Sick Puppy…

Poor Pepper is sick today. She threw up all over our bed last night (we weren’t sleeping- it was just in the evening), and in the night she threw up twice. She was very quite this morning, and I just tried to give her lots of fluids…
Is it weird that this actually makes me want to have children MORE? I just love looking after her. She’ll forever be my baby.

Quite Pepper...

Because of that (and because we’ve been putting together all our new furniture and cleaning up  the various areas of the house) I haven’t had a chance to edit any photos to show you, or to blog about the quilt show I went to on Saturday or ANYTHING!! Here’s a slideshow of the Quilt Show. If you’re viewing this in a reader, then you might need to click on the actual post link so that you can view the slideshow.

Also, have you had a look at my new blog, Cooking For Two? If not, I’d really appreciate you having a look and leaving me some feedback!

Tags: blog, cooking, pepper, photos, puppy, quilts, slideshow

Keeping Memories…

You may have noticed that I have a very cute little plugin on my blog for showing other posts that might be of interest to you, when you finsih the post you’re reading. I myself was very interested to see what other posts came up, as some of them stretch back to the beginning days of my blog, back in January 2007. I stumbled across this post which I wrote after Luke and I had been married for six months. In the post I more or less talk about how I’m managing my time now that I’m married, and where we will be when we hit the ‘one year’ mark. Well, it’s recently been that same time of year again, when we’re half way through another year of marriage (!!). I thought I would exam where I thought we’d be, where we really are, and make another prediction for the future!

Well, we’re definitely spending more time together- and making regular date nights every week, to make sure that we’re doing something special.We’re balancing life and uni and work, only now it’s Luke at Uni, and me working, and Life? Well, it just seems to happen all the time!! I have become some sort of a work-a-holic, where I need to spend more time there then I actually get paid for, but I think it is worth it. We are doing a great thing, and Luke and I always make time for each other.

I DO have my sexy Digital SLR, HAVE finished Uni, and DO have more time for blogging. Yay! We are definitely a year closer to having a baby… I think. Actually, maybe we are year further away, cause we’ve changed our minds! Haha. But we’ve been talking about it a lot more, and deciding on some foundational areas on parenting years away from having one. It is a good feeling, even if Luke doesn’t like the awesomely cute girls names I like. Ladies, HOW DO YOU CONVINCE YOUR HUSBAND ON AWESOME BABY NAMES?! I am totally in love with the name “Avery” at the moment. It is the sweetest thing I’ve heard in ages!

Haha, one of the last things I say in that post is “My other thing I am constantly working on (but getting much better at) is apologising immediately after I say something rudely, or in a huff, or hurtful. Wish me luck!!” This cracks me up, because yes, I am STILL working on this! But I am a bit better…!

Beautiful images captured by the scanner!

Above is one my latest creations- some scan art! I love making these, because they are super beautiful and easy to make! They can also be really beautiful and meaningful. I started doing it ages ago, and think I might take it up again! Here’s one I did back then…

This lace is from our wedding invitations, and ribbon from my bouquet. LOVE.

Tags: 2007, 6-months, balance, beautiful, blog, images, life, marriage, memories, reminise, scanart, Uni, wedding, Work

The grey in the morning…

This morning, as I looked out my window in a daze, I saw grey… something, pushing up into the air. Smoke! I thought. Oh man, there’s a bushfire on the other side of the gully!! I look closer, and try to wake up. I tilt my head and reslise it doesn’t actually look like smoke, it looks like water. LOTS of water, gushing up into the air.

I roll over to Luke and wake him (he doesn’t like it). “Can you see that?” I ask, and point out the window. The grey there behind the two trees, on the other side of the gully. He sees it, and thinks that it’s water.

I get my phone and call Dad, and then while I’m getting ready for school, Luke and Pepper investigate. They discover a BIG hole in a BIG pipe, and heaps of water IS spurting out everywhere.

Anyway. Dad gets the water turned off, and fixes it at lunch time. So by the time I’m home from school it’s all fixed!!

Oh, btw, my first ‘proper’ day of school today- teaching the whole thing. It went pretty well! I’m blogging my reflections using pretend names etc. over here. Check it out. I’ll probably just blog the exciting and fun things here! Like the HUGE big ‘tv’ I made them today out of a fridge box. Will post photos tomorrow when they’re in it!!

Tags: blog, dad, fixed, leak, pepper, pipe, Prac, reflections, School, water