Holy Shopping Spree Batman!

It's the weekend! Again! My weekend started early this week, I got to leave work at 1pm! And..I get to do this every 2nd Friday! How cool is that!! So much free time and so little idea of what to do with it all! I ended up going into town and buying 2 books and the December Creating Keepsakes magazine.

I went out for dinner with Mum, as it was her last day ever as a teacher, so we had to celebrate. We very rarely go out to dinner, it's cheaper and healthier to eat at home and I always end up eating bad food and regretting it. We had wood fired pizzas and for dessert I had a choc mousse cake thing. It was several layers of choccie mousse inbetween several layers of choccie cake. Topped with choccie gnash, two scoops of vanilla ice cream on the side and a big piece of thin chocolate sticking out of the whole thing. Oh my god it was amazing. And I couldn't eat it all because it was too filling and too sweet. That made me sad, I hate wasting food, especially really yummy food.

This morning I did two things. One was get a haircut and the other was attending a very big scrapbook store sale.

The sale is held by this LSS that is literally 10mins away from where I live. I've never been to one of their sales before. They have them probably two or three times a year. What was I thinking? They had some seriously good stuff marked down to fantastic prices. I got heaps of stuff. Ribbons, Brads, chipboard pieces, alphas, rubbons, paint & ink, a bit of bling...would you believe I didn't get any patterned paper ? Not a bit. I have absolutely no idea where I'm going to put all this stuff though. My shelves are packed to the brim already.

Here's an exact list of the stuff I got:

• Heidi Swapp Chipboard word strips in pink, red & aqua


• Heidi Swapp Chipboard letters - uppercase & lowercase crimson and uppercase sea blue


• Heidi Swapp jewels in green and 2 flower jewels in blue


• My Minds eye Bohemia Blossom Rubbon letters in red


• Hot off the Press alpha rubbons in white and black


• Hto off the Press black rubbon words (to use on their big brads)


• Making Memories boho chic tiny alphas - 2x brown and 2x in bloom


• Making Memories Velvet Letters in black, brown, pink, purple and aqua


• Foof-a-La Savannah Glitter Chip Alphas in aqua


• Making Memories paint in Strawberries & Cream (which is pink)


• Collections Elements chipboard swirly type things


• Making Memories textured tape - mm kids emma


• Bazzill Blossim in Heidi (purple)


• Basic Grey undressed chipboard tags


• Chatterbox grafik rub ons in pink, green and black & white


• Basic Grey ribbon in Basic Black


• Hot off the Press Great Big Brads in Tuxedo (black & white) and Christmas Cookies (red, green & white)


• Bazzill large polka dot brads in black with white dots


• Accent Depot music notes brads x 2


• Ranger distress ink in dusty concord (purple)


• Everlasting Keepsakes tin with accordian album


• Lil Davis Tinseltown chipboard shapes in Mint & Ice


• Magistical Memories Fleur de lis chipboard shapes


• A USA photo bracelet by I don't know who

Photos of some of my shopping:

I think I'd better do some scrapping tonight! Tomorrow I get to have lunch with my friend and my godson, which I'm very much looking forward to!

Vampires!

I'm in the middle of re-reading Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. I read it once years ago and really enjoyed it so I decided I needed read it again. I'd totally forgotten that it's a bloody fantastic book! Very gripping. It's the sort of book where I can't stop thinking about it, even when I've put it down. I think I'm going to have to read the rest in the series and hire the movie from the video store.

Two Peas Monday Challenge: Answer these questions.

1- your worst habit? It's so hard to pick just one! I bite my nails all the time. I'm also quite lazy.

2- your best feature? I'm quite easy-going.

3- what you like most about your significant other/spouse? I'm single :)

4- if you could travel anywhere, where would it be? Everywhere? Um...Iceland is fairly high on my list, Paris, Monte Carlo, London, Bath, Italy, that ice hotel in Sweden, Prince Edward Island, Alaska, the North Pole, Graceland, Disneyland...to name just a few :)

5- what do you admire most in a dear friend you have? One of my very good friends makes me laugh...a lot!

Two PeasTuesday's Challenge: If you could learn another language, which would it be and why?

I have actually attempted to learn 2 foreign languages so far. I learnt German for 5 years at school. Quite a few years ago some bright spark thought that German would be a great language for Aussie kids to learn because it would be important sometime in our futures. I'm guessing they forgot that Germany's on the other side of the world. Luckily for all the kiddies at school now, someone has realised that Asia is in fact A LOT closer and will in fact be far more useful for people to learn. So kids are being taught Japanese and various other Asian languages.

The other language I attempted to learn was French. I did a 8 week evening TAFE course in 2003 because I was planning on going to France in 2004. I didn't learn a lot but a few phrases stuck, so that when I went to Paris (for a whole 3 days) I somehow managed to not offend anyone and managed to keep myself fed due to my fantastic knowledge of french food such as crepes, crossiants and McNuggets :)

The next language I would like to attempt to learn is Italian. Because I plan on going to Italy (and France and a few other places) in 2010.

