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Hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't have painted Jack's face last night. This morning he wanted to be a tiger which I had to re-apply twice because we don't actually have face paints, I've used an el cheapo make up kit and a damp applicator. Then he wanted to be an elephant (how the hell do you do an elephant?) so then he painted me as a butterfly (on acid maybe) then I did him as a boy butterfly which was wrong, wrong, wrong. He burst into tears as soon as I'd finished and he hadn't even seen it so no photos of that one because we had to wash it off straight away and it was so cute.
And a LO...I didn't say it was a good LO. :P

Look what I got...!!!

When we got home tonight there was a big box at our front door addressed to me!! Straight away Owen asks what I've been buying :P So anyhoo, we opened it up and look what I got... a gorgeous hamper of gourmet delights and a beautifully written card from my wonderful family as a thank you for my part in the organisation of my gorgeous Grandparents 60th anniversary party. As I said to my Mum and my Aunt Diane tonight, I feel very privaleged to be a part of such a beautiful, caring family. Love you guys!! and thank you(and yes Diane, I did open the macadamia nuts tonight).
Here are a couple of photos from our walk on Sunday with Grandma Joy. You'll note that Jack is wearing a hoodie. Jack has been wearing a variety of hoodies non-stop for weeks now. He just flat out refuses to wear anything but hoodies and he won't take his shoes off either.

Jack and Grandma making their way across the log creek crossing.
Blowing the thistles.
The beetles are still there and are nearly double in size. There's not so many of them though.
I had to clean out Ishy 2's tank the other day so I decided to change his wallpaper. Cosmo Cricket's Cog smo Mr Roboto. Cute hey.And lastly here's my little clown.
When we picked Jack up from daycare this afternoon one of the older kids had his face painted and when we told Jack it was time to go he said, "I can't go yet, I havn't had my face painted yet" so I said I'd do it when we got home. So this is what I came up with...I now have bright red lipstick on my quilt cover. LOL, but he was happy.
Oh and Ang C, how freakin' bad was my acting!! Lucky I'm at an age where I find it very easy to laugh at myself otherwise I would probably have had to quit work(I am on an ad for work at the moment and let's just say I don't think I'm going to win an Oscar this year...I suck!!...big time!!!)

K, ciao.

This is why i LOVE the internet...+ some LO's...+ my new furniture...+ my goregous boy!!

My friend Charlene is getting married in October and I am going to be one of her bridesmaids so in the search of dresses, hairstyles, etc etc I have been visiting some of the most gorgeous blogs EVER!! I am SOOOOO glad I got married when I did because if I had to decide on anything now there would be no way!! There are just so many beautiful colour palettes and table settings and bouquets and invitations. It would send me crazy. But I just LOVE all the inspiration!!
Here are a few of my favourites...

Style Me Pretty...I visit almost every day. Love the colour inspirations, great for scrap colour combos. Gorgeous stuff. And the paper goods they feature...OMG...stunning

It also led me to this...Inkbox Designs...oooh-la-la. I especially LOVE the passport wedding invitations.

Sparkliatti... another gorgeous wedding blog!!

Snippet & Ink... and another wedding blog!!

So if you are getting married definately check those sites out but be warned...you may change your wedding theme about 5000 times after seeing all the gorgeous things on these sites.

For home decor I love...

Pottery Barn... their stylist ROCK!!! I mean not everything is my 'style' but their merchandising is fabulous.

And lastly...

Matha Stewart... for EVERYTHING!! Decor inspiration, party planning, recipes, gifts, kids crafts. One of the best sites on the net in my opinion.

There are just so many beautiful things to be seen!!

Speaking of beautiful...look at my little boy...fast asleep...
...on the arm of the lounge chair!! LOL

I was scrapbooking and Owen was in the theatre room and I thought Jack was awfully quiet, I went out to discover him asleep on the arm of the lounge. Lucky he didn't roll off.

Speaking of scrapbooking, here are my last few pages. I'm not particularly happy with them though. They're OK but just a bit too plain. Oh well.And check out my new furniture(inset big grin here). My boss went crazy with the markdowns the other day. We had been eyeing off this buffet for awhile because it matches our dining table and it had been marked down from $1499 to $599 but we already had a buffet...well it was actually a dressing table and mirror that I'd bought on sale awhile ago...so we decided not to get it but then as I said my boss went crazy and I ended up buying the buffet, sofa table and lamp table all for less than the original $599 sale price!!! Unbelievable bargain!!

