A Collection of Thoughts

Craziness and Classes

Crazy times here - The collection is up and on sale now - We had a great class tonight. Love the technology side of things when it all goes smooth - I had  sooo much to finish off last night and I came home to find the power source had blown on my PC - not good - took me until after 8.00 to have someone come and fix it - aggggghhh

All good site turned over - class got completed and  I'm still standing to tell the tale - just!

On a much sweeter note - this  postcard arrived in the mail for me the other day - I popped it in a frame and put it up on my shelf where I can see it everyday -  My Ali word for the year is Simplify! and I am so touched that the lovely Sharmaine and Michael  from Compendium  took the time to send it to me :) Means so much when those little things happen - I  need to do it more to others too.

Much more to do so had better get on with it.

Nite

Tamar xx

Boy's Business

Now showing on site - on sale :-) Its a definite favourite!

Beautiful photgraphy by Suz - Classes to match our collection and Two Funk it up collections this month! - A fantastic  Paper bag album complete with nuts and bolts - designed by Ngaire and a tag book with great family quotes. Gallery for those will be up in a day or so! Two new classes to match the collection... We have been busy... Hopes and Dreams class runs tomorrow night - last chnace to sign in and gossip with us.

oh and our fab Guest Designer for this month - The lovely Katie Toland! Gorgeous Photography - just wait and see!

and we happily welcome our latest permanent Designer - Nic Howard from NZ  she needs no introduction- like others before her she has played for a month and decided to stay a while - Welcome Nic!  Check out her blog she's just joined our list  :) You'll love the boys stuff shes created this month!

Check it all out here...

www.tarisota.com.au

Enjoy

Tamar :)

Sneak Peeks - Feb

If you have been missing the sneak peeks here they all are for you !

We are taking orders now but the full details will be available from the first.

Our heads are down and working hard this time of the month to have everything ready - I have an inbox chockers full of email - I'll get back to you soon in the next few days.

I received on my email tonight  a gorgeous photo of my Godson Ryan who started school today. I can't believe he is that old - I can't believe that this time next year I'll be posting pictures of my two in their uniforms. It goes so fast. 

We had Year 8 only day today 300+ kids in the student centre - hot and yucky! 

To all the mums who are sending their little people back to school in the next few days or who are just starting I wish  happy, happy times and memories - don't forget to take the photos and write the stories - these days pass too quickly.

Night

Tamar  xx

Etsy.com

Have u visited ? Such a great place to surf for inspiration - just creative stuff of mixed media not necessarily scrapping

They have this cool section called search by colour

and apart from fun animation - when you run your mouse over the colours these bubbles are created

you can click the bubbles and things that are that colour come to the screen in little polaroid versions

So you end u with a collage of cool things in the colours of your choice that looks like this

which really just makes you want to go shopping

for this

or this

Give it a try. You know you want to. Now that I have finished playing its time to get on with some work -Richard is at golf its quiet - girls are fed and curled up with Lazy Town - appropriate really because it feels like a lazy day - I'm tempted to return to the couch and read but I have about half an hour left of stitching to do an a layout that's making  me very happy. So I'm going to go do.

Have a great Sunday .

Tamar xx

Kiwiscraps- I'm so there!

I don't do freestyle - no really I don't but I'm thinking maybe if I am ever going to do it I might as well learn it from the gurus -

So I'm off to Sydney to meet the Freestyle team and be freestylified - I'm taking a class with each person but I'm particulary partial to  Kim Henkel and Tia Bennett :)

More details are here

New Album on the side with the start of the layouts from the other nights class. More to come :)

Busy day today  - Braved Pacific Fair with the girls- and everytime I do I ask myself why I bother - we had to get a gift for a birthday party for a friend from daycare- we also visited Mikasa - I KNOW I am a lunatic. But they were having an end of lease sale -so as quickly as I possibly could I scooped up a few things without any breakages and made a run for it - ( yes I did pay!) Very good bargains!

and then I also some great shoes but I really couldn't cope with anymore so we did the  chores and that was it! no shoes for me lol

The party was at smileez - gotta love that place - noisy but airconditioned with lattes - what more can parents want really?

so here are the munchkins ready for the party - they insisted I take a photo - LOL too cute... be nice if they would stand still and what is it with the fake smiles at this age? These are the Angelina dresses I found two weeks ago at Target for $16. Desperately trying to teach them less is more when it comes to bling but so not getting that concept at four!

