I'm going to take a little blogging break. I so need to get a handle on my new life as a student, also have the Princess's 7th birthday party this coming weekend, lots to do for that!
Its been a mad two weeks around here, burnt out motherboard, Internet connection accidentally cancelled, crashed the car, Princess has had her adenoids out and grommets inserted and then just to finish it off we both had Head Lice - YUK!!!!
Found this Praying Mantis hanging off a lavender flower and eating a bee!!! Totally fascinating watching it!
gotta love super glue! Just needs to be repainted....one day....soon.....
My head back in place too, no super glue used!
The Princess settled easily back into school, loves her new teacher. She is not so keen on the after school care but I'm sure she will get used to it!
I have had my second week as a university student. I have a school bag, a pencil case and a really cool umbrella!!! lol
Just maths so far, you know..... multiplication and division of decimal numbers, fractions, that sort of stuff!!
Had a wee maths test today, will find out how I did tomorrow.
Found some vintage linens in my local op shop yesterday, just gorgeous. Will be refashioning them into bags and other stuff!!! One day.......soon..........
Not this pillowcase though, am going to be keeping this as it is, a beautiful pillowcase for my bed!
And a pile of pretty hankies to be used in my creations as well. One day.....soon.....
oh, I had a little mishap with my laptop, took it upon myself to upgrade the RAM to become speedier and in the process fried the motherboard!!! It had to go to hospital to be fixed by a real computer doctor....... was not good!!!
What else, what else? I had all these little snippets of things to blog about and have forgotten most of them.... oh well.....
I'm sure it will all come to me.... in the middle of the night!!! lol
running around like one, is what I been doing for the last few weeks!!!
children went back to school here at the beginning of Feb, after the long summer holidays! Busy time, buying stationery, sandals, hair cuts, doctors appointments, covering new school books, getting food in for school lunches, back into a structured routine..... ya get the picture!!!
and then lots of last minute thingies for me to organise for my new school life, more forms to complete, after school care for the Princess and so on.....
oh and going to my every 13 weeks appointment with WINZ our welfare system to justify my existence to them and why I should continue to be supported by the state!!!
NICE!!!
all is now in place and order and I even managed to glue the head back on my headless statue, he's only been like that for 3 years!!!!
I had a custom order to make one of my doily bags, typical me left it to the last minute, the night before actually! Very bad idea, everything you could think of that could go wrong with the sewing machine did, cotton snapping, bobbin jamming, needles (about 4) breaking...... grrrrrrrh....
I finished it the next day, an hour before it was needed!!!
photo's don't actually do it justice, was much prettier in real life!!!
other than having felt like a headless chicken everything is great and fabulous in my world, hope it is in yours!!!
the time is almost 9pm here in New Zealand on Sunday 31 January and its sticky hot with 100% humidity, I have had a busy weekend so I have retreated to my boudoir so to speak with my laptop, book, cup of tea, bottle of water, cellphone.....
my very best friend Mary Thistle visited yesterday bearing gifts of produce from her garden, lemons from her tree, fresh eggs from her chickens and a pack of farm raised steak!!!
because I had whined about sleeping poorly due to mosquito's buzzing around my head she bought me this zapper!!!! Mary I love you!!!
The Princess is away at the beach house with the Wasband so I have made good use of the time and cleaned up a storm.... I am ashamed to say that this house was not very pretty around the edges!
I wasn't very pretty around the edges either by the end of it so ran myself a bath with yummy bath salts, slapped a mud pack on my face and had a lovely long soak while reading my magazine.....
before slipping into a cool white cotton vintage styled nightgown ...
As you know I am about to start a 3 year degree at University to train to become a teacher so obviously I have a passion for the education of children.
I am always on the look out for innovative resources for the Princess and I to do at home which is why I can't speak highly enough about Wordtoons as a fun and educational resource.
It is also proving to be a great tool for children with learning difficulties/disabilities or just a general lack of interest in learning to read, write and spell!
If you care about the education of your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, friends children then just spend a few minutes watching the Wordtoons video clip and reading the amazing reviews Wordtoons is receiving from homeschooling Americanmums!!
WORDTOONS REVIEWS
Sarah says: My child with Autism is finally making connections that we have being working for months on. His vocabulary has exploded!
Pamela says: WOW, my six year ADHD child has finally learned how to know words. This is the greatest thing ever. It has helped me tremendously to help her to understand what a word is. She has blossomed greatly!! She is now getting 100% on her spelling words and letting every one know it to. Thank you.
Mandi says: We are a homeschooling family and enjoy any teaching tools that bring the joy of learning into our home. The first day I wrote the word dog on the marker board my children looked at me puzzled and wondered why I was so excited for them to learn the word dog that day. Now they beg for more words to learn, of course only the words that include creating it into what the actual word is.
I’ve told many homeschooling families about this wonderful ebook. To me it’s an amazing way to teach!
Jackie says: Great idea and even greater effect on the kiddos! This is a super way to get kids to learn spelling words, especially visual learners or kids with dyslexia, like my daughter. I can see Wordtoons being used in Rebus stories very easily. Wordtoons are a great springboard for story writing. Thanks for your wonderful product!
Renita says:
I am awed by your creativity. This is a great book perfect addition to any homeschool curriculum, or just for fun.
This is such a simple yet inspiring idea that my boys ages 9 and 12 absolutely love. My oldest has had some difficulties with holding pencils and not drawing due to brain damage caused by vaccinations. He has only recently started to try to color and draw again after 6 years of struggling and giving up on art.
I gave him access to this cool e-book as part of our homeschool art project, and it has set alight a fire under him. He is drawing like crazy, filling up pages and pages and having so much fun.
I am recommending this to my sister and daughter, who home schools, and all our friends.
This a such fun book for everyone, not only kids but adults too. I love it.
(click on the image to go to website)
of course this is blatant advertising but I am so excited about Wordtoons that I felt the need to do a entire post about it!
thanks:)
take care Rachaelxo
p.s. I am not getting paid for promoting Wordtoons!
p.p.s. Wordtoons creator is the man I having been seeing for a while, he cooks me nice dinners and breakfasts so maybe I do get paid!
p.p.p.s I am busy selling my stash of vintage linens on Trade Me
p.p.p.p.s my fingers are itching, I am going to start sewing some delicious creations very soon!
I found out that I start University on 10th Feb rather than the end of Feb as I have to do a prelim maths course! This has put a bit of pressure on me as the Princess doesn't start school until 5 Feb!
I was banking on having most of Feb to myself so that I could get a whole lot of stuff sorted out, set up and done before I got full on into study life!
Oh well, l nothing like a bit of pressure!
It would be nice if the house sold soon, emotionally I have already moved on from this house and can't wait to have a new one to play in!
Its hard to stay motivated and fluff with this house but I did put this little stool in the family bathroom with some pretties on it the other day.
our visitors have all gone, tonight its just the Princess and I, home alone... lovely!
the Princess has her ears pierced, it was a family event, the wasband, my god-daughter, my god-daughters cousin and the Princess's wee friend all attended the event! She was so brave, not a tear shed!!
my plan to live to 100+ is going well, obviously as I am still posting - haha!!!
I know I keep harping on about my friends wordtoonsbut really worth a look, go check out the reviews he's getting from home school Mum's who have trialled it!
