well course it didn't end up that way, i fed jon late (7ish) and then pete got liam to come in and wish me a happy birthday and everyone got to play on the bed and give mummy her presents and no sleep in. *sighs* i was so looking forward to it too. ahh well.

We intended on playing outside as the kids have a brilliant backyard here. Pete got everything set up we were out there 5 mins before liam got bitten by an ant and freaked out and pete had had enough and took everyone inside. =(

ahh well. I got some lovely pressies from the money my family sent all craft items which is a LOT of fun and will end up with some brilliant results once i get better at it lol. I wasted a stack of wire yesterday trying to work it all out lol. learning experience!! will get better i am sure lol.

its funny though so many ppl tried to rib me about getting closer to 30.. 30 doesn't bother me though? 26 did as thats the first fertility drop in women, and probably i'll have another wig out before 32 as thats the 2nd one and its HUGE I want to have had my 3rd bub before then as its a good gap too.. but 30? not so much? I'm odd apparently (like thats a shock to anyone who reads this!)

but yay birthday stresses over for another year. I hate them and love them all at the same time. it always ends up sh*t either due to ppl not calling, over expectations, etc etc it always seems at the end of the day there is someone upset for some reason. I really need to chuck a buffy and just not celebrate the damn things.

hooray!

It's my birthday!! Yayy!! I'm now 28 (which btw dear husband is NOT middle aged =p ) and I'm up past midnight making my birthday cake (well cupcakes)

I'm rather looking forward to the morning I get to feed jon at 6am and GO BACK TO SLEEP for as long as I want!! Then we are getting up having brunch outside setting up the jumping castle, the train ride and all the outdoor stuff and having a few friends to visit. Eating way more then is good for us of course and finishing the day with a glass of wine as jon is actually taking a bottle atm. (when he was ill I tried everything to get fluids into him apparently the glass baby bottle works for him!)

can't wait!

spoilt lil buggar I am!

It's my birthday this weekend and my darling husband gave me some money to play with for it!

I have arriving soon
- 5 metres of chain
- 4 different types of connectors

and a HEAP of gemstones! I went in on the migem buy with a forum which meant we got 50% off!!

so i have
Blue quartz
Black dragonscale agate (i love love love this stuff)
Red garnet
malachite
mother of pearl
Snakeskin jasper
rose quartz
Turquoise
Onyx
red coral
lazuli lapis

all on the way!! and it cost me under $100 US!! unfortunately all rounds other then like 2x and they were sold out of 2 of my items so I need to buy some different shapes and some pendants but YAYYYYYYYYYY

and just for fun
1 x Thing-A-Ma-Jig Beginner
1 x Beading Loom
1 x Spiral Maker
1 x Coiling Gizmo

so yeah my bday day is going to be VERY quiet and I'm getting a cake and thats it but lol my postie is going to be bringing me pressies for weeks!!

I'm sooooooo excited lol. I got the email saying part of my order with the forum had arrived and just about did a dance lol

productive day

This necklace has driven me nuts. I got an order a number of months ago for a specific teal/aquarmarine bead set i used to have.. much stress occured because I am out of the beads and the store is brisbane based and rarely comes to the gold coast plus added bonus its a really rare colour and despite going to every store i can think of nowhere had anything similar.

So I made last night a backup just in case necklace lol. Its very oceany with the waves and the teal and marine blue bicones BUT its not what she ordered. ARGH! Highly amusing though the beads she wants? are literally $5 a strand, lovely colour dodgy quality.. the backup necklace? components cost heaps lol. and i am missing the cheap beads?! lol

I find that amusing. Also the matching bracelet which I may play with some more as I think it needs at least one aqua accent and possibly to be made a lil bit smaller.

But otherwise a productive day. Also had another crack at the Sami necklace and think i have it this time so will mail that off this week!

Finally getting my mojo back after the time away from it all due to being ill.

Now I need to find some child free time during business hours (time I won't get in trouble for using the drill lol) and can finish off the floppy disk notebooks! wish me luck?

