2 posts in March - WOW...

I thought that I should get 2 post in for March and surprise you all, especially after the vast number of emails, texts, phonecalls that I've had over the past few days..Thanks everyone. I made a card the other day, a special thank you card and I loved it. I was going to take a photo and post it but then I kinda wanted the person to know that it was a real thank you and not something made for show, so I changed my mind, but am going to make a version of it and will post. Just wanted to say THANK YOU for all your well wishes...........

Soooooooooooo Slack..

Okay, okay - so everyone that I've seen recently has been telling me off for being so slack with my blog. I have some really good excuses though - honestly. First of all at the end of Jan through to the 1st week in Feb, John & I went down to Dunedin to see the surgeon, an awesome Professor from Otago University who finally found out part of what is wrong to which I had surgery 3 weeks ago. Between the 2 events, I got really, really really sick, we've got a major drought on the farm so I've had to put up with gool 'ol stresshead, I kinda got attacked by all of my friends on Facebook which becomes obsessional, and on top of it all, 3 of us - myself, Anne White & Natalie Pompey are organising 2 big events this year. 1 is Putaruru Think Pink Partay on Saturday October 18th and then we go into Movember finishing with Movember 80's on 27th November. We have 2 blogs running for them both and you can check them out here for Think Pink and here for Movember. Between me having surgery number 9, Nat having a brain tumor and Anne having 6 kids, we can push on the guilt factor to raise more money for the charities - lol..... Keep an eye out for the artworks that we'll be auctioning off.

I'm just about to rope the kids into helping me finish off the craft room, though I'm trying to get John to build a new American style barn for the "farm" so I can claim the entire upstairs but he doesn't seem to be falling for it at the moment, but I'm sure that I'll be able to work my magic.

I still keep looking for ideas for my soon to be studio, even if the said studio is still in a pamphlet amongst farming papers, but I'll have to ask him the question, can a farm really have too many barns, especially when you're short of storage and you want to get your wifes "crap" out of the house....

Tom's bloody deaf again - even with the grommets in, nobody could believe it last week at his hearing test, so we're back to basics again there.

2 weeks ago, John took both boys on school camp - the week after my surgery - which was bliss, even if very quiet. Everything that I had planned was put on the back burner as I weas too sick to do anything, then they came back, they all had dhelli belly, so within 2 hours of them arriving home, I was wishing them gone again - lol...

As you can see, the perfect excuses.............................

I've Found My Mo-Jo....YAY

Well, after a fantastic trip camping at the beach (well caravaning), I found my mojo!! Seems that all I needed was a rest [he he he]. Today Bex and I have been boxing up all of the accounts for the past 6 years into storage, so that once again, I can tackle my craft room now that the office is done. We're desperate on the farm for some rain, and it's just too hot to do anything else but surf the net in search of inspiration - and how about this lot on two peas to do it - who has this as a scrapping space??http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1285148 and my favourite http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1248545 - I think i feel a trip to Mitre 10 coming on... I'm off to Dunedin next week to see a surgeon down there so big fingers crossed - but, because this year is a big one of changes for me, I've started a perpetual calendar as a kind of diary. It's an 8 x 8 AMM one and I'm going to put on relevant photos of each month - obviously starting with this month and adding riminders on each day of little things that I want to remember seeing that my memory is still stuffed. Bex and I have a cardmaking spree planned for when I get back so bring it on....

Happy New Year....

I hope that everyone had a good safe New Year - I had Sams party on Saturday night with NONE of the boys going to sleep, then on Sunday we dragged them up and down the lake on the biscuit, and the kids finally went home on Sunday night - when Sam due to over exhaustion and eating too much shite, vomited his way through the house.....Then my water went on the blink, so at 2am, I'm carrying buckets of water from the milking shed, and New Years Eve saw me hiring the rug doctor from Woolies and washing the carpets throughout the house. So, last night, we cancelled every party we'd been invited to and got a chinese, bottle of wine and watched Abba, The Royal Variety Performance followed by Elton John and had the best 'chillin New Years Eve ever....boy oh boy, I'm getting old....

Inspiration found today....

Was stuck at home today not very well - and realised that Sam is 11 next Saturday. He's having some of the boys over for a campout so I made him these invites - it was easy because there's only 4 to make. The first part of working out the sizes on the computer for the side triangles took the longest, then the rest just flowed - they weren't planned this way, they just happened...Sam dropped one on the way to the car, and I did the old - great Sam, they only took 3 hours to make (oops), at the last drop off point, they were ooohing & aahhhing over them and said - lord, these must have taken forever to make - and yes you guessed that I played it down (like we all do) and said they were just something rustled up this afternoon - to which Sam turned round and said - but you said they took forever to make - WOAH - that totally came round and bit me on the bum......

Anyone in search of inspiration for 2008....

If anyone is in search of some New Years inspiration, drop us a comment....Bex & I are on the hunt fo continuity...I'd just be happy to find my mojo........I've even stopped buying on Trade Me so it must be bad. School prizegiving tomorrow and the ball and the float parade (which we won for our section) photos to develop & prizegiving in the morning. I'm currently making club sandwiches for Sam, and traffic light jellies for Tom - with lollipops in them, then I'll have the Christmas day pics (and last years still to do ) - I'd better set the challenge quick.......

White Lights.....Bah Humbug

Well this weekend say me having a nervous breakdown in the Warehouse - why - because my boys asked me for coloured lights for their tree - bloody coloured lights when they know that I'm a white light girl - I have thousands of them (literally) they usually adorn my house, garden, trees - I have books on white ight decoration, you name it...but only little white lights....So I had my own kinds silent temper tantrum... As everyone who knows me knows that I love boys ( never wanted daughters ) I actually found myself hissing under my breath - if I had daughters THEY wouldn't want coloured lights, because THEY would know that white lights with anything. Literally hyperventilating going through the checkouts with a box of 250 coloured bulb lights - got outside, and got home. Then had my wallet / cards / money taken off me - I'D LOST MY POCKET MONEY FOR A WEEK FOR BAD BEHAVIOUR..........As they say - what goes around.................