Smokey Robinson with Human Nature

Well what a great time we had last night at this concert up at Winyard Estate Vineyard in the Hunter Valley.

We stayed at Singleton but they were running a coach service to the concert so we opted for that so that we could have a few wines etc.  Well for what should have been a half hour trip to the venue, it took us 2 hours, the traffic jams were horrendous and eventually aparantly some paying customers with tickets didn't even get in. They had over sold the tickets. So there will be a lot of unhappy fans that's for sure.

So we even ran into friends from the valley who had gone to the show too. Small world even up here.

Here are some happy snaps from the show. I didn't get a lot of fab pics cause of camera shake, urgh, gonna have to make a habit of taking my tripod for things like this.

Anyway here are a few, the best were of Smokey Robinson, who was fabulous.

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So that was our weekend, I hope you all had a good one too :)

Hugs

Tracy

SAS Christmas Carolling Blog Hop

Okay it's coming to that time of the year when all the designers at SAS choose a christmas carol and give away a freebie mini themed on that carol. This year I am doing Hark The Herald Angels Sing.

Here you go
DOWNLOAD HERE

You can grab the rest of the freebies by following the carolling path below

Happy Christmas from all of the Designers and Admin at SAS

Must be Santa - Darlene - http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com
Away in a Manger - Heidi - http://blackrosedigitals.blogspot.com/
Frosty the Snowman - Lightningbug Creations- http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com
Here Comes Santa Claus - Maurine - http://LetMeScrapbook.blogspot.com
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - BooLandDesigns http://boolanddesign.blogspot.com/
Up on the Rooftop -EllenM http://scrapsationalscraps.blogspot.com/
White Christmas - Monika Designs - http://monikadigitaldesigns.blogspot.com/
Jingle Bell Rock - mITSYBELLE - http://mitsybelle.com/blog/
O Christmas Tree - Veelana - http://veelana.blogspot.com/
Blue Christmas - ShellyMarie http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Ambowife http://www.ambowife.com/blog/ <------ YOU ARE HERE
Deck the Halls - Skrapper Digitals - http://skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com/
O Holy Night -Brenda (CuddleBeez) - http://cuddlebeezscraps.blogspot.com
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - MoonDesigns - http://moon7x4.blogspot.com
Christmas Alpha/Wordart-Kimberkatt- http://kimberkattscraps.wordpress.com
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree - Toiny http://piggyscraps.blogspot.com/

Our Big Day Out

Well on Saturday we got up early and trained over to Olympic Park for the Telstra 500 day 2 of Racing. and what a day, we had blisters and sunburn when we got home but we had a lot of fun. I took my camera and managed to snap over 700 images, here is just a snippet of the day. We saw the racing, the cycling and of course the Cold Chisel concert afterwards. A great Big Day Out for me and Hubby.

Wow A HUGE DEAL!!

Ambowife Designs - 10 for $10.00 Deal

$10.00

I am offering 10 of my best sellers in this unbelievable deal.
Purchasing this offer gets you a text file with a code to download these 10 of my favourite Kits.

Home for the Holidays
Joyful Journey
Faith, Hope and Charity
Gone a courtin'
Just Because
Miranda
Ruby Remedy
Sweet Shona
Someday Sunday
Party Girls

A mixture of Modern and Vintage to cover all your scrapping needs.

But don't dally cause it's only for a limited time :)

HFTH Freebie Quickpage

Okay I have put this in my store at SAS as a freebie sample too but here you go you can have it on my blog too LOL

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here are some layouts I have done for Mitsybelle Designs over the past few weeks. Jeanette has two new kits in the store and they are simply gorgeous as always. If you haven't seen Mitsybelle's designs check out her blog here

Here are her kits and the pages I created with them.

This first kit is Christmas Cheer and it is just wonderful to scrap with.

Here are my layouts using this gorgeous kit

And this is Oh The Joy coming today to her store at SAS exclusively

Here's my first layout with Oh The Joy

Another will follow very soon it is just so great to scrap with Jeanette's kits, they lend themselves to so many styles of scrapping :)

Okay that's it for now, gotta go get Hubby's dinner ready, it's his last night shift and then he is on Holidays woo hoo!!

