Day 4 - It Just Had To Be Done

Here is my phone, nice and simple, clear silicon protective cover.

No fussy, fancy, expensive, wiz bang designer cover for me.

Now, let's flip it over...

A few scraps and 10 minutes,

and everyone knows it's mine!

Would love to know if you have personalised yours too.

See you tomorrow for

Blogtoberfest

Jacqueline.

Day 3 - Watch Your Kids!

This is not our pool

Today, I took the boy's down to the local aquatic centre for a swim.

There was about 15 other little people in the pool too.

Only 3 (including me) supervising grown ups were in the pool.



This is not my child and was not there today



I was amazed at how many "supervising" grown-ups were,

reading the paper, reading magazines, looking at their phone,

anything other than supervising their children.



This is not me



I'm not keen to get in sometimes, as I don't have a body like this!

But, our boy's are 5, 7 and almost 9,

and I could not contemplate not being in the water with them.

Firstly for SAFETY and secondly for FUN.

I am not in the water to keep an eye on other kids.

Drowning can happen in the blink of an eye.

 

In Canada - Biggest indoor pool in the world - how nice



Having said all that, I would rather poke a stick in my eye

than get them all showered and dressed after the swim.

Peter takes the boy's swimming most Sunday mornings,

and has the after swim routine finely tuned,

he's so good at it - I will leave him to it.



   

The whole swimming experience would be even nicer

if there was some of this at the local aquatic centre to look at!

But then, maybe I would not be supervising my boys either.



This is not me either

 

So hop in and have some fun :)

Hope you had a great Monday

Jacqueline

Day 2 - A Snippet Of Me

I do like the clothes to hang orderly on the clothes line.

On occasion I have had people help me hang the washing out,

and I just get all jittery watching them hang things out of order.

Although.... I am not totally obsessed, as you can see,

the pegs can be any colour and no particular order :)

How do yours hang?

Hope you've had a nice weekend

Jacqueline.

Day 1 - Can Someone Help?

I am joining in with Blogtoberfest for the first time.

I am not a frollific blogger, always plan to do 3 posts a week,

never happens though, so, this should be interesting.

Will see how we go.

Firstly though, I have a question, before I start visiting lots of new blogs.

A commenting question that is driving me NUTS,

hopefully someone can answer it for me.

On some blogs, when I write a comment, even though I am signed into Blogger,

I get asked to select a profile.

I choose Name/URL, then sometimes it asked me to do a word verification,

sometimes not.

Sometimes it asks me to select my profile again,

and we just go around in circles!

Then it does put my comment up, but I never have my little pic!

What the bloody hell am I doing wrong?

Is this a Blogger glitch?

Is it a different platform?

Do you have your comments set up to act like this?

It drives me NUTS - because, I want to leave nice comments,

and I want the process to be simple

but, when I see this I just flick to the next blog.

When I leave a comment, I just want to do the word verification and thats it.

I hope my comment section is not like this, please let me know if it is!

Any advice would be much appreciated,

I bet it is something simple that I am doing wrong ;)

Take care and Be Good :)

Jacqueline.

Horsham Show

The Horsham Show has rolled around again.

It starts tomorrow and runs for 2 days and nights.

It has definately crept up on us this year,

the boys and I usually enter lot's of goodies, but this year - none.

So... I will show you what we enjoyed and entered last year

The boys decorated teddy bear and maree biscuits

There was dodgems and ducks

Lollipops

Motor-bikes

Ponies and Pigs

Here are all the entries from last year, and believe me, this is no easy feat.

lot's of preparation with the boys and last minute things the night before,

and don't get me started on the manic drop off of

entries on show morning at the ladies pavilion.

It's so frantic and the show ladies are a little bossy

and have "their way of doing things"

But it's all worth it, when the boys go through later in the day,

to see if they have any prize cards on their creations.

They get so exited to see all the entries,

and see some of the creations their friends have made.

I scored well last year too, but just quietly,

entries are fairly sparce in some of the grown up categories,

My results

And the boy's results.

The day after the show, we all go down and pick up our entries again.

The boys pick up their prize money and the ladies make such a fuss of them,

and they are so proud of themselves and so happy.

But sadly no entries this year, but we will be there.

You can't beat a good old fashioned show.

Do you enter goodies in your local show?

Jacqueline :)

August Departures

A custom made Market Bunting for Janine.

A custom made Market Bunting for Renae

at Cherry Bliss Designs

A Red and Aqua Bunting for Leanne

A Birdie Bunting for Rebekah

A Red Floral Name Garland for Kate

Two Linen Santa Sacks for Annalea

A Red Star Name Garland for Kylie

A custom made Market Bunting for Kirralee

from My Playhouse Adventures

Pink and Aqua Buntings for

Kylie and Lisa

And Four of the always popular Red and Navy Bunting for

Elizabeth, Briony

Lisa and Nardia

A big thankyou to everyone that has purchased a ZippyZippy creation,

and thanks for all the wonderful feedback,

I love making them!

Jacqueline :)

Red Stitch Designs

Here are some goodies I have bought from Brenda at

Red Stitch Designs

to decorate ZippyZippy HQ. I love decorating my space with

handmade items created by others.

Brenda is also a fellow Madeit seller,

you can find her store here

And here are some more. I love the fabrics and colours Brenda uses,

and they are so well made, absolutely stitch perfect.

This parcel was wrapped in recycled sewing patterns :) 

You can really tell that Brenda enjoys creating her goods.

You can also find Brenda's handmade creations at

Shop Handmade Canberra,

a beautiful store in the city, full of lots of handmade goodness. 

I visited in January and purchased the hearts and pear

And also the book, which Brenda is featured in.

Brenda is having a giveaway of 2 cute little hanging owls, over on her blog.

All you need to do is follow

Red Stitch Designs on Facebook.

Easy

Have a great Wednesday

Jacqueline.