Archive for June, 2009

friday favourites

June 26, 2009

just wanted to share a few fun things with you …

this delightful blog about life in a cottage by the sea – love Sarah’s photos & decorating style!

lots of interesting ideas about simplifying & organising your life

a 365 day photo project with a twist (the kids will love this one too!)

the most delicious looking apple pie – i’ve got to make this one!

this cute & compact new digi camera – it or the canon G10 would be a great little camera to take anywhere

eye candy – so many beautiful things!

my favourite michael jackson song/film clip

+ a favourite photo …

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our kids + cousins + friend & cousins from the US … 9 kids playing happily together last friday nite = constant motion

Neek: oh I love that MJ song too...... :) Off to check all those lovely links! Isn't it great when bush kids have visitors? Mine love visitors here!!

random thoughts

June 7, 2009

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sunday = pancakes

i’ve ordered some new baby props from this talented girlone of these & an earflap hat. can’t wait to use them at my next baby shoot!

jodi at MCP actions recently blogged about some of her favourite photography & photoshop books – well worth checking out!

speaking of books, i finished reading Goodbye Jimmy Choo today – i enjoyed most of the story, but thought it was a shame it ended so abruptly. this book by marian keyes is next on my reading list. it received some great reviews at amazon & sounds like a good read!

although gardening has never been my forte, this post about farmers markets & a garden article in country living have inspired me to think about our “garden” & dream about what it could look like. i could sure use the help & vision of the backyard blitz team! we’ve got lots of coolibahs around the house & the soil isn’t great, so raised garden beds might be the answer. i googled raised garden beds & wasn’t surprised to find a great step-by-step post about making them on the pioneers woman’s blog. Ree writes a very entertaining blog about her life in the country – be sure to check it out!

Monique Wye: yummo on the pancakes side of things. Going to follow all your links there and have a read of everything. I love PW's site - but haven't seen her raised beds post - and I think that is how I will have to go one day too soon..... .:) Would love to invite you to my blog again - but I have misplaced your email addy...... :(

charleigh: hi monique! be sure to check out ree's pancake recipe too - it looks delish!

abeachcottage: hello! thanks for popping by, yep I love Pioneer Woman too love your photography - I am hoping to upgrade my camera very soon to improve the dreadful quality of my shots have been looking at a G10 Canon, still point and shoot but looks good... good luck with the garden have to say I find it challenging with Australia's climate, I guess that is just a learning curve to overcome...those raised beds are the biggest thing to hit gardening I think - my mum's hubby is a huge gardener in the UK and he has just built them in his garden and they have been a rip-roaring success...if you are interested I think gardenersworld.co.uk has info on them too oh and I am so gagging to go outback, just seems life three kids and all that gets in the way all the time Sarah

Whacky Wheel would have to be one of Madi’s favourite on air sessions. They usually have them a couple of times each term. One of the class takes the role of chairperson & is in charge of running the show & everyone else prepares an item to present to the class – eg. secret sounds, jokes, news & weather, fascinating facts & book or movie reviews. We recently received “A Cinderella Story” from bigpond movies & both kids really enjoyed it (we’ve seen it 6 times already this week!) so it seemed like the perfect choice for a movie review. Here’s her review:

Good morning year 4. Today I am going to give a movie review of “a Cinderella story”

The main characters are: Hilary Duff as Sam Montgomery and Chad Michael Murry as Austen Ames.

Sam gets straight A’s at school, scrubs floors at her step mothers diner and she has to get breakfast for the rest of her family. Sam’s dad always used to say, “never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”

Austen is Sam’s prince and he met her in the princedon chat room. He is football captain and he is just like Sam because his dad has his future set.

Sam dresses up as Cinderella & meets her prince (Austen) at the Halloween dance. She freaks because she knows he’s the coolest guy on campus & she’s worried he will find out that she’s diner girl.

I liked the music & the moral in the story because it gives you courage to play the game.

This song by Jesse McCartney is one of their favourites from the movie.