Awarded

Meg came home today having received this award at school.....

It has always been our most favoured kind of award for our children to receive......

Proud mummy moment! 

At the Beach

I wasn't at the beach today.......

but we sure had some fun at playgroup thinking about the beach.....

and there were some pretty cool beach pictures created by little hands.....

 

I know I have such a tough job....do you feel sorry for me??

A gift for a gift

My youngest sister picked up a bundle of doilies for a steal of a price over the wekend.....

 and because she has such a busy little brood around her and no time for creating, she has gifted them to me....

So I made her a gift to say thanks......

I am hoping she is much too busy with her little brood to pop in here and spoil the surprise!

Sunday Snippets

Snap shots from our weekend......

....Team work to put the finish on the out door table

.....chicken house clean out

....egg collecting

....shed clean out and vegie bed preparations

....pantry clean out thanks to an army of ants invasion

....resting from his labors

....late afternoon shower of rain

....pizza making

....pizza eating.

 

Joining in with the rest of Sunday snippets here.

My Tablecloth

I was ironing one of my favourite linen tablecloths that belonged to my mum today......

Do you see what is in the top left hand corner?

It is a patch that has been sewn on to repair the cloth after something  happened to it....

I don't know what that something was  but my mum obviously loved this cloth too ...enough to repair it, to lengthen it's life.

or

was it just something she and many others used to do because it was a waste not to? 

So much of what we have today has a very short life span and is tossed into the garbage at the end of it's supposed used by date....

We don't darn socks anymore or patch jeans or do any of the many  tasks that our mum's probably did  to make something be useful for longer.

Sure some of us are good at "re-purposing" an item...that is taking something and often chopping , cutting or altering the item in some way and giving it a new purpose.

This is great and nothing at all wrong with  doing that...in fact we should do much more of it....

I just got to thinking about the length of life my tablecloth has had because my mum took the time to repair it.... no not it is not perfect anymore...

but it certainly does the job, gives me  pleasure,memories and never fails to be a conversation piece amongst guests.

Things I am loving

I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is.  

 

 

 I am loving .....

A visit to a gallery exhibiting the celebration of the humble tea towel

Spin Cycle

 

 Fascinating works of art transforming the tea towel and recognising the life cycle of it.....

Wet , Dry , Wet , Dry....

Not overly practical but certainly some funky redesigning going on.....

Quite inspiring if you love that slightly off centre , creative thought......

The other part of the day I loved was spending it with my two lovely sisters, two little neices and of course this beautiful nephew....

The gallery was located at the most spectacular vantage point to see our city....

....the weather was perfect with clear skies overhead....

Joining in with other here.....

Have a lovely weekend.

Colour choosing

Big choices to be made here......

 

Silver Pearl......

or

Crystal Pearl

I know not the most riverting colours to chose between but one I have to make.

Can you help?

 

Homework

The routine of homework has begun......

The challenge is to make it interesting enough for my Year Two little guy to participate willingly.

He is given a list of spelling words to revise. Each night we have tried to find a different way of learning them.

Tonight we reached for the letter tiles from our "Bananagrams" game or you could use Scrabble if you have it.

Apart from not enough letter "k's" he really enjoyed the exercise.

I'll share other ways as we discover them.

 

My Creative Space

My first Creative Space post for 2012......

 

 I haven't quite found my crafting mojo since work and school have resumed for the year.....

 

But I was asked to make an apron......only specification....

make it RED!!!!

Do you think I nailed the ask?????


Joining in with other creative people here.

Tempting snacks

Do you ever find yourself standing at the pantry/larder and getting a little lot annoyed at the person who bought all the tempting and not so good for your health, foods into the house?.......

 

Only to realise that in fact that person was yourself!!!

 

Home for lunch today by myself and I will let you know that only a tiny piece of chocolate was consumed in the preparation of my semi - healthy lunch.

{Table Update....}

Remember our table dilemma?

 

Hey we had a moment today where for some unplanned reasons we had enough strong hands in one place to "flip" the table......

 

 

I am so proud of my husband......it is so beautiful......

A few more splinters to knock off it and we are ready to have a feast with friends around this grand table.....

...and the best part was other than all the hard work gone into it ...it was a steal of a deal made with scrap yard jarrah wood......never could we have afforded to have bought one!

Sunday Snippets

Gotta love birthday celebrations that just keep celebrating!!!!

Joining in with Sunday Snippets here.

Things I am Loving...

 

 

I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is.  

 

 

Things I am Loving this week......

Time for little cousins to celebrate a birthday with something new to them.....

Beautiful and generous gifts from big boys off to kindy and leaving playgroup......

My phone back after two months in a little battle with the "Telco"

Today being Friday and a day to myself to finish a requested apron.....

Nice long cuddles with this beautiful nephew and a cuppa with my sister.....

More time for little guys to be busy with simple plans and ideas.....

I am joining in here with other loving people.....

Have a fabulous rest of Friday. xx 

 

Simply Lovely

From My Love.........

Simple roses from our Garden