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I love watching the girls together. As Kahlei’s getting older Ellis is finding more joy in entertaining and playing with her and it’s such an awesome thing to see. Often, when Kahlei’s playing on her mat Ellie will get down on her tummy and play, too. Or she’ll read her a book.
Yesterday, my favourite moment was when Ellie was telling me a dramatic story. Kahlei was playing on her mat when something Ellie said or did caught her attention and she started laughing hysterically. Ellie was a little put out at first because she was obviously trying to convey something very serious, but then she shrugged, turned to me and asked “What funny?” This made Kahlei laugh even harder and then it became a game.
This morning, while I was hanging the clothes Kahlei kicked off one of her booties and when I looked over I saw this
How amazingly adorable is Ellie trying to put Kahlei’s bootie back on?? I love it. I am so incredably proud of my girls.
I have been uploading some more work to Redbubble. I have also created Becky’s Bubble, which is a gallery linked to Redbubble that displays my work, hopefully it might bring in some customers…
My newest photographs:
I have also been working on some tees:
I’m going to start trying some new things as I really enjoy making the t-shirts. I’d love to hear what you guys think!
AND, I have a question for all you Twilight fans out there: Are you an Edward or a Jacob fan?? I think my preference is pretty obvious, hehe.
Oh! Check out the cool siggy the amazing Caryn has made me! Thanks, Caz!!
P.S. Check out all the fun stuff happening at Digiridoo Scraps this weekend! Take a look at the yummy I Want Candy kit for the July Progressive Blog Challenge – join in and have a great time!!
It will probably surprise you all to find out James and I did not win the $100 million jackpot last night. I know, what a shock! You’re probably having a hard time digesting this fact, so I will share some photos from today before I go on:
This is what happens when you let Ellie pick her own clothes. Tights under shorts with yellow gumboots. Fashionista in the making, hehe.
Are you over the shock? So, we bought our tickets, dreamed big dreams and won nothing. James was in serious planning mode; right down to the cars he was going to fill a large shed with and I suspect he even knew what kind of fish he was going to have in his massive fish tank. Honestly, we don’t win lotto all the time, so it shouldn’t really be that big a deal. Yet, somehow it is. I didn’t have the dreams of grandeur, the plans to buy and renovate whole streets or ideas of our own personal ‘commune’ (ie lots of houses for friends and family near us). For me it was the thought of moving, of getting out of this town and finally being close to my parents. We do plan to move, however, it is quite a while away… Unless we win lotto. Which we didn’t.
I wouldn’t be adverse to selling up and just going. Once there I could get a part time job to help out, as my parents could have the girls, but James is dead against this option. Getting a job here is out of the question as childcare costs would make the whole exercise pointless, so I need to find other ways to contribute to saving to move. I’m not sure, yet, what I will do. What I do know, is that I need to feel like I am doing something to make things go faster because I want to get out of here as soon as I possibly can. For now, I have decided to resurrect my RedBubble account. It’s always been there but I haven’t added any new content for a very long time.
I’ve not yet had any work sold, but I hope that something of my new stuff will catch somebody’s eye and they’ll want it. Today I uploaded these:
(Images are linked)
Could I be any more unco if I tried? It started last week when I sprained my ankle playing soccer with Ellie. A night or so later I was turning over in bed and managed to catch my elbow on my thumb nail and gouged a huge chunk of skin out. THEN, as I was getting up on Sunday morning I managed to kick the foot of the bed hard enough to break my little toe! Argh.
I am all alone in a very quiet house. No husband, no babies. Just me. It’s weird and not at all exciting or relaxing as I imagine it should be. I’m still here, while my family is roaming the town with Grandma, because it’s my sleep-in day. Every morning when Ellie gets me up early after a shocking night with Kahlei I look to Saturday, I yearn for my time to sleep while someone else gets up. So, I am feeling ripped off right now, as by the time James got the girls dressed and ready I was well and truly awake and once they had gone my neighbour started making a racket and I just couldn’t get back to sleep. So, now I am just a tad grumpy with a killer headache, waiting for James to call. I don’t want to call him, as he’ll probably think I am checking up on him after I kept reminding him about things he would need to take last night and I think he was insulted. It’s not that I don’t think he can take care of the girls, it’s just that he’s not done this before and I know for experience what you need to make an outing bareable!
