Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Happy Wedding Anniversary - SURPRISE !!

In April it was my cousins 30th wedding anniversary and a surprise party was arranged for he and his wife. It was a total surprise with the event being held at their home. They had gone out for the day and as soon as the coast was clear the plan of attack was put into place.

Here they are cutting the cake....
Here Karen is teaching everyone how to eat a Ferrero Rocher. This is very technical and involves eating it layer by layer...Unfortunately it takes a lot of practice so lots of chocolates had to be consumed - lol.
Speech time ...........

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Beautiful Wedding

Just prior to Easter my hubby and I were invited to attend the wedding of the son of a good friend of ours. It was held at Maleny Manor - an absolutely beautiful venue with the most glorious views. They were so fortunate as up until the day before we had inches and inches of rain however the rain held off for the Wednesday but came in again the following day.
The cake was beautiful - sort of a light lemon flavour with cake that just melted in your mouth.
And the bouquet.......
Rather then driving home that night hubby and I decided to stay at a Bed & Breakfast at Maleny Hideaway. It certainly was hidden away from the road but this is the view from the dining room where breakfast was served.
The welcome committee at the B & B ...................
This darling dog met us at our car when we first arrived and took us to reception. As soon as we were settled into our room he came around for a visit and a bit of a pat - lol.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Splish Splash

Yesterday I decided to have all the dogs hydrobathed. They hadn't been washed for a few weeks and with all the wet weather were getting rather dirty and starting to 'smell' like dogs - lol. I do usually wash them myself but with my arms being the way the are at the moment thought I would splurge and have them washed instead.

They are all so different with their baths. Heinzie - after being very reluctant to start with - realised what was happening an then started to almost nod-off in the tub. Who wouldn't with lovely warm water flowing over you.

Then came Shadow who wants to bite the water coming from the nozzle all the time. As long as she has her treasured ball to play with she will leave the water alone but then chased the ball around the tub instead. Unfortunately Shadow like to continuously shake so that the bather ends up as wet at the bathee....lol.

Lastly Coco - I don't think he'd ever had a hydrobath before. After plopping himself down in front of the doorway was finally coaxed up into the tub. At first he was very hesitant but after a bit totally relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Here is Coco having his bath.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Inchies and Tags

In the past two weeks I have received some wonderful things in the mail. I was part of a couple of swaps at Craft and Scrap where we made Inchies and Tags to share with other members of the forum.

These are the tags:-
And the inchies. (Inchies are little decorations which are only 1 x 1 inch square.)

Friday, April 3, 2009

I've Received Another Award.!!!


Many thanks to Sam of Sam's Scraps and Sigtags (aka 3littlehelpersdesigns) for giving me this award. I was completely overwhelmed as I don't ever expect to receive anything - I just blog because I like to.

The rules are very simple. Choose 5 friends to pass this award onto.
So now I pass this award onto:-
June - Censloft
Stella - Stellarificcreations (also creativebystella)
Suruha - Suruha-freespirit
Mitsybelle - Mitsybelle
Franny - Picklebeans (also here at her other blog)

Still RAINING

More rain today although just showers now. Checked the rain gauge this morning and there was 158mm there (over 6 inches). It is very welcome good soaking rain although some places have unfortunately had flooding. At least all the gardens have had a good soaking going into winter so now all I have to do is make sure everything is well mulched. Tomorrow morning is supposed to be fine with more rain coming through and lasting the week. Am sure to be quite batty by next weekend then - lol.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

What a WET WET WET Day

Wow - it is soooo wet today. It poured all last night and unfortunately I wasn't able to go for my morning walk as it was still bucketing down. Hardly stopped all day. Usually I start to climb the walls and hang from the ceiling fans on wet days - hate being cooped up inside but today I had physio so Judy, my friend, took me to that and then we stopped at a couple of craft places on the way home for some retail therapy. Well what else are you supposed to do on a wet day. It has eased off somewhat tonight with just showers and not constant rain.

Hi to Everyone

Hi to Everyone, thanks for browsing my blog. These are just my ramblings about nothing & everything happening in our little bit of Australia.

This year I will be sharing with you my love of paper craft.