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To cheeky for her jumpsuit :)

Little princess Jasmine.. My beautiful and oh so cute grandaughter, first christmas pics.....
*laughing* she is just way to cheeky... She will be to young to really appreciate this her first christmas, but it wont stop our family from taking tons of pictures :)
Blesssings of love and caring for this season...
Credits to:
Template©Andrea Gold Exclusive Designer at www.godigitalscrapbooking.com.
Paper Set:"A beautiful Season","Tis the season",
©Retrodiva
www.retrodiva.net

Creating Again

Its been a long time since I have done any Digital
art work.. But with the purchase of a new digital camera
and the ability to take heaps better shots well I can again
play.. The indian in this pic is actually a statue.
Credits go to Malstir for use of Grunge brushes you can find him
here:
I have a template and also a quickpage to add soon as well, have to do layouts first..
Peace and love be with you.
Maree

A ring, A Cloak, Laughter, Love, sunshine and a good day out.

Sunday was family day out, actually Nikki and I were going stir crazy and I had depleted my stock of my favorite incense so we showered and dressed and left bubs with dad and away we went..
Now my daughter has proved herself to be a wonderful mom, my heart melts every time I see her little girl just gazing at her with her cute little smile and a look of absolute adoration on her face, mind you grandpa gets the same look as well... Me I am just crack up she looks at me and smiles and now she goos *laughing*..
Anyway I guess cos she was away from her little princess she let her hair down and reverted back to the young girl she still is and between her and her big sister they had us in stitches the whole time...
Fremantle or Freo as the locals call it, is my favorite place, its full of old historical buildings and cafe strips, its contains

Credits for Layout:
Template by Charlie 54 Kit From Digital Scrap Spirit called: Catch Some Fun Collab Kit Joy Tag by Krista from Good News Kit
all walks of life which in itself is interesting, its has the most amazing energy as well... And thats where we went,
Its easy to spend the day just wondering around, the ocean is right there and there is just so many shops and things to do and see..
So after I got my incense , Grah dragged me off to show me a ring to see if I liked it, of course I did, then he dragged me off to look at another of my favorite shops it contains all things medieval, if I could I would wear clothes like that all the time.. Because of my believes and because I am more and more getting in touch with who I was and am one of the things I have wanted was a cloak, of the medieval kind.. To date I had not been able to find one that I liked, that was till now, I found it, I tried it on and that was it, it was so made for me, suits me so well.. So instead of buying me the ring, Grah paid the other half of my cloak so I could have it :) Like I said he is the most wonderful loving man...
We lunched we wandered around took some pics, then went down to the cafe strip and sat around chatting and drinking coffee...
It was just the best day for us all...
Honest I am not going to push you in, and anyway there is a ladder to get out of the water a little way to your right sis.....

My Youngest Cant stop laughing
My Eldest being a smarty pants cos she can, and didn't want another pic taken..

Well its time this old chook went and cuddled her man and got some sleep..
Hope your day holds all that makes you smile and feel loved...
Loving Light
Maree

Daylight Saving" Blah"

Well my body clock says its only 9.22 but it is now 10.22 so I have to away to bed, and I am having so much fun looking and reading and downloading....
There are so many amazingly talented people out there.....
I did manage to put a layout together today however, but it took me all day, *laughing* my grandaughter is just getting to cute to resist, so nanna has been playing with her alot today..
Honestly what is it about babies that make grown adults go all go0 go0....
Anyway she was happy to pose for her nanna and aunty on Saturday so we got some great pics to scrap of course..
This is my favorite one, she looks so cheeky and cute *laughing*
This is the "I got you wrapped around my tiny finger and you know it smile" *laughing*
Have a wonderful day, mine was filled with all the things I could want so I hope that yours holds the same for you..
Loving Light
Maree

Credits Go to these wonderful ladies who because of their talents and sharing hearts I was able to put this together..
Template: (c)by ScrapsWorld.de
Paper Kit: Think Pink by Corina Nielsen Designs
Flower Groupie ( Altered for this page) Soft and Pretty Groupie
Created by Rene' Bross
©2007 Digital Scrapbook Place

Do You Need Some Love

Umm yeah staying up late and catching up.. Have been either to tired, had vistors or just to many other things to do lately to be able to spend much time doing the things I enjoy..
One of the sites www.worldloveinc.us
sent out an update letter and I was reading, I love the love that is there, the fact that I am able to be a part of a very loving caring community that reaches out with love and compassion and truly helps people..
I found this site as well, and If your someone who can feel the energy then you will understand what I mean when I say you can truly feel the love here..
There is so much here to leave you with warm fuzzies, but the two that really touched me the most were these..

Bricks From The Ashes
This song touched me because I walked away from an extremely abusive relationship just over a year ago, it took a massive amount of courage to leave knowing from past experience what he would do ...
But even though I still fear him, its not as bad and I have been able to find me and I have grown so much in spirit through all the harrassment he persisted in these last 12 months..

