD HERE

PASSWORD: kiss

Here's My Minikit for the SAS-y Blog Hop for February. Hope you all have fun with all the kits you can grab around the SAS-y Ladies' blogs and remember to leave some love for these valentine kits.
Here are the rest of the stops along the hop and Happy Valentine's Day everyone :)

Ambowife Designs - http://tazmanianshe-devil.blogspot.com/
AneczkaW- http://aneczkaw.blogspot.com/
Brenda - http://digitalcreationsfrommillstreamcottage.blogspot.com/
Cathy Cher Designs ScrapsatonalScraps- http://www.scrapsationalscraps.blogspot.com/
Charlie's Digiscraps- http://charliesdigiscraps.blogspot.com/
Darlene - http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com/
EllenM Creations ScrapsatonalScraps- http://www.scrapsationalscraps.blogspot.com/
Enaideel Scraps - http://thescrappytimes.wordpress.com/
Jeanette B. http://acmommy28.blogspot.com/
Kristi W & Lynn E http://scrappindivaz.blogspot.com/
Mamrotka - http://mamrotka.blogspot.com/
mITSYBELLE - http://mitsybelle.blogspot.com/
Monika - http://monikadigitaldesigns.blogspot.com/
PiggyScraps - http://piggyscraps.blogspot.com/
SKrapper Digitals - http://skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com/

Another Freebie from my learning

Okay over at amandadykan.com I have my second challenge submission up and available for download. This week we had to take a photo of something inspiring to us and use the colours from the photo in our kit. We had to have bling and word bits and an alpha as well as a doodle and some papers. I hope you'll like this one it is inspired by my wedding bouquet and I used amandadykan's enchanted doodles to make the wedding dress.

Jump to Download

Okay a little sidenote of Thanks to all those worried about us and with the fires and over 181 deaths from them this week we are blessed to be safely away from those areas of Victoria. We are further north in New South Wales. So thanks to all my overseas friends and readers for their worry and kind thoughts and prayers.

Our thoughts and prayers are in turn with those who have lost their homes, schools and in some cases loved ones in these terrible fires, the worst fires in Australian History.

photo from associated press as shown athttp://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/02/10/8334826-ap.html

Stay tuned for a collaboration kit coming up with the proceeds going to the fire victims and survivors. A way you can help the homeless survivors of this disaster!!

Have a great Valentine's Day tomorrow all and Happy Friday the 13th for today too!!

Having our blood test today so here's hoping for good news!

Tracy

2 New TUTU Minikits

Instore now. 2 Minikits perfect for the little dancer in your life.

I did one of these for a challenge bonus and then when my external hard drive was down I had to do another similar mini in case I didn't have it back in time. Well as it turns out nobody wanted to do my challenge so I though rather than them go to waste I would pop them into the stores and see how they do.

Just click on the link to your preferred store at the top of the blog in the column.

I hope you all have a great weekend and if you are in Sydney try not to melt in the heat wave we are supposed to be having tomorrow!!

Hugs

Tracy

Doodle Freebie this week

Hi all, I have been busily working on a designer contest over at amandadykan.com in her Designer Bud Club where I am a member. Trying to improve and learn new techniques in digital-design. We had a tutorial and then had to make a mini incorporating what we learned in the tutorial. Which was on doodles create in illustrator and then pulled into photoshop to finish them off. So here is my entry and to download it just click on the image. Pssst, there are a heap of other ones over there for you to snag and ooh and ahh at too. Including my good friend Charlie of Charlie's Digiscraps from SAS. So stop by and check them all out while you are there.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Included are the 3 doodle elements, a tied ribbon, a wordart "SWEET", glitter, a ribbon, a curtain drape, a button, a journalling page and flower and a flower, plus 4 patterned papers, 2 solid textured papers, and a full alpha with upper, lower, numeric and some symbols. It's a little treasure trove of goodies over there on the gallery.

Okay no voting or anything like that, this competition is purely judged by the admin over at the site. You just get to score all the freebies. One a week for the next month at least.

Lucky that I managed to fix my external hard drive cause Michael had to reset his computer to factory settings yesterday so he had to put everything onto it while he did that, then he had to choof off to work on an overtime shift so I did it for him. Not sure it has fixed his problem though. His dvd disc drive is playing up and he's getting the blue screen of death whenever we try to play a DVD in it. And now it is not recognising the format urgh!!! Oh well I guess he'll play with it and try and get it fixed today. We were having trouble with our DVD Player in the loungeroom and I bit the bickie and bought a new one. Only cost us $65 at the good guys for an LG one. and it works like a charm. My old one I have had since they first came out and it cost me more than $500 so I am more than happy to pay $65 for a new one.

Michael's Mum Ila is headed our way this weekend for Dragon Boat Racing with the pink ladies. She is a breast cancer survivor and they paddle to raise awareness and to improve there upper body strength and recover from the effects the treatment takes on their bodies. So she will be staying with us once she has filled her committment to the cause. We are expecting a heatwave on the weekend too so I hope they are all okay.

Okay gotta run and get some housework done.

Hugs

Tracy