bubba & chicken

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Captain Jack's party

Man I have been wanting to tell you about this for soooo long but it was a surprise and my sis reads my posts. Have had a busy few weeks planning and scheming and designing my big sisters 40th party. Was last night. Was heaps of fun and I think all the effort was worth it. Jack loves the pirates of the carribean so I thought she would enjoy a fancy dress party. We had the party at a restaurant that had a ship in it...

here is what the email invites looked like...

On the night I had a slide show of past photos and I gave these out to everyone so they could look at the blog after the party for the photos and other fun photos of Captain Jack's past.

If you want to see more check out her birthday blog.

happy 40th sis...

xxx

hubby turns 30!!

Yep that hunk of a man i love has turned 30. We have nearly been together half his life!!! His mum had a small family party on Friday night. She made him a yummy pavolva cake...

The kids kept blowing out the candle before he had them all lit!!

Love that man!!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

chicken turns 2

wow where have the last 2 years gone!! yep my baby is no longer a baby but a toddler. Was going to happen sooner or later I spose. Had a little family get together with my side of the family.

the cake(masterfully created by hubby)

blowing out the candles

eating it!

the lovely Jo Jo

sis and mum

robyn and honeypot

after everyone went home....

birthday bunny

Remember from last post the funky pillowcase that I got from the op shop? well her is what I made out of it. Chicken loves bunnies so I decided to make her a retro one. Made the pattern myself....

this is a shot of my kitchen bench. I dont do the this is my desk post cause I dont really have one so to speak. the kitchen bench is as close as it gets...

various views of my masterpiece!!!LOL

rearview

Think I will add some thumper feet too.

chickens response...

Mum reckons it looks weird. but hey thats me....what do you think?

Friday, May 2, 2008

Op shop finds

Ducked into a op shop yesterday for a quick minute!!! Found these gorgeous things..

Shoes for chicken

pants for chicken

2 pairs of nice pants for mwa(2 for the price of one and one was esprit!!!)

Funky pillowcase material that I couldn't resist.

Also got a american flag bandana, scarf and black fake fur boa for the dress ups cupboard.

And only came to 13 bucks!!!

Long live the op shop...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Art swap fun - Big Cat style

A big thanks firstly must go to Big cat for organising this lovely swap...Secondly to my mum for helping me get the idea out of my head and into fruition. Apologise for posting a day early but will be extremely busy tomorrow and then going out to dinner late!! Apart from that here it is...(for those who don't understand it is a mail holder to put important pieces of paper like invites , flyer and other family stuff that can clog your desk.) Oh and our theme was on "in the woods".

This is it in use...

without paper

one end close up

other end close up

I used iron on tshirt transfer to do the tree trunks onto a canvas material stapled around a piece of pine. Sporatically there are pouches for the mail to slide into. Then I glued the green tree on the end. Was actually not too difficult. And no sewing needed!! Right up my alley. Oh and I got my hubby to put the hanger on the back because that's a mans job!! LOL

Hope you will not only like this curly pops but will get lots of use out of it. Hope it matches your kitchen??? Please forgive the amateur attempts. Squint so that you don't see the imperfections LOL.

Flashback funnies - what noise does...

Just remembering back when bubba was littler... I used to play a game with him where he would say an animal and I would make the it's noise eg. sheep-baa baa. Anywho we used to play it in the car and one day he said hippo...I told him that I didn't know what noise a hippo makes and his reply was..."they go hip hip hooray Mummy". Priceless comment. Why not post some of your flash back funnies on your blogs?? I'll be looking.
Just to finish, here is a funny shot of chicken as proud as punch at the new pouch she had just created for her sippy bottle!!

Playdough days

Decided to pull out the playdough today. Had to buy some more as the old stuff had gone hard. Haven't got it out for ages as chicken likes to put it in her mouth. Can you believe she had fun (without eating it!) and they both played for about a hour. bubba has missed it heaps but there is very rarely a moment when chicken isnt around. Just one of the perks of a growing girl!!

Firstly a cute shot of both...

creating their masterpieces...

bubba's masterpiece...a elephant (10 points if you can see the ears and trunk)

chickens fun creation...as she is starting to talk a bit more the last few weeks all she would say it was was"cut"...

I love it when my kids create things..

Nan has arrived

Yep Nan is here. Had dinner 2 nights ago for her birthday ....

Also found out I'm an aunty again!! Stay tuned for baby pictures in the weeks to come...

Hope lollipop isn't too lonely without Nan. We are taking good care of her for you!!

PS> for anyone's info mum turned 21 again!!!

Friday, April 25, 2008

Party time X-man style

Wasn't very patriotic today (still remembered the diggers quietly) but spent most of day at little X-man's first birthday party. Took heaps of photos so here they are...