hehehe... I seem to be posting lots and lots today... must just be bored at work or something. Anyway read a blog about a giveaway and so followed the links and now I'm posting my link.
Go to http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2008/11/commissioned-watercolor-portrait.html follow the instructions and you could even win your own painting.
Lovely idea.
Friday, 14 November 2008
Butterflies...
Jacki is reknown for her butterflies... and last week she posted some off across the ocean. Well now I've read more and more and decided to post my little butterflies too... This is all in aid of the Holocast Museum in Houston... a worthwhile cause.
So I'm going to start making my quilling butterflies and will send them fluttering away soon soon.
I've joined the fun
I'm soooooooooooo excited
Do I hear a "WHY?" well because.... I get to scrap with these ladies again tonight...
Yip I'm scrapping at Scraptifity tonight in an exclusive class given by Melody Ross and Christy Tomlinson... and Theresa will be there too... yippeee.
Will tell all next week.
Another name to call me....
A while back I got a joke email which I posted here all about our Japenese names.... well this morning I got another one of those... this time it's just a funny funny name.... so why don't you give it a bash too.
We all need a little stress-reliever! This only takes a minute.
Please don't be a bore & ruin it. Join in the fun...
Sometimes when you have a stressful day or week, you need some silliness to break up the day. If we are honest, we have a lot more stressful days than not.
Here is your dose of humour...
A. Follow the instructions to find your new name.
B. Once you have your new name, leave it in the comments section and then send all your friends and family & co-workers here too.
And don't go all adult - a senior manager is now known far & wide as Dorky Gizzardsniffer!
The following is excerpted from a children's book, Captain Underpants And the Perilous Plot Professor Poopypants, by Dave Pilkey, in which the evil Professor forces everyone to assume new names...
So:-
1. Use the third letter of your first name todetermine your New first name:
a = snickle
b = doombah
c = goober
d = cheesey
e = crusty
f = greasy
g = dumbo
h = farcus
i = dorky
j = doofus
k = funky
l = boobie
m = sleezy
n = sloopy
o = fluffy
p = stinky
q = slimy
r = dorfus
s = snooty
t = tootsie
u = dipsy
v = sneezy
w = liver
x = skippy
y = dink y
z = zippy
2. Use the second letter of your last name to determine the first half of your new last name:
a = dippin
b = feather
c = batty
d = burger
e = chicken
f = barffy
g = lizard
h = waffle
i = farkle
j = monkey
k = flippin
l = fricken
m = bubble
n = rhino
o = potty
p = hamster
q = buckle
r = gizzard
s = lickin
t = snickle
u = chuckle
v = pickle
w = hubble
x = dingle
y = gorilla
z = girdle
3. Use the third letter of your last name to determine the second half of your new last name:
a = butt
b = boob
c = face
d = nose
e = hump
f = breath
g = pants
h = shorts
i = lips
j = honker
k = head
l = tush
m = chunks
n = dunkin
o = brains
p = biscuits
q = toes
r = doodle
s = fanny
t = sniffer
u = sprinkles
v = frack
w = squirt
x = humperdinck
y = hiney
z = juice
Thus for me my new name is... Tootsie Dippindunkin
And remember that children laugh an average of 146 times a day; adults laugh an average of 4 times a day.
Put more laughter in your day.
EDIT: So now my circle of friends include:
Me – Tootsie Dippindunkin
Judi - Cheesy Dippinchunks
Theresa - Crusty Chickenfrack
Lynette - Sloopy Snicklehump
We all need a little stress-reliever! This only takes a minute.
Please don't be a bore & ruin it. Join in the fun...
Sometimes when you have a stressful day or week, you need some silliness to break up the day. If we are honest, we have a lot more stressful days than not.
Here is your dose of humour...
A. Follow the instructions to find your new name.
B. Once you have your new name, leave it in the comments section and then send all your friends and family & co-workers here too.
And don't go all adult - a senior manager is now known far & wide as Dorky Gizzardsniffer!