OMFG!!

omfg bleach 233!! this is going to make sense to maybe 3 of the people who read this blog but i have to squee or i'll run around in circles.

my god that was brilliant. bleach is sadly peter and my's football, we cheer and yell and yes i yell at the characters we debate whether items are canon or filler, we get HYPER.. and oh this episode was all that and more.

utterly brilliant. and now i have to wait 5 days till the next ep *cries* SQUEE!!

woot my swap gift arrived!!

my gift arrived!! And luckily after soo much stress and worry my swapper loves it!!

unfortunately due to the one item rule the matching earrings are sitting on top of the fridge driving me crazy but YAYYY she likes it!!

I can't even explain how much stress i had about this swap normally you pick out something a wahm makes and don't really worry, or know the person enough to know if it will suit.. this time I was lost. Handmade it myself and didn't know the member very well so stressfest.

I ended up literally making 8 or 9 designs from skulls, to my first attempts at polymer clay, a watch, a ring, all sorts of things (and some true disasters my attempts at netting just didn't work lol), and having to beg for ppl to vote on facebook lol. so yeah I was REALLY REALLY nervous, but yyayyy all done.

now i just need wems and maddies parcels to arrive (come on aust post!) and stressfree! well at least until i am well enough to finish the orders that are sitting here calling my name.

did have fun last night though for my birthday pete gave me some $$ so i went in on the migem buy and bought some gemmies, and on etsy bought some settings and chain going to have a ball! now just need to learn how to wrap wire *sighs* ahh well its all a learning experience right?

so very blessed

I love when you have a day and you spend the whole time just looking at the kids and beaming. And awed by the joy they bring into your life.

Jon is just adorable lately, to give an example, we caved and went out to do the food shop at IGA today (like 10% of whatever we spend goes to liams school its brilliant, costs more then everywhere else but we walk out feeling good about the extra cost) jon is sitting in the baby seat section of the trolley and keeps tickling petes tummy and cracking up laughing. He was trying so hard to be sneaky too would wait till pete was walking normally (instead of holding the trolley at arms length) and ATTACK!! and cack himself completely. Was so funny and I love seeing his lil personality develop!

And liam is amazing now when you go out and about. For years we dreaded going out with liam as you'd walk past the food sections he'd dry gag and carry on, he'd panic if peter and i weren't both holding his hands all the time (to the point one of us would walk more then 10 cms away and he'd just start screaming for whoever had walked away, yell help, etc it was horrific) now he is fantastic, he actually eats while out, he doesn't run off, he is so grown up now. It amazes me how far he has come in the last year and a half since he started school its just amazing. He is now vocal (can ask for a drink, a sandwich, tell you the characters of mario, ok thats pretty much it but its much better then it used to be!) he is sly at times which gives me the giggles. Comes up 'I want cuddle mum' (its heartbreaking the sentence is so broken up and slow but he knows what he wants to say) you give him a cuddle and he reaches over and grabs the mouse and closes whatever you were working on lol. or then says 'I want computer mum' which means he gets the pc even when its not his routined time as he asked!!

He is completely mario mad, and loves using MSpaint on the pc, still won't draw using paper and pencils or paint unless you basically force him which I HATE to do as art should be an enjoyable experience. Can you believe my lil big man is 7 now? It just blows me away how grown up he is, it doesn't seem all that long ago he was this TINY lil baby!

But yeah we had a really good day today, I love my boys so very very much and I'm so blessed to have them in my life. And I think its needed sometimes to have a moment where you just reflect on everything, where you have been, how far you have come and where you want to eventually get as well!!

just for mum swap!!

wow.

I took part in an NC swap where for once it was something just for us! most of the time when you buy or plan or create its something for the kids but for once we said no, and decided to spoil ourselves a little and create and give something with mum in mind.

I must admit this swap gave me soo much worry I ended up with total i think 8 designs made for my swapper in mind, and asking for votes on facebook because I couldn't decide which to send lol. And yes it will probably cause me anxiety until the moment i see the omg thread on NC.. and i know my swapper who had me had the same worries and concerns but my god the amount of talent, time, effort, knowledge, and caring that went into my item is mind blowing,

its perfect and I love it more then i can say and am feeling REALLY spoilt.

I got in my favorite colourway ever a truly beautiful piece of knitwear. Just look at these pictures and drool, isn't it incredible!! I really feel like apologising to my swapper lol the bar has been set wayy higher then I think I aimed!!

Absolutely amazing.

