tea and cakes

Tea was so nice last night..... I had steak with garlic butter, chips and salad...the steak was masive..but I ate it all cos it was so damn yummy...followed by a bit of b'day cake..and I was chockers...

a cup cake my friend Karyn bought me

my b'day cake made by Karen

yummy mud cake with white choc stars.

the new tiles

pics catch up

Dave turned 17

Eric turned 13

My first owl


My first house

journal I made as a gift

the entrance after the carpet had been pulled up

the kitchen tiles coming up (the old tiles are the brown ones)

Will take some pics of what the floor looks like now..in the next few days and upload them..

Finally got all our wedding photos that I've been scanning and altering off the hard drive and onto disc...hooray...now to get some printed and scrap them.

Went out for a coffee earlier with a friend ...she bought the coffee and a cup cake for me...the icing is sooo thick I think it will take me all day to eat it...I'm not an icing person..

Going out for tea tonight with a group of friends...2 of them are having b'days tomorrow as well.

what cheeses me off and stuff

OK so what really cheeses me off is people that DON'T indicate when turning or changing lanes....aarrrgh!!!...especially when they are going through a round about......like you are on the opposite side of the round about to them...they are not indicating...so you think they are going straight....but nooooo when they get to the middle of the round about they either then start to indicate or just freaking turn in front of you... why are people sooooo ignorant...or is it that they are so god damn special they don't need to indicate??

I think I'm in a bit of a mood today...lol

Yesterday Marks family came over for Erics birthday...he's now got a wad of cash but he's not too sure what he want's...to spend it on..he's wanting the new Mario game ..but it's not due to be released for a week or so...he's also wanting another guitar to go with guitar hero...which he's been playing non stop since he got it.. I had a turn at it ...I think I got about 3 chords right and got booed off stage...lol

Nothing much on this week... the boys have today off for report writing day, got a few phone calls to make regarding a course I"m doing and tickets to Mark Seymour gig, and got the family coming on Saturday to see me for my b'day.

thirteen

Today my boy turns 13 !! happy birthday Ric.... who is now wanting to spell his name like this Erykk (insert me rolling my eyes)

Haven't blogged in awhile... nothing much to write...been sick with the flu, Marks been busy tiling the kitchen, dining room and entrance hall...and it's looking great.. will put some before and after shots up soon.

Lots to do ..better go..

nothing much and movies to watch

Was looking at these on Ngaires blog... love the shining and titanic have a look at the others while your there ...there's a cool Monty Python lego one too.

The tiling is coming along nicely... and the archways are now squared off...but still need plastering.. and then the rest of the tiles can be done.

Haven't been doing a lot... been looking at lists of movies to watch and books to read before I die...lol....I have a two lists of books...and figure if I can read half of them...thats ok...and the movies should be interesting to watch I spose..

Some I've seen but will watch again.

1. The Godfather- 1972
2. Casablanca- 1942
3. Starwars- 1977
4. Apocalypse Now- 1979
5. China Town- 1974
6. Pulp Fiction- 1994
7. Raiders of the lost Ark- 1981
8. Hannah and her sisters- 1984
9. Midnight Cowboy- 1969
10. Zulu- 1964
11. The Graduate- 1967
12. Goodfellas- 1990
13. Jaws- 1975
14. The silence of the lambs- 1991
15. The endless summer- 1966
16. The party- 1968
17. The good ,the bad and the ugly- 1967
18. Pirates of the Caribean- 2003
19. Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid- 1969
20. Alien- 1979
21. Blow up- 1966
22. Bladerunner- 1982
23. Full metal jacket- 1987
24. Doctor Zhivago- 1965
25. Dirty Harry-1971
26. The wizard of Oz- 1939
27. The Italian Job- 1969
28. From Russia with love- 1963
29. Lawrencce of Arabia- 1962
30. Annie Hall- 1971
31. Teh African Queen- 1951
32. A fish called Wanda- 1988
33. High noon- 1958
34. Bonnie and Clyde- 1967
35. There will be blood- 2007
36. The wild bunch- 1969
37. Some like it hot- 1959
38. Pscho- 1960
39. Easy Rider- 1969
40. Lord of the rings- 2001
41. The departed- 2006
42. Vertigo- 1958
43. Close Encounters of the 3rd kind- 1977
44. The terminator- 1984
45. Kill Bill-2003
46. Rear window- 1954
47. Rififi- 1955
48. The searchers-- 1956
49. Dancess with wolves- 1990
50. Die hard -1988

