and so....

the saga continues. Another week at work with no connection! Hopefully (holding thumbs) it will be fixed within this week. I didn't even have connection at home yesterday as my pc had to sleep at work for them to connect me to the network and printer.... and guess what.... yip it WASN'T done!!! Now that is definately the last time I'm leaving my pc for them. Such a bind. But the good news (sort of) is that for now I'm temporarily connected to the printer so at least I can print again.

Right enough about all that... reckon you want to know what I've actually been up to hey?! Well last week I built another puzzle... and found ONE piece missing... bummer. Am now trying to get hold of Smile to see if I can get it replaced.

Spent the weekend just reading and not doing too much. Did scrap two pages on Sunday though and another one last night... see below.

Last week while passing time at work I also scrappped my first digi page... okay cheating a bit ... I used a QuickPage, added my photo and some text.... I did get brave and try and do a pop-out... not too successful but it is my first so, not tooo shabby Nige!

And that in a nutshell is me.... till next time.

ps... Helen, I hope you're not toooooooooooooo snowed in in England!

Progress report..

NONE.... hehehe... still without connection at work and now the phone lines are down too.... lines are obviously water logged with all the rain of the past two days... who knows WHEN it will all be fixed. We hope soon soon.

Thank goodness I do have a connection at home and so I can browse, blog and email from here..... just not for quite as long though.

Will hopefully update and post pics over the weekend to keep you up to speed. Off to dinner with some girlfriends tonight... night freetime for me.

In case you miss me...

I haven't blogged for a few days now... not sure if too many people will actually notice.... but the one reason is.... I have NO internet at work.... which is when I do most of my surfing and blogging... makes the time go by when I have nothing to do! So now I'm just feeling very frustrated :( and unconnected..... found out this morning that it is actually a Telkom line problem and not our ISP/IT. The company is busy looking into various options to upgrade (???) our network.... changed from super fast adsl to very slow wireless when we moved and so it's not been a happy two months..... sure hope they fix it soon soon. So I reckon I will post from home and do some surfing in the evenings.... but won't be around as much as I am out a bit too.

So please don't miss me too much... I will be back!

Do you remember???

I did history at school for Matric.... barely passed but I did! And I remember learning about the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette.... about the only thing about her that stuck in my head was her saying "Let them eat cake" when there was no bread to be had. Well now there is an artistic award going around which I received curtesy of Desire... thanks my special blog friend.

I have to pass this along to 7 people, who also have to pass it along to 7 people who inspire them. You link to the person who gave you the award and to the people you give it to.

So here's who'se in line to get it now.....

1 Ro - ScrapGirls rocks!!!

2 Helen - keep on beading, you're doing a great job

3 Helen - congrats on making the Little Shop of Sketches design team

4 Stefanie - ditto congrats.

5 Jacki - Can't wait to come scrap with you

6 Candice - I love your blog cupcakes.... so yummy looking

7 Jacqui - you always seem to know when someone is giving something away... love your blog

Now you go do like wise please.... and remember "EAT CAKE"... preferably CHOCOLATE... hehehe

Goodies to win

There are always nice goodies being given away if you comment on someone's blog... and every now and then I really really would like to get my hands on one of them... hence me linking to them here. So this one is from Queen & Co.... check them out and your could also walk off with your own stash.

Kids say the cutest things

Yes they certainly do... and when it's your OWN child it's even better. Last week Aaron was being his usual affectionate self ....you know the story: "I love you Mommy" and all that, and out popped this little gem:

You are beautiful

all the way to the top of the cake.

Well it had me in fits of laughter. I just had to write it down quickly to remember... now must find an appropriate pic and scrap it I think.

We're off to a good start

Aaron's Grade 2 teacher, Mrs Nelson, has a jolly good incentive/encouraging program going in her class... she is giving roving trophies out for different categories:
1. Good behaviour
2. Neat work
3. Kindness to others

Well, now I reckon you've guess it... yip Aaron got awarded this week. He was sooooooooooooooo chuffed to show me his trophy... just had to take photos too to mark this wonderful happening.

The trophy is stuck onto his desk (with prestik!) and will stay there till Friday. Well done my boy and keep it up.

Good behaviour
Neat Work

Kindness to others

I'm sure the kids will go all out now to get a trophy on their desk each week... just adds an extra excitement to the day.

Another award

Yip I no sooner posted my last three from Desire and she sent me another one... hehehe. So for a change I'm going to give this one to some of the blogs that I read/frequent. Go visit them and spread some love around.

1. Meredith at M Orginals... she has the most gorgeous template going for the 365 project

2. Becky at Page Maps... these sketches are ones that I love and will do over and over

3. Stickers 'n Fun... another sketch site that I simply can't do without

4. Liz at Sweet Digital Designs... she has freebies on her site as well as kits that she designs.... love the colours. Anyway Liz is about to pop with her fourth baby and I think needs some definate encouragement... especially after all the drama of the past weekend.

5. The Queen and the Princess... another site with freebies... lovely designs that I think are cute.

awards for excellence...

okay maybe just for friendship and jolly good blogging... but I got some awards again... and all from Desire

Thanks sooooooo much my blog-friend.... greatly appreciate them all.

Now to decide who to pass them on to....

Well I definately think I will have to be creative here and decide that I'm going to give ALL 3 to each of these bloggers, simply because I do not know 15 bloggers that I can personally give them too... oh then again I do read over 50 blogs...hehehe, but now I'm only going to pick 5. So they will go to:

Helen

Stephanie

Sophia

Creative Souls.... Lara & Stephanie

Liezel

Oh what the heck... I'll give an extra special one to Ro too as I feel very honoured that she reads my blog and comments... Thanks Ro.... keep up the amazing job that you do at ScrapGirls.

House Swap

Now don't go get all excited on me now... I'm just putting out feelers at the moment into blogland and hoping that someone who browses my blog now and then might know someone who knows someone who might just want to come from Ontario, Canada to our sunny part of the world next year for the soccer world cup (July 2010) and be willing to house swop.... yip we are looking to gap it out of here when the madness happens and go visit Keith's family in Canada.... so if you can help at all, please comment (with your email address) and I will get back to you.

(Phew that was one heck of a long sentence.... hehehehee)