The following is excerpted from a children's book, Captain Underpants And the Perilous Plot Professor Poopypants, by Dave Pilkey, in which the evil Professor forces everyone to assume new names...
So:-
1. Use the third letter of your first name todetermine your New first name:
a = snickle
b = doombah
c = goober
d = cheesey
e = crusty
f = greasy
g = dumbo
h = farcus
i = dorky
j = doofus
k = funky
l = boobie
m = sleezy
n = sloopy
o = fluffy
p = stinky
q = slimy
r = dorfus
s = snooty
t = tootsie
u = dipsy
v = sneezy
w = liver
x = skippy
y = dink y
z = zippy
2. Use the second letter of your last name to determine the first half of your new last name:
a = dippin
b = feather
c = batty
d = burger
e = chicken
f = barffy
g = lizard
h = waffle
i = farkle
j = monkey
k = flippin
l = fricken
m = bubble
n = rhino
o = potty
p = hamster
q = buckle
r = gizzard
s = lickin
t = snickle
u = chuckle
v = pickle
w = hubble
x = dingle
y = gorilla
z = girdle
3. Use the third letter of your last name to determine the second half of your new last name:
a = butt
b = boob
c = face
d = nose
e = hump
f = breath
g = pants
h = shorts
i = lips
j = honker
k = head
l = tush
m = chunks
n = dunkin
o = brains
p = biscuits
q = toes
r = doodle
s = fanny
t = sniffer
u = sprinkles
v = frack
w = squirt
x = humperdinck
y = hiney
z = juice
Thus for me my new name is... Tootsie Dippindunkin
And remember that children laugh an average of 146 times a day; adults laugh an average of 4 times a day.
Put more laughter in your day.
EDIT: So now my circle of friends include:
Me – Tootsie Dippindunkin
Judi - Cheesy Dippinchunks
Theresa - Crusty Chickenfrack
Lynette - Sloopy Snicklehump
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
My friend...
Just found my old school friend Theresa has a blog.... go check it out and encourage her to blog some more... hehehe.
http://tdevilliersfamily.blogspot.com/
Come on T we want to read some more about those photos you are scrapping...
http://tdevilliersfamily.blogspot.com/
Come on T we want to read some more about those photos you are scrapping...
My kind of diet....
The Pasta Diet and Your Health
ITALIAN PASTA DIET -- IT REALLY WORKS !!
1.. You walka pasta DA bakery.
2... You walka pasta DA candy store.
3.. You walka pasta DA Ice Cream shop.
4.. You walka pasta DA table and fridge.
You will lose weight!
ITALIAN PASTA DIET -- IT REALLY WORKS !!
1.. You walka pasta DA bakery.
2... You walka pasta DA candy store.
3.. You walka pasta DA Ice Cream shop.
4.. You walka pasta DA table and fridge.
You will lose weight!
Monday, 10 November 2008
Class has started
Over at Jessica Sprague... did you sign up? Well go check it out... if not registration is still open till midnight tonight... so do yourself a favour and SIGN UP NOW!!!!
Sunday, 9 November 2008
flowering....
Remember Stephanie's post about her flowering violet? Well I have my own little tale.
In August this year we had our ladies tea and I was presented with a stunning rose in a pot. Well it's been living in my kitchen and off and on I'll water it... until I discovered that Keith was watering it too so I decided best I stop all it'll drown.
So now in the few months that we've had it, the one rose that was on it, died and shrivelled. It got another bud which I don't this went anywhere and also got a few new leaves and a few which died. Well last week I saw a new bud and tracked it's progress. It opened, bloomed and did it's thing... see with perseverence anything is possible!
In August this year we had our ladies tea and I was presented with a stunning rose in a pot. Well it's been living in my kitchen and off and on I'll water it... until I discovered that Keith was watering it too so I decided best I stop all it'll drown.
So now in the few months that we've had it, the one rose that was on it, died and shrivelled. It got another bud which I don't this went anywhere and also got a few new leaves and a few which died. Well last week I saw a new bud and tracked it's progress. It opened, bloomed and did it's thing... see with perseverence anything is possible!
