Pepper Carbis, on the couch, with the computer

WOW, Monday already! That came WAY too quickly! Does anyone else feel like this whole YEAR is blazing by, quick as anything?! It’s nearly mid April for goodness sake!

Our theme this week over at Hello Owl’s My Place and Yours is “Where do you blog”. My answer is- on the couch! Yep, kinda not very ergonomic, organised, inspiring or comfortable- BUT it’s where it gets done! In fact, this is where most things on the computer get done!

I like having my special girl next to me when I’m blogging or browsing the inter-webs. She is so cute when curled into a tight little ball!

Some of these girls on My Place and Yours this week put me to shame BIG TIME! They are so organised!! How on earth people STAY organised is beyond me. I am quickly scrambled as soon as I do something…

Also, my big news to tell you is that I’ve reached over 100 fans on facebook, so I’m doing a special double giveaway!! Yay!! I THINK I’ve decided that I’ll giveaway 2 bags (details to come), which I will make, BUT I think I’d like to make it before I start the giveaway… so stay tuned for that one in the next week or so. P.S If you like this blog, and you’re not already a facebook fan, then pop on over and make my day.

P.S The giveaway is bags, because, as far as I can tell (from comments and the survey I did), my husband is the only male who reads this… :-S If you’re male, and you read this, let me know, and I will make a special giveaway item in case you win!!

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Kim’s Kitchen Tea

I love my friend Kim. She is fun, and ALWAYS smling. Her fiance, Morgan, is great. He’s cool, hip, and lots of fun too. I think they are the most beautiful pair.

Last Sunday was her Kitchen Tea, and we celebrated and gave lots of pressents and played some games. I love games at events like these.

All these photos were shot of my Canon 400D. Aperture/SS etc. vary. Sorry- was trying to capture the moment and not focus on the details too much!

Tags: kim, kitchen tea, party, photos, wedding

Purim

I hda mentioned in a previous post that we were celebrating Purim, but hadn’t then shown you the awesome photos from the night!

The story of Purim is this: Mordecai is a bloke who does the King of Persia a favour, and then sits at the city gate. The king’s new Prime-minister, Haman has a bit of a problem with Mordecai because he won’t bown down to him when he walks past. This is because Mordecai is jewish, and yeah, he will only bow down to God. So Haman has this plot to kill Mordecai, which turns into a plot to kill ALL the jews in Persia. Esther is Mordecai’s cousin, and she is the Queen. She’s also jewish.

Haman manges to get the king to agree with his idea to kill them all (not knowing Esther is jewish) and Haman then casts lots to see when the murdering will be done. Mordecai and Esther find out about this plan, and they urge all the Jews to fast and pray for three days, and at the end of the thrid day Esther plans to seek an audience with the King.

Esther has a bit of a feast with the King and invites Haman and Mordecai. The two do not get along… but Esther invites everyone back for a second banquet the next weekend. So they have the next banquet and Esther tells the King that she is jewish, and that Haman is going to kill all her people (including her). Because the decree has already been made he can’t back out on it, but he lets Esther and Mordecai write a new decree, and they make it so that the Jews can fight back. Lots of people die, and Haman is executed by the king. Mordecai because the second in charge now, and creates an annual rememberance of the time the event, so that everyone can remember when the Jews were saved from annihalation.

WOAH. So, that is what Purim is all about. Traditionally the things you do are dress up in fancy dress, give each other gifts, gamble and drink. We did pretty well all of it except our gambling was without money (we played poker), and our drinking was minimal- everyone had to drive home!

It was a really, really fun night, and everyone got really dressed up! We did a ‘secret santa’ (for lack of a better word/phrase), and lots of chocolate went around!

Tags: celebration, feastofthelord, festival, jewish, purim