#29 - Lego fun

Husby and I have a responsibility at church.  We are the 'nursery' leaders.  We basically look after the 18mth - 4yr old kids for two hours every Sunday.  It is hard work.  Certainly isn't helping me feel positive about starting a family in the not to distant future.  So we try to have some fun.  The kids really like Lego so we play with it alot.  Here's what we've made lately.

Lego masks

Twin towers - it was 9/11 so we made them in memory.

I love Lego!!

#28 - iPhone photo album happenings

Here's my life over the past two months or so, according to my iPhone photo album...

Celebrating the official arrival of Almond MM's to Australia.  Only took 10 years.

I wanted to buy it, but for $80, I passed.

4 hail storms in 2 weeks.

Enjoying a banana after a 3 month banana fast... soo glad the prices are coming back, down!

Brother turned 24.

Made 60 card fronts for Stampin' Up! Regionals..

Quick sale fail.

Ate way too much cherry cobbler....

Being greeted by the chookies every morning when I go for a shower

Watching mum eat creamed spinach risotto in disgust.

Eating delicious frittata.

So... what have you been up to?

#27 - DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY GIVEAWAY

Don't forget!! You can join in here.  It closes on Monday 31st October at MIDDAY! (AEST)  All you need to do is be a follower and leave a comment.  Easy peasy!  Good luck!!!  It's kind of awesome!!!

#26 - He's back!

I have my husband back!!!!!!! Yay!

How delightful do I look??

#25 - Genious use for a paper doily...

The coolness blows my mind...

Image

#24 - Peeking through the window..

Whilst packing for camping last night, I looked out at the window as I was doing things, to see a sweet little green friend watching me as I ran around like a mad thing...

He's sweet huh?

#23 - Pictures of the show that prove I need a new camera

Lucky I was smart enough to pass my camera around the room where we got everyone ready for the show.  There are a couple of fun shots of people having hair and makeup done...

Top: Me doing mouse makeup & another mouse having her hair done.  Bottom: Instructions on what to do & 2 mice almost ready..

Top:  Male mouse almost finished unimpressed about wearing makeup & getting started on makeup for a fly.  Bottom:  Three flies ready to go just needing costumes, their eyes & wings.

It is absolute mayhem organising 16 people for hair and makeup.  I had a great team of helpers, and there is no way I could have physically done it without their selfless help.  It didn't help that our getting ready time was cut down by half an hour the day before the show either.  Somehow we did manage to get it all done in time (miracle) and everyone looked fab.

Here's some pics of the show in action...

Top:  Mice in the entree act.  Bottom:  The mice getting in trouble from Louie the Fly.

As you can clearly see, this is why I need a new camera.  When I bought my camera a year ago, I was SO excited as it is waterproof, shockproof, and all that fun stuff.  We read review on the camera and only read good things, so that is why we thought it would be a great purchase.  Boy was I wrong.  It is ONLY good for taking water shots.  I hate it and husby is sick of me complaining about it so a new camera is in the works :)  I CANNOT WAIT!

Just one last thing.  My sister did the costumes, hair and makeup for another show that was on last night also.  Even though they were the 'competition' I have to share her handiwork.  And I might add she won the award for makeup :)

Off camping tomorrow.  So I'm busy packing today for that and getting all the household chores done before I leave.  And I somehow need to make sure I leave enough time to do a week and half worth of blog posts saved in drafts so I can post while away... this will be interesting :)

#22 - And the award for best costumes goes to.... ME

You know how I keep telling you about those costumes I've been making?  Well, the show was tonight.  And I won an award for best costumes out of the 6 shows.  I have no photos for you.  Just a lame google image because I am beyond exhausted.  I will have more details, and hopefully some photos for you in the near future.  I AM SO GLAD IT'S OVER!!

#21 - Flying solo....

Well I couldn't talk about this until today.  I dropped husby off at the International airport on Wednesday morning... headed for USA.  It was a surprise trip so he can attend his sisters wedding on the weekend.  No one knew he was coming, except for his dad.  He was in on the secret.  We only booked his ticket a week prior.... so it has all been a very whirlwind type experience. You see, I am doing hair and makeup and little bit of costuming for a stage show on the weekend... which is stressing me out.  Then we are going camping next week.  But he'll still be in the USA.  So we had to pack the trailer for camping BEFORE he left, as well as plan everything that goes along with it - what still needs to be packed, eating plan etc.  We also had to pack his clothes for his trip, and the camping trip.  It hurt my head a fair bit.  I get to tow the trailer and everything else stuffed in the car down to the camp site and set it up myself.  It is going to be SO fun.  He doesn't fly back in until Wednesday next week - 3 days after I set up camp. 

The surprise went well.  Everyone is happy to see him.  I am stuck in Australia with a million things to do and flying solo, sleeping with teddy at night to keep me safe and warm :)

PS.  Don't forget about my mixed basket giveaway... it's kind of awesome.

#20 - Smoooooothie

I am going camping next week, so am in the process of emptying my fridge.  I needed to use up some fruit, so decided to make a smoothie.  IT.  WAS.  DELICIOUS.  I have never tasted a better smoothie in all my life.  Best part is, I winged it!!!  Here's how to make it.

Juice:

- 2 pears

-1/2 pineapple

- 1 punnet of blueberries

Then put in the blender:

- Above juiced fruits

- 2 bananas

- 1 cup milk

- handful of ice

And wizz till the ice is in little chunks.

