Very Poor

Ok so heres my sad list

1. done my home work for cc Kao
2. saved some money for cc Kao
3. booked my plane flight for cc Kao
4. done a name tag Kao
5. finished by SO layout Kao
6. paid the phone bill Kao
7. done a No. Dare Kao

So theres a trend......... hmmmmm points for that great observation if nothing else. What have I been doing??? Taking a few hundred thousand photos. Have been enrolled in a photography course for a little while now and practicing my little heart out!!! Wanna be tara whitney great now like Right now but have to be content with later. Have struck a problem though.... new information is gained at the cost of old information.... (think McDonalds add with filing information in the brain as remembered by Yolande)

As for photoshop... well in a shy little voice... I rock... given the short amount of time I've been on it and the fact I have four children I spend every other waking hours in this program but umm some goodies lined up for ScrapCamp. However one of my new favourite tools is the liquify filter... see below and you'll see why its a favourite

Re scrapbooking, this is a layout I did a couple months ago but never got a chance to upload it. Have done a few of these over the past few weeks (as in white card stock) but I think this is up there as one of my favourites. Wanting to do some more on it but waiting for my cc doodling class before I be brave and actually write on it

Busy also with Te Reo Maori week and been having a great time with our iwi here and getting some awesome events organsied as well as attending them. So in celebration of this some people have asked about my childrens names.............

Rangitautini Rangi (with a rolled r)- toe - tinny

Wiremukururangi Wiremu - koo - roo - rangi (said fast)

Parekotuku Pah - re - caw - too - koo ( said fast)

Teoterangi Whataati Te - or - te - rangi - far - tar - ti (yes hes gonna get teased at school with that one

Off to Auckland next Thursday to drop hubby of to the airport where he flys off to Cananda for the month.... yipee!!! So will be hitting the scrapbooking shops in norht shore... lianne where are you based :)

Cool ladies cool...........

yeah to NZ scrapbookers. Looks great and what awesome line up of dare devils. So another new blog to add to the favourites lists...

And thanks Karen and Lynda for directing me back to Rhonna blog and yip it was me!! So hope those are winging there way to me. Not sure havent heard back but just cause I live in NZ thought maybe not...

But if I do get them... yeah yah they look awesome and cant wait to get my hands on those flowers!!

Ok once kids are back will be able to post more often. Also am loving being a SAHM!! aWent to WINZ the other day and mate dont they make you feel special. Granted I looked hori as but hey after wearing suits and makeup all day.... so had a bit of fun and when they asked what my wages were for the previous enjoyed wathcing her mouth drop and whilst I may have looked hori I certainly didnt sound like it as I wipped out the long syllable words in my dictionary and proceeded to explain that I had opted not to renew my contract and stay at home with my children... but again WINZ cant say was happy about having to go there and in the end ended up not actually needing too...........

Better go

Who invented school holidays.... a male I bet!

Ok amazingly enough have been doing quiet a bit of scrapbooking but man has life been full on. So just some quick photos of what we have been up too. Just some photos to share of my sons practicing mau rakau (maori weaponary/ martial art) with their dad. We also got some stamps made up to do the ta moko on the faces but have to work out the best way to ink them and apply them to the face. Of you know cause you are a stamper let me know! And this is taken on our back yard which I forget to mention we have a little carved whare on it which you can see in the corner of one of the photos of my Wiremu.... doing a lot more portfolio building at this stage with my photography and working on natural light which so I would like to get around cause it does my head in?!???! Maybe its because I am a creature of the night........ummmmm I'll go with that



So kids at home as are other children kids so lots of fun in our backyard and hoping the weather stays fine. Rather have 7 kids playing outside rather than driving me nuts inside:)


Will post later with some of my layouts I think... DD has a bad cough, DH is in Wellington, DM (me) is getting sick and DSs are absolutely healthy thank goodness:) Well only 3 weeks left before hubby leave for a month to Canada to present at a conference with an expected audience of 30 - 40 000... yuck! Hoping at the end of end though he'll come away amped and with some more conference offers. That would be great... ok getting tired.............. need sleep..

