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Remember this?

It has turned into this so far, but still not finished.... (details were taken out, thus the big white space ;)

I organised the inside of my pantry doors last night with some wall letters.

 

Nothing exciting, i know. But i had some extra letters left so i decided to write the kids a message for them to find in the morning....

So they left me one back....

Love when i get little messages from the kids :) This next weeks gonna be busy as we (RubyJu) get ready for the Wedding Expo coming up. This will be the first expo i've done, but not the first for RubyJu. But i'm looking forward to it!

Hope your having a lovely day.

a lot of rain and little owls

So today it rained and rained and rained . In fact, it's been raining for days. Nice way to spend the last week of school holidays, right? (wrong). There goes those lazy days on the beach i had planned!

Anywho.... was babysitting a friends girls today and we decided to make some tiolet-paper-roll-owls. thats a mouthful. I got the idea from pinterest (of course).

Then we decided they needed something more. So we made skirts and crowns out of diolies...

cute.

I found this mini album while unpacking a box today (yes, i am STILL unpacking!).

It was a class i used to teach. I still have the notes somewhere. I might try and find them and post them...would anyone be interested? 

saturday...oh saturday, it's the best day of the week...

I think thats from one of my fave songs by Vampire Weekend. But i could be wrong. I'm one of those annoying people who always gets the words to songs wrong. In my head i make up my own words (i think they're thre right words, mind you) and i sing the song all wrong. Drives everyone i know crazy. But me.

Anywhoo....

so this saturday was just soooo filled with family fun, it was awesome. I love it when we can cram heaps of fun itno a day together. So often we're just struggling to have family time fit in with soccer, dance, appointments, so much business. Ahhh, such is the joy of holidays. No soccer, no dance, nothing but fun.

Tati and i woke early again to hit the local garage sales. Our first stop found us a really cool floor lamp with no shade (but luckily i have a spare shade at home with no base! awesome :) After that though, we really didn't find much until our last stop, where we scored this gorgeous hand carved desk (wich will go up in my room)...

(need to be cleaned up)

and this old school desk (which will go in the boys room)....

We got them both for a steal, so was super excited about that!

While we were garage sale shopping the boys rode down to Pirate Park for a play. 

Afterwards we all met up at the Farmers Markets to get some fruit and veg and coffee :) They've got this great sitting area with live music and a big blanket laid out with toys for the littleies to play with. The food their is so yummy, i always spend to much! If you ever go, you MUST try these:

• the chili salmon from the salmon guy
• the Kettle Corn sweet and salty popcorn
• a felafel pocket from Orgasmic Felafels (i think thats thier name)
• Black Cheddar from the little deli (not sure what it's called)... NOT 'the cheese guy'. Although, i've never bought from him, so his stuff could be awesome!

YUM

Afterwards we went home and had a fun little Crafternoon, where we made rockets and rainbows (well, the boys didn't want to make rainbows....go figure! So they made jellyfish instead).

While the  big kids were busy with that i made some photo booth props for a friend, and TJ painted...

Then we had some food and some rest time. I make the kids have at least 30min of rest time everday over the holidays. They are confined to thier room, and they can either read or sleep. Thats it. They are well fed and hydrated before rest time starts, so there is no snacks during rest time. In otherwords, no exciuse to come out and pester me for that half hour. Sounds mean? Mabey. I dont think so though. Really, they need it. It's good for them!

Mostly, it's good for me. I do it for my own sanity....

Afterwards, the kids had fun jumping on the trampoling. All 5 of them.

Five? Wait a minute....i don't have 5 kids! Or do i......

This little guy LOVES the trampoline. It's sooooo cute watching him play with his big bro's/sis on there...he gets so excited. But today he decided to chill out a bit and just watch the others jump. Aparrently, this is just as much fun as jumping...

I used to love jumping on the trampoline too! But four babies put an end to that. Now my bladder says NOOOOO to jumping on the trampoline. Just watching them jump like that made me want to run to the tiolet every 10 seconds!

sigh

Anyway....fun was had on this glorious saturday.

And now were all tuckered out...

 

Little box of crafty love

Little Miss Molly (the Mr.'s neice) turned 9 this year. She's really into making things, and mentioned to me she wanted to learn to sew. So for her Birthday this year, i bought her a book for children on making crafty things, and made his a little box of goodies to go with it.

I filled the box with some felt. some pretty fabric, ribbons, thread in different colours, a little jar of buttons and embriodery threads. Then i made a little place for her to store her sewing needles and pins on the top of the box.

