She is Back!!

Need I say more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm Home at last and here are some pics to show the events of my helping Mum to Move to Queensland!!

This one is at her farewell with Jack!

And above are the removalists taking everything out to the truck!!

Empty house with only our hand bags left, everything we were taking was all packed into the car!

Saying goodbye to Leanne at her place!!

Mum In Campbelltown, about 1.5 hours out of Hobart!

Mum In Devonport the night before we were on the day sail to the Mainland!! We had a great meal at the Formby Hotel on the waterfront drive there, delicious!!

Me and Mum on the Spirit of Tasmania 1 with Melbourne in the background, the only pic of us together!!Me and Gabriella the morning I left Brisbane to head back home in time for Aimee, my cousin from England's arrival!! A Busy busy time at the moment!!!

I'm Pooped!!!

Okay more on this later, I have other stuff to catch up on and check out!!

Oh and I got a lovely surprise when I returned to Sydney and I had an email saying I had won Layout of the Month for January!! Woo hoo, that really made my day!!!

Okay Later!!

Hello All,

Well Ambowife is still away, and I'm missing her. Only six days till her return though so I'll just have to tough it out.

A big Happy Birthday to our son (much featured on her layouts) Christopher - the grand ol' age of twenty. I sent him a text at 18 minutes past midnight this morning wishing him all the best but have not yet recieved a reply.

There's a lot going on in his life with his Gran (Ambowife's Mum) selling up and moving from Tasmania to Queensland, he has not found a place of his own to live and is currently staying with a mate until he does.

Ambowife and the Outlaw (ha ha ha, the motherinlaw) are at the northern end of Tassie at a town called Devonport waiting to get on the ferry that sails today and docks nine hours later in the capital of the most southern state (Victoria) of the Australian mainland, Melbourne. From there they will make a start on the great Mother and Daughter road trip to the north-east state of Queensland. I think it takes 12 hours to drive from Melbourne to Sydney and then another 12 to get to Brisbane in Queensland. I don't think that they will swing by here on the way, I might not let her go!!!!!!!!!!!!

So my mum will come to stay a few nights from Sunday, she paddles in Dragon Boats and of course the Chinese New Year Boat races are on up here in Sydney on Darling Harbour. Then a cousin of Ambowifes from England arrives for a backpacking holiday around Australia and we are going to be her base camp you might say.

During all this time I've been working like a dog doing as much overtime as I physically can on my days off and trying to get an early start on my next semester at University. With the news coming out of the US today, I'm glad that I do my uni study be correspondance.

Well that should be enough of news and my selfpity. Everyone have a 'fabtastic' day and 'she that should be obeyed' will be back in a week.

The photo is of the plantroom (carpark) at my work place.

Off the air for 3 weeks!!

Yup that's right I head off to Tassie tomorrow to find Chris somewhere to live and help mum move to Queensland driving so I will be off the air for 3 weeks total, although I may have access and be able to check my emails but that's probably all I'll have time to do LOL.

So to keep you all going for a little while here is what I did over the last few days. Shannon Fahrnbach's Corrugated Glitter Papers and bobby pins by me.
Shannon Fahrnbach's "How does your garden grow?" My bouquet!
Terrell Sanzone's "Blue Fantasy" Kit, this is Renee and Simon at our wedding LOL. I love this pic of Renee!!
This is some stuff I made the other day to use with these photos of MY MEN!
Ah Romance, Michael's singing Nick Cave's "Into My Arms"
while we have our Bridal waltz!! This is my Precious Paisley Paper and the ribbon and feathers are from my Dear Diary Kit!

Okay so that's it for now gotta run and make sure I haven't forgotten to pack anything LOL!

Have a great 3 weeks, I'll be back soon LOL!!

Tracy

Can you believe it?? Michael thought My Muffins were a Packet mix, sigh!! So No they aren't, they are Stephanie Alexander's base recipe and then I add the Banana, Pecan, Choc Chips and honey to the mix to make them yummo!!!

Okay so apparantly someone at Michael's Station asked for the recipe and that's when he said that!! That's why I have put the recipe up here for whoever wants it LOL.

