my mind thoughts

I'm tossing up between a big blog overhaul make over type shin dig (which realistically I really don't have time for) or actually just saying..."see ya" and posting ".....and they all lived happily after. The End".


Cos honestly blogging just aint doing it for me any more.

I'm not inspired.

Alot of the blogs I read when first starting out have become sad sporadic sites just like mine OR have wiped completely off the the face of blog. So I guess it's just part of the process.
Or it's more of the same old same old.....kinda like a favourite magazine that repeats after a few years.
I hate when that happens to my favourite mags.

I've become really over the word Vintage
and stuff made out of felt.

I'm wanting something new!
What is new?
Whats the next big thing?!?!

Check out some more of my vintage baking I found over the weekend

mmmmmm not pretty.
They were from Boots's 5th Birthday party.
yeah GROSS
do you know what's really bad?

The kids have known they were there all along!

I've read the first couple of pages of this book which everyone tells me is AWESOME, but I'm struggling to get into it. Did anyone else get that at the begining?

The kids went back to school yesterday and I'm so pleased with the classes they have gone into. This year I want to make a conscious effort to meet some other parents. (Which actually for me means getting up early enough to put make up on and get dressed in proper clothes so I can walk to their classrooms).

Since starting the new school I've just sort of hung around the mums I already knew and really made no effort at all to meet new ones, but this year already there are some friendly peeps in the girls classes that I've got talking to and the girls even invited a pair of sisters over this afternoon to play (one in each of their classes totally convenient!) which is awesome because Belle's best friend just left for another city last week.

Belle loves the Bieber.

She just decorated her $200 scooter in $3 I heart JB stickers.
Then Neb needed to borrow it yesterday to go scooting with his friend and I seriously worried for his safety. He managed to ride it with the handle bars facing backwards. And he was quick.

Does anyone want a cat?

or a puppy that keeps chewing everything we own?
Kidding about the free puppy
but not the cat..
How do you talk someone into taking a cat?
we've come to realise 3 animals is 1 too many.

So if you want it I'm offering free postage
to anywhere in the world.

I've started training in photography and have actually taken a few sessions on my own in my job and it's coooooooooool!!
I'm absolutely loving it.
and it's crazy hard work too.
Some kids are awesome to photograph and some are just SO NOT.
Like woah,
I come home and it makes MY kids look angelic,
which is sayin something.

So now I of course want to go and study and learn Photography properly if we ever win lotto, not that I ever buy a ticket, but Gooseman does every now and then, so he said he'll send me and then I can get one of those flash as cameras with the cool lenses etc...
yip
go lotto.

my instantagramin sunday

Some of my most favourite moments this week captured on the wonderful world of i phone awesomeness

I think I might post this every Sunday for those of you not fortunate enough to watch my life live on Instagram ;)

 The Birthday Girl yesterday morning in our bed, complete with awesome bed hair, ready and waiting for present time to begin.

A quick sneaky coffee and breakfast date we stole together while going out for birthday party supplies.

We ended up opting for take away after Belle's HOT chocolate really lived up to it's name.

We celebrated my girls seven years with family and her best friend from School.

Uncle Gooseman is always holding the baby.
Looking forward to the next few weeks when Thumbelina isn't going to be the youngest cousin anymore!!...

Cake.

Half price sushi day. My work lunch on Friday.

Warm still nights at the river
while releasing puppy Joss's super crazy amounts of  energy

Just me and my biggest boy.

My week on Instagram bridgewidge

also linky partying it up with P.J Things I'm Loving

Seven

I always loved that game word association at school,
actually playing that IS one of my fondest memories of my whole entire public education.

We all used to stand up at our desks and the teacher would begin with a random word and each of us would say the next word that is associated with that previous word. Any stumbles or wrong words and you're out!
I was pretty much awesome at it.
I could go all day.
I'm one of those kids that read the dictionary for fun
and I wasn't even bright.
I was the worst kind of nerd, a thick one!
haha

Why am I bothering to tell the big wide world of internet this you may wonder,
it's because of My Girl,
my first born girl who turns Seven years old tomorrow (which actually is only Three minutes away).


You see she is a girl of many names. Her main nick name is Belle which is used here on the blog and in real life, but then after a while even that gets boring and I often end up calling her Ballerina, which after a while sticks and sometimes Gooseman too refers to her as that aswell.

One day after he said it he stopped in his tracks and said how weird it is that her actual name is so far away from what she is being called. But to me is still makes perfect sense, because it's all about word association, or in this case name association.

So that's ok.
We're all good.
And this girl of mine is awesome.

Happy Birthday sweet Belle aka Ballerina, Gab-ra-smell (thats not one I use) (often), Gabby-belle, Gabrie-elly, Baby.
We love you!

