the Princess & the Plants

today's funtivity was to plant flowers,

we toddled off to the garden centre and much time was spent deliberating over what 6 flowering plants she could choose, it was a 6 for $8 deal!

anyway, selection made and home to plant the flowers,



all by herself, she tapped them out of the punnets, gently spread the roots and carefully popped them into their pots......



and watered them!

we have had a lovely day!

take care
Rachaelxo

p.s Kylie, I can imagine the state of my kitchen floor if your dog had 'helped' clean up the 100's & 1000's!

p.p.s Amy, that is exactly what we were making 'fairy bread' - sandwiches with 100's of 1000's

p.p.ss Katrina, I hope you don't seriously think I am old enough to be your mum - lol!!!

100's and 1000's

should never be split on the kitchen floor.....especially a tiled kitchen floor because they are not called 100's and 1000's for nothing....

what's more is those little suckers take flight with the air from the vacuum cleaner and travel long distances......

the cat refused her dry food and it was so pretty with all the sprinkles, as was her water.....

funtivity of the day was to 'visit Amah and have a lolly!'. Amah lives across the road and is the Wasbands grandmother, therefore the Princess's great grandmother.

it rained today so we started a jigsaw puzzle, 1000 pieces (yep that's today's lucky number!) of a Victorian house with dark trees....

no photos, lost the plot

take care
Rachaelxo

p.s but hey, I am blogging daily, now that's what I call a small miracle!

funtivities

the Princess & I have a new thing we do called 'funtivities'.

I wrote out a whole lot of cards, each one has a different activity to do and she gets to choose one daily (in lucky dip fashion) during the school holidays.


Today's was bake a cake or cookies. She chose a recipe from a cooking set she got for Christmas.

We were making these cookies....


this is what we ended up with!!! lol

dodgy recipe, well that's my story anyway.

No truly it was, strange quantities of dry ingredients against wet ingredients!


They tasted dodgy as well so we binned them and will make some tomorrow from MY trusty cookie recipe!!!

We did go out for dinner tonight though, the Princess ordered a banana sundae for dessert, 20 minutes later they came and told us they had run out of banana's. I suggested they ran around the corner to the local supermarket and bought some.... which is what they did!!!! lol


ask and ye shall receive!!!

take care
Rachaelxo

Just another day in PARADISE...

about eight hours of which were spent fixing a heinous virus on the Wasbands grandmothers computer,

not all bad though, we did go to the Tea House at the Buddhist Temple for lunch.... yum!!!

And then I did a little dusting and polishing and fly spraying in the grown up living room. I say fly spraying because I picked up the wrong can and polished a table with it!!!

Oh well, at least that table will be fly free!


I also spend a considerable amount of time, puffing and panting, trying to move the piano by myself to retrieve my lovely picture that had fallen down behind it!


and cut what the wind hadn't destroyed of my Iceberg roses, not many as you can see!

so all in all just another day in PARADISE!!!

take care
Rachaelxo

Life's little pleasures.....

Banana smoothies for breakfast,

Romantic Country magazine in the mailbox at lunchtime,

and dinner with my cousins tonight!

I love this life!

Take Care
Rachaelxo

p.s. thanks to lovestitches, Babes from here on in shall be known as 'the Wasband'!!!

the Princess & the Pizza

off to a good start here, my daily blogging for January - lol!!

today the Princess & I put away Christmas 2009, it wasn't an easy run, I managed to horrifically tangle 3 sets of Christmas lights, bit like my tangled web of a life really!!!

Anyway, I was about to take to them with the scissors when I remembered that Babes, whose name I must change (suggestions welcome!) Mum was staying at the Grandmothers across the road so a little phone call & the Christmas lights were saved!!!


the Princess & I built very cheesy cheesy pizzas for her dinner tonight. She is very into 'helping' at the moment, long may it last!

A good day, also cleaned out the Princess's drawers & closet, 2 years of clothes to sell!! And she still has plenty to wear!!

The family - 3 grandmothers & Babes had dinner here tonight also, its still the festive season at my house!

that's me done for today

take care
Rachaelxo

A belated Merry Christmas & a very Happy New Year!!!

One of my resolutions this year should be to surely improve my time keeping skills!!!

Anyway, I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas (I did!) and a really happy New Years Eve (I did!) !!!

My only real resolution for 2010 is to have a fantastic and fabulous year!!! And I am GOING TO!!!

Leading up to Christmas I made nine bags, 5 of the kind I showed you in my last post and 4 of these delicious (if I do say so!) doily bags for the ladies in the family.


Today I am reunited with the Princess, Babes (who I need to find a new name for!) took her away on holiday to his Dads beach house on Boxing Dad. Oh my goodness, I missed her so much.

I can't stop kissing and hugging her today, I am just so happy to see her!


I also went away on Boxing Day to house sit for my brother and sister in law. Their beautiful home overlooks a bay and has a path down to the beach. It has a wonderful big deck and a real holiday home feel to it.


I took sewing and stuff to do and did none of that, in fact did not even get it out of the car. Had a relaxing time with friends, eating yummy food, drinking wine, watching movies, doing puzzles and beach walks. It was great!


Its summer school holidays here, the Princess finished school on 14 December and does not go back until about 5 February.

We have a fun filled January planned and I am going to try and do a little post daily for the rest of January (hmmmmmm!) to tell you what we are up to!

Need to go check the Princess, she is tucked into my bed!

Wishing you all a fabulous and fantastic 2010, like the one I am going to have!!!!

take care
Rachaelxo

p.s I have 607 Google Reader posts to catch up on - forgive me if I don't comment on each one!!! lol