17th birthday

Today's Daves 17th birthday... no pressies today he got it the other day...we put an ipod on layby with some other bits and with some cash that he got off the family he picked it up off layby.
Happy birthday Davo

Karen and the kids are coming around after for cake and coffee...and Marks just gone to work so we stuck a candle in a muffin and sang happy birthday....good idea 'cos it's less candles to blow out.

The tiling is coming along nicely...still dust everywhere though but it's gonna look fab onces its finished.

So much for me working...lmao....on my 2nd day I was shown how to use the shreader....I had to collect buckets from the hot house bring them back to the shed and shread the leaves of the bottom of the stems. I'd done about 15-16 buckets of flowers and was told that I was not quick enough...I was wasting time...I'd just started getting the hang of it too..lol Not too many not too few in the bunch and swipe.. The gloves I had were cloth ....so my hands were getting pricked non stop...especially on the white roses..
I told the dude that I start a course in June and he said ok so you want to finish up today.. so I did ..they can stick their F'ing roses thorns an' all.

We just made a chocolate cake with diet coke...I've been wanting to make one for awhile...not sure of the taste as yet....looks very moist...so shouldn't be too bad..hopefully.

cute stuff

How cute is this...
it's a Black Vinyl Decal (335mm x 450mm. )

you can find it here --> made it

and this is cute too --->monster pillow pal and Nuclear Nolan

Mmmmm furry cake

oooohhh pretty cupcakes and more cupcakes

Yesterday Mark pulled up the carpet in the entrance hall...and bought some black tiles... the same black tiles that are in the kitchen area... after talking with some friends... and thinking it would look rather odd to have black tiles in the entrance...then light brown in the dining then black in the Kitchen....sooooo all the brown tiles are coming up too....The black tiles are harder to keep clean but look great... might have to get myself one of those swishy type brooms me thinks.

May !...isn't May just a 2nd christmas..

well it is in our family....sooo many birthdays ... we've had Marks, the 15th was my brothers, the 18th (tomorrow) is his sisters, 28th is Davids and 30th is Marks other sister, his brother and his brother in laws...and also a few friends in there as well.

We've been playing a wii game that I picked up 2nd hand ...it's called 'brain academy'...gee its fun...gets the ol' brain working..you can either play it in teams... or solo...but everytime I go out just have a bit of a play solo...the kids are following me ...lol

I've had my hair cut finally...well over due..and it needs another dye.. stupid grey hair.. I've gone back to having layers...I haven't had layers for years now I was sort of sick of having to freakin' use the straightener to make it look anywhere near neat. ...now I just have to mousse it and go. !!.... too easy
Still black..I think I'll stay this colour for awhile too.

We've had some exciting family news !...(won't talk about it on here though ...yet !) which has given me a little project to work on.... :)

some layouts...I've just done.. please excuse the dodgy shots...the lo's don't look straight ..oohh and my dodgy handwriting...grrr

this one is for a challenge using the word 'because'

because I love you

another lo of the kids in the murray river

where the wild things are

a photo that I'd already scrapped

but wasn't keen on so I've redone it

J&H photos for the BB photo challenge

Texture

reflection

music

meme day

Not alot happening..job searching..exercising.....trying to watch what I eat..as long as I have some fruit around that I like... I think I'm doing ok.
I need to make sure that I eat before going out also...otherwise I'm inclined to buy crap...like KFC, doughnuts....junk like that.

It's been awhile since I've done any memes...so here's some

Week 276
I say ... and you think ... ?

Track :: walk
Snake :: bite
Assignment :: study
Blockbuster :: video
Bombastic :: spastic (it rhymes)
Adventure :: fun
First time :: new
Aged :: facility
Grip :: tape
Shortcut:: cheat

Feast One Hundred & Ninety

Appetizer
When someone smiles at you, do you smile back?
I think so ? lol I hope so..