Now, I want to share Caryn’s new release, A New Day.
Let me tell you, I have been amazed, inspired and touched by the layouts Caryn’s CT have made with this kit. Something about this kit encouraged the most beautiful, heartfelt and honest pages. I already knew these women were awesome but the things that were shared – just wow. I strongly encourage you to visit Caryn’s Blog and check out what everyone has created.
Here are my LOs
 
(click image to see larger)
If you’re inspired and ready to create something beautiful and touching grab this kit from one of Caryn’s stores Digiridoo Scraps, ESS, SDD and and, to make it even more tempting it is currently 40% off till SUNDAY ONLY!
To top it all off Erin of Scrappyweiss Designs has created an awesome freebie to co-ordinate with A New Day. You can get it here. Make sure you leave Erin some love when you download it!
Just wait until you check out Caryn’s brand new kit. It’s stunning and has really inspired us all. I am really loving being on such a wonderful CT with so many amazing women!!
I just want to say that I can’t wait for our neighbour to be gone. She really manages to bring out a whole otherside to James that is practically reserved just for her. Honestly. I have to say, though, that I have never met anybody as rude and I have never encountered an elderly person I couldn’t get along with until her. So, I totally get his frustration, but his reaction to her surprises me everytime, especially since he is normally able to tolerate so much. There are things he puts up with that I am simply amazed by.
Alright, that’s enough about that!
I have recently join a new creative team for the awesome Erin, aka Scrappyweiss Designs, and I wanted to share some layouts I have made with her newest kit, Caryn’s Wild Meadow.
 
For this one I also used
Template by Mychl’s Flights of Fancy 23/06 #1 & 2 which will be available free on the Digiridoo Blog
I used Template 10 by Color With Caryn, which is currently free at ESS as part of the Build a Fairy Treehouse challenge.
Well, I have to go now, Ellie’s cut down her naps to an hour… Sooo not thrilled!
I haven’t written much here about our neighbour, possibly because I have nothing positive to say about the lady. As a rule I disagree with the use of ‘Bitch’ to describe women, but in this case it is truelly fitting. She hasn’t spoken to us in 6 and a half months after she decided to yell at James on our front lawn. We were in a hurry to get to the Doctors and he didn’t have time to stop and talk to her about the fact taht she had hired a man to prune (hack) the trees in our front yard (on common property) and had taken the money out of our joint account without so much as a word to us. Once we got home, she had a fit about how we parked our car and came around banging on the front door while Ellie was having a sleep. Since that day (a day before Kahlei’s birth) she hasn’t said a word to us. Instead, she makes it known that she doesn’t like us by being as loud as possible when the babies are trying to sleep - stamping up and down her front steps, practically yelling when she speaks and general annoyances. But, today she surparssed all, even the times she used to yell for James to come talk to her from her verandah or phone us and demand he come around for any whim that took he fancy. More so than her ripping us off in how we split our bills and suggesting that she should pay even less.
This morning she had a garage sale. On common property. Without a single word to us. Luckily, James’s mum phoned last night to warn us, otherwise I think James would have stormed out there when all the noise drew his attention to the people milling around on our driveway, near his car and all the cars in our street parking us in. Last night her family arrived late, making as much noise as could be possible and then this morning they started scraping the furniture from out the back to take down to the street (which is right next to my head in bed).
To save James from making a scene (mainly because we have to stay in this street) we went to visit his mum. Ellie had a lovely time playing with the dogs, cat and watching the fish.
And when we came home we decided to get into the house as noisily as she normally doe (yes, a little childish, but it was fun) and boy she must use a whole lot of energy to be so loud and annoying!!!!!!
Anyway, she will be gone soon and we’ll have new neighbours. I really hope it’s somebody nice and we don’t have any dramas.
Now, I have some layouts to post 
Digiridoo Scraps Designers:
Spice of Life collab kit by The Digiridoo designers
Sweet Turtles by Designs by Pebbles
Counrty Charm by DigiDesigned byWilma
Country Charm by DigiDesigned byWilma
Tangerine by Sarah Barber Designs
Template Pack 2 by Felicia Staulters
Zoo Friends by Felicia Staulters
Family Time Word Art by Felicia Staulters
A Day Just For Dad Remixed by Inspiredbydominic Designs
Oh, also – I have some Sims 3 Inspired Papers available for download here
I have been a bad, bad blogger of late… but with two sick babies, a sick hubby and feeling under the weather myself I have found it too hard to wade through the fog that is my brain.
