Hambly Screen Prints

Go to the Hambly Screen Prints blog - scroll down past the pictures of the design team on the left. Then you will see the 'Screen Prints Gallery'. Guess whose layout is the link there? Mine! Cool, hey. I love Hambly.

Speaking of Hambly, pick up some funky transparent and rub-on goodness here - with more on it's way!

Photos and Two Mini-Canvases

Reclaiming Beauty and other everyday things

From Picture to Page was a big success, with Kiti Q meeting target and getting lots of exposure to local (Melbourne) scrappers. It was also fun, we had a little stereo tucked behind so we could have funky music playing. Varied from Jamie Cullum jazz styles, Australian indie style pop like Missy Higgins and Kate Miller-Heidke, through to the Afro-Cuban All Stars and jazz-influenced electronica by Koop.

Here are some pics of Kiti Q's stall - check out Kell and Jude in their super cute Kiti Q aprons!

I can hear Ash playing with the ice cube trays but will ignore him for a moment - sometimes telling him off every five minutes is just too hard and I pretend I haven't noticed his naughtiness. For a few minutes anyway. OK I'd better go stop him, LOL.

OMG it is hilarious. Ash has gone into size 2 and has only a few pair of pants that fit. With the weather being as it is, they haven't been able to dry, and so he is totally out of pants and long-sleeved tops to wear. So I've put him in a pair of Sienna's trackpants. LOL. They fit fine, and are grey, but you can tell from the cut that they are not boys clothes. I also found a size 3 flannel shirt that was handed down to us. He's a bit of a mismatch today. Poor little guy. Hehe.

OK back to the point. I also met this lovely lady Donna from the Cardboard Cafe - she's been having trouble with her web developers, so the site is not functional yet, but you can tell it's going to be super sweet :) I also met Tam, apparently - Hello Tam! Though I didn't realise it at the time. Tam, I have to tell you I remember your layouts from SAM because I always liked them so much! Cool girl that one :)

Check out what Ngaire Bartlam's been up to - encouraging us all to reclaim beauty. What a fantastic idea. It reminds me of an article I love that I cut out of Vogue magazine when I was 15. Maybe I'll post it later.

Here is a layout I did yesterday morning for the Blue Bazaar cybercrop that was on Saturday. My goodness, was that funny. Couldn't scrap though, could barely keep up with the chat and trivia! Jaimie, in particular, is a crack-up (and a wee bit naughty). Funny stuff.


Now, I'm sure you know of the book 'She' from Compendium, it's very cool and positive for women of all ages. I first saw it a few years ago in a shop in Hahndorf, of all places, and couldn't afford it at the time. Recently I picked it up from Tarisota, and I chose this quote out of it to make a canvas. This is going to my lovely cousin Bec. Eventually, LOL. Whenever I see her next.

Sneaky peeks, new favourites and Paper Pesto

In answer to Karen's question last post, I will be on the Kiti Q stand on the weekend, definitely all day Saturday and most likely the afternoon on Sunday. My travel journal kit will be there, along with my Be Real and Oh Boy kits, in very limited quantities, and a new kit, and My Girl, a girl version of the Oh Boy mini-album, as interpreted by my sister Kelly Ingram.

Here are a few sneaky peeks to get an idea about the travel journal class kit. It will be $35 at the fair, which includes all the materials and full instructions - about 11 pages I believe, including images! I tend to explain in great detail. Not ridiculously so, but enough to make it pretty straightforward (I hope).

I am totally addicted to Veronica Mars (the tv series) lately. Ben has been getting me some episodes from Season One, I believe there are three seasons so far. I've wanted to see it for awhile, and now that I can watch some I am hooked :) I don't watch standard television, so it is kind of funny how I pick up shows from time to time. Ben is getting hooked on 'Heroes'.

My friend Ethan recommended this music to me, Angus and Julia Stone. I so love it. Thank you Ethan :)

As much as I wanted to post photos of the hot pink Kiti Q aprons, I am not quite finished with them yet. I still need to sew on the whiskers, and decide whether to add a label. Still, I will definitely post a pic by the weekend, so stay tuned. I am still amazed that I will be wearing pink all day. Hilarious.

Ooh, almost totally forgot why I was posting today. I am very pleased to announce that I am one of 12 design team members for Paper Pesto, a brand-spankin' new scrapbooking kit company from New Zealand. The first kit I get to play with will be the July pack, and it already sounds cool, I am looking forward to it! Three of us will design with each month's pack, so I will be assigned to one kit every four months for the duration of the year's design team term. Cool, hey!

Who's been a slack blogger...

I have! Mostly because I've not had a chance to create much. Well, not entirely true. One little thing for a mag, which I can't show you, and one little canvas for a friend, which I won't show until I know she's received it. No layouts.

But I have finished a Travel Journal Class Kit for Kiti Q - it will be released at the Picture to Page show this weekend as a limited edition of only 3 kits! And it is really cool, if I do say so myself.

Thank you thank you for all the well-wishes and concern about Ash. It was all kind of surreal, and he has been completely fine since. Still, we have taken him out of childcare. It was only weekly, but now he'll be at home with me all the time, so if it happens again at least I can witness it. But hopefully it won't happen again!

And hopefully I won't go any more insane than I am already, having both kids home with me all week long. And no car. Hmm.. It's ok, if I do go a bit strange, I doubt anyone would notice the difference ;)

Hopefully I'll get time to upload some photos soon, somewhere in this crazy week getting ready for Picture to Page. And editing wedding photos (I photographed a wedding on Saturday), with a bit of graphic design work on the side - because I have time. Yeah right, LOL. Actually I will HAVE to upload photos of these cute aprons I'm making for us to wear on the Kiti Q stall on the weekend. A bit flirty, a bit dotty. Very cute. And yes, I will actually be wearing a hot pink apron. Wonders will never cease.

Have a great week everyone!