Easter is coming ....

I have spent the afternoon making some tags with my favourite tag and dragonfly punches.

I then bagged and wrapped about 200 chocolate eggs for kids church tomorrow!

I also made some cute little Rocky Road treats.

I printed a few vintage Easter Bunny pics and attached then to the punched tags.

I then packed them into beautiful cello bags ready to share.

All packed and ready to share with family and friends.

Happy Easter!

What a hoot!

I have a soft spot for cute little owls at the moment. I decided to dust off the sewing machine and use up some scraps to whip up this one. Oh so easy and ooh so cute.... he has vanilla essential oil in him so he will freshen any little spot that she chooses to roost!

He has been sitting on my table for a few days and has won the hearts of anyone who has dropped in! I can see some more owls joining him very soon!

Have a hoot this Easter!

A path to happiness!

It has been an interesting week!

The vibe has been a little negative ...

lots of people who are not well and lots of people who are not happy!

It got me thinking .... what is it that make me unhappy?

I have a whole lot to be thankful for. Family, friends, health, love. If it isn't the big things that get to me is it the small things that do it?

This week I am going to keep a list of things that cheese me off! By identifying what it is that annoys me maybe I can make some changes. Little by little I will walk the path to happiness!

Beware this week that you don't get on the list!

Domestic Princess!

I just had to snap this pic yesterday!

The girls are busily getting things sorted to go away for a week to a performing arts camp. Included in this week are a few dress up days/nights. For one of them the group of girls from the Gold Coast is going as the Disney Princesses!

I had a whole load of dishes draining on the sink from a big family dinner the night before.

As I walked back through the kitchen I saw this and just couldn't resist taking a pic of it!

I had cleaned the sticky label off the tiara with Eucalyptus and rinsed it and left it to dry.

It wasn't until I saw it a little while later that I saw how funny it looked!

Hail to all those kitchen princesses out there!

Wash up your Tiara and leave it to dry ......

just long enough to watch a DVD on the couch with a block of chocolate.

Fairy Bread

Is it just me or is Fairy Bread the ultimate food?

There is just something about Fairy Bread that takes me back to my childhood.... when life was simple. Fresh white bread, butter and hundred and thousands, does it get more easy?

We were watching a DVD the other day, and in the movie the girls were making Fairy Bread to take to a party. After finishing the bread they then spread their lips with butter and kissed the bowl!

Ta Dah! Hundreds and Thousands lip gloss! We had to give it a go! It was fun while it lasted but the multicoloured dye spots took a little time to wear off!

Life as an adult is not always simple. Fairy Bread can be a great reminder not to take life too seriously!

Getting some exercise!

When you jump to conclusions where do you take off from?

Where do you land?

How long are you in the air? How far off the ground do you get?

Where do conclusions begin? And can they be continued?

Is a conclusion simply the place where you get tired of thinking?

If you come to a conclusion where have you been?

Do you get more exercise jumping to conclusions or dodging the issues?

To succeed in life, jump as quickly at opportunities

as you do at conclusions

One of those moments!

I had one of those funny conversations today. You know those ones where you get onto a topic and have no idea how you got there.

I was driving with mini me and somehow we got onto talking about incontinence pads! I was trying to explain why some women needed them .... after having babies and when they were getting older. She was so totally disgusted ... and then started talking about adult nappies! It all went downhill from there.....


She was laughing so hard she had tears rolling down her face.....


I was laughing so hard I was glad I had something to "depends" on!


What has my world come to???

Are you a little weird?

We are all a little weird
and life's a little weird,
and when we find
someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them
and fall in mutual weirdness
and call it LOVE!

Is it just me?

Is it just me or did the world go slightly crazy this week?

Some quotes that got me through were-

Do you want some tissues for your issues?

If you were a booger, I'd pick you first!

I'd like to help you out... which way did you come in?

If you think life sucks now... you should get a bigger straw.

Did you just break wind? ... Cause you are blowing me away!!

So to finish what was a week from the dark side, I decided to pump up the music and dance like no one was watching! Obviously someone was ... I could hear the uncontrollable laughter.

It was just what I needed!

Chocolate Therapy

Yesterday I was slightly stressed over a series of unfortunate events. After the situation was done and dusted a friend who had been there helping me asked if I needed an ambulance. I said only chocolate would fix it!

Can you believe she turned around and produced a family sized block of fruit and nut chocolate from her handbag, ripped off the wrapper and handed me a sizable chunk!

