The things we do...

Well blogging from the phone seems like a good idea, until you realise there isnt really much you want to say most of the time...

So tonight I am blogging on my phone from my bed (in my pajamas) the other half plays hockey on Thursday nights and as it happened the stuffed the roster this week so his game was at 8 not 7 which means he has been gone since 8 this morning and won't return until at least 10.

So in spectacular single mum style I got all the children fed changed at in bed by designated sleep time in our house (8.30pm).  Normally after that I would love to have a cuppa and just chill for a bit, but in bed doesn't mean asleep for the toddler, so to keep her in bed until she drifts into dream land, I lay in my bed next to hers, until she sleeps... which for the most part leaves me chilled enough for sleep too.

Although laying awake and then having rather vivid dreams has been keeping me in a less than restful sleep state for a few weeks now!

About that energy shift everyone is keen to talk about?

From my phone...

Decided to move up in the world and added a Blogger app to my phone. Que random blogging, at bizarre times, with really bad auto correct features from time to time.

Today randomness is just the ability to be blogging at the dining table, juggling the toddler who will not sit still AT ALL.  Ahh parenthood how I love thee...

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Developing Ideas - Monthly Trift Challenge

So I have this idea... It would be great if people would join me! (Australia only at this stage)

What I want to do is have a monthly craft challenge.
Each month I (or someone) will pick a topic, as an example I will choose the topic of "Easter" for march.

So you are challenged to make something for your Easter table, as a gift etc etc,
but it must be themed around Easter, so depending on your religious background (or foreground) this could be anything from symbols of new life to christian themed or just all about the rabbit and chocolate! You get the idea, it is your interpretation.

The catch is that for $10, you receive through the post, a kit that I (or someone) sends you, packed with all the goodies you are allowed to use to create your masterpiece.

All of these goodies, are to be sourced at a second hand store. Or if there is something specific that can't be sourced that way (such as crystals or thick card), as long as the person organising has had a good go at sourcing these things second hand, I am happy for things to be purchased new. Based on postage costs everyone will receive about $4 worth of thrift product to create something wonderful.

You can add notions to the products in the form of, wire, thread, glue, paint and pens etc. If you are not sure if you can use it then ask :)

You have until the end of the month to complete the challenge, and post a picture or link to the Blog or my Facebook page.

At the end of this time we can either arrange an anonymous swap of the creations or keep your own, or an auction off for a predetermined charity?

So the question is who would like to join me?

Please circulate this post to all the crafty people you know, it is a way to try your hand at something new and challenge us to think outside the box.


March will be $10 for the theme EASTER. I would ideally like to have the kits made up to post by March 5th so they have time to arrive and a few weeks to make.

So I would say cut off to sign up will be March 1st.

You can sign up by commenting here, in the Facebook album here or via email to mindtomat@gmail.com, with your email so I can send you payment details.

Payment via paypal (gift please) or direct deposit.

Well because I have been meaning to for AGES, and this idea makes it extra special to get it out there... Flogging my Blog over at the wonderful world of Glowless today <3

Just another post.

I was just thinking it must have been ages since I posted on the blog! And well it has been 2 whole months!!

4 weeks of that time I have spent hardly any time on the computer, my hubby has had 4 weeks off work and started back yesterday!

So an update, since the last post a lot of things have happened, and also it feels like not much has, you know what it is like!

Those eggs under the broody turned out to all be bad, not 1 chicken to be hatched alive. We sorted them out and decided to give up for a little while because it is just too much and we run out of eating eggs when the chooks are sitting! Then 2 hens went broody, we gave them a couple of weeks without eggs to see how long it lasted and finally gave in. We sent one to the In Laws to sit on a dozen of her eggs and put 6 or so under the other, a week and a bit ago she hatched 4 fluffy little chicks, that are all still healthy and going strong :)
Then the chicken who was on the lot of eggs that didn't make it went broody, so as of a few days back we have a hen sitting on 12 eggs!

So christmas was an event, got some cool things! Kids had a great time! New Year not so much an event, kids all went to bed about 10pm and hubby and I sat up watching TV shows until 12.30 then went to bed, a mere glace at the clock at 12.05 saw a small 'happy new year' from each of us!

Next on the list of things, we had planned to head camping at the beach for my mother's birthday the weekend of the 8th Jan. 2 days before we planned to leave Big Kidlet tripped over the dog and broke her left Tibia. Luckily there was no surgery required but seriously going camping at all, let alone to the beach with lots of sand, with a plaster up to your high thigh is not something that any one wants to do. Not to mention the pain she was in for the first 3-4 days.

So no camping for us! A week after that I had a catering gig for my mum's basket making group. 3 days of cooking for 10 people watching them craft, chatting and then getting in on the action myself with the "Challenge Box Swap"

That brings us to the weekend just past, I headed to a Goddess Workshop on Saturday which was a wonderful afternoon of learning, friendship and love.
The Goddess of the moment was Aphrodite representing Complete Unconditional Love, and for us moving to find ways of "Living the Goddess" ways we can move in our own lives to honour our selves and the Goddess.

Words of wisdom from the day "I am not beautiful like you, I am beautiful like ME!!"

Recognising the beauty in everyone and everything is something most people seem to have lost, but recognising the beauty in ourselves is something that is, not lost but, seen as an undesirable quality.

What a wonderful workshop, ways we brainstormed to celebrate the goddess in you without feeling the guilt we would normally associate with it:

Finish Reading that book, or several, you have sitting in the corner.
Take walks on the beach
Cook a nice meal, just for you!
Gardening

Anything you have wanted to do but have put off because you can not 'justify' the time spent away from whatever else you are doing. Commit to a time in the next month for you to just do that one thing (or 3 x 30minutes) that you have put aside because of what someone else may think or feel. The house work will be there tomorrow.