Thursday 17 June 2010

ffff FREEZING

Can you hear my teeth chattering from there?? Oy, this place is freezing cold at the moment, but seems we have a real cold snap all over the country ! Nathan says the trip back to PE ( he is on a road trip seeing friends ;-) is completely white with snow! HUH???- this early in winter and well we don’t really get snow except in high lying places.

Gaye (GS Creations) has had some burst water pipes yesterday and this morning due to the water freezing in them-

Wayne broke one of our glass pirex dishes yesterday putting it onto the granite kitchen counter straight from the over- CRACK – split right in half. That’s how cold the counter top was! I WANT MY MOMMY- lol.

I’m just about sitting on top of my heater ( indoor heating isn’t something of the norm in SA) at the moment and am still shivering! Any more clothes on and I won’t be able to move at all! I already look like the Michelin man bWWWWAHAHAHAH.

Internet update ;-)…. Wayne eventually sent the Head office of the Agency we applied at here for my wireless connections a rather *hot under the collar* e-mail. Cut long story short- they are now taking their agency away from the idiots who run it here and will now be coming TOMORROW themselves to put in my internet connections! WOOT_ GO WAYNIE!!! lol So I should have a solid connection this weekend- YIPPPPPPPEEEEE, first time in around a month.

Which means I won’t have to get up at 5am anymore ( well now and again to help Wayne out of course) but holey hell, it’s torture- especially in this cold weather- hahahahaha.

OOOH- some new photo’s to share with you too- I’ve been here on and off for just under a month and a bit and haven’t seen much of the area except the office and shopping centres around the house- lol

so Wayne decided on Sunday we would do a little *tour* of the area. I shot some photo’s out the car window- so they aren’t the best but at least I can share a little of my new home with you ;-)

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We’re surrounded by the  Magaliesberg mountain range, and live right on the Hartbeespoortdam.

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Some shots through the tree’s from the road leading over the dam wall -

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Driving over the dam wall-

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This is the road leading up to the bridge above and we had quite a LONG wait for cars to make their way through and over as it’s a one way bridge crossing.

As you know Soccer World Cup fever has hit us like a 10 pound hammer , lol, and as you can see by the cars in front of us ( picture above) everyone has flags hanging from aerials, windows, side mirrors and bonnets!

I LOVE it and it sure has made the country colourful! EVERY place we went past on Sunday had flags flying- check these out

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And of course if you didn’t have one yet you could buy one- and just about every street corner looks like this! lol

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Sure is colourful huh? Loucee I took this photo just for you GF – hahahaha.

Just some What’s new news too from DSO – ( shooo I sure make up for my MIA’s with these long posts don’t I? HAHAHAHA)

NEW by Jen Reed Designs

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Early Fall - Paper Pack$1.50

New from Bunny Cates

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Colorful Words – father$3.50 $2.80
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From LP3 and Dogs designs

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Little d$5.00 $4.00
Save: 20% off

And Di@legacy 4 life has this up as well as a fantastic offer on her blog ;-)

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Okies, I think I got it all in now- BWAHAHAHAHA. PRAY that by tomorrow this time I will have my connections in place in the house and I will be able to at least start getting back to routine! YAY ;-)

Hugs and loves to all ( PS- thanks for all your messages guys-you don’t know how much I miss you guys too!)

Thursday 10 June 2010

ARRRRRRGH- 3rd time lucky

Crossing fingers! lol. This is the third time I’m trying to post this and between torturing myself getting up at 5am to get to the office with Wayne and Deon ( yup- NO LIES-lol) the last two days just to get online – this post keeps disappearing on me- ARRGHHHHH, think it’s tooo early for a glass or 6???-lol

The house still doesn’t have internet connections and the promised *7days* is now 3 weeks! Which has Wayne’s blood pressure boiling and my poor body clock not knowing whether it’s Arthur or Martha-lol

I came in yesterday to try and play catch up and so some work only to land up most of the day in the dark here with no electricity due to the factory being installed with machinery blah blah blah- and today the network people arrived to install the networks for the office – so it’s been more off than on again! FUN??- sheeeee’s  Moral of the this story is I should have stayed in bed to keep this frozen ass warm today I think- BWHAHAHAHA

So let me show you QUICKLY what the girls have up new at DSO this week -

Loucee has some stunning QUALITY new CU goodies up

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CU Sequinned Flowers$4.00 $3.00
Save: 25% off

Just Passing Thru (aka Nikki) has these awesome hearts!