Check out that first photo -  makes me laugh - it's so them - Sofia is on the right Talia on the left - they like to be dressed alike but have totally different opinions on how their hair should be done at the moment - Loving having to do plaits for Sofia  NOT - though you can't see them in these photos - they are little ones -she says ouchie with every wrap of the plait. ***sigh***

Very cool cake too! Should have seen the look they gave the party girl handing out the cake when she asked them if they'd like to share one of the cupcakes down the middle - It was a definate no- they are cake girls! Don't know where they get that from.

Big scrapping night tonight and some dvd's

Life is good right now

Hope it is for all of you  - thanks for dropping by.

Tamar xx

Happy Aussie Day

Wish I had cool pictures of the  girls waving flags  or something very Aussie - but I dont - sorry.. actually no pictures this post at all.

This morning we made a chocolate cake for Great ( the girls great grandfather ) for a BBQ we went to this afternoon - which  was lovely - the BBQ I mean - cake was good too

but  have to share the conversation about the cake

I had to be at work by 9.30 - I woke at 8.20 - eek and had to make a dessert eek.

So I get the girls and say we have to make a cake for Great

YAY  Great loves cakes  they say

Great Loves chocolate will it be a chocolate cake they ask

Of course  - still thinking OMG what am I going to make ..

He is going to be so excited - they are jumping round the kitchen as I rummage  through my cupboard looking for anything that resembles the makings of a yummy chocolate cake

- yes I say - because he will be they are right - he loves chocolate cake LOL

and then Sofia says I know we can decorate the cake with a heart - excellent  I think cause I still dont know how I can magic and decorate a cake in the time I have lol

she goes to the scrap room and gets a pink felt heart and brings it back - we can decorate it with this so Great knows we love him.

How cute - So we ring Great and tell him -

And I magic up a chocolate cake complete with a pink heart for Nana Eve and a blue heart for Great strawberries and cream and chocolate curls. and get to work on time - No picture - but the recipe will be in the next Tarisota Talk LOL - It was yum - he was excited - it was all good

Working on some class stuff tonight - including my sample for Charmanes class Hopes and Dreams which runs this week. Going to be a fun class!

and new collection and new designer on site in 4 ish days - YAY

and I am so not supposed to say  this but on March the 1st - I can't wait to spill - we have something HUGE happening - and the people involved are all going to be groaning as they  read this cause I'm pushing those deadlines on them by announcing it - gotta love that!

Going to be good!

REALLY good :)

Can't wait.

Tamar xx

Inbox

Be still my beating heart

in my inbox when I got home from a very ordinary HOT day at work..

I sit down to a cup of vanilla tea - havent had it? - try them they are yum .. Actually I might send them out in a collection soon...

and my muffin break muffin - did you know they now have a weight watchers one? Holy doly are they good apple and raspberry - you'd never know they were low fat  - I digress

I find this....

Hi there just reading your blog I too am a Greys lover, I have all the episodes that have aired in the states for season 3, I can send you the disk if you like.

Now at the risk of having my new best and dearest sweetest most important friend in the world 's inbox overrun with  requests from everyone else I will not be sharing who my friend is .. but she knows and

If i like .... its coming my way -  Ill let you know how good it is 

:)

:)

Happy dancing quietly at my keyboard...

she is soooo my best friend.

BEST

friend

Mine.

Tamar xx

Grey's Anatomy

I missed this whole thing - totally  a bit like Sex and the City - I missed that too LOL

and then I read a few bits here and there and decided I had to see what the fuss was about...

Richard bought me this ... for christmas -

I never do this - ever - Have never watched a season thing of something  on DVD or Video for that matter - I rarely watch TV

and I did - from start to finish  Boxing Day and the next day  and night - I was hooked - I nearly downloaded  season two from a site but commonsense   - ( read here looming deadlines) prevailed and

was due out on January 10th -

I had Richad stalking Kmart - and  the  DVD stores -  11th Janaury we finally got it - 6 nights - 8 discs 27 hours  I watched - I was glued - never before 2.00am - I saved it for my quiet time -usually my sleeping time - but I couldn't sleep I had Grey's to watch - Richard  would get up each morning - How did you go - Yep watched it all I would say bleary eyed - and he would bring me the next one home that night - Not through the day - I couldn't have the disc there and not watch...

and so I'm finished I'm sad I want  to know more  ...

and  I have to wait - But I don't think I want to watch it week by week

and then I find on 2peas ( of course ) these Greys groupies and i'm compelled to open the thread and read - even though I know they are talking about the next season  -

So I had a litttle fix I have some answers to stuff I wondered and now I am going to stay away from threads like  that

and wait.

Really I am!

