A quick Post

Just to say OMG I love Bercher Muesli now!!! I have only just discovered it and it's yummo!!

What I do is put 1/4 cup rolled oats a dash of cinnamon some apple juice and some yoghurt (I use no fat vanilla) into a bowl and mix cover and put in the fridge at night. The next morning I get it out and mix it then add some flaked almonds and some pumpkin seeds, (if I had linseeds it would be LSA I was adding) plus whatever fruit I want or that is handy and devour it. It's so Yummy!!!

Okay so My cousin Aimee is winging her way home to England. She was an absolute pleasure to have and basically did her own thing so there was nothing for me to have to do to entertain her so she was really the perfect guest LOL. She's probably in Singapore by now hopefully it won't be too cold when she arrives in London.

The local Mitre 10 Hardware store "Swaddlings Mitre 10" Burnt to the ground today and caused havoc in Botany Road and sent smoke swirling over the city of Sydney today. Such a Waste and the family that owned it lost their last Hardware store to fire too, such a shame.

Okay well that's it for now, I have to dash so I can do my injection for the night. I don't have my Ambo here to do it for me so it will take a little longer cause I have to get the guts up to stab it into my belly LOL. Weight watchers tomorrow so I think I'll get an early night too so that I don't eat anything else LOL.. I have to do some serious bike rides next to catch up on all the lost condition from not riding over the past week or so!!
Okay Toodles!!
Tracy XX :)

Okay I'm back

I got 3 layouts done, woohoo and I got the grass cut. Now all I gotta work out is what are we gonna have for dinner!!! Hmm, no idea LOL!!


Right here are the layouts, this first one is with Shannon Fahrnbach's Patchwork Spring with a background from How does your garden grow.


The next one is with Terrell Sanzone's Freebie frame "Is it Spring!!" with her Time Passages kit. and the pic is of Aimee hugging a tree on Fraser Island while touring Australia!!

And this one is with Terrell Sanzone's Spring Sampler kit, the pic is of Aimee's friends from the Contiki tour at the Devil's Marbles, cool place eh!!

LOL Aimee has had a great trip with great weather all the way and she even did Skydiving but there is only a DVD of that no photos!! Alright so that's it for now and I've still not thought of anything to do for dinner, plus I don't know if Aimee will be home or not yet so if she is a lot of it will have to be vegetarian friendly LOL!!

Catch ya later!!

Tracy

Regarding Freebies!!

Sigh well I am sorry to have to post this today but I feel I should clarify something regarding Freebies here on my blog... Firstly I love people to make layouts with my freebies and please don't take this the wrong way but if you are making layouts with my personal use freebies don't make your own freebies out of my kits without at least asking me if it's okay first. I was alerted to someone's blog which had a freebie Quickpage with my Summer Sea Breeze kit and was disheartened to think that they didn't ask if they could do that. I will review my tou file to make sure this is clear in future, sigh. Oh well I hope anyone who downloaded it enjoyed it nonetheless.
Onto a happier topic, Aimee is enjoying her last week here in Australia with us and we've been to the Blue Mountains and to Wollongong, although Wollongong was a bit of a nothing trip and my car squeaked the whole way, it was driving us crazy LOL. I think I really need to put it in for a wheel balance LOL. But I guess my poor little car doesn't get a lot of long trips and 2 long trips in the space of 3 days was maybe a bit much for it LOL. I got a lot of Aimee's photos of her trip to Kakadu and Ayers Rock (Uluru) so you'll see some of them shortly LOL. She flies home via Singapore tomorrow so we went out to dinner last night with Michael as he will be working when she goes.
Have you visited TerrellS blog, she has an awesome quickpage freebie up that she has created and it's just so lovely. And it would suit any season really!! Even if it is entitled Is it Spring!! LOL.
Okay well I'm off to do some layouts, Aimee is off to say cheerio to her friends today and so she'll be out until around 11 tonight so I'll get the housework done and maybe cut the lawn later too.
No rest for the Wicked LOL
Have a great Day
Tracy!!
XX

TerrellS New Kit

Just a quick post today but I wanted to give you the heads up on Terrell Sanzone's New Kit "APPLE CART" is delicious!!

