So true... and it is!

Your Blog Should Be Blue

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere. You tend to avoid conflict - you're more likely to share than rant. From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

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This past weekend... report back

Having worked till after midnight on Thursday to finish my competition entry I still had to get up early to get Aaron to school and then get myself to Sandton Convention Centre by 8:30 to help with packing the goodie bags for the Scrapbook Convention.... had such fun all day.... here I am in a room full of goodie bags just before lunch.

The afternoon I was part of the team that handled the registrations and in one of the quieter moments I went and set up my competition entry. Here is my complete model.... entitled "Once Upon a Time".



This is a close up of the castle that I spent the whole of last week rushing to finish. You can also see the dragon on the drawbridge and if you look extremely closely you will see the princess up in the tallest tower!

Here is the knight coming up the pathway to fight the dragon and rescue the princess...


These are the fairies of the autumn leaves forest...
Here are clips of me throughout the weekend....

1. My school friend Theresa.... you were very brave to come having just had a major op... but you did great girl

2. Jennifer and her daughter Mallory... from Around the Block

3. Celine Navarro.... what a fun class and awesome lady... Merci

4. Kelly and her friend Cydnee from My Minds Eye

5. The group of volunteers in our class... we were such a good team... thanks girls for sharing this experience with me

6. Jenni Bowlin and her husband ... a lovely class

7. Margie from Making Memories... such a card.. and we were all given an open invitiation to visit her when in Utah... such a nice gesture

8. My absolute favourite person... Stacy Julian.... I even wore miss-matched socks on Sunday in honour of her!

9. Last but not least my blogging buddy Jacqui... it was great doing this weekend with you.

There were two other teachers.... Kah-mei and Rachel with whom I didn't get photos :( but they were the absolute best teachers tooo!

And then the final news of this weekend is.... I didn't WIN the paper competition... this entry did...
.... but I did get a FREE ticket to next year's convention... so reckon that was prize enough.... hehehe.
All the late hours and Saturdays working before hand were worth it.... even the sore back and aching feet. I spent Monday sleeping (after taking Aaron to school that is!), and feel a bit more recovered now.

Speaking of Monday..... Aaron was soooooooooooooooooo excited yesterday.... the Grade 1s, 2s and 3s all went on a bus trip to the National Botanical Gardens for the day... here is a pic of my boy on the bus... his first bus trip all by himself!




And so that was the busy busy weekend... hope that tells you what I was up too...
ps.... I also got to meet Tracy, Sophia and Jacqui in person.... sooooooooooooo nice!

The final countdown

Well in less than 24 hours.. yip LESS... my model must be finished..... ouch!!! Or rather HELP!!!! I'm almost but not quite finished the castle... mainly just got the flags to stick on the turrets... but there are lots of them! And then I must still make 2 reindeer as well as a forrest of trees... and THEN assemble everything. HELP someone I think I've bitten off more than I can chew and I don't have enough hours.. or hands. Oh well will see how far I get and that will have to do then. Will take pics and let you all see my hard work once it's done.

For us who don't like housework....

Two brooms were hanging in the closet and after a while they got to know each other so well, they decided to get married.

One broom was, of course, the bride broom, the other the groom broom.

The bride broom looked very beautiful in her white dress. The groom broom was handsome and suave in his tuxedo. The wedding was lovely.

After the wedding, at the wedding dinner, the bride-broom leaned over and said to the groom-broom, "I think I am going to have a little dust broom!!!"

"IMPOSSIBLE !!" said the groom broom.

Are you ready for this? Brace yourself; this is going to hurt.

"WE HAVEN'T EVEN SWEPT TOGETHER!"

Oh for goodness sake... laugh, or at least groan. Life's too short not to enjoy... even these silly little cute..... and clean jokes

Sounds to me like she's been "sweeping" around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The countdown is on...

Yip it's only 4 more sleeps till convention... okay 5 if you're a delegate... but for me Friday is the day.... So the heads up is IT'S GOING TO BE FUN... the kits I've helped pack are gorgeous, the colours are so pretty and the excitement is climbing. If you haven't booked yet, I'm sure there are still a few places left... so go to http://www.scrapbookex.co.za/ and book asap.
And then of course the rest of my week will be spent finishing my entry for the paper craft competition.

