a few more wedding pics to share.

My parents and my son the groom:

My little ones, they are so close, Eden, my little girl, was ushered around all day by her brother, i caught this pic of them while he was telling her not to be in the way and he's holding her hand so that she wont run off and get involved, they are so sweet and he so protcetive of his little sister

then a few more pics of my lovely dil lighting candles

lastly a pic while they were signing the registrar:  if anyone is interested in seeing a few of the proffessional photo's done by the photographer you can follow this link:Jason and Lisa at Killarney country club and just scroll down.
smiles
Paola

good news!!

Hi all my blogging friends, do you see the pictures?  YAY!! i managed to get extra gigs for my blog, yes it cost a minimal ammount, but i seem to have loads of space now, just gotta watch that i dont load such large format pics in the future.  Hell when blogger told me i was outa space on my blog i nearly had a nervous breakdown!

Well since i got the space i thought i wouldnt waste time and i would make a card to share and also enter a couple of the challenges that are on the go right now:

MDUC: shabby chic/ use lots of white
MSL: ribbons

recipe:
Stamp:  # 261 Tilda with Hawaii flower available from Magnoli-licious
           hero arts swirly borders
Punches:  MS border daisy flower, spellbinders labels eleven, Marianne design flourishes
Paper:  GCD Ashley Ella Blue collection
Coloring medium:  copics:  Skin:  E21, E00, E000
Hair:  E57, E55, E53             Clothing:  E74, E71, E70, E44, E43, E42, E42, E40
shadows:  W3, W0
Stickles star dust and distress ink vintage photo, and pumice stone.
Embellishments:  ribbon, pearls, butterflies, roses all from my stash

And last but not least a simple layout for inside my card.
smiles
Paola

HELP!!!!!!!!!

I have spent the last four or five hours, deleting my first year of my blog, cleaned out my downloads file, deleted all my picutres off my laptop, minimalised my home page, dont have a clue how much else i can delete without losing my laptop altogether.  My blogger new post page keeps telling me that i need to purchase more space to load any pictures etc.   HAS ANYBODY ELSE HAD THIS PROBLEM????  PLEASE ADVICE ASAP, before i shoot myself!
I couldnt craft or blog while i had visitors and working towards the wedding, now all i need to do i craft and blog and this has happened.
Any help would be greatly appreciated before i delete this whole blog and start again.
smiles
Paola
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wedding pictures!!!!

this is a pic of my son coming to veil his bride before the ceremony, oh my this was such an emotional moment!
A pic of the three men in my life:

My children:

And my STUNNING! daughter in law, she made the most exquisite bride, i am so proud of the newly married couple!!
will share more pics later when i have more as these were taken by Lisa's cousin James who is visiting from London and a few taken with my camera, hopefully will be able to share more with y"all soon.
smiles
Paola

Magnolialicious Challenge dt

I have had to hit the ground running for the last 48  hours, had so much to do.  I am now taking a deep breath and hope to get into the swing of things again, so forgive me for being somewhat late with this post.

We have a new challenge on the Magnolia-licious challenge blog chosen by Angela here is your picture inspiration:

I am using #3031 Tilda as a Shepherd aswell as #1412 Fantasy flower available from Magnolia-licious store where you can expect exceptional service from Diana and her team.  I wanted to try a twisted esel that we are seeing so much of in blogland lately, and i bought this wonky squares spellbinder espcially to make this booklike  centre to write the sentiment on when sending the card.

I have used loads of flowers and pearls from my stash, and i cut up a MS border and re-assembled it to go around my image.

The only problem with this style of card is that to properly showcase all the detials you need loads of photos, so i do hope you wont mind that this post is filled with pics.

I am pleased with how this turned out and hope it will inspire you to come and play with us on Magnolia-licious challenge blog
Have a great week
smiles
Paola

Magnolia Blog hop!!!

I am feeling positively GREEN around the gills so you will have to forgive me for the short post.
The two Magnolia dt's have gotten together for a blog hop and a bit of inspiration, if you have gotten here from Norma's blog then you are right on track.

For my card i used two images from the hoppy easter collection, the image on the front of my card is #399 Bunny Tilda and the inside i have used #268 Llittle Bunny Tilda both available from Magnolia-licious store.  The sentiment was a freebie from Bizzy Becs.

Used my MS punch around the page for my front matting layer, added loads of pearls, a few roses, some punched leaves and a few butterflies that i found at a craft store locally.
from here you wanna hop on over to Maureeens blog

If you get lost along the way you can head over to the Magnolia-licious highlights blog for a list of all the blogs to visit along the hop and information to join us with this exciting competition and blog hop.
Will be back later with a few snaps from my sons wedding so keep your eyes peeled.
smiles
Paola

SPRING EXTRAVAGANZA CONTEST!!

Magnolia-licious design teams are getting together to help usher in Spring and we are gonna be having an amazing Extravaganza that you are not gonna wanna miss out on as there are some FAB pirzes up for grabs:
For all the details pop over to the Magnolia-licious blog or the Magnolia-licious Highlights blog

And here are some of the awesome prizes up for grabs:
First prize for each category (there are 3 categories) - $150.00 Gift Certificate to the Magnolia-licious Store.
Second Prize for each category - $75.00 Gift Certificate to the Magnolia-licious Store.
Random prizes chosen by Diana will receive $25.00 Gift Certificates.
Now isnt that enough to wet your appetite?
So get the creative caps on bloggers and get creating.
While most of the people in blog land are celebrating spring, we in SA are sweltering in the heat of summer, so its a perfect time to squirrel yourself away and get crafting.
have a great weekend
smiles
Paola 

No idle hands in my house!

