Funny, funny, funny

This is such a funny post from one of my favourite websites Re-nest, 13 Products That Are Unnecessary & Wasteful. Though I don't know about wasteful it is certainly a laugh!

Watch out for the woman and the teddy bear, ummm you'll see.

Great laugh!

Now I don't have any kids, we haven't been blessed with any little ones yet (hopefully soon!), but I think these pictures would make a great first time parents baby shower gift (especially for the Dad's I think).

Check out the blog post by Tanya Gilmartin on her blog Scrap bits & Paint under my nails for all the pictures. Defiantly keeping these in mind for the next baby shower that I go to.

Couldn't stop laughing when I saw them, even my WH (wonderful husband) was chuckling when I showed him.

From a different angle

I was checking out some blogs today and I came across a challenge that I just had to try. Becky Higgins set her readers a bit of an assignment, set down your camera, on a table, bench, where ever, and most importantly don't clean up. Ouch!

That is what I did, I went and got my camera and put it down on the dinning table and pressed the button. Here is what I took

There is my computer, my bamboo pen tablet, the album I keep my vintage postcards & photos in, the glass of water I have been drinking, by pencil case, paper & pen, my bible concordance left over from my morning bible study and our pet bird Curios's butt.

I will admit that this is a rather clean table for our house, last night we had bible study at our place so I spent most of yesterday tidying up from the bomb our house had become having had two sick people living in it for the last couple of weeks. Felt good to clean away the signs of all the sick people who have been curled up on the couch creating piles of tissues.

Take the challenge to see the everyday from a different angle and see what you see.

Inspiration

This past Sunday the youth from our church took over Sunday service. It was the most inspiring and uplifting experience. I always knew that the youth at our church were mature and wonderful people, but I had no idea at their passion or how inspiring they could be.

We had three of the youth give mini sermons, one about the importance of giving to the poor (not just financially), one about being a christian in the army (very eye opening), and about how her faith & relationship with God was shaped by the influence & inspiration of her little brother who lost his battle with cancer about 4 years ago. Loads of tears! Wasn't enough tissues in the place.

And lastly the talent! Especially from those we did know could play instruments or even sing so well. We knew that they were nervous, worried about how things were going to go, but you couldn't tell when they were up on stage.

This is defiantly a service that people are going to be talking about for a very long time, and I really think that they have reached the hearts of almost every person who was at service. So proud of you guys! Wish I had taken our camera, but I think that I will remember every minute of the service for a very long time to come, it really touch my heart and lifted my soul.

My next project

One of the best things about not having a job to go to is the ability to do all those things that you said or would have said 'Maybe one day if I had the time" to. I have the time. On a side note keeping busy keeps you sane. I have done a few projects around the house in the last year, cleaning and reorganising mostly. But also a couple of bigger projects, no-dig-veggie garden and the redecorating of a chest of draws in our bedroom.

I have found the next project that I would like to tackle, it is essentially an art piece. In our home I have two places on two walls that need something. I have an idea for one, I want to create a display of the photo's that myself and my WH (wonderful husband) have taken. For Christmas last year my WH gave me three of my photos that he had printed out and framed, they are currently displayed next to our TV unit. I am not happy with their placement that think they would make a bigger statement if they were displayed, along with photo's that my husband has taken, on the wall across from our front door. In that location they would also make a great first impression as you walk in our front door. The space that the photo's would leave has been perplexing me for awhile now, I look at it every evening when we sit down to watch TV.

I think that I found it, I was doing one of my favourite things this arvo, which is surfing the ETSY website for videos when I came across a how to on a great art work.

You can view the video here.

The thing I really like is that it is sort of killing two birds with one stone. I have been shredding some pruning that I have been doing in the backyard (when it is not raining), but my shredder doesn't take anything bigger than 40mm round. So I am accumulating a pile of 40mm and above branches. They would be prefect to use to create something like this (and they are free!). I also have almost all the supplies.

Yep, defiantly my new project. Will let you know how I am progressing and the end result!

Lets travel through blogs again

Traveling around the world without leaving my couch. Today we are starting with the blog belongs to Ali Edwards. I came across Ali when I was an obsessed reader of Creating Keepsakes Magazine, where she had a regular column 'Studio A'. I enjoyed the column so looked her up online and have loved getting a glimpse into her world, her family & her creativity. Down the side of her blog you will find under the heading 'Observe' 'Creative Links'. And this is where I am beginning our trip.....

Stop 1 52 Projects, originally a blog for creator Jeffrey Yamaguchi to write up projects that he had done or indented to do. Also for those projects to be a starting point for others creativity (pretty cool). The idea went so well 52 Projects became a book (awesome!). Sometimes there is text, sometimes you just a picture (loved Sidewalk Danger).

Stop 2 Hula Seventy, super cool banner! Belongs to Andrea a freelance photographer. Love the pictures she sells on Etsy. As with my blog Andrea uses her blog as a journal of her daily life and the lives of her family. Absolutely love the pictures of the Epic Rainbow Party, yummy cake!

Finally.....
Stop 3 Totally admit I have chosen this blog simply due to the name.....angry chicken....yep....angry chicken. Very cool name and great blog banner too. Angry Chicken is a blog by Amy Karol. She also has an Etsy shop and is a very talented sewer.

Downstairs finds

We are fortunate enough that underneath our house we have a huge storage area, we use it has a laundry, movie room, garden shed, workshop and storage space. Though it does get quite messy (very very messy!), so I every so often I go down and go through the boxes that we have stored down there. I find that I am more likely to get rid of stuff the longer it stays downstairs, I am less attached to the stuff. So I am down stairs looking through boxes and I came across a purple box, inside was just an amazing flood of childhood memories.

I was never a badge collector, each on I got for a reason. Whether it was the necessary badges when I was a Girl Guide, or the House badges from primary school. I spread them out and couldn't believe how many there were! Also found a plastic bag with badges that belong to my husband so I added them to my collection.

I have to do something with these badges to display them in our home. The memories that just hit me as I was going through these badges defiantly deserves to be on display. Even my WH (wonderful husband) had a moment when he saw the badges I found that belonged to him.

I think I know where I would like to make a display, it is just the how that is perplexing me. Frames? On a piece of fabric? Or just hung straight on the wall with clear hooks? I will have to do some more thinking.