bags and stuff

I was very good yesterday... although I'm kind of regretting it....lol... I went to Angies....she had a 'Bag and Jewelry' party...and the thing was.... that this party had the same brand as my purse...and wow... you can get a bag with the same embossed flowers... not sure if they have alot of colours... ...but anyway... this bag I liked was very very nice.... it was red... and only about $52.. .. sigh..

I did buy some alpha stamps from Angie that she was going to sell on Ebay...great size for ATC's....might have to use them on this months ... I chose this months theme which is "dolls" should be interesting to see what everyone comes up with ..

Didn't get home till about 10...and missed the news on channel 7 which had Erics mate on it... bugger !!!

OH and if you haven't seen the stamps from SASSAFRASS LASS you need to look... OMG the bracket ones are soo cool..

channel 31

shhh don't tell Mark that I"m telling you... but next Tuesday Mark will be on some show... only for about 3 minutes... he was interviewed last week.... I think it's some show about unions and work issues... oh 6.30 pm....shhhh remember don't tell Mark I told you.

smells huh...

Alisons list this week is to list all the smells you recall from your childhood and the memories they bring back.

I was actually smelling a bottle of body scrub today.... which reminded me of some sort of play doh stuff that my Brother and I used to play with in the bath... all I can remember is that is was white (I think)..and the smell..maybe it was some sort of soap.. you know how you get soap crayons for the kids...???

Cakes/biscuits cooking... mum was always cooking something

Chocolate pudding... mum used to make her own...,mmm I can smell it now..yummo

shepherds pie...I love the smell of this...its one of my fave smells.....this makes me a bit teary... 'cos mums shepherds pie was the BEST.. lucky I can cook it ..huh

funny how my chosen smells are all food....lmao..

We went for a drive to Steigletz the other day.....it was a bit wet and muddy...so didn't get out of the car.
You can see that the trees are burnt (from the fires earlier this year) and also you can see all the new regrowth.... It is amazing how much of the forrest was burnt !...and they were soooo close to houses.

Tagged

I've been tagged by Ngaire

1. How old are you? 37
2. How many kids do you have if any? 3 (15,11,9.5)
3. Are you married, single, divorced, widow? Married
4. What is your occupation? SAHM and slacker lol
5. What are your passions? chocolate, art journal at the moment and ATC's and scrapping
6. Are you a dreamer or a dream seeker? a dreamer..
7. Are you happy with the way you life has turned out? yes and no... regret being a slacker.
8. Are you a scrapper and if so how many hours a week do you scrap? not many actually scrapping...but doing ATCs and art journal.. I actually wouldn't have a clue how many hours..
9. What do you want to do before you die? travel Australia
10. What is your favorite food? chocolate, pasta, ooh and chilli
11. What is the food you hate the most? green beans (they are evil)
12. What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you? walking into a pole down Lygon st, Melbourne (too busy yacking)..lmao
13. What is the happiest day of your life thus far? hmm this is tricky... the obvious answers would be...'having my children' 'getting married'but that's just so predictable
14. Are you a neat freak? no

I tag Melissa

Teesha Moore challange

On How Dare You the new challange is to do a page inspired by Teesha Moore... I love her work..it's so arty.. while mine (below) doesn't even compare to hers...I can call it my twist on her work...and I'm very happy with how it turned out and hey thats all that counts huh..

How dare you

I popped into Sally D's blog yesterday and found a link to here the first challange was to do a page/ATC/LO using the words 'how dare you' and finish the sentence... it's not much of a page..but I did complete the dare ...and here it is.

body parts

On Alisons blog this week... she asks us to list the body parts you'd like to change or replace.... well where do I start ??.. would be much easier just to go fot a whole new body right about now..

the things in the box

sorry girls... the things in the box from my shopping trip are little chipboard letters from Cactus Pink. They aren't as thick as BG chips...but very cute .I used them to spell out 'shopping'

I've been

ahhhh.... a bit of retail therapy... had a shop on KSK ...went to Scrapology...then to Rivendell Cottage....shhhh don't tell Mark...hee hee hee.

catching up

I fell a bit behind...but here it is... from Alisons list on her blog...

List jobs that you had as a child.

Tidying my room
Dishes
feeding the dog
Ironing tea towels and hankies (to start with)

List all the times you 'knew' something but didn't trust your intuition.
Upon meeting some people... I sometimes get a feeling that they are not good friend material... but then think 'no don't be silly you don't even know this person, give them a go'...only to be proven right in the end.

will have to think on this one a bit more !!

flowers

These flowers are from our Uncle (George) and his family in England...aren't they beautiful !!!

isn't this lovely

My niece Jessyca wrote this and it went into the book we made for Mums service yesterday.


