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Wednesday 20 June 2012

Shake it up...

Good morning!

I hope everyone hung on to their hats last night, after our amazing 5.3 ish earth tremor?  I was having dinner at a friend's house last night and after dinner we had sat down in the lounge room.  She got up to put her son to bed and not long after my lounge chair started to shake.  It was weird, because I initially thought she was playing a trick on me by rocking my chair, so I looked around only to find her gone from the lounge room.  Then I thought that maybe the cat was climbing up the back of the chair, making it move?  I didn't give it another thought until my sister messaged me about the tremor and it all made sense.  What a weird feeling it is to feel the earth shake……sort of scary (luckily it was not a major tremor), a little bit exciting but also a strong feeling of helplessness, as it is beyond our control.

Anyway, I soon headed home to check that all was well and to make sure my pets were all safe.  Our house is on stumps so it would have had a right royal shaking for sure!

I settled in to poke around the Internet, as I quite often do some nights.  I clicked on the Contemporary Handmade Alliance website/blog which I had looked at briefly a couple of times before.  This time, I went through a lot more of the blog and found some amazing information on it.  The posts are sometimes written by guest contributors, each giving their own take on a certain subject and always filled with plenty of great advice.  I was pleased to discover Ali from Cheeky Pickle had written a few posts.

So if you have a few spare moments, which will probably turn into an hour or two, there are some great tips, tricks and info for your own handmade business.

Enjoy.

Cheers,

Jodie
MPHxx

Tuesday 12 June 2012

New reads…..

Good morning everyone…..
OK, I do love winter, I really do…..but my toes are still frozen and I am sitting inside at my desk, with a scarf still wrapped around my neck……the fire is blazing but I am STILL cold!!  Brrr!!  On this foggy and frosty morning I think even the poor gas heater was struggling! I do not blame my clever cat Buster, who hopped under the covers on my bed, while my other cat Lynx, was attached to me like a magnet, trying to keep warm.  Even with their lovely warm coats, they too are feeling the chill!  Outside the sun is now out and my dog Basil is up on his trampoline, soaking up some rays like a glossy, slightly hairy, black solar panel!

So hopefully you have banished the cold and are basking in front of a warm heater.  If so, I have some reading material of the crafty nature just for you!!

Tickle the Imagination……Issue 06 is available to read online HERE and best of all, it's FREE!!


AND…….

The new issue No.15 of Mollie Makes is available to download on to your iPad for $7.49 now…..!!



iTunes link is HERE

Enjoy your reading!!

Cheers,

Jodie
MPH xx



Monday 4 June 2012

Canberra stampede!!

Wherefore out thou Jodie?
Here I am!!
Sorry about the lapse in blog posts over the past few weeks, but phew! it has been a busy time……we went off to Fiji…… then back home and holiday recovery, then off to Canberra last week….. now I am back home again, recovering from my few days of convention.

And I have to say, the weather here is worse than Canberra!  I was expecting to freeze to death in our capital, but the weather was not too bad, crisp days and really chilly below zero nights, but altogether not so bad.

Not just paper goodies………..but gorgeous fabric samples too!! 
So what did I get up to in Canberra?  Well, if you can imagine 460-ish mad keen paper crafters, mostly Stampin' Up! demonstrators (including one gentleman demonstrator) all bursting with excitement, squealing, laughing, chatting and stampeding into the annual Stampin' Up! 2012 Convention, then you got it right!!  Two and a half days of demonstrations, seminars, shopping, browsing gorgeous cards and scrapbooking examples, playing with new products…..oh and GIVEAWAYS!!  Gorgeous giveaways galore!!  Capped off by a lovely dinner and awards night.  Ooooh it was so much fun!!  I mean, seriously, it was just brilliant!!!  If you love craft in any way, shape or form, you would have LOVED it!
Waiting patiently for the show to begin………Stampin' Up! Convention 2012

Creative class mayhem and fun!

A gorgeous scrapbooking sample

Stampin' Up! put on a fantastic, professional and welcoming few days.  We had staff out from the Home Office in Utah, USA and they were all so friendly and hilarious.  Our Aussie staff were their usual lovely selves, keeping us entertained and looked after.  So much was packed into two and a half days……..Well done to them all!!

Our team photo at the Dinner
The four of us had a fantastic Convention, lots of late night chatting and giggles…….somewhat exhausted most of the time…….fuelled up on Cola drinks and lots of chocolate……….absolute excitement about the new products coming our way in September…….and did I mention the giveaways?  So, so cool!  Oh and we had Teena's car, which we managed to fill with lots of goodies, and we got lost when we first arrived…….and got lost again.  I have never seen so many huge roundabouts!!  Even with using the GPS, Canberra is a tricky city to navigate!!

I would have loved to show you more lovely examples of the new products, but I am sworn to secrecy, so I can't post the gorgeous photos I have…….sorry ladies!!

See ya soon,

Cheers,

Jodie
MPH xx