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Birthday Girl

Last night this little girl went to bed as a 2 year old and woke up 3! To say she was excited about her birthday is an understatement. She had watched her brother have a birthday just 13 days ago so she had a rough idea about to expect....basically presents, cake and a party! Today we had a fairly quiet day, Jemima opened her presents and Daddy made the traditional Larmour family Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast, with sprinkles! This afternoon we took her to Cold Rock for birthday ice-cream and Jemima and Max loved watching the process of their lolly choice being mixed in with their ice cream. Needless to say they didn't eat much dinner tonight.


Yesterday we had a birthday party for Jemima at home. I had originally thought Jemima would like a girly fairy party but she had other ideas. Jemima decided weeks ago that she wanted and Cowgirl and Cowboy party so that's we had. We invited about 20 children to come and celebrate and by the looks on their faces for the entire time they were here, they had a ball. Max and Jemima were so tired at the end of the day that they were fast asleep by 6.15pm and that was after stringing them out with a light dinner and relaxing bath so that they weren't in bed by 5.30.

We wanted to do something special for her and hired a children's entertainer to come and do face-painting (or arm painting/tattoos), a magic show and make balloon animals. Jemima got to be the Magician's Assistant and she performed her duties fabulously. I really wish I had the video camera instead of the SLR out yesterday because her reactions were priceless.






I know I still have lots to update the Blog with. Max's birthday especially. It's almost midnight now so I'll leave that for tomorrow. I've also got some scrapping to show and the Scrapware Gingerbread House I made for a class this coming Saturday.

Out of action

Bugger, just when I have lots to post about!

My laptop has died a slow painful death over the past week. It started off overheating and shutting itself down and now it won't start up at all. Drew has logged a call with IBM to get them to fix it but I don't know how long it will be in hospital for. I miss it already!

Normally I would just blog from the PC in the study but I have my sister-in-law and niece and nephew staying this week and the study doubles as our spare room. I'll be back on the weekend to update jam sandwiches with some scrapping stuff and a wrap-up of Max's birthday.

Reading it

Loving it

Can't put it down

Does that make me weird?

Don't answer that.

In just one week...

This boy will be FIVE.

And he is pretty damned excited!

A few pics...

I actually haven't taken photos of many of the things I did in the lead up to Paperific. I did photograph the layouts and the birdhouse though so at least there is something to share. The birdhouse is done with the new Sassafras Lass Woodland Whimsy range which is just divine! I'll take the camera to work on saturday and photograph the rest of the stuff.

It's over....

Well Paperific 2008 is over and thank goodness for that! My feet are SO sore after standing on a concrete floor for 3 days. Friday and saturday were so unbelievably busy, there were several times during the day that we had 5-10 people queuing to pay. It was crazy but nice to know that people liked our stuff. Today was quieter whichmade things much harder because once we slowed down, it was harder to find the momentum to keep going.

I'm tired, my house is a mess and I actually have no desire to scrap at all. Thankfully all that work we did before the show paid off and the shop is now full of new products and displays and all of the classes for the rest of the year are planned and I only have 2 things to make. YAY! I'll be back tomorrow to add some pictures of our stand at Paperific and the layouts and projects we did over the past 2 weeks.

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend xxx