Our Family holiday

I'm just here to quickly tell all of you- my wonderful friends that if you'd like to know more about our family holiday please go over to our family blog THE TORRENTS TIMES. I've been posting small snippets of our trip there and would love for you to pop on over and say HI!
This is Terri and I, from Australia Zoo, wife to the famous Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin!!! We went to the zoo for Bindi's 13th Rock and Roll birthday party and I asked for a picture with this wonderful woman! It was the best day!!!!
Hope your Saturday is super duper and wonderful!

I made some time

HELLO!!!! I'm sending huge hello's and hugs and smiles from NSW, Bateman's Bay to be exact as my family continue our 5 week holiday!
I must say it's been the best time and sadly it's nearly at it's end but I wanted to pop on in and remind you all that for the things that we love YOU HAVE TO MAKE TIME!!!

This is me doing some scrapping while we were on the Gold Coast. Allan soooo wonderfully took the treasures out for a ride so I could get busy scrapping some of our newest memories! It was super fun!
I'm really looking forward to doing some more once home with some amazing goodies from the New Idea Book and Catty (now only 12 more day's till release!!!!!!!!!)
I hope that you can make some time for that something you enjoy!!
Catch you again soon......

Goodbye beautiful season

In celebration of my favourite month coming to an end I wanted to show you some place-cards that I made for a special dinner party we had with some friends last month. I LOVE to make things pretty, adding my little touches of this and that and this night was a perfect opportunity to share what I love about stamping and Autumn!!!

I rock n' rolled the leaves to give them an authentic look

I made name tags with the initial of each guest and then pegged them to an Autumn leaf I collected and then stapled some leaves to twine and hung them from the ceiling! It looked soooo wonderful, I loved how well it came up!

Goodbye beautiful season, thanks for such wonderful inspiration!

cake bunting for Hannah

When thinking of how to decorate Hannah's cake I remembered the wonderful and AMAZING "cake bunting" I saw AGES ago on Etsy.... so with the wonder of google and searching I found it!
CLICK HERE to see..... all I can say is AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING!!! I LOVE IT!!!
I wanted to keep with the theme and the colours so I made this for the occasion

What do you think?? My super talented sister Sarah took these pic's for me, after all if you have a professional photographer in the house you should use them right??!! Click HERE to see more of her SENSATIONAL work and website!!

Hannah had a great time celebrating her birthday, as did we! If you'd like to see more of the weekend click HERE at our family blog!

Christmas is here

Merry Christmas everyone!

I'd like to wish you all a very special, safe and memorable Christmas day and pray that this new year to come will be one full of hope and love that you've never experienced before!
Thanks sooo much for your love, comments and visits in this last year, it really is sooo wonderful to see hear from you!

Well my table is set for a family affair today, the children have all woken early with sheer excitement as they unwrap their gifts and Allan and I watched in delight as we celebrate this Christmas 2010 together!
Have a truly fabulous day, hugs, love and smiles
Sharnee :0)

Christmas Eve goodies to share

It's Christmas eve! WOW can you believe it!! What a glorious day, the sun is shinning the children are sneaking a peak at the presents we wrapped last night and Allan has the next 5 days off! YAY! YAY! YAY!
.... it's the most wonderful time of the year!!
So for today I'm showing you my goodie bags that we will be giving out later today! Each and every year I bake some tasty treats for our very close friends. The children and I have the best time tasting and cooking and wrapping and of course eating.

I have such a great time making tags and doing my "crafty" thing!
How wonderful are the new vintage tags from the mini

Have you guessed what they are??

Paper stocking!! Do you have favourite projects that you see and think to your self "I have to make that!!??" Well when we saw these on page 21 IBC I knew that I'd have to whip some up!
I went with the vintage theme as that's what I like best and gave my sewing machine some brightly coloured red thread and started sewing! I love to sew on card stock it's one of my fav things to do when crafting!
How are your last minute preparations going?? I hope that it's all running smoothly and your really finding it hard to wipe the smile off your face!!!
Merry Christmas Eve!!
Smiles SHarnee :0)
p.s I'll be back later to show you my table decorations....

Stockings
Set: Winter post and Tiny tags and Frames with a flourish (retired)
Ink: Early espresso, Crumb cake, Real red and tea stain
Card: Crumb cake, Real red, Kiwi kiss, Very vanilla and Early espresso
Acc: Lace ribbon, vintage tags, pearls, promo ribbon, crop-a-dile, jumbo eyelets and twine

And now she is ONE

all the beautiful hand made cards we received when

Esther was born have been hanging above her bed

It's happened!!! Our little Esther has turned one!! I know it was coming (as all birthday's do) but I was really hoping for a little more time to enjoy our baby before the year slipped away!! People keep saying to me " where has the time gone??" my reply is simple
"Let me know if you find out!!"
So with the specail day came some special pictures, and who better to share them with then YOU!
Firstly the card! The pressure is always on when making a card for my children, I always seem to leave it till the last moment and then don't make it as special as I'd like.... so with the eve of her birthday gone I got up early and made this on the day!! I'm totally LOVING doing felt with my big shot! SO much fun!!! ANd the in-colour ribbon this year is gorgeous!!!