Summery

Here's how the summer holidays are shaping up in our wee corner of this world

Exercising Joss at the river and finding varying decent and some not so awesome dog parks all over town.

Entertaining little girls who love to bake

 waiting patiently for these

Mine had red currants from our garden

While I waited for the bread maker to do it's magic with our brownies I had a sudden urge to quickly whip out the paints. Yeah it's a giant grey pear and I can't show you the actual finished work because I blatantly copied it off a print I saw off pinterest that I liked and I don't want hate mail. thanks, I'm not going to sell it or even show it on here as mine so that's ok, right? eek

Baking day round 2.
Cute as pinny from Tea's etsy shop Loveknot. I brought a couple a while back to save as gifts and the girls absolutely LOVE them!

Strawberry heart cupcakes were on the menu this day

My Christmas lilies died and the tree and decos were packed up and put back in the garage roof

We picnicked in the New Year with good friends

We splashed out and went to the movies as a whole family on Goosemans last day before starting back work. The movie theatre was practically empty that day and I'm guessing here's why

just a small example of the adrenalin that pumps through our veins even while we sleep.

The all day breakfast after a night like that

making funny hairstyles in the bath

move over Kate Moss.

the good stuff

So just to state the obvious, my blogging life has been incredibly slack lately. Truth is my head has not been in the right space for it at all. I've been in a huge negative mind space where all I have felt like doing was moaning about anything and everything so I kinda thought it best to play by the rule if you have nothing nice to say.....say nothing at all.

But this week I've been trying hard to pick out anything that brings happiness my way. Be it the smallest little moment, I've captured it, usually as an image on my phone and I'm also documenting a few on this app I came across the other night. Gooseman also printed me out the year long calendar which I've put together and now graces our toilet door as a daily reminder.

I stuck up some of Cats photography too which hides the plain white card holding it up. Creative points one.

And even though I have to admit that I'm pretty stoked that Christmas is over I really enjoyed my Christmas card garland that I hastily stuck up one early morning before leaving for work

I might just leave it up there for a few weeks yet. Yes those are a pair of Paisley Jades coasters as ends, cool huh!

Loving making my own bread. And the yummy cooking smells that are over-riding the heinous cat ones that some neighbouring kitty keeps leaving in our laundry...grr

Watching Boots dance in the pool  to the background music playing. This girl was awarded most promising dancer at her end of year prize-giving. She doesn't even know what it means, but I was beaming.
About this time last year I said a short wee prayer asking for a place to take her for lessons that we could afford, DAYS later, by chance I heard our school news bulletin advertising Jazz dance classes in the school hall, affordable and basically out our back door.
I've just got a strong feeling about this one for her, she is so passionate when moving with her entire body. I totally Love watching her.

I spiced up shower time on Wednesday night and did the whole when a swim counts as a bath routine. Took the shampoo and p.js and they came home when the pool was closed to bed. Idyllically I'd love to say they went straight to sleep like little angels but yeah, no.

I'm loving that today after I woke up and had a bit of a hormonal spaz Gooseman and the kids got busy and tidied up the mess that over took every  room in our house and Goose even pulled out every single item in our linen cupboard and folded it and put it all together neatly! I could stare at this all day. I don't consider myself an organisational freak in any sense but man it feels good when it's done.

Ok so these cupboards I cleaned out a few weeks ago. So boring I know, but bare with, they were filthy. Spilled spices, pasta and general crud lined them all and after washing them, vacumming them, the works baby I'm still opening them throughout the day just to bask in their little clean glory. Call me crazy, what evs, but this kinda stuff really does it for me.

The bottom of these shelves were a grimy greyness.

New togs. So loving that one pieces are back, my stretch marks are ever so grateful. I've gone up a size (boo) so had none to wear until today when I picked these up half price with an amazingly generous boob cup that keeps them all in nicely (my personal hell is finding anything my size that fits my un proportioned to the rest of me mammaries in). Yes they are a tad granny, but they could be worse, so I'm supported and happy.

I've been ace-ing it (yeah I'm sure that's a word) at work and last month came out as top salesperson with the highest sale nationwide and in the top ranks of other aspects to my work aswell so I'm still loving that. I'm being trained in the photography side at the moment and can not wait until I'm let loose in the studio on my own. It's heaps of fun. Not so fun working during the awful quakes we have been bombarded with again lately and the panic of not knowing exactly where all my family are when I'm there, learning/trying not to panic when they happen.

Found this blog just lately which I'm enjoying. I think I'm the last around to find them but wow, love how real this girl is.

So that's me 2012 style. Be back around soon. Still waiting on the magazine article I'm meant to be featured in, possibly the up and coming February issue.

                                                              linky partying it up here