I love playing with new toys!

I just love it when Lesley gets new toys in at Little Bits. Occasionally I get to play with them tee hee! This is what I came up with when I got to play with not one but two new things - a story board kit (forget which company makes this), as well as some new Scrapbooking Australia papers. I added some beautiful ribbons and some other odds and ends. This was so much fun! They are photos of my daughter Rachel (who is now a BIG girl at 3 and a half years of age).
This sample is now hanging up at Little Bits, and it makes me smile when I walk past it. I remember Rachel before she could talk - it was a lovely peaceful 5 minutes!! I reckon she said her first words as we cut the cord!
Oh - I don't scrapbook. Is this scrapbooking? Oh.

Paperific - Melbourne 2006

Well, it's been a while since this fabulous event, and I think I'm slowly recovering. I worked for Lesley at the Little Bits stand - what a SUPREME team she assembled!! We had Kerry, Jill, Joan, Lynne and myself, with Lesley doing the demo thang all day (CRIKEY the woman can talk the legs off a chair - in a nice tone of voice too!!). It was a most successful show for Lesley, due in no small part to the wonderful staff she had working for her - I was almost too quick to point that out :)) It was a real thrill experiencing the show from the "other side" and not as a member of the public. I hope everyone appreciates the effort these business owners go to in order to put on a show like that. It's a mammoth effort. I'm already looking forward to next year.

This is a pic of just some of the ATCs I swapped. There's some real talent out there!




















I made 60 ATCs to swap with people - it was a sea theme. I went with beach houses which I stamped and then glued to boxboard and then cut out - I've still got the callous to prove it too! I've promised myself to do something simpler next year!















This is a photo of my nametag. I made each member of the team one of these in either red, blue or green. Each tag, like the person wearing it, was a bit different. We got (or rather I managed to extract) some favourable comments from customers about these tags, so I was pretty happy with my efforts!