Aren't the colours in this candy just to die for? I don't think i could pick a favourite flower out of all these, though I have to say, I am totally loving the rosette looking ones... Divine!!!
If you would like to go into the draw to win yourself some yumminess, just head on over to Bridgettes Bloggy and follow her instructions.. I know you dont wanna... cause, then... if you did... I would have competition!!! haha.. Nah... Go on... I dare ya! ;-)
Well, yesterday, since the weather was awesome and the gardens were well overdue for some TLC I figured that we would bundle into the car (Matt, Mea and I) and head to bunnings for some garden lovin'... so that is exactly what we did.
While Matt pottered in the manly sections, Miranda and I filled our cart up with pansies, poppies, and some other flower seedlings that I have forgotten the name of. All i know is they start with C and i am too tired to go check out what the tag says. ~L~... Miranda got her face painted like a lady bug and informed me that corriander is a lady bugs best friend.
Last year she planted corriander and we had an amazing crop of it, which lasted months and months until i finally got tired of trying to coko things that contained corriander, convince the neighbours they needed more, and taking it to work.. anyway... another punnet was bought for the garden this year... ofcourse, while miranda doesnt eat too much of it, hunting for lady bugs in the garden definately keeps her occupied for ages of a weekend. So, still waiting for daddy, who by this time was needed to life heavy bags of fertiliser, manure and mulch onto our cart, we found someone making cotton candy as part of the stores easter celebrations.. so a little while later with a daddy used well, and now in toe, our lips and tongues blue from the candy, we headed home to play.
We only got one bed done yesterday although before that, while matt was mowing, i got onto the opposite side of the yard and freed the grass, or our poor excuse for a lawn from a horrid weed we have here, which creeps over the ground and suffocates everything in its path. It was like laying a lawn, only in reverse. I was litterally rolling up the weed as i went, and the piles of it at the end, looked like turf waiting to be laid.. well.. kinda. This morning, since i dont do the change from day light savings to normal time well, I got up at 6.30 and headed out into the garden again to prepare the other bed, and the planter pots for planting. Man did i do some digging!
Matt joined up the boxing gym last week so that he could come along with me, push me hard and work out with me with things that i need a partner to do things with, and since we didnt get there over the weekend, due to the fact they were closed for the eater weekend, i think we both got our workout regardless.
As a easter gesture, since I was adement that I was avioding as much chocolate as possible, Matt offered, firstly to send me researching online for what ever die cutting system I wanted to buy, but we after much discussion and fuss made by me, decided that i would not use one enough for the HUGE outlay they are... so he sent me shopping instead. I was looking for a store that sold My Little Shoebox papers, and October Afternoon all in one place, and not only did I find them, I found them at discounted price as what I can only explain as the best little online Aladdins cave that I have ever come across. Or, should I say, Anna's cave. Anna has everything that I wanted and soooo much more!
It is definately the place that I will be returning to, over and over again. There is so much more that this gal "needs".
Anyway.. Im missing out on sleepy snuggles with my little girl and my man and a movie that I was going to watch has well and truely started.. so im going to say...
Night..
Hope that your easter was spent relaxing, having fun and safely!
Well... now that I have gotten past that little rant below, I thought I would get on and post a little catch you up so that I could let you know that I am alive... in one piece and okay.
It has been about a month since I last blogged and I have realised that in the eyes of many bloggers, that is simply not good enough. But... as you have probably well guessed by now.. im far from being like most bloggers. I vanish with no word... and then just re-appear... as politically incorrect as I was just now... or with no word what so ever.. just a post, as though I have not been anywhere but here the entire time.
Hmmmm... So ... Ummm... ~crickets chirping in the background~
Oh.. yea.. hmmm.... where have I been? No where...
What have I been doing!? .... not overly a lot..
Work... sleep... work... gym.... work... gym... work.. work... work...
now that you have the picture... hahaha.
IWe are still waiting to start our house... we are now two months over date on our settlement due to bad weather, though we are hoping, from what we see, that this month shall be the settlement month.
We have been waiting for our block to have our lot number put back up so that we could get a soil test done... we went for a quick run up there today and saw that they have put the site numbers in... yay! So... this means that we should be able to do our soil test next week... hopefully, that will come back fine and we will be able to run everything by council and have ourselves ready to pour as soon as the land settles.
We have decided, after checking out flooring last weekend that we will be doing all that our selves. (getting a private company to do it instead of the builders)... we will be saving a packet and in the end, getting way better quality stuff.
We are going nylon short pile for our carpet, which will just be in the bedrooms and theatre. We thought wool, though we dont want track marks, which we were told will happen quickly with wool... and considering the carpet we have chose ins just as lovely to touch as the wool, and a fraction of the cost, that is where we have settled.
