the golden girl
Donna Hay Online
Hooray - the new Donna Hay website is now live so all of the lovely things you can buy in her general store you can now also buy online. Check it out here
Here is my favorite item from the store!
Can't wait for them to come back in stock!
Miscellaneousness :)
Eek. LOVE my camera...LOVE Photoshop...
and LOVE...
This little girl! (linked at Pastor's Girl's Ponderings for On Cloud Nine & The Paper Mama's Wordish Wednesday!)Oh, and remember when I won the recycled art blocks from Waste Not on Freckles & Fudge blog?! Probably not. Well I just got them in the mail last week!! I LOVE them. Such a nice addition in my home :) What do you think?
Also- I am so happy to receive the Friendly Relay Award from a very kind and fun blogger, Tanya at A Taste of T! Tanya and her hubby were married in Maui jeallousss ;) and are expecting their first child! Check out her blog!
I thought I would give this award to just four bloggers this time!
And here they are!
Jamie Leigh @ My walk to I Do
Christina @ And for good measure...
Amy @ Living in our Love Story
The Questions:
1. What did you first want to be when you grew up?
A veterinarian, but I don't think I could bare to see hurt dogs.
2. What were your favorite cartoons?
My Little Pony, Smurf's, Scooby-Doo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Winnie the Pooh, Duck Tales, I could go on!!
3. Favorite childhood game?
Hide and Seek! And Scrabble. Haha, yes I'm a nerd.
4. Most favorite birthday?
I guess I would say my 21st as far as having the most fun. But my last birthday (24th) I was very spoiled :)
5. Something you've always wanted to do and haven't done yet?
Visit Hawaii... then Paris... or vice versa :)
6. What was your first love?
Dance!
7.First musical idol?
LeAnn Rimes.
8. Favorite gift?
My sweet Nikon.
9. If a theme song played for you everywhere you went, what would it be?
Right now that new song by Neon Tree- Animal...For the 'theme' just the main verse "oh oh I want some more, oh oh what are you waiting for" at the moment :)
10. Favorite city to visit:
Cancun!
Shutterfly Love!
Who doesn't love Shutterfly? Yeah, pretty sure almost everyone I know has ordered through them. They're unbeatable. Since it's existence I have ordered thousands of photos (at incredible prices), a dozen photo books, and tons of other miscellaneous photo gifts including Holiday cards in 2008! There's always an offer going on for free shipping and/or Shutterfly will send you coupons to your e-mail! I even blogged about my savings once HERE! because it's so awesome. I recently went to a Shutterfly House Party and got a free reusable tote and coupon for a free 7x9 photo book! And now they are offering all bloggers a chance to receive 50 FREE Holiday cards just by getting the word out to your readers about how awesome Shutterfly is!
You can sign up HERE!
There are so many choices of Holiday cards to pick from. Check them out HERE! Plus they have Holiday invitations if you are throwing a party. You can find them HERE! And, if you need cute gift tags to stick on your presents this year then go HERE!
These are my personal favorites!
There are so many designs to choose from! I encourage you to check out this deal going on and get in on it! Quick! I'm so excited to take a picture with my new camera of us & Roxy and send out Holiday cards to my family & friends!
If you're interested here's the link again: 50 FREE!
Just me and the P&C
A while back I wrote a post taking the piss out of people who join P&C committee. Six months later... oh my god, it's me.
I'm the PR and Marketing rep for the school. Despite the fact that I have an aversion to OPC (Other People's Children) and OCP (Other Children's Parents), I signed up because (a) every time someone learns I'm in advertising they moan to me non-stop about how there's no PR/M rep for the school and that so-and-so's school up the road has a PR/M person and their kids get in the paper all the time.
Let's pause at (a), shall we?
School kids in the local newspaper. If it's not your kid are you not simply wondering why this random kid is in the newspaper? Do I care that Little Beth was awarded first prize in the Kindergarten public speaking competition after her ground-breaking one minute speech on Why I Like My Friend? No, I can't even fake it, I do not*.
(b) I'm sick of those smug little knowing glances people share when a working parent can't volunteer for something due to work commitments. Well, knowing-glance-givers, now one of those inconvenient working parents is on your stupid committee so... there.
