Ok, nothing too profound at all today and this post is really only for the likes of Kat, Em, Tammi, Peach, Bron and maybe Stace (although I know she hates quilting!)
I'm on my iPad and linking up with you is difficult to say the least, but seeing as you are all in my real world I'm sure you won't mind!
Check out this awesome calendar......
(Oh and if you are feeling particularly generous, I'd love one thank you very much!!)
Ha ha.
Xx
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
New picnic blanket
Remember my post when I said I'm not really known for my crafting ability? Well that didn't actually mean that I can't craft....
I was on a picnic last year and saw a funky blanket made from cut up old jeans and thought I'd give it a go. A few pairs of old jeans that were destined for the op shop....
Chopped up and mixed with some cute apple fabric...
Bordered with a lovely bright green....
(A fuzzy kind of photo - wanting a new iPhone much.....?)
All completed and ready for picnic-ing on.
And that's just what we did yesterday. Chicken, salad and hot chips down the beachfront on a beautiful sunny Spring day to make the most of the school holidays - LOVE.
For my first attempt at quilting I have to say that I am rather proud of myself!
I was on a picnic last year and saw a funky blanket made from cut up old jeans and thought I'd give it a go. A few pairs of old jeans that were destined for the op shop....
Chopped up and mixed with some cute apple fabric...
Bordered with a lovely bright green....
(A fuzzy kind of photo - wanting a new iPhone much.....?)
All completed and ready for picnic-ing on.
And that's just what we did yesterday. Chicken, salad and hot chips down the beachfront on a beautiful sunny Spring day to make the most of the school holidays - LOVE.
For my first attempt at quilting I have to say that I am rather proud of myself!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Relax, don't do it!
Yes I did just title my blog post after an old Frankie goes to Hollywood song......
However, I have good reason to. As I write (on my iPhone) I am soaking in the bath in the kids bathroom.
Ikea tea candles everywhere (and NO my legs are NOT hairy - it's just the dodgy candlelit photo!!).
I got home from work to an overcooked dinner as I had the oven up too high, half my craft projects on the lounge room floor and a list in my head of a million unfinished 'things' that I think I simply have to do.
I flicked through my blog reader while the kids were doing the dishes and came across no less than 4 blogs about homeschooling and a gorgeous post by Em (ok, so I can't link on my phone - meh). All of these posts reminding me that it is actually OK to run a bath, soak in it and just relax.....! Aaaaah.
No the kids bathroom is not sparkly shiny clean, yes I can actually smell the dirty clothes in the basket next to me (and I washed yesterday - go figure) and yes, that is a bottle of dog shampoo behind my pretty candles.....
So what?
I'm relaxed.
The 'to-do' list will still be there tomorrow. And that's when I'll deal with it!
Xx
However, I have good reason to. As I write (on my iPhone) I am soaking in the bath in the kids bathroom.
Ikea tea candles everywhere (and NO my legs are NOT hairy - it's just the dodgy candlelit photo!!).
I got home from work to an overcooked dinner as I had the oven up too high, half my craft projects on the lounge room floor and a list in my head of a million unfinished 'things' that I think I simply have to do.
I flicked through my blog reader while the kids were doing the dishes and came across no less than 4 blogs about homeschooling and a gorgeous post by Em (ok, so I can't link on my phone - meh). All of these posts reminding me that it is actually OK to run a bath, soak in it and just relax.....! Aaaaah.
No the kids bathroom is not sparkly shiny clean, yes I can actually smell the dirty clothes in the basket next to me (and I washed yesterday - go figure) and yes, that is a bottle of dog shampoo behind my pretty candles.....
So what?
I'm relaxed.
The 'to-do' list will still be there tomorrow. And that's when I'll deal with it!
Xx
Friday, September 2, 2011
Beans, beans, the musical fruit.....
Breakfast time in our home is sometimes a bit of a pain... Hubby wants a full tummy to go off to work (and despite my complete aversion to white bread he still insists on it) preferring a cooked brekky to my favourite of homemade muesli and my own yoghurt with fresh fruit. Mr 13 will eat 2 bowls or more of Vita-Brits and top up on them throughout the day, while little Miss fussy 11 is a lot harder to please - her tastes vary from day to day.
