A little Easter Gift for members of Clikchic Creations. 
If you are not already a member you can register from the Clikchic Creations home page.
Included in the gift are 4 painted easter eggs and an easter doodle frame.
Happy Easter!
I did this layout with my Serendipity Freebie that I did for the LDD Apprentice Program and the swirly heart is from my round three entry. Unfortunately I didn’t make it through to round 4 thanks to a silly error on my part. DOH! A bit of a shame as I would have loved to make it through to the final round but I guess now life gets back to normal. 
I joined in to get the creative juices flowing again and it certainly helped with that! I have a professional use glitter style and pattern set due to go in store at SBE Sunday week as well as a second Canvas Inspirations set. I am revamping my doodle kit that I had submitted to the LDD apprentice program and will get that in store soon at SBE also.
As soon as I can decide on which picture to use I am going to scrap the conversation the kids had the other day also. I don’t want to forget that one!
Which reminds me, really need to do some backing up, I haven’t done any in months!
I hope you are all having a lovely Good Friday. Jaz really wanted to go to church to see what it was like and so Dean took her today. She was excited to see her best friends from school were there but as I suspected she found it pretty boring. She really is still way to young for it. Maybe at some stage Dean can take her when they have a Sunday School class on and she might find that more interesting. She is really fascinated with religion at the moment, I think because they are doing weekly RE at school.
We both really want her to learn enough so that she can make her own decision when she is old enough so we both make a concerted effort to not push her either way, but just tell her what we believe and what some other people believe. I stuggle with it sometimes to keep my explanations neutral. Dean is better at that than me! She does love learning all the bible stories though and that is fine, I did too at her age at school.
Anyway, enough rambling, it is late, must be why! 
That’s my excuse and I am sticking to it.
My darling boy and his funny little habit! I had to do a layout with my kit Serendipity available Sunday at SBE
Here is my round three entry for the Little Dreamer Apprentice Program. This weeks assignment was to do doodles.
Here is a layout of Jaz which I did with my kit, Serendipity. (available Sunday at SBE)
This photo was taken on her 6th Birthday. Her top tooth had fallen out only a short time before the photo was taken. Her adult tooth is about half way through now and the second one is becoming wobbly.
Kyan is at last getting the hang of toilet training. He did not have nappies on during the day at all this weekend and he did not have a single accident. He has also started doing poos on the potty as well which up until Friday he refused to do. He says he is a big boy now and thinks he doesn’t need his car seat anymore. LOL (doesn’t help that we got rid of Jasmine’s booster because she is getting so tall.)
I had my visit with the specialist today. So far I am none the wiser. They for some reason didn’t do the gene testing even tho they took the blood for it, so I had the blood drawn for that test again today. My lactose enzyme levels had improved a little and went from zero to 20 which apparently is still very low. My biopsy also showed improvement but apparently this does not mean anything as the damage shown on the original biopsy could have been from a gastric infection.
He now wants me to go off some medication I am on to see if it improves some of my gastric symptoms and I have to do that for 6wks. Then I have to go back and see him and have a ‘chat’ about the possiblity of doing a gluten challenge. For now I have to stay off the gluten, so no hot cross buns for me this year! BUGGER! I was so hoping to have some! So all up, no real answers and all very dissappointing because it still seems like there is no progress.
On the bright side, I have a referral to Dr Claire Boothroyd (Endocrinologist) in Brisbane, so maybe she can shed some light on what on earth is going on with my body.
This morning I was in the bathroom getting ready for work and I could hear the kids in the loungeroom talking. The conversation totally out of the blue went a little like this:-
‘I love you Kyan… Do you know who I am going to really miss today? I am going to miss YOU! Who are you going to miss today?’
‘I am going to miss Jasmine today!’ he shouted. Then lots of cooing and giggles and lovable carry on.
How adorable is that! I just love how well they get on together and how loving they are towards each other. They have their moments of course just like any siblings do but I feel very lucky to have two kids who show such warmth and love for each other. I just stood there in front of the bathroom mirror grinning like a Cheshire cat! How did I get so lucky to have such adorable children!
How exciting, I made it to Round Three in the Little Dreamer Designs Apprentice Program. This was my entry for round two that got me through. We had to make one metal element, one glitter element, a stitched element and a free choice one plus one of the elements with a shadow.
The set will be included in my new kit Serendipity available at SBE on Sunday 8 April.