This second one because its what I say to my partner Grah, I have never been so loved before
as I have since I met this wonderful man.. He is truly the most caring loving person on this planet..
Any other man would have walked away from what we have had to endure, and he has just been my rock, been there however I needed him, never demanding, just as he put it patiently waiting for the beautiful person he could see hiding inside to realize she was safe and she could
come out ..
*laughing* I think he got more than he bargained for, I am a strong personality, wilful, stubborn,
mischievous, very loving, playful and determined..
In You I Found Me

Anyway click on the links and have a look and listen, you will certainly come away feeling very warm and fuzzy..
And now I am feeling rather sleepy, getting to old to pull these late nights, *laughing*
If your reading this I hope your day is blessed with much love and laughter
Maree

Retired

I have retired all the templates from September... I feel they have been up long enough...
However should someone wish to download, just let me know and I will organize a link for you to do this...
Loving Light Maree

One of my favorite layouts; a friend in my garden..

Credits: If You Dare Paper Pack ©Shandy Vogt- SVdesigns....
Fairie from Believe Paper Set ©Nyyan Design Studio...

Messing around again

Been playing around a little last night.. And here is what I came up with..
Credits go to Raspberry Road Designs
I used her "Asian Dreams Papers"
The butterflies flowers ect are just made from shapes that I messed around with some more...
As I said before I really love spring, my small garden is going green and colourful with all the flowers..
Not sure if our weather knows what it really wants to do here however, we have days of warmth and sunshine then wake up to freezing cold weather like we are back in winter again..
The rain I dont mind, cos we seriously need it, but hey mother nature can you keep the cold back please....
I have used pics I took from my geraniums for this quick layout...
I am also rapt that people do like my templates and have been downloading them...
Also happy that some were kind enough to leave me a comment..
Thank you lovely ladies..
I have noticed that so many people dont however, and I am not talking about my own, I have noticed it on all that I have downloaded from....
Saddens me some that some very talented people will share these with us and people cant even take the few seconds it takes to say a simple "Thank you"..
hehehe so thats my whinge for today...
Hope you all are having a funtabulous weekend, enjoying love and laughter and whatever makes you feel great..
Loving Light
Maree

Here is the preview of the template..
Click the image and away you go..

Wow I am A Nanna Now

Been gone for awhile.. Good reason, a little bundle of joy entered my families lives on the 27th September..
My daughter wanted her mum with her, in fact since she told me I have shared her pregnancy with her..
And it was soooooooooo wonderful to be present and her coach for the birth..
Mind you once the labour fully started and my little girl started crying and saying I cant do this, I had to be firm and tell her it was to late and she had no choice...
Things have changed a great deal since I gave birth to her, she was allowed to have whom she wanted in the birthing room with her...
So my partner and hers myself and her older sister were present for the experience with her, but only her mum was allowed to be beside her...
The boys were boys, cracking jokes which did not amuse her at all, so when they took one of there mini breaks from the room, the midwife and I decided to keep them out for a little while...
Anyway this template I made especially for little Jass..
Background paper is one I created and played with a little more for this layout..

Flowers are from "Bowset No3" © O.N. Designs
Bow and tags from "Twisted Tears" © Birgit Kerr of Digital Scrapbook
Artisan Guild
Lace by Nayan
Word art from Tracy Drane




And here is the template..
just click on the image and it should take you away.

View From A Window

Today is another one of those Perth days that cant make up its mind wether it wants to be fine and sunny or rain. So its doing both, woke up to beautiful sunshine and slowly its become overcast, the temp has just done a big drop so I think its going to rain...
Perfect cuddle up weather :)
I love the sound of rain on a tin roof, I was born and raised in the country *laughing*
We are finally in spring here, something else I love, all the animals look cute pairing off..
The wonderful burst of colours in gardens and everywhere...
And the best part its starts getting warmer,less clothes less washing LOL...
I have been playing around in photoshop yet again and this is what I came up with.. I actually started making a new template and sidetracked myself with this idea..
I have a punch that I have always loved, so anyway the next few layouts and templates have basically been inspired by this punch.. *laughing* hows that for an inspiration point...
This LO is the final result, its my gained son(he has been part of the family now for quite some time so we adopted him lol) this was his model boat phase, my daughter took some pics at one of there outings which I have been meaning to scrap for her...
I put together the template and I havnt used any papers at all its all been done with styles..
I think it came out really well..
I will put the template up as well, incase anyone else would like to use it...
have a funtabulous day..
I am off to snuggle up with my yummy man and watch a dvd he wants to watch... :)

And here is the Template Preview..
Just click on the pic and it should take
you away to where its waiting to be downloaded.
Hope you enjoy and again I would
love to see any lay outs you make with it..
Loving Light
Maree
Password:crafty~Expired!

