Happy 80th Mickey!

Today Mickey Mouse turns 80 years young. What a party that would be at his house!

This morning I had morning tea with some of my wonderful friends...THANK YOU for the yummy cake Meg, sorry you couldn't enjoy it with us x
This afternoon it was time for more cake, this time with my Mum and Grandmother.
Because I hadn't eaten much today... We went to Armidale for dinner at the White Bull. I think this is my new favourite place to eat out in town.
The rest of this week is pretty busy. Sorry if I don't make it back. :)

I did this LO of Jess last Thursday. It has a good splash of pink Kindy Glitz on it, but the photo doesn't pick it up.

I had my work Christmas party last night. We had a great night! Amanda was down for the weekend so she came along as well. It was a lovely girls night out. I am sleepy today :)

* This page is the week 4 entry in Scrapbooking Top 50's 8 Weeks to Christmas comp. I have really enjoyed the challenges. This week is stamping....not my strong point at all! 2 Weeks ago I was lucky to win a stamping pack, hopefully that will help! lol

Can you 6x6?

Do you have any scrap scrapbooking supplies?
Do you have some spare time to put together some 6x6 basic blank pages?

If so Southern Cross Kids Camp could use your help!

Have a look at this wonderful ladies blog for more info. www.juliestone.typepad.com/crazycaterpillar_/

Cindy's Blog Candy!

The very talented Cindy is giving away some of her Laser Cuts. To enter go and check out her blog HERE "To celebrate the release of our brand new fairies I'm giving away ONE chipboard Fairy and ONE Fairytale Castle embellishment to one lucky winner." Easy, you gotta be in it to win it....

Also if you haven't checked out this months 123 Challenge the criteria is...
1. Lace
2. A scary Face
3. Monochromatic

Also there are still a few more days to get your 123 CC entries in!

This is the view from our hotel room last weekend. Our room was one floor under the dining room, so this was also the view while we had some meals. This photo was taken approx 8am. Apparently this Bay is twice the size of Sydney Harbour.

Weekend Review

Matt and I had a wonderful weekend away at Port Stephens for Matt's work Christmas party. This is a part of the Aussie coast will will visit again.

We drove down Friday and since we made good time we went into Newcastle to the shopping centre. That night we met up with the Wurth team and had dinner at a local pub. The next day we wandered around the marina before we all met up for lunch and a dolphin watching cruise. We did manage to spot a few dolphins, but I as blocked by foreign tourists and didn't get any good photos. We had a few hours by the pool and in the hot tub talking American politics before dinner at the hotel. This photo was taken from the dining room. To the right was the bay, beautiful views. I love how this looks like we had 2 moons... Very Star Wars of me! lol

Sunday morning we packed up and headed home on our 5 hour drive.... It was a relaxing, fun, stress free weekend.... Loved it!

Thanks to my Mum for staying with Shawn and Liberty x

Dolphins here I come!

Have a great weekend everyone!
Matt and I are off to Port Stephens tomorrow for his work Christmas party. Saturday we are going on a dolphin cruise. Sounds super!

Hopefully I will get some good photos to share when we get back! x

History

Today was a wonderfully historic day....
Americans voted on their next President. Lets hope he is the right man for the job....

He had my vote! If I had voted....

Election 08

Not sure how this will work but lets give it a try! It will hopefully save me from looking at US news sites for info. Lets hope the right person for the job wins!

Rainy day

Today was a lovely rainy day! I did very little and loved every moment of it :)

Sorry for the really dark image... Not sure what is happening at the moment. When I download from my camera the images appear much darker through my PC/monitor...hummmm

Anyway.... Yesterday when I was busy cleaning carpets at my Mum's, Matt pulled things out of our bedroom so it could be cleaned. I walked in the door and discovered this! Rost Off is like DW40, Wurths "handy thing" product... It is also in a can strong enough to prop up a queen bed! Matt needed to prop up the bed so the cleaner would reach all the way under. He is a clever boy my Matt!

Well I have a hot date with my iron and the Winchester boys....bye....

November!

Well since my last post we have all been very busy!

Thursday Shawn had his school Halloween disco. He dressed as the fantastic Captain Jack Sparrow. He wore the wig we coveted from Disneyland and I made the vest and belts, quick and easy!The primary dance finished at 7pm but I stayed on to supervise the secondary students. It was a good night!

Friday was a bit of running around in the morning ready to kick back for the afternoon. The wonderful Miss Walsh (Shawn's teacher last year) and Pam came for afternoon tea. We had a lovely afternoon. Tanya is taking a teaching position in Dubai next year.... she will be missed!

Saturday I worked in the morning. That evening we had 18 for a BBQ dinner. It was great! So easy. Each family supplied their meat and a salad to share. Add to that the nibbles and we could have easily fed another 18! Only 3 casualties. Nash ran full throttle into the glass sliding door. Door is fine, Nash has a large bump on his forehead. It doesn't look to bad because you can't see it for all the hair! :) Next up was my carpet and Megs pants.... Rach decided to throw coke all over Meg... Not really, it was a total accident, but that makes for a dull story. :) Love you Rach x

Today. My wonderful children slept in past 8am!!! We bummed around for awhile, Matt woke up with a nasty head cold. About 10am we thought we would clean the carpets (as mentioned above) We just hire the ones from the supermarkets and do them ourselves. So for under $50 we did all of our house the couch and dining chairs. Then I went up to my Grandmothers and did all of her rugs and 2 big rooms. Then I did Mum's rugs and carpet. I am really impressed at how well our dining chairs came up. Now Matt and I are exhausted. I don't know about him, but I am off to bed very soon.

