I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.........all together now!!!!!!!!!

Okay so it's been quite a while....we are sort of disease free in this house for now.... tomorrow is another day!!
did I say MERRY CHRISTMAS???? No.....
Merry Christmas to all I hope you all had a wonderful day....
here are some photos of what we have been up to since I last blogged
below is my challenge layout and beside it the prize I won.....can't wait to use them.



















With Christian we made gingerbread men for the kindergarten Xmas play and party
















Christian dressed for the Christmas play...the top hat was made by me



















We were treated to Bugs Bunny on ice by Noni (Eleni)



















The happy godson with his godmother after the show. Here he is sucking away on a bugs bunny lollipop should have thought of buying it before the show to keep him sitting still!!!!!



















Pulled out the festive pot for Xmas morning!!! I adore this tea pot















Christian opening his first present...look at that smile














A digital camera sent by his Grandmother in Australia...it was the best present he hasn't stopped taking photos I need to buy him a 1 giga memory card!













A beautiful gift from my inlaws................



















Christmas lunch............I pulled out the Rosthchild dinner plates to honour the occasion














In the afternoon Yorgos arrived from Paris and here is Christian playing with his gift....apparently Yorgos waited in line an hour for this helicopter......nearly every parent in Paris wanted this helicopter for their son.....lucky C!!














Here we are enjoying a more relaxed Christmas dinner of French wine (Yorgos kindly packed a few bottles) and cheese......













Christian and his camera....note he is in his pyjamas and he is still taking photos....

















I wanted to add these as they were so cute, we had a crafting afternoon and the boys got their hands dirty with paints and stickers and thus the result...very cute.











Well the pics say it all........
Later...........

Wake me up when it's spring!!!

Hey there......I am sick........yes again......remember the sleepless nights I was talking about?? well they took their toll.
I have no energy and I am starting to freak as Christmas day is not far away I still have so much to do!!!
PTA meetings
making costumes for C and his little friend (kindergarten Xmas show/party)
buying new shirt and shoes for the occasion (C again)
checking who is coming on Xmas day
checking with the caterer (I am not cooking for 15 people NO WAY)
gifts for said people
organising gifts for kids at school as it is C's nameday it is traditional to offer a sweet....
Haircuts for all
wrap presents
organise house because where on earth am I going to 15 people for a sit down meal!
prepare guest room as first house guest arrives on Xmas day will stay for a week
bake cookies and mince pies!!!!
I think I need to lie down now....................
I managed to do a layout this weekend for a challenge on the Greekscrapbooking forum...a little dramatic but I love it....

Rockin' robin.......

Yesterday I finally finished with this years Christmas cards!! yeah!!
I always start them too late then they seem like a burden instead of a pleasure maybe next year will be different as I say every year!!!
Anyway this sweet little robin (3D sticker) was so cute that something funky had to be done with it....I adhered him to lime green cardstock added some lace and colourful snowflakes, inked it up and I liked the end product so much I decided not to give him away!!

I have this weekend to get started on Shimelles class because then I have to get started on C's costume for the kindergarten Xmas play...He has to wear a suit but I am not going out to buy a suit for a five year old so I decided that I will make a vest and top hat out of cardstock do you think that would work??.....well I will surf the net for ideas....

Later...........

To all the anarchists in the room..........

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain (1835-1910).........

I thought this was very apt and relevant in light of what has been going on this past week in Athens.

Quick bring the fire extinguisher!!!!!!!!!

Do you think I have a fetish???...................

Large tree in the sitting room.....and yes that is a carpet on the ceiling!!! I am sure any HI Fi freak will know why there is a carpet on the ceiling...........


















View of the large tree by the fireplace.......oh my god there is carpet on the wall as well!!!!















I also have a tree in the kitchen....cheesy isn't it??!!!




















Christian's tree..........and extremely messy room!!!














There is another tree in the tv room........
Do you think I need therapy????.............


Later...............

Ba hum bug...now is that a word?

The sadness is too much to bear......I feel for the parents who have just lost their 15yr old son, shot dead by a policeman....I also cannot bear the pure rage and hatred these anarchists have in their souls to destroy a city, their city, their hometown??!! I am boggled. There has been so much destruction that Athens will take a long time to recover.

I thought I would have a lot to say on this topic but I feel like something broke inside me and I feel numb so I will talk about something completely different and upbeat.....

Well I got my mojo (scrapping that is)back!!!!doing a happy dance.......
I managed to make cards for an on line card exchange. I made Christmas balls ooooppsss I am supposed to call them baubles!!! more snowflakes.......and now that they are out of the way I will start on Shimelle's Christmas journal.

I will be back soon with photos.....can't hang around as I have to pay some attention to C otherwise he will start rioting in here....

later.................

Bartender...make that a double

I haven't had a decent nights sleep since September 2007..........why?.........DAYCARE!! that's why, ever since C started attending the cesspool of germs and snotty noses he has been sick. It was so bad that the first week saw him in hospital after picking up some mutated germ from some ankle biter (I am allowed to say that as I am a mother!!!!!!).

We have not been the same since. Now that he has started kindergarten it's mucous mucous mucous coming out of 2 orifices I suppose we will be in the Guinness book of world records if he manages it else where!!!!!Ughhhhhh

Sooooo last night at 3am the hacking started and so began the crying and the whining (from me LOL) seriously the little man was in a bad state so we managed to get all the gunk out of his nose throat and chest by this point it was 0345.......this drama goes on every night...thus the lack of energy and I have lost my mojo.

I didn't get any cards done yesterday as my brain could not function clearly or creatively enough for me to make a dent in the list.....but I did play around with my snowflakes I am so loving these....they are Basic Grey chipboard shapes I painted them then added" glitter snow" that's what the package says added more glitter some jewels and mirrors....the pics do not do them justice but what can I do???


And here they are on the tree......





















Bartender.............. hit me again.

Tick tock

The top of my pet hate list (it's not a very long one)is lateness tardiness etc....I hate it I want to be on time and early if possible!!
Sooooo this morning the alarm did not go off I woke up because C was having a coughing fit. I jumped out of bed and my blood pressure nearly went through the roof it was 0730 Arghhh.....
We managed to get dressed and be out the door in 15 minutes world record for us as C is a dawdler!! (is that a word..and no I am not going to google it!!) Dental hygiene and any other sort of morning hygiene ritual was ignored as we had to get out that door...disgusting huh!! He is only 5 how smelly can he be????????
I digress...
Time is an issue to day as I still do not have a head start on the card exchange I am involved in, let alone cards for family and friends.
I am taking a deep breath and forgetting about housework today and concentrating on tackling those cads today .....
So I will post some pictures later...

If anyone is wondering what I was thinking about when I gave this blog the title "the limitations of thought" well those 4 words are from a book I read this summer called ' A New Earth: Awakening to your lifes' purpose' by Eckhart Tolle.

These words hit a nerve this summer, they made total sense to me and they are what drove me to keeping a journal this summer. Something I have tried to do for years but never follow through.

This book was therapeutic I highly recommend it.
I will share some more snippets of my favourite parts of this book in later posts.
later.....

Sooooo....ok I have finally done it I am putting myself "out there" as was advised to me today by a very close friend.
Why have I started this blog today on the 3rd of December??? no particular reason apart from the fact it was about time, as I have always wanted to share my ramblings and my crafting, in particular my passion for scrapbooking.
So here is where I will share my passion for all things crafty and whatever else I maybe obsessing about......
So here's to a new blog, one of many thousands.........