Showing posts with label twins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twins. Show all posts

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Hit By Dog - a Bonkers story!



Sheesh! The days have been flying by around here...

I don't want to be one of those people that keep apologising for not blogging. The truth is that I'm making up for lost time, and I'm trying really hard to get back to work, push forward with my business, do some charity work, keep up my fitness regime, and spend lots of time with family and friends. It seems that blogging might take a little back of a back seat to all of that now.


 Anyway, one of the most bonkers things ever happened on Tuesday. I took the day off work to spend with my nephews. We had a lovely morning. We had choc chip pancakes for brekky, and then headed to the bike shop...



.....then Spotlight (they weren't too impressed with that), the toy shop...

.... and to see Tom and Jerry and then make maraccas at the Tom and Jerry craft table!


After lunch we went for a little bike ride, before heading to the local park.

So as the boys were riding their bikes around the lake at the park, and I was walking along minding my own business and listening to music, a huge labrador ran straight at me and hit me in the legs. It completely knocked my feet out from under me, and I landed directly on the concrete path, right on my coccyx.


I ended up getting carted off to hospital in an ambulance, and spent five hours waiting in emergency to see a doctor and get an x-ray to make sure I had no fractures.

If it didn't hurt so much, it would have been bloody hilarious!

But now I'm thinking, on such a beautiful day, there were hundreds of people at the park (school holidays), why on earth did that dumb dog choose me?

Thursday, October 18, 2012

My Creative Space



I'm very slowly getting lots of pretty things ready for the Polly Pratt Open Studio and Pop Up Shop which is happening on Saturday 27th October.


Apparently my little visitors are 'helping'


In serendipitous timing, my new postcards arrived yesterday...



....and they just happen to be the perfect packaging backdrop for these.

More creative spaces


Saturday, October 13, 2012

A Change is as good as a Holiday... right?



Well, that's what I keep telling myself... it's been a loooooong time since my last holiday, so I chopped all my hair off.


This is how little the Bubbas and Moo were back then. How things have changed....


Anyway, there was actually a point to this post.

I was going to tell you about the awesomeness that is the Blogtoberfest Giveaway list.

Make sure you go over and check it out and visit some of the lovely blogs that are having giveaways. I need to sort out my own giveaway too, but I need some ideas.

What would you like to win?


***apologies - the Linky Tools site seems to be down so you can't see the giveaway list. Fingers crossed it will be back up and running ASAP!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Four


To think that just four years ago they were teeny tiny little bubbas...




.... and now they're so grown up


...and they do all their own stunts





Happy Birthday Bubbas Boys

Monday, June 4, 2012

Make It Snappy


One of the great things about having a house filled with crafty supplies, is that you can whip up virtually anything on a whim.

There was a birthday party invitation emergency on Thursday, and I had one hour to design and print enough invites to give out to the twins little friends at kinder on Friday.

I didn't get a chance to take a photo of the finished product, but they were printed onto lovely Museo card stock (not that the kinder kids would take any notice).
 
I think they turned out pretty cute!


Friday, March 30, 2012

Stop and Smell the Roses


Go for a ride

Get your motor running


Dress like The Village People


Wear silly glasses


Indulge in a picnic

Have a happy Friday ....

Monday, November 28, 2011

Oh Christmas Tree Yukka


My sister and BIL and the kidlets are heading off for a Queensland holiday this week (soooo, what do you think the chances are of the phone ringing at 4AM while they're away?)

I had to take advantage of the slave labour family christmas spirit before they left, and invited the boys over to decorate my tree.

I can't deal with any of that mess inside the house, so my original idea was to get them to decorate the silver birch tree in the front garden....


.... but using their own artistic abilities, they decided that the christmas baubles were much better suited to hanging from the dragonfly lights and the yukkas.


Once they'd finished, I tried to get just one decent ta-daa moment for the christmas album.


...and again


...and again.

I give up.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Three


The bubbas little boys turned three yesterday!


They had a dress-up party with their friends at kinder, and then we just had a small family afternoon/dinner lastnight.

All they wanted for their birthday was a guitar each..... oh, and a pony (they didn't get the pony).


The Chef's Outfits were a hit.....


......as were the noisy horns!


Happy Birthday Bubbas!

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Chef's Hats


It's birthday time again round yonder these parts....

The twins turn three on Friday.  

Three.... already! It really doesn't seem that long ago that they were such tiny little bubbas.

It's actually quite amusing to look back at the blog and see how much they've changed from 1st birthday (wearing the outfits that I made), to 2nd birthday (playing with their scarflettes and manbags) to now.

But somehow, the twins have made it three without me ever making them a custom Chef's Hat!

In fact, it's been so long since I made one that I had to actually refer back to my own tutorial for the measurements....

I've used velcro for the closure - easy for little hands


I've been holding on to the lovely Mookah screenprinted denim that I bought at the Finders Keepers Market, just waiting for the right project to come along. This was the perfect opportunity to show it off.

Hmmm I really should have ironed it before taking photos...

I've also made them each a matching kiddie apron (in a nice dark colour to hide the stains). I'm sure my sister will appreciate that!

Friday, April 29, 2011

It's the biggest event of the year!

Supermarket Cake, Betty Crocker Frosting, and Hundreds & Thousands

It's my birthday..... and apparently there's some other event happening today which has transfixed the attention of the entire world.

Did someone say Royal Wedding???

Prince Moo Moo (after cake) and Princess CurlyPops

I had a little early birthday celebration on Tuesday while my mum was visiting (not that I actually need an excuse to eat chocolate cake)!

The Royal Subjects

The Royal Subjects were disinterested in the pomp and ceremony of the occassion. They were only there for the cake.


The Royal kiss was thwarted by a rascally Prince Moo Moo.... he was more interested in a second helping of the chocolate cake too.

Let's hope Wills and Kate are more successful tonight!

*The crown partyhats were actually completely unintentional - they just happened to be the only ones in the supermarket on Tuesday!

Monday, March 21, 2011

One roll of stickytape = 2 hours of entertainment


Yesterday my sister and BIL went along to see Daryl Braithwaite, Vika and Linda Bull, Ross Wilson and Mark Seymour at Legends on the Lawn at Werribee Park.

Although I would have dearly loved to go, access to any type of concert really isn't great for someone like me, so I volunteered to babysit the twin munchkins instead.


I'd picked up some cheap and cheerful pirate craft kits in the mark down bin for $2.50 at Spotlight a while ago...


They were quite a hit!


I couldn't deal with the amount of mess that would have been created with glue...


So we spent two hours making artwork using stickytape..... just check out that concentration!

All I had to do was sit across the other side of the bench with the stickytape dispenser. Cheapest and easiest entertainment ever!