a little of my life

Pretty Countdown

go and grab the instructions for this pretty Advent Calendar over on the My Minds Eye blog :)

 

Martha Stewart

I honestly never thought i'd like the woman's craft range but i have found a couple of punches i adore - the butterfly one and this loop one - i was very lucky that a secret project person gifted me the corner part of the loop punch as it seems to be out of stock everywhere :)

so you know i had to use them on this week's Twisted Sketch #23 :) 

 

papers are Sassafras Lass "Monstrosity".

and a heads up that if you fancy a break before the Christmas madness starts, check out Treasured Memories 62 hour Crop!! yeap a whole weekend of scrapping going on :) I'm sure i'll be hanging out with the girlies maybe even bring along a little project or two to share :)

Lest we forget!

today is a good day to be reflective and remember those who have given so much, their lives, to ensure we and everyone else has some sort of freedom.  As much as I seriously don't agree with all of the politics involved, i totally support the soldiers and their families.

They are doing something the rest of us are too scared to do and as much as politicians mess it all up, they are all out there trying to make the places safe. I want the politicians to take up arms and go in the place of the soldiers and then maybe the aggressive policies for stupid reasons will end but in the mean time - support the soldiers currently deployed, support the veterans, support the companies that support the veterans.

Just remember you are alive today and able to read this blog because of what people gave up 100 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, 2 years ago, six months ago and even yesterday.

Look at how many armed forces are the first on a scene of a disaster (natural or man made) to get you to safety, look at peacekeeping forces still in place in North Korea, in Turkey and in a billion other places - even if you disagree with war, support the troops because they are doing their best to keep everyone safe - even the people who are trying to kill them. We think of them constantly and know they are doing their best to both keep safe and keep others safe.

Ian, Me, Fay & Lily send our heartfelt thanks to those that offer up their lives to protect people, to try and sort out the messes certain politicians have made, because they deserve our respect and support.

We should always try to protect those of us who need protection.

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . .
And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Pastor Martin Niemöller

over on the My Mind's Eye blog, the whole team have paid their respects to the Veterans - go and check out the artwork and the links to support our  heroes. 

addictive

current listening: jazz+violin+good lyrics+technology+fun+happy :)

The Good Life: Paul Dateh & Ken Belcher

  

very jamie callum but better :)

enjoy: youtube video *here*

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Here's part of my contribution :)

 

logic is a lost art!

especially when it comes to the bloody British Embassy aka Passport office over here.

ok - here's the deal we need a passport for lily as she doesn't have one, and one for fay as you must have at least 6 months longer on your passport than on your visa. We don't have that for Fay - so she needs a new passport. especially as we are hoping to go to the UK for Christmas - if everything goes right.

so we've got all the forms, got our awesome friend to sign off the horrible photos and send it off weeks ago.. all seemed cool until about an hour ago when we've had them returned to us... becuase we didnt send the long form of Ian's British passport - we've never had one - we've always had the short form - it was good enough to get Ian's passport, our marriage licence, Fays passport, our work permits etc but not good enough to get lily's passport now.. even though Ians passport number etc in on the bloody forms..

hello - obviously if you have already given Ian a passport and Fay her passport, you've already ok'd his right to British Citizenship - you don't need the bloody birth certificate!!!

imagine steam and angry angry words coming out of my ears right now becuase we now have to get a long form from the UK, hope it gets here in time and send off the forms again with more fees and hope they get them back to us before December otherwise we're not going anywhere :( 

*insert long litany of swear words*

and the little one said...

 

"I want a dinosaur party for my 6th party"

and the mama rolled over to make the invites with Riff Raff dinosaurs coated with a variety of greens and then glimmer misted to death.  Mama is now very tired but they are done.

lisa rocks the kits!

Treasured Memories are now doing 3 kits a months - all very limited supply (dont forget they will ship to you) - they do 1 kit that's a technique (this months it's 10 second studio), 1 is vintage style (this months its creams and blues and golds) and 1 is a bright kit... I like the two other kits this month - some nice touches but oh wow - lisa knows how to rock the kits!! check out "Sky's the limit" kit... I am so getting it on my next trip into the store!! 

 

yeah!!

Huge congratulations to the awesome and cute Chantel and hubby!! I hope the next few months are uneventful and calm :) good things come to those that wait !!

and for other cute small people, check out Twisted Sketch #22 :)

 

i'll go with Beluga

I have stolen my post for today...

This is from Suze's blog and is so perfect for how I am feeling right now.

Recently, in a large french city, a poster featuring a young, thin and a tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said: ¨DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE?¨

A middle aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the poster, responded publicly to the question posed by the gym.

To Whom It May Concern:

Whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, sea lions, curious humans).. They have an active sex life. They get pregnant and have adorable baby whales. They have a wonderful time with dolphins stuffing themselves with shrimp. They play and swim in the seas seeing wonderful places like Patagonia, the Barren Sea and the coral reefs of Polynesia.

Whales are wonderful singers and have even recorded CDs. They are incredible creatures and virtually have no predators other than humans. They are loved, protected and admired by almost everyone in the world.

Mermaids don't exist. If they did exist, they would be lining up outside the offices of Argentinean psychoanalysts due to identity crisis. Fish or human? They don't have a sex life because they kill men who get close to them not to mention, how could they have sex? Just look at them.....where is IT ? Therefore, they don't have kids either.. Not to mention who wants to get close to a girl who smells like a fish store?

The choice is perfectly clear to me; I want to be a whale.

We are in an age when the media puts into our heads the idea that only skinny people are beautiful, but I prefer to enjoy an ice cream with my kids, a good dinner with a man who makes me shiver and a piece of chocolate with my friends. With time we gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room it distributes out to the rest of our bodies.

So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy. Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think, ¨Good grief, look how smart I am...¨

 

and then I see a lot of these in my upcoming Christmas - instructions are on ZakkaLife