Op shop finds...

Hi guys, I thought I would share a few of my latest op shop finds. I picked up a couple of these vintage Tomy games the other day, one was $1 and the other was $3. The kids have had an absolute ball playing them, especially the Screwball Scramble....

This game is good fun, and a real challenge. You have to manouevre the ball bearing around the course without letting it fall off, by switching, turning, and pushing a heap of dials and buttons and things. It has given the kids hours of entertainment, a real bargain.

And my find of the week, was this gorgeous crochet rug!!. the colours are so beautiful, and it has an amazing decorative, red edge on it. It has really brightened up our daggy old chairs....

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE.................

Can you believe that someone has gotten rid of this??. It is in such perfect condition it is like it had only just been made!....and all for the whopping price of $5 !!. Can you believe all those hours of work turns out to be worth $5. Amazing, makes me wonder just who made it.... Have you found anything interesting lately? x

The sound of thunder...

      He is our weather man...he hears it before we do. He opens the screen door, slinks inside, and hides.

Fun with gif....

Hi there guys, I just thought I'd share with you my first attempt at making a gif.   What's a gif?..you say....or who gives a gif !.....well, it is just a little way to make an animation from photos.  It doesn't have to be in a series like I have done, but can be snippets of anything you like, made into a moving collage.  I have wanted to do this for a while after I saw the talented Miss Whitneys works of art, like these curtains blowing in the breeze .  My problem though is it only seems to let me do three images together, which means I am missing out on telling the whole story with the series of images.  Anyway, I shall talk to my tech savvy,( talented, gorgeous, hilarious, etc..)friend Marni & see if she can help me out on this one. If you want to give it a go yourself, I used a free program called Picasion.com. 



Ok, so a few little problems to iron out, like the quality is shite...it won't let me do more than three pictures, oh well, back to the drawing board .....



Ok, so I had another quick go & changed the size to large when I uploaded them,(400px) but they are still bad quality.  Anyway this was Lola & Finn having fun in the cubby! x
Animator gif

Gif make

The Race....

Around here....

Hello friends, I hope this finds you all well & happy.  Just thought I would share a little of the busyness that has been going on around here lately. 
Shane has been busy working hard with the picking season....long hours and very little time to relax when he is at home with all the work that has to be done around here also....mainly he has been focusing on finishing the front verandah....

A huge thankyou goes out to Troy, Dad, and Mitch for all their help.  As always, you all help to make our life out here just that bit easier.   One thing I know for sure is that we never turn down help when it is offered.

These are the Witches Fingers I made for Summers Halloween cake stall.....can you believe that schools now embrace this whole halloween thing, and when I asked the kids what halloween is they have absolutely no idea what it is about!!.

Had a lovely visit from my totem animal the other day, about ten black cockatoos stopped for a rest in the tree.....so I stopped for a rest to watch them!  What is your totem animal?.....

 And this beautiful little boy has started Pre-School!!.  Every Thursday now we head off for a huge day out.  Finny goes to Pre-School and I go to the school and help out in the canteen and do some reading recovery with the kids, which I absolutely LOVE!!.  You all know how important I think reading is for kids and families and now I get to do a bit for kids who really need some help...and I am finding it very rewarding and also very sad, for the kids who don't have family that will do just a little bit to help them in the long run.  And then we finish off the day with Swimming Club.

When I picked Finn up the other day form Pre-School he said  "I had the best day Mum".  So glad, I knew he was ready, and so was I.  I have also been spending alot of time and energy(!), helping Summer with a new little hobby of hers....after months of trying to decide which one, Summer has finally purchased a Blythe doll.  She has been looking and learning all about them for a while now....and although it is not a cheap hobby by any means, Shane and I are so happy to see her really excited and passionate about something, and she has even made a new friend at the same time by joining the Utterly Awesome Blythe Club!.  But you can check it out for yourselves as she has also got her own blog now.  I know she would love for you all to see her new hobby.......www.aworldofsummer.blogspot.com 

Hope you have a great day......x

Straddie trip....

Woohoo, the girls got away!.....First of all I should say a big thankyou to Shane, Mum, Dad & Laine & Logan & Summer for making it possible to go and visit Brother Baddy & Maree in their lovely home at Straddie.  It has been far too long between visits....and I am so glad Koo suggested I come up with her and that everyone helped make it happen for me. 

We arrived straight into the Island Festival which was on it's last day, and got to see Baddy play and helped at the gelati van and got to see some awesome music......keep an ear out for Bobby Alu, Nicky Bomba and Cheap Fakes....they were awesome and got me dancing my huge butt off!!.  Oh, I love to dance......

Koo and I were so glad to catch up with Jess and Rosie and Nick, cannot believe that it was the first time I had seen Jessies kids, and I was greeted by darling Rosie with the hugest hug, as if she has known me forever......truly sweet and gorgeous kids....

Rosie and Nick adored Baddys hand reared chickens!

                                             Brett and Marees beautiful permaculture garden

                                      

                                                                              My Bro !

                                         As close as I got to the water....still too cold for me!

Check these two out, studying the Melbourne cup Form guide...Mum would be poud!!.

And then off to the Straddie Pub for the race and then the Straddie Annual Toad Races...Such good fun!

                   And even though we had a few punts on the toads...they all turned out to be duds!

So we had a great Straddie trip, cannot wait to get back with the kids.  I basically spent three days laughing on a road trip with my sis.....now you can't beat that.