So please if you are at the convention come and see my entry and if possible vote for me... I'm still trying to make a castle, need to do a sleigh and reindeer (x2), and cooking pot, a whole bunch of trees & leaves and then still assemble it all... all before Thursday evening... ouch... what have I let myself in for?????? Oh and inbetween all that I've still got to work each morning, go to bible study tomorrow, do shopping and my brother is coming to stay for the week... life will be VERY hectic this week... but fun!

Chat again when I get a chance.

Casual Day

It's Friday and today is officially Casual Day... Aaron's school went all out for this and sold the stickers to raise money for Casa Do Sol School and all the kids went to school dressed in civies this morning. Well before we left home it was time for pics too so here are we all dressed for Casual Day... enjoy.

And this last one is just for fun.... hehehe

Aaron was playing with my camera and zoomed in to take a photo of Mommy... now you can see me in all my glory... hehehehehehe

Speaking Japanese

You know those emails that keep doing the rounds... well I got this one yesterday again and decided... what the heck I'll answer it here and now you can add in your 10 cents worth too!! SO...

Fill your name in Japanese (refer to table below) and send it to all of your friends to show how crazy it looks...

A - ka B - tu C - mi D - te E - ku F - lu
G - ji H - ri I - ki J - zu K - me L - ta M - rin
N - to O -mo P - no Q - ke R - shi
S - ari T -chi U - do V - ru W -mei
X - na Y - fu Z - zi

So here's mine..... CATHY = Mikachirifu

hehehehe.... now you know what to call me in future... hope I remember and answer!

Pleasing a little boy

It's amazing how little it takes to make a little boy happy. Last night was Survivor on tv... the one night that Aaron is allowed to sit up late and watch tv. Anyway early in the day we had been grocery shopping and I had bought some microwave popcorn, so Aaron asked if we could have a treat while watching Survivor.... "put all the lights out, eat popcorn with sugar on and was Survivor like at the big scream".... well that's what we just did... him and me cuddled up on the couch with the lights off (except the kitchen light so we could see what we were doing!) and with a big bowl of icing sugared microwave popcorn to share while watching the intrigue of the team reshuffle on Survivor.... just like as if we were at the movies!!!

I sure hope that it will always be this easy to make my little boy happy.... it's the small things that count!

Blog Award

I've been noticing these "blog awards" doing the rounds of a few of the blogs that I visit and was wondering if I was EVER going to be lucky enough to get one and then last week Michelle so kindly said she had left me a little something on her blog for me and there it was... my reward.

So now here's what I have to do....follow the rules... hehehe.

The rules are simple:
1 Make a blog post where you pass the award on to seven blogs you like and
2 Post a comment at their blog to tell them about the award!

Well I reckon my seven blogs will include some return visits to some of my loyal readers and then a few extras, so here goes:
1. Jacki JvR
2. Sophia
3. Michelle
4. Desire
5. Ro
6. Lara Cousins
7. Rachel Scholtz

Enjoy visiting all these blogs (and thanks to them for visiting here!).

Spring has arrived

Yip it's the 1st of September today so officially it's SPRING... just someone PLEASE tell that to the weatherman!!! It's cold and blowing up a storm today.... poor little guy went to school in civies today dressed as if it's WINTER... hehehe. What happened to that lovely spring weather we had last week?? Well I don't think we've EVER had a 1st of September where it's been HOT... so reckon this is just par for the course.


And then to prove even more so that Spring has arrived we got our first Clivia flowers in our garden this weekend. We've had this plant for over a year now and this is the first time EVER that it's had a flower... so here it is in all it's glory.

And just an update on the "sick patient" (as Aaron calls me!)... I'm still coughing and spluttering! Went back to the doc on Friday as I was no better and got yet more meds... have been inhaling Karvol all weekend but the cough still does not want to disappear. Am having yet another day at home! Next course of treatment is xrays to see why my sinus aren't clearing and then possibly scrapping my sinuses surgically.... no thanks I'd rather cough!!!

Well off to rest a bit more... cough, splutter and cough some more. Enjoy your spring day wherever you may be!