This week.

Here's my last weeks entry into the Scrappin Patch competition.

I'm not usually into such bright colours, however the star for the week is, so where she leads, we follow lol.

Been a busy old weekend, full of good stuff. Saturday Vicki and I visited a very cool craft market, where we could have kept loading up our bag with lots of very neat stuff. Everything from dog collars, to soap, clothes to hobby horses. All beautifully hand made, and the way in which each stall presented their products was a sight to behold. Janine, we did comment that we thought you would have loved it ;-)

We've also been busy painting in Donnas house. Great to see some 'concrete' progress. I know the drainlayer's been and I know the sparky is on the way, but they aren't half as interesting (but are a lot mroe important lol), than seeing paint on the walls! And on the arms, legs, feet, in the hair....LOL.

We are now over half way through the term...on the downhill run. Winter officially starts on Friday. We've had warm northwesterly winds today and the washing all got dried on the line and we were painting in shorts and t-shirts. It made us think back to when we first shifted down, which was May, three years ago. Our second day in the house and we had sleet and snow flurries. This time last year and we would have been in the middle of the Tasman heading home from our Aussie cruise. Funny what you talk about when painting walls.

Have a fabulous week. I'm off to get fish and chips for tea, followed by time in the scraproom.

Happy birthday to my Sister and my Dad!

I have joined the ranks of those fighting germ warfare at the moment. Friday night saw my hubby, my sister, and a good friend of ours go out for dinner...and I stayed home and had a bath. Didn't want to share my germs and would have been miserable company anyway. I used the last of my lovely peppermint bath salts that the lovely Beverley sent me in my self care package. Was bliss.

Lucky ole me won the most gorgeous prize courtesy of this blog. Thank you so much Megan - it's a truly stunning collection of goodness!

This was my entry in the Scrappin Patch competition.

At the SP retreat Megan ran an 'exploding box' class. Now you know I'm so not an off the page kind of a girl, but what she had created was stunning. I was lucky to get the last kit and some words of wisdom from Megan and came home and made one for my Dad. It was Dad's birthday yesterday (yes, of course he's twenty one...LOL) and when he opened it he had a wee tear in his eye. Aww shucks, he liked it too lol. I didn't think about taking photos of it - (was more worried about it getting to Auckland safe and sound), but Megan has her one up her blog - here!


Right on that note, it's getting dark out there and my chickens need to be locked up safe and sound for the night. It's been a shaky old day in Canterbury today so lets hope we have a less rocky night. Have a great week people.

A random post.

Just love day's like today. The big long list of jobs is all ticked off, and boy it feels good to have them done. Odd things like packing away most of the summer clothes and chucking out all those, 'seen better days' ones. Keep getting tempted to keep some for the farm work...but lets face it how many old clothes do you really need lol.

Dogs have had a big long run and digging competition at the beach and are now completely zonked.

Been cleaning walls and puttying up nail holes in Donna's house ready to paint the ceilings this week. With frost on my windscreen we need to get her in there soon - I WANT my garage back LOL. (There's lots of house bits and pieces in our garage at the moment).

I broke the ride on - lucky hubby is a mechanic aye ;-)

Hmm this time last year we were on our way up to Auckland to hop on a big boat...

Anyway that's the randomness of this blog post lol.

Have a great week.

May...

Isn't this stunning? A couple of houses down from us has a pond, and as I drove to work last week this is what it looked like:

Those ducks aren't on it today though, wonder where they went??? (Duck shooting season started yesterday in case you didn't know lol).

Last week saw my uncle and aunt come and stay so very little happend on the computer or in the scrap room. However we've spent this weekend continuing to play on toys. This weekends one is called a Dingo. Much easier to drive than a digger, I tell you! I think it's because it has wheels as opposed to tracks. I couldn't really get my head around how the cab of the digger went one way, while the tracks were pointing in a different direction. That was doing my head in LOL.

For those of you who haven't been to our place, this dusty brown bit used to have gardens in it. It's now a blank canvas, and we shall start again. The gardens were never put in well in the first instance so were really hard to keep looking good. Hopefully spending the time and the money to do them properly will pay off in the long run.

Some updated photo's of the piggies and the cows.

There's that old saying 'you gotta be in to win'. If you'd like a chance at winning some stash, and you'd also like some lovely scrapping inspiration, then head over to Annelie's blog and check out her post.

I did mean to get this layout up in time for the Scrapbox fortnightly challenge (it was on "Summer") and the lovely Brenda won it, but didn't manage that ;-) here it is anyway.

Right, the hubby is calling. We have cows to shift lol. Have a great week people.