Freebie Template 3

Ok here is the latest Template..
I had great fun putting this together today..
I started off with just four heart stems coming out from the heart but it looked like the heart they use for an ad here in Aussie land so I kept working on it..
Until I get the full hang of things my templates are PSD....
And once I save up and get the most current photo shop and then work out all the new gadgets I guess in some ways my templates will be basic..
Good thing is I am a fast learner especially when it comes to things I love...

Once again just click on the template to download.
If you are asked for a password it will always be: crafty.~Expired

I threw a LO together really quickly as well..
I called this one "Love Grows"
This is me and my wonderful partner Grah..
We met when I started working at the same site as him... I must admit I was totally intrigued by him...
He is my best friend, lover, partner in mischief..
The photo in the middle was taken on a walk one day, we were being total dorks *laughing* its my favourite picture of us..
You know your inlove with someone when you start missing them the minute you climb out of bed, count down the hours your at work, hurry home because there just isnt enough time to spend with him before you go back to work again the next day...
Days off are spent together in bed lazing or umm we wont go there :), or doing things together..
I have never been one to just laze around, but with this wonderful man I could happily stay cuddled up watching a video or laying in bed cuddled up talking about anything and everything..
These pics were taken as I said one day when we went for a walk to find some branches for mine and my kids birds..
We have 2 weerio's, and because sitting on those small wooden perches you buy is really bad for there feet we went exploring for some branches of varying sizes for them..
Thats the story to the pics here...
I hope you enjoy the template if you download it, and would love to see what you come up with if you use it..
Wishing you days filled with love and laughter...
Maree
Thank you to Krista for her wonderful talent and for sharing this wonderful set with us all..
I used Her "Delightful" set ©designs by Krista..
You can find her in the links on the left..
Butterfly came from "Smells like Peppermint" kit ©Majula Designs

Freebie Template

Here is the template I made for the Scrap Metal layout...
Click on the template to go to the download..
Hope your weekend is a wonderful one :)
Password:crafty~Expired

Scrap Metal

Life holds lots of wonderful things and sometimes it holds things that are meant to help us learn something and make us grow.. I guess that is the spiritual side of me talking..
In 8 days it will be 12 months since I escaped from 5 years of hell..
In those 12 months I have found the person I was before I met the devils right hand man..
I have learned to overcome fear and that even though the law has tried to, it cant protect me from this person..
He told me once that I would come out from shopping one day and my car would be immobilised..
That happened, We put her on a tow truck and had her delivered home, when I could afford it I had the immobiliser fixed..
Then I came out from a long shift from work to find tyres flat, one had to be replaced...
I was starting in the very early hours of the morning, one morning my windscreen wipers are working fine, next morning they are not, taxi to work, cant drive without them in pouring rain...
When the car was checked , they found the bonnet had been pushed down near the windscreen just enough to not instantly notice but enough to stop the wipers from working..
Again the problem was fixed... Next again in the morning I discover I have no head lights..
Again taxi to work, its to dark to drive without them..
I have come out to find doors unlocked, windows slightly down...
But the last and final straw was to come out one morning to find my fuel cap open, the police arrested him trying to hide in bushes in the next street, his car parked on the corner...
The mechanic says something was added to the fuel tank, as I lost the motor...
I decided at that point that I was not going to spend the money to have it fixed, I had wanted to get rid of it for along time.. I stripped it of things I could sell and called a scrap metal yard, I could have sold it and got more money, but I wanted it destroyed....
That is the story to this layout...
I went out and bought myself the car I have wanted for several years :)

My First Freebie :)

I am hoping that I got this right..
Download Here:Expired
You need this password:crafty
Problem has now been resolved, major senior moment, I forgot to zip it duh:)

Gargoyles And Dragons

Say hi to a couple of my friends who live in my garden..
I also have slugs and snails who I really am not to impressed with at the current moment cos they are munching their way through my plants.. Plants just dont look the same with bits missing and flowers look funny chewed as well *laughing*
Anyway this is the layout I have thrown together tonight for my very first template which I hope to have up by tomorrow, that is providing I have figured out how to package it right so that it can be downloaded should someone decide they like it and would like to use it......
I also still havnt figure all the gadets for this blog yet, but I will get there :)
Thats it for now, I am kinda shy at this blogging thing.. sorry..

Credits: I used (c) 2007 "my discovery" by alexa b.- Alexandra Brandwein

Ok I am Finally Here

I finally made it.. Now how does this all work *laughing*
I have been checking out other blogs for ages and decided it was time I joined..
Until I have worked out all I need to be able to put things up, I shall just post things I have done with the credits for the wonderful creative ladies and Gentleman that have given me such inspiration and wonderful things to use to decorate my memories with...
I am amazed at the amount of truely talented people out there who are so generous in heart to share things with us all....
So now I need to do a pic to put up here and work out all the other bits and pieces as well..
Loving Light to you all
Maree