HELLO

HI Everyone

Where has the time gone? I seem to be running out of time and there are not enough hours in the day for me to complete everything that is written on my to do list.

Apart from having the flu and staying in bed, not having internet access (still not working properly at home) being away, rain and wet roads I suppose the reason that I am so busy is I have two major things in my life happening this year and I need to have them orgainsed before they can happen.

What are those two major things you ask?

- Number one is in July – Jason and I are off over seas to Europe/Germany for a month

- Number two is in September – Jason and I are getting married

So as you can see I have a bit on my plate at the moment. Both are good things just lots to get orgainsed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MY LITTLE SISTER TRUDY who celebrated her birthday and is longer a “Teen”, on the first of June along with my grandmother and HAPPY 2nd Birthday to RYAN – one cheeky little Boy :-)

Lots of photos now for you to look at.

Photos from the May’s CED topic – NATURE
My Bark Dog :-) :-)

Love watching Ants rebuild their nests/hills after the rain - all the fine crumbles of sand.

A cool leaf I found on the ground - it looks like it has fossilised.

How cool is this sun set...........

This Red Robin was a very patient Bird. It took me six photos before I managed to have it focus - the sun was directly behind him so I had to keep moving around him.

Very Foggy - I like fogs - they are magical - They feel like an Unicorn or dragon should appear through the mist

Some Collages that I have been doing with the girls as part of their school work.

A bower Birds nest/bow that is near where Jason is staying at the moment. It always has new things each time I look at it.

I am lucky enough to know a person who has an opal mine - he was showing me some of the opals that he had when he was up and this one had to be my favourite. I love the circle patterns in it.

Here is one of the Zebra Finch nests that we have under our tank stand at home. There are three of them - when I hang the washing out I can hear the baby birds calling out to their parents. They have all left home now but I am hoping they will be back again next breeding season.
Photos from this months CED topic – SOUND

I change the writing on the black board ever other day – it is out on the side verandah and you see it as you come back from going to the loo – the girls like it when I change what is there, both trying to guess what the next picture will be.

Seeing as this months CED topic is sound I thought I would write my top ten sounds at the time of posting each blog entry: -

1:- hearing Jason’s voice when I speak to him each night
2:- rain on a tin roof
3:- birds singing their morning song
4:- random music playing softly in the background in the school room
5:- girls laughter while they are playing
6:- the timer on the microwave to let us know that our dessert is cooked
7:- gentle breeze blowing through the tree tops
8:- sounds of pencils moving, rulers being put down, scissors cutting – school is in progress
9:- boiling water in the kettle – coffee time
10:- friends chatting over the coffee

Just a random thing:-
Leaving foot prints in the sand

The Beaches of Cheyenne By Garth Brooks

They say she just went crazyScreamin' out his name She ran out into the ocean And to this day they claim That if you go down by the waterYou'll see her footprints in the sand'Cause every night she walks them beaches of Cheyenne.Nobody can explain itSome say she's still aliveThey even claim they've seen herOn the shoreline late at night. 'Cause if you go down by the water You'll see her footprints in the sand'Cause every night she walks them beaches of Cheyenne.

I Love this song by Garth Brooks. (have only included the last two verses of the song) The song talks about how her partner went somewhere and never came back and then she went crazy etc
I love this song not because of that reason but the foot prints in the sand – you never see her but her foot prints are there.
When we go for our walks in the mornings and afternoons – we see small animal tracks in the sand but we never see the animals that make them and I always think of this song – we never see them but we see where they have been – leaving their foot prints in the sand.Yes call me crazy if you like for relating animal tracks in the sand back to this song but I have thought of it ever since I started walking in the sand and seeing the tracks.

Just Some random photos I like at the moment:-
- three dogs on the front seat - very squishy :-) :-)

Saw this gnome in the shop - just had to buy it......

We have some spolit dogs at home - not that Jason will admit it though - this is where Milo (dog at back) and Oates (dog at front) sleep when it gets cold - on the lounge in the back shed. Other dogs sleep on the single seat lounges on the other side.
SPOT THE DOG...........

Milo was very buggered this day - didn't move when we threw the cushion onto him....

Well that’s about all I have for this entry.
Don’t know when I will blog again but hopefully sooner rather then later.
Happy Creating

What a weekend

(wish I said I grew these but no. Jason's mum did :-) Love mothers day flowers)

Firstly HAPPY BELATED MOTHERS DAY to all the mums out there. I hope you all had a realxing day :-)

Saw these tulips in town on Saturday and really wanted to buy some but decided that they wouldn't last in a hot car all day then the rough trip home so took a photo of them instead.

Well I have been busy over the weekend. Busy doing NOTHING!!!! Jason and I decided we wanted to go fishing for the weekend so that is what we did.

The following is my entry in my journal on Saturday morning

Saturday morning around 6.45am on the 9th of May.

Am sitting in front of a fire

Under a big tall gum tree

with a view of the river

waiting for the sun to show it's self through the trees here

All the birds are just starting to wake up and sing their morning tune. The kookuburras have been the loudest so far.

The only thing wrong with this picture is I don't have my morning coffee in my hands as Jason doesn't have a billy any more :-( but apart from that you can't spoil the morning.