As you can imagine with less than two weeks to the "wedding" i am very busy, but i wanted to share with you what has been keeping me soo busy.  We decided that the flower girls would look really sweet with ringlets and since its been soo long since i have made ringlets i decided we needed a trial run.  Over the weekend i spent the better half of three hours winding my girls hair in rags, after lathering the hair in tons of gel, since it will have to last all day when the big day arrives.  they had to sleep with it in so that i could be sure it was dry, then we took out the rags on Sunday morning and then combed it out and retwist the ringlets so they are nice and soft.  I pinned up a few pieces so it would hang in layers down their backs, and then we palyed with added tiara's and pins etc.

This year we are celebrating "Purim" which is a Jewish holiday that the kids all dress up and we give gifts to one another, namely food baskets of dried fruits and nuts and perhaps a drink, nothing big, just a token gift, sometimes we add choccies, you get the idea.  Anywho i saw these fab baskets on Dena's blog and thought they would be lovely for the purpose of giving Mishloach manot.  My future dil saw them and decided that they would be great for the girls at the wedding too, so i made these in the wedding colors also.

We are collecting our dresses later today so look out for pics of those.
P.S: i am gonna enter my baskets into the challenge on the Crafty cardmakers challenge as they want you to use fabric, which there is tons of tulle all over these beautiful little baskets.
smiles
Paolas

Magnolialicious Challenge dt

We have a fabulous new challenge for you on the Magnolia-licious challenge blog and we are going "GREEN"
For my card i have used Native American Tilda available from Magnolia-licious store and i just wanna add, Dianna is so GENEROUS you get prezzies when you order and of course if you are close by, you get free shipping etc, so head over to the store and check out all the darling little Maggies that she has available.

I am really not a green fan, but that was the challenge, and a challenge it was too.  I masked my image onto the Log which you can also purchase from Diana and then colored with my copics, adding some grass around her feet.  I masked a bit of a sky around the background so you could get a clearer impression that my daring little Tilda is sitting outdoors.  My image was cut with a spellbinder nestie and then i added a punched border from Ek success, layered onto this paper from MME.

Added a flourish up the side of my card, a few gypsophylla and a couple of feathers and skeleton leaves and a large lush bow to the corner with a button centre to finish off my little ensemble.
The inside of my card was also quite a challenge until i turned my double sided paper over and noticed that on the back there were lines so i just cut a rectangle and  gave it the same border as the front of my card and a few extra embellies.

Do pop in to the Challenge blog and see what my great teamies have done with green this week and i look forward to seeing all the entries.  The ever generous Diana is giving one lucky individual a 25$ gift certificate so you dont wanna miss out on your chance this may be your lucky week

Have a great week
smiles
Paola

MIA for March

Hi all my blogging friends, i thought i would just do a post to keep you all in the know:
As i am sure you have noticed my blog has been pretty dead lately, my son is getting married on the 20th March, so we dont really have long to go till THE BIG DAY!
In Febuary we had quite a stressful month as i had to run around doing a whole barrage of tests at oncology, paediatric hospital with my eldest daughter who is eight, and has been suffering severe migraines for quite sometime.  Then one afternoon came home from school with a very bad migraine and her eyes started bleeding.  Thank G"d, they didnt find anything sinister going on, she has high blood pressure and cluster migraines which caused the bleeding in her eyes.  She has been put on medication and seems to be doing much better.
Then last weekend my little boy who is six bit his tongue and had to go to the emergency rooms for stitches in his tongue, five in total, his explanation, "my sisters made me so mad, i bit my tongue" can you believe that a six year old little boy can suffer with such rage!  This week we have the Largest craft show thats happens once a year in South Africa hosted in Jhb, so i have been doing my bit for the crafting world helping out at the show.  Between all the drama that life deals to a mother i am running to fittings for my dress and my two little girls that are gonna be the flower girls at the big event.
You may have read previously that i couldnt find them shoes, well good news on that front, i did finally find shoes for them, not what i wanted, however i am at the end of my tether and finally succumbed to getting whatever i could find, so they have shoes.  In between all of the above i have been comissioned to making cards for a lady that makes gift packs so i need to find time to do those too otherwise my craft stash is gonna start suffering and we just cant let that happen.
So if you have read this far and are all nodding your heads or nodding off by this time, i just wanted you all to know that this month you wont see much of me, however i did manage to make a couple of cards for some of my dt commitments last month while i still had time.  I have NOT resigned my dt positions, NO WAY! I have taken leave from my dt commitments for the month of March to focus on the wedding.  We have two weeks left and i am hosting a dinner for the grooms retinue, then we will have a tea at Synogogue on the morning of the 19th March, then after the morning tea i will be hosting a luncheon at my humble home.  Besides for all of this i will be housing all of our family members that live in other parts of Africa that are travelling to Johannesburg to attend the wedding.  I am sure by now you can all understand why i will be out of  action for a while.
Here's hoping that my followers aren't going to desert me, and i will be sure and post loads of pictures when i come back after the wedding.
smiles
Paola