Artistic Musings

Friday shoppe news - Welcome, Damayanti Studio Design ... :)

Welcome, Damayanti Studio Design, to our twolittlepixels' shoppe ... always so much fun to have someone new join us! Here are some of her gorgeous designs available at sale prices for the next 24 hours!!!

What a Feeling kit ...

[Available here ... ]

Frozen Blue kit ...

[Available here ... ]

Follow Your Dream kit ...

[Available here ... ]

Snow is Delightful kit ...

[Available here ... ]

We are continuing our 2nd birthday sale a little longer to celebrate Digital Scrapbooking Day, so you will find our entire shoppe on sale, 25% off, until the end of DSD. In fact, if you hunt a little bit you might find some extra special sales hidden away ... creashens has a gorgeous new kit and little album out this weekend ... and you can pick it up for 30% off ...

[Available here ... ]

[Layout by Carol ... ]

[Available here ... ]

[Available here ... ]

And you will find Deca Designs' entire collection of beautiful products in the shoppe on sale for 35% off ... and here's something new from her this week ... Gabi kit! :)

[Available here ... ]

[Layout by Ferdy ... ]

We have some other new products too, also on sale ... from me, a new simple set ...

[Available here ... ]

[Layout by Sharon ... ]

From cherpea designs ... Christmas Cardz!

[Available here ... ]

From jot & scribble ... Holiday Vine Element Pack!

[Available here ... ]

And from Cintia Tavares ... a CU Autumn Pack!

[Available here ... ]

Now, to finish up this lovely long post, don't forget our grab bags, only available for 24 more hours! Catch them while they are such a bargain ... :) 

Days like this ...

Sometimes you have a bad day. Sometimes that bad day stretches into a weekend. And sometimes that 'bad day' weekend even makes it into the new week. Yep, that's the sort of week it is ... so far, lol!

It started off fairly innocuously. Friday morning. We all love Friday morning, me particularly, as it is my day off, and this week, I had plans to go 'south' with my coffee mate, to enjoy some coffee and shopping at Harbourtown. Sounds like a good plan, doesn't it? Well, at the bottom of our street, a truck had rolled, and traffic was stationary. It took us 45 minutes to do the usual ten minute run to school ... on my day off! Did you get the important bit? On my day off.

We eventually arrived at Harbourtown, and decided that we would begin the day at The Coffee Club. Now, nothing can go wrong at The Coffee Club, can it? Apparently so. I swung my elbow back during an animated conversation and clipped the corner of the chair I was sitting in and seriously thought I had broken something. I didn't hit my funny bone, just bone on metal. Not good!

I survived, and after coffee, stepped outside to begin the shopping experience in earnest, when I turned my ankle on uneven paving! At this stage, I was beginning to think I should have stayed home! Seriously good shopping here though, despite having to spend the rest of the day hobbling! :)

Looking back, I've kind of forgotten all the dramas that went on after this, but they involved running out of petrol, getting a daughter to a party late (because she wasn't ready in time!), the relentlessness of trying to keep a year 12 son on track where assignments and study are concerned, a weekend without water due to a DH taking up plumbing (also involving about 6 separate trips to the local Bunnings ... don't even ask!), and the mind-numbingly boring weekend tasks like washing and ironing and housework.

So here we are at Wednesday ... halfway through the week, and I'm only just recovering!!! I have some exciting twolittlepixels' news though ... our twolittlepixels sale is continuing until Digital Scrapbooking Day is over, and we have a brand-spanking-new designer starting with us (my time) on Friday night ... hmmmm ... wonder who it could be? And of course, our grab bags will still be up for 'grabs' until the end of the sale. Hey! The week's looking better already! :)

Layouts using our birthday grab bags ... :)

I thought you would like to see some beautiful pages using the contents of our designers' grab bags ...

[Layout by Krizomel, using Ange's grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Sandrine, using Ange's grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Zibr1, using Anita Designs' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Zibr1, using Anita Designs' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Amanda, using cherpea designs' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Margote, using cherpea designs' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Deca, using Deca Designs' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Eressea, using Deca Designs' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Aprilrose, using jot & scribble's grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Cheryl, using [ksharonkdesigns]' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Carol, using [ksharonkdesigns]' grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Elina, using ClickPhoto Design's grab bag ... ]

[Layout by lovingsue, using ClickPhoto Design's grab bag ... ]

[Layout by Michele, using Michele Stone Designz' grab bag ... ]

Grab bags are around for just one week, at US$3! And, of course, our sale is on for just a week too, to celebrate our second birthday! See you there ... :)

Friday shoppe news ... :)

It's all happening this week ... 25% off birthday sale, and 14 grab bags by our wonderful designers ... you can find us here ... 

Congratulations ... :)

... to my baby  turned 15 last week, and achieved a B+ for her seventh grade AMEB piano exam!!! My dad has some video footage of a little impromtu concert that happened the day after her exam ... she played for him, so I might put it up if I can work out how. She played the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, Gigue from Suite No 8 by Handel, Clair de Lune by Debussy, Rondo in C major by Beethoven, Will o' the Wish by Quilter, and Malaguena by Albeniz. I've grabbed some random footage at youtube to give you an idea of what they sound like. Now we are enjoying the fun of picking out her eight grade pieces ... I'll share when we have decided! Remember, we have to listen to them for two years, as she prepares for her eight grade exam, so they really have to be pieces that we can live with, lol.

Have a wonderful day ... back tonight with the start of our week-long birthday sale at twolittlepixels and some gorgeous grab bags ... see you then! :)
 

My Sister's Keeper ...

More book sharing ... :) I read My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult over the weekend, and it's a good read. I visited the author's website this morning, and grabbed this synopsis for you ...

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life… even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less?

This is a great book, lots of layers going on here. My heart bled for everyone involved ... and I got to think about things that hopefully I will never have to deal with, i.e. the terrible sickness of a child, and the decisions that you have to make that go along with that awful journey. I'm not sure I want to see the movie, I think I will just stay with reading the book. Too sad, too confronting ... too real. The only thing I didn't like was the ending ... but I won't say any more about that. If you like books about families, about real life, about well-developed characters, then this may be the book for you. :)