Every BIRTHDAY morning, (whom ever's birthday it is) gets to sit smack bang in the middle of our bed and we all gather around and watch the official opening of the gifts!!

Of course with the older children it's more of a game of helping
then of watching Esther do it!!

A new phone!!

On Sunday we celebrated with Family for afternoon tea, it was a lovely day of sunshine and yummy things to eat.

I happened to go with a butterfly theme after making the invites so I got out my Big shot and made these pretty butterflies to hang around the table

photo taken by super sister Sarah

time to blow out the candles, with a little help from Daddy

WOW what a wonderful time we had! Hopefully the next few years don't fly by soo quickly as these precious treasures grow up!
I hope that your week is going wonderfully as we only have 17 more sleeps to go..... YAY!
Smiles Sharnee :0)

Esther's first Birthday
Set: NEW rough Type
Ink: Concord crush & Pink pirouette
Card: Very vanilla & Pink pirouette
Acc: Felt, big shot, ribbon, sewing machine, pearls and Lap of luxury DSP

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

It's Christmas time!!! I'm sooo excited!! I love this time of year which I'm sure most of you do and with the season most certainly upon us I thought I'd share some pictures of us getting into the Christmas spirit that we've celebrated in over the last week.
Last weekend we went to the Launceston Christmas Parade (though it's not much AT ALL compared to Melbourne for instance, it's good to support the local community and do something different for the children!!)

All excited and waiting for it to start!

(Jo Kenzie is one of the children's really great friends, we sat with them!!)

Sweet Esther seeing her FIRST parade

The bagpipes were just a little loud for my gorgeous Sophia!

Zeke loved the trumpet!!
(Allan plays this instrument so there is many a time that the children have a blurt on his!!)

Hannah was doing her own camera work and filming the parade

The real meaning for the Season!! Jesus, God's special gift to us ALL!

One more of us girls!

(note the Kenzie family in the background, we watched it with them, such a wonderful family!!)

Then it was time to put up the tree! Our beautiful treasures all helped soooo wonderfully and we got the "ground work" for the tree done really quickly.

Now time for the decorations...... I love my decorations, most of them are handmade but there are a few special bought ones in there too!

Of course this time last year Esther was only a few days old
so the tree was an exciting toy to discover!!!

Then Sophia couldn't resist dressing her sister up in the Christmas skirt! CUTE!

Lastly we (I mean Allan) put up lights outside. There is a house up the street that "GOES OFF" with lights and we can see it flashing from our office window, so though it's nothing like that we like to do a little!! (will have to provide pic's of that another post!)

So there you have it!! Have you put up your tree yet??? DOne some Christmas shopping perhaps, enjoyed the local parade??? Feel as though you are in the Christmas spirit?? I'd love to hear from you!!!
I hope that your Saturday is a wonderful one,
Smiles Sharnee :0)

A family event

Just the other Saturday I attended the wedding of my sister Sarai to her dream man Mark! I wanted to share some special pic's that I took on the morning of their wonderful day.

the stunning bride walking down the aisle with her Dad - Rob

Some of the official parts of the ceremony,there's the man of the day... MARK!
(clearly this was a serious part!!)

The AMAZING comic book, origami flowers that Sarai hand made!!
I loved the little touches on the day that set them apart!

Sarai's sister Bethany with sweet Sophia,
she never went far from the pretty princesses on the day!

Some of the scrummy delights that Mum made for the day,
Sushi was made by a fellow wonderful friend!! YUMMMMM :)

Now for the cake Mum decorated (see the special touches with the "bride and groom!!"
and the amazing cupcakes that Sarai and Bethany did themselves the day before!! FUN!

A happy snap of Sarah, Esther and I

Now for my super spunky hubbie Allan (and us girls!)

Gorgeous bride - Sarai and me (Sarai made her fabulous head Vail!)

Me, my Mum and sister Sarah

The wedding was at a local heritage house - Franklin House, the garden's looked amazing and the morning was truly lovely!! Hey and in wonderful Stampin' Up! style I even dressed to colour co-ordinate the decorations!! HA HA!!! (completely co-incidental!!)
Hope your week has been really great!! See you soon (hopefully with some cards!!)
Hugs and Smiles Sharnee :0)