Not a Lot...

....going on here today, I looked up how much it will cost to take the car on the ferry to the Mainland with Mum and if we go on the Saturday we can get a day sailing which is only $99 each and $61 for the car, so that's not bad!! I still have to book the flight down and the flight from Brisbane back home again. This I shall do when the credit card has gone down after Michael's payday!!

My Poor Darling... you have to put up with so much from me I know, you are so gorgeous for tolerating me and my to-ing and fro-ing between here and Tassie, hopefully after Mum is settled things will settle down for us too!!God I wish we were back home, things would be so much easier and so many things would never have had to happen, sigh!!

Okay, enough self pity!!! On to some layouts. The first one I did with a new kit I made last night, I basically did the layout to make sure that it was all in working order so to speak!! I think I'm pretty happy with it!! I did two kits so getting somewhere LOL!!

The next one is with TerrellS' Alex's Asian Kit, fabulous colours in this asian feel kit but so versatile that you could scrap almost anything with it. The pic in this is when we went out for dinner in September before I headed home again. The four of us at the back of the pic went to Melbourne for 4 days on a girls weekend and had a ball!!

My Mum is in the bottom right corner and Alf and Bev are in the foreground. Christopher took the photo for us!!

This next one is My Dad (where the arrow is) it was taken in Singapore at Changi!! So it was the perfect thing to use Alex's Asian by TerrellS again for this very important photo of my Dad when he was only 19 and training to be an Argylle in the British Army, that was when he met my Mum, well not met her, they became penpals and then he met her when he returned home to Scotland.

Don't you love the hats they are wearing LOL!! My Dad was a real catch too, not bad at all, very easy on the eyes LOL!!

Okay well I am going to run off and see some TV before bed. Michael is working and so I'm on my lonesome, but it also means I get the whole bed to myself, LOL. I hope you are all well and taking care of yourselves and eachother LOL!!

Hugs

Tracy :)

MooTwoDesigns Layout of the Day & Divine Diva of the Day

Well I had a lovely surprise email to tell me I had been chosen for Layout of the Day at Mootwodesigns on January 15th.

There are some super talented scrappers over at mootwodesigns and if you go here you can see the other Layouts chosen this week and at the end of the week you can even vote for one of them to become Layout of the Week.

They also have Layout of the month which will be up for voting, you guessed it, at the end of January LOL.

Here is the layout that got it. I was so pleased that I got such great feedback for the new kit Dear Diary. It always makes my day when I get such great feedback LOL.

But wait there's more, on 12th January I was chosen as Divine Diva of the day for my layout "Gran and Pappa" which was created using Terrell Sanzone's kits. I had so much fun doing this layout of my Grandparents' wedding photo and it was such a surprise to be chosen.

They have a thread where they put up a scrapper's layout every day and members leave you love, which is always nice LOL.
So things have gone quiet here over the last few days, we have been having early nights with Michael back at work and I guess tomorrow night when he is working night shift I might do ome scrapping and pull an alnighter, we'll see LOL.

Above is a calendar I did with Gloria Val Verde's Template for the paint the Barn Challenge at MooTwoDesigns.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you about the FREEBIE over at Terrell Sanzone's Blog she has her Artsy Kit up for her readers so if you want a fabulous layout head on over there after you've finished here at my place, LOL. There are some really cool elements in it and the papers rock too!!

Also if you go to Stone Accents Studio and check out the Designer Give Away Challenge you can get TerrellS' Twilight Dance Kit at 50% off and when you do a layout with it and post it in the gallery then post the link in the Challenge thread you'll get a really cool add-on to complete this awesome kit!!

Okay, gotta run and get some housework done and work out what I'm going to do for dinner, maybe pitta pizza and salad, hmm, yeah that sounds good!! Have a great day!!

Tracy

Well I am officially hitting a goal!!! I have lost over 10% of my Bodyweight, Woo Hoo!! I only lost 200g on tuesday but hey after 2 big weeks of losses (1kg and 1.3kg the next week) I am still happy enough!! I have been riding my bike and have decided I should do the shorter route but do it every day so that I keep up the condition, otherwise when you do the long one after a break it kills you LOL. We are thinking of extending our long route which is currently 26km round trip, to Kurnell, which is the same distance again so all up a round trip of over 50km, wow, don't know how I'll go with that, will definitely need a rest in the middle of it LOL. At least I have a more reliable bike LOL.

