There’s a reason it’s called a challenge

ETA, I did write this yesterday, but the ‘post’ button didn’t get clicked until today

 

 

The Feb photo a day challenge – when I saw it, I thought pfft, ha! There are only 28 days in Feb (or are there 29 this year?).

How HARD could it be to take a picture a day?

Well, the actual said taking of picture I have a 95% success rate with, but the POSTING I am finding challenging.

Here’s today’s – where I work.

flower child HQ

I love my business.

I love our customers.

I love everything that our brand stands for and our commitment to the community.

I love the people who work with me.

Sometimes (quite often) it takes over my life. I squeeze my family in too, and I’ve found, that photo thing (along with LOADS of other stuff) just slips out of my mind.

Yesterdays was a fave photo of you.  I didn’t actually take a picture, but in the true essence of the gig, I chatted with several of those lovely customers I spoke about up there ^^^ last night, and gave them some practical advice on how to take a great picture.

Before I was ‘shown’ how to smile (that sounds so wrong), I would baulk at seeing pics of myself.  Just recently,  a friend commented (for the first time in my life ever), that I was photogenic. I put that down to learning to smile!

So, here’s a picture of me with Budget Bitch (seriously, click on over) – I think we both look great! I did joke with Carmel that I look slightly soft-focused and anyone can look good in that light :)

The ABC Surprise for your Baby Shower Guests

Great idea! This is a fun and interactive idea for your baby shower. We all know that most baby showers are typically the same. You eat, you play games and you open gifts. Of course there are some super fun things you can do to make the party a little less typical. This idea is adorable and helps you decorate the nursery! What you do is assign each person who RSVP’s a different letter of the alphabet, and you ask them to bring them to the baby shower. Don’t tell they why, just say please bring a letter. When they arrive, they will be surprised and you get to tell that their letter will now be apart of your babies nursery! Then you decorate the nursery using all of the letters, how cool is that!?!? They don’t have to be handmade but I bet more than a few will break out the craft supplies.

 

I’ve always been a fan of including the guests in baby showers and weddings. I love the idea of the throw away camera at the table at weddings for guests to take photos. So why not have your guests bring a letter and then hang them in the nursery! Cute cute cute.

Now, if you have more than 26 guests, well we may need to revisit that. I do know someone who did this and had to have people bring more than one letter so she assigned a letter to each person in a couple or the kids just for fun.

 

 

Manic Monday Crafts – Indoor Imagination Fun

Teaching your kids to use their imaginations is so much fun! I’ve gathered a few links to help you dream big when it comes to crafting and using your imagination.

How to build a reading cubby house. This is a great idea if you’ve got an old box lying around and want to involve the little ones in creating a cool cardboard reading cubby house.

And take a peek at these beautiful bird houses..They even give you templates to make them. So pretty! great party favours or decor for the bedroom.


And I found a super cute kids craft where you can make a little lantern and catch faux fireflies. You could even call them fairies too! I love love love this and bet it would be really pretty at night.


Has it been raining like mad where you are? What are you doing to keep everyone happy and calm indoors? We’d love it if you share some crafts to help keep the little ones occupied and happy!





more photo’s a day

I owe you a few – Day 17 (time)

Time keeps on slippin'.....

slipped away from me Cry. flower child is always moving ahead, and with a boisterous 3.5year old, and a husband away in Bangkok, it just seemed to be SO late at night when I sat down, blogging fell out of my consciousness.

so, here they are

Day 16 – something new. We tend to get at least one of these a day. The girls are a bit sporadic in their laying….

something new

Skipping ahead to Day 18, Lana and I made fluffy buttermilk pancakes for breakfast to welcome Daddy home,

mixing

look at those babies. mmmmmmmmmm. They deserve to be smeared with butter and drowned in maple syrup.  You know you want them.

buttermilk pancakes

eat me, eat me!

which in turn, led to Day 17′s picture – drink

c

chai latte

And finally, today, something I hate to do.  I seriously dislike……. washing up.

I cook, so that I don’t have to wash up. Do you have that rule at your house as well?

the picture is messy, cos washing up in our house is usually messy as well.

 

 

 

Valentines Day = heart

Day 14 of the photo challenge.

 

It’s Valentine’s day – we don’t actually DO anything on Valentines Day, but hubby is away, so I thought I’d break this heart for dessert :)

breaking hearts

my closet – blue

So I’m pretty impressed I’ve managed to get my pictures each day. I might not get a chance to BLOG them every day, but I promise, I’m taking them :)

Day 12 – my closet.

Seriously, you think I’m gonna show you the closet where the clothes are. Bwahahaha. Not a chance. My organisation skills haven’t quite made it there yet, but they DID make it to the spare room.

Look at this – organised bliss. I even had sticky notes on the drawers with what’s in them, but a certain little 3.5yo seems to have snaffled those away somewhere.

the organised closet

Day 13 (today) blue.

Above mentioned 3.5yo is obsessed with drawing and all things craft. I haven’t managed to tidy up yet tonight, so here’s my blue for today.

Blue

day 11 – makes you happy

can I be more smushy?

Sun, fun, being outdoors with the people I love = bliss

Feb photo challenge – a day late

self portrait

self explanatory

taken whilst waiting for Lana’s bath to fill up.

People We Love Friday – Olabelhe

Do you sew? I know a lot of mums partake in sewing as a hobby and some even really go all out and start amazing businesses using their skills. Some of us were taught by our own mums, others just learned on our own by watching YouTube Videos.

We have a link that any mum who sews or just plainly LOVES organisation will appreciate.

Here is just a teaser of what you are about to see…Check out Olabelhe’s Studio.

olabelhe

All this gorgeous colour courtesy of Olabelhe



Love this site and love how they’ve organised everything and made it really pretty at the same time. Their studio is just to die for. Do you sew? We’d love to see how you organise your sewing room/area/spot.



front door

Day 9 – front door of the shop.

Those cute little hangy-things are Mae fabric stickers – just $14.99 (heart)