Knackered

That's what I am...knackered. It's been a full on week. I started my new job on Monday so I've been learning new things and it's all a bit stressful. It's going ok though.

I got to leave work about 40 minutes early on Friday and decided I didn't feel like going home so I contacted a guy I used to work with to see what he was up to and I ended up meeting him and some other people for some drinks in town. I met some new people and caught up with the guys who I haven't seen in over 2 months. I had a lot of fun and got very drunk but managed to get myself on the 10:15 bus home, because I didn't want to spend $30 on a taxi fare.

My Robbie Williams tickets arrived yesterday! Woohoo!!!!! 3 weeks til the concert!!

I went shopping today. I needed some more work shirts, so I went into town and got 3 new tops, which all look quite good on me if I do say so myself. And only one of them was black (I'm a sucker for black).

I also bought some on sale crafty things from Lincraft today - some orange ribbon, assorted green ribbons, some acrylic christmas stamps and a small metal frame. I bought a book too, which I'll be reading this evening. I had hoped to go to the movies tonight but I'm too tired.

Mum picked up some classic Winnie the Pooh stuff for me from Spotlight during the week. I love the twill tape.

I'm hoping to get some scrapping done this weekend. I really need to get cracking the recipe albums. There's only a few weeks left til Christmas and I have to make 3 albums!

Guess what I got!

Some Fruitcake! Fruitcake as in the Basic Grey paper, not the food, although I do really like a bit of fruitcake, especially the type that has cherries and icing on top!

I also got 2 sheets of Blitzen because mum's doing Christmas cards and I thought that she might like to use some of that too. Aren't the snowmen cute! I wish they'd come out with some penguin paper too.

I picked this up at a not so local scrapbook store, while I was getting a gift card for my cousin's birthday. I finally filled up my card thing that they stamp each time you spend $15. Next time I go there I have $25 off my next purchase! Yay!

Now for my even more exiting news....I got a job! Finally! After over 2 months of being unemployed I finally got one. Naturally it was the 6th and final interview that I had this week. Typical. I had an interview on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, two on Thursday and two today. It's been a busy and exhausting week.

Anyway, I'm going to be a PA for a bunch of commercial brokers which sounds interesting and has quite a few fabulous perks, including bonuses amd I only have to work half a day every 2nd Friday! And I get a small payrise. I start Monday, so tomorrow I'm going shopping for new work clothes and today I bought some celebratory weight watchers cherry mudslide ice cream to celebrate :)

Today's Two Peas challenge: Talk about your fave color and why it's your favorite!

My favourite colour is purple! It has been my favourite for many years and I have no idea why. My bedroom walls are white and purple, I gravitate to towards purple clothing when I'm shopping, but at the moment don't really have any purple clothes. I do have purple Crocs though. I also have purple bed linen, purple blinds, purple book cases and a purple, green and gold couch. With purple cushions! :)

The race that stops the nation!

Happy Melbourne Cup Day! And congratulations to Delta Blues, this years Melbourne Cup winnner.

Today is the day a horse race that is watched by millions of Aussies all over the country. It's one of the biggest horse races in all the world, similar I suppose to the Kentucky Derby. It's actually a very big deal and a chance for everyone to slack off work for a while and gamble. Two of the country's favourite things!

The last 3 years it has been won by Makybe Diva (I won $19 on her last year!) This year I put bets on Pop Rock and Geordieland. Silly me put $5 on Pop Rock to win, but it came 2nd! It was a nail biting ending and ended up being a photo finish with Delta Blues winning by a bit of a nose. Oh well, I only would have ended up with about $13 anyway so I'm not too upset!

Vote for Me!

I entered a Canon camera competition. It's for Aussie's only and it's running for 8 weeks and each week it's like a new beginning so you can only enter once a week. Winners get one of the new Canon Digital SLRs!! Anyway I entered the other day and there's only three days of voting left. Click HERE to see the photo I uploaded. It's my favourite photo that I took of the Eiffel Tower.

The King rocks!

I scrapped this evening while listening to many of my 198 Elvis Presley songs on iTunes and had a great time. I got 2 pages done! I haven't done 2 pages in one evening in aaages. Maybe I should listen to The King more often! I also downloaded a bunch of Beatles and Paul McCartney songs which have been fun to boogey too as well.

My first page is called 'Big Apples'. Used red KI alpha rub ons, black Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, some KI paper, a Heidi Swapp journaling spot and some bling. The scan is pretty rubbish but you get the idea.

The other page is called 'Leaving Las Vegas' and was totally scraplifted from tiabennet at Two Peas. I don't usually scraplift but I loved her page. Mine uses Autumn Leaves paper, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, half a Heidi orange flower, the bling, little gold star and date stamp from one of Jenni Bowlin's kits and the plane is a Basic Grey rub on.

Today's Two Peas Challenge is - What is your fave holiday movie?

My favourite holiday movie is probably White Christmas. Nothing like a bit of Bing Crosby to make you feel festive! I love the song White Christmas and I also love the song 'Counting your Blessings'. Bit of movie trivia for you - Did you know that Rosemary Clooney was George Clooney's aunt? Well now you do!