Soup
Describe the flooring in your home. Do you have carpet, hardwood, vinyl, a mix?
Carpet in the entrance hall and lounge, tiles in the dining room, kitchen, bathroom, ensuite, toilet and laundry, carpet in the bedrooms and painted cement in the hallway with a carpet runner on it...(still trying to decide what type of flooring to put here)

Salad
Write a sentence with only 5 words, but all of the words have to start with the first letter of your first name.
Elizabeth eats eleven eclairs elegantly

Main Course
Do you know anyone whose life has been touched by adoption?
umm not that I'm aware of.

Dessert
Name 2 blue things.
my car
our lounge suite

left overs and redo's

We got through Marks birthday weekend..boy was Saturday a long day cooking all morning and my family came for lunch followed close behind by Marks family who were invited for tea..at one stage I think there 25 of us here...and all of his family came .!!!!.except a few kids...but a good turn out none the less.

We had so much food left over the following day...so that's what we had for lunch and had some leftovers for tea with Karen and Mark.

Still redoing some old layouts that I was never quite happy with...and they are turning out so much better...some I've even looked at and thought why did I even scrap this photo.. I think (as I read in the latest FK) we did want to scrap every freakin' photo that we had.

Have a challenge to do...using the word 'Because' ....I have a few ideas.. also need to make a start on the BB photo challenge....the 'geometric' one will be a stumper also...'jungle'...I think..

Got our orders from 'chefs toolbox' Deb was rapt...she wanted to my my spoons from me there and then..so she can use them in her pot...lol...I'd been waiting for them to use in mine...the timer is easy to use and also doubles as a clock as well as a temp thingy to test meat.
My party's on Friday.... not too sure who's coming ...more than likely it'll be just a handful of us..I invited 13 people ...hmmph !...but that means more paella for us...and shhhh more triple choc fudge muffins !!

just a few cards

a layout that I've just redone

another layout that's been redone

there is glitter on the numbers you just can't see it

feel like being GREEEEDY

ok...so I feel a little greedy...I want I want I want...but I know I can't have !


take a look... ( I couldn't upload the pic...I didn't have permission)

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some new doodlebug stamps (well the kitty ones are anyways)

Tim Holtz hammer....how cool is it !!

oooh and Lusi Austin has a cool RAK going at the moment...check it out.

Day 2 of out challenge...all going well so far..lol.. except for the 2 litres of water.. just can't quite manage it yet.

booze brain

* groan* the feeling that alcohol gives you the day after a fun night.. I spent most of yesterday in bed with the room spinning endlessly around me, making me want to barf everytime I moved.
I haven't drank so much in such a long time...I don't actually think that I have drank that much...I'm saying noo never again will I drink that much..but hey...next year I'm 40 and I intend to hit the top of that hill with a bang ... I don't really want to do that much suffering again in a hurry if I can help it.

Today is the first day of our 70 day weight loss challenge... I've weighed in and measured up...I need to go down and use Karens treadmill...for awhile..and make a start on my water intake..that's gong to be hard..

Marks b'day on Saturday and we have both our families coming over...not sure what we are doing food wise as yet...better get my ass into gear I spose.

It's been chilly the last few mornings..but then sort of warming up during the day..but it's sooo much better than heat...

There was something else I was gong to blog about but can't remember ATM..

I'm lovin' this song at the moment and this one (sounds not great on this clip)

I've been redoing some old layouts...may take pics of some and put them on here..and some pics of cards I've been making too.

Got a party to go to tonight at a friends...I've made her a chocolate penis...shhh don't tell! ..... I've put it in a cellophone bag and then in a patterned paper bag that I just made and tied it with ribbon...she's gonna die..lol

I just made pizza in my non stick pan.. but I should have added a little salt to the base.. otherwise it wasn't bad....I put ham, salami, tomato, feta, baby spinach and mushrooms on it.

Woke up this morning with a sore throat and swollen glands..seems to have eased off a bit now..Mark felt a bit bleah too..so may be a viral thing..oh joy.

I'm thinking I might need to go and have a nanna nap before the party..

can you tell I'm not thinking straight..I'm all over the place

my alcoholic intake

was 2 drinks.... (cruisers) then I stuck to lemonade and coffee...I was the designated driver last night ...we went to Marks nieces 18th...she was plastered...lol..she would have fallen face first into her cake had Marks sister not have been holding her back..

