at least I hope its fixed, just took me a year and a half to get this sorted. My website was inundated by spammers. I could not figure out how to fix it for a while and my provider decided to shut down the service because of too much traffic. I managed to get them to put it back up twice. But the problem just came back every time and so I gave up for a while. Recently they charged me another year for the service and I thought, I either delete the website or fix it... so I decided to fix it :)

I still am not back into scrapbooking. Since my last post Little Dreamers Designs have closed (gasp!) and all my designs are not accessible. Maybe one day, when i have time, I will put them in another store or even distribute them freely. I just don't have the time though. Lately I am back to spending my nights playing wow instead of scrapbooking and I just cant do both at the same time. Time will tell. But it is good to have this outlet, and I wanted to make all of the tutorials and eye candy available to the scrapbooking community :)

I had to delete the gallery feature and cant have comments up, so the spammers dont break the website again, but everything else is working. Enjoy!

Hopefully, see you soon.

First of all, sorry for having disappeared like that! Things are ok here, everyone is healthy, Mateus' asthma seems under control, Lucas is doing fine and me and Alex are happy! Here is a current photo taken a few weekends back when my web friend Carla came to visit.

Why on earth have I stopped scrapbooking? Even I cant tell for sure. Towards the end of last year mom came to visit, she was meant to spend Christmas with us but had to go back to Brazil because my grandma was sick. Of course I understood she had to go, but that didn't make it any easier and for a while I was a little sad. It took her 3 years to come visit and she only spent two weeks, one of which was very depressing. My grandma passed away early this year, God bless her, now she can rest.

Around the time mom was here I also went to a Christmas party at work, and decided I was gonna cut my leave short. I wasn't sure how scrapbooking was going to fit with work and everything else I have going on. But I knew for sure it wouldn't be a " job" anymore. Honestly, I haven't made much on scrapbooking to justify the time I spent doing it. Lets keep it a hobby :)

Having said that, I am still on a break from this "hobby". Most of the time I have spent scrapbooking back when I was working was late at night. And I just don't have the will to do that anymore. After putting the kids to bed and spending time with hubby (which has been quite enjoyable I must admit, playing World of Warcraft) I am going to BED! And that means there is just not enough hours in my life for scrapbooking, at least not at the moment .

Thanks for all the love and support in the last year or so and for the over 900 people that have signed to my newsletter, love you guys! I will make sure to make a little something for you as soon as I have some time :) I cant thank you enough!

I don't want to say I have stopped altogether. My shoppe is still up at Little Dreamer designs, doors are still open on my creative teams. I change my mind as often as I change my clothes. So this is just a see you later, don't be a stranger! :)

I had a wonderful year full of new beginnings and challenges, but a wonderful year. A lot has happened in the last couple of days, I will have to talk about it and post here when the time is right, but for now, enjoy your holidays, family and friends. I wish you all the best and wanted to thank everyone for their love and support over the last few months.

See you next year :)

xoxoxo

Here is this week's free template, last one for 2009:

and my page using Lili's collab with Gina Miller, Merry Jingle:

xoxo

We had Matty's bday today. BUSY day! Got him a Mario Galaxy game for Wii early in the morning and sent him off to school where I hear he had a great day. In the meantime I am cleaning and cooking and preparing loot bags for his birthday party. We picked him up a little earlier than normal, got him ready for the party and when his friends started arriving he had a GREAT time, which made me happy :) Alex took the day off to help out and he was the best entertainer for the kids, coming up with games and activities for them. It was a very hot day so the moms stayed inside in the air conditioning but the kids didn't seen to mind the heat outside. Cant show you all the photos because of the other kids, but here are a couple I can show you:

mmm Ice cream cake was a big hit :) lucky I bought two, these things are tiny!

I think I forgot to mention my mom is here, that one behind Mateus on the second photo. It is great to have my mom with me, she is also staying for my birthday and Christmas. Only problem is that my grandma is in hospital, in intensive care, and this has stressed out everyone, specially since my mom takes care of her and feels terrible she is so far away. But God willing every thing will turn out ok.

Scrapbooking? What is that? I have no time lol But I hope to get back into the swing of things soon.

