Christmas arrived early

There is this trend now of having "Christmas in July"... well we didn't do it but it sure arrived in our house with avengence this past weekend. Here's the story....

On Friday (the 25th!) I fetched our post from the box and found a slip to collect an insured parcel... well I wasn't expecting anything (except the one my brother sent over a year ago from New Zealand!) so had no idea what it was. Got to the post office and was given this big box... the only identification on it was a sticker for the Disney Channel and a mention of BunnyTown... no return address whatsoever.

So once home and with much excitement from Aaron we opened the parcel.... and inside was.....

my very own GHETTO BLASTER.... Thank you Santa. It must have been Father Christmas as there was no letter, no return address and I can't remember which competition I entered where I would win one of these. Anyway now I have music (or maybe that should be more?) in my scraproom.

But that's not all.... On Saturday our Ladies Fellowship had a morning's tea and I was presented with the most gorgeous bunch of flowers as well as a Rose plant... all as a thank you for my leadership for the past year... Thanks to Marita who is now taking over.


Wow I really really felt spoilt this weekend.

A VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY

It's my best friend Judi's 40th birthday today and I'm trying to find 40 ways to wish her happy birthday.

1. SMS'd her very early this morning

2. Sent her email from my work address

3. Sent her email from facebook

4. Sent her a hi-five

5. Sent her an email from my gmail account

6. We are going to her for supper tonight so guess I can SAY it

7. Will sing it to her when we cut cake tonight

8. Will be baking a lemon meringue pie to take for pudding tonight... always a good way to say Happy birthday

9. Have made her the most awesome present... but I can't show you yet in case she reads my blog!

10. Wrote on her wall at facebook

Okay now I need 30 more ways... Judi did suggest sky writing but my budget doesn't stretch that far so maybe someone (?) who reads this can give me a hand in wishing Judi. Comment here and I will pass them all on to her.

Have a great day my special friend,

C

Update @ 11:30 - just got another one in...

11. wrote happy birthday in my status at facebook.

Update @ 12 - just had a brainwave and did TWO...

12. Sent in a birthday greeting to Jacaranda 94.2FM - hopefully Tove will read it on air later today

13. Sent in a dedication to Highveld Stereo - the station Judi listen's too (if I remember correctly) and hopefully they read it tomorrow.

Update @ 1pm

14. Sent Judes some virtual chocolates through facebook (had given her the real thing on Sunday!)

Update at 9:30pm

15. Judi cancelled dinner on us but Gayle & I turned up anyway! Surprise :)

16. Gave judi 39 yellow smarties and one brown one... equals 40 (reason for the brown one was that after opening the four boxes of smarties there were only 39 yellow ones... very frustrating!!!)

17. Gave Judi the most beautiful bunch of yellow flowers (gerbras???)

18. Sent Judi an email from my home address

19. Sent Judi an email to her gmail account .... in afrikaans nogal!!!

20 & 21... the birthday greetings from fellow scrappers Joanne & Sophia (see comments to this post)

Update at 10pm - last one for today..

22. It's 10pm and Judi is now OFFICIALLY 40... just sms'd her (again!)

Happy Birthday

It's such a special day today in South Africa... Mr Nelson Mandela is 90. Wow that is a good age to get too. My Granny will be 90 in a few months time too.

I really want to wish this most humble man all the best for today. I don't want to wish him another 90 years (could think of nothing worse to live to 180!!) but I do want to send him many happy years ahead with his family. May these be blessed times. God bless.

Oh and we are wishing... go to Jacaranda 94.2 FM and check out the song they sang for Mr Mandela this morning... gives you such a warm fuzzy feeling.

(Ps photo is from Jacaranda's website.. not sure where they got it from.... hope it is okay that I have used it here)

What's been keeping me...

from blogging.... well firstly it was school holidays (they started again on Monday) so for the past three weeks Aaron was with my parents and I had a break from being "Mommy"... did I mention this already???... anyway I managed to do some major SCRAPPING these last two weeks... over 10 layouts and boy do I feel chuffed... my goal for 2006 is coming to an end... only got 20 or so pages left to do!!