Mark had quite a bit to drink and thankfully fell asleep on the drive home...cos boy was he painful..we got home and then more or less decided to go to bed...Mark was still in the car sleeping.. so I thought I'd do the right thing and go and say something like ...'are you coming inside we are all going to bed'.. his reply was ' no fuck off' and he shut the door and went back to sleep.. so off I trotted..to my comfy warm bed and left him to his car. when I woke up this morning I wondered if he managed to get inside ...he had.. he was asleep on the couch.
Needless to say he's been suffering all day...and has recieved no sympathy from me.

Em and I just made a huge batch of sausage rolls of which I forgot about the last lot... that I just got out of the oven... they're not burnt ..but brown...

Today would have been Mums 80th birthday .
hard to believe she's been gone almost 2 years.


There is a photo challenge on BB (just for fun)
with 26 topics..

Earth
Movement
Urban
Reflection
Geometric
Everyday
cruves
pattern
fences
tilted
music
minimalism
unity
rustic
travel
prickly
jungle
diversity
humou
sisterhood
wisdom
black and white
blur
texture
fear
lost

so if you have a camera...have a play.. and take some shots and pop in to blue bazaar..you'll get some great ideas from the others too....

poodles ....eww

I hadn't bought any mags for ages, but bought 2 mags the other day an English one 'card makers year book' (might get some ideas for cards from here) and 'scrapbooks etc'.

Yesterday I went to Marks nieces to a Flaschengeist party, where you sample different liqueurs and spirits. they also had some wines (we didn't' sample these) and some oils and vinegars there was one that was very nice but it's not on the list I have...it was something caramelised...mmm.. and on a sheet of paper mark the ones you like as you try them, then at the end you choose which one/s you want to buy and then you have to choose what type of bottle you want it in.
Some of the samples were not great..but then everyones tastes differ..huh !!

I thought the strawberry schnapps was ok...but might get a little sickly as milk drinks do.
Vodka lemon lime daiquri was ok
I didn't try the Blackcurrant vodka, Fig & vodka liqueur, chocolate tawny port nor the lychee liqueur (after watching the faces of the girls sitting opposite us...lol..they said it tasted like flowers)

Mango liqueur and the melon liqueur (which was like Midori) were nice

Wasn't keen on Limoncello, cognac and walnut liqueur (sort of tasted like nutella), turkish delight liqueur, tiramisu liqueur, coffee nut whip liqueur and chocolate vodka. (very fake choc taste IYKWIM)

You are probably going to say 'eww' when I tell you what I've ordered...I thought the same thing till I tasted them... whisky liqueur with a double shot of caramel (got this in a heart shaped bottle 250 ml) and honey brandy (the bottle is called 'sonata' 110ml) which you can see here. I'm not a brandy drinker normally...it usually makes me go...'hurgggg' but this was very smooth.

If I don't drink them myself ...I will look very smart anyway when I offer you a drink of whisky with a double shot of caramel or a honey brandy !!!...they are dearer than a normal bottle shop... and not as much in quantity..but you have to kind of expect that at a party plan I think....I only spent $40.

ooh I did love the round 'O' shaped bottle called 'odyse' but it was out of stock.


Week 271
I say ... and you think ... ?

Silence :: shhhh
Wall :: of china
Killed :: da wabbit
Wishful :: thinking
Poodle :: ewww (but labradoodles are cute)
Sullen :: gloomy?
Do not disturb :: go away
Philadelphia :: cheese
Anticipation :: antici ---pation (rocky horror)
Sidewalk :: sally crawling down the alley (lyrics from a rose tattoo song)


ooh I've been invited to join a group run by a friend for a 70 day challenge.
I think we are taking before and after shots and will do meaurements and weights. I'm not dieting as such... because I know I won't stick to it...so I will go back to the plan of picking 5 -6 things and sticking to it.

wish me luck.

music.....ah sweet music...

Was just flicking around on youtube and found this. couldn't find 'grey cortina' on here...ohhh I remember listening to TRB alot...in my teens....I used my brothers stencil from an album, on a jumper...that I think I wore all the time....I wonder what ever happened to that jumper???....