The look on the face of another lady standing next to us was priceless!
That's my sort of first aid!

That reminds me I must book my spot to update my first aid training....
who knows chocolate therapy may be introduced!

Be careful what you wish for . . .

Today was spent at a netball carnival. Six games in a row for the girls. After not finding their "win" all day and facing the hardest team in the competition for the last round the girls decided to have a bit of fun. As you can see by the face - this wasn't the position she was hoping for!!!

This was the process used to decide who played in which positions. The coach took a bit of convincing but eventually gave in to the girls. They all just wanted to play some other position. After being defeated in every round they wished for something different. If not a win then a different experience! They didn't even score in the final game.... but boy they had fun!




This got me thinking about life...

we go through it always wishing for something different to that which we have. But how often do we get what we wished for and find it wasn't what we wanted after all.

Be careful what you wish for . . . you may just get it!

My Enchanted Princess Life!

Today I was having a chat with a girl who had turned 7 yesterday. She was telling me about the gifts she had received for her birthday... including the DVD of The Princess Protection Program.

After explaining to her that I would love to be a princess and was waiting for a man to come and rescue me to take me away to my new life

( as happens in the movie) she replied with -

You deserve an enchanted life!

I was then told by a parent who was listening to the conversation that 2 Valium with my first coffee would have the same effect! ( my world with fuzzy edges)

Not too sure which Princess I would pick though . . .

Maybe I am Snow White . .

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( cause sometimes I wake up Grumpy , other times I let him sleep)

I want to be able to go to this happy place!

5 Reasons why I can't go to my happy place

1. I put the directions in my "special" filing spot.

2. I put it on my list of things to do it in my spare time.

3. I asked one of my kids to organise it for me.

4. I get there and then can't remember what I am suppose to do.

5. Every time I go there someone is waiting for me!!!

So as Mark Twain said:

Sanity and Happiness are an impossible combination!

Not sure which I value most.

It all went downhill from there!

Mini me and Maxi me thought we should take some beautiful Mother's Day shots

Crazy Faces!


And what photo shoot is complete without the classic "bunny ears"!

Finally one that could actually be called a nice photo!

This is just a small reflection of my crazy day and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Eeyore's take on life!

• They haven't got brains, any of them, only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake and they don't think!
  
  
• They are funny things accidents, you never have them until you have them.

• I can't complain, I have my friends, someone spoke to me only yesterday!

• It's not much of a tail but I'm sorta attached to it

• When somebody asks "how do you do?" just say that you didn't.
  
  
  Happy Weekend Everybody!

There's always one!

Is it just me or is there always someone that sticks their head in where it isn't needed and steals all the attention!!! I have had one of those days! So don't start with me...... I need some time out in the naughty spot .... to make up for all the bad thoughts I have had today....

It's been a chuppa chups kinda day . . .

Laws has been working on her Science assignment . . . it involved the painting of about 50 polystyrene balls. Our house was looking a little like a lollipop factory!

Love this photo!

I'm sure the neighbours think we are crazy! I suppose they wouldn't be far from the mark......
So it has been a chuppa chups kinda day . . one child off to the doctors and then to the x-ray place. No broken bones, just some very sore spots!

As I tell my children often ....
If you think life sucks . . . get a bigger straw!

Eat your heart out Big Ted!

Some very snazzy toys at my place today!

I think my creative side is a liitle rusty!

This is my new knitting loom. I went to Spotlight to get 40 or so little balls and came home with a new hobby! I have never been a great one for knitting.... (can't cast on or cast off) I can just knit. So as you can imagine this has really inhibited what I could create.

After a 10 minute demo and a kit and wool we came home with great ambition to knit amazing things. . . 2 days later we have an assortment of UFOs ( unfinished objects) and three beanies that are on the soft toys! I think I need to keep working on it. I will post a photo when I figure out how to do it. Maybe it's not just my creative gene that is rusty today!

Going to vacuum the carpet and remove all the wool bits from it!

Ok ... so now I have a blog! Well in actual fact I think I may have a couple.... not too sure what happened to the other one I started on Wednesday. It is filed in my"special spot" with all the other things on my current AWOL list!

Please don't expect to see any magnificent craft or mouthwatering meals on my site . . . unless of course they are links to other way more creative blogs than this! This is what the name suggests my random ramblings about . . . whatever has made my laugh/cry/think about.

Sit back relax and enjoy the journey!