This is going to be long....

so grab yourself a cuppa.. something to eat...lol... or in my case a nice cold glass of Coke Zero!!!

Iv'e been scrapping up a HUGE storm the last few days... All stuff for me.. no DT stuff at the moment...So i will share my creations at the end!!!

First lot of news... Our horse Flasy Dancer... is now retired...
Poor little sweet thing.. Her last race she ran (a few weeks back) she didnt pull up too well.. she has done her knee... so we decided to retire her and use her to breed with.. thats a whole other story..
But now this gives our boy a chance to show us what his got...lol.. His still un named but we hard leaning torwards Cut "n" Paste... He looks like some has put him together...lol.. His body's too big for his head and his legs are too skinny for his body...lol... But in our eyes his oh so handsome.. and he really is a good looking boy.. We headed out to the farm on Sunday to say hello and give them both a cuddle...i took some photos but need to edit them.. will share another day!!
Jorja had a ball out at the farm.. riding the pony and collecting the eggs from the chooks...lol...

Ok more news...lol... a few weeks back i posted about some BIG news in our little family....Well... umm i feel i can share now.. but the details are all still going though... so anyway...
Mark's boss Mick.. gave us a pretty good offer about two months ago.. He has given us the opportunity to buy in on a BUTCHER shop with him...!!!
This is something Mark and i have dreamed about and wanted so badly for a while now.. our own business...but it was always out of reach as butcher shops are pretty pricey.. So when Mick rang us about a shop in Rowville we JUMPED at the chance..
So you guys are looking at the new owners of Rowville Meats.. well as of the 3rd of Sept anyway..lol.. only a few weeks to go!!

This is a huge step for us... a huge risk as any business is... but a risk we are willing to take.. to give our family everything we can.. Its going to be a lot of hard work, a lot of very long hours.. but i just know we can do this.. as a family!!

So if you live in the Rowville area.. make sure you pop in and say HI.....

Onto some scrapping....lol.. i have had the best week... prize wise...lol...
I won a rak on the Arty Pants forum... Thanks Julie...very yummy a stamp and some yummy papers, ribbons, buttons... Then i won a rak on the D & S scrapbooking blog... a oh so yummy Cherry Arte paper pack.. two of each i might add and a very cool scrapbooking bag!!.. Thanks heaps Deb and Sally.. and then over at Sarah's blog i won a ever so cute Bee stamp.. thanks Sarah!!!
I have also been published again... not once but twice in the new issue of Scrapbook Creations... wooo hoooo... I have a project and a page in the gallery!!!

Ok here is what i have been creating this past week.....

first up i have alterted a wooden box.. not sure for what yet at the moment i have my Photo a day book in there....






And i have finially altered my wooden letter "c".. only one more to go... was waiting for some paper that i just fell in love with...the oh so yummy BG...mmmmmm





and now some layouts......









told you it was going to be BIG...lol...
So if you have made it this far.. you have a chance of winning a little RAK from me!!
in honour of all the wonderful RAK'S i have won... So just leave me a comment and you are in the draw...I think i will draw it after Grey's on Sunday night.....

Thanks heaps for stopping by....
Dont forget to check out my photography.. here... and if you leave me a hello over there you get double entry into my little prize....LOL...

take care

Connie....xxxx

ETA.. spell checker not working...lol... had too many wines to check myself...lol..so please forgive me!!.. its onlytaken me 3 hours to finish this post!!!!... chat soon....