Tamar

Tempted ? If you haven't watched  go visit your DVD store.  It is good!

Not sure

what the saying is - but something about losing a pound and finding a penny?

That was my day

Returned to school today - no secret I wasn't keen

Had a heap of interviews booked with students who had failed year 11 and had to have the talk about what they were going to do

- wasn't looking forward to it   teenagers - can be tricky

But all interviews were good - Kids keen to make a change parents so supportive and appreciative of the intervention - as each one Ieft  I thought this is a cool job - something not fun turned into something to be grateful for -

work PC broken - like dead broken IT guys hmmm cant fix it - maybe next week -  - phone calls and screw drivers bits pulled off and things stuck in  - ok maybe tomorrow he announces at 2.30 - we started this my PC doesnt work at 8.30 lol  but  the New registrar is organising a new screen for me -  bad ergonomics apparently is the source of my neck issues late last year - YAY for workplace health and safety - he told me that I had no idea  :)

Tarisota   - new Limited Edition up in about 2 hrs  check it out here  soon  LOL

*** edited at 12.30 pm  :) to say  we are now loaded and on sale :)   A scrapping organiser -designed by Tracy Wyldman ***

This time 13 years ago I was dancing at my wedding reception . Hard to believe 13 years -   we talked about it - the last two have been the hardest with the girls and the business and work. I believe you need hard to know good and to appreciate good - Okay - we know and we appreciate - can we start to have some good now - Only one tanty before bed tonight I wonder if that counts as the start of less hard LOL

An EDM layout - of one of my favourite wedding photos - we were struggling to get that shot -and too busy laughing  to do the  kissing shot - I think you can tell - all Richard could see was straight down the front of my dress .

and you know its only after 13 years of marriage that you can have the following conversation .

   hey Ngaires tagged me on her blog - I hate those things i never know what to write says me

   whats the tag ? asks he

6 weird things about me... theres nothing weird about me Im conservative normal I say

Oh no you' re not he says.

I'll write the list he says.

Oh I say.

So courtesy of my just married 13 years ago husband

1. I love to drink tea but won't make it myself - I say it tastes better if someone makes it for me - Coffee however I will make myself  ( yes that is true LOL)

2. I only need 4 hrs sleep a night ( I dont  know if that is true - I only get 4 hrs a night - even if I'm in bed I lie awake )

3. I always leave two crusts on plate when I eat a sandwich ( really? I had no idea I did this - I'm going to watch from now on )

4. I'm an IT enigma - can write and manage a site - learn new software as fast as anything  but can I run spybot? Do I even know  where my virus protection is at - what about my backup - Hows that going ? ( yeah Its true and others say it too so must be really true LOL - and I do get someone else to do that stuff for me - leaves me cold NO idea )

5.   You can count the number of times you have put petrol in your car in your life on one hand ( so true I don't do petrol well- He fills the tank for me every week and if its empty I dont go out )

6.  You can remember minute details about papers and manufacturers and orders and can recite stuff in your sleep - but  can u remember to turn off the iron ?  bring the clothes in ? or do you know where the vacum cleaner lives? ( Now he's just getting petty but  yep all true - I leave the iron on so much that we have to buy one that turns off automatically - I NEVER remember to bring the clothes in - NEVER - he rings to remind me I have forgotten by the time I put the phone down - wiped from my memory and the vaccum cleaner -well yeah no idea - I think its in the garage somewhere )

SO thats it 6 wierd things abotu me -  and now I tag Suz  Trac  Rachel Charmane and Nic :)

And finally - I want  to send out a reminder and its not something I normally do - tonight I received a call from a colleague about another colleague. It's a shock a huge shock - She is a good person. She's worked solidly the last 5 or 6 years focusing on getting a promotion  - and worked hard and she has had disappointments and you know she just got appointed - She was starting at her new school today - She's not -she is in hospital in a coma - brain aneurysm  happened quickly she had no idea. 40% chance of recovery.  Our prayers and thoughts are with her family and for her fast recovery.

Life is short and precious - if you're not happy  -  go be happy - get happy do what it takes .

Many  of us spend our times wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing   - Alexander Woolcott

Tamar xo

Long post - good on ya if ur still with me!

Classes

I have just listed a new class for the January addiction collection - you can see it here ...

One more to come... a card class for scraps :) *** edited - done! Upa nd ready for you too.***

A new limited edition  - tomorrow as promised - The project is gorgeous - the  papers are KI :)

I'm working on it  :)

Tamar

PS I'm back at work tomorrow - we return to the usual midnight changes on the  site LOL - can't wait!