Rocking Horse Present

Vienna was very very lucky at Christmas to be one of the lucky recipients of a handmade by Uncle Tony rocking horse. Uncle Tony had a production line going to make 4 of these rocking horses for his grandchildren and his great niece (Vienna), we felt so very lucky! Uncle Tony is very clever at working with his hands and he did a fantastic job.

It is super cool and she just loves it!

Daredevil riding!

Discovering Maraetai

In January we spent a gorgeous afternoon discovering Maraetai Beach. We tried out the playground - Vienna liked the slide but was not so keen on the swing.


Then we went for a walk along the beach and out onto the wharf, Vienna seems to be as keen on the water and beach as her Mum is. I always seem so peaceful and de-stressed when at the beach - maybe I should move there!

We carried on our walk along the beach and tried to buy a drink at the cafe but it was closed so we walked slowly back along the waters edge. Vienna LOVED the water and got right on in! We weren't in togs so I had to restrain her before she got too far in.

A gorgeous way to spend a gorgeous summer day.

Meeting Santa 2010

On Sunday we were invited by Uncle Tony to the Steel Mill Kids Christmas Party - well Vienna was invited and of course we went along too!

She got to meet Santa who gave her a lollipop to go with her present.

She also saw her cousins, did some dancing,

watched and clapped for the cheerleaders, went on a couple of rides,

visited with some animals (with Uncle Tony and Aunty Lyn),

played with some toys and had an ice block. And then did some great sleeping and had a late lunch at Karaka Kitchens with Sarah, Jess and Christine. What an awesome day!

Thank you sooo much for inviting us out Uncle Tony, we had a great family day out!

Camp Challenge - October 2010

Camp Layout 2

Each Scrapbook Camp we have a camp challenge where we are given a number of items and a list of instructions and then let loose to create with them. Sometimes I am really inspired by the challenge, other times not so much! This camp I felt a bit of pressure to the challenge as last camp I didn't do it. This time I set out photos twice and then ended up making a layout that was not in anyway the challenge. I think it was the pale baby blue plastic slide that was screwing with my mojo ... so out came the Staz-On and it was no longer baby blue but now matched the felt stars. One of the rules was that we had to do at least one sentence of journalling ... there was a bit of discussion as to how little we could actually get away with and still complete the challenge and be available for judging - I think Glenna won this discussion with her reasoning that if you spelt out the date it counted as journalling! I had a little help from Gypsy with my journalling - thanks hun!

I love this photo of baby Jacob's feet and the black and white photo helped me to not have to match the blue embellishments to the photo.

I really like the finished layout and am very happy with it.


If you want to check out what items we had to work with and what the rules etc were go here http://cazdezign.blogspot.com/2010/09/october-scrapcamp-challenge.html and if you want to see all the finished layouts (including Shannon's winning page) go here http://cazdezign.blogspot.com/2010/10/october-challenge-layouts.html

Family Reunion

Loving this page - so simple but it just works so well. Yay for Tania's cool font and for sharing!

Our branch of the Bellhouse family was sooooo small compared to all the others. But we have been having lots of babies in the past year so it is growing! Yay!

Christmas 2002

I have made this Christmas tree before but in the true style of each page taking on it's own unique style it looked completely different to this. The little word plaques are from our gift exchange last year, so are the sparkly silver brads Yay!!!

Nicola and Roel

Finally ... the start of my creations from camp.

My cousin Nicola got married to Roel in December 2006 and I offered to do a wedding album for a wedding present for them. Now, I didn't actually get the photos until 2007 but still, I do think that I may have taken a little long to complete the gift! I finally got my bum into gear at camp and finished the last 13 out of 20 pages that I had to do.

I am very happy with the resulting album, I hadn't done a wedding album before. I kept it simple using black, white and the pale pink taken from the baby roses in Nicola's bouquet, the same font throughout and the same stamp on many of the pages.

Happy Birthday Daddy

Today would have been my Daddy's 62nd Birthday ... it is also the 9th Anniversary of his parting. I know that he is shining on us from where ever he is now and smiling at his little Grand-daughter.

