Oooooohhhh crafty stuff!!!

OK, so I haven't got pictures ready to post... but I made a picture froame and I really wanted to share it on my blog. It's not quite finished yet...

BUT I have got pictures to share of my laundry room (also unfinished but will be finished by the weekend YAY!)
Right, so I didn't take before photos because it was so shameful, but in hindsight I probably should have.... one shelf was about to fall out - because it had gotten wet and we know what the good old chipboard does when it gets wet? Yep - swells and falls apart!! I think I mentioned this in my last post, the reason it got wet... Anyways. I have been trawling Pinterest , as you do, and was inspired! Not by any one particular site or idea... just trawled for hours and somehow ideas kinda gravitated toward one another and I started painting.
I had 2 old bedside tables in the shed... one of which was accidentally run over in the carport (long story) and so was thrown out. this left me with one bedside table and SIX drawers. I took three drawers... and a brush...and Gesso (which I recently learned FYI is in fact pronounced JESS_OH :) ) and two Kaisercraft tubes of acrylic paint...

First I had to clean the drawers... they were a tad dusty and had a spider living in one of them...

I decided I would only paint the fronts of them for now. The place I had in mind for them, it wasn't really paramount that all sides and insides were painted.

Now I'm pretty rough with some projects. Sometimes I am a bit pedantic and 'perfectionist' but other times it's liek 'Meh..whatever. That'll do" LOL.

Painted them. It did cross my mind that I should really take the knobs off and paint them in the opposite colours... but his was definitely a 'meh' moment!  After the paint dried I sprayed them with a quick dry clear, just to try an prevent chipping for a longer time...

Ta-daaa

You see, I needed some kind of storage solution.I didn't want to go out and spend money on plastic tubs when I knew there had to be a way to use what we already have here in the shed.

So then, you can't just have pretty painted containers at the top and the rest be... well, BLERGH! Right?Because my gorgeous Muz is a painter - he had some left over paint I could use. I told him he can't watch me paint! I was at it for about an hour and had only painted the left side...once! He came and asked if I wanted him to do it? I said no thank you! UT ... he took the brush and showed me how a tradey painter paints... OMG I mean I've watched him paint many many hours over the years but man... he painted one of the sections in the right side in about 3 minutes! I watched carefully and tried to copy his way. Not as good as him (of course !) BUT I ended up painting at least three times as fast as I had before LOL!!

 Finishing touches...

Muz screwed in a rod to the right wall for me to hang spray bottle cleaners from. I am yet to make some kind of tags for the drawers. All in all, I am stoked with the new look in the cupboard! Not sure yet if the doors will be painted o the inside .....

Next part of the laundry - I have put my dryer and front-load washer side by side. Dad is waiting for the measurements from me, he is going to build me a bench to go over the top of the washer and dryer. Muz has painted the ceiling and is going to paint the walls for me too (too big a job for me!! and although he is ill, at least he can take his time painting his own place ;) )

Well, that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed ... stay tuned for more to come :) Feel free to comment or ask Qs :)

DIY projects are filling my head!!

So the yard is juuuuust about done HOORAY!! Murray did a lot of work today I could do a great deal because I had slept awkwrdly last night obviously and had kinked my neck - so painful! Getting a wee bit better now TG!
I am sitting outside right now and there is a breeze blowing. I cannot believe that I am not even a little bit cold! It's actually a warm -ish breeze... in the last month of Winter! Perfect! My chimes a re tinking nicely too - never did it before where they are hanging was being blocked by all that greenage we have chopped away for the sole purpose of letting the breeze through - IT WORKED!
I am wanting to make one of these -

it's a 'rain chain down pipe' - an alternative to a down pipe rather. There are a few DIY instructables on the web that I've been stalking. Should be fun - should I ever source the materials for next to nothing that is! LOL.