Also I got gifted a beautiful pair of longies for Jon, as I had a semi custom spot in her store before it closed. Unfortunately since jon is still spewy I didn't get to try them on him (its happens everytime for some reason you put on a piece of clothing that needs to be handknitted vomit occurs, or a brand new nappy within 5 mins theres poop!)

And with one lovely parcel and a very sweet letter a VERY VERY bad day (still not cleared from SF grr) became wonderful. It's amazing the impact a person can have on you and your environment isn't it!

This week is world breastfeeding week, a week to celebrate to promote and support breastfeeders!!

Sadly for a developed nation our breastfeeding rate is dismal, despite the health benefits for both mother and baby (reduces the mothers chance of developing breast cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, reduces the chance of the baby developing so many diseases for example leukemia, cancer, diabetes, gastro conditions, obesity to name just a few!!) it is a truly sad day that so many mothers choose convenience over the bubs health, or cave to social pressure to bottle feed.

as wbw draws to a close, cuddle your lil one and celebrate the fact you are giving them the best start in life, the best foundation to build upon and helping their and your health at the same time!!

images borrowed from http://www.babyblues.com/ one of my favourite comics =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

sadly they deleted the lego version of this. but this is one of my fave songs atm liam adores this and super mario twins hehe.

whenever i am down this always makes me laugh =)

kind of productive day today. one of these i'm looking for input on whether to rip it apart or not.. sadly obviously i didn't get to spotlight to buy some more chain so i tried to make the sami with what i had here.. and i'm not sure if it works. I may have to either redo it with tigerwire (which looks cheap) or wait till i can get more chain?

rose quartz is so lovely never thought i'd like a stone thats well PINK! but its healing, all about love, health, and all the good things in life, it makes a really heartfelt pressie i think and despite the whole pink thing i think its becoming one of my fave gems!

also i made tee's soaps today which meant the entire house smelt like ck1 so basically the entire house smelt like some blokes armpit *shudders* and some soaps for his chickiedee, sadly still haven't found a good horse mold!

everyone is still sick as hell and also having real problems sleeping due to the issue of laying down = can't breathe.. so sitting here babbling till i fall over from exhaustion lol.

Looking at the photos today apparently i had a very pink sort of day.. odd for me! rather uncharacteristic lol wonder if its thats the swine flu speaking? =p a virus that not only makes you horribly ill but rather feminine? christ we'd have ppl running for the vaccine hehe.

bed is finally calling my name bye all!

why doesn't spotlight have better online buying functions?! though honestly 3/4 of the time when you go there the staff are bloody clueless so really its not surprising is it.

I need more chain, i need some connectors i need a display bust.. i need to not be sick so i can go to spotlight =(

i caved today and ordered a stack of stuff from coles delivery dvds for the kids, magazines for dh and myself, heaps of treats stuff it if we are housebound for 2 weeks i'm getting us some fun stuff!!

so tempted to go into spotlight with the medical mask the doctors gave us.. but i really wonder how much good a few pieces of plastic do you know? and i'm not so much of a git to endanger other ppl because i need a few bits and pieces.

sorry wems, sami, swappee, maddie, your stuff is here to be posted off but lol i can't get near a post office!!

what else? oh I booked one of my favorite photographers EVER for a shoot for jons birthday, going to do a cake smash http://molliekphotography.com/blog/category/cake-smash/ see here for examples, and get some family photos, traditionally cake smash is done for first birthday but I hadn't come across them before jons first birthday so eh just lagging behind a year!

sadly jon seem to be suffering a lil from 2nd child syndrome, photos of liam are EVERYWHERE but jon has a collage, some piccies in the digital photo frame and the canvas pics which we haven't been able to display since we have 2 of jon in canvas and none of liam. (though liam has the bronzed feet and hands where jon doesn't.. i don't think i'd be able to explain that to liam though!)

http://www.mihajaphotographyblog.com/ this is carolines blog, honestly her work just melts me, i walk away everytime i look at her photography awed, impressed, determined, clucky and feeling very small and talentless lol just amazing.

I'm really excited about it which is a pain as its months away lol. and yay means we get photo christmas cards again this year!

jons having fun drawing on everything with chalk lol the things you put up with to keep them happy!!! liam is having a ball watching paper mario you tube videos.. yet doesn't actually like the game?! odd child! its sadly 4:30 so time for everyones medicine again. god i can't wait till this bug buggars off!!

no idea if this will work but will give it a try anyway!!

