Happy Father's day to all...
The little heart paper weight sums him up...best daddy x
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The little heart paper weight sums him up...best daddy x
♥ Loving lapping up those Sunshiney Cherrybomby awards
Have you had the privellege of visiting Felicity over at Gifts of Serendipity? She has the above picture of a lighthouse on her latest post and I think that perfectly sums up how I feel about her blog. It's a beacon of light and security and guidance in the midst of the chaos that is the etherspace. Her blog is calm, thoughtful and, oh, so rational. I just love it there.
Another blog that I enjoy reading is Becky and James. Becky frequently writes about having no readers, but sneakily I haven't missed a post. She's just such a very lovely, very pregnant, very off the cuff writer and photographer. Her two children (soon to be three) are gorgeous.
Another blog that I enjoy reading is Becky and James. Becky frequently writes about having no readers, but sneakily I haven't missed a post. She's just such a very lovely, very pregnant, very off the cuff writer and photographer. Her two children (soon to be three) are gorgeous.
So it really means a lot that Felicity has passed on two awards to me and Becky has passed on a Cherry on Top Award.
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The Kreativ Blogger award was also passed on to me by Ashleigh at mm is for me. You really need to get yourself over to Ashleigh's blog for a taste of good old Aussie country. Ashleigh lives on a farm in Queensland and the very first 'seven things' she mentions is that she loves Brahman Cattle. It's another world, but full of great ideas for activities with your children (she recently had a 'mini Science week' that was fabulous) and she's an extremely talented 'clever clogs crafter'.
Now, together you and I are just going to completely ignore the naff spelling on the Kreativ Blogger award. I know it's making you just want to get your permanent marker and rub all over it, but instead we're just going to ignore it and move along to the Awards Sunshine and Cherry...
Now, together you and I are just going to completely ignore the naff spelling on the Kreativ Blogger award. I know it's making you just want to get your permanent marker and rub all over it, but instead we're just going to ignore it and move along to the Awards Sunshine and Cherry...
To quote Felicity "the Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity (kreativ-ity?) inspire others in Blogland". And then you get to pass the award on to other bloggers who are positive and creative and inspirational. And then you get to do that 'seven things you don't know about me' thing that seems to be attached to all blog awards, wherever they may be. Why seven? We just don't know.
For the Cherry on Top award I need to answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you and what would it be?
For the Cherry on Top award I need to answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you and what would it be?
It may surprise you to know that this ain't my first rodeo*. I've passed on the Versatile Blog award and the Mindblowing Blog award to other lovely blogs (stop over here and here and check them out for sure!) In the interests of sharing the love around, I'm not going to pick these gals again, even though they are still some of my favourite blogs of all time (and sisters And then there were four and Life in a Pink Fibro need a special mention to keep online nepotism alive and strong).
To me, being a creative blogger is about more than just having a great blog. Blogging is a two way street so I'm selecting blogs that I feel I have a meaningful, inspiring conversation with. So, I'd like to pass the Sunshine Award onto the following lovely lasses who bring a little Sunshine into my blog world.
Man, that was really hard. I'm such a blog addict that I just couldn't choose. I love them all!
Anyway, I've rambled on enough so I'm going to do seven really quick things that you may or may not know about me living the life in Maxabellaland.
1. A snake was on my front verandah and I got a huntsman spider stuck in my hair on the same day. Quite a day.
2. I fold clothes but I hate putting them away so I use my dining table like a wardrobe.
3. If I could change one thing in my life I would have continued doing theatre.
4. Sometimes I can't get into my own house because all of the door handles are stuffed and they get stuck.
5. I painted my bookshelves white and got bits of white paint all over my 'half-strength hogs bristle' walls and I didn't repaint them and they look really bad and I don't even care.
6. I put so much sugar on the Tsunamis' Weetbix that even Coco Pops is probably a healthier breakfast choice.
7. If I have to kill a cockroach or an ant I will do it, but I worry about it for days and days and secretly believe that all the other cockroaches and ants will come and get me for murdering their friend.
Have a Sundayshiney Father's Day, everyone! (We loooooooove you to bits and pieces and we're going to eat you up for breakfast you're so yummy, dear LOML!)
PS - OMG, sorry for the long post! You'd think it was Emmys I was giving away with all that verbose gushing going on.... and one last thing... please have a quick read of the post I did yesterday (below this one) for thoughts on another beautiful blogger out there. x
* With humble apologies to Dr Phil. I've been dying to get a Phil 'rodeo' into a post for ages and ages.