Another DIY project I am going to begin tomorrow is my laundry. Yes, I have one, and yes it is n a major state of chaos! I am so over it... I need to open that damn cupboard pull everything out and start from scratch. One of the shelves actually bulged (they are only cheap ass chipboard shelves) because I didn't realise that water tank for my carpet shampoo-vac LEAKS!!! so a whole four litres of water dripped into the shelf it was sitting on unbeknownst to me until a few days later... so yes, it needs to be pulled out and REPLACED!! I have some wood here I'm sure that I can do that with.
I have been looking at laundry makeovers (google image searching) and gosh there are some very simple nifty ideas out there that I could do all by myself... But I'll be nice and let Muz help me hehehe - might have to con him into teaching me to paint too seeing he can't see very well anymore :( my poor darling! At the moment I have my dryer on top of my front loader washer ... I want them side by side with a 'table top' over them. then shelving on the wall. I want to put my laundry liquid into a drink dispenser like this...

how good would that be?! BUT I just know there would still be spillages grrr.... I'll tackle that issue if I come to it hehehe

Here are some pics (I guess I should have done this at the start of the post?) This first pic is the day we started hacking away at hte ferns. They had over grown by at least a metre past the garden edging (which I discovered... had no idea it was even there!) 

I also discovered a nice set of rocks right in the middle! What a find! I left them right there because I knew I had someone who would LOVE to sit there...

BUDDHA!!! lol He is much happier here than in the back yard being covered by ground cover!

To find it thought I had to get rid of all this...  All those Jasmine roots!! OH EM GEE!!!! that thing was EVERYWHERE!!!

This is down at the far end of the house... yes there IS a house to the left of the pic LOL. Before we hacked down the traveler palms and banana plants...

This is after the traveler palms were cut down (all bar one - need help with it as it leans over the house EEK!) Big mess to clear away!! Banana trees are still up - believe it or not there is a shed behind there way down the back!

All cleared away, see the shed?? lol.

This is what it looks like right now. Beautiful! OK, so maybe the banana plants have to be cleared away yet LOL But it's almost like a clean canvas screaming to be decorated! Going to put in some steps and landscape it a lil bit here and there. It will look so lovely!! And the best thing? There'll be sooooo many less MOZZIES!!!! YAY!!!!

Ok that's it for one day. Till next time!!

Stupid toothache!

Well today wasn't as productive as I'd hoped. I went to the chemist to get something for my toothache, and got Mersyndol. The lady at the chemist said 'oh you're gardening with a toothache?" LOL! UM YES OF COURSE! BUT IT'S GETTING TOOOOO PAINFUL. "well, this will make you sleepy, there'll be no more gardening this afternoon!" (we get along really well, because it's Murray's usual chemist and he leaves his pile of scripts there). Ont he way home I said to Murray "pfft, painkillers don't make me sleep!" boy was I wrong! I got into the yard and thought yay no pain... then my eyes started to droop! What the hell? Murray said to just go have a shower and watch TV... I did but ended up going to bed - at 3pm! Woke at around 6 and Murray said 'ya mum and dad are nearly home" I thought it was 6 am nd said 'They are already home!' "uh.. Heidi - it's only 6PM not am" hahha h well. Then I drifted off again till 8pm when my daughter came in with a coffee for me and said it was 8... in the morning! OMG! why is it so dark? hahah cheeky girl! Course, it was 8pm! now I'm still feeling a bit tired. At ;east I can drink coffee now without my tooth giving me grief!

Well that's it for today. Nothing exciting nothing productive. Kids  are having the day off school tomorrow to see my parents. I was to go pick them up tonight from the airport but again my suck up brother has taken my joy from me. Sigh.

It has been a productive week...and it's not even close to over!
We started pulling out the mother-in-law tongue and king ferns from the front corner of the house. We felt it just was too damp all the time in our bedroom and the gorgeous breeze we get never came through those ferns! Oh boy what a job!! We have been hacking away at it for nearly four days and now it's a matter of clearing away all the garden rubbish now. Lucky we have a huge yard - have plenty of room to build a compost heap. Murray went nuts with the chainsaw too - cut down a few of the giant bird of paradise - there is one left but not sure how to tackle it - it leans OVER the damn house! EEK! I'm sure we'll work it out.
In front of the house we have a gorgeous maple tree that is being cut down!! YAY!! yes I love it but I will love it more gone - to be honest I am totally over the leaves every year! filling the gutters in the beginning of Winter then we have the fire going ? leaning the gutters is tough enough in the bush but if we can minimise the job we'll take it! I can't wait!
Another few full days of work and we'll have the place looking fabulous for Spring BBQs!

