Time I updated this blog

I know i am a slack tart, can never be bothered to update this thing. We haven't been up to alot. Quinn was sick last week so we spent the week at home which drove me round the twist. Thankfully he is better now and we are getting back to normal.

Last friday I took the kids to town ostensibly to buy more pamol, but decided to get Aislinn's hair cut. I was so sick of the hour long screaming session to brush her hair of late so off it came! It is now just below her shoulders and is much more manageable and alot of the damaged hair has gone too. She looks so much older too.
Back before

back after

















Last weekend was pretty quiet, I did a bit of scrapping. Made a canvas for Mum for her birthday and did a couple of LOs.

This week has been pretty much off to kindy and playcentre with a playcentre workshop on tuesday night as well. Peter has today and tomorrow off and is busy stripping back the ceiling and he has just done the 2nd coat of sealer on that. Tomorrow we are off to town and then the kids and I are going to a birthday party for Olivia, my friend Fiona's little girl, which means Peter can put another coat on the ceiling while we are there.Aislinn playing in the leaves

We hope to wallpaper the bedroom next weekend while the kids are away at Mum's place for a few days. We are even going to go on a date which we rarely get the opportunity to do these days. The guy came to measure our room, hallway and Aislinn's room for new carpet which will be nice, shame it isn't the whole house though! So we will have a lovely new bedroom and I will feel a shopping spree for new nicies for it ;) We even managed to get the broken window in our room fixed today after a year!

Happy Mother's day

I know I haven't been updating this much - I am even getting emails telling me to update it!! Not that we have been doing much mind you.

Quinn is doing well at kindy, he is less hassle at home so I am hoping that will continue. Aislinn has survived her second swimming lesson, she is no more keener to put her face in the water even with goggles on. Grandma took her this week while I was at the dr and she and Aislinn had a nice girls morning out.

I put my neck out on Saturday with Quinn and Payton hanging off it, monday it was so bad I couldn't get out of bed. Thankfully Di who takes Quinn to kindy, kindly drove us into kindy and then me over to palmy to the dr. Thankfully my neck is better now.

We took thursday off playcentre as Peter had the day off and went in to feilding for groceries, then we had to go back in on friday as we had to unexpectedly take Quinn to kindy. So Peter, the bean and I went over to palmy so I could use the pumpkin patch voucher I got and Aislinn picked out a nice pink "Polka spot" dress. We got chicken little on dvd for the kids which they are insisting on watching over and over again!! I would have thought it was a bit scary for them but nope.

I have done a few LO's this week, Bronny challenged me to scrap a LO using no patterned paper and I had to use stamps, I struggled with that concept - love my pp!! But eventually came up with this LO, pic is Aislinn dressed as a clown on tuesday at playcentre.

Last week I did this canvas as a baby gift for Fiona at playcentre, I took the photo last thursday at playcentre of her new baby Bianca and older daughter Olivia - I loved it when I uploaded it and had to scrap it so decided instead of buying something would make a canvas for her.

Oh I hadn't put these in that I made for Barbara a week or so ago, she neglected to tell me it was her 60th birthday so I made her these for her scraproom - not that they have made it there yet! They are really cute I may have to make some for my desk.

This afternoon I scrapped this one of my boy. I scraplifted this one from Kerrin Quall's "Kanky" LO in the latest FK. She has the amazing ability to use pp that one (well me) would never imagine could go together and look fab on one page. So I tried to do that with this LO, it isn't as out there as Kerrin's stuff but considering what is in my stash it isn't bad. I had scrapped it all apart from the title and journalling and had no idea what to put, in the end went with this as I wanted to remind myself that even though he drives me mad and pushes me to my limits that I really love this kid to bits.

Did I tell you? Can't remember but I got another LO accepted into Scrapbook creations, they actually wanted 2 but unfortunately for them the other LO is being published by FK next month. I can't wait to see my LOs in the next 2 issues of FK :)

We are off to the Baby Proms tomorrow, I hope I can take pics in there. That's all for my week.

Forever since I blogged!!

Hello readers! (well I assume someone reads this thing) Life has been hectic around here with all the visitors at Easter and then we went down home to the Wairarapa for a few days at Jo & Bruce's place, of course last week was mad with Quinn starting kindy and we have been out every morning.

Ok can't remember what I last posted about so forgive me if I repeat myself. Easter was busy we had lots of visitors with Shirley (MIL) and Michael (BIL) on sunday and then the entire Farley clan plus Neisha and Cody as well on tuesday night. We headed down to Greytown on the thursday and I spent all day on Friday with Lisa and the kids, their house is looking great and Peter even took the 3 big kids to Jo's so Lisa and I could have some time to ourselves which we never get. Here is a pic of our 4 kids together.

Quinn has settled into kindy remarkably quickly, he only had a few tears on the second day after I left and was fine with Di taking him in on Friday. He is bloody tired and bloody cranky, wee sod keeps waking up at 5am!! So is short a few hours sleep a day. I am hoping he will get used to it all soonish.

The Bean started swimming classes on monday, she looked all grown up swimming without me. She got a bit freaked by having her face in the water and got tearful near the end, I bought her some goggles so hopefully she will be ok tomorrow. She reckons she isn't going swimming again I informed her she owes me the fees if she doesn't LOL!!

What else is new? I am on Weight Watchers and have just finished my first week and lost 1.5kg! GO ME!! Am going to start going to yoga in Kimbolton on a wednesday night so gives me a good excuse to stop watching LOST.

I am gonna be an aunty again, my brother and his wife are having baby number 2 in November or maybe to add to a bust birthday week it will arrive between the 21st and 25th of october LOL.

Haven't been scrapping much, have done a canvas for a girl at playcentre as a baby gift which I hope she will like, will upload a pic once have taken it off my camera. Have comitted to going to scrap camp next month which will be interesting indeed haven't slept in a bunk for years!!

Well that's about all really must try and update more often. C YA!