I find that if I menu plan for breakfast along with the rest of the meals it's a lot smoother in the mornings.
I've wanted to try a Tana Ramsey recipe for Baked Beans for ages and a friend mentioned doing them in the slow cooker - sold!!
I googled a bit then made up my own variation.
In they went overnight and we woke up to delicious baked beans for brekky - a million times better than tinned ones, and I know exactly what's in it!
Served on toasted English muffins (yes I know, white bread.. Sigh) with a little grated cheese.
Best brekky for a chilly morning.
Now the bad news...
How do I put this?
Beans make you fart.
A lot.
And we took another drive up to check out the country town we will be moving to if the bank says yes. An hour and a half in the car with a farting family made for an interesting day trip I must say!
Good for a giggle I guess...
X
I find that if I menu plan for breakfast along with the rest of the meals it's a lot smoother in the mornings.
I've wanted to try a Tana Ramsey recipe for Baked Beans for ages and a friend mentioned doing them in the slow cooker - sold!!
I googled a bit then made up my own variation.
In they went overnight and we woke up to delicious baked beans for brekky - a million times better than tinned ones, and I know exactly what's in it!
Served on toasted English muffins (yes I know, white bread.. Sigh) with a little grated cheese.
Best brekky for a chilly morning.
Now the bad news...
How do I put this?
Beans make you fart.
A lot.
And we took another drive up to check out the country town we will be moving to if the bank says yes. An hour and a half in the car with a farting family made for an interesting day trip I must say!
Good for a giggle I guess...
X
Sunday, August 28, 2011
City to Surf
So for the third year in a row I've gotten up with the sun, dressed up as a tooth fairy, caught the train into the city (complete with wings, glitter and a tutu) and walked 12k from Perth out to City Beach..
This year hubby did the 4k walk with Miss 11 and Mr 13 did the 12k with me,
And my work mates,
Doesn't he look like the odd one out?
He ran ahead and met us at the finishing line. Wish he'd met us with a masseuse!
Just one more photo of the Tooth Fairies for you...
Perhaps I should have taken a pic of us skipping across the finish line, but we were too stuffed, so just enjoy the non sweaty, happy smiling pics!
X
This year hubby did the 4k walk with Miss 11 and Mr 13 did the 12k with me,
And my work mates,
Doesn't he look like the odd one out?
He ran ahead and met us at the finishing line. Wish he'd met us with a masseuse!
Just one more photo of the Tooth Fairies for you...
Perhaps I should have taken a pic of us skipping across the finish line, but we were too stuffed, so just enjoy the non sweaty, happy smiling pics!
X
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Decisions, decisions
Last weekend hubby and I went for a bit of a drive.
We've both had a dream for years of buying a few acres and having a little hobby farm. Our vegie patch has been both productive and enjoyable for many years, as have our little fruit trees and our chooks, but we are always talking about what else we could do to be more self-sufficient/sustainable if we had some more room to play, get a cow, have some sheep....... How good it would be for the kids etc.
Well the opportunity may have just presented itself.
We drove an hour out of the city, which makes it and hour and a half from where we live, and had a look. This time of the year it's gorgeous. Green fields of wheat (ok and crappy fields of GM canola, but this is not the post to debate the evils of genetically modified foods!) rivers flowing nicely due to the pleasant amount of rain that we have finally had.
The internet had quite the array of blocks of land and homes for sale out here so we cruised around and had a look. Including this one - 9 acres backing onto the river.....!
And what would we do for work you ask.....?
Well - this actually.
Hubby's trade is a baker/pastry cook and I think his heart is wanting to do it again, but for himself this time (ie, not working in a supermarket for a grocery giant). This bakery is for sale and if it's God's will for us it's looking as though we may well become the new owners. Scary stuff hey!?
The dilemma?