I have lately gotten a new addiction... I have been trying to avoid it like the plague but I just couldn't resist any longer... Pinterest!! OH.EM.GEE!!! I could sit for hours just looking at the wonderful craft ideas and another of my favorite categories is the gardening section - getting some great ideas for our newly cleared space - would love to landscape it somehow. 

We went to my Mum and Dad's today so Murray could paint their kitchen before they arrive home from overseas. It had an awful red wall and to make it worse - it was an OIL based paint! so it had to be prepped then painted in a lovely light coffee type colour (Dulux 'Tavern' to be precise ;) ) And wow what a difference it has made! The kitchen is so much brighter now, I'm sure Mum will absolutely love it! I did a little bit of pruning too, and my brother has mowed the lawn (I am assuming it was my brother that did it *shrug* ) it looks really good. I washed the kitchen curtains too. Hopefully my nephew (who is house-sitting) will do a good clean up - my parents are arriving home TOMORROW NIGHT!!! I will pick them up just before midnight :) I can't wait to see them - Dad's been away for 8 weeks, and Mum for 6, we all miss them so much! My Dad's mother is ill. She is 88 years old and had taken a fall and broken her shoulder, they are not going to operate (for what reason I am not entirely sure) and she was also diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years ago and dementia is beginning to set in. She doesn't always know who my dad is - even though he is her only child. It's very sad. They say she will never be going back to her own home again. I just hope she isn't in too much pain - they have her on some pretty good painkillers I would imagine.

Well that's about it for the day. I am starting to read a few diferent blogs lately and am getting a bit more into it, so it may just be that I start regular updates here. Not sure how interesting they will be but I will attempt to make them slightly entertaining!

Till next time :)