Hugs

Tracy

Ho Ho Ho Home for the Holidays is instore now

Find it at SAS or DPH

My new Christmas kit "Home for the Holidays is instore now, if you're quick you can still get it at 40% off at SAS's black friday sale. it will still be 25% off till next monday though.
Check it out today, 50 elements and 35 papers, here are some previews

Thanks For Looking

Happy THANKS GIVING

I know it's not till tomorrow but you will all be spending time with your families if you hail from the States. So from my family to yours have a HAPPY THANKS GIVING DAY tomorrow and recovery day afterwards. From what I have been told on the forums it's a real mega feast for most of you and it sounds like a lovely family tradition for a whole nation to celebrate.

SAS is having a Black Friday sale that will last from Thursday right through to Monday, you can't beat the deals at SAS

So come on bye and check out the SAS store.

Hugs

Tracy

An add on for A Joyful Journey

is instore now.

I got my laptop serviced and cleaned and it is running so much better and cooler too!! No where near as hot as it was before.  Thank you Hubby for urging me to take it in :)  It obviously seriously needed the service and clean!

Okay so I whipped up this add on that you can purchase in my SAS or DPH stores, it is the perfect companion to my Joyful Journey kit in those lovely blues and pale yellows.

Here's a peek at it.

Look at this great page from Linda using Bearly Remember Revisited, this is wonderfully journalled too :)

And here's one from Jean Ann, isn't that just the perfect photo for these elements and papers :)

Okay have a great week everyone :)

Hugs

Tracy

New freebie Quickpage posted

You can grab it at my SAS Store Here



and here is another layout from my CT Jeanette aka Renee



I'm happy to say it is cooler today here in Sydney. We hit 42 degrees yesterday and my poor laptop which has been overheating just did not like it one bit. I will be taking the poor thing off to my computer geek for a service. I had excellent service from this store just after Christmas when I got my upgrade done and so I will be heading off to Express Computer Repairs again for the service. A bit of a drive but so worth it for the great service.

Okay well I'll leave it at that for now. I hope everyone is well and that all my American readers are getting ready for a great Thanks Giving feast :)

Hugs

Tracy

A Joyful Journey

I am posting this on hubby's pc as mine is still overheating and losing it's connection to the net whenever I am in the middle of posting something so I thought I would save some time and go straight on here after about the fifth attempt at posting from mine. I am definitely going to have to go put it in for a service and clean or something, it's driving me nuts!!!

anyway...

I have a new kit in the stores at SAS and Digital Paper Hearts. It's called A Joyful Journey, for all those joyful moments in life's Journey.

Here's a peek at it and some layouts from my creative team and me.

Layouts by me

And my fabulous  CT Members

Jeanette aka Renee

And Jean Ann

so that's it for now, I'll hopefully be posting a Quickpage freebie for you all tomorrow.

Have a great night and if you are in Sydney try and stay cool. We are headed for 41 degrees tomorrow. It's nearly 10 pm now and I am still hot and sticky. Looks like the fan will be coming to bed with me tonight for sure!

Hugs

Tracy

Blog Hop for DSD

Yes it's Digitals Scrapbooking Day and to celebrate SAS designers are having a blog hop. You can toot your way from one blog to another gathering these Friendship Around the World Mini kits. We all chose a country to do and mine is Scotland!! Och Ay, my family is all Scottish and we came to Australia when I was 3 so I came here with a broad brogue LOL

Okay here it is and you can download it HERE

Okay and you can grab the other SAS Designers' Freebies by following the list below

Enjoy :)

DarleneH - http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com

mITSYBELLE - http://mitsybelle.com/blog/

Michelle - http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com

Ambowife Designs - http://ambowife.com/blog/

Janice's Scrap - http://janice-scrapbook.blogspot.com

SKrapper Digitals - http://www.skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com/

Lightningbug Creations - http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com/

BooLanddesigns - http://boolanddesign.blogspot.com/

Moon Designs - http://moon7x4.blogspot.com

SAS News

Okay so the store is down at the moment, the huge sale and masses of traffic both shopping and downloading were too much for our poor server. Toiny will have it back up and running again Monday. Please Bear with us and remember that your downloads are good for 35 days from purchase date so you will be able to get your kits as soon as we are back online.

