Tea and cakes in the garden
1. Rice DK melamine cups
2. Regency cake stand, 3 tier
3. Angelina Lavender napkin, pink enamel pin wheel
4. Pastel silicone cupcake cases , roseberry melamine tray
5. Greengate, Fia white & Angelina plates
6. Rice DK melamine bowls in lavender & soft pink
This week in my series of posts, "Fridays Finds", I bring you a collection of pretty pastel finds for tea and cakes in the garden inspired by Monday's post, Pretty garden pastels.
Don't forget you can click on any blue lettering in any of my posts to link through to the relevant store website or blog post for more info!
I also couldn't resist showing you a few pretty pastel treats from Amy Atlas: perfect for tea and cakes in the garden.
Have a sweet day!
Things I learned this week including the evils of yoghurt
1. Online shopping combined with PayPal will bring your finances asunder. It's just too easy to spend money in the grown-up version of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
2. Handy tin, but Moxie tampons are almost impossible to unwrap. Not sure what one is supposed to do with an unwrappable tampon, but you'll be pleased to know that I didn't find out.
3. Apparently a box of tampons needs its own website these days. Including a page outlining 'the collection'.
4. Nits prefer to hang out around the ears and at the nape of the neck. Who knew?
5. Megan Morton does not seem to be embarassed about the fact that she calls herself a 'house whisperer'.
6. Formspring.me is a site where you're asked random questions and you can share your answers. I have no idea what you would actually do with it, but this is what I learned.
7. Week 7, Term 2, Year Kindergarten: Maxi-Taxi isn't 'applying the required amount of effort to his studies'. Parent -Teacher interview has been set up for next Friday to 'discuss strategy'. Oh, Maxi-Taxi.
8. You can't return something at Myer without a receipt. You can 'exchange for something of the same value' but you can't just get your money back. I think I kinda knew this, but I never keep receipts that aren't for tax. I wish I was one of those people that keeps receipts that aren't for tax, but I'm not.
9. A tub of Ski Delite Berry Basket Yoghurt has 41% of an adult's daily ration of sugar. 41%! My teeth nearly fell out of my head on the spot. I let my kids eat that stuff in healthy snack proportions!! I'm on the prowl for a lower sugar version (that doesn't contain 900 sweetner numbers and doesn't taste so yoghurt-tart that little mouths pucker). Do you think I can find one?
10. When goats give birth it's called 'kidding'. That's a joke, right?
Did you learn anything new this week?
Sex & The City Weekend
So looking forward to this weekend as it is a Sex & The City Weekend for me.
A few of us from The Stillbirth Foundation Australia have organised a charity movie night to see the movie and I am looking forward to a girls night out (especially when it will also help raise funds for our wonderful foundation). My biggest dilemma - what to wear! If only I had Carrie's wardrobe as I would just love to wear this little number.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Rainy Day Activity... Build a 'House!'
Since its been raining for - oh - for about 20 years here on the Central Coast (and the rest of NSW, I presume) I've found myself a little light-on for imaginative indoor children's activities. Foxtel is getting a workout, let me tell ya!
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But last night, Dan came home and 'built' a whammy!
Yes folks, it's the world's easiest cubby!
You too can make your own!
Ingredients:
- One big box (visit a department or furniture store, they've got tons!)
- A sharp knife
- A bit of imagination
See? Anyone can do it! And the best bit? It doesn't cost a cent. You could go crazy with crayons or paint and get the kids to decorate it, or leave it 'organic' like ours. Hell, it'll end up in the recycling bin shortly anyway! Until then, hours of fun!!
Here's Fern exploring her new cubby; knowing my nestiness I'll probably have curtains sewn up by sunset!
Don't you wish you were small enough to crawl in too? Have a great weekend... xN
I'd like to thank...
Wow, look what Annie at Living Life as Me gave me! I can't believe someone even noticed me out here in Etherspace, let alone thinks I'm worthy of merit. Of course, I could be mind blowingly boring... I did go on and on about nits just now.
Thanks so much, Annie. You really made me feel great.
The rules of the award are to:
- Display the award on your blog.
- Mention the person who gave you the award, and provide a link to their blog.
- Name 5-10 people to pass it on to.
- Advise those people they have an award!
The bloggers who blow my mind are:
Generous Annie @ Living Life as Me
Talented Allison @ Life in a Pink Fibro
Charming Julie @ Towards Sustainability
Dreamy Jess @ Life's Little Whispers
Funny Coo @ ... then there were four.
Organised Jessica @ How about orange
Honest Bern @ So Now What?
Clever Chantelle @ Fat Mum Slim
Fighter Kim @ The News with Nipples
Thanks for sharing.
The nitmare
Maxi-Taxi brought a new ecosystem home with him from school yesterday. I don't know how we did it, but one Tsunami or another has been in daycare since 2005 and we've been completely nit-free. Term 2 of big school and it's combs at the ready.
I couldn't believe how quickly they'd set up camp. I noticed him scratching a little before bed on Tuesday night, toured the head with a torch and found absolutely nothing. By Wednesday afternoon, there were 7 actual specimens and about 132,000 eggs.I drowned him in Pantene dry/damaged conditioner and spent 2 hours with the comb, the nails and the wriggling child, bannishing the clingy little buggers one strand at a time.
This morning he insisted that we visit the principal's office to let him know about the nits. I asked him why we needed to tell Mr Smith and he said "Mr Sniff knows everything at school. He needs to know about this."
I humoured him because I really doubted that Mr Sniff would be in his office at 8am on a Thursday. But in there he was. Maxi-Taxi marched in, bold as brass and boomed "Mr Sniff, the nits are on the loose!" Mr Sniff cracked up. He's a terrific principal.
So, beware. The nits are on the loose. And frankly, I have PTSS from the whole encounter. Can't stop scratching. Scratch, scratch. Bet you're scratching too, right?
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