Kellie Winnell

Random Fact :- If I find something I want I will look around until I know I have found the better price and still the same quality.  Even since I have started using the internet I always thought ebay was heaps cheaper and that used to be the case.  NOW there are so many amazing places.  I even get family members asking me to look for things and they tell me the price they found them for and I then always find it lower and the same quality.  I am a regular bargain hunter and according to my hubby everything crafty I buy was on sale and a bargain *wink, wink*…… xo

Tickled Pink Stamps is having a HUGE SALE to celebrate Australia Day!  I am about to go off to a BBQ and can not wait, expect a lot of photos in my instagram Monday post.  BUT I had to let you all know about the amazing sale I am having over at Tickled Pink Stamps.  For 24 hours ONLY starting midnight last night you can find this sale….

45% OFF all rubber stamps in store and 15% OFF all digital stamps in store…

But you better get in quick as things are selling FAST…. www.tickledpinkstamps.com.au

I have seen this going about on facebook for a while now and being that it’s Australia Day here tomorrow I just had to share with you all.  I find myself smiling and nodding through the whole thing……  I thought maybe my fellow Aussie girls would agree and that all my international readers might like to read just how dagging and fun loving we are……

YOU KNOW YOU’RE AUSTRALIAN IF:
* You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.
* You’re liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of Americans “rooting” for something.
* You pronounce Melbourne as ‘Mel-bin’.
* You believe the ‘L’ in the word ‘Australia’ is optional.
* You can translate: ‘Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas.’
* You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.
* You think ‘Woolloomooloo’ is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.
* You’re secretly proud of our killer wildlife.
* You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that’s twice as big as its $2 coin.
* You understand that ‘Wagga Wagga’ can be abbreviated to ‘Wagga’ but ‘Woy Woy’ can’t be called ‘Woy’.
* You believe that cooked-down axle grease makes a good breakfast spread. You’ve also squeezed it through Vita Wheats to make little Vegemite worms.
* You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis.
* Beetroot with your Hamburger… Of course.
* You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels’ song ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again’ And “Living next door to Alice”.
* You believe that the confectionery known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year.
* You believe that the more you shorten someone’s name the more you like them.
* Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language.
* You understand that ‘excuse me’ can sound rude, While ’scuse me’ is always polite.
* You know what it’s like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.
* You know it’s not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle and a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron.
* Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.
* You shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they call ‘Anzac cookies’.
* You still think of Kylie as ‘that girl off Neighbours’.
* When working on a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.
* You know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in -o: arvo, combo, garbo, kero, metho, milko, muso, rego, servo, smoko, speedo, righto, goodo etc.
* You know that there is a universal place called “woop woop” located in the middle of nowhere…no matter where you actually are.
* You know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like shit. But we let the world think we do. Because we can.
* You have, at some time in your life, slept with Aeroguard on in the summer. Maybe even as perfume.
* You’ve only ever used the words – tops, ripper, sick, mad, rad, sweet – to mean good. And then you place ‘bloody’ in front of it when you REALLY mean it.
* You know that the barbecue is a political arena; the person holding the tongs is always the boss and usually a man. And the women make the Salad.
* You say ‘no worries’ quite often, whether you realise it or not.
* You understand what no wucking furries means.
* You’ve drank your tea/coffee/milo through a Tim Tam.
* You own a Bond’s chesty. In several different colours.
* You know that roo meat tastes pretty good, But not as good as barra. Or a meat pie.
* You know that some people pronounce Australia like “Straya” and that’s ok.

I hope it gave you a laugh as much as it did me….. xo

Well I just wasted a good hour trying to re-do something on my blog that I think I can now admit defeat, having tried for the past few days off and on and OK I was lying, it’s been WAY longer than an hour, dang it.  I even got dinner ready and served early to have it all done and then get parcels ready for posting tomorrow, and do a bunch of other things, but it just never happened, sometimes the net can be a trap.

So why the topic?  Because I did just waste my night trying to do things that I have NO idea why I can not figure them out, no wiz bang computer nerd, but “usually” I can figure it out.  BLOGGER is by far easier than wordpress and anyone who says differently clearly knows more than me haha.  Blogger I can work myself around rather well, figure things out and no mumbo jumbo coding like Wordpress.

So I think I can call it quits, save my nights to working and crafting and most often cleaning up after the day.  So I have been on the look out for a designer and even this can take time out of your day, because you then get stuck looking at the portfolios and then the blogs in the port folio and then so on, I really don’t need to explain you all know where I am going right?  Then comes the same old things since I started.  To get a blogger blog designer or make over it can be $50-$200 cheaper than wordpress, which I can see why but gezz whizz…..

I have thought of moving over to blogger, but I’m not sure the posts can be imported and I don’t want to lose almost 4 years of blogging……. Wow that can’t be right surely not, I better get my fingers and toes out once I post this and figure it out haha…

SO if anything I am asking for HELP….. Do you know of a good wordpress designer?  Often lately there are more and more that design blogger as well as wordpress.  Not the case when I first started, BOY was it hard to come across just one.  I had a friend that helped me out when I started and then I slowly started to learn things more and more myself.  But I want a pretty looking blog, I want to stop wanting to change it every month, I want something that I just want to look at over and over again…..  Not asking for much huh?  I would love if you could leave a link in the comments section or email me kelliewinnell@gmail.com with anyone you know of.    Maybe even when I get this all done the comments might start working they way they are meant to as well, might be a win/win.