Thanks to all the people who left me some love for the Sea Breeze Freebie!! There have been 46 downloads and about 1/3 of the people who downloaded the kit left me some love, so can't complain too much about that.
Have you joined mootwodesigns and got the newsletter in the last few days, I got mine yesterday and I am the Featured Scrapper, woo hoo!! How exciting, I did ramble on a bit in the interview and there are a few typos (on my part LOL) Also over at Mootwodesigns, TerrellS' Alex's Asian

Kit is on special and so is Tracy's Love,

the kit she made for me (Gotta love

that Gal!) so go grab some Beautiful

kits of hers while they are reduced in price!!

The layouts to the right, the ones with red in them LOL, are all done with Alex's Asian Kit by TerrellS. Very versatile and so rich in colour! I really love it!!

Also over on TerrellS' Blog she has an Artsy Freebie, 80meg of gorgeousness!! This was a freebie at one of the sites but now she is offering it up on her blog so get in while it is there!! Don't forget to leave her some love!! And don't share her files, just send people who want the freebie to her blog to get it themselves, you know the drill LOL!!

The layout to the right here I made with Shannon Fahrnbach's Winter Kit which she had up on her blog as a freebie in 3 parts. If you're lucky it will still be on offer over there!!

The photo is from our wedding in 2004. This is us with my Family. From left along the front there is Steven (My brother) Mandy (his Partner) Auntie Frances, Auntie Mary, Me (In the White Meringue) My Mum, My Auntie Hellen, giggling on the end there, the back row is My Auntie Betty (also My Godmother) My uncle Bobby, Chris is poking up behind Mary, Auntie Joan from Italy, Michael blowing in my ear LOL, My cousin Linda and her mum and my

autie, Charlotte! The littlies at the

front are My Niece and flower girl

Gabriella and Linda's daughter and

my second cousing Melissa, phew!!!

Okay this next one is of me being a Bride!! We were just going to use our own cars and not bother hiring any but Michael's Mum and Dad booked us two Statesmans, very nice, leather interior and with the ribbon and Tracy Doll on the hood of the car, as you do LOL!!! I love this pic of me getting out of the car, I had to tell Chris to help me out and instead of taking his mother by the hand he grabbed my wrist, so dainty LOL!! I had to be so careful that I didn't catch the dress on my heels LOL. So glad I had it altered and the train taken off. Sue came to the rescue at the last minute and fixed my sleeves too!! Thanks Sue!!! That's my Auntie Sue

on Michael's side of the family,

I love her to bits!!

Okay here's another one, this is me and michael in 1996 or 1997. Ah when we were younger LOL. He had a bit of a Shakespearean thing going on with the hair and goatie then LOL. He was also drum-majoring for Derwent Valley Marching Band and went to Canada that year with them to the Calgary Stampede!! This is also the last time I was really thin, although I was a bit too thin in the face at times and, wouldn't you know it, I still had a big bum and thighs, only answer to that is amputation LOL!!

The kit, I hear you ask!?? Well this is the second kit I have made. I am trying to get the colours to be a bit more subdued than the blues were in the last kit. I even made the feathers, which I was quite chuffed with. And there are some Bookmarks and a pencil and heaps of papers, it's called Dear Diary, by Ambowife aka Tracy Rundle. It does go quite well with that photo, hmmm!!

Alright so now that I am getting into the designing side of digi, I thought I better make a No Piracy sign for the files, LOL. I thought, I can't use anything then I remembered old George (Michael's Recent Skeleton Purchase, LOL) and I went off into the study and took some snapshots of him, extracted the skull and two ulnas (I think that's what they're called, you know the upper arm bone) and made a skull and cross bones. Then I thought, he looked too white and new, so I started to grunge him

up with some over laid texture and used to burn tool then took some teeth out and deepened the eye sockets and voila, much more Piratey!! I just was so pleased with the result and Michael was amazed, LOL. Oh and I did the cutout and burn thing on the paper like a treasure map thingy LOL.

Finally, but most importantly, check out this awesome layout by Doreen aka Beachnut999. Thank for doing wonders with Sea Breeze Doreen, you Rock Girl!!! I love this picture of you!!

Okay I've chewed your ears off enough for one day LOL. I hope all is well on your side of the world or where ever when ever you are.

Have a great Day!!!

Tracy

Found My Marbles!!!

Argh!!! I was offline, and suffering withdrawals LOL!!!

What a week, we had no phone or internet for the week. There was a guy working on the line in our street and when he'd finished, whatever he was doing, we had no phone but still could get broadband. Then the broadband went and I thought poop I'll have to reinstall it all. Then they said that we had the phone back, yeah right, with someone else's number, bugger!!! So the internet thing ended up being because of that, then today the guy finally fixed the phone line and I spent ages but finally got the web back on. So much stuffing around argh!!!

But here I am back in my element LOL. Thanks to the people who left me some love for the freebie, always nice to get some feedback too!! It is always greatly appreciated. So I have a lot of catching up to do LOL.