Here are a few layouts I did today with it and the photos are of my cousin Aimee that I took yesterday at the Blue Mountains when we were up there touring!!

Hope you all have a great day!!

Got a couple more done

Yay, I actually managed to get two layouts done today!! I didn't really think that I would get any done today but there you go LOL. I also got my hair cut into a bob just above my shoulders with a fringe!! Oh well something different, a change is as good as a holiday they say LOL. Michael is working an overtime shift at Rockdale tonight and so I guess he may be a little bored LOL. I hope he has a reasonable night anyway!! And Aimee is back staying with us, today she went off to see her friends from the tour and to have dinner with them, sort of like a bon-voyage party as a few of them are heading home tomorrow!! She may be late LOL!!

Anyway so I am all on my lonesome and therefore managed to get quite a bit done. I had Pita Pizza for dinner and it was yummo. I have put some Bircher mix in the fridge for in the morning to see if I like bircher muesli. I have some pear and sultanas and almonds to mix through it in the morning so I am hoping I have discovered a yummy healthy breaky, although it means if I want to have it I will have to remember to put it in the fridge the night before. But I guess it's also a way of making sure I have breaky. I also found out that if I exercise in the morning rather than later in the day, my motabolism will be quickened for the rest of the day so I think I will try that this week too. I can't complain, I did lose 1.1kg this week so it's not like I have hit a total plateau. I am in the jeans I bought for wearing to my hen's night 4 years ago so that's progress!!

Okay now here are the layouts, this first one is using Terrell Sanzone's Garden Stickers, the pic is of flowers my Brother gave me when we arrived in Brisbane, I think it's a first!!! LOL.

And this next one is just a cute photo I found on the web, no neither of these are Robbie LOL. The kit here is Patchwork Spring by Shannon Fahrnbach!! Loving the stitching in this kit!!

Okay so that's it for me, it's 11:45 and I will watch a bit more TV and then head off to bed, yawn!!!

Have a great day all

Tracy XX

CT Layouts!!!

Okay so I have been insanely scrapping for my CT Designers Terrell and Shannon. I have all these new kits from them so I have been trying to get a heap done before Aimee comes back tomorrow!! She has been away touring Australia and Surfing and Skydiving!!! Rather her than me with the skydiving LOL!!! So I will have heaps of pics from her when she comes tomorrow LOL, so do I sound like I'm salivating LOL!!

Okay Onto some layouts, these first ones are done with Terrell Sanzone's Time Passages, a lovely heritage kit she has created!! I love this kit!! Also I did some with her Easter freebie from her blog and some have her Egg Bling eggs in them too!! Terrell Sells at Mootwodesigns.com, divinedigital.com and stoneaccentsstudio.com, so head over to one of her stores if you'd like any of her kits or over to her blog if you are in the mood for a freebie!!

Okay now these two layouts I did with Shannon Fahrnbach's Patchwork Spring Kit. It's really cool and I love the appliqued elements. Shannon Sells at Divinedigital.com and digiscrapshak.com.

This one I did just for fun, LOL. And I used Veronica Spriggs's overlay freebie on it!! I did a lot to the pic too to get a sketched look to it. Well that's what it was supposed to look like LOL!!Okay that's about it for now, if you still want the 6 freebies below they are still all active so go for it and if you do leave a little love for me!! I need it LOL!!

Have a great day, hope you didn't get too fat over Easter LOL

Tracy

XX

The Final Download for Pastel Easter

Yup that's right this is the final download, number 6 of the Pastel Easter Kit, Password faith!!