We have decided on beechwood coloured timber laminate flooring, which will then join up with the same beechwood, decking for our entertainment area.
The biggest area that we have seen that we will be saving is in the tiling in the laundry and bathroom. We are able to purchase large porcelain tiles for $33 a meter unlaid, where our budget with the builder was $44 laid. For that, we could not find anything half way nice in ceramic (which is as much as they would allow us to get as porcelain was an extra)... these tiles are glossy and oh so purdy... and... big.. did i say they were big!? They are going to look so hot against the white of our spa and next to the timber floor as you leave the bathroom. I cant wait to show pictures.. though, at the moment... we only have one sample tile.. which i dont think would show up to its true potential in a photo... soooo.... i guess that means that you will have to wait! ~L~
Sully: well.. we are still waiting for the insurance guys to make a descision.. so at the moment, we still have her, dents and all... and we are hoping, minus the dents, to keep it that way. I know she is just a car and that we are all safe, though she is ours... she is sully... she is beautiful. Besides that, Cathy has yet to meet her.. and see why we love her so much. ~L~
The kids are great... growing like weeds... ploughing through the year at school with great Grades. Matt is great... He has started his own business... we have taken on a partner... so you have to go check out their new dig... Red CactusHe unfortunately was not promoted like we were hoping this year.. so he has been posted out at the end of the year, which means that we will have one of two descisions. 1. build, move into the house and then move out months after to move, or 2. Matt will move by himself for a year, so that the kids can continue at the same school and Kiera will be able to complete her senior years at the same campus... so.. we have decided on choice two. Well.. Matt has. He wont putt any of them out of school since they are all happy... he wont well the house, OR put anyone else into it as a rental... and wont let me quit my job and move to try and find another. It will be hard though we have talked long and hard and think this is by far the best option... other than him leaving the defence which he is not prepared to do just yet.
We have figured that the defence sends him home every 8 weeks, so inbetween, we will just organise cheap flights every other 4 weeks. Hopefully, with him doing photography jobs, going to the gym and working, me working, looking after the kids and finishing off things around the new house, the year should fly by.
If the defence doesnt give him a position back here after 12 months, then he said he will look at getting out.
Now all that news leaves me as lucky last.. I am still working out.. and it is working out great for me. I have now lost a total of 7.5kg and am still going strong. Matt has joined the gym with me so will be my "pusher" as of tomorrow. He figures that since he wont be here next year to see the final results, that he will come along, push the shit out of me and make me work harder, thus getting to the final results faster. I like the idea... there is nothing wrong with being pushed a little harder than you would push yourself, right? We are working me back into things a little slowly, as for the last 3-4 weeks i have not been well and after being cleared of cancer (5 years post) at christmas, I have been going through testing all over again.. though tests so far has come back very positive looking... so we are hopeful that I have just had some nasty nasty (GAY) virus!
Anyway...that is it i think... i am certain that I have bored you all enough by now.. I have still got layouts to post, though will try and get to those soon... but until then, i shall say... HAPPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL... Stay safe and dont eat too much chocolate.
Love and hugs
xxxx
PS: you know what? I think my "gay gay gay" mood is passing.. though im not going to tempt it by going back to my desk just yet! hahah.
xxx
Have you ever had a day where you want to accomplish so much though it all seems way harder than you thought it would be? Wanted to go shopping though everything seems oh so gay?
Well... as politically incorrect as this post may be... that is how my day today is... SO GAY.
I wanted to play with my stamps... I can't say I have a great array of colours.. and my stazon ink (as i discovered when i sat down) is dry. GGGG-GAY. Everything i stamped has turned out GAY... I wanted to make some cards... the one i have done is .... you guessed it... GAY. I went shopping for something for Kiera for easter... GAY GAY GAY... can you say GAY!? I couldn't find anything!
I have just been given a present from Matt &... while it is deliscious stacks of colourful DCWV cards and a pad of yummy cardstock and some inks... all i can say is GAY... simply because, no paper i have goes with it and the stupid scrap store is shut.. enough of a reason for me to scream GAAAAAAAY from the roof top.
I think... what i need to do is go have a bath... get into some PJs and go hide somewhere until this gay mood has passed.
PS: Happy easter to you all... and... um... i'm back!? I can't believe that it is easter already... where have the first 4 months gone? I guess... I should make a little catch up post so y'all know where i have been and what I have been doing for the past month. huh!? hmmmm...
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the mornings, Satan himself Shudders and says........"Oh Shit She's Awake" - Unknown
