House keeping

How can I Thank everybody for there support to me and my family after the "Fire at the Crossley Ranch" skippy and I say Thank you so much, your words have touch my heart.

It has been hard to create as I have to pack everything up for painters to come in,but here is a sneek of some items I have worked on for a special project.

Jen

Whats wrong skip? Fire at the old crossley's ranch

" What’s that Skip?" Sonny says "Fire at the old Crossley ranch!!!!!"
For all you Aussie's out there you know the famous "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" show from the 70's. Skippy was the equal to you guys in the states of "Lassie" the famous Dog who could do anything, Skippy was the same. It could deliver messages and undo things with his/her paws.
Well as the heading said yes we had a fire at our home on Sunday morning, our TV bust into flames with in minutes of my daughter turning it on.
We were lucky as I tried to contain it with wet towels before two fire trucks arrived to put it out.
It was very frighting, but my two children were wonderful, one calling for the fireman, one getting me wet towels and turning off the power it could have been alot worse.
The smoke was just awful as it went through the
Whole house thick, black toxic fumes from the burning TV. Now the mess to clean up thank goodness for insurance so far new carpets and painting the whole house will be install for us here. This makes me think how lucky I am to have my wonderful children; Matthew with his chronic Lung disease is having problems with the smell and has to stay in one room as the rest just STINK. He said to me last night as I was putting him to bed Mum today is 12 months since I was diagnosed with Diabetes.
It makes me think and thank my lucky stars, it puts things into prospective, in the misted of today cleaning up ash he had a diabetic Hyper and it was so bad he went blue ,Nicole and I both thought he was going into a coma but court him in time.
“Life is too short to sweat the small stuff” a wise man once told me that (T!M) and its true
Take care
Jen

Ps.Thank you Dawnie You made my Day with a much needed laugh when all was down.

Happy New Year 2008

Well where does the time go?
I have been busy doing some swaps that need to be done and I have made a start,seems like everything is due in Jan!!!! (dont panic just breath Jen LOL).
First some Atc cards for someone abroad you know who you are. so done look if you dont want to see them before they get there .









I have also been hooked on making Moo Cards
once you start you cant stop!!! there should be a health warning on these things LOL.
I thought they would be a different and hard to
work on but I love working small,thanks JVO you brought me in to the world of small !!





Last but not least a Banner swap for Paper Whimsy group there are three girls in a group we all do a letter each our word is ART and I got the RRRR.
I was worried about doing this as you use fabric base then paper but Im happy with the result.

This year Im going to do some wonderful classes the first of which is just under a month away with the very Talented Michael De Meng .
On Feb Michael is going to be teaching two workshops at Ancient Echoes in February. The first, Soda Pop Icons is on Sat 2nd and the second, Transparency Collage-ssemblage is on Sun 3rd. To enquire please email me kathyata@yahoo.com.au or Marg Byrne byrnemargaretm@yahoo.com These are going to absolutely fantastic don't miss this great opportunity.I think there are places in the soda can shrine the other transparence one is fully booked.