And then, with being away for the weekend... it shrivelled and died.... hehehe (the flower not the whole bush!). Will tenderly nurse the bush again and hope that it hasn't died altogether.
ScrapPink Report back
The event has now come and gone. From my side it was a huge success... from the organiser's point of view.... well you'll have to wait and read about it on their blog... hehehe... but on the whole I think the day went down well... all the scrappers enjoyed it and everyone was happy. But for more details, here's how it unfolded for me.....
WEDNESDAY
I arrived at Scraptifity around 6:30pm to help pack stuff.... we only worked for about an hour packing embroidery thread as that was all there was to do. Others had been helping during the day and had started putting the kits together.
THURSDAY
I fetched Aaron from school and we went straight through to the shop to pack stuff. We packed one lot of papers and then sat around for about 2 hours waiting for stuff to arrive. Zander (Retha's hubby) was meant to fetch us bags to pack goodies into from the other side of Pretoria, but due to a major traffic accident in the morning that had closed the highway for the whole day, he never got there. He did arrived with some stuff so we packed that quickly and then we were done for the rest of the day. Theresa had also come to the shop by then but due to there being nothing to do we went out for dinner and a good chin-wag!
FRIDAY
As I knew there was stacks still to be packed and the shipment of stock was due to arrive in the morning, I took the day off work and went to the shop to help pack. Arrived and we packed the papers into bags and then packed the bags into the kit bags.
Met Melody and Christy who stopped by the shop quickly as well. By now it was nearly 10:30 and still the shipment hadn't arrive. Lots of phoning backwards and forwards and eventually the truck arrived at 11 with only one guy to unload!! Well we all pitched in and carried boxes through a slight drizzle into the shop where they all had to be opened to find the stock that had to be packed... madness and chaos reigned for a while. We got sorted and packed and then the Canon guys came to fetch the bags just on 12. Talk about finishing by the skin of your teeth! hehehe.
I left the shop with them all making plans for packing up all the stock to take through to Midrand. I fetched Aaron from school at 1:15pm and we drove through to Boksburg where we were staying with my folks for the weekend (Keith has gone to Mabalingwe with a friend till Monday).
SATURDAY
Started way toooooooooo early.... cats woke me up at 3:10 and then I slept erractically till around 4:40 when I got up, bathed and dressed and was making coffee when Aaron paddled through to the kitchen at 5:15. That also go the whole household up. I got ready to leave and in the process of saying goodbye, ended up catching Aaron's fingers in the door of my car... ouch ouch ouch... boy did I feel bad leaving my crying son behind. (he was fine within a few minutes!).
The whole reason for this early rising was that the volunteers were asked to please be at Vodaworld at 6am. I was the first to arrive around 10 to 6 and the Vodaworld guy even had to open up for me. All the others arrived within a few minutes. We carted more kit bags in and added them to those that were already delivered. Got our aprons, were allocated out places of work (which ended up changing!) and then found some muffins and coffee for breakfast.
By 9am the paying guests (Scrappers) were seated and the day got off to a good start. I was asked to please help a table of invited guests.... people who knew NOTHING about scrapbooking and were just here as part of the sponsors. Boy did I have my work cut out for me. Theresa also ended up at a table of complete newbies so the two of us worked and worked and helped and advised and overall... had a ball!! Our biggest moan of the day was that most of the volunteers disappeared after lunch and we ended up being the only ones working.
At the end of the day my ladies did themselves proud. Most of them managed to keep up and do the pages that were made... some even did their own thing... which is what scrapbooking is all about! True to form there was way too much to do and we never finished but the people can get the notes so we will be able to do the whole project at our leisure later. What is the project I hear you ask... well it was an 8x12 album with various size pockets... and done with the theme "This is Me"... could be fairly interesting.