I loved it SO much that I couldn't even wait to take a picture.  So this is what you get...

#19 - favourite movie.

What's your all time, most favourite movie?

Mine is the Slipper and the Rose.

I grew up watching this movie.  It is a spin on the story of Cinderella.

It is very old fashioned, and that's what I love about it.

And it is full of singing and dancing!

And a little bit of snogging.

If you want to see a scene from the movie, which I love, click here.  It is when "Cinderella" meets the Prince at the ball and they do the waltz.  It's so beautiful!

I just thought I'd share!

PS.  All images came from Google

#18 - Mixed basket giveaway

I know I know, I was supposed to post my giveaway at the BEGINNING of the month.  Slack.  *slaps hand*.  I'm going to keep it simple.  There's lots of stuff.  Giveaway is only for Australians (sorry).  To enter you MUST BE A FOLLOWER and leave a nice comment below.  I will draw this on Monday 31st October at midday AEST (I'll be camping!) and will do a post to notify the winner for the last day of Blogtober.  

Included: Ball of cream wool, pack of flower handmade flower embellishments, patterned cardstock borders, baroque motif stickers, sticky spots, blue rhinestones, green pearl stickers, self cover buttons, cardboard butterfly embellishments, greeting card, x6 pack of thank you cards, 'you're too kind' small gift box, x2 larger "just for you" gift boxes, pack of eyelets, pack of decorative photo corners, bag of metal butterfly's and dragonfly's, string of yellow tassel, cotton embroidered doily, pink crocheted doily, pink embroidery, 2 spools ribbon, 2 spools ribbon string, 1 spool decorative trim, blue decorative trim, flower rosette headband, pink lace, purple flower hair clip, felt hair clip, sunflower hair clip.  Comes in awesome clear plastic storage box.

Good luck!

#17 - A day late, self portrait day.

I missed the memo (in other words, didn't keep up with what's going on).  It was self portrait day yesterday for Blogtoberfest.  I am home sick from work and have spent most of the day infront of my computer.  So here I am.  Photo taken with my awesome fuzzy webcam.

No makeup.  Hair dried by itself.  No photo editing.  

The real deal.

#16 - Repetition... so much fun!

I'm attending Stampin' Up! Regionals beginning of November.  As part of attending you have the option of making card front to swap with people, so you can get lots of new cool ideas.  So I got together with two friends that are attending Regionals too, and we spend the night getting started on our designs.  I decided to make 60 card fronts.  We got started a little after 7pm.  We finished at 1am.  I was a zombie!!!  Got home at 1.25am and didn't get to sleep until 2am!!  I woke up Saturday morning to a thunderstorm at 4am, but promptly went back to sleep and didn't awake again until 9.30am!!!!  It was a gorgeous sleep in.  But I will have to admit, even thought I slept in to make up for being up so late, I have been stuffed ALL weekend.  I must be getting older.  Need my sleep too much!!!  

Anyway, Saturday afternoon and again this morning I worked on my card fronts, and I finally finished this morning.  They are all pretty, in their packaging, with the ingredients list inserted in the back, with my blog/shop/email details on a sticker on the back also.  They're all ready to Rock'n'Roll!!  

I am soooo glad they are finished.  The repetition was starting to get REALLY annoying.

Now I get to help the other two finish their card fronts off!!

#15 - Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me + Hail!!!

I'm pretty huh?  Those are my awesome fly eyes I made and have been rabbiting on about.  Today I did a test run of the makeup.  I ended up going with something different then pictured above, but had to share that picture with you.  It horrendously hilarious.

And on another note, you can seriously tell we're about to go into Summer.  The wild thunderstorms have already arrived.  Throughout this week we have had 4 pretty decent thunderstorms, with hail in certain parts of the city.  One storm took the life of my SIL's workmate, who pulled over in his car because it was too dangerous to drive, and a tree fell on his car and tragically killed him.

Today, we had TWO HUGE storms.  The first was at 4am, so I only heard it as I TRIED to sleep.  Alot of loud thunder claps and really windy heavy rain.  Husby had to get up and close up all the windows upstairs because it was blowing in.  

And then the second storm quite LITERALLY rolled in at 5pm.  It was VERY dark clouds, and they were literally rolling horizontally.  I've never seen anything like it.  It almost looked like it was rolling down to where we were standing.  (And I realise this is probably making NO sense).  I was out when this storm approached and husby called me frantically from home "IT'S HAILING!!! WHERE'S THE CAR?? QUICK GET IT UNDER SOMETHING!!"  I ran back inside and told everyone else and we all ran out and moved out cars into better positions.  All we had to shelter the cars was some trees so we parked them and then went back inside and awaited the onslaught.  About 2 minutes later the rain and hail arrived.  

Only marble sized hail fell where we were - LUCKILY.  We were definitely looked after, because just two minutes down the road (and at home) they were the size of golf balls.  After the hail stopped and the rain eased off a little I went and collected my car back to pull it back into the main carpark of where I was and there were a few other people doing the same and we were chatting before getting in our cars.  And then lightning struck just off to the left of where we were.. HOLY COW, I had to swallow my internal organs back down.  We all screamed and ducked down.  I covered my ears immediately anticipating the super loud crack, which followed half a second later.  

Anyway, that is my adventure for the day.  I wonder if we'll get another storm tomorrow....