cheat

Well, a bit of time has passed again and I haven't been updating my blog. Today is not really an update of my crafts, nor my gardening. No today's blog entry is a vent. I have to get this off my chest. My asshole ex partner , who I do not even dignify by calling him by his birth name - when I say 'the tard' (short for fucktard) in real life, everyone knows who I mean. He was merely a deep thorn in my side, sperm donor for three beautiful kids... which he now denies as being his blood! I found out a few weeks ago that he is with someone new - poor woman. That asshole should be sterilised. The new girl is pregnant with his baby number NINE - yep ... nine... well that I know of - it could well be more than that. That woman that called me from the US when he was there told me she was pregnant to him, so that would be ten. Then there's the ex from high school who he told me he was sleeping with. She was married too but obviously he has no fucking soul so that doesn't matter. He has changed his name on facebook (has added an extra letter to his last name ROFL how terribly creative! but it's obviously him because he has on photo of his ugly head, and a whole bunch of really bad tattoos he has done. He ran into a friend of mine a couple of months ago an told her when she said 'oh baby number four' when she she realised his partner was pregnant, he said 'no TWO!' and then went on to say he had 'proof' that the rest of the kids aren't his. See, when I met him he was already a father of four - one to one woman and three to another. He told me all kinds of nasty things about his mother and brother, and that his ex had tried to stab him and poison him (ajax on his pot ?) and then when he cheated on me for the second time with an 18 year old that lived in our unit complex, she told me stories that he had told her - that I had tried to stab him and poison him bla bla bla. I was gobsmacked...and retarded because I forgave him for a second time. Little did I know at the time he would go on to cheat over and over and over again on me. Now anyone who knows me knows I am loyal and very caring. I was also too forgiving and easily mislead into believing bullshit. But is that my fault really? or his for being so damn convincing? both I say. I feel really sorry for the girlfriend. I know what she is in for for the next few years - if she is as stupid as I was! It seems so as she is having another child to him.. wonder if he has cheated on her yet? I remember him calling me a control freak when I told him I didn't want him hanging out with the 'ferals' (as he dubbed them) that lived behind us in Boronia Heights. He ended up sleeping with the 14 yearold that lived there, then moved in with them. It was ok with the adult woman (mother of seven, the 14 yearold was her niece) because he told them he was 25 years old... not 33 like he actually was! even if he was 16 it would have been too old for a FOURTEEN year old! I am venting because I found out that the teacher that supposedly molested him, got prison time for it. It didn't happen to him. Sure the teacher was a pedo... but the tard was not actually molested by him... it was someone else that was molested! He used this 'molestation' as a 'reason' (read EXCUSE) for being a lying cheating stealing prick. He stole our kids' Christmas money one year and blamed it on the teenagers HE invited into our home to smoke pot with! He owed a drug dealer a few hundred dollars when he FINALLY got the hell out of our lives... lucky the dealer didn't want ME to pay for it - I had no idea he even owed that money! Now it seems he may be in for a big payout because he was 'molested' while in school. This makes me so fucking angry it's not even funny. How dare he! He is one of the most useless human beings I have ever come across in my life - and now the government wants to make him rich? All because he lied? I just wish I could prove he was lying. I don't know how that creep sleeps at night, knowing he has [at least] 7 other kids out there and refuses to acknowledge any of them. I remember him telling me that of the three kids he had to his ex, only one (the middle one) was actually his, that she had cheated on him. You know, he made her out to be a psycho - and now I know why. I was the same psycho after being treated like I was for years on end (yes yes, keep in mind, I realise it's my stupid fault for staying with a loser like that, but like I said he was very convincing and I was very forgiving and caring) When the mother of the ferals came over one day to see the tard (he was trying to reconcile with me after 'breaking up' with the 14 yearold) she said 'have you told Heidi you two are getting back together?" I lost it. I had a full vodka cruiser in my hand and let it rip! I belted the shit out of him with that bottle - all the way up the street, screaming all the while "YOU FUCKING PEDOPHILE! SHE IS FOURTEEN YEARS OLD!!" A bit of entertainment for the street LOL. I really feel like putting his name out there. A pedo against pedos - go figure! fucking hypocrite. *I found an email he had sent to a woman in Kentucky USA - on line I will never forget "OMG! I'm sooo excited!! My nephew was born this morning and he is so beautiful!" ... the email was dated 3/7/02 ... that date is my son's birthdate. That mother fucker had told this poor woman (who thought she was going to marry him! BTW) that I was his SISTER! that's why she never questioned 'the girl's voice in the background' when he was on the phone to her - yep - how's that for balls eh? he spoke to her IN MY PRESENCE and when I said 'it sounds like a girl you are talking to' he assured me it was his GAY friend in America, named Alex. 'it's because he's gay, he sounds like a girl' ... not bad for someone who was a homophobe eh? Yea - the tard HATED gays... I am however very VERY happy about him denying his children... for one reason... he will not have a problem signing adoption papers. My gorgeous fiance wants to adopt them as his own and they want to be adopted. I hide nothing from my kids - if they ask me Qs about the tard - I tell them the truth... I refuse to paint a pretty picture of him to them - he is an asshole. I give credit where it is due - he was a good dad when they were very little - but I figured out why... they were too young to tell me 'daddy kisses other girls' ... see I always worked, and he always well, didn't. And I figured that out too - it's because of Child Support - hence why he hasn't done his taxes for yeeeeears too - not that he needs to I guess - being a fucking dole bludger - and doing REALLY BAD tattoos on teenagers. Dammit I wish I could just type his name here... just so when , you know how you Google your own name just for fun? well if they did it, they'd find this... that woman deserves to know the TRUTH - the real truth not the 'truth' he tells her. Shame though, she looks like a pretty young girl (late twenties - thought it seemed a bit old for his taste though) I wish I had kept my old diaries though. So much 'proof' in there. Letters sent to him (to the empty house next door mind you) One such letter was from that woman in Kentucky. She was saying 'next time you visit your dad's grave tell him I'm thinking of him" um... yea his dad wasn't dead then... he seriously has no soul at all. I have old online accounts to various forums that I had talked about this idiot though... they are still readily available to read online. I just needed to get this off my chest. And it is my account of the happenings in my life and as this is MY online diary, I can say whatever the hell I want to about who ever I want to.

well I'll be yarned!!

Hahha. Hello blog world, long time no see!
I have been going through my usual knitting craze - well it's 'that time of the year' for me! BUT my beautiful ex MIL gave me a how to crochet magazine a hook and a ball of yarn and OMG!! am I obsessed with crochet now? well, yes, yes I am! here are some of my creations for friends and family...