(c) This year I'm class mum, I do reading a few times a term, I volunteer for the tuckshop, I'm supervising at the school disco, I'm baking cupcakes for the Principal's Assembly, I'm decorating gardens for the Kinder Lunch... and to be absolutely honest next year I plan to do all my PR/M duties via email.
and
(d) The P&C president begged.
So, I'm in. Or out.... depending on how many times I get the little mugs onto page 3 of the local rag, I assume!
Do you volunteer at your child's school? What kinds of things do you do? Do you secretly resent the parents who don't do a damn** thing?
* This is not true. I care, I really care. I was the only parent-of-a-non-finalist*** to show up in the audience at the finals of Kindergarten Public Speaking competition where Beth's speech about'Why I Like My Friend' left me holding back the tears and screaming 'bravo, bravo!' louder than her mum.
** Or openly resent. Either's fine.
*** Yes, you do need to ask: why was Maxabella the only parent of a non-finalist in attendance? Five / six year olds making speeches? I wouldn't have missed this gorgeous little event for love nor money. For shame, fellow non-finalist-parents. You should have been there to support the finalists and show your own child that even if they choose to talk non-stop about puffer fish when they're meant to be talking about friends during their own speech, Mum comes along to support your class anyway.
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Nordal
This week for my 'shops i love' page I bring you Nordal, an interior family-owned Danish brand.
They started out by selling old furniture from India, but since then a lot has changed and they now design and manufacture a personalized unique collection of furniture and accessories, including charming glasses, ornate lanterns and cake stands. I would love to get some of those burnished wood snowflakes for my Christmas tree!
Have a sweet day!
Wednesday Wishlist
We all know that Christmas is fast approaching so I have put together a bit of a fashion wishlist for the next few months - it began with these gorgeous Sambag sandals I am currently lusting after and I guess once you have new shoes you always need a new dress (or three) and some accessories!
You Can Do It Girlfriend
At age 14 I had a group of girlfriends and we were inseparable. My BEST friend changed over the first few years of high school and I was very fortunate and lucky to have such beautiful girls in my life. One thing we loved to do was sing. We used to sing all of our favourite songs, popular and not popular and harmonise and split up each song like we were the pros. Every lunch we used to go down to the bridge and practice our chosen song for the week and just sing sing sing. We used to have parties in which we would get dressed up and get out our parents bar stools and put on performances for our friends. Our poor friends hahah How bored they must of been. (Isn't it funny that from age 13-15 this is how our time and parties were spent. These days girls at that age are out at parties getting drunk and sleeping around - I know this is judgmental and it's terrible for me to say and I really do hope that girls out there are proving me wrong and still holding on to their innocence) Anyway my dear friend Carly and I decided to write our own song. We spent hours, days, weeks writing our song. I remember working on a line at a time and each line we would work on for hours. The melody and the words we worked as one. We made sure it was perfect! 10 years later I still remember every lyric and every note. We didn't know music or how to write music so it's all in my head and every now and then I catch myself humming away to the tune and it makes me laugh! How cute and innocent we were and we were so proud!
~ Here is our song ~
YOU CAN DO IT GIRLFRIEND
Verse
You all want to be somebody
you all want to be something
so open up your heart to me and sing sing sing
You all want to do the right thing
You know whats right from wrong
So open up your heart to me and sing it through a song
Bridge
So when your body starts a moving and your mind is gonna blow
You tomorrow will be better and today is gonna go so..
You can do it girlfriend
Chorus
Take it to the top girl
Throw your hands and do a twirl
Always smile and never frown
and dont take no put downs
Woah let's work together, lets be one
we can make a difference and have some fun
You can do it girlfriend
Rap
Taking it to the top,
gonna let rock,
gonna get it hot
dont let it drop yo
its not up to me
its up to you
so believe in yourself,
sing it sister
Chorus
Oh dear it makes me laugh every time I sing it! This is such a special memory I will always have, Those special moments spent with my girls. Reading over the song we actually had a lot we wanted to say. This was our little way of expressing it!
Always remember - YOU CAN DO IT GIRLFRIEND!!! ;-)
x S.K.K x
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