WARNING: THESE ARE NOT WEIGHT WATCHERS FRIENDLY MUFFINS, THEY ARE FULL OF FAT!!!

So I suggest you only make a batch if you are going to freeze some or you are doing what I do and sending some to work for the hungry Ambos!!

Okay well that's it for now! Off to make Michael's dinner before he heads off to work for nightshift!!

Later

Tracy

Woo Hoo I won Layout of the Week at MOOTWO

And it was for the layout I did with my Kit!! Awesome!!

Anyway I was very happy and it cheered me up no end LOL. I was so surprised to have won cause the layouts chosen for layout of the day are always such awesome pages done by all the fabulous scrappers there at Mootwodesigns and so it's no easy feat LOL. I love this photo of me getting out of the car, with my bouquet and my Lamont Tartan shawl that belonged to my Grandmother and my Pearls that were a loan from my Mum. So for the OLD, NEW, BORROWED, BLUE

thing, the old is the Ring I am wearing that was my Gran Conroy's pearl ring! The New was My Garter that I made for the wedding and the Borrowed are the Pearls and the Blue is the Shawl, so I was totally covered for Wedding superstitions LOL!!

Well yesterday was Australia Day here down under but I didn't do much apart from scrapping Heath and I did another layout with some of my stuff.

It's another wedding layout, I don't think I have scrapped these photos though so always something new LOL. The kit I made here I am calling Precious Paisley. I think I will start on some of the guest photos soon and that will be something different LOL.

Okay so Michael is working tonight and I am wondering what to cook him for dinner, although I can't give him a lot as it makes it harder for him on his ride to work LOL!! I know how it is, when I ride I have to have an empty

stomach or I get aweful cramping, and that's not good!!! LOL.

Well I have been sussing out the route we should take to Brisbane and I am in two minds about taking the Inland or Coast. Actually there are two inland roads too so I am just trying to take the one that has the least mountains etc. I don't want to be climbing hills and windy roads all the way. I guess with us getting in at 6pm and then by the time we get the car off and get on our way it will be 7pm so we might make it to Albury if we are lucky and then have to stop for the night! I am thinking we will manage it in two days, that would be great cause then I can have a day there before flying home on the 21st.

Okay well I am off to check out what everyone else has been up to, have a great day everybody!!

Tracy

Tragedy of Heath Ledger's Passing

At only 28 years of age we have lost

the biggest Success of Australian film in recent years. I was shattered when I heard the news and literally ran to the TV when I heard them say it on Sunrise. Oh My God, what a great loss for the Australian Film Industry and for all his fans. I know Leanne will be heartbroken too. Hugs Hun!! He was such a gorgeous guy and a fabulous actor, very shy and a wonderful, proud Daddy to little Matilda. He was going to turn 29 on 4th April.

I am not going to go into the why's of his tragic death, I am only going to say that I am certain he didn't commit Suicide!! The Stilnox that he was taking is what I believe did it. Michael, an Ambulance Officer, as you know, says that is very dangerous stuff and they are always going to people who have overdosed accidentally on it.

So I have been a bit blue the past three days over this aweful news, and feel so Heartbroken especially for Matilda, his 2 year old daughter!!

I Can't help but think of Michael Hutchence and how these little girls will grow up without their Daddy.

Okay so I scrapped Heath in the last few days. I used Blue Fantasy by Terrell Sanzone for the ones of heath on his own, the perfect kit name for how I feel at the moment.

For the layout with Matilda on his shoulders I used Terrell Sanzone's Mardi Gras Blog Train kit, in memory of happier times with her daddy!!

I have nothing more on the subject, I think about it so much that I don't want to overload by blogging every detail as well.

Okay so I am off for the big road trip on Thursday, well to help prepare for it at least. My son Christopher has to find somewhere to live and so I am going early to help him move too. Mum is pretty organised though so there won't be much to do with her place!! She is having her garage sale today so hopefully she will get rid of the stuff she is trying to sell and we won't have to dispose of much when I go down.

Well that's it from me for now, take care and I hope all is well with you wherever you are!!

Tracy