Last week was such a busy week with my birthday last Wednesday and Kyan’s on Monday. I was really pushing it to get my entry done! Kyan had his birthday party on Sunday which was a lot of fun. I will have to post some photos as soon as I get a chance to upload them from the camera. I think Grandpa will enjoy the photo of him on his new drum set! He had a lovely time on his new bike at his party which we had at a local park with bike tracks. We were amazed at how quickly he got the hang of it! Kyan was very distraught on Tuesday morning when he asked us and we told him that no it wasn’t his birthday anymore. He was very much loving having two days of receiving presents!
With Kyan now being 3 he seems to have taken a big step with his potty training. He is now coming home from kindy every day in the same clothes so he is no longer having accidents there. He has started waking up dry from naps as well so I think we can start letting him wear undies for his day naps. He still will not do poo’s on the potty and won’t let you take his nappy off in the morning if he thinks he needs to do one. So we are still working on that. Jaz was the same when she was toilet training, hated doing poos on the potty. I still have to take him to kindy in a nappy because he will often do a poo on the way, but he gets changed into undies once he is there.
Jasmine is SO loving school and learning so many new words. Each night she has to read us a book for homework and she really does well at it. They have moved her up to the advanced reading group which she is very proud of as are we!
Her swimming lessons have also paid off as she is one of the few in her class at school who can swim proper freestyle. Kyan’s swimming has not been going so well. We have had to pull him out of his class as he was getting hysterical. We just can’t work it out as he was doing SO well last term. He loved it, but for some reason not anymore. We might give him a break from it and try again at a later date. We both think it is very important for them to learn to swim properly so we will keep at it.
My health issues are still a mystery. There is now some doubt as to whether or not I am a Coeliac. Of course I now have my hopes up that I am not and that I can discontinue this awful diet. I had some testing done nearly two weeks ago and I will get the results on Monday. After a ‘chat’ with the specialist we will decide on whether I need to do a gluten challenge or not which involves going back on the gluten and having another biopsy done to check for new damage. I am so hoping that the gene testing that they did will show that I cannot be Coeliac since I don’t have the gene, but then of course we will need to find the reason for my extreme tiredness, anemia and other health issues. Apart from the tiredness my most annoying symptom at present is frequent and horribly embarrassing sweating (and night sweats) with very minimal exertion or increased temperature. At least my joint pains seem to have eased quite a bit and I now only get them occasionally instead of daily. At the moment I think I would be in heaven if I could only wake up in the mornings and feel like I have some energy to take the day on.
Dean has been a real trooper around the house making up for my lack of energy where he can. I feel so guilty and worry that people will think me a hypocondriac but Dean says you can see on my face by how pale I am that all is not right with me. Good to know I am not making it up! LOL Dean does however at the moment have a bout of bronchitus but is on antibiotics now so that together with the day off he had yesterday should clear it up pretty quick with any luck. Thankfully the kids are over their bouts of illnesses!
Anyway, thanks for reading my ramblings! I do go on sometimes don’t I!
Have been meaning to post this since last weekend but have been flat out this week! It was my birthday on Wednesday and Kyan’s birthday is on Monday and we are having his birthday party Sunday so there is lots to do!
Anyway, here is my latest paper pack, meant as both papers and something you can have printed and framed or printed onto canvas. I plan on having some printed on canvas when we move into our new house to decorate. (we don’t have one yet but are looking!)
Anyway, this one is my first set and I have another in the works. The photos for these were taken by me in some local gardens. I LOVE spring in this city. Click on the preview below to go direct to the set at SBE and view the bigger previews.
If you haven’t done so, don’t forget to snag this freebie at Little Dreamer Designs. It is available there for the duration of the Apprentice Program which is throughout March. You do need to be a registered user to access the freebie from their gallery, just click on the preview to go to the freebie. There are heaps of other freebies there as well so snag them while you are there!
Firstly I just wanted to update you all on my Oma. She has made a miraculous recovery. She had an infection that went into her blood but once her antibiotics kicked in she made a huge improvement. She is still very fragile at 92 years of age so she is doing so well to get this far! It is her birthday tomorrow, so they are going to have a big celebration in her room which is lovely. Wish I could be there!
Now for my exciting news!
I submitted an entry into the Little Dreamer Designs Apprentice Program. Mostly for the fun of it, inspiration and because I love a good bit of competition. (it runs in the family!) There were over 140 entries and only 40 made it through to the second round and I was lucky enough to be one of them, so I am very excited.
It will be fun to take part but I am going to be very busy! If you want to check out my entry you can see it here. If you wish to view all the entries, click here. Each of the entries are Freebies you can download, so make sure you at the very least download mine. I would love to see your layouts with it too! If you post layouts with the Freebies in the LDD gallery you can win a $10 voucher to the LDD store so make sure you check it out! There is some gorgeous stuff in that store as well as the apprentice gallery!
