Oh WOW!! Blogger let me upload first time!!!!!!!!

Take note: deleting of temporary internet files does work!!! Yay! It even let me do 5 at once! Gee can you tell I'm excited or what?! lol

Ok, just a quick one today (do I say that every post?!), as I REALLY need to get stuck into an attempt at cleaning something in this house! It is disgusting!

First off here are some flowers that I got from work last week.. they have just started to open up.. LOVE peonies :)

Julieanne had a party to go to on Saturday at Funtastic Gymnastics... She's been before, and I think that she has fun everytime she goes... great idea for a kids party too. I'm not 100% sure of what they do, but I think it has a lot of jumping around lol...

After that I took her to DFO (direct factory outlets) to get some new shoes for her... ended up getting her a pair of Puma sneakers and Clark school shoes for a fraction of the retail price yay! As a bonus I got myself a pair of Colorado boots.. LOVE Colorado :)!

Wayne ended up going to the 4x4 show with a friend and taking Stewart with him. I think that they had a good time without me ;)... although BIL wanted me to go in on Sunday to get some photos of the stand, and my *artwork*. They did really well at the show, I'm thanking my skill at design... notice the sarcasm there!! The backdrop looked A LOT smaller than I thought it would in Jeffs Shed, and it wasn't as blue as they would have liked.. but it was ok.. and the car sticker looked ok too :).. (and that's as good as you're going to get! :) )

The show finished at 6, and Wayne stayed to help them pack up (2 moving trucks worth!), so Julieanne and I wandered over to Southbank.

Took her into the Warner Bros store and got her a little "magic forest" snow globe thing, and into the "conservatory" (at least I think that's what it's called) with the light and music show thingy, lol, and dancing fountains.. she loved it in there.

Then went outside and saw some photographers setting up below the big flame fountain things (does anyone know what they are called?!), so I figured they were about to start, and sure enough the gas started clicking a minute later...

They start of fairly tame, but I always for get how big some of the flames get!! I've seen them numerous times, but they still make me jump.. got some good photos of Julieanne watching them, now just need to scrap them!

Oh don't look to close at the self portrait of me and Julieanne either.. my skin looks shocking in it, and the 1600 ISO didn't help it any lol, not that it's fantastic anyway ;)... we must of taken about 20 shots trying to get a good one.. Julieanne kept bursting out laughing at every shot.. we must have looked so silly.. lol, but at least we shared a good time together :D. Got home about 10 o'clock, which was a lot better than I would have thought.

OK, once again, thanks for visiting I hope it wasn't too long...

TTFN

Bit ouchie today...

because I've gone back to work today... doing nothing flash, just sleaving paeony roses, but I'm sure that the money will help out with Christmas coming up REALLY fast! Plus it's only for a couple of weeks so I'm willing to put up with the pain of my sore arms lol... I'm just thinking of the nice toned ones I'll have for when I meet my MAC friends ;).. look out girlies!

Wayne and I finally got to use the free Gold Class tickets I got from my Credit Card people (lol, nice gimmick.. if I used it 7 times I got the tickets... needless to say, I ended up with a few more scrap kits ;) ). We went to see Boytown on Saturday night. I picked it because Wayne loved Mick Molloys last movie Crackerjack. This one was actually a little disappointing... but we had a nice night out, and a very nice dinner.. I had some chicken thing with mushrooms and sundried tomatoes.. ummmm LOVE sundried tomatoes!

Then on Sunday we ventured over to IKEA. I'd never been before, and I must say that I was impressed! A little to many people there for my liking, but they had a heap of stuff that I wanted to get lol. We ended up just getting some boxed and baskets for storage, but I have to go back and get one of those pot hanger thingys, and a light shade that Julieanne wanted... they had sold out of them.

Umm... what else has been happening? I've also been busy attempting to design a sticker for the in laws car. The 4x4 show is this weekend, and they are busy running around trying to organize everything, lol, why do people always leave things to the last minute? Anyway, I finally got it done, and will drop the files of to the sign guy on the way to work tomorrow... hopefully they are ok...... They also had the banner printed! that huge 6 meter thing... I looks ok I suppose... always the self critic, but after all the changes I had to make to the size (it went from 6x3 to 6x2.4, I know it doesn't sound much, but it effected the whole layout of the thing), I wasn't super happy with it, but they liked it, and that is all that matters :). Blogger won't let me upload a photo, so I'll take one at the show (if I get there).

