RIP - Hetty Hen

Hetty the Hen, died during the night. Hetty was Kayla's chook. She wasn't looking too good yesterday. She was the meanest girl. She was the one that was always attaching the new chooks. She wasn't a good layer either. But she was Kayla's and poor Kayla is so upset.



Now I'm a real girly girl and don't do yuk things. But I couldn't leave this dead chook in the hen house all day. If you were watching this morning, you would have got a good laugh. So I ring Chris, who is in a meeting. He says, in a very quite voice "Get a garbage bag and put it in there and throw it in the bin" Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww, deep breath, ok I can do this. I tell Zac, I need him to help. Kayla is in tears - remind me never to let the kids 'have a chook' and name it. Jarred and Kloe just want to see it. I was so thankful it was in one of the boxes. Zac holds the bag and I try to tip it in, so the brick that weighs the box down, stays put. No, everything decided to fall in, box and all. I retrieve the box, the brick can stay in there. I carry a very heavy bag, ewwwwwww, ewwwwww to the bin. Jarred and Kloe are asking a millions questions. I come back around and the back door is open. The other five chooks have decided to move house. All five of them are inside the house. OMG OMG! We spent the next five minutes chasing the chooks through the house.



I can actually laugh about it now. Wasn't doing a lot of laughing this
morning.




My sample pages from the weekends CyberCrop at Diva's

Two more pages accepted by Scrapbooking Memories, in the last few days. I have one in the latest magazine. Titled 'Wish' it is an older one of Kloe blowing bubbles.

Hello Diva's, I was expecting you!

Hello to all you Diva's who are participating in my Blog Hop Challenge.



Before I moved to Hamilton. I lived in Jabiru, which is in Kakadu National Park.

Cold and Wet...............

Perfect for sitting inside with the fire blazing and creating these:

You are going to get sick of seeing these photo's

I think I am going to be using, the photo's I took on the weekend a lot. They are so nice. Here are a few pages using them. And an older photo of Kloe with her Opa.

A super quick one........

I have exactly 5 minutes before I have to race out the door, to go to a meeting for Jarred for School for next year. I can not believe my baby is off to big school next year.

I was so lucky to have a lovely Mothers Day on Sunday. We went to Portland for lunch and then went out to Cape Bridgewater. The kids all co-operated and had photo's. I just totally love them.

And this came from our chook yesterday. On the left is a normal size egg on the right is our super sized egg. And Chris has broccoli coming in from the garden now. It is Yummmo!

Ok, five minutes is up. See ya!

Time has got away

Wow, where has that last week gone????

The kids have all had, a cold and sore throat. Each of them having time off school and kindy.

Touch wood Chris and I haven't had it yet. Must be all those home grown tomatoes we have been eating, they say they are full of Vitamin C.

A few pic's from the weekend. Jarred and Kloe spent most of Saturday outside playing.

I have been, very busy creating pages for DIVA's

This is using, The all new Diva Designer Kits.

They are a bargain for $10. This is what I made with the kit

The kit includes:

1 Paper Trunk Patterned Paper - Ravishing1 Basic Grey Patterned Paper - Extract1 Bazzil mini Scalloped - Coal1 Bazzill Cardstock - Olive1 American Crafts Foam Alphas - Latte1 Collections Cream Journal Card1 metre of ribbon - Kaki and white double stitched1 Kaiser Pearls - Latte

It wasn't my usual cup of tea. But I loved the challenge of using something different.

The next Diva's CyberCrop is on the 23rd May. Go to the Diva's forum and enter.

Other scrapping news:

Another page accepted by Scrapbooking Memories this week. One of Miss Kayla in the kitchen for their Hobbies Gallery. She thinks it is hilarious, her cooking as a hobby.

I have also been asked to do a product challenge for Scrapbooking Memories. They commission you, to create something for the magazine with new products. Very exciting and a bit scary. I received my pack of goodies the other day. Now I have to create magic! Wish me luck.

Look what we've got.....

And not without our usual drama's. I got a phone call, first thing yesterday morning. "We are supposed to be installing your fire today". I didn't like the sound of this. While unpacking the hearth they discovered it was damaged. I was not impressed, as we have been waiting weeks for this. After a lot of sweet talking, I get "I suppose we can install it and then replace it later, when we have the new one" Now they were talking. Just as well the hearth was damaged, as we need a bigger one. When they went to install it, there was roof timbers in the way. So they had to move the heater out further from the wall. As you can see from the pic's the heater sits very close to the edge.

So today is "Cold, wet and windy" outside. Inside it's nice and warm and toasty. We are all loving it already.

I had another page accepted by Scrapbooking Memories yesterday for their 'Dad's Gallery'

Here is my page from Rach's online class at DIVA'S

I have been working on some other stuff. But you will have to wait for that. It's all secret Design Team Stuff.