We ended up with one good size Darling Cod and some nice size Yellow Belly (which I am cooking for tea tonight out at work) YUMMY

A picture of the moon from the weekend.

Couple of other random photos:-

Me relaxing on trampoline at work with coffee and book in the afternoon warmth

I thought my squash plant was dead until I found this on the weekend. Isn't it a beauty..

Art in Progress picture two - have more canvases so am working towards my sisters present.

Well that's it for another entry

Till next time

HAPPY CREATING

Colours and Nature

Hi Everyone

Lots of colourfull art works happening here.

The girls created these ones - a line one and a circle one each. They are their mother's day gifts for Sunday.

I like how bright they are so had to make two for my self which I will hang in my scraproom when I get home.

My sister Trudy liked the blue line work I did and wanted some so am now creating some for her to hang in her room at Uni. This is how much I have done so far.

This months Creative Everyday Topic is NATURE so I thought what better way to start off this topic with making our own paper. The girls, H and I had lots of fun making the paper as well as making a very large mess.

I won't be making paper again in a hurry but haven't completely wiped it off my to try again list. This is the sunrise I had coming to work on Monday.

Well I had better get back to work.

Till Next time

Happy Creating

Just a quick post

Hi Everyone
It may be the first of May today but it felt like the first of winter. I had a look at our school thermometre this morning around 7.45 and it was only 4 degrees C. Arrgghh Imagine what winter will be like. Thankfully the days are still warming up.

Just two quick pictures today:-
Here are my Bling Inchies - Love Hope and Charity.


Here is something that I have been working on this week while the girls have been busy with there school work.

ONly problem is I don't know which way I will hang it in my lounge room. Out or in??????

I will be hanging a picture in the middle.

Am looking forward to the Creative Everyday topic this month - NATURE - will ebable to have lots of fun with it.

Happy Creating Everyone.

Till Next Time

Emma

BACK AGAIN :-)

I am back in the land of INTERNET……….. J J

I have been on holidays (well only at home as it was school holidays so wasn’t working) and on the first day of my three weeks off I went to do some research on the internet and my modem decided it didn’t want to work – after nearly an hour talking to a Telstra person on the phone (half of that time was spent convincing him that Louth was not a suburb of Sydney that is in fact nearly a days drive away) to have them tell me they had no idea what was wrong with the connection and that they were filing a report for me.

I then rang my local Retravision to have them tell me in 2 minutes that my modem was stuffed and that I needed a new one……. Talk about annoying – Jason didn’t come near me for a while due to how annoyed I was with Telstra.

After working that out I then found out that my modem was out of warranty (as things always seem to be for me) so I had to order a new one – guess when it turned up – the day before I had to come back to work…………………

Three weeks with no internet is a very long time……..

I have now had my little Bitch session I can now write about all the fun things I have been up to for the last three weeks.

First and by far most the best thing that has happened is I am an aunty again to Amy Elizabeth. I knew I was going to be an aunty but not in April – Amy was a little early but she is doing okay she will be in the hospital for a little while yet.
I was lucky enough to have a cuddle when I went down to Mum and Dad’s on the weekend. She is so small.

I have also been busy with my April challenge only missing two days with doing everything that I said I wanted to do so am quite proud of my self.

Here are a few snippets from what I have been doing:-

April 3rd – last day of the school term for the girls so I decided to do something fun with them – we did some tie dying and some Baltic dying as well. This was lots of fun. These are a few of the samples I made – The girls did the big pieces of material.

April 5th – HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON – had a great day spending the whole day with each other tracking down a cow…………………..

April 7th – Accidentally picked up a cross stitching magazine instead of my paper crafting magazine while I was in town – it had a free sample kit with it and I have had some fun cross stitching – I have done cross stitch before but not for a very long time.
April 12th – Jason and I went to My parents place where we had a yummy dinner cooked by my sister Sarah (she received the cooking genes) to celebrate Mum’s birthday which was on Tuesday the 14th. We celebrated it early as it would be the only time that the whole family would be together.

April 14th – HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM – Jason and I got home from My parents late on the 13th as Jason had to work on Tuesday – the phone rang early this morning and I told Jason to answer it as it would be his boss telling him what they were up to for the day – Well I was wrong – it was my brother ringing to tell me that I was an aunty again. Not what we were expecting……

April 23rd - Went to Cobar and and went shopping - I brought myself a new ring - first one on the top row - they are made out of glass - I liked the yellow and green ones on the bottom row but they didn't fit :-(
April 18th – HAPPY BIRTHDAY H – I remembered…..

April 27th - the family I work for have a Southern Boobook Owl living in their shed. He/she hasn’t been there for ages and he/she returned in the holidays so we now say hello to him/her when we go for a morning walk/jog and our afternoon one. We think there may be two of them as he/she isn’t always the same size.

Was feeling dotty one day during the holidays so I created these gift cards.

Well that’s about all I have for today Have probably bored you all so will sign off now and hopefully have regular updates now that I am back at work.

Till next Time Happy Creating

Negative.....

Hi Everyone

Two quick photos to show you all.

Found the negative setting on my camera while helping clear away a tree off the road and burn it.

Love the effect.

Till next time

Happy creating