wordless Wednesday
wednesday seems to come around so quickly! I think I need some time to stop & let life slow down a little. Tonight I will grab a cup of tea & come & visit your pics for this week.
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Our Sweetness!
Today we got to see our little bean!! There are no words to describe how amazing it was. Baby looks perfect! Heartbeat was at 164 and baby is measuring right on schedule! He/she was kicking, turning, opening/closing its mouth, and moving its arms! The tech we had was absolutely awesome and let us watch the baby move all about. She ended up giving us SIXTEEN photos! I love all of them but here are my three favorites!
This is when he/she was really kicking!!
And the tiny little hand <3
I think it is finally starting to set in after seeing our baby on the screen...
We're really having a baby! And we are soo happy!
Ideal Home Show 2011
Country garden arbour
I am so excited to tell you that I have been asked to be one of the official bloggers for the Ideal Home Show on their dedicated ‘interiors’ day on March 25th.
They are doing something a bit special and hosting a dedicated ‘bloggers lounge’ in which they are inviting their favourite bloggers down to the event to blog live and experience the show in a way that hasn’t be available in the past to bloggers. The lounge will be set up just for bloggers, with computers available for use, in the Show Village and totally kitted out by Harvey’s Furniture.
The Ideal Home Show, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, is Britain’s best loved home event and returns to London’s Earls Court for its 103rd year. The multi-award winning show brings together more than 600 quality exhibitors from all over the UK to offer a unique shopping experience for all areas of the home, including ideal Interiors sponsored by Dulux, ideal Home Improvements, ideal Gardens sponsored by Hydropool Hot Tubs, ideal Gadgets, ideal Food & Housewares, ideal Shopping and ideal Woman.
And if that’s not enough, the show is jam packed with celebrity guests, more features than ever before including the latest home gadgets, demonstration theatres, a live kitchen theatre, a beauty bar and catwalk, and of course take in the iconic show homes
I am looking forward to being inspired by the Ideal Home Magazine Room Sets; from creating the perfect space for entertaining and cooking to wandering around fresh, serene sanctuary-style bathrooms to relaxing boutique hotel style bedrooms.
DULUX have invited me to join them for a 1-2-1 consultation in their new "Let’s Colour It" Studio which they are launching at the event. They can match any colour and mix it into a paint for you. I will be sitting down with one of their experts to match up colours to paint my Easter crafts.
DULUX have also given me a pair of tickets to the Ideal Home Show give away to one of you, my sweet readers. To enter please leave a comment below this post letting me know what colour you would like mixed up for you by DULUX. The giveaway ends on Wednesday, March 16th 2010 at 10pm (GMT) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Thursday, March 17th.
To increase your chances of winning this fabulous prize, you can gain one additional entry for doing each of the following:
- tweeting about this giveaway
- blogging about it
For the above, please leave a comment below with the link to your tweet or blog post.
Have a sweet day!
Easy money
Like the cobbler's wife that has no shoes, I have no budget. My hub is a banker and a qualified financial planner, but no, we have no budget.
I've realised that aside from occasionally going a bit mad buying stuff for the house that we probably don't need, we are fairly careful with our money. I know that we buy whatever we want at the grocery store and that as a family we have never gone without (see point 'My husband is a banker' above), but still I think we are careful. We don't carry any debt (except our Obligatory Overwhelming Aussie Mortgage (OOAM)).
There are lots of little things we do without thinking that probably make the difference.
We don't drink a lot. Our 'alcohol' budget is generally minimal to non-existent during an average week.
We buy fruit and vegetables and meat fresh every other day. I know this flies in the face of the 'buy in bulk' mentality, but little and often means we always use what we purchase.
I have a bad back, but I still get my massages at the Nature Care Clinic which I discovered twenty years ago when I was a penniless student with a bad back. $38 for an hour long remedial massage. Happy with that.
In the same way, I wait for a Jump On It hair special to come up before getting my hair done. I haven't paid full price for a cut since I was ripped off by a salon who tried to charge me $200 for a haircut because it by a 'Senior Stylist' when I didn't even realise I was getting the infamous 'Senior Stylist' (and nor, it would seem, did my hair).
With the Tsunamis we have 'buying days' and 'no-buying days'. This renders pester-power a non-entity at our place. I tell them before we go that it's a no-buying day' and while there used to be whiny 'oh Mums', these days they just accept that a no-buying day is exactly that.
I've found myself having my own 'no-buying days' and try from time to time to not buy anything that's not food-related for a month or so. I generally do this if we need to get back on track and save a bit extra.
We religiously save money into a completely separate account (it's even with a separate bank). The money goes out when our pay comes in and we don't even look at it.
Yeah, well, I know these tips are pretty pathetic compared to people who are actually thrifty. Those amazing meal-planning, hole-mending, co-opting, re-purposing geniuses. That's why I wrote this post... can you tell me what tips you have to help us all stay on track?
[Image by Elvira'sDADA]
[Image by Elvira'sDADA]
You've Got Mail
This little beauty arrive in the mail today! I am so so so excited! I am having a shopping spree at IKEA on Saturday so it came just in time!!! I better get searching on their website and maybe plan my purchases! or set myself a budget! or just go in and have fun! Yep that last one sounds like the best ;-)
x S.K.K x
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