The girls are still sniffly and not sleeping great at night but they have improved. Ellie is well enough to run around all day like a nut and for the past three days has cut her day sleep down to an hour. Can’t say I’m thrilled with that, especially as she was up during the night last night.
Okay, on to a catch up for P365!
Day 123: Backyard Safari
Day 124: Sisterly Love
Day 125: Beauty
Day 126: Tree View
Day 127: Tootsies
Day 128: Blue What?
We’ve had sooo much rain and cloudy weather it’s a relief to finally have some sun!
Day 129: Flower
I have no idea what kind of flower this is (James?), I’ve taken it for the Digiridoo Scraps June Photo Challenge
Now, this month’s Design Me This Challenge has really had me stumped. I’ve been playing with my papers since my birthday and nothing has really come up the way I wanted. Finally, I have come up with four papers I can live with
If you like them you can download them here (click image to view larger preview).
Well, I best be off – really need a nap!! Before I go; check out my picks for Twilight Character Sims 3 downloads. Do you have a completely different view of the characters from the books??
Well… It’s been a day and half here! Last night was a shocker with Kahlei barely sleeping and James and I both being sick, so it’s safe to say I wasn’t in the best of moods this morning. It all seemed to start well, Kahlei finally fell into a good sleep (much to my frustration, it was at a time when I couldn’t be sleeping too) and Ellie seemed to be in high spirits, even though I am sure she must have been disturbed last night.
Everything went as normal, we ate breakfast and James went off to work and Ellie and I made the bed before I turned on the TV for Ellie to watch In The Night Garden. As the show started, it all fell apart. I don’t even know why – all of a sudden Ellie was screaming, crying, carrying on and throwing her arms about in the air. No amount of Igglepiggle stopped the racket (and boy can that girl SCREAM – I mean piercing straight into my brain)! Somehow, we pulled ourselves together to go out as we were about to run out of nappies, which we seem to be doing a bit lately. Where once we had boxes and boxes we now seem to be living one bag to the next – it’s a tad stressful.
So, we went out and the girls were perfect (thank goodness)! I was thinking we’d come home, I’d pop both girls in bed and have a sleep myself and it seemed to be going that way. Both girls went to bed without a peep. 5 minutes later Kahlei was awake and playing with her mobile and being generally noisy, so I decided to get her up and put her in bed with me. I gave her a feed and thought she would sleep, but instead she started chatting to me. Now, I love to hear her gorgeous little chatterings, but I was seriously so tired, I just wished she would stop!!
By the time Ellie got up there’d been no sleep for me… For whatever reason Ellie got up in a terrible mood and Kahlei decided she was actually extremely tired and grumpy (*sigh* go figure). Arsenic hour in our house normally starts at about 4.30 pm and reaches it’s peak at 5.30 pm if James hasn’t come home by then. Today, it began at 1pm and didn’t end until about 5.30.
Once things had calmed down I prepared dinner, James and Ellie fed Kahlei a bottle and all seemed right with the world. Until I got dinner on the table. I was just about to sit down when Kahlei started whinging, I figured she was ready for bed, as she should have been and picked her up as she projectile vomitted ALL over me! I have serisouly never seen a baby vomit that much. She was covered, I was covered, James was kind of laughing and somewhat frozen from shock. As was I. Then she started heaving again, so I did the only logical thing (in my shocked state) and turned her around. Now I am covered, she is covered, the rug is covered… Good move…
I was standing there saying to James “Help?” and he had no idea what to do! I quickly sat down with her on my lap to try and calm her and she brought up another litre of projectile yellow vomit (okay, maybe not literally that much but it was heaps). After which she started chatting and smiling, obviously that did the trick.
Since she was obviously feeling better we got in the shower, which caused a tantrum from Ellie who also wanted to be in the shower – not eating dinner with Daddy.
After the three of us had a nice warm shower things finally settled down. Both girls had a story and went to bed and they’re still sleeping now. I just hope we have a good night tonight!
Before I go off to bed: Digiridoo Scraps is having a CT call. If you love digiscrapping, being a part of a fun community and the chance to work with kits from awesome designers then I suggest you apply!!
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