Also managed another 8 pages for Isabella's album



I'm really loving this quick page Album! (fit for a princess by Anna Aspnes, if you missed the last post ;) )

TAGGED!
Oh, I nearly forgot! I got tagged by Chris.. thanks Chris :).. I have to list the 5 weird things again.. lol, I suppose I could cheat and just cut and paste ;).. nah (hopfully I don't list something I already have.. can't be bothered going back and looking)

1. For some reason I like car ads.

2. I have shocking hand writing!

3. I hate cooking, and prepare really boring meals.

4. I very rarely drink alcohol.

5. Ummmm........ I love fantasty and suspense books.....?

Ok, they probably weren't really weird, but I was having a blank ;)... I'm not going to tag anyone either, lol, partly for reasons previously stated, and partly because I really don't know that many people :P.

I think I might leave it at that... it turned out a little longer than planned.

TTFN and thanks for visiting :)

Getting my backside into gear

{now that is conjuring up some ugly images I'm sure ;)}

I'm finally getting stuck into that princess album I started ages ago, for my niece. I've started from scratch again, not happy with some of the pages I'd done, good thing I'm using Anna Aspnes "Fit for a Princess" quick album (LOVE this!)... I seem to be flying through them, lol, well I was yesterday anyway ;). Here are the first 12 pages that I've done..

Now just need to decide on whether I go with the 8x8 or 6x6. I know I'd like the 8x8 better, but pricewise, the 6x6 is going to suit me better... Oh I hate making decisions!

TTFN

Thought I'd better post some pictures...

since the last few post have been pretty boring (not that this is ever riveting lol).





Last thursday was Waynes Mums Birthday. We went out for Chinese, which was nice... mmmm the honey chicken was divine! But it ended up being a fairly late night, we didn't get home until about 11.30, which is a little late for a school night. Good thing Julieanne had swimming the next day, otherwise she would not have been so eager to get out of bed lol.

Sunday we went to the Gardening Australia show on in Caulfield. In the end it turned out to be shocking day. There were way to many people there ( and I just LOVE crowds!) and you couldn't get a look at any of the products they had there. I' m sure that the show would have been fantastic if only half the amount of people were there. The kids did manage to get into the "Fifi" tent, and make a door hanger which was nice.

Yesterday Julieanne had a curriculum day, so we had a lazy day at home. Went through her toys, to get rid of some, but only ended up with a small box full for the op shop... next time I'll do it without her there lol!

Today I spent the morning spraying the weeds. There wasn't a lot of wind (WOW!!!), and it REALLY needed to be done... I was going to do some weeding as well, but Wayne had conveniently taken my gloves with him, so I couldn't (and that is the excuse I'm sticking to!!) ;).

Well that's about it for now.. lol, even with the pics, it's still turned out quiet dull didn't it? Mental note to self: don't use this photo alignment again either.... ;).

TTFN

I think I should stop trying to change things...

Grr.... now all my images are pixelated! I increased their size, didn't like the result, and now I can't get it back to normal!! I've taken the size out of the template, but they are still big.. might be more republishing issues methinks.....

LOL, they might look normal once I've posted this post ;)

Edit: it worked! This post must have kicked it back into gear! And yes Miss Lee, I should be out doing the lawn, halfway there now....

Thanks Lee...

Back to my fantastic self ;)

Like my tune....?

Ok, I know it takes a while to load up, but I just LOVE this song, and had to let you guys have a listed too. It's Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. I'm not going to leave it up long, as I'm not sure if it's actually 100% legal to have it here... anyone know? But it just makes me feel good, and I'm hoping that it will brighten some days out there :).

Also I've heard it on the tv in something, but can't for the life of me remember where... can anyone help me out?

Toodles ;)

Edited to add that blogger is really annoying me at the moment!!!!!
After 5 attempts at republishing this entry, and always ending up with a blank page, I thought I'd check my template... Somehow half of it had been deleted!! I have no idea how it happened, but it's VERY annoying, because I counldn't find Lee's changes anywhere on my computer (mental note: do a clean up!), and had to go back to my boring style... Hope Lee still has a copy ;)....

Well, the holidays are over! Julieanne went back to school yesterday, and I think she was pretty excited to go. This morning however was a different story! It's not that she didn't want to go to school... she just didn't want to get up!!

Must say that having some "me" time again is nice... although Wayne had the day off yesterday, so didn't get any then... I was going to take a drive down to the Island (Phillip Island) and attempt to take some photos, but he had different ideas. He wanted to get started on our veggie garden, and I suppose I had to agree that it needed to be done. So we spent the day building 2 beds out of pavers that he got for free a few weeks back.


Heres a photo of our attempt...must say I do love the not perfect look roflol. Now just to put some veggies in ;).

I also took this yesterday. Didn't even know that there was freesias there, until I went to take the photo lol.


And this one was taken on Sunday night. With all the traffic coming back from the island I thought I'd attempt to take a photo of it.. not sure of the result though....


And finally, I also mangaged to get this done for the "defining me" project at PBP... just having a little fun ;). CC most welcome credits to Denise Docherty for her Blended Autumn kit and altered photography kit. Fonts Al Sandra, and Avant garde book.


TFV :)