Our most sincere apologies for this hiccough in your shopping with us.

The forum is still up and buzzing with activity so you can still check in there and see how things are going :)

Many Thanks

Tracy

More freebies :) and Halloween!!!!

Firstly I want to let you all know that SAS store is slow at the moment, we have upped the bandwidth a bit but with such great deals at the moment it's like trying to get the best toy on Christmas Eve. Be assured that if you have purchased the Mega Kit 10 for $10 deal your downloads are good for 35 days and it might be a really wise idea to wait until next week to download them, they are mega kits after all and 10 of them and with lots of downloads to each kit it will take a longe time to download them all. With everyone downloading the same items there is bound to be a slowing of our poor server.

Nuff said...

Okay so we don't really celebrate Halloween here in Australia, we have kids come to our door but they usually aren't dressed up and they just have a plastic shopping bag for the treats they are expecting. But I always have something for them. I got caught out a few years ago and resorted to giving them some change from my purse LOL. Also about 3 years back on my way home from work on Halloween evening I got stopped multiple times in the street by children (again not dressed up or anything) plastic bag in hand, in groups of like 6 kids asking for treats in the street. No parents anywhere to be seen, what is wrong with these people, this was in downtown Mascot not in suburbia (Mascot is inner city living for those who don't know) and I definitely wouldn't let any child of mine do this.  So that's my experience of Halloween, and now I stay home, don't advertise that I am "with treats" and if they come they come.  If not, we have goodies for a while.LOL

So being that I sell my designs at SAS and it is primarily an American site with American Designers it's all spooky there at the moment with Halloween festivities and pumpkin carvings (scrappy ones) a bingo game and surprises on Halloween eve, which will be tomorrow for us Aussies since we are a day ahead. So if you are after a Halloween kit, or any kit for that matter (50% off this weekend) or feel like knocking on SAS's forum door during your trick or treating go for it :)

Read the post a few down to see what you'd maybe find from me on Halloween at SAS.

Okay onto the good stuff, not that that wasn't good but hey it just gets better. Here is the next set of brag books from Diane created using my kit Gone a Courtin'  This means that the previous download is now deactivated. so be fast to grab this one cause it will also be deactivated when I put up the next one in a few days.

Download Here

And remember my new kit Dress Ups - Princess? Perfect if you're not into black orange or purple and have a princess halloween pic to scrap. Well Here's a free add on to play with, not pictured here is a scalloped mat that you could use with these cute elements. They coordinate with my Princess kit and how do you like my castle I drew? I am loving my pen tool at the moment, who knew it could be so easy.  And I have to thank Atomic Cupcake for her awesome Puffy Felt Action, those elements just look so great with this action applied. If I do say so myself rofl!!

Download Here

Hmmmm I wonder what this is a preview of.....  Looks Yummy doesn't it   Something About Seasons hmmm could that be a clue do you think???

Okay CT freebie time

My Creative Team Member Diane Bartow aka Camperchow has made some beautiful brag book pages for you all. You'll have to be quick though because as I put another one up the last one will be coming down, these will end up in the store so you are getting a real freebie here cause they won't be free for very long.

Here's the first set of two 4x6 brag book pages created with my kit Gone a Courtin'.

Download Here

please note : the download links for the ruby remedy freebies have now been disabled

I also have a new kit instore. Dress Ups - Princess is a cute princess girly kit and there's an addon coming your way soon too. This kit is great for kiddy pages or just for some fun :)

Check it out at SAS or DPH today

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But wait there's more, yes with Halloween just days away SAS is in the middle of their Halloween Party week and apart from the games and great sales, we are giving away a treat, a pu grab bag free but only if you come trick or treating at SAS on Halloween night.

This is my part of the personal use grab bag.



And here's a sneek peek at the whole set, this fabulous preview is by Jeanette, aka Mitsybelle Designs, she is the queen of preview making :)

Okay well that's plenty for you all to think about LOL. I'm off to watch some CSI

Have a great night all!

Hugs

Tracy