 It was easy enough to do. I cut out a heart in red felt and glued it to the box. Then i cut out a smaller heart in pink felt, and making sure i ONLY placed glue on the edge of the pink heart, i glued it to the red heart. It would have been much better to sew the pink heart onto the red heart, and then glue it to the lid, but as always, i left it till the last minute and needed to make it quickly. I stuck some pretty pins in and viola!

Since i mostly raided my stash of things to ill the box with, really, my only cost was the book that went with it, and the box itself.

I might have to use this idea again over Christmas i think, I have a few little girls i know of that would love this! Which makes me think....OMG, is it that time already??? Time to start thinking of Xmas gifts already? Really , it's only 17 or so weeks away. Now thats scary!

 

Only 1year old and already in trouble with the law!

Looks like an angel, yes? One would wonder, how could this sweet little thing be in trouble with the law at the ripe old age of one !?! Well let me tell you how...

This sweet little angel decided to pull the phone down and call 000 when i wasn't looking. The he left the phone off the hook, as he wondered off and play with something eles. I'd say the phone was off the hook for a good 1/2 hour at least. It was my friend who noticed and hung it back up later. I was taking out the trash when these two police men came up and questioned me about an emergency call they recived. i realised what must of happened, and told them it was my baby boy who must have called, whilst apologising profusely. Not taking my word for it, they asked to come in and have a look around. After accesing the situation and deciding we were all safe , they let me take a picture of them (will make a great pic for his 18th!) with my little trouble maker.

 Makes you wonder how something so sweet could cause so much trouble ;)

a good morning.....

We are living in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment in burliegh while we still look for a home. 2 bedrooms, one bathroom 6 people and a kitchen thats the size of my old bathroom. But really, i cant complain too much. Just look at what a wake up to every mormning...

The sounds of the ocean and this glorious view.

And if thats not enough to keep me happy, heres some more sweetness in my mornings...

How could i not wake up with a smile on my face?

The best book ever....

My all time fave book for kids right now is 'The Book Eating Boy' by Oliver Jeffers

It would make the perfect Christmas gift for ANY child. I cant remember where i bought mine, but you can get it at Amazon, Borders, or on the Coast...Cotton On Kids sells it too!

Just....don't eat the book, ok?

Notes to Santa...

So every year the kids look forward to writing their notes to Santa asking listing thier 3 biggest desires. In our house santa brings 3 gifts per child, one of those gifts are always books. And they only get one gift each from me. I believe that when the kids get too much, they stop appreciating what they're getting. The years we have kept it the most simple have always been the best Christmas's for all of us. 

I love reading the kids notes to Santa every year, it's one of my favourite parts of Xmas. I especially loved Tatiana putting in a good word for her friend!

And for some seriously good Christmas inspiration of the deep and meaningful kind... you really should check out Ashley's blog. This blog is one of my daily reads and a sweet-pot of ideas and inspiration. Ashley is not only super creative, talented, an amazing photographer...but she is also endlessly inspiring on so many other levels. I must admit, when i'm "reading" other peoples blogs, i often just quickly scan over them (taking in mostly the images), but Ashley's is one of the few blogs i actually take the time to read completely, every post. I have especially enjoyed her 'what i want to give' posts this week, and highly recommend you read them too!

Jellybean

TJ is growing up so fast, it kinda makes me sad. i LOVE the baby-ness. I love everything about it. And i do all the wrong things...i hold him all day long, whenever he wants to be held. I go shopping with my super-duper strider pram, just so i can push my purse in it while Jellybean sleeps in my arms for 2 hours straight. (makes trying on clothes a bit hard, but he REALLY is just too cute to put down). He sleeps in our bed, every night, all snuggled up between mummy and daddy. And yes, the Mr. is just as bad as me...he loves it too! And every time i think i should start putting him in the basssinette, i just have to wake up to his sweet breath on my face, or the humungous grin the appears on his sleepy face every morning when he wakes up and see's me, to know that i'm just not ready for the bassinette yet.  He even takes showers with us :) This started when he was too small for the tub we had, and the taps in our sink were to low, so it was just easier to put him in the shower with us. We do give him baths as well, but the shower is still his fave.

(be warned... ridiculously cute baby pics to follow)

 

Is it bad that i even think he's cute when he cries?

 

Don't worry....he got his revenge...

 Ouch!

You can stuff my stocking anytime

with these fun little gift ideas from Fred Flare...

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