So here's the buffet...And here's the sofa table...

And there's a lamp table as well. The dressing table and mirror that we were using as a buffet is now going to go into our bedroom and I'm ordering in the bedsides to match and our furniture will go into the end bedroom which is my scraproom/junk storage. Now if I could just decide which dining chairs I want...

And one last photo of Jack, just because he's so gorgeous!

Ciao!!

I hardly even know where to start...

Well for starters our internet has been playing up, hence the no posting!! Touch wood, it's working okay tonight for me. I'm sure everyone has just been waiting on baited breath to hear what I've been up to...lol : )

So...the annual Rockhampton Show was on last week. I had been planning on entering this year in the scrapbooking, baking and photography sections but when I looked it up on the net I was too late and entries had already closed but while I was looking Jack was looking over my shoulder so he asked me what it was about and I showed him some pictures and explained how exciting it was and blah blah blah. Bad move!! We had to count down for a fortnight leading up to it. He was talking about it constantly and acually still does mention it on a regular basis. The big day arrived and we headed off along with Grandma Joy, Grandma Jean & Auntie Jenny. Jack was such a good boy. He patiently looked through all the pavilions and things with us and stayed in him pram for a bit of the time and held hands. He had rides on a few different things (I thought I was going to be sick on the cup and saucer ride), played all the clown ball games and had a few goes at the fishing and duck hooking things. All in all he ended up with a pretty good stash of junk...a squeezy ball, 2 slinkies, a ping pong pusher(which is really a gun, but we don't really have any gun toys in our house), a plastic motorbike and a parachute guy. They really like to give little boys swords. One woman gave my the funniest look when I asked her if we could please exchange our plastic sword for a non-violent toy. :P Here's a few photos...Feeding the animals in the petting zoo.Playing the clown game with Grandma Joy helping and Great Grandma Jean looking on.The duck game (just like on Maisy)

On the dogems with Dad. Driving the train. He thought he was so cool. He got to ring a bell and everything. It was hilarious to watch, every time the train went over a little bump and the bell would ting he'd grab it and give it a couple of tings and he wouldn't look at us...he was too busy driving.Driving the boat. His boat kept spinning around and around and you could see his little mind tick over, he was looking at the ride attendant as if to say, "man, I got a dodgy boat!". And flying a plane (a pretty pink one)It was a very long day. We got there at about 10.30am and didn't get back home until about 9.30pm. Jack of course crashed in the car on the way home and my Grandma Jean, who is an octagenarian (she's in her 80's) spent the whole day with us walking around and around. She's a wonder my Gran!!

On Sunday morning we met up with our mum's & bub's group for a little outing to the miniture trains. We've only been once before when the kids were about a year old. We took along some morning tea and then everyone went for a few rides. I can't believe how much weight those little trains came pull!! It's only a gold coin donation for a ride and the kids just had such a wonderful time.

Jack with Kim & Charlotte and Erica, Hayley & Lauren.In the afternoon we were joined by Kim, David, Jared & Charlotte for our regular walk with Grandma to the park.We found some cool stuff. There was a particular tree that had heaps of beetles on it.We gound a praying mantis...and we found a LOT of rocks!! Jack's newest obsession when we go walking. He just has to throw every bloody rock in the creek. Such a boy thing to do.After a play on the swings we went and played frisbee. Jack kept turning around to us and saying "ok, stand back guys, stand back!". It was very cute. He did at one stage drop his lip a little and said that he didn't want to play because he wasn't very good. That was sad to hear him say something like that at such a young age.Last night I went out with the girls from work and we saw the Sex in the City movie. It was really good. I cried a bit and then also ended up with tears running down my cheeks from laughing so much as well.

I also did my first sort of photo shoot for my friend Charlene of her family, little Aeron and big Aaron. I'm really pleased with most of the shots, they came out pretty good. I'm going to try to really learn how to used my camera properly.

Alrighty then, I'm off to bed. I've been falling asleep as I've been tying this and I spring awake o find a line of eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Nitey night!!