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Kitchen herb jar labels
I am in the process of organizing my new kitchen. As the highlight colours in my new kitchen are duck egg blue and a splash of pink, I have made labels for all my jars using those colours: duck egg blue for savoury and pink for sweet.
First, I organized my herbs and spices. I already had quite a few Spezia spice jars from Habitat that my sweet sister had given me one Christmas as a filled set. So, it made sense to keep these and add to my collection. I wrote a list of all the spices and herbs I had and bought new jars for those not in Spezia jars already. For the labels, I designed a few of my ideas and printed them out on regular paper first to get an idea of what they would look like. In the end I went with the above design. I wanted the labels to last so covered them in sticky back plastic. Here's how I did it:
Kitchen herb jar labels
You will need:
P1 address labels
Book covering roll
Shape-mates circles
Shape-mates carriage
Glass cutting mat
- Click below labels to open in separate window, ready to print
- Print labels onto P1 address labels
- Carefully cover labels using the book covering roll.
- Place plastic covered label sheet on glass cutting mat
- Cut out using the small shape-mates template and carriage (video instructions here)
- Peel off back of label and carefully stick to jar
A big thank you to Simon at Tonic studios, who sent me a box full of craft tools he thought I might like after seeing my post, Butterfly packaging, where I had used the Tonic Studios border punch system I had bought from a craft fair to create pretty butterfly lace paper bags.
Have a sweet day!
The good old days...
Sticky toffee and chocolate slice with coconut sprinkled on top baked by mummy's and Nana's, bric a brac and vintage books, animal farms and side show alley...today we visited a little school for morning tea at their annual fair. It's been a very long time since we had visited one of these, and it was fun.
Full of community spirit and hard working parents ~ working together to achieve the same outcome. I purchased some beautiful old Ladybird books with well read pages and inscriptions...I can't wait to snuggle up tight with my little one and read them. School Fair's have not changed ~ the sweet stall still has the same sticky fairy floss and little bags filled with lollies...I found this a little surprising ~ pleasing though. It was a step back in time and it was fun!
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Sticky toffee and chocolate slice with coconut sprinkled on top baked by mummy's and Nana's, bric a brac and vintage books, animal farms and side show alley...today we visited a little school for morning tea at their annual fair. It's been a very long time since we had visited one of these, and it was fun.
Full of community spirit and hard working parents ~ working together to achieve the same outcome. I purchased some beautiful old Ladybird books with well read pages and inscriptions...I can't wait to snuggle up tight with my little one and read them. School Fair's have not changed ~ the sweet stall still has the same sticky fairy floss and little bags filled with lollies...I found this a little surprising ~ pleasing though. It was a step back in time and it was fun!
This Saturday I'm also grateful for... thoughtfulness
Oh my. The loveliest thing happened to me today. I opened my mailbox to find a package from Brenda at Mira Narnie. She had told me she would send me a 'small gift' to thank me for doing a bit of work around her blog for her.
Her small gift turned out to be the kind of gift that takes your breath away with its thoughtfulness.
Brenda made Cappers a lovely little dress in sweet floral blue fabrics. In fact, the very same reversible frock that I so admired in my post a couple of weeks ago and bemoaned never getting around to making.
I'd love to post you a picture of Cappers wearing the sweet little reversible frock that Brenda sewed for her, but our camera is broken. Bloody camera. But back to the thoughtful frock. It fits Cappers like a glove, but The Badoo really fancies herself in it too (she has it on over her pjyamas as I type!) I can't believe how thoughtful it is for Brenda to make us one.
How lovely is that?
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Her small gift turned out to be the kind of gift that takes your breath away with its thoughtfulness.
Brenda made Cappers a lovely little dress in sweet floral blue fabrics. In fact, the very same reversible frock that I so admired in my post a couple of weeks ago and bemoaned never getting around to making.
I'd love to post you a picture of Cappers wearing the sweet little reversible frock that Brenda sewed for her, but our camera is broken. Bloody camera. But back to the thoughtful frock. It fits Cappers like a glove, but The Badoo really fancies herself in it too (she has it on over her pjyamas as I type!) I can't believe how thoughtful it is for Brenda to make us one.
How lovely is that?
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