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Heaps of Hearts$5.00

Color with Caryn has this really cute and fresh kit up too

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A Day At The Park: Full Kit$5.99
Sale: $3.59
Save: 40% off

And my Sis, GS Creations has this awesome CU set up -

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Trinket Mix$3.95 $2.96
Save: 25% off

Don’t miss the fantastic Quality new products up each week while they are on sale ;-)

And before I run again as I’m never sure when I will be up and running around this place I thought I would show you a few new photo’s of my little Nephew Zachery and of course the fam ;-)

My fav’s ;-)

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The family *gran and grandpa’s* pic. LOL- yup doing what we do best too- laughing ;-P

Man- I’m hoping this thing is going to publish now- hold thumbs! BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Hugs to you all

Tuesday 1 June 2010

Home (for a while)

LOL- OY, seems I’ve been missing for years! And it feels like it this side too! I’m home for a week now to sort out Nathan with some food and pay some end of the month bills, as my boy doesn’t like to spend the money we leave him on FOOD- NOPE, he prefers to save it for fishing bait! BWHAHAHA. but he was kind enough to have only 1 litre of milk in the fridge when we arrived back on Friday night- lol. He remembered the last time I came home and there was nothing to make coffee with and I just about died! HAHAHA- so yeah we could make coffee but have nothing to eat with it!

His comment was- but mom I just buy something when I need it- which I suppose is how we all were when we were teens- HAHAHA. My little bit of money was always saved for weekend party’s! Who needed food when you had to have money for some wine for the weekend- BWAHAHAHAH ;-P

Life this side is still upside down, I had to put my poor old PC back together here this weekend to get online as Nathan had already used some of it to make his *work area* a little faster and better-lol. He now has a NEAT setup that will work for me too when I am home.

I’ll be living up in Pretoria for a few weeks and back home for a week or two all the time until such time as we know what and how the company is going to be moving and in what direction. At the moment it’s where the work is and I’m helping my man and best friend in the offices too.

That was a bit of a shocker- OY, I haven’t had to get up at 5am to get to work for many a year so my poor old body had to take a little adjusting! BWHWHWHWHW. We are still waiting for our internet connection to be put in the house up there ( can you say SLOW!!!) –SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE’s.

But enough yakking and moaning- I know I’ll have to get my feet and head back on the ground eventually and I’m sure I will find a routine eventually. Just a huge thank you for your messages and for your patience while my life is *in the air*- literally- HAHAHA

OMG- and of course today is the first and there are a TON of things to show you- you got that coffee already?? lol

Don’t miss this HIGH QUALITY CU GRAB BAG at DSO!

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JUNE DSO Collab Bag *CU OK!*

$4.00

Four full sized commercial use products all in ONE BIG GRAB BAG.

That's ONLY $1 per product!

Designers:
Legacy4Life, Loucee Creations, GS Creations, Just Passin Thru

VALID until 30th June 2010

And this one at DSV

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June 2010 Collab Grab Bag

$9.00

NINE fabulous CU tools and products all in ONE BIG GRAB BAG.

That's ONLY $1 per product!

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100% close ups.

Don’t miss these as they have all been QUALITY CHECKED and are ready to use without any worry about wasting your money!

And of course I just made it today with the JUNE COLOUR CHALLENGE! Phew-lol.

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It’s up and ready to roll- so come join the best group of generous girls on the net! They make fantastic kits that they share with you each month and it’s not to be missed ;-)

As you know my dear little niece Caden was here with my sister Gaye ( GS Creations) a little while ago and Gaye had put up some photo’s on her blog to show you- well I have a few I want to share of Cadens FIRST beach visit- I don’t know who had more fun that day- Mom, Aunty or Caden- lol

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mmmmmm- I think Caden might take after me a little with her laughing- we were making mud pies to try and splash mom taking the photo- hahaha

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Mom having a go at throwing *mud pies* in the water to splash ;-)

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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- so much fun making wet splashes. lol

at this stage we were trying to get her to see that the water was fun as she was a little weary of the *BIG WATER*

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Well it didn’t take long to move into the big waves – and uhum- sorry Mom- we sort of got drenched through everything as Aunty Kimmy saw little fishes deeper and went to show Caden and we were hit by a wave- BWAHAHAHA. We looked like drowned rats walking into the shops later- lol

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And these I just loved so had to share ;-)

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mommy’s girl for sure- she has Mom’s little one eyed frown- lol

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These top two I just loved for the shadows and the way the gulls are in *progression* almost in the bottom one with Caden chasing them- two photo’s that have got me wanting to *take some time* with my camera again-lol

SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- I’ve kept you a while today and hoping that I can post a few more times before I have to leave again.

Sending huge hugs and loves to all