Yes, I am on fire tonight. In about 7 and a half hours I am leaving on the incentive trip with Stampin’ Up! to Palm Cove, Cairns. I am so excited. I finished my swaps yesterday. Seems it is the best of the best Stampin’ Up! demonstrators I wanted to do something pretty good. So I hope they  like my swap cards. They were a little bit of work cutting everything out. Now I know (Gail, Chris, Karen) have been really bugging me about not updating my blog so I have done a super update tonight but wait there is more!!! Yes, I am not going to promise anything but seems I have wireless board band I am going to take my lap top with me on the incentive trip and I will try and post a few things for you girls to see!

 

I embossed all the chiefs 34 in total with black embossing powder.

 

The lid flips up and there is cheese and grapes under the lid!

So it is time to go to bed so I am all ready, well bags almost packed for the most exciting holiday ever, well for this month anyway.

Cheers

Naomi

My old baby room mate Natalie turned one on sunday. Nerida (natalie’s mummy) is one oldest and dearest friend (since we were 3) so of course Aunty Nome helped Nerida to create some very cute invitations using the cupcake stamp set. Nerida was so impressed that is only took us one hour to make 13 invitations, well I am a super stamper! SO Happy Birthday Natalie.

NatalieMiss Natalie Meets Ralph

For some reason these didn’t attach to my first post!

I couldn’t stay away from another craft show. I think I am addicted to doing these things. So I flew down to Melbourne to help Janine and Gail and our downline group with another craft show. This time it was the Quilt and Craft show at Jeff’s Shed. I did have a great time chatting with people about how much I love Stampin’ Up! So here are a couple of pictures from the show.

Janine getting ready for the show!A couple of the gang.

This year we decided to do posters for our samples so each demonstrator who participated show cased their favourite stamp sets.
Cheers

Naomi

Where does the time go!!! I haven’t updated this since May!!!! Well here are all my excusses!!!

1. May - July I didn’t have very much internet access!!! I was living with my beautiful friend Nerida and her partner Andy and baby Natalie.

2.  I have been working 72 hours a fortnight at the Mater Children’s PICU and on all my days off I drive up to the coast to see my neice & nephew and of course Ralphie. Ralphie is currently living with my brother Cameron and Anthea on in coolum!

3. I haven’t done much stamping to even show you anything, living out of the Golf for the last 3 months makes it very hard to stamp.

4. But now I am house sitting for my friend Jo and I have wireless roaming broadband! So I have internet access and I have space to stamp. SO I will show you a little bit of what i have been doing in the last couple of weeks.

I have been giving lots of cuddles to my favourite baby girl!

I have also been entertaining Sheamus!House sitting for my cousin.

This is Charlie my cousin’s schnauzer and of course my Ralphie at the back. It was a love/hate relationship with the two boys. They did seem to have a lot of fun in between the fighting!

Charlie & Ralph not always good friends!

 

I will next show you a little bit of what I have been doing with my stampin’ up!

Love
Naomi

I have been tagged twice by my friends Sarah  http://www.sarahklass.com/   and Keesha http://www.makeeshabyl.com.au/ . Thanks girls. I am flat out updating my blog let alone doing something that will involve me to think.  So here I go…………………

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

Ok 7 things about me.

1. My biggest dream has always been to swim with Dolphins. I loved Dolphins growing up and had posters ornaments and all sorts of Dolphin stuff. So in 2004 when I was in Mexico I got to swim with Dolphins and it was amazing. Mind you it would have been so much better to do it in the wild but in a tourist resort was the next best thing.

2.  I am extremely flexible and can still do the splits at the age of 28! No I never did gymnastics but I did dance for 10 years.

3. I always wanted to be nurse since I was in grade 3 and was admitted to Nambour Hospital with a respiratory virus. The nurses were horrible to me and my mum had to leave me three nights in a row and I  cried so much I would throw up. This is when I decided I wanted to be a nice kids nurse. My favourite book growing up was Doctor Duck and Nurse Swan. So I am now Nurse Swan. I am a really nice paediatric nurse because of my own childhood experience.

4. My Grandma died when I was 6 years old. I have been told that I get all my creative, crafty talents from her and I am a lot like her (even untidy like she was). I think she is always watching over me as one of my angels.

5. I first went to Calgary when I was 15 in 1994 on a school music tour playing the Sax. I moved to Calgary in 2001 (sweet 21) and moved back to Australia in 2006. The best thing about living in Calgary was all the great friends I made while I lived there.

6. I have been friends with Nerida since I was 3 years old. Even today she is still there for me whenever I need her. She is a true friend.

