The baby era is over.....

I have some sadness in writing about this, I had to unbolt, and pack away the lovely baby cot that I have had for now over 8yrs, for the last time.  (I am very happy to have 2 children and not have anymore babies - just saying) A small part of me is so sad to say goodbye to the baby things and and pretty nursery items I purchased when pregnant, not knowing if it was for a boy or a girl, then over the last 2 and bit years see my son love all those pretty things in his room.


I have decided that I will keep all those lovely nursery decorating items away neatly as one day i hope as a grandmother that I will once again have a nursery for my grandchildren :-)  And the Cot (thankfully) will be kindly stored at my parents house.


So now officially have 2 big kids in big kid beds!!!  My baby is grown into a toddler.

Bella's Job Chart

Firstly I would like to say this is the link to the blog I got my inspiration from - Thanks so much Nat

http://natfindingrainbows.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/get-creative-kids-job-charts.html

So i loved my friend Nat's new way of doing her kids job charts.  We had a laminated sheet, but overall the motivation for Bella to do the jobs she is required do was lacking somewhat, I was struggling to find what motivated her to do them, Money was not doing it anymore, she used to get pocket money if she completed so many ticks on her job chart each week, but weeks were going by, jobs not done and money not earnt....

So on to something new - I will give an allowance of pocket money each week and the completing of jobs will be rewarded with 'things she likes to do' = DS time, ABC 3 time, Littlest pet Shop, Dolls House or whatever play is popular that particular day or week.

I started with an old canvas I had, some leftover material from the bunting from her room makeover, clear pins, scrapbooking paper scraps in her room colours of Aqua, Purple & lime green.  You can see I printed out the job labels too!  Then just stapled the material on, pinned the job labels, I think after Bella has completed a job she can turn it over so then it's easy to see what jobs need to be done and when she goes to bed I can just turn them all over ready for the new day!  I also found i had some pretty silver glitter lettering stickers in my scrapbooking stash, and they made for a pretty label!

Finish Product = Bella loves it :-)  So I am happy, let's hope it improves the motivation to do the jobs!!!

Mum

MUM

 I made the Kaiser Craft "large stationary organiser" I got mine from Spotlight and all the matching Kaiser Paper range came from my local scrapbooking shop!  Then i just added the photos to it, as we took so many lovely ones before my brother and sister-in-law left for Canada!  Photos make these projects just so much more special :-)  

The cake was chosen by Bella, actually came from the original woman's weekly kids cake cookbook.  But we have adapted the colours from green and red to purple.  This is just such a simple cake.

Happy Birthday to my Mum!  Every Mum deserves to feel special :-)  So this is is what I did for Mum this year.

I Love Value for Money!

I love Saving money wherever i can & I am so happy with this recent one :-)  Washing Powder, i know this is a bit boring to some but i'm so excited by this!!!  I bought this tub on the 5th of November, for about $34 at Big W.  We are now the 21st May.  So That means i have not had to buy laundry detergent for just over 6 months.  I wash 3 - 4 loads a week.  Such great value!  And for any of you have that use Norwex, the BioZet is awesome for the bringing the clothes up nice and clean!

Happy Monday, this post was so inspired by my washing day!

It's nice to finally get some time to read some blogs and look at my own blog again :-) I have so many post's i want to share. Over the next while i am going to treat myself to some 'blog' time!!

But right now i am off to do a bit of reading in a bubble bath, i have pulled sooo many late nights, i am in need of some relaxation :-)

We're Growing a Pineapple!

Bella decided a while ago that we should grow a pineapple. So today i got a nice pineapple from the fruit shop.

I did some research google & i was suprised at how easy it is grow a pineapple! It's just going to be a LOOONNNGGG wait to get out pinapple, it takes 2-3yrs to grow 1......

If anyone has any tips on this growing pinapples thing or you have grown one before, please share your experience with me please???

Facebook's Handmade Gift Status for 2011

In January this year on facebook there was a status going around, saying that if you commented on the status that lovely person would send you something Handmade :-) Then in return I copied the status into page and then so on.....

So a lovely friend of mine Juanita commented saying she would love something Handmade - So as you can see it has taken me 9 months to make it but i am so happy with how it turned out and i hope that my friend loves it :-)

I made very simple christmas bunting, as you can see from the photo :-) Just Red and Green Material, Cream Bias Binding and for the lettering i just used a Fabric Pen and some Letter Stencils i had in my Scrapbooking stuff!! At both ends of the wording there is more plain red/green bunting flags.