a little of my life

logic is a lost art!

especially when it comes to the bloody British Embassy aka Passport office over here.

ok - here's the deal we need a passport for lily as she doesn't have one, and one for fay as you must have at least 6 months longer on your passport than on your visa. We don't have that for Fay - so she needs a new passport. especially as we are hoping to go to the UK for Christmas - if everything goes right.

so we've got all the forms, got our awesome friend to sign off the horrible photos and send it off weeks ago.. all seemed cool until about an hour ago when we've had them returned to us... becuase we didnt send the long form of Ian's British passport - we've never had one - we've always had the short form - it was good enough to get Ian's passport, our marriage licence, Fays passport, our work permits etc but not good enough to get lily's passport now.. even though Ians passport number etc in on the bloody forms..

hello - obviously if you have already given Ian a passport and Fay her passport, you've already ok'd his right to British Citizenship - you don't need the bloody birth certificate!!!

imagine steam and angry angry words coming out of my ears right now becuase we now have to get a long form from the UK, hope it gets here in time and send off the forms again with more fees and hope they get them back to us before December otherwise we're not going anywhere :( 

*insert long litany of swear words*

and the little one said...

 

"I want a dinosaur party for my 6th party"

and the mama rolled over to make the invites with Riff Raff dinosaurs coated with a variety of greens and then glimmer misted to death.  Mama is now very tired but they are done.

lisa rocks the kits!

Treasured Memories are now doing 3 kits a months - all very limited supply (dont forget they will ship to you) - they do 1 kit that's a technique (this months it's 10 second studio), 1 is vintage style (this months its creams and blues and golds) and 1 is a bright kit... I like the two other kits this month - some nice touches but oh wow - lisa knows how to rock the kits!! check out "Sky's the limit" kit... I am so getting it on my next trip into the store!! 

 

yeah!!

Huge congratulations to the awesome and cute Chantel and hubby!! I hope the next few months are uneventful and calm :) good things come to those that wait !!

and for other cute small people, check out Twisted Sketch #22 :)

 

i'll go with Beluga

I have stolen my post for today...

This is from Suze's blog and is so perfect for how I am feeling right now.

Recently, in a large french city, a poster featuring a young, thin and a tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said: ¨DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE?¨

A middle aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the poster, responded publicly to the question posed by the gym.

To Whom It May Concern:

Whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, sea lions, curious humans).. They have an active sex life. They get pregnant and have adorable baby whales. They have a wonderful time with dolphins stuffing themselves with shrimp. They play and swim in the seas seeing wonderful places like Patagonia, the Barren Sea and the coral reefs of Polynesia.

Whales are wonderful singers and have even recorded CDs. They are incredible creatures and virtually have no predators other than humans. They are loved, protected and admired by almost everyone in the world.

Mermaids don't exist. If they did exist, they would be lining up outside the offices of Argentinean psychoanalysts due to identity crisis. Fish or human? They don't have a sex life because they kill men who get close to them not to mention, how could they have sex? Just look at them.....where is IT ? Therefore, they don't have kids either.. Not to mention who wants to get close to a girl who smells like a fish store?

The choice is perfectly clear to me; I want to be a whale.

We are in an age when the media puts into our heads the idea that only skinny people are beautiful, but I prefer to enjoy an ice cream with my kids, a good dinner with a man who makes me shiver and a piece of chocolate with my friends. With time we gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room it distributes out to the rest of our bodies.

So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy. Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think, ¨Good grief, look how smart I am...¨

 

and then I see a lot of these in my upcoming Christmas - instructions are on ZakkaLife

 

Today is the Day!

Today is the official Launch of Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins! 

 
(i haven't linked up videos or in game images as its an 18 rated game but click the link above for all the good stuff)

this is Ian's game - He was the Lead Level Artist for this game- this means that anything that doesn't move (people, animals) so all the environments, buildings, levels etc, was his responsibility - He had an awesome team working with him - the guys are the best and we are very proud of them. They have worked so hard for 5 years to get this game to this level - it is an awesome game (scores 92% on Metacritic for those into reviews which is a huge score) with over 100 HOURS of game play.

I am very proud of Ian - I know the struggles and determination that went on for the last 3+ years and I am glad for him that it has turned out so well. He has every right to be proud of this game and his team. 

Ian - you rock!

 
the tshirt is exclusive for the artists who worked on dragon age - its the Grey Wardens Logo - i cant even get one :( 

ps. apparently there are photos of Ian's 40th birthday in the 'making of book/video' so when i get a copy I am going to check it out - the cake in particular is a special story - maybe i'll share it with you all soon.

They have a launch lunch and such like for the Dragon Art team today so we'll see how drunk he comes home later - they deserve every beer.

growing up way too fast

shush, yeah i cried when she was so excited that the tooth fairy left her coins and a letter. 

 

and here's some of Ian and fay from Halloween - on their way to the haunted house :)

  

 

Lily was a dinosaur/dragon/monster but she wasn't entirely pleased by the whole thing. I'm in the middle of Fay's 6th birthday party invites and 2 mini albums that i am way behind on. so should be sharing lots with everyone this week.

Happy Halloween

just sharing some Halloween inspired layouts that are up on the My Minds eye blog for today :)

 

and the Prima Build-a-Page sketch is up too!! 

it's the same slide that is in this layout about Fay at about 18 months - Suzanne would be pleased to know its well travelled and well loved many years later.

 

keeping the kids happy

even the 40 year old ones :)  One of the cool bioware traditions is most people dress up at work today. Ian went like this... (ps thanks to Carter for the use of his lightsaber)  that cloak took me 3 days to sort out and it look even more awesome in real life. it has a hood and everything. but it was bloody fiddly. hopefully later i'll get a full length photo so you can see how it all looks together

 

doing the twist again :)

getting back into the scrapbooking saddle...

Twisted Sketch #21

 

up to my ears in costumes! be back soon