Thank you for beliveing in me.......

To all those lovely people who sent emails and PM's convincing me I should enter the Design Team Competition at Diva's - thank you for believing in me! You all know who you are.



I am thrilled to announce that I am the Guest Designer for DIVA'S for the month of May and June. I would like to thank Michelle and the girls for having me as part of the team. Michelle is going to keep me very busy, with lots of things to design. I am so thankful for this opportunity.

It has been a few scrappy weekend. With Diva's holding their monthly cybercrop (CC). I had to work very quickly and make my sample pages, after finding out what the girls challenges were about lunch time on Friday.


Vicky's Challenge:
Use blue, A song title and a page from a book
Here is my sample page.



Rach's challenge:
Use a CD to make an off the page project.
Here is my sample




Community Challenge:
Black and White, music notes and paint.
Here is my page


Sunday Speed Scrapping:
You have 1 hours to complete a layout. I used this to cover two challenges. I am still doing my daily pages for 3AS. I have scrapped at least one layout everyday for the month of April. I am almost there. Some days this challenge has been hard, but it has also been lots of fun. So here is my page for Speed scrapping and 27th April challenge, to use buttons





Tonight Rach is holding a free online class at Diva's would love to see you come and play.



In other news:

It has turned bitterly cold. Wind, showers and cold......now I'm remembering what Winter was like. Our air con has had, heart failure and frozen up several times already. We have to turn it off, for several hours.....yes that means no HEATING while it's FREEZING! Luckily the nice man rang this morning to tell me, they will be installing our wood fire on Wednesday. I really wanted to beg him, to come today.


Chris has been busy preparing more veggie gardens. He has broccoli, cauliflowers, onions, garlic, potatoes and beans all growing now. It will be the last of the zucchinis and tomatoes as they hate frost. We had frost twice in the last week.


Chris is also obsessed with the "Footy tipping comp" at the moment. It is very serious. He is now 1st at work. He is most impressed with himself.


The chooks are slowly starting to get along. Kayla's chook is the 'nasty girl' They are still having to be separated, in the evening. They seem to be ok, while out during the day.


Kayla and Zac have a pupil free day today. Kloe was the only one who went to school. She didn't like the fact that they were staying home. She brightened up when I told her she could have a lunch order (which she hasn't had this year) bribery always works LOL!


I also had another page accepted by Scrapbook Creations, late last week. Another page of Jarred titled "Mischief, me?". That makes acceptances and publications in all three Aussie Mags, so I am pretty happy with that. (Hey Dad....are you counting?? LOL)


Otherwise we are all good and healthy (touch wood)


Enjoy your week. Mine is going to be busy!

You have come back to play......

Thursday I had the wonderful pleasure of doing Kindy Duty all day. This included another trip to see 'Pirate Pete'. It was so much fun, because we got to ride on the big bus 'twice'. Pirate Pete saw me walk in and says "Arrrrrrrr, you've come back to play with me again" I told him I was awake up to his tricks!!! It was funny seeing one of our dad's having to get up and help sing and dance. Poor Matt had just finished a shift (he is a policeman) he had a jacket over his work uniform - but that didn't go unnoticed. "Pirate Pete" picked on him even more. He said "Lucky I'm leaving town right after this, otherwise he might arrest me". It was fun, even if it was the same show, same jokes.....the kids just loved it.

On the big bus......right at back.

Saturday we got two new chooks. They will be ready to lay in about two weeks. Our girls are so nasty. You should have seen them bully the new girls. Chris built the new girls a separate pen. Apparently the new girls are called "Baked and Boiled" I think it will be a while before we are able to put them together. The weather has been lovely. Cool mornings and evenings but glorious during the day. Jarred has been asking to have a fire, because he wanted to toast marshmallows. So on Saturday night we had a fire. We had mini quiche's and cheese sticks by the fire (all except Jarred who decided he wanted noddles) Then we toasted marshmallows. It was almost a full moon, so it was a really bright evening and not too cold.




Yesterday was spent gardening, baking and cleaning!

Have a great week

Ahoy there me Hearties...........

Today Jarred's kindy class had a very special outing to see 'Pirate Pete' (the same one we saw in Huskisson - Aunty Donna will remember him well) I went along as a 'helper'. I didn't mind as it was a great chance to get some pictures.

Here is Pirate Pete






Jarred was delighted when he got me into trouble and "Pirate Pete" had me up, to help him sing, dance and do the actions, together with another poor innocent Mum from another Kindy group. It was all in good fun and totally embarrassing. My friend Jac took charge of my camera........just so I would never forget!

I am now the proud owner of a pirate bandanna, eye patch, flag and a 'Pirate Pete' cd. He also tells us our photo will appear on his Website in the next few days...Something to really look forward to LOL!

Jarred and Pirate Pete.

It was great fun. Jarred had so much fun.