Rourke and Henry

We went to The Show.....

Today we went to The Show, The Wauchope Show. Bar The Royal Easter Show this was my very first show.... I'm not real country, like the first thing to hit the senses was the horse poo, poo and I are not friends. I blew air up my nose as we past the horses. The horses were beautiful and amazing, the poo not so amazing. I didn't wear my boots for that reason, I know it's a show and you should wear boots but I wore my sparkly converses instead, not very show shoe attire but I like them.
The woodchop was cool, like cool, fast and man can those fellows chop....why most of them wear white pants is beyond me, the soaking alone to clean them would be days I think, maybe there is a very good reason for lots of people wearing white, as I mentioned I'm not a farm girl. I sat outside the poultry pavilion, not going in there nope, not.
I did go into the handmade and produce pavilion, that was fun. Scones and lamingtons and a smartie cake just like Mr Magoo's - he was inspired to bake for a show, so was I secretly.....there was knitting and painting and crotchet. There was big pumpkins and other fab veggies, I hope ours grow like that.
We watched the parade with the cows and goats and tractors and the showgirls on the back of the tow truck. The tow truck got bogged, which was a little funny but a fab shiny blue tractor did the tractor thing and towed that tow truck right on out of the mud hole it found itself in.
There was the sideshow alley, I like the photo of the clowns the best and Mr.Magoo got the magic show bag with little magic tricks, a whoopie cushion and those glasses you can see me dicking around on.
And that was the show, our first show. Thankfully the sun was shining. Oh and there was a duck race that involved geese, I'm not sure if anyone else noticed they were geese but they were, even if I'm no farm girl I know a goose when I see one or five! And there names were duck-under, duck-in, duck-out..... Suffice to say Mick their trainer was a bit of a country character. He made lots of people smile so that is good.
The Wauchope Show was good! I hope your weekend sun is shining and you are smiling.

Busy, Busy.....

busy....busy....

...making...colouring, cutting, cooking, painting, baking....busy, happy, working... blessed with ACE customers ( I know I've said that before but its like the truest of true!) These school holidays have whizzed by, life whizzes by....

sometimes you have to make time to play....or else you go insane.... 

 

but the Lorax was good, we saw it this week, I liked it alot. I like Dr. Seuss alot, you learn stuff without learning it. That is especially good for the smalls learning stuff without learning it. We watched Percy Jackson and the lightning theif, Mr Magoo is reading it at the moment and much to his inital suprise I know stuff, random I know but I know a little bit about Zeus and Medusa and The Gods!! Miss Muffet is reading The Lorax. It is good she says. She likes Dr.Seuss too. 

The very new veggie garden planted Easter Saturday is growing....the weather has been quite hideous for children but the new veggies are adoring the weather cause they are growing like really, really fast.....some from seed! Yay. 

...In the words of Ferris "life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it"  

I'm glad we found time to stop and check out the scenery these holidays, even though it has been busy, busy, we still had time.... oh and we played some humdinger UNO games! We like those too. 

...so this week I'm grateful for being busy but also grateful for finding time out... life's great balancing act.... one of my all time fav Dr. Seuss books...Oh, the places you'll go...read it you will be glad you did.I hope your hoildays were grand. 

Pop over to Maxabella's Grateful or Village Voices lots of lovelies hang out there.

 

Grateful for.....baking and the sharing of meals.....and recipes.

It's no secret that I do love cooking. I love baking the most, baking biscuits, cakes, slices lots of sweetish stuff. I often say if someone would pay me I could bake all day. There is something special about preparing and sharing food and drinks.

My cousin shared her famous (in her own rite), delish pizza dough with me a little while ago and another friend shared her fabbo pizza oven recommendation and joined together I have had the best time mixing, kneading, kinda throwing and preparing pizzas. Nothing flash, tried and tested favourites but super crispy, lotsa cheesy and all sorts of YUM.

