Fabulous morning!

I got a DW in this morning to clean my house - sheer bliss!! My house is clean and I didn't have to do anything!

I went and saw a lady in Stellenbosch this morning. She contacted me a while ago about us working together as she has a Fairy house where she does fairy parties, etc. We had a lovely chat and I suddenly realised that God's hand is firmly in this area as well! I told her about my thoughts in the middle of the night about doing scrapbooking stork parties and it was just what she is looking for! She is going to advertise my scrapping "services" with her stuff as she wants to attract the older kids (12 - 14 year old) market as well. I think we will work well together. I am also going to add some new ideas to my website. I was wondering how I was going to get into the Stellenbosch, Somerset West market, and here it is! For those of you with little girls - the venue is absolutely stunning, every little girl's (and not so little) dream! And for us that enjoys photography - stunning views of the mountains! I forgot my camera - typical!

Anyway, my party preparations for the weekend is done and I now have a bit of time to blog again. I won't complain as I am very gratefull for being busy with something I love!

Have a great day and be blessed!

My day!

I had a really good day today! Two friends came around to play at my house this morning and we had a great time scrapping! I now also have 4 confirmed parties and 1 query. I am very excited!

On the downside my son Michael is rather sick at the moment. He has severe bronchitis and the doctor was quite concerned that it could be pneumonia. Fortunately not, so the boy is on antibiotics, cortisone and a pump. Poor thing sounded terrible last night and this morning, but the doctor nebulised him and he is sounding much better! Thank goodness for good medical care.

The rest of the family are doing well, with hubbie at home today and tomorrow, and then the kids home again until Monday. I really enjoy having Colin home with me! We went to Cape Gate to have photos developed this afternoon and ended up having lunch. Needless to say we still had supper as well. Some lovely wildebees sausage - tasted really good!

Various things

Hello everybody, it has been so long it almost feels as if I have to introduce myself again. It has been an extremely eventful week, as I decided last weekend that I can't give up on A Scrap Above that easily! I have made some price adjustments on my website, changed my advert in Cape Town's Child and went to 4 after care's this week to tell the kids all about the exciting classes I am going to be doing at their schools! The kids were all very nice and very excited and couldn't wait to take the forms home to their mothers/fathers! It was a wonderful boost to my self esteem - I should have done this months ago! AND the 4 after care's are all in our road!

To make things even better, I have had quite a few queries for parties and will be doing one this coming Friday! It is really amazing how things have been this week, I am very excited and hopeful for the future again.

On the downside my maid is leaving us on Wednesday and I will have to start doing my own housework for the first time in years! ANYTHING to stay at home I guess! My children will have to pull up their socks very fast and start doing there own rooms at least.

Anyway, that is it in a nutshell. Will keep you up to date!

What a day!

We had a very quiet weekend, but it was lovely! My sister decided that it is time to start scrapbooking, and she arrived early on Saturday so that we could go shopping. We first had to have an early lunch at Wimpy while her photos were developed and then it was of to the CNA and PNA for a bit of shopping. We unfortunately got out of the house to late to go to a decent scrapbook shop! She managed to get quite a few nice things and we had a wonderful afternoon of scrapping! My friend Carol and her hubbie came around on Saturday night for a braai, so while the men were braaing, the ladies did some more scrapping! As I said, my two favourite passtimes combined!

Today has also been quiet as I am busy "studying" Excel. My sister brought me a book and CD that helps you learn the program. So far it has been very easy, because it is all the basics that I know already! Other than that I haven't done much, except that I had to run a few errands this morning.

My scrapbook teacher is back briefly so I can look forward to a nice scrapping session at her house tomorrow! Yipppeeee! Missed you Stef!

Scrapbooking

I had a very good day today! Got up at 08H00, fed all the pets, washed my hair, had breakfast and then scrapped until about 14H00. It is what I would call a perfect day! I finished only one LO, but also did journalling on three others that I did ages ago. Not bad going I think, considering that I am not crazy about doing journalling at the best of times. I enjoyed doing my LO today, because I changed it completely from when I started it last week. I took my one set of acrylic stamps called freestyle alphabet, stamped it onto pink paper, cut it out, and then glued it onto my blue layout. It came out very funky! It is a LO about my friend in England's daughter and granddaughters, so I felt the stamps were very appropriate, but didn't want to stamp it directly onto the LO. Took me forever to cut out, but I think it was worth it. I will scan it and put it on my blog sometime.

The rest of the day passed quietly.

Game Plan

I took my kids to watch Game Plan this afternoon. It was rather cute, but as always very predictable with the daddy loving the daughter soooo much in the end. We enjoyed it and had a few good laughs. The best part was, as always, the popcorn and smarties!

The rest of my day was good too - did scrapbooking and had a great time as always! Didn't quite finish 2 layouts as I must still do journalling on the one layout. Will probably have to do it tomorrow when my other friend comes for a visit.

Sorry, not much else to say!

RE : Reflections

Well, I spoke to soon! Forgot that Colin had to fly up to Johannesburg today and Michael had to be at work at 07H30. Sooooo, was up at 06H00, woke Andrew and Robyn up, made Andrew's breakfast, got his bag ready, took out our tablets, fed the dogs, made myself a cup of coffee, did not climb back into bed and took ALL 3 kids to school! It was actually not that bad, I took Scruffy with in the car, Richard drove as he must practice the silly K53, dropped Andrew off, the other 2, and was home again by 07H45. Not bad at all!

I am looking forward to going to scrapbooking this morning as I went and had a whole lot of photos printed yesterday and will be able to pick and choose what I want to scrap today! I always enjoy going to Stefanie's classes as we always have fun and she has great ideas! AND a lot more stuff than what I have!

Enjoyed aqua aerobics yesterday and will try and go 3 times per week!