And so once all the ladies had left (and most of the volunteers too mind you!), Theresa and I cleaned up our tables, made our way to the shop to pay for our goodies... more to come on that.... and then helped pack up the shop. I tell you, even Melody, Christy and their husbands helped to pack stock.... so WHERE were the volunteers who had signed up for this????? Okay enough of that, I'll get off my soapbox... hehe.
The day was great. For me I got to meet Melody Ross and Christy Thomlinson and have an absolute ball. Congrats to Retha for organising everything and you must all enjoy your trip to the Kruger Park.
Christy, Me, Melody & Theresa
Retha, Natasja Jacobs (MC for the day) & Me
So now on to what I bought.... I had not planned to buy anything... but you should know.... let a scrapper loose in a scrapshop with a credit card and something is bound to be bought... and most definately if there is a sale on! hehe.
So I got some gorgeous paper & stickers,
a whole pad of paper at a fantasic price
and then.... an early "happy birthday to Cathy from Cathy".... I bought myself TWO Cathy Zielske books... Clean & Simple Scrapbooking and The sequel. Just love this lady and they way she scraps... another Stacy Julian (okay so they also work together!!)
And then it was all over. I got back to Boksburg at 7:30pm, had supper and talked and talked to my folks all about the day. Went to bed exhausted at 9:30.
SUNDAY dawned. Again tooooooooooooo early. Aaron crawled into my bed at 5:15 for a cuddle but I kicked him out when he started sniffing too much. He got up and dressed around 5:30 and tried Poppa & Granny's bed before eventually getting Poppa up just on 6am to play trains. I woke around 7:30. It was then breakfast, bath and dress before we all left for church.
On the way home from church, we stopped at Boksburg East Station (boy do they need to weed the platform there!) and had a look at the Songololo Express Train that was parked there. A fairly old train by the looks of it... lots of wood in the coaches. Such a fun time... unfortunately the camera was at home so no pics.
Got home, read my book. My Aunt arrived and we had lunch then packed up and came all the way home. Aaron had a nap in the car and I left him to sleep in the car parked in the garage while I paked away our goodies and put on a load of washing... if I don't do the washing now he won't have any school clothes for tomorrow!
Also noticed that we have some new flowers in our garden.... some beautiful purple agapanthus a red daisy and yellow arum lillies. Nice to see God's creation.
So on to the next event... see you there I hope.
WEDNESDAY
I arrived at Scraptifity around 6:30pm to help pack stuff.... we only worked for about an hour packing embroidery thread as that was all there was to do. Others had been helping during the day and had started putting the kits together.
THURSDAY
I fetched Aaron from school and we went straight through to the shop to pack stuff. We packed one lot of papers and then sat around for about 2 hours waiting for stuff to arrive. Zander (Retha's hubby) was meant to fetch us bags to pack goodies into from the other side of Pretoria, but due to a major traffic accident in the morning that had closed the highway for the whole day, he never got there. He did arrived with some stuff so we packed that quickly and then we were done for the rest of the day. Theresa had also come to the shop by then but due to there being nothing to do we went out for dinner and a good chin-wag!
FRIDAY
As I knew there was stacks still to be packed and the shipment of stock was due to arrive in the morning, I took the day off work and went to the shop to help pack. Arrived and we packed the papers into bags and then packed the bags into the kit bags.
Met Melody and Christy who stopped by the shop quickly as well. By now it was nearly 10:30 and still the shipment hadn't arrive. Lots of phoning backwards and forwards and eventually the truck arrived at 11 with only one guy to unload!! Well we all pitched in and carried boxes through a slight drizzle into the shop where they all had to be opened to find the stock that had to be packed... madness and chaos reigned for a while. We got sorted and packed and then the Canon guys came to fetch the bags just on 12. Talk about finishing by the skin of your teeth! hehehe.
I left the shop with them all making plans for packing up all the stock to take through to Midrand. I fetched Aaron from school at 1:15pm and we drove through to Boksburg where we were staying with my folks for the weekend (Keith has gone to Mabalingwe with a friend till Monday).
