Posts Tagged ‘todo’
Bunting: Inspired by Danimezza
Sometimes I feel like I am a glutton for punishment. The busy kind of punishment. I have two weeks until life stops and we have a break from regular life for a month. Two Weeks! I can’t believe it’s only two weeks till I’m on a plane to Europe!
That means it’s also only two weeks until I walk down the isle as bridesmaid for the lovely Carmen. Between now and then my list of things to do includes:
* Dinner with Mandy & Marty
* Craft Group
* Doctors (nothing serious- just more thyroid checks- eugh)
* Eyebrow wax and a Facial @ skin
* Two days of assessment development seminars
* A moroccan night @ Naomi’s
* Package up gifts for the mini-swap I’m in and post them
* Plan savoury food for kitchen tea etc. Cook said food (started making the breadsticks today!)
* Carmen’s Kitchen Tea and Hens Night
* Our 3 year Wedding Anniversary and a dinner (nothing very extravagent- we’ll wait till Paris!)
* Dinner and dancing practice for the wedding (can’t make the wedding rehersal because of work)
* The wedding!
* A #$*t load of work. Much more then two week’s worth!
Even with my crazy long list I’m feeling confident that I the next two weeks will be enjoyable and full. I love my life when it’s crazy.
I’m adding to the list is some bunting I’ve been wanting to make ever since I saw the bunting Danielle made over at Danimezza. I thought it would be perfect timing to make the bunting now and (if the other girls like it) use it for Carmen’s hens celebrations. If they don’t like it then I will just use it for other things!
Below: The fabric for the bunting cut into the triangles!
Yesterday I also spent some time with my cousin, Marcus, and his fiance, Emma. They’re getting married in April and asked me to help them with some ideas for their wedding invitations! I’m pretty excited to help them out, will be even more exciting that they’re thinking of using my scanart idea for the invitations!
Tags: bunting, busy, emma, europe, list, marcus, todo, wedding
24 by 24
So I turned 23 back in May, and since then I’ve been putting together my 24 by 24. I really love having this list because it helps to keep me focused when I loose some motivation or inspiration!
1. Make a coffee date dress
2. Loose 12kg (total, since start of WW- am currently at 6KG lost)
3. Go to Europe!
4. Taken out a huge bank loan for our investments.
5. Read through 3 more books of the bible
6. Drink at lest 1L of water every day.
7. Keep Shabbat better
8. Start an online shop of my bags/crafts
9. Fit into my skinny jeans again
10. Hold an art exhibition
11. Continue with my Creative 365 and post every day
12. Cook at least one new meal each week
13. Create more screencasts and tutorials for this blog
14. Scrapbook our Europe holiday
15. Play at least 2 songs (well) on the saxaphone
16. Develop a (free) creative thinking online PD for teachers
17. Expand my fabric stash
18. FINALLY buy Nigella seeds- I have to be able to get them from somewhere!!
20. Sell something in my etsy shop
21. Publish and distribute a ‘zine
22. Support Luke in his creative endeavours
23. Become an ‘expert’ bread maker (read: not have to buy any bread from the shops again, just live off bread I make)
24. ‘Finish’ my photo/”C” wall
Tags: 24, birthday, inspiration, list, todo
Exceptions To The Rule
We’ve been making a Woodfire Pizza Oven at home over the last few weeks. In one weekend, after so many weeks of waiting, we basically put it all together and started the first fire and batch of pizzas!
Dad was putting the render on the outside, and showing Luke how to do it so he could help. The rule was “Only push the render up, don’t drag it down the pizza oven”. So that’s what Luke did. Later, towards the end I noticed Dad putting the render on sideways. I didn’t say anything, but I thought to myself, “there are (almost) always exceptions to the rules”. I know that for me, there are the odd exceptions when comic sans IS an okay font to use (I know it’s hard to belive…!), or that in cooking, sometimes odd flavours work, and that in craft, sometimes colour combinations that shouldn’t work, do. We can’t be too stuck in the rut, or 100% sure that the ‘rule’ is right.
Now that pizza oven is up and running we’ve used it quite a few times. It’s lovely to sit outside and enjoy some company, and relax. Perfect on these hotter nights! Here are some snaps of the building process:
Oh, and this also means that I can cross something off my list of things that needs to be finished!
1. Making the Christmas pressents for everyone <- very important!
2. Finish making Christmas quilt <- also quite important!
3. Finish bathroom
4. Finish woodfire pizza oven
5. Clean study
6. Edit photos for Pete and Rhys, and edit Video from Hayden’s 18th.
Those last two stare and me, hating me, but I WILL get them done. Eventually. :-S
The slideshow below goes through some of the stages of making the oven. Not sure if you’ll be able to view it in your reader, so if you can’t just click through and view in your browser!
Tags: creation, dad, exceptions, list, oven, pizza, rules, todo