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someone put me out of my misery

what a truly horrible night. I spent the night alternating between vomiting from coughing too hard, crying because literally EVERYTHING hurt, feeding jon as I kept waking him up with my coughing, shivering despite the 3 blankets I had piled on me. So got up at 7 and hopped in the bath due to the sore body/joints etc and despite having it as hot as I could without burning myself sat there for 20 mins shivering.

can i just say I don't like this bug? off to the doctors again as jon is now hacking away so yay more time being treated like a leper (they give you the full medical masks and everyone stares at you lovely!!) you would think considering how contagious this bug is doctors could do housecalls instead of hey possibly infecting a room full of people.. who then can infect other people.. yay bright idea there.

it does mean though I can buy some more strepsils as the coles delivery dude brought us subsitute ones as the lemon and honey were sold out.. orange strepsils taste like feet i swear.

always fun!! doctors appointment in less then 2 hrs. hooray.

some guest soaps

I have been working on the food theme for a bit mainly coz myself and my family have a bit of a sweet tooth and hey whats better then sweets that don't go straight to the thighs?!

Working on a big glass jar full of foody soaps and items of a few varieties.. eg homemade strawberry lipgloss (sweetened with candycorn flavoring) sugar scrub soap for exfoliating, and wee sweet guest soaps

The piccie here is the jersey caramels, everytime I smell these my mum comes to mind which is just weird (she passed away when I was little and I don't actually remember her eating these?! no idea where the association comes from lol) I am determined to mail some of these down to my aunts when I finish the range!

These are strawberry licorice allsorts, I don't suggest making these with sick kiddies as got called away, distracted and yeah the end result shows rather clearly my attention wasn't wholy on what I was doing.. but eh its all a learning experience!

Also made cobbers (chocolate milk fragrance, caramel centre then more choccie milk as u can never have enough.. actually millions of teens have proven that sentence to be incorrect but the theory is valid =p )

I am meant to be finishing the Sami necklace and bracelet set tonight but with us all being contagious not allowed out and about so eh it can stay on the to do pile for a little bit!

Everyone is still really ill so sadly many more days stuck in doors so saving up some projects till I go crazy from boredom!!

always good to plan ahead!! hehe

hope your day has been more productive then mine!

a contagious lil household

sadly everyone is ill at the moment, liam lovingly shared his bug with us all and now the house is constantly ringing and echoing with the sounds of barking coughs, and zombie people moans from aching joints and chests .

shuffling along miserable, exhausted and yes contagious.

Lovely.

I had intended on today finishing a few sets of jewellery and doing some wee lil guest soaps but instead I have spent the morning cleaning up poop, vomit and trying desperately to keep cranky cabin fevery and just plain fevery children happy.

lol a wonderful start to the blog =p

A new beginning

Since lj got slow and dull a few years ago I have been blog less but have decided to make a new beginning and start again as it really is the easiest way to keep track of the kids achievements, my learning curve and share what is going on in our life with friends and family!!

You more then likely know all of this if you are at this link but heres a quick rundown anyway (feel free to skip =p ) I'm Amy (27) happily married to Peter (28) and the mummy to 2 beautiful boys. I'm very passionate about a number of things (mcn, breastfeeding, disability awareness and support) currently learning to make jewellery and body products (soap and the like!) and am into video games, comics, sci fi fantasy and completely mad about my boys. Hoping to in the next few years add to our family, and desperately doing the countdown till we move later on in the year!


Peter is a computer programmer, very into webcomics, video games, sci fi novels and our lil family (of course hehe)

Liam is now 7 and he's completely mario and yoshi mad, loves the computer, addicted to youtube, the trampoline and painting (mspaint) loves his lego, his ds and his little brother!!

Jonathan (commonly called Jon) is 20 months and growing and developing so quickly it takes my breath away. He is train crazy, loves musical instruments, stacking rings and drawing (especially if there is a clean wall handy =( )



(tune back in now if you skipped the dribble)

so thats my family, our interests and yes if you found that dull this isn't the blog for you lol.

crying munchykin bbl (i have the feeling this is how many of my posts will end hehe)