Well this Ruby Rose here has lived in the same beachside town for my entire 41 years of life on this planet!! I've never considered moving away from my family, my friends, my church..... I just always assumed that I'd get a block of land kind of close to the beach (ah yeah - dream on Linda!)
Hubby is doing all that he can for us to do this, but this heart is torn - I'm such an oak tree with deep deep roots planted in this hometown of mine, and hubby is a groundcover! Pick him up and plant him elsewhere and he'll thrive..
We visited the little church there on Sunday and met some truly lovely people, including plenty of other homeschoolers. We checked out the sporting opportunities and many other facilities available and it's all good. But I'm still hesitant. Excited and hopeful, but scared and hesitant.
I've spoken to this gorgeous girl and asked how on earth she packed up and moved from NZ over here - she said they just did it, without over analysing it.... Which is precisely what I'm doing!
This Kiwi babe is coming for a cuppa on Friday and will most likely say the same thing - just do it.....
So that's what I've been up to lately.
Will keep praying and will keep you posted.....!
xx
We've both had a dream for years of buying a few acres and having a little hobby farm. Our vegie patch has been both productive and enjoyable for many years, as have our little fruit trees and our chooks, but we are always talking about what else we could do to be more self-sufficient/sustainable if we had some more room to play, get a cow, have some sheep....... How good it would be for the kids etc.
Well the opportunity may have just presented itself.
We drove an hour out of the city, which makes it and hour and a half from where we live, and had a look. This time of the year it's gorgeous. Green fields of wheat (ok and crappy fields of GM canola, but this is not the post to debate the evils of genetically modified foods!) rivers flowing nicely due to the pleasant amount of rain that we have finally had.
The internet had quite the array of blocks of land and homes for sale out here so we cruised around and had a look. Including this one - 9 acres backing onto the river.....!
And what would we do for work you ask.....?
Well - this actually.
Hubby's trade is a baker/pastry cook and I think his heart is wanting to do it again, but for himself this time (ie, not working in a supermarket for a grocery giant). This bakery is for sale and if it's God's will for us it's looking as though we may well become the new owners. Scary stuff hey!?
The dilemma?
Well this Ruby Rose here has lived in the same beachside town for my entire 41 years of life on this planet!! I've never considered moving away from my family, my friends, my church..... I just always assumed that I'd get a block of land kind of close to the beach (ah yeah - dream on Linda!)
Hubby is doing all that he can for us to do this, but this heart is torn - I'm such an oak tree with deep deep roots planted in this hometown of mine, and hubby is a groundcover! Pick him up and plant him elsewhere and he'll thrive..
We visited the little church there on Sunday and met some truly lovely people, including plenty of other homeschoolers. We checked out the sporting opportunities and many other facilities available and it's all good. But I'm still hesitant. Excited and hopeful, but scared and hesitant.
I've spoken to this gorgeous girl and asked how on earth she packed up and moved from NZ over here - she said they just did it, without over analysing it.... Which is precisely what I'm doing!
This Kiwi babe is coming for a cuppa on Friday and will most likely say the same thing - just do it.....
So that's what I've been up to lately.
Will keep praying and will keep you posted.....!
xx
Thursday, June 23, 2011
More Bragging - Part 2
Another in my tribute to my friends..
Tonight is my beloved journalist friend Deb.
We met at playgroup in 2000 when our little Miss 11's were only 5&6 months old and our boys were 3. She very soon became my prayer partner and my Jiminy Cricket in the conscience department! Deb is the sort of friend you NEED. She doesn't "pussy foot" around the truth, she says it, as it is.
For example
Me "My hubby is driving me NUTS! Honestly he's not beng very nice lately..."
Deb "Are you loving him?"
Me "But he's doing blah blah blah"
Deb "Fill his love tank up and show him unconditional love"
Me under my breath "shut up Deb" out loud "hmmm, what if it doesn't work?"
Deb "What have you got to lose?"
Who knows that it works every time?!?
She is that strong voice of sensibility every time I need it.