So if you want this final 6th file just click on the Preview below and go grab the last of the papers and you're all set to scrap your Easter pics. Remember to leave me a little love and not to share the file!! Enjoy using the kit and have a Very HAPPY EASTER!! As for us it will be very quiet this Easter for us. I am here but Michael is working today and tomorrow he will be on night shift so he'll sleep the day away before going off to work and will Sleep the monday away to work that night too, so he wouldn't even know if the easter bunny had been or not!! LOL!!

Okay so I have been downloading some lovely stuff from all over the place as it has been CT Appreciation Week and my designers have been lovely and generous, SAS has a surprise for Easter and so I grabbed some great stuff there and My friend Shannon sent me a thousand links to stuff for her appreciation. Which reminds me I have to get over there and say hay to her, I haven't been over for a while and she will think I am neglecting her, sigh. Love ya Shannon, life has just got in the way a bit!!

Okay I'm gonna head over there now, the guilt is too much to bear LOL!!

Catch you all later, think I'll post some layouts later today, it's raining and miserable outside so I will get a few done!!!

Hugs
Tracy :)

Okay it's Day five of My Pastel Easter Blog Freebie and you can get this fifth file by clicking the preview image below. The PASSWORD is faith and remember to leave me some love and not to share the file, send people who want it here to my blog!! Okay LOL!! So it is GOOD FRIDAY here in Australia, so we will be having fish for dinner tonight and I am still trying to avoid easter eggs like the plague LOL. Not great for the diet huh!! Michael is working day 1 of his roster so he will be working tomorrow and nights on Sunday and Monday. But his holidays are coming up too. He's on 3 weeks holiday during April so we will have plenty of time together then.
I started an IVF cycle yesterday and start my Lucrin on Sunday, so I go back for bloods and a scan on 4th April and I am thinking that will take us to around 24th April for our Egg Collection, which also, by the way, is our 4th Wedding anniversary!! So I am hoping that the weight loss will have helped this cycle. I have lost 15kg since we did the last cycle of IVF so surely it will improve our chances!!
Okay enough about me, off to check out some of the sites and do some downloading myself LOL!!
Catch you tomorrow for the final freebie for this kit!!
Hugs and Happy Good Friday!!
Tracy

Day 4 of Pastel Easter Freebie

Okay gotta be quick blogging today cause I am off to the IVF clinic to have my blood test and see if we can start the drugs today so I wanted to jump online and get your link up for today.

This one is Papers too and the password is still , you guessed it, faith

Papers 2 Ambowife Pastel Easter Freebie

Have a wonderful Day everybody!!
Hugs
Tracy :)

Another Layout and Freebie!!

Okay so I have done a layout for the Holiday Hoedown Challenge over at Mootwodesigns. You had to incorporate a rainbow somewhere so I did mainly a journalling page with a pick of Lachlan as the symbol for the baby we have been trying to have for the past 4 or so years. Please don't get confused and think it is a baby we have had with IVF, he's our friend's Nick and Mel's Bub!!


Okay so here's the layout... I used Gloria Val Verde's Gem Hearts 1 papers for the background and journalling block and the rest is stuff of mine!!

My weight has got down to 83.5kg so I am still losing, if a little slower!! I had a few mountain and valley weeks LOL. Okay just before I go here is the next link for the Pastel Easter Kit, this one is Papers 1 Just click the pick to go to your download and remember to leave me some love, and don't share and the password is still faith. phew did I miss anything LOL.

Well that's it for now, have a great day everyone and remember to come back for day 4 of the freebie Easter countdown LOL!!

Hugs

Tracy xx

Here it is

Yep, here's the second link to the Pastel Easter kit. Remember don't share the link, send your friends here if they want the freebie. Hope you are enjoying the kit. ooh and the passwork is still faith.

Pastel Easter Elements 2

Okay so here are a few layouts I did for St Patrick's Day with TerrellS's Blog Freebie. Isn't this freebie of TerrellS' cool!! LOL

Okay well that's it from me today, off to get Michael's dinner ready, he's off to do an overtime shift tonight, so he's dining earlier than me LOL. And he's having Pie and Chips, unlike me LOL!!!