Daves been listening to Iggy Pop lately....this and this (not the video clip on 2nd but the song.itself.)were faves of mine in the 80's......ohh and this and this by the Celibate Rifles and who could forget the Sunnyboys with this song or this one *sigh*
loved loved loved Spy v Spy...here and here I loved Craigs voice


From the 70's...(I think) but loved it -->this

using one of the camping photos


pages for my journal

Party's party's party's

I hosted a Stampin Up workshop on Friday night thanks Melissa for coming all the way over here...thanks to the ladies that attended ...I think everyone had a nice time..anyways this is what we made..(the scans are dodgy again )



I stuck mine down differently than eveyone else... of course !!


This is a bonus thing we made..it's a little bookmark.. which I also did differently than everyone else..

Golly...there are party plans everywhere at the moment... I went to another chefs toolbox party...ordered the timer (cos our oven one is busted) and the utensils for my pot.....they cooked a pizza in the saute pan...and it was yummo..maybe the base was a little thick..but it was still nice.. not too keen on the jam doughnuts cooked in the muffin tray. ...they looked like scones with jam in the centre..

The same day I went to a jewellery party (Emma page) at Debs place and bought (a little regretfully) a silver neclace with a heart on it.....yes I'm sometimes a sucker at partys...

my niece Sarah

a page for my BoM


I think Em took this shot of herself..but I think it's great ....and to my family if you are looking at this....don't you think she looks like a certain older sister of mine (not that I have any younger sisters)

a card for a friend

Ems fish

winners are grinners

Em and I went off to our LSS on Saturday morning and made these little clip boards.. they had a free make and take as part of their birthday celebrations....the folding was quite fiddly and at one point I completely screwed mine up and had to get a new piece of paper. (once it was folded it was too short to fit on the clipboard)

excuse the bad scans

mine

ems

After the make and takes raffle tickets were given out and mine was the first drawn out....whoo hooo...then you wouldn't believe it...Em's was drawn out...whoo hoo again... we both won some 'Fancy Pants Design' felt shape packs

I got the book written by Mark Seymour....very good read so far.

We have our table booked for his gig down our way ...which isn't for a few more months yet....we got front and centre ...yessssssssssssss.!! A friend thinks I'm a bit obsessed, but mind you she's coming to the gig too..lol

hooray

Finally I can put these up...these are from a competition I entered here for Crafty Originals... I had to come up with a single and a double page ...and they are on display at Paperific in Melb and on Chandon craft blog.

In the pic you can't really see what I've done with the bubble bath corner piece... it's covered in kindy glitz and has dimensional magic in the centers of the bubbles. On the word 'bubble bath' I've used a stamp that was supplied

On the cheeky monkey page...I've painted the word and monkeys...but covered the word in dimensional magic..

all Items were supplied by Chandon Craft and Crafty Originals

Just spent some of the day at a friends house...she's bought her twins a 16' round trampoline...it's bloody huge...it took 4 of us about 2.5 hours to put it together...with a short coffee break inbtween...It came with the padding and net and ladder...her kids are going to love it.

Heading to the club tonight...how cool would that cash be right about now....must be up around $1700 by now..

more boring stuff

Here's a pic I snapped while we were camping..it sort of looks like Daves breathing fire...huh..

Just went shopping with Mark...to get ourselves some new clothes to wear to a funeral tomorrow.. I hope it doesn't rain till later in the day.

We had about 7 mls of rain up to yesterday morning. not sure how much today....

Week 268
I say ... and you think ... ?

Money :: cash
Unhappy :: sad
Joking :: ha ha
Chipmunk :: dale
Date :: cake
Slideshow :: night
Chicago :: illinois
Lifetime :: it'll last you
Skid row :: broke
Edward :: my Dad

Feast One Hundred & Eighty Four

Appetizer
Given the choice, would you prefer to live in the country or in the city?

country

Soup
Who is the cutest kid you know?

the cutest kid...now..would be Callum

Salad
Fill in the blank: I couldn’t believe it when I heard __that Heath Ledger died (a few months ago now)_

Main Course
If you could star in a commercial for one of your favorite products, which one would you want to advertise?

some sort of chocolate

Dessert
What type(s) of vitamins and/or supplements do you take on a regular basis?

none...but I should take calcium