Would be cool to make some money out of it, but I can't work under pressure - like, I can't do orders.... I might just make stuff and put it on FB with a FOR SALE sign hahahaha

The Easter holidays have been good. So relaxing just sitting at home. I really like not having to fight over lunches and socks *sigh* but Monday it's back on!! LOL

Anyways... I'm off to crochet some more teehee.... I will post more of my adventures when I take pics. the above is only a smidge of what I have made in the past couple of weeks (I only leaned to crochet a month ago maybe three weeks :)

Take care!!! Feel free to comment :)

Remember me?

Well hello blog world!!
I am back in the land of blogging and believe it or not scrapbooking too!
I have cleaned my scrap room - it was OVERLOADED with cardboard boxes and paper, in the hopes of actually doing more papier mache *sigh* I really am hopeless aren't I lol.
Last year I got a wonderful gift from my father - A MACBOOK PRO!!!! OMG I was like OMG!!!!! haha. I love it so so much!!! I will NEVER EVER buy another computer that runs on Windows YUCKY! I still have to deal with them though because Jaana inherited the old laptop and the desk top will then be passed on to Trent, however I am seriously considering putting Ubuntu onto it. We'll see.

The dogs and I had fun cleaning out the room. There was crap everywhere - even bags of clothes that we were getting rid of... we live in the bush and when the rain starts who decides to make our house a home? Bloody field mice! ARGH!!! so that was it! I loaded the ute with all my hoarded stuff (mice and all OOPS!) went to the dump!!

Now my room is nice again and Murray is promising to fix the holes in the walls and painting it yay! the only thing is I don't get to choose the colour :( I don't think?? He might just have some left over paint from when he was working, hopefully it's white and I can convince him to tint it for me! Any colour suggestions?? I'm a little bit into feng shui, so what do you think would be a good colour scheme for a craft room?? I have no idea!

A little share of a layout I did last night (well actually TWO!)
This is for Alz March challenge at Scrapchat


And this is one I did just because :)


Take care,
I will leave with a quote -

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp


till next time!

My new addiction

So a lot has happened and I have lots and lots to share! Trying to in words would be just bedlam for me right now though, so I will attempt to condense it a little ^.^

In October I went on a retreat with the awesomeness that is scrapchat. I had the best time ever! On Saturday night the fancy dress theme was of course halloween, I had a mask and wore a black long dress thing that I bought and a blue cap that I made from a sheet I bought at Lifeline :D The best costumes were definitely the corpse bride and groom, but I have to say the effort that everyone went to was just amazing! We had a gate crasher from Melbourne too, the lovely Miriam !! was such a thrill to finally meet in real life!!!! Good job! I do have a few photos but they are on my phone and it's flat so maybe another day.

My latest addiction is papier mache. I went online to search for something... something... I still do not remember what I was searching for!!! but came across Stolloween and got caught up in the incredible creations here... I forgot what I was searching for but thought 'hey I can so do this!' and guess what!? I DID!!! and I am planning on making a whole lot more ready for Halloween next year. I already have people willing to buy them!! YAY!!!! I am thinking marketsand word of mouth would be the go here. Fek eBay! to pricey are the fees for my liking thank you! lol. and besides I wouldn't mind trying out the whole market scene just to say I've done it! Here is a pic of my second (first big one) attempt. This is still awaiting painting but it has been mache'd and 'pulped' and I am so very happy with it!!!!
what do you think, so far? You can see the 'stuffing' still in there, I have since pulled it all out so it could dry better, which now it has and I will hopefully be painting it next week. In the meantime I have a few more on the way in various sizes in in various stages :D I really am enjoying this! and you know what? my kids aren't into it?! what is wrong with them? who doesn't love getting messy! haha oh well... maybe one day!
Here is the link to my Public art album on facebook too, if you are interested ;)
click here

Our Jasper is getting bigger and bigger. He loves the bush grrr I hate it because the ticks are still around. Hopefully it will get too hot for ticks soon! Mati is still her adorable self and is Jasper's partner in crime! lol
Jaana's Dove, Chicco (or 'Chiko' - a couple of the girls that went retreating in October will know what I mean by that lol) has been laying eggs?! she has no partner but has laid 8 eggs in the past couple of months... this is odd to me, but anyway!

