GETTING TO CREATE

MY SISTER SUSAN CELEBARATES HER 60TH BIRTHDAY

Saturday my eldest sibling – my sister Susan celebrated her 60th Birthday.I remember her walking me to school on my first day. She was in Grade 6 and I was in ‘Bubs’ that is now called Prep. She has been a very supportive and loving sister.

As part of her birthday gift I made this collage.

It was fun to create it for her.

I put a penny from the year she was born on it too.

She entered her birthday party in style – on the back of a Harley ridden by one of her sons.

FINAL COUNTDOWN

12 days to go until the wedding. Still making some decorations for inside the marquee but other than that I think we are all ready for the big day. Oh no I just remembered we have to copy the music for the bridesmaids and then for Amy to walk down the aisle. One last working bee at Amy and Ryan’s next Saturday and we will be ready for the big day. It is amazing how relaxed Amy is with it all.

A FUN HENS PARTY AND A CUPPA AT MISS KITTY’S

AMY’S HENS NIGHT

What a fun night we had at Amy’s Hen’s night. 3 weeks to go for the wedding.My eldest daughter Melanie and my niece Marnee are the bridesmaids.

Melanie , Amy, Marnee

Melanie organized a fabulous night of cocktails and great food.

Amy had told her no stripper!! Melanie really had her worried when “Shane’ the Topless Waiter walked in.

I think that was fear making Amy laugh, especially as it was

her future mother-in-law standing next to her

MISS KITTY’S

After a few cocktails and shots – I woke up Sunday morning feeling a little ‘tired’.
The day was a bit flat and the batteries needed charging.
Just look at my tired eyes!!!

Nothing like a great cup of tea to get you moving, so it was off to Miss Kitty’s in Red Hill for afternoon tea.

Any of you girls visiting the Mornington Peninsula make sure you check out Miss Kitty's Tea Room & Emporium Shop 11/159 Shoreham Rd, Red Hill. They have apparently been open for 12 months but this was my first visit.

I had a great ‘pot of tea’ and Max had a cappuccino and some yummy carrot cake.
They have some gorgeous gifts and homegoods there.

BUSY BUSY

SO, SO HECTIC

My life seems consumed by the wedding plans.

We had a long weekend here in Victoria and most of the 3 days was spent doing wedding things.Saturday we had a working bee at Amy and Ryans with the guys laying turf in the area the marquee is going

Then onto Chloe’s 5th Birthday party

Crazy Faced Birthday Girl

Wearing an apron I made for her birthday.

I gave her a sweet pink baking set, a cook book and the apron.

Saturday night was spent at Amy and Ryans with
more birthday celebrations this time for my son Daniel.
Here he is with his birthday cake and girlfriend Candice.
Sunday they left for 2 weeks in Bali.


Had to make some time to pick some roses.

Sunday was Ryans Bucks Day/night – the guys went on a fishing charter boat. After 6 hours Amy Max and I drove to pick them up and then take them back to Amy and Ryans for more fun – then back to pick them up at about 9pm and take them out and drop them off for some night time fun.
Amy and Riley came and stayed with us for the night – too much noise and frivolity at their place.

Monday morning Amy and Riley came for a walk with Max and I.

Riley had fun at the park after our walk

Riley says - Ready ....set.... go......

Then Amy and I went shopping while Max looked after Riley. I bought my dress for the wedding while we were out. Then it was a walk around to Melanie’s. The three grandchildren had fun playing together

Bouncing on the trampoline

Ouch says Riley - my head!!!

Finally when everyone went back to their own homes a tired Max and I made a picnic dinner and went up to our favourite lookout at Arthurs Seat and watched the sunset.

Forty minutes later sunset looked like this

FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN

AUTUMN

What a wonderful way to spend the first day of Autumn/Fall – on the beach with our grandchildren, Lachlan and Chloe .

Nothing like standing in the water at the beach

Grandad and Grandson

Collecting shells and sea glass

Running along the sand

What can we see?

Watching the tide come in.

52Q

52Q

After seeing the tags for 52Q on Jeanne’s blog – Dream Create Inspire and also Suzanne Duda's Pink Roses and other passions I decided to join.

It was organised by Emily ‘embers’. Each week Emily posts another question.

I think it was the questions that attracted me in the first place.
It has made me question many things in my life and try to work out where I am heading.
In so many ways it has been a rough 12 months for me and I thought this would help me work through so many issues.

QUESTION 1

Answer

QUESTION 2

Answer


QUESTION 3


Answer

QUESTION 4

Answer

QUESTION 5

Answer

QUESTION 6

Answer

ALL Wedding Invitations are finally in the mail

WEDDING INVITATIONS

I am finally getting there with all that needs to be done for the wedding.

The last of the invitations went out yesterday.

There are 201 Adults and 21 children on our list.

Hope the actual acceptances are a few less!!!

Here is what the invitations look like

Click on the photo to make it bigger

The photo is one I took of Ryan putting Amy's engagement ring on last year.

It took a lot of trial and error to get the invitaions to what they are.

All sorts of colours were tried out for the written section.

It was so hard to find a colour that showed up on all the different parts of the photo.

Ryan got to pick the colour.

Amy figured he might as well be able to pick something!!

Our DONE LIST is bigger now

DONE

For the Bride -Wedding Dress ,veil and shoes

For the Bridesmaids - dresses and shoes

Flowers - booked

Father of the Bride - new dinner suit/shirt/tie

Hairdresser - booked

Make up girl - booked

Caterer - booked

Photographer - booked

Cake - booked

Drink/waiting staff - booked

Marquee, tables, tablecloths, chairs, lighting, red carpet runner – booked

NOT DONE

Wedding Rings

Bride Groom and Groomsmen suits

On site toilets

Cool room

Some decorations for the marquee and outside??

Oh dear 46 days to go.

Better get one of the guys to book those toilets and cool room.

ROSE DETAIL

I love the detail on these rose pieces that I had in the previous post

Lucky that my sister knows I love white and roses - perfect gifts


These roses are just so delicate

FEBRUARY CENTREPIECE PARTY

February Centrepiece Party.

Cindy from My Romantic Home is having a February Centrepiece Party so I thought I would join.

I kept my February Centrepiece basically white with a touch of pink from the roses in the vase (in last photo) and the Heart Garland placed around the mirror tray.
The white rose pieces were gifts from my sister as she knows how much

I love my Iceberg Roses.

Click on photos to enlarge them so as you can see them in better detail.

Love the way the morning sunlight creates shadows and light on these pieces.

Fabulous rose detail on these pieces





Pretty Pierre de Ronsard rose from my garden in a milk glass vase.
It is amazing the way the different time of day affects the way the photos look.
This one was taken half an hour later than the first three photos.
Enjoy Cindy's February Centrepiece Party.

BUSHFIRES IN VICTORIA

TRAGIC LOSS OF LIVES

As of 7.00am Monday 9th February 108 people have been confirmed dead in the ferocious bushfires that ripped through Victoria at the weekend

My nephew has a home in Wandong where this photo below was taken.

We are so thankful that he did not lose his home. Sadly as well as many houses being destroyed in Wandong there were also lives lost.

Firefighters have worked extremely hard in unbelievable conditions in

an attempt to stop these fires.

There are still 31 fires still burning

This unbelievable death toll makes these fires (some still burning) the deadliest in Australia's history. There are fears that the death toll will rise again as the authorities are able to get into more areas

Our heart goes out to all of the victims and their families