Still trying to catch up...

Okay... I know I'm behind and I'm supposed to post about moving house/our Adelaide trip, but I have been *super busy*! On Thursday afternoon, I realised it's a bit over a month until little B's 2nd birthday and then I had this brilliant brainwave to give her a "handmade" birthday this year... well at least partially handmade... I want to make her presents this year, to give it that little something special... I actually wanted to make her presents last year, but what with the whole moving house stuff and other busy-ness, it just never eventuated. So I'm determined to make it a handmade birthday for her this year and I'm starting early and trying to be organised... The first part of her present is a personalized ABC book... with photos and pictures of things she knows and loves... sounds easy... the concept was simple and add to that my Artscow account (who I use to print my 8x8 scrapbooking photobooks) had free credit for three 8x8 books, so I could get it made up for the cost of shipping only... However, the only catch was the credits expired at 10pm on Monday night! So I had 3 days to throw that all together! I actually designed and took photographs for half the pages yesterday. In addition to that, while I was at it and since I still had 2 free 8x8 books left, I figured I should take advantage of the extra books (and cheaper combined shipping) and pulled together 30 pages to make another scrapbooking photobook (one for me and one for Em, since she missed out on the last round I made for everyone)... I also had to design some more extra pages... but that's a bit of secret squirrel project... :p... (to all the family, I say - stay tuned for Christmas folks... :))

So I spent most of the weekend scrapping/organising stuff to try and make my Monday 10pm deadline... nothing like a deadline to get you moving... and I am happy to say I made it... :) It is crap that the AU dollar is so weak though, because it has cost me a lot more to ship than it has previously, but it's still cheaper than anything I could get done here in Australia.

I have also been busy keeping up with the CT commitments... I have had the chance to play with some totally super digital scrapbooking kits... I'm really enjoying my CT work at the moment... check out my digi-scrapping blog if you want to see what I've been up to...

So anyways... those are my excuses for not blogging ... I will try and finish that other post soon, before I get thrown into my next project which is part 2 of Beth's handmade birthday present... I'm really excited about it, it's going to be sooo cool... I will post some pics of that part as I make it... :)

And for now I leave you with this photo of Beth...