I will be opening a new 'tab' to my blog with all my papier mache adventures and I will try to keep it updated... at least weekly! Promising daily was silly of me! haha anyways, I am hoping to share my knowledge along the way. A few tips I have figured out so far etc. Not that you won't get what you need from Stolloween... seriously the guy is a freakin' genius! check it out!!! links to all his creations are on the right side of the page.

OK I am off to bed. Till next time!!!!

It's raining

and it is so lovely ! We were talking this morning about the floods in January and how this small amount of rain back then would just sit in top of the ground because the ground was so sodden there was no more room to soak in. Right now the ground is thirsty so it should be all green soon!

I am going to learn to drive a manual - FINALLY!!!! I have always wanted to and I have driven a manual on three or four occasions but very nervously! I WANT to drive a manual because I think it is fun.... it's just well... I am a bit of a scatterbrain and lack the confidence needed... I will either burst into tears or go into hysterical laughter when I am nervous. I am too afraid to even ask questions because I think they are dumb questions. Murray is very supportive and helpful - I just hope he has the patience!! I am generally a quick learner but with this manual thing I'm just not sure.... Twice yesterday I moved the ute and that was ok and so easy because the first time I on;y had to use reverse and first gear and the second was just reverse .... and I know how to change gears etc it's the whole slowing down thing - see stupid!! lol

Ok, I am off to make coffee and enjoy the rain :D
have a great weekend.

For the dogs

Well we had a friend of ours who is a carpenter, build us an enclosure out the back yard for our dogs. It's kinda small BUT it's really just to stop them from running over to the neighbour's place every chance they get!! Jasper and Matilda come inside the house with us for the night, well in winter anyways, as they do not have a kennel as yet. They aren't unhappy there because in the morning when it's time to go outside they run straight to the gate of the 'pen' as we call it (horrid word but it'll do till we figure out a nick name for it lol) They do have fun in there, and they have a few bones and toys too to keep them occupied. Also I take them for their walk daily down the driveway too ... FYI our driveway is about half a km so it's a km walk we do ;) so a half decent walky hehe Here's Jasper ... don't be deceived by the sad look... it's not the pen he was upset with it was Mati LOL she was being an annoying psycho





I have been searching for home made treats for them too, and came across these...

don't they look yummy?
I found them HERE I think I might make some later on today.

Murray is at work and didn't tkae lunch so I'll head out to have lunch with him ... might just have to visit Olley's fruit market while I'm out that way.

I have added a few more Shabrics products to my quicksales, see them ->HERE

Today is the last day of term for the kids, and I'm really looking forward to the break. Mika got his assignment finished - year two and he gets an assignment? lol. And he is quite proud of it as I am of him! It was a report on Leopards and it was the homework for the whole term... we crammed it though to the last week - OOPS! bad mummy! Mika also has a little girlfriend - the most adorable little girl! Her name is Brianna and they've known each other since birth!
I have a couple of photos of them together but I won't put them up until I talk with her mum... not sure how she'd feel about her daughter's pic being free to the public on the www :-/

Well that's about it for now. I'm off to get a bit of housework done (not that there is much... thanks FlyLady!!

I remembered my 'promise I'll update daily but didn't' blog

Hello out there :D
What an ordeal we have been through lately. Murray went into hospital on Monday night two weeks ago with pneumonia and asthma and left to come home last Saturday with COPD and type 2 diabetes! OMG! He was so very sick. His oxygen levels were down to the high 80s which is pretty bad, and he was just all in all one messed up puppy. But with the professionals at Logan Hospital and support of family he has come out a better happier person YAY! He had the last week off work and has gone back as of yesterday ... well yesterday I didn't want him to go, actually I really didn't want him to go back till Monday but Murray is a stress-er and a worker... and as the man of the house he takes his job as provider very seriously! I'm just so happy that he is finally getting the right treatment for ailments we didn't even know he had!

Mum and dad have been awesome through all this too. Dad came to cut down a tree and split wood so we'd have warmth while Murray was in hospital. He was funny actually - he put the ride-on away and locked up the shed and did little helpful odds and ends around here - guess we all thought Murray would be more than a week in hospital.

