MissyMuh

some scrapping

I had a great time last night scrapping with Dannii and Ange. I did some digi scrapping for a change and i think i am well and truly addicted.

Here are the pages i did last night

aaaannnnddd......... ta da!

 

Yes that's right...if you have been living under a rock or not a reader of my other blog and facebook then you may not be aware that we are expecting a new little bundle in April..FINALLY! Horrah! 

I am 13 weeks and we had a scan last week which showed a happy helthy little jellybean wriggling around. The kids are very excited.

And here are two more pages i did last week but never got around to sharing.

 

 

That's all for now, time to get the girl off to swimming

The $4.50 dress

one vintage pattern = .50c

 

One vintage flat bed sheet = $3.00

One 2 meter length of vintage trim = $1.00

all adds up to a new summer dress

It was only once i opened up the pattern and started cutting out all the bits that i realized the entire bodice part of the pattern was missing, so i had to trace up my own based on the diagrams and picture on the front. I think i made the front darts just a touch too small, as it's a little tight around the middle. But i think i can fix that by moving the buttons over a little bit at the back to open it up.

I asked her if it was too tight but she said it was ok, i'm going to make another in a green fabric i picked up the other day so i will make that one just slightly bigger i think. (we just got back from swimming too, which is why her hair is all wet)

a new obsession maybe??

hmmm....I have ventured over to the "other side" of scrapbooking and i fear i may never return... digi scrapping is so pretty...so easy...so quick...so cheap!! And it can all be done on the laptop, kickin' back on the couch eating chips...genius!

two quick pages

I did these last week at Dannii's.

ants

Koby was given this ant farm..oh man...i don't even remember when...his birthday last year maybe? It was a gift from a school friend. It has sat on the shelf unopened for that long mainly because he has a fear of ants...in fact i remember when he opened it he said "oh cool!" to everyone else and then a few min later turned to me and whispered "they don't know i don't like ants but it's ok, it might still be fun". LOL..

so anyway, fast forward to yesterday. For the past few days we had been noticing the return of the ants around the house. We get a pretty hefty stream of them across the path from the bins to their home. I have tried several times to kill them by baiting the nest but every year the return with vengeance.

Anyway Koby started saying he wanted to set up his ant farm because he's "not scared of them anymore" (despite the fact he goes out of his way to avoid them at all costs). So he finally convinced me to get him started yesterday. Sure enough i ended up putting 99% of it together. I sent the kids out to get the dirt then i sent them out to collect the ants. Well Charlee did a better job than Koby. She had a ball poking them onto sticks and proclaiming them to be "awww...cute wittle ants!!" every five seconds..Koby however refused to touch them and was a completly hopeless and unenthusiastic ant catcher. No surprises really.

I think after about 30 min we had managed to convince less than 10 ants that this would be a cool new home...the little buggers are surprisingly difficult to catch. We gave up and left them to their own devices when it started to get dark. 

I am not confident that any will survive longer than a few days but maybe with some encouragement and sheer and determination by charlee to monitor their every movement they might hang in there for a while.

a little bit of sunny

I finished this slouch beanie for myself yesterday...once again this is something i started over a month ago and kind of forgot about. It sat there about 90% finished for ages so i sat myself down yesterday and just finished it. It's very VERY bright but i quite like it. Makes me feel very springy.

 

here is a much prettier model (if somewhat un-cooperative) to give you a better view.

 

We picked up her school uniform and bag for next year yesterday. She has been walking around the house with her bag on her back and cuddling it on the couch all morning. She keeps asking if she can wear her "pretty school dress" but i need to wash it first. I have a feeling it's going to be a very long four months until the new School year starts. 

Unfortunately my Nanna has taken ill, we think she has suffered a few small strokes and she has lost her short term memory and bladder control. We've had to arrange to move her out of her unit and into more substancial care. She is 85 ( or 86 maybe?) and it's quite depressing to think of her in that state. She has always had such a fantastic memory but things have deterirated over the last few months. 

Besides that we have just been carrying on in the same old manner. I ahve been pretty busy with work the last few weeks, which is pretty normal for this time of year. I just wish the weather would learn to cooperate a bit more. I am photographing an outdoor wedding on saturday and the forcast is looking a little grim. I need to remember to pick up a few umbrellas tomorrow...

That's about all i have to share for now. Not much excitement going on around here i'm afraid.

back to school

Scrapping

Shock horror...i am actually showing some scrapbooking pages (gasps and shocked mutterings are heard from the crowd) :p

I actually did these about a week and a bit ago at a crop but i have only just gotten around to photographing them. Not fantastic shots (just used my trusty point and shoot) but you get the idea.

 

School holidays start tomorrow, i am looking forward once again to being able to sleep in and spend most of the day in my pj's. Hopefully the weather will be nice because we are planing on taking the kids down to the beach for a few days next week. Luke has taken the first week of the holidays off so it will be nice to ahve some quality family time.

I'm also planning on getting stuck into some serious spring cleaning. We have accumulated so much junk and clutter again that it's ridiculous. It's also time to go through the kids wardrobes and work out what they need in the clothing department for summer.

That's all i have to say for now, a quick plug for the Kaisercraft Blog who asked me to be their guest blogger for this week. Please ignore the numerous spelling mistakes, spelling and punctuation have never been my strong points LOL

i don't think you're ready for this jelly

For my birthday ( which was a few months back) Luke organized to take me for a night in the city staying at a fancy-shmancy hotel. Now i had a feeling he was up to something else but couldn't put my finger onto it...anyway the time came on Tuesday for us to head away.

We stayed at the Rydges Melborne which was gorgeous, in one of the best suites. There was a spa bath IN the bedroom people. And the bed was incredibly comfy.

Anyway we headed out for tea (after a quick spa of course ;) ) and then Luke decided to be sneaky and take me somewhere...it turned out he also got me tickets to Beyonce! Woot!

I only had my little point and shoot camera with me so i could only take a few grainy photos.

 

 

 

I'll tell you what, that woman has some serious stamina. Anyone who can sing AND booty shake around the stage at the same time that much is a superstar in my book.

I was honestly not expecting that at all and i am thoroughly impressed that he managed to keep that information from me for so long. I had really wanted to go but we decided that the tickets were going to be too expensive, so after that i never gave it another thought.

Anyway, the concert was fantastic, first concert i've been to since seeing U2 nearly 2 and a bit years ago. 

We had a great few days and now i have to seriously start racking my brains for something equally as fantastic for Luke for Christmas...

Stressed

Approximately 4 weeks ago we decided it was time to buy a house.

Yes...that's less than a month people. In that time we have been to 5 or 6 open for inspections, spoken to the bank, worked out how much we can borrow (or more importantly how much we can pay back), been horrified by the standard of homes in our price range, pleasantly surprised by a house we saw on Saturday and put in an offer.

Four weeks from the idea "we don't want to rent any more" to "we want to buy this house and will pay you X amount for it".

so. damn. stressful.

We officially signed the offer today and it will be sent to the owner and hopefully fingers crossed it will be accepted and no one else will want it and it will be ours. 

If it's accepted, down to the bank we go, followed by three more weeks of stress waiting to hear that the finances have been approved and then i cry for several days from exhaustion and excitement.

If it's not accepted, i still cry for several days and we start again.

But it will be worth it...right?