I have not sat here doing nothing though, I did some layouts and will post them to the digi sites after I blog. First Things First eh!! I also used the new printer, we've had it for quite a while but I was using the old one to use up the ink. So I did a little insert to put on my Weight Watcher's book, I was really pleased with the quality although I think I will have to check out what color settings i have in my program, things are seeming a bit bright at the moment LOL. So here's a photo of my little book and some layouts to share.

This is the front of the weight watchers book, family pics to keep me inspired LOL.

And here is the back, what I looked like last time I lost all the weight, I'm on the right, my pregnant cousin is on the left LOL.

This is my Mum sitting by the Trevi Fountain in Rome when she and Dad visited Italy, I have an Auntie in Rimini, Italy. I used Terrell Sanzone's Love Whimsy and the hearts are cut from one of her Love Whimsy Papers. The Glitter scattered over the page is mine.

This one is of my Gran and Pappa Turner, Dad's parents, it is their wedding photo, they had to get married while they had a leave pass during the second world war!!

Lots of Terrell's Designs here. Kits I used were, Doodle Gems (the butterfly elements with the doodles on them) Heritage Kit, (the quill and document envelope), Tracy's love (the Paper and frame) Glitter n Gold (the hearst) Donkey Love Blog Freebie, (the wine crate and the ribbon stitching)

This one was fun to do too. I used Terrell Sanzone's Hazel Kit Butterflies and recoloured them underneath, Girly Denim for the background, Doodle Gems, (the butterfly doodle gem and then overlapped and rotated several layers of it to get the element under the flowers, The flowers are recoloured from TerrellS Bakers Dozen Pretty Garden (for personal or commercial use) and the vellum under the pic are from TerrellS' Memories of a Garden, the white one is just the red one recoloured. The Photo is of my Mum's Fridge, where she has pics of us!! And the pink glitter scattering is me again LOL. I am playing with glittering things up as you might have guessed.

Okay this is the last thing I did before the Crash LOL. This is from Terrell Sanzone's Kit Love Whimsy and I used some Tracy's Love too, Plus I used the Glitter N Gold hearts to overlay on the top of the envelope, the Template for this is from "Fabella" at Treasures to Scrap, and of course the Lyrics are You're the Best Thing by Style Council, a blast from my youth in the 80's. LOL. Isn't Chris a Cutie Pie here!!

Okay well that's it for now, I better go and check some blogs and sites and see what I've missed LOL.

Have a wonderful day everyone, I will now that I can get online LOL.

Tracy

Freebie Time!!!

Yes I have actually designed a Kit called Sea Breeze!
You know, a real one LOL!!
So to Celebrate it and to celebrate my weight loss being over 10% of what I started Weight Watchers at, I am offering it up as a freebie. So if you would like to have this kit for personal use just click on the links below the preview to the right.
I hope you all like it! If you do download Sea Breeze, please please please, DO NOT SHARE the links, as always, if you know someone who also wants to use it, please direct them to my blog here. And of course give credit where credit is due and leave me a little love too, it only takes a click of the mouse.

Sea Breeze Elements

Sea Breeze Paper Pack 1

Sea Breeze Paper Pack 2

A huge thanks to Terrell Sanzone for her guidance through the past year and for casting her eye over this kit for me, Terrell is like my Mentor!! Thanks Hun, you're the best. And I would also like to thank Doreen aka Beachnut999 for all her support and being such a fabulous CT buddy, love both you ladies!

Credit Must also go to:
I used Shannon Fahrnbach's Beads Galore CU kit to create the beaded element and to create the lined papers I used Royanna Freitshmann's GettinLinedUp CU Kit. Awesome Kits ladies and thank you!

Okay now that I've said all the necessary conditions of downloading, here's a little taste of it with a layout I did of my Dearest Michael. This is way before he was my Michael, LOL. He used to sail a lot in his 20's and I found this cute photo of him. He's a bit slimmer now, but I still think he is super cute in this pic. That smile is just so darn cute!!!


So I am off to do some serious bike riding, that ought to improve my chances of a good loss next Tuesday when I weigh in LOL. I lost 1.3kg when I weighed in Yesterday so I am hoping for a similar result. They will probably tell me I am losing it too quick if I keep this up. Can't please everyone all of the time I guess. But I suppose if I lose it slower it will give me a chance to tone up what's left LOL. My face has really thinned out, I really notice it when I see photos from last year. Anyway I hope everyone is well and that you are all recovered from the Silly Season LOL.



Be Good! And if you can't be good, Be Careful! And enjoy your freebie!

Hugs
Tracy ;)