My brother called me too... that was weird!

I have always been very crafty and have always tinkered with all sorts of things... my knitting is nothing spectacular... just socks and scarves... I was soooo excited to finally learn how to knit a pair of socks the 'proper' way LOL

lately though I have been upcycling (reclaiming, recycling, repurposing' ) fabrics from [ugly] op shop shirts I know that sounds mean... and not all of them are ugly - the fabrics aren't but the styles *cue vomit bucket* ... and not ALL styles... I bought one because the fabric is gorgeous... er I tired it on and apparently it has found a new home in my wardrobe rofl... oh well for $1 who is complaining?!

anyways... check them out, I have listed four on quicksales.com but they are all for sale (just wanna see if there's any interest on QS first before I bother listing them all!)






What do ya think?? $3 each?? $1 postage :D if you want to see more (I think I have about twelve different ones and more coming)

If you are interested let me know :D

Well I guess I should get some house work done before Murray gets home LOL. It has been a lazy day in that respect :D

Till next time :D

PS I always check in to my blog daily to check for comments, even if I don't post, so please do comment xx)

Dogs, children and ...and wine LOL

Dogs (not old ones!) Well Murray has been looking at a dog for himself. He found one - a gorgeous puppy called Reuben. He is a Neo mastiff (a neo pet ?lol) But unfortunately we didn't have the right training to adopt him :( because he is such a big dog we had to have special training.
Ain't he cute?!

Children - Jaana was badged yesterday with her sport house captain badge!! It is such a good looking badge this year. So very proud of her and her bestie was badged a captain for another house... rivals in sport best friends in every other way! (our Jaana is on the left)


Wine - (not watermelon wine! lol) I had two glasses of Moscato (kiss and tell) and all of a sudden I got the worse anxiety attack I'd ever had! It was scary! Doubled over with a pain in my chest that went round to my back. I felt like I was being crushed! I got over it about 15 minutes later after a hot shower. terrible terrible feeling and from where? I have no stress?! how bizarre!!!

And what the hell are these??

As soon as they felt any vibration near them all their little tail ends would start moving up and down like fish ROFL so funny! The chickens wouldn't eat them either... I wonder what exactly they turn into?! are they case moth caterpillars anyone know??

*SHRUG* beats me!

and now a scrappy share. A few cards I have made in the past week...

OMG great news!

As a lot of you know, the Scrapbooking Memories Forum had problems over the weekend... sadly I think it put a lot of people off joining in.
Cass Bellemore has emailed me and is working with IT to fix the issues...so PLEASE stay tuned this week for more details but I have a funny feeling this weekend is going to be awesome ;)

Scrapping today woohoo!

Yesterday I spent the day cleaning up my craft room so that today I can prepare some example LOs for the cybercrop I am hosting at Scrapbooking Memories this weekend. Cassie Bellemore, the lovely Assistant Editor at SM, has kindly put together some awesome prizes for the four challenges, and I will supply a small gift to the winners of the games we play. I can't wait. Though as it stands it looks like there will only be a handful of people there...maybe people don't know about it, or perhaps they have no faith in me...either way, I hope I pull it off!

I have been looking at alternative sites to sell things. eBay is getting too silly with their fees! even though there is possibly not a single soul in the universe that hasn't heard of it...you would think fees would lower the more sellers they have but oh no! I guess this is how the rich get richer right? I really shouldn't gripe... good luck to them, I'm moving on to find my own way to make riches rofl. I found quicksales (formerly known as Oztion)is a much better place to sell, the fees are possibly on par now (but I doubt it, I haven't sold anything there for ages!) but the thing I like about it is that you put credit onto your account BEFORE you sell anything...and it stays there forever if you don't use it. I put $20 on it when I opened my account (what...about 7 years ago no!) and I still have left over credit from selling a few things over the years. The bad thing about it? hardly anyone knows about it! well it feels that way anyway when your selling. Great for buying!...it's almost a given that you won't be outbid on anything LOL... take the time to check it out, and spread the word!!! It's all Australian too...which I really like!!

