So much happening

This year I plan on blogging more and just letting everything out of my head.

This month has had its up and downs already, was going pretty good, till I got a call from a detective in Newcastle in regards to an incident that happened to me when I was 14, so 25 years ago, her call was so unexpected and brought back some really bad memories. I met with her and her partner on the 15th & 16th January, on the Wednesday mum came with me and they separated us and one took mum's statement while the other took mine, on Thursday dad came with me and he gave his statement to one of them while I finished giving my statement to the other detective. I was so mentally and emotionally drained at the end of both days and all the bad memories had come up again and brought to the front, I had put it all in the back of my mind till then. I now just have to wait to find out when the trial will be and go to court.

This year I decided I was going to do Project Life properly and instead of monthly do weekly, I am really enjoying it and am up to date, here are my spreads up to week 3

Also there is a new challenge up over at Scrap the Girls, with a really easy sketch, I decided to do a layout about my One Little Word, Nourish. Which I'm finding really is the right word for me this year, here is my layout

Also there is a new challenge over at The Scrapbooking Hut, the challenge is to scrap a layout about your pet, here is my layout

December Challenge @ The Scrapbooking Hut

It is my turn to set the challenge this month, and its an All About Me challenge, you can find all the details for it here

Here is the page I did in my smash book for the challenge

November Challenge over @ The Scrapbooking Hut

Here is my page for Nicole Knopke Challenge over at The Scrapbooking Hut

Here is the poem I wrote if you can't read it properly on my page

There's pieces of me all over the place
Falling around me all over the place
No one knows how I truly feel inside,
all they see is what I want them to see
There are days when I feel lonely and
all alone
There are days when I'm sad
and could just cry
There are days I just want to run and hide
and not come out at all
There are days I just want to scream
as loud as I can and let it all out
There are days I just want to cry
and let the tears flow
There are days I'm happy and
will jump all around
There are days that all I want is to
be surrounded by people I love, talking and laughing
My life is different to everyone else
There are pieces of me all over the place,
some I don't want back

And I'm ok with that
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Be Sure to go over and check it out and join in with us :-)

October Challenge @ The Scrapbooking Hut

Shazza started the challenges off this month with a great challenge, we had to use a dream catcher on our pages, I decided to draw mine and zentangled in the middle of it, I then found a poem to go with it, here is my example

You can see the challenge details and all the other DT's work over at the forum

Hope you come and play along with us

Exciting News

Woooo hoooo I am one of the 12 DT members over at The Scrapbooking Hut, I'm so excited Thank you so much Di Chook Landers, really looking forward to working with you and the other ladies! Huge congrats to you all  The other DT members include:

Angela Westland, Degilbo, QLD

Beve Arbuckle, Wagga Wagga, NSW

Cheryl Lambert, Wodonga, Vic

Cheryl O’Brien, Cootamundra, NSW

Dot De Marco, Wagga Wagga, NSW

Eve Rae, Nowra, NSW

Jeaunes Viljoen, Johannesburg, South Africa

Karen McLaughlin, Avoca Beach, NSW

Liz Hocking, Wodonga, Vic

Nicole Knopke, Tingoora, QLD

Shazza Bishop, South Morang, Vic

There is also a forum you can check out that will have all the challenges and is a great place to chat: The Scrapbooking Hut Forum