Day Six

Kirsty and Ayesha are having a sleepover tonight. Kirsty and I are going to do some artsy-fartsy stuff once the kids are in bed. We got this range in at work yesterday and I've bought some so I can play with it. I'll let you know when I've finished.

Day Five

I do love a good Blogsurf, as you can tell by the number of links on my sidebar. One of the Blogs I love to pop in to every now and then is The Pioneer Woman. I love her style of writing and she always has something funny to say. She's also a wicked cook and I am partial to food, surprisingly. I'm also partial to food that is fun. I love planning what to cook for the kids birthday parties and it never ceases to amaze me what people can do with simple ingredients.

I love this idea. I can't wait to try it for one of Jemima's birthday parties, or maybe just the next time the girls come over.

Turn these

Into this

You can get full instructions on The Pioneer Woman, here.

Day Four

I know kids are supposed to grow but sometimes I wish they wouldn't, well not quite so quickly anyway. This applies not only to Max who is about to embark on the school journey, but to Miss Puddleduck. I just cleaned out her drawers after buying a few new bits and pieces and the amount of clothing I had to pack away because it was too small was ridiculous. At the beginning of the year she was wearing size 3, now I'm buying size 5 and she isn't 3 until November! The difference between girls size 5 and a boys size 5 can be enormous though. No wonder women have issues with body image and clothing sizes. Missy is also wearing size 9 shoes and I fear she will be in 10's before too long. I just need her to slow down a bit so she can actually wear something out before she outgrows it.

Day Three

I came across this fabulously funny clip this morning while I was blog surfing. I love it!

Things you don't say to your wife



... and Max wanted me to add this one from him. I have no idea where he gets his sense of humour from, honestly.

Day Two

A little bit of scrapping to share. These are a few of the layouts I've done for work over the past 2 weeks. The photo in the first layout is by Clair Bremner. She took some fabulous photos of all of us in June. I'm really looking forward to doing more layouts with her work.

Day One

I'm seeking inspiration and motivation, mainly in my daily life but also in terms of artsy fartsy scrapbooking/quilting life too. I think it's the time of year that seems to sap all my energy and creativity. It's freezing here, it's wet, I've had a cold for over a week and it's starting to annoy me! I have a million ideas in my head for things I want to do but I lack the motivation to actually get things done. Things fall out of my linen cupboard and hit me on the head every time I open the door, but have I cleaned out the cupboard and reorganised things? No. I have hundreds of dollars of scrapbooking materials here and a notebook full of ideas and plans but have I sat down and completed anything that wasn't work related lately? No. I have all the fabric for Jemima's quilt here, washed, ironed and ready to go, but as you can guess, I haven't started it yet. I've had the fabric since January!!!!!!

So, this little blog challenge I've issued myself is an attempt to break out of the cycle.

I've also decided to start Jemima's quilt on thursday while the kids are kinder/occassional care and hopefully have the top finished by the end of the day so that I can then start quilting it while I watch telly at night.

I've booked in for this workshop in the hopes of giving me the inspiration I need.

The linen cupboard will probably just have to wait. I'm very good at procrastinating.

Blogathon

I really need to kickstart myself back into Blogging again and by that I mean blogging regularly and much more often. I often 'write' posts in my head but they never quite make it onscreen and I need to change that. It's funny how I pop into other people's blogs every few days and get disappointed when I don't see something new, and yet I neglect my own blog.

So I am issuing myself a challenge. For then next 30 days I will make a blog entry every day. It might only be some scrapping to share or a snippet of daily life, but there will be something new on this blog every day starting tomorrow.

Now ... off to think about tomorrow's post.