Our cat, Luka, had her kittens on the last day of Summer. She had her first at about 7am, the sixth at about 10am...and the seventh 'born sleeping' at about 9pm. They are too cute!! Mostly black and white...not sure how that happened...guess the feral dad was black and white (no really! the father is a feral cat from the bush!). We are wanting to keep a male from the litter, get him desexed and find a home for all the others, including the mother. It might sound cruel or nasty or whatever...but to be quite honest, the mother was not meant to be with us in the first place, she just 'missed the boat' when it came time to taking the litter from our last female to new homes...the cheeky kitten took the bolt and hid int he bush till the next day...so I guess she stayed while her mother got a new home. After having a desexed male cat, who we sadly lost to a paralysis tick last year, we have decided we like male cats better than female ones... males seem to be more affectionate and a lot less moody!

well anyways after all this babble...I better get the kids off to school!

till later

SM CC

I have put up the roll call thread and the pre-cc chatter thread :D at Scrapbooking Memories Forum :D :D

Hope to see you there!!! SM has racked up some excellent prizes too!!

Later tonight I will be putting up the schedule for the weekend :D

A scrappy share and a CC in there!

I am so excited to b typing this new entry on my new laptop...ahem...our new laptop ... I needed to anew keyboard you see and so I called Murray while he worked yesterday to say I was going to go look at what they have at Officeworks. His response to this was that he would pick up a new keyboard and mouse for me because he had time. Okie doke thank you :D Then I get a text telling me about some laptop he was looking at. I really didn't expect him to come home with it lol. He is so spontaneous I love it!! So here I am typing on the new keyboard!!! I relaly should be doing housework and I will but I am watching Charmed also so when that episode ends I will get off this beautiful laptop and get a move on!!

I want to share the February Sketch challenge posted at Scrapchat I enjoyed doing this one. It was a lovely day :)


The translation is not perfect but it's close...you get the picture anyways...and yes I know there is a spelling error too but ya git that right?! lol

Have a happy scrappy wonderful day and don't forget the CC I am hosting next weekend at Scrapbooking Memories!! I have been sent photos of FOUR prizes that the lovely Cass has rounded up for the challenges too! Getting close now! Gosh I hope I can pull this one off!!! are you all in to support me?? I sure hope so!
Here is a hint-->Look here

I look forward to a relaxing weekend this weekend...apart from going out FINALLY to get our tent and other gear from the camp grounds...yes they have been there since mid DECEMBER!! bout time we brought it home eh? lol

OH and SONS OF ANARCHY SEASON 3 STARTS ON SUNDAY NIGHT!!!!
WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!! I bloody made a mistake just now...I read a spoiler forgetting the US has already run season 3 in its entirety ... grrrr but it's something I'd hoped would happen so it's all good LOL...

OK till next time!!!

February Scrap the girls challenge

Find the challenge here
And here is my interpretation :D

TFL!!

Finlanders - Oikeesti

hmmm

so much for the daily entries lol.
It has been so hot here! I'm really happy that there were no fatalities in TCYasi. Amazingly! It was a cat5 for so long...and ten times the size of TCTracy in 74...yet Tracy was far worse IMO. There were many many lives lost and so much more structural carnage than Yasi. Yasi's eye was bigger than Tracy in its entirity (Tracy was 100kms across) and that is one big mutha of a TC! We all thought RIP to so many towns including Cairns but yet Tully copped the brunt of it, and there were towns with a lot of damage but not nearly as much as predicted. I guess in these days people are more aware and the technology that goes into constructing buildings to make them TC proof is far more developed than that of the 70s.

I had my hair cut and coloured yesterday and I'm so in love with my new do! So much lighter - in colour and weight! lol.

Don't forget to sit scrapbooking memories for the CYBER CROP I'll be running there in the very beginning of March!! visit...bookmark...visit DAILY!!! Newbies are wanted!! It is your gateway to some very true friendships!! The SM forum isn't so private, so don't blurt out your personals - well none that you wouldn't on a blog! lol... but there are so many members that are members of more close knit communities...it was my gateway to a 'scrap family' that I owe so much to, for being there for me and forgiving me for stoopid things I did in the past. Truly truly beautiful people!! I love you one and all at SCRAPCHAT!
Well I'm off to make another coffee and surf the net for a bit. I will update with photos on Monday!
Until then...
Be happy, be loyal and always have hope :D
xxx