All alone!

My DH is at the Rasmussen house, helping Paul lay tiles on the front porch & my Max is at a play date.....so I am all alone in this big house & LONELY!!!!!! Should I scrap??? Naaah! Hmmm...maybe I can blog hop....or surf the net???? Nope!

The silence is so deafening I can't make up my mind what to do. I dunno, maybe I'll bake! That's it I'll bake...cupcakes.
My week has been frenetic with kids & people in & out but I did manage to scrap. I actually finished the Becky Higgins September sketch & mailed it off by the skin of my teeth.....my usual, I know......'the last minute thing'. We'll have to see if they like it & even if they don't, I won't mind because these sketches force me to work on double L.O's :o) Which are not my best!


This is a L.O I did a little while ago (Oops! bad photo of it tho'). I absolutely LOVED these in & out of focus shots I took of the kids playing with their toy train but I was determined not to use anything but off cuts & scraps to put the L.O together. This was the result!! Sweet, colorful & I didn't cut a single piece of paper to do it, LOL! Don't say it...I know...cheapskate!!!!

Anyhow you lovely lot, I better go & collect my child. Have a super-duper day. I'll blog again tomorrow.

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Weekend pic's!

Good morning everyone! I know I am a bit late but here are some pic's from the weekend!

"HI! my name is Stitch, I am an alien".....hahaha!

St James beach......the weather was amazing.

Cas tried her hand at pita/pizza bread with onions/garlic & cheese......it was totally YUM!!!

Wall art on the front of our house.

Choc stash!!! (all done and dusted by 6.30am)

Cas trying her hand at baseball........not her forte tho'....after strike 7, opted to swim rather.

Pizza night with Jo & her family. Erin & Cas got a little carried away with the flour LOL!

All in all a very relaxing Easter weekend.
Have a super day!
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Lazy days!

This is a wonderful gift I received in the mail from my blog buddy, Martha, who lives in Ohio, USA. She very thoughtfully chose and sent me this wonderful Pampered chef recipe book. The recipes are really simple BUT incredibly interesting. I can't wait to experiment.

Thank~you so much my friend. I LOVE it! (I can't believe how fast it got to me ;o)

This weekend was certainly full of those.....we did nothing really except potter around the house & the garden, doing stuff you never really get around to ordinarily.

Tersh washed the cars.......a momentous occasion in our household!!!! The car wash down the road normally does the job in about three minutes flat & you leave wondering if the car actually ever gets clean. So to get the personal touch from T, is indeed a great thing ;o) We have a cul-de-sac @ the garage side of our house & T had set himself up with the hose (attached to the well point), bucket, soap, brush etc. & Maxi was zooting around on his motor bike just enjoying 'being with' his Dad. At one point T looked up & noticed Max was not with him any longer, only to see him emerge from the garage with his large leather gardening gloves on each hand, buck naked, screaming :"Watch me DAD! I'm a racing driver!!" as he scooted into the road.



The rest of the weekend was spent lazing @ home or walking around our neighborhood or visiting our local play park. It was SUPER relaxing & fun to spend time with my boys.

I love our home here in Cape town & on those rare gem's of a day, when the wind doesn't blow, it is truly a slice of heaven. We have a natural river that runs through the public land that is at the end of our road & even now that it is so unkempt due to lack of council resources, it is still beautiful. Overlooking the mountain behind our home makes for unbelievable sunsets....... & we get to see them now because the sun only sets at about 7.30pm. Yaaay! for summer!. More scrapping amo for the Mammaratzzi! not that I need any more amo at the moment. I am on a scrapping serious roll!!! I took some advice from my good friend Mel.....she said that I should maybe try and do some spontaneous L.O's for a change, instead of every L.O being a planned work of art. I did just that and managed to finish x3 L.O's in one day. Yeeehah! that is a MAJOR feat for moi! I haven't scanned them yet, but as soon as I do I will post them.




Anyhow folks.....I hope you all have a blessed week & thanks again to all those who take the time to leave me a message I LOVE seeing who have popped in for a visit.

KJ
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