But... now that school is going again I don't have nearly as much "free" time to scrap so I haven't managed to do that much... started a double page on Sunday for which I must still do journalling and the title. Hopefully before the week is out I can finish it. And then I have also been doing LOTS of quilling... made fairies, butterflies, flowers and the last two nights I've made a dragon and a horse for the knight in shining armour (still to come!). So I am slowly making progress to my enchanted garden entry for the ScrapExpo in September.

Okay so that's what I've been doing and why I haven't been blogging... hopefully it will improve and I can blog more regularly soon.

OH....... and before I forget... Aaron learnt to ride his bike "without wheels" as he says... hehehe... ie without SIDEWHEELS. Such an acheivement for our little guy.

Look who joined "blog world"

I scrap... and I scrap using sketches... and one of those people's whose sketches I uses is Becky Fleck from PageMaps.... well now she has a blog too.... http://www.pagemaps.com/blog.php ... more for me to read each month and keep up to date with... hehehe.

Petrol Goes Up

New month, first Wednesday and the price of petrol goes up AGAIN! Got this quote in an email and thought it was most appropriate!

"Car sickness is the feeling you get when you pull up to the petrol station. "
~Author Unknown

Happy Birthday

Hehehe... not for me or for friends or family (yet!) but for a blog site... hehehe... yip there is a blog that is turning ONE today... http://papertrunk.blogspot.com/ - so have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and hope that all the blog celebrations go off without a hitch.

A new month..

Wow it's July already... not nice knowing that the year is already half over. Where has the time gone... just the other day we were looking forward to Aaron's first day of school and now his first year is half over! He is spending the school holidays with Poppa & Granny... having a great time. I'm having a "holiday" too... holiday from getting up too early, driving to school and having to be "mommy" all day long! Nice to recharge my batteries.

And then I also get to SCRAP... hehehe.... haven't done much in the last month. Worked out this morning that I only did 10 layouts for June.... bad girl... but hey three of those I did yesterday alone!! hehehe. And I started on my first one for my July quota today before going to work... hopefully get a few more in this afternoon.

The other thing I have to look forward to in July is my best friend turning 40. Seems like there are lots of us doing that this year... I found a blog this morning about another lady, Beverley, who is turning 40 in August and so thought I'd fill you in about it. Check out http://www.craftymoments.blogspot.com/ and see what she is up to.

Right back to work now...

this month...

Hi again all my friends who read my blog.... hehehe... I hope there are at least some out there and I'm not just talking to myself. Anyway..... I'm sure you've been dying for an update here. Well in my head I keep posting updates but I never seem to actually get to do them.

This month has been full of ups and downs. I've replaced the harddrive in my home pc.... after reinstalling/reformatting three times in one week. And then to crown it all I think it was really just my Outlook that was corrupt because last week when I tried to migrate my outlook to the new harddrive the pc crashed again!!! So scrapped that email file and am now starting from afresh.... so if you don't hear from me directly I might just have lost your email address... hehehe.

THEN to crown it all I got a new laptop at work last week too so spent Friday setting it up. So have now done two pcs in two days. Such fun what!!!

Well my highlight of the last month was getting a new fridge at the beginning of June... so our kitchen is now OFFICIALLY finished... 18 months later! This past weekend was a long weekend so I spent most of it scrapbooking... had a whole day of it on Saturday and Monday with some very special friends. I managed to do 3 double pages and 2 singles... am very chuffed with them... will hopefully upload them this week still.

School breaks up on Friday for the winter holidays and I will be having a break from my early morning routine for a while.... Aaron is going to Poppa & Granny for the three weeks... I can sleep in! Okay maybe only till 6:30 but hey an hour is an hour extra sleep! So with Aaron not being around I hopefully can scrap up a storm and tackle my outstanding layouts. Here's hoping!

Till next post... keep in contact (somehow!)

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