Hippity Hoppity, Easter's On It's Way!!

So here's a freebie for you, and there's a bonus, if you come back here each day for another 5 days, that's right everyone there are 6 files in all and it's all about Easter!! So here are a few previews for you and the first Link...

But please remember to send people here to get the freebie for themselves, don't give them your files, cause that would be illegal, and if you remember to, leave me a little love, I love reading the comments!! Oh and the password, if you are asked for it is faith.

Pastel Easter Elements File 1

Okay Enjoy your freebie and have a great Day!!
Tracy XX

Here's My Apology Freebie

Yeah, I told you I would give you a freebie for the trouble with the last freebie being redone and here it is. I hope you all like it and enjoy the use of it. Please read the TOU file and don't share the links or Password which is dresses.

Mini Teal Kit Blog Freebie

Okay just click the link to get your download started, and have a great day, I'll be back later with another normal post LOL.

Hugs

Tracy

Big Whoops!! Sorry

Okay so here's the thing... the freebie files for the papers had to be redone!! "Why?" I hear you ask. well I stuffed them up when I created them and didn't realise until I was doing a layout with one. Okay so the original files I set to 3600pixels and 12CM yes CM instead of inches, grrr. So mad with myself for not double checking that so they will still work if you have already downloaded them, just past them onto a 3600px X 3600 px 12inch X 12inch 300dpi document and your fine. But if you want the fixed ones at the right resolution and size you may want to redownload the files for the papers, I only have 2 more files to upload so the ones in the post below are fine and once these other two are up I will repost the links. I just don't want anyone else getting the littler ones LOL. Sorry everybody. I promise to make it up to you tomorrow with a freebie, and yes it will be the right size LOL.
Okay thanks for your patience everyone!! sigh

Freebie Alert Woop Woop!!!

Well I thought I would have to wait forever for the files to upload and was gonna have to get back to you with the links for this but I also had trouble with Blogger, sigh!!! Okay so this Freebie is for a Challenge at Stone Accents Studio so for you to get the links you can wait for them to appear here or get them at SAS in the Forum Thread for the March Color Challenge which is being run by Boo Silva of BooLand Designs.
There are some awesome kits you can download free and you might even like to join in the fun and create a layout with the free kits Boo has for the challenge!! check out the Gallery for the great layouts and kits created for this challenge, it's so much fun!!!

So Just one request, please don't share these links, if you know someone who would like this kit please direct them to my blog or to the SAS Colour Challenge. Oh and a little love would make my day too!!! Enjoy your download!!! :)

If the links ask for a password, it is sasattack

SAS_ColourChallengeMarch_Ambowife_Elements1

SAS_ColourChallengeMarch_Ambowife_Papers1

SAS_ColourChallenge_March_Ambowife_Papers2

SAS_ColourChallenge_March_Ambowife_Papers3

http://www.4shared.com/file/40541228/f728e247/Ambowife_SASMar_Col_Challenge_KitPapers4.html?dirPwdVerified=1ca80243
http://www.4shared.com/file/40550357/acc84df3/Ambowife_SASMar_Col_Challenge_KitPapers5.html?dirPwdVerified=1ca80243

It's so much fun finally designing LOL. Oh and I decided to stick with the Live Writer, a lot more flexible than the usual blogger posting program.
Alrighty have a fab day everybody!!!
Tracy

Footnote: all the files are fixed and uploaded now FYI :)

Testing out Windows Live Writer

Okay so this is a nifty little tool and I thought I'd give it a whirl on the blog and if it turns out okay I might use it to post from now on. It allows you to grab stuff from the web and post it on your blog but it is also a lot faster at uploading pics etc so here goes. LOL.

Okay so what's up with us this week. Well, Michael is off to school for a couple of days so we had to get the dress uniform out, and wash the shirt back to white LOL. Also I went to my weight watchers meeting and what do you know I put on 100grams so I am not really phased by it. I did a big ride yesterday and we did a big one today too so hopefully I will shock my system into losing it this next week. I have had some naughty stuff and not done a lot of exercise this week or counted points really so I am not surprised at the gain.