Me at 10.... and again at ..... 18

I'm thinking to myself take more photos of my children by themselves as well as each other cause I want to find more with just me!! Ok decided to provided details cause Sandra thought I was four in 1973!! Oh man......


Ok Grow me up and now I'm ten and my sister is 8. I love this photo of my sister. People used to say to my parents how lovely they were for adopting a little asian girl... hehe... but no she was all ours. People would always comment on her chingy eyes. On one occassion when some one told her that the wind would change her face (i think she was pokeing her tounge at an old nanny) she came running inside the house and ask me to blow into her face while she pushed her eyes in trying to make them more round. Admittedly I was cruel and told her it was working and that she might get faster results with a hair dryer. So she did that for about two months until mum caught her and boy did I get a massive growling......



Ok big fast forward Witeri and I in 1994. I'm 18 and hes 16. Wish my hair looked like that now! As for his, glad his hairstyle has changed. Last photo me and some friends in 94 at Massey University........... wish my legs still looked like that oh well thats what happens when you stop playing sport............. sigh...


ok school holidays I'm over those already. Having made a decision not so send the kids on a cool $35.00 holiday programme decided nah they can stay with me. But mate the doleros are fast disappearing. Hate PlayStation with a passion but this holiday I'm loving it cause its cheap and I chuck the odd chip and sandwich at them and they are quiet all day.... not a peep except for the occassional flushing sound from the toilet :) My two little ones are having a great time at home and we have been out walking a bit but the weather aint great so today they are with aunites and having fun with them hopefully :)

Okay better write these reports................ sigh

Challenge Post

Yeah blogger is my friend and I can finally put up some pictures!

First one I need to PS it cause it looks pretty grotty but I'm lovin my shoes and my socks but not the hair style!!! Mum whats with that. The rabbit there I still have in a very poor state of affairs and the carpet looks disgusting. See mum my carpet is tidier than yours and I've got FOUR kids... BTW can I borrow your vacumn.

Second photo with my sister taken on James Cook Hill in Gizzy. Sister look at those legs!!!

Have got some layouts to post but just waiting to finish of one more so I can post them up together.... other wise back to the crazy children now.....

Naughty Naughty Naughty me

Ok so admittedly I have been a bad blogger again.... just so much on and so much fun to be had
Well have been nice and unemployed now for a few days and I can honestly say that despite many comments I am not over it nor seem to be heading in that direction right now... so have been scrapbooking heaps, spending time with my kids, participating in friendly bubbly beverages, and spending time on projects that I had wanted to start up a while ago and now have the time to do so... also I might mention my house looks nice and spiffy!!

Have been going through my old photos and found one of my daughter that I love!! So want to scrapbook this. Her hair was pretty crazy and she looks like a little chubba bubba but I remember that time with her and I love it...



and secondly DH is moaning that I dont have any pages about him... specifically about what it is he does his loves, and his contribution to the kids lives so am gonna play along for now and do a few but I'm thinking DO IT YOURSELF :)

What else

Firstly big up to you Delys on the Tarisota win. WOW!!

Had some fun with the on line scrap with scrapbookoutlet but to busy in the chat room didnt get much scrapbooking done!! This was fun though as it was my first time (she blushes) and hangin out with Yolande and Eileen is always a laugh. SO looking forward to do more of these...

My scrapbook space is no further along that what it was some 8 weeks 4 days and 20 mins ago (sigh)

Theres a competition that we can enter at Scrap Trends in conjunction with Urban Lily that ends 8 July

And my buzz was that one of my fav scrapbookers, Keisha, commented on one of my layouts on twopeas.


Also wanted to post this challenge for anyone who is up for it and that is to post photos of yourself as a child, a teenager, a young adult and now.... I have found some good and some bad so here one of my sister in I in Gisborne, where my dad is from. I couldnt find any of me by myself as a toddler cause apparently my parents just took photos of us together even though theres a two year age gap and I was with my grandmother!! Will try and find my pimpalee teen photo tonight and post that in a couple of days...

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Tried to post it but it dissapeared or rather did a ppear so will try again later.

Laterz