Before I go, I had a scrapbook win! If you would like to see the page click on this link.

Busy, Busy!

Today has been fairly productive. Not a lot of jobs got done, but a few big ones did. I cleaned off the computer desk. This also included sorting through the bundle of paperwork that had to be tossed or filed. I then moved onto some boxes of 'stuff' that I had in the office to 'one day sort through'. Today was that day! I now have a box to go to charity, a box of recycling, a bag of stuff and 2 boxes to go to the school and a bag of rubbish. I also have a box of stuff to give to you Mum :) The rest I just put on Matt's desk! lol

In the last few days I have been scrapping... it feels good. It had been awhile since I had scrapped multiple pages in a row. Life should slow down a bit more now...should.... School P&C stuff will get slower (it better!) The Thunderbolt Festival is over for this year, although we now run a Christmas lights comp. I will find out more about that next week at our meeting.

Well Shawn will be home any minute now and Liberty should wake up from her nap. I then need to make a start on dinner. I have some VIP guests coming tonight. Hi C, M & H they are harsh cooking critics! lol

Hope you had a good day too! x

A day @ home... fantastic!

Today I stayed at home.

I went to the mailbox and as far back as the clothesline. I love it!

Molly came for a jump this morning.

I scrapped while Liberty napped.

Then the Baldwin girls came for a jump.

Had leftover roast for dinner.

Then I had a jump!!!!

Perfect day!

This pic is from the weekend festival.

Fantastic Weekend!

I have had a wonderful weekend. Saturday's Thunderbolt Festival was fantastic!! I was busy running at times but I also had time to sit back and catch up with friends, make new ones and listen to some great music. I took just over 200 photos. I didn't know which one to post, so I went with my fave part of the day. This is the Axemen, the last band of the day. They are a popular local pub band. They usually don't play day gigs. The crowd had dispersed and they called for requests. I have a new appreciation for them and musicians in general now. To be thrown a song, that they had never played and do it so well was very impressive.

It was a wonderfully warm day and since I didn't get time to visit the markets, I have a red sunburn as a memento.

My 'baby' of the event became the street parade. I think it went well. Being my first year, I can see what I will do differently next year and what groups I would like to see included. I am looking forward to it! I also enjoyed the perk that came with it. The pic of the beautiful 'Fairy Tale Tours' was my transport from the marshaling area to the park. The carriage always goes last in the parade. I quickly snapped this pic as I jumped out to move onto my next 'job'. That is Matt, Shawn and Liberty in the carriage. Matt was a great help Saturday. He helped me cover the parade and also set up and pack up the park. Thanks Pooh x

Well I am beat... I am sure I will post more pics tomorrow. night x

One more sleep!

Finally a photo of Miss Liberty on her birthday. (Yes, new hat!) I took this at about 7am as Matt opened the curtain so she could look out and see her Trampoline for the first time. She was tired and the sunlight bothered her eyes, but once she focused on the trampoline away she went! Today she could hardly walk she was in so much pain. I could tell it was her legs as they were bent and she wouldn't straighten them.... I think it is from all of the jumping.

Sorry...

Sorry I have missed a few days... So, so busy!
Liberty's birthday was great fun! Liberty jumped on her trampoline (her birthday pressie) starting at 7.15am her last jump was at 8.15pm. Her birthday party was at an indoor play centre where she jumped on the jumping castle for 2 hours. She slept well! I have not had a chance to download any photos yet... maybe tonight.

This Saturday is the Thunderbolts Festival if you happen to be around this is a snippet of what is on...

9-10.30 am Newcastle Knights coaching clinic and signing

11am Street Parade. Opening with 200 Harley Davidson bikes...

Noon Markets, Music and food in the park. The Jumping castle (lucky Liberty), bikes, merry-go-round, rock climb wall are all FREE!! Rod Rods, Classic Cars, Ural bikes all on display.

3pm Billycart derby

This weekend is also the Newcastle to Uralla Turkey Run so we have a town full of bikes.
Lots to see and do. It actually makes me feel tired... so much to do! Bye....

One more sleep!

Tomorrow this beautiful little girl will be 3 years young.

I love her so very much....

Need sleep....

It is almost 4am and I have been awake for over an hour. I neeeed sleeeep....

This picture is of what we did this weekend. Through the week we had 100 railway sleepers delivered. We spent most of the weekend stacking them out of the way. Once we get a bobcat in we are going to start on our retaining wall. We put the sides of the veggie garden up, just need soil and plants now! I am looking forward to having a little veggie garden, it has been awhile. I hope the dog leaves it alone......

Well I need to try and get some sleep. Miss Liberty has her 3rd birthday on Tuesday, so I have a busy few days ahead.

Night/Morning :)

Kitty

This post and the song change is dedicated to a very dear friend of mine. Her husband recently surprised her with the gift of a kitten.... It was a true surprise... more of a shock than a surprise really.

I thought a good name would be Diamonds or Pandora (as in the Jewellery) because those items would have made for a great surprise gift! Last I heard she is going to be Coco... I guess that covers chocolate and perfume :)

Well we are heading out to go and see some friends. Will post with more happenings (and change the song) soon. lol

Thursday...

Hello!

Not much to report on really. I have been keeping busy. My JSJ DT kit arrived yesterday and I have been working my way through that and making some 'christmas things'. I have also been busy with the Thunderbolts Festival, but it all seems under control now.

Just thought I would post another pic of Floriade.

Thanks for stopping by, night x