Leora is having an awesome 25 days of Christmas event in her blog and today we are giving away a 10 dollar certificate to my store, check it out here.

Little Dreamers has also started the 12 days of Christmas sale, with a whole section of the store on sale each day and freebies on the blog, today is Quickpages, so all my quick albums are 45% off!!

Tomorrow my little munchkin is turning 6 years old, we will have a party for his friends at my place, so I have to get everything ready, but will hopefully get back with photos soon!

xoxo

We had a great weekend with lots of parties, I am astonished I am not tired, it was actually quite nice weekend. Now I have a crazy week ahead of me, I am glad things seen under control. Matty's birthday is almost ready to go, need to get all the little lollie bags ready and make some brigadeiro (little chocolate deserts, yum). My birthday is also all set, I will have a joint party with a close friend who also has her birthday this week. We are going to have a girls night out on Friday night, looking forward to that! It is also the last week of school, which in a way is such a relief for me, it has been a tough year for Matty and we didn't do so well, so I am looking forward to having proper holidays and start fresh next year. I have more to say, but not enough time :P lets just share this weeks free template based on Pencil Lines Sketch 165:

and I got my Kaisercraft sponsorship pack in the mail, great stuff to work with! I think it even got a little of my mojo back:

*sigh* he is so cute :) Have a great week everyone!

Hi all, all ok here, Matty is sick again but started taking antibiotics and is on the mend, after being sick last week it was no surprised he got an ear infection. I had a busy couple of days with Alex's birthday, cleaning the house, being at Matty's school trying to break the air guitar ensemble world record, and other normal mommy duties including having a nap with my sick boy yesterday afternoon. My night scrap time has also been taken by Fei, my night elf hunter at World of Warcraft, so I havent been making much. Mom is coming to Australia to spend our birthdays, Christmas and New Years with us, so it is possible I will have a "holiday" of sorts unless she encourages me to create more instead :)

Enough about me though, I wanted to show you the new Fancy Pants Release:

Aren't they gorgeous? You can see some pages using these two collections on the Fancy Pants blog, including this page by me using the Frosted collection by Michelle Coleman:

and here is a little close up:

Expect more pages with these collections in the future :)

xoxo 

Oh wow, what a week we had, happy everyone is finally healthy again and now I can try to catch up with all my commitments. Unfortunately I don't think I will have a release this week, but will start working on something for next week.

This week's Pencil Lines template is based on sketch by Anna Bowkis:

Here is my page using the Alegria Collab with BCD:

Have a great week :)

Happy Thanks Giving! I am thankful today for my family's health, which is not 100% at the moment, but pretty close. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here but I wish we did, the roots of the celebration have nothing to do with any country but America, but the idea of having a day to be thankful is great. We get caught up on our daily lives and sometimes forget we should be grateful every day!  But I digress.

Christmas is fast approaching and I would like to share our Advent Calendar with you, here is the template I created last year:

Some people like to have the "remaining days" till Christmas in the Advent Calendar, some people like to just mark the days off like a normal calendar, both versions are available in this template.

Ready in 3 easy steps:

1. Open up the template in Photoshop and add your favourite papers and elements.

2. Print out your project. You can use photographic paper if you are adhering it to cardboard or a wood base, or nowadays there is magnetic adhesive and magnetic paper available if you want to put this up on the fridge or magnetic board.

3. Assemble your tree and have fun counting the days till Christmas.

Optional

1. Print another copy of your numbers to pop them up. You can use a 1" circle punch to punch out the numbers.

2. Print circle elements or pattern paper and punch them out with the 1 inch punch. Use Glu Tack or any non permanent/re-positional adhesive to adhere these on top of your numbers.

Instead of crossing off each day, you can just remove the top layer, this way you can recycle the project and use it over and over again :)

Here is the finished tree:

Ribbons and brad from Making Memories, transparent diecut star from Fancy Pants:

Digital papers and elements are from a retired kit by Michelle Coleman.

Happy Scrapping! In the mean time I am taking it easy with the kids, now that every one is over the flu we need some healing rest. But I will be back on Sunday with the Pencil Lines template ;)

xoxo