My Daddy was one of those extra special people who walk on this earth, he would give you all he had, help with anything in his power and always put others first (especially Me! - his little girl).

On the 5th Anniversary I discovered that May 12th is also Florence Nightingale's Birthday and International Nurses Day, it was kind of a kick in the pants from my Dad to do something nice for the amazing nurses at Waikato Hospital ICU who were so amazing in their care of him. So I started a tradition of taking those amazing nurses some yummy Miss Wendy baking, I'm sure that they appreciate and enjoy it and I love the feeling of knowing that Daddy approves.

This year Vienna came with me and we braved the blustery weather and drove down from Auckland to deliver Best Ever Banana Muffins and Rolled Oats and Chocolate Chip Cookies (with a caramel twist - I ran out of condensed milk and in true Daddy style made do with what I had and added some caramel instead ... mmmmmm yum!).

The receptionist remembered me from previous visits and welcomed me, the staff nurse that I spoke to also remembered me and said that the love the baking and that it is so nice to be remembered.

Vienna got to wear her party dress since it was Grandad's Birthday, she looked super cute and wooed everyone she saw!

Seabright Family Portrait

Camp layout: 5

December 2007

The Seabright family gathered for family portraits at the Te Awamutu Memorial Park gardens. We got lots of photos of all of us but I really like this one of Ashley and his family - Dad, Mum and Boys ... nice.

KISS Girl

An addon to todays scheduled posting to show off how cute my little rocker was last night at Ally and Gareth's 80's Rock party.

I had so much fun dressing Vienna up in her KISS outfit, it is such a shame her Daddy is still away in Melbourne and didn't get to join in for a party that he would have loved!

Being a rocker is in her blood! She was partying at gigs while still growing and this time she got to dress up and show everyone how cool she is! Everyone loved her baby fishnet stockings - they were the perfect finishing touch.

She loved seeing Roel (my cousin Nicola's husband) at the party - she knows all about KISS and was quite happy to hang out with him as he was on of the band from Daddy's DVD that they watch together. She had a yummy munch on his shiny outfit.

Nappy Cake for Nicola

I have been making nappy cakes for a while now and I know that everybody who makes them does it a little differently but I am pleased with the format that I use. This one was for my cousin Nicola's baby shower at the weekend. I was pleased to get feedback from my cousin Maree that she used every single piece of what was in her nappy cake! That is definitely what I like to hear, I hope Nicola finds hers just as useful.

Cute Food - Nicola's Baby Shower

I was totally inspired by the 'Mini' food theme for my cousin Nicola's baby shower - they couldn't have picked a better theme for me if they had tried!

This is what I came up with and was very pleased with it!

Northland Holiday

For my birthday Ashley took Vienna and I away for a night, we decided to head up North as Ashley hasn't been that way and I wanted to show him what I had seen when I went up to stay with Val and Andrew in 2008. Ashley climbed Tokatoka Point (I had already had the pleasure and wasn't keen to repeat it with a baby to carry), we stopped at Tane Mahuta - the oldest Kauri tree in New Zealand ( @ 2000 years old), spent the night at Opononi Resort, then carried on to Whirinaki and had a lovely visit with Val and Andrew, and lastly carried on to Whangarei to visit Poppa and Margaret.

BIG tree, little girl.

Bush walking baby (and Daddy).

Opononi Beach - so gorgeous, we walked for ages along it.

The view from outside our little unit, back from our walk.

I think we made Poppa's day! He loved meeting Vienna.

We had a most lovely 2 days away.

Our New Cousin

Vienna got to meet her Seabright cousins ... she is their first cousin and Cameron especially was very excited to meet her ...

He played close by her while she slept, showing her his toys and chatting to her.

They played with Grandpa, Cameron was quite happy to share his Grandpa with his new cousin.

He loved getting to have a cuddle of his own ... WOW!

Uncle Jody meet his niece.






Jody figured out that she is the first girl in the family to bear the Seabright name for 39 years!