My Layouts have been coming thick and heavy LOL.

This one I did for the Challenge over at mootwodesigns, the template is a creation from Gloria Val Verde and she is doing one for each month. This one I did with pics of me and Michael being February and the month of Valentine's Day. The only thing I had to do was add the colours and effects, easy.

I love this pic of Lucy Lu, a friend's dog, she's such a cutie pie.This layout is created with my own designs. And I did it for a challenge at Treasures to scrap.com where you had to use pink or blue and brown, the brown being required.

Leanne, Lucy Lu's owner, absolutely adores her and you can see why, she's so camera friendly in this pic, she literally poses for the camera, I swear, she does, LOL!!

Okay so I have been using some of my stuff I designed before I took off for the past month LOL!!

And this one I did with my Dear Diary Kit. We had to do a layout expressing what we love about ourselves. Mine was my determination to lose the weight I have so far. It enthuses me to continue and stay strong when the chocolate monster rears it's ugly but yummy head LOL. And with Easter around the corner I will need all the help I can get LOL.

Anyway, that's about it for now from us in Sydney. Have a great week and hopefully I'll have something a little more interesting in my next post.

Hugs

TRACY

Scrapping Maniac

Yup that's me the last few days LOL. I have been playing catchup, trying to get a lot of layouts done with all of TerrellS's new kits and all the new photos I have since I went away. Okay so here we go!! The layouts down the left side column are all created using TerrellS's Celebrate a Boy's Spring. The first one is of my MIL when she was up visiting us, well she arrived before I left Hobart and then the day I arrived she went to her SIL's place and then returned to us for 3 days before heading off to see her daughter and her family in Brisbane. We had a lovely couple of days together. The next one down that Left side is of Me and Mum at various stops along the way on our journey to Brisbane!! All up the east coast of Australia. And that bottom one is of us with my cousin Aimee who is visiting Australia and so for her first 3 days she was here with us truing to catch up on sleep and get into the time frame before going to Darwin to start her tour of the outback and Ayers Rock. We're looking forward to seeing her in April before she flies back to the UK!!

Now the right side is 2 different kits. The first layout is with TerrellS's Because I Love You kit and is a record of how much weight I have lost from October to February. It's a slow journey but hopefully a permanent one once it's all off. I am nearing the half way mark and reall feeling the difference now.

The next one is of Aimee and is created using TerrellS February Posting Bonus 1. The other one is using the posting bonus and is of me and Gabriella the morning I was leaving to fly home after the big drive. I was lucky enough to arrive early and get an extra day with my beautiful niece.

Now the big news is that Mum rang last night and she has a contract on a 2 bedroom unit in a retirement community so swimming and activities are all included and she pays corporate fees every year but seems quite happy with her choice and now just has to wait out the time of the contract so she can move in. she really did sound very excited and I am so happy for her. I just hope Robbie comes right, then all will be right in her world. Robbie cut himself trying to escape his cage on the plane and was a bit sick when Mum got him home, when she finally took him to the Vet they said he had Kennel Cough so don't go to that boarding kennel with your pets, sigh!!

Okay well today is the first day in over a month where I will be able to spend the whole day with my Husband, remember him, the guy I am supposed to be living and sharing my life with. Well he has worked 3 night shifts so even though all the visitors were gone we still weren't able to spend time together so today is the first day he is off since I got back and we've got no visitors. What's the bet he'll be on his computer the rest of the day when he wakes LOL. He did Special Event overtime for the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras last night so he crept into bed at 5.30 am, once he could find some room LOL. Yes I do take over the whole bed if I am in it alone LOL.

Okay so I am doing no more online today, I'll be with MY MAN!!!

Have a great day everyone and Terrell, I am so glad you are feeling better hun!!! And Doreen, have fun with your new PSCS3. No looking back now, you're gonna love Photoshop!!!

Hugs

Tracy XX