I have a couple written down at the moment but no harm in asking about just in case.

I do however feel extremely sorry for the person that does take me on as I have no idea what I want, well I do and then I don’t and then I think I do………..  Yeah you see the pattern.

Thanks all so much in advance and now that I have spent WAY to much time, wasted half of it, I am going to bed right before midnight xo

So another day and another list the size of my mmmmm I’m going with leg today something different, rather on the white side too, could almost be mistaken for paper I guess.  Joy of being a red head, with freckles on my knees, oh yes I tell you no lie, I do, some people find this rather amusing…..  I find it rather amusing they find it rather amusing…… Yeah say that 3 times really fast.

So I wanted to share something with you I made with my The Paper Bakery Kit.  These are selling out FAST, and this is this months add on kit and for an add on kit can I just say WOW you really get so much for your money and I have managed to make so much with left overs.  I used some scraps on my previous cards and STILL I have more….

Here is a preview I added to my instagram when I was making them….  I often share things in my instagram like a little peek so be sure to come and follow along with me if you have the AMAZING app.

And here is a little up close and personal with the pinwheels I made.  There were SO much fun and so easy.  I did use my hot glue gun and I think I have burnt myself so much that I actually do not feel it anymore haha.  I think this statement says it all….

And here is the close up I mentioned and then got side tracked like I always do….

Basically everything on this message board is from the kit, minus the board, alphas and one of the buttons on my pinwheel…..

WHY the side on picture?  Well the glare that shines from the cover of the board made it impossible for me to get a photo with out my boof head being in the reflection haha!  I will try again but I have already tried over 6 times, maybe I am just crap at taking photos in general.  My only problem is I forget to look at my board to NOT FORGET….. Geesh can anything work haha!  It now site on our sideboard and the first thing you see when you walk in the hall of our front door.

So again check out the amazing kits over at The Paper Bakery HERE….

And I hope you have enjoyed seeing my creation xo

OOoooooo have you seen the new colours over at The Twinery? Here is a little look see…..

Yummy right!  I can’t pick a favourite but I am leaning more towards the shore as I am all into Blue this month, I told you my colour love changes each month didn’t I?  I wasn’t lying to you all.  Be sure to check out The Twinery blog HERE….. as they have a special promotion discount code for you all, how AWESOME is that. I’ll have something to showcase the new colours SOON… xo

I forgot to post this at the start of the month?!  Where has my brain been?  I was looking at what I was going to get ready for my January favourites and then realised that I hadn’t even posted my December ones?!  This getting on top of things and more organised isn’t going to be easy as I once thought, but I will get there OH yes I will get there………..

Kraft, I can not believe I have not had this in my favourites before!?  I absolutely love the cardstock kraft and in fact RARELY do I use anything else as my base!  I might every now and then add other colours on top but 99.5% I am always using kraft and I love it.  I think it’s mainly because it can match with any colour, any design, there isn’t much you can’t match to kraft apart from maybe kraft itself haha….

I love using these Studio Calico bags and not just for when my new kit arrives but for when I order in sets of a collection I can keep them all together until I am ready to use them and they are also good to make your own little kits which I did and made a few layouts doing this.  They are really good priced too if you ask me.

Washi tape……  I think you can pretty much guess this will ALWAYS be in my top picks, I use it on everything and last month this was my go to and favourite.

I would had thought I would had done this already but another thing I use every time that I just never think to actually show as my favourites.  And this is my little mini sewing maching!  I now have two as I “thought” my other one had died, turns out it hadn’t.  So I now have two which is fine by me.  I have one on my scrapbooking/cardmaking area and another on my project life area so it works out pretty well.  These are fabulous if you are not wanting something big, or just using for cards/scrapbooking.  You can pick them up pretty cheap online too, especially via ebay.  Both mine have 3 stitching sizes and 7 different stitch designs namely zig zag.  I LOVE IT…..

So there you have it, my late favourite things from December….xo

Well today is the day, it’s the day hubby went back to work after having his holidays boooooooo.   He took a week longer than he usually does and I loved it!  And we have Australia Day coming so he’ll be having a short lived first week back.  But non the less means not long till the girls are at school and life goes back to early morning and school rushes and all the rest.  But for now time for another…

And the past week was busy but not a photo sort of busy…..

• The first one was taken from my phone of the temp at 7pm at night and still HOT!
• Next we have a SMASH page I will be blogging this week
• A bunch of gorgeous chilli plants at a shop here that Kira and I almost bought
• Some happy mail from Pretty Little Studio
• I took a few of those with a headache for 3 days
• Some more happy mail from Evalicious that is DELICIOUS…
• Yummy fabrics all in Amy Butler style
• Jenelle and I having a catch up.
• MORE happy mail with hand crafted rubber stamps.

So there is my past week in instagram style, now to play catch up….. xo

My blogging pal Carisa has been working really hard on getting something together she has wanted to for some time now and it’s exciting to see that she has started to let everyone know her exciting new and new venture that I am so excited for her…..

Be sure to check out the blog with a site coming soon!  (click the picture above to be taken to the blog)…… They are having a call on what they need for the next issue and check out the facebook page so you wont miss a thing.  HOW exciting… GO Carisa.