Best of all though, she's a crack up to hang out with and awesome to go shopping with. We planned a date to Habour Town (factory outlet) once, and that morning she sent me a text to the tune of "This is the day that the Lord has made" but with the words
This is the day, this is the day
That we go shopping, that we go shopping
We will rejoice, we will rejoice
And find bargains here, and find bargains here!
Totally irreverent we know, but we both got a giggle out of it.
Oh, and we totally found plenty of bargains!
Deb is the friend who stops you when your conversation is drifting into gossip, the friend who reminds me how many years I prayed for a hubby when I'm having a grizzle about him (I adore him, truly!) She's the friend who prays over the phone with me if I'm having a moment, calls and asks my advice, or just calls and says "hey, how's things?"
We are very different in our personalities - she is vegetarian and I love my meat, she is a cat lover and I'm NOT! (whoops, there goes half my followers.......!) I'm a gardener, she wouldn't know if she had salad herbs or noxious weeds in her backyard.
Our sons are polar opposites - hers is a genius (think Big Bang Theory) and had memorised the elements table before mine knew his ABC's. While mine is Mr Sporty/outdoors.
Our daughters on the other hand are peas in a pod - ditzy, pretty little ladies. Remember the comment about the actress getting her arm chopped off to play Bethany Hamilton? Let's just say it was one of our girls.............!
She went back to Uni and did her degree in journalism while still being a wife and Mum to 3 kids. She got awards for being the best in her class (ok, so I'm such a good friend that I can't remember which award she got.......) and got the internship at the paper she always dreamed of working for. She doesn't blog - yet, but I'm looking forward to the day she does.
I love her, I'm proud of her and I'm so blessed to be her friend.
Xx
Tonight is my beloved journalist friend Deb.
We met at playgroup in 2000 when our little Miss 11's were only 5&6 months old and our boys were 3. She very soon became my prayer partner and my Jiminy Cricket in the conscience department! Deb is the sort of friend you NEED. She doesn't "pussy foot" around the truth, she says it, as it is.
For example
Me "My hubby is driving me NUTS! Honestly he's not beng very nice lately..."
Deb "Are you loving him?"
Me "But he's doing blah blah blah"
Deb "Fill his love tank up and show him unconditional love"
Me under my breath "shut up Deb" out loud "hmmm, what if it doesn't work?"
Deb "What have you got to lose?"
Who knows that it works every time?!?
She is that strong voice of sensibility every time I need it.
Best of all though, she's a crack up to hang out with and awesome to go shopping with. We planned a date to Habour Town (factory outlet) once, and that morning she sent me a text to the tune of "This is the day that the Lord has made" but with the words
This is the day, this is the day
That we go shopping, that we go shopping
We will rejoice, we will rejoice
And find bargains here, and find bargains here!
Totally irreverent we know, but we both got a giggle out of it.
Oh, and we totally found plenty of bargains!
Deb is the friend who stops you when your conversation is drifting into gossip, the friend who reminds me how many years I prayed for a hubby when I'm having a grizzle about him (I adore him, truly!) She's the friend who prays over the phone with me if I'm having a moment, calls and asks my advice, or just calls and says "hey, how's things?"
We are very different in our personalities - she is vegetarian and I love my meat, she is a cat lover and I'm NOT! (whoops, there goes half my followers.......!) I'm a gardener, she wouldn't know if she had salad herbs or noxious weeds in her backyard.
Our sons are polar opposites - hers is a genius (think Big Bang Theory) and had memorised the elements table before mine knew his ABC's. While mine is Mr Sporty/outdoors.
Our daughters on the other hand are peas in a pod - ditzy, pretty little ladies. Remember the comment about the actress getting her arm chopped off to play Bethany Hamilton? Let's just say it was one of our girls.............!
She went back to Uni and did her degree in journalism while still being a wife and Mum to 3 kids. She got awards for being the best in her class (ok, so I'm such a good friend that I can't remember which award she got.......) and got the internship at the paper she always dreamed of working for. She doesn't blog - yet, but I'm looking forward to the day she does.
I love her, I'm proud of her and I'm so blessed to be her friend.
Xx
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