7. I hosted my very first Stampin’ Up! party in June 2004 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. My party total was $1200 and I have never had a workshop that totalled that much since. I joined Stampin’ Up! in Calgary October 2004 and I haven’t looked back. I was the 10th demonstrator to sign up in Australia.

That is 7 random things about ME. Now it is your turn……………..

Annette - http://www.shopwithnet.com.au/

Gail - http://www.stampwithgail.blogspot.com/

Jo Eades - http://www.missinkyfingers.blogspot.com/

Julia Dinn - www.kreativejewels.com

Nikki - http://stickycuttystampy.blogspot.com/

Simone - http://www.simonebartrum.blogspot.com/

 Vee - http://www.veannetreasure.com/

 

 I know I am not very good at keeping this up to date but here I am!!!! I have actually made some cards  for once which is amazing. Life has been busy since I moved to Queensland. I have started a brand new job and are trying to get my Stampin’ Up! business off and running. One of my good friends from high school is helping me get things off the ground by having a couple of workshops for me. She isn’t all that interested in stamping but she is happy to host a couple workshops for me which is great. So I think I might do these cards at her workshop this weekend. I am totally in love with our new In colour range, which is what I have used on these three cards. Purely Pomegranate is my new favourite colour! I have also been doing some scrapbooking because I have some spare time on my hands (photo’s to come).  

Stamp set - Short & Sweet

Stamp Set - Voila ( I think this might be my new favourite set)

Stamps - So Swirly

Cheers

Naomi

Stampin’ Up! Events are always so much fun. Get 300 women together who love to stamp and create and love to chat and it is a fun filled weekend. I saw lots of great new project idea’s from all the great new products in our 2008-2009 idea’s book and catalogue. I am inspired to stamp and create, now all I need is some spare time and some Queensland Customers! I think the best thing about Stampin’ Up! events is meeting up with old friends and making new friends at the convention and this was no exception.

This is a photo of the session called Paper, Pad and Markers. We were stamping the colour charts of the four colour families, neutral and the new In-colour range. I just thought it was so amazing to see this many women all lined up in a row and stamping. We were only stamping an little square but I thought this was the coolest sight. It looks like a STAMPEDE of STAMPERS.

Our convention bag fits in with our DREAM BIG theme. I loved seeing all these blue bags all lined up in a row! I was trying to be creative with my photo’s.

This is my good friend Sarah Klass we were so excited to earn the incentive trip to Palm Cove North Queensland. We wore our badges we earned with pride. Sarah lives in Perth and is a very talented stamper. She is a little more of a perfectionist than me, I was in trouble for helping her with her colour chart and not sticking the square on straight! Ha ha! Visit her blog as she is truly amazing with her projects. www.sarahklass.com

 

This is my downline who could attend convention. I actually currently have 26 members of the Creative Nomes Down Under but only a few of us could make convention. This is Julia, Me, Simone, Tiffany and in the front row Melissa and Nikki. We had so much fun between the stamping and maybe a little drinking, it was a great weekend.

These are my Sunny Coast Girls, Julia and Tiffany below.

This is Venessa Web, Venessa also earnt the incentive trip. I am looking forward to spending more time with Venessa in Palm Cove.

More pics to come.

Cheers

Naomi

My friend Liz from the Childrens Hospital came over last week to help me make the Easter Cards for our unit at the Royal Childrens Hospital PICU. We made 15 cards in two and a half hours. I was very impressed with our efforts. These were our creations. We also made tags for inside the card to emboss the baby’s foot print on it. I forgot to take a photo of this but they looked super cute. I think I like Easter Cards almost more than Christmas Cards, well bunny’s are super cute and I like the colours.

A little late but Happy Easter!

Naomi

We will be at Paperific this weekend. For those of you who receive my on-line newsletter you would already know this, but for those of you who happen to be popping by, here are the details.

Melbourne Paperific Expos 2008

Caulfield Racecourse

March 28-30, 9am-5pm

www.paperific.com.au

Free make and take projects at our stand. We will also be selling show bags with the 2008-2009 Idea’s Book & Catalogue in it! So come on by. We have great show specials

- Place an order over $50 and get a free pack of Stampin’ Dimensionals

-Place an order $100 and get a free pack of Card Stock (A4 Single colour)

-Buy 1 stamp set for 5% off 2 sets for 10% off and 3 or more sets for 15% off.

-Buy 5 inks pads and get an ink refill FREE

 For my existing customers and hostess’s only, you are also invited to a special customer appreciation afternoon and my Stampin’ Up! Good Bye Party at Paperific. 2pm -4pm Sunday March 30th in the workshop room. 1 make & take project to create as well as lots of Stamp Sets to be raffled off! So don’t miss out and please RSVP if you are coming. This is only for current customers and hostess’s.

Cheers

Naomi Swan