Love the Post

Had two large parcels arrive on Friday. One from Christina's Craft with some glass bits and pieces to use for some soldered pendants I intend to make but the other was Pat Sloan's new range Nikki which I think is her best yet (I think I have said that every year) but this one is special it is so bright and fresh.

This week I also got a kit from WishWare Beads and made this charm bracelet. It featured in December issue of Australian Beading.

PhotoShop Elements

Here are some more pressies, my husband was listening after all when I hinted ooooh I love that. Don't you love the fabric postcard from my friend Kay she does such beautiful work.

Got myself Photoshop Elements the other week and have been playing a little bit (nothing that I will post on here for a while). I like the look of some scrapbooking but don't think I can get with the paper thing, though some of the papers look as good as fabric. Even with my collage it is always going to be fabric and not the paper I think it is a tactile thing more than anything with me I have to be able to see and feel texture. But back to Photoshop Elements you can do digital scrapbooking and because I quite like fiddling with software and I like the look of the scrapbooking I thought it might be fun to have a go. A couple of weeks ago I bought what I thought was a paper bundle online with a few images and things and it turned out to be digital images which I was a bit cross at first but now it is ok because I am going to be able to use them. It is going to be a big learning curve though but I am sure it will work out in the end just waiting for adobe to send a training cd which should push my learning on a bit.

Happy Birthday to Me Happy Birthday to Me

I turn 40 today in case you didn't know. Through the Passion 4 Primitive forum I am a member of I am in a birthday swap and here are all the lovely pressies I received. Most of them arrived yesterday and the poor postie had them all piled up and he managed not to drop one.

I went and did a little retail therepy this morning and got myself a new phone because my old one was running out of battery life and lasting only a day or two on charge and even less if I actually talk on it lol. My Dad dropped in and gave me a lovely watch and my sister sent me a recipe book.

Had lunch down at a local cafe on the beach with a girlfriend which was just devine.

I am going to get a Canon 40D but there is a bit of a hold up so my husband bought me a piece of Murano Glass Jewellery today.

One More Sleep

One more sleep and I move into decade no 4. I was think this morning this was the age my mother would never admit to. She was 39 until she died at 49 (and she use to get away with it lol), she would have hated having to say she was 50 anyway and probably would have said she was 49 well into her 60's. I don't really feel any different than I did when I was in my 20's though I am probably more confident and there are few more aches and pains now. But I don't think I will ever not admit to how old I am because it doesn't bother me.

Yesterday I did my first class at Hetties Patch fabulous workshop area and the bag was really fun to make. Might have to go shopping to make another bigger one for the Loxton trip which Gail assures me it isn't too early to count sleeps.

Got a delivery today that I have been waiting for from Wish Ware Beads, it is a bead kit in blue for a charm bracelet from one of the beading magazines. I am pretty sure I have the magazine somewhere might have to get out the pliers tonight and put it together

My Birthday Month

It's my birthday next week and it is one of those with a 0 on the end. My husband has been at me for at least 6 months to decide what to do and here it is a week away (well less than that) and I haven't decided. I tend to take life in chunks and gear up for an event and try not to think about the next thing until that goes away and as it was all about my daughter's birthday up until last weekend now I can think about mine.

I have decided that I will treat myself for the whole month. I have been doing a little bit of shopping just for me and my big pressie (canon slr) is in the works. I don't feel like having a big bash but might just go to dinner or something in the next week or so. As my birthday is very close to Valentine sometimes the restaurants can be bit busy who knows I think I will just play it by ear as they say. Dinner with the girls will be at the end of the month to cap it all off.

On the job front ugghhh I had two interviews yesterday for an absolutely perfect job and the Agency consultant said I had it in the bag but and the client was really impressed with me and said that unless the next candidate blew her away. Unfortunately she did so I missed out, she had done in medical research before and the client went for her. Oh well at least it was a great boost for my confidence and I did great on all their testing. Better luck next time.

UGHHHHH Speeding Fine

Got a letter this afternoon couldn't work out what it was from the envelope as I wasn't expecting anything and it was a speeding fine. I remember going through it but I thought I had slowed down in time. It was one of those wide streets that a lot of the time are 60 but I didn't see the remember sign until it was to late so I was doing 59 in a 50 zone. My last fine was about 15 years ago which was in Unley which has 40km zones here and there and I missed the sign ugghhhh.

Now that the kids are back at school I am on the job hunt. I think I applied for about 10 jobs on the weekend and got phone calls about 3 of them. I have an interview this afternoon but I think the travel distance might be a bit much to get me home in time to pick up the kids and it is 5 days a week. I got another phone message and I really mad that I missed it because it is the job I was hoping to have a chance at. It is 2 days a week and is project administration which is what I love to do. I am waiting for them to return my call. It is immediate start which is good because I need to earn some money to pay the speeding fine lol.

Birthday Disaster

My daughter came home yesterday from school and was desperate to help mum with the cooking for her party today. So even though she was really tired I let her. All was going well until I removed the oven themometer which was in the way of the cooking tray's and I was juggling two trays and she whipped round behind me and grabbed the hot themometer. Luckily she dropped in quick smart but the damage was already done. So we ran it under cold running water for quite sometime then I let her have a nice bowl of water for a while but an hour and half later she was still screaming. By this time it was almost time to pick up my son from school so I had to get my MIL to look after her rush to the chemist and they gave me some anticeptic cream with a local in it. Instant relief. This morning she has a large blisters on each of her thumb, index and middle finger but they don't seem to be bothering her too much.







Well the 5th birthday party went off without a hitch the entertainment were great (Groovy Chicks and PirateShips) who did a fairy themed party. So all I had to do is feed them at the beginning and hand out the cake at the end. The cake is from the Crabapple Cupcake Bakery cookbook which I bought a couple of weeks ago there are lots and lots of lovely cakes and plenty of hints to make the perfect cupcake and a few layer cakes as well. I had to make mini cupcakes because the usual size are just too big for littlies and all the end up eating is the icing.