You are the trunk of the tree that we grew from
Your strength holds through high winds that blow
Whipping up through the tall tree branches
Which nestle new twigs sprouting growth
You are the one that binds us together
You are the one who helped us all grow
Now you’ve left us a strong foundation
So as long as no branch is dropped or lets go
So now the branches should all hold together
Shelter each other from the cold winds that blow
And each new branch should know where it came from
The strong trunk from which we all grew.

written by Jessyca

bye mum

Today we say goodbye to our Mum...its nealy 9am and I'm starting to feel quite bleah...I'd really like for time to stand still about now...
I do not want today to happen.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to me...

I'm getting way close to the top of that hill now... !!

I got this lovely red leather purse off the kids and Mark....how did they know that I'd love it so much..... (wink)

Waiting on hearing updates on Mum..
she's now on morphine injections as the pain in her abdo is too much for her to handle...the doctor thinks...that it could be her anurism with a slow leak in it..shes due to be reviewed today....

I think she went and got sick 'cos she knew I was going to invite her over for a roast...just her way of not eating my cooking.. (joking)

I got some $$$ too so I've been looking through the 'stampin up' catalogue...hmm too many to choose from..

Karens cj

this is Karens cj the theme was colours...don't pink and brown go well together... well I think so anyways..

A QUEST

I'm going on a quest !!!!


A friend and I are going forth on Tuesday... traveling miles ....in search of ....this much sought after thing... . yes... we are going to Fountain Gate to bring back...
Krispy Kreme donuts..

When we were out for tea last night we thought up this plan...the guys thought we were insane... actually so did the other women...lol.. I've just been looking at the website.. (drool).. my sister heard on the radio..that there were over 300 people there this morning when it opened... some people camped out over night just to get some of these donuts.... they must be freakin' good huh !!!

alisons list this week

is to list all the modes of transport you have taken..

foot
bus
car
train
taxi
boat
motorbike
ferry
plane
monorail
tram

also I've started reading '52 projects'.... it has 52 projects with more little ones written on the sides of the pages... and even though I'm only up to page 6 I'm doing a mini one on that page...which is to write 6 letters with out getting up..
so far I've done 3 (emails ...they class as letters don't they) ..

Emily's just cooked dim sims for lunch... and I don't have to cook tea tonight 'cos we are going to the sports club with some friends.

I've just sorted out all my bookmarks again... I get it so messy by just adding addys to it... so now its a bit easier to find what I want.. for now anyway.

Tomorrow we are off to the fracture clinic again for Erics wrist..hoping that it's healed and he can get his cast off.

The boys have changed rooms... the room David is in now is a bit bigger...and there will be a bit more room in there once he gets his double bed...

Junes ATCs and new book

Well I have done my June ATC's.. the theme was 'inspired by asia'.. I was going to buy a stamp and some gold embossing powder...but Dani at Rivendell cottage showed me how to do these little kimonos... thankfully I only had to make 6...'cos if it was 10..I don't think I'd have bothered..lol.. yes all the faces are different...and one has a tilty head and their hair may look a bit masculine but they are done.. finished ..packed .and ready to go..

and my book 52 projects finally arrived this morning from Amazon... didn't quiet expect it to be that small but it is thick.. will have to sit and have a look see at it later.

politics and men

Alisons Q's last week were 'whats wrong with men and what lies have the government told you' well.... I don't really understand Politics ... I should pay more attention..but I just can't... IYKWIM...they all f#$@ you up in the end don't they ..

anyways.. if you go here you'll find some good ones on the government lies...also..I will add... that it was said that 'no child shall leave school with out being able to read'.............well...what the hell are they doing about this ????? my child has difficulty in reading ...and has been assessed many times...and misses out on funding by a pissy percentage.... so he misses out ...if he had of been 2% lower...yes he would have got funding !!!! so because he can't keep up with his peers....and he doesn't warrent funding he is in the middle which is no where...something needs to be done to help these kids in the middle...tbese kids are going to fall through..and go into jobs in factories...good on ya JOHNNY ya little weasel.

(he does recieve help at school from an intergration aide that is there for someone else that has funding...she has to spread her self between probably 4 students in a class, this really isn't good enough)

ok now to men..

*they expect you to read their minds

*they can't find their socks....even though they are in their sock drawer or in the sock bag.. ( we have a bag where the socks go ..until Emily sorts them)

*they think you spend all the money on yourself. ( we had this discussion last night )... I'm like..ok.. so those 2 bills were mine.. I used all that gas and water...and all this food in the kitchen is mine..so don't eat it !!