This weekend we have shared pizza with Aunts, Uncles, Nana and Poppy, brothers, sisters and noisy excited, massively excited cousins. All hovered around the pizza oven. My cheeks heated up I think from the stone plate on the pizza oven, I do not believe it was the Smirnoff! Others disagree.

So this week I'm grateful for the sharing of meals and laughter and drinks and cousin concerts and bad singing (by me!), the catching up that goes with that.....seeing family that we don't get to hang with often enough.... and of course the pizza....  grateful for the memories made and good times shared.

Pop over to Maxabella's or Kidspot to share your grateful or just have a read, it's always lovely. x

 

 

 

Me and the Mr.

This is me and the Mr. I like him a lot. These snaps are from like, light years ago.....almost an eternity, almost. We both had more hair then. He makes me smile and smile and smile. He is a good egg. The first photo is our first ever photo together, holy crap I just worked out that was 21 years ago, Lordy me, gosh....

It's time to play the music......

it's time to light the lights, it's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet show tonight...... 

today we took Mr.Magoo and Miss.Muffet along with one of her friends to see The Newest Muppet offering. It was like a blast from the past but with a really groovy new spin. Kinda like when you haven't seen a friend for ages but when you see them it's like you haven't been away from each other and you pick up right where you left off. Kermit, Piggy, Animal, Fozzy, all the gang and then Walter, Mary and Gary, cool really cool and Mr.Magoo and Miss.Muffet were still chatting and singing about it this afternoon.

 

I really, really like the opening song in the movie and I found this version of it. Life's  a happy song...

 

if you were a Muppets fan growing up, tuning in every week I reckon you just might think the new movie is ACE too. Pop along and check it out. 

 

Something you don't see everyday....

we live about 40 minutes from Sugarloaf Lighthouse and earlier in the week one of my customers mentioned that it would be open today to the public. Apparently it only happens once a year. So toady the kids, Nana and I made the trek to the lighthouse.....it was a little rainy and a lot windy but WOW. pretty cool indeed. 

The kids are right into treasure hunting at the moment thanks to flicks like National Treasure so we were imagining what if the cave in the side of the hill lead to undiscovered cities and treasures??? 

 

 
 we wondered if there still maybe treasure buried just off shore in sunken ships, yet to be discovered... we wondered if we should sell up and become true adventure seeking treasure hunters?? 

We got to stand inside the lighthouse, I'm sure if it's walls could talk the tales it could tell, standing on the point for over 130 years, watching over the many ships sailing by. We walked around, very quickly in the rain with a great gale blowing ( I held on ) on the top balcony..... the kids thought it would be a cool but very hard job to be a light house keeper- I tend to agree and it is just something you don't see everyday.

They returned home with a paper model so we have two models slightly askew but holding together nicely of the Wickham Lighthouse. I think if the opportunity presents itself to you go check out a light house, we are fortunate to live close to quite a few up and down the coast..... you might find us checking out another one or even looking for clues for that elusive treasure...... you never know!

My Creative Space....

My creatve space is currently pom-poming, everyone I know remembers making these as a child....I don't. I don't think I ever made pom-poms. I like making them now though. They are a bit time consuming with the whole cardboard and winding the yarn onto a stick and then through the hole, I know most of you would know what I mean. I am accumulating my pom- poms to brighten up Coco's in the next month or so. The goal is 100. I have 22, and 1 month or so to go. 

Mr Magoo is being a wee bit creative at the moment, he is sharing words of wisdom with us, mostly on a daily basis - a little whiteboard, a marker and his very own words. These ones are currently my fav, bless him- they are a little like when you open a fortune cookie and the word is mispelt. 

You giggle cause the message is mispelt..... but you get the meaning. At 10 to have such cool thoughts going on in his head makes me so very proud of him. I played around with the photo in instagram- way cool app too by the way. I have been recording his wisdom cause I think it rocks!!

For all the creative spaces playing along this week pop over here