SATURDAY
Started way toooooooooo early.... cats woke me up at 3:10 and then I slept erractically till around 4:40 when I got up, bathed and dressed and was making coffee when Aaron paddled through to the kitchen at 5:15. That also go the whole household up. I got ready to leave and in the process of saying goodbye, ended up catching Aaron's fingers in the door of my car... ouch ouch ouch... boy did I feel bad leaving my crying son behind. (he was fine within a few minutes!).
The whole reason for this early rising was that the volunteers were asked to please be at Vodaworld at 6am. I was the first to arrive around 10 to 6 and the Vodaworld guy even had to open up for me. All the others arrived within a few minutes. We carted more kit bags in and added them to those that were already delivered. Got our aprons, were allocated out places of work (which ended up changing!) and then found some muffins and coffee for breakfast.
By 9am the paying guests (Scrappers) were seated and the day got off to a good start. I was asked to please help a table of invited guests.... people who knew NOTHING about scrapbooking and were just here as part of the sponsors. Boy did I have my work cut out for me. Theresa also ended up at a table of complete newbies so the two of us worked and worked and helped and advised and overall... had a ball!! Our biggest moan of the day was that most of the volunteers disappeared after lunch and we ended up being the only ones working.
At the end of the day my ladies did themselves proud. Most of them managed to keep up and do the pages that were made... some even did their own thing... which is what scrapbooking is all about! True to form there was way too much to do and we never finished but the people can get the notes so we will be able to do the whole project at our leisure later. What is the project I hear you ask... well it was an 8x12 album with various size pockets... and done with the theme "This is Me"... could be fairly interesting.
And so once all the ladies had left (and most of the volunteers too mind you!), Theresa and I cleaned up our tables, made our way to the shop to pay for our goodies... more to come on that.... and then helped pack up the shop. I tell you, even Melody, Christy and their husbands helped to pack stock.... so WHERE were the volunteers who had signed up for this????? Okay enough of that, I'll get off my soapbox... hehe.
The day was great. For me I got to meet Melody Ross and Christy Thomlinson and have an absolute ball. Congrats to Retha for organising everything and you must all enjoy your trip to the Kruger Park.
Christy, Me, Melody & Theresa
Retha, Natasja Jacobs (MC for the day) & MeSo now on to what I bought.... I had not planned to buy anything... but you should know.... let a scrapper loose in a scrapshop with a credit card and something is bound to be bought... and most definately if there is a sale on! hehe.
So I got some gorgeous paper & stickers,
a whole pad of paper at a fantasic price
and then.... an early "happy birthday to Cathy from Cathy".... I bought myself TWO Cathy Zielske books... Clean & Simple Scrapbooking and The sequel. Just love this lady and they way she scraps... another Stacy Julian (okay so they also work together!!)
And then it was all over. I got back to Boksburg at 7:30pm, had supper and talked and talked to my folks all about the day. Went to bed exhausted at 9:30.
SUNDAY dawned. Again tooooooooooooo early. Aaron crawled into my bed at 5:15 for a cuddle but I kicked him out when he started sniffing too much. He got up and dressed around 5:30 and tried Poppa & Granny's bed before eventually getting Poppa up just on 6am to play trains. I woke around 7:30. It was then breakfast, bath and dress before we all left for church.
On the way home from church, we stopped at Boksburg East Station (boy do they need to weed the platform there!) and had a look at the Songololo Express Train that was parked there. A fairly old train by the looks of it... lots of wood in the coaches. Such a fun time... unfortunately the camera was at home so no pics.
Got home, read my book. My Aunt arrived and we had lunch then packed up and came all the way home. Aaron had a nap in the car and I left him to sleep in the car parked in the garage while I paked away our goodies and put on a load of washing... if I don't do the washing now he won't have any school clothes for tomorrow!
Also noticed that we have some new flowers in our garden.... some beautiful purple agapanthus a red daisy and yellow arum lillies. Nice to see God's creation.
So on to the next event... see you there I hope.
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