My beautiful girl is 10!!!

How did she get from this....









To this ....




She had a great birthday and party .....17 of her closest ......I'm glad we only do this every few years. I took her to see this....



on her actual b'day, she has seen the other two but this was the first one in a cinema .... she felt very grown up.......

Like always I did the cake .... and like always it wasn't as easy as i anticipated.....

to start with I had to cook the cakes in the caravan because my oven is allergic to them.....





so far so good until I realised I will need much more blue icing.....




but hey check it out.....



I had to get Shane to help me roll it out cause I didn't have the upper body strength for that much icing.... I measured the cake up across and down and told Shane I needed a 42cm circle .... that he achieved .....I have no idea how .... but it was when he was lifting it onto the cake that we realised that you can't cover a cylinder with a circle ....... I hate decorating cakes!!!!...... so a circle for the top and a rectangle for around the sides .... lots of beautiful coloured spot and balls and it was done... (please ignore all the other mess in the kitchen ... i get a bit carried away when it comes to parties)
The colours were great ( to match her invites and party favours) and achieved with gel dies.... Tip 1. don't try to colour ready to roll icing with cheap colouring ... it wont work...



till next time...

I'm 40!!!!

well 40 and two days.....
no great epiphanies however , life is progressing along like always....



Thanks mum... these are the beads I decided on...



Thanks Denise ... love my new quilt .... now I really need to get some new pillow slips ......



and thanks me .... this is my new bag I picked up

Here....












Yep Shane and I nicked down to Melbourne for a few days early last week .... had an absolute ball ..... really enjoyed the city ..... did some great shopping .... everything I wanted (I went down with a list) and no rubbish I didn't..... and ate the most incredible food including these....



It took us hours to find the shop .... very small and right at the end of the city .... but was very worthwhile .... even the price tag didn't worry us ......absolutely beautiful even had Shane talking like he was a judge on Masterchef.....

Also got some diamond earrings from the family.... might post a pic later ..... all in all very spoilt and appreciative .... what a great way to turn 40.....

Can you believe it???

My darling daughter returned from her sports carnival with a third ribbon .... yeah!!! for anyone who knows Regan you know that she is not the most athletic.(check out the photos at Forster further on) She tries extra hard at all she does and was much disappointed when she realised that this year she would be running in the non competitive races (this came about after last year when the whole school waited patiently for her to finish the 800 mtr).... anyway ..... this year she managed to miss her scheduled race - no I don't know how - and ended up running in a bit of a combined ages and skills race towards the end of the 100mtrs ... and she came THIRD ...love her work...







The weather here - like everywhere has been freezing - Wed was the biggest frost I've seen since moving to Taree... this little guy was trying to stay out of the cold on the windowsill of the shed ... he later ended up under my car..

The kids had a pupil free day on Mon and I managed to score a day off as well so we headed down to Forster to do a bit of shopping, picnic lunch and to see this....



We all really enjoyed it. It was on at home but only in 3D and I wasn't sure if we could sit through a whole movie with those glasses on .... anyone else tried it with small kids???









My athlete...



We got Regan a new stamp album while there and now nearly a week later I still have stamps in little containers all over my house.... I think they're multiplying

Let there be more light....
I'm on a bit of a run now, this room needed a bit more furniture so we purchased this table and lamp...



story about the lamp.... told Shane I was going to get a shade for an old base we had at home but fell in love with this one .... bought it .... put it behind my seat in the car and drove to parent teacher interviews ..... met Shane there and he drove home ... he got in the car and immediately shoved his chair back!!!! Crack .... forgot to tell him I'd bought it let alone had it behind the seat .... we managed to get most the bends out of it and put it up .... Shane says 'I don't know if I like it' .... too late now it's not as if I can return it ...........



Guess who's ten ... well not yet but the invites are out... Blue, Green, Purple and polka dots are the theme ..
and I've even done some scrapbooking for Scrapsidaisy .... this one is last weeks challenge over at the forum .... never to late to join in ..



and these two are from this months design team goodies .... I found the colours really hard to work with but am pretty happy with the results.





Bye for now..