As you can see I have a new blog! Good ole WordPress wouldn’t let me upload any more photos for free, so I have changed because hubby didn’t want them to have our money when we can get it for free! Are we cheap, or frugal? Anyways…hopefully I can make my blog look pretty in a few days. I will search out a tutorial, and try my hand at designing (with Jared’s help of course).
Since I have not blogged for the last week, I have so much to show you. Now let me think, what have I been up to? Um..Sport last Sat for Lachlan, and then a 50th Birthday Party for a friend at night.I was racking my brain over getting her a nice gift, but what do you get someone?? I saw this magazine in the op shop, and my little brain started ticking.
You can see why I would like it right? Well, I started a little bag straight away, and this is how it turned out.
It’s a special little bag to put a teacup into when you go to a craft group etc. Jared said “huh?”, but I thought she can use it for whatever she deems necessary. In the back is a pocket for a spoon etc. I had a cheap spoon engraved with her name on it.
I was so excited to give this present to my friend, I suppose I was like a little girl giving an egg carton caterpillar to her mother…I hoped she liked it. 
Why does it feel like you are giving away your baby when you make something and give it away? Just as well I like her eh? On a side note, it was a “Mocktail” party, so everyone was dressed up, very dressed up. I realised that I need something nice to wear, because I don’t have a lot of clothes. I was nearly embarrased, but hey, they are a nice group of girls, so I didn’t get any side glances or anything.
On Sunday Jared went off to Morwell, to conduct communion, he took Camden and Alycia with him. I had Steph, Lachlan and Cassandra and we went to a local church. We heard a great sermon, and they had communion too. When we were told to come up to the front seats, I hesitated and wondered whether it would be a sin not to take communion, at the last minute I got up leaving the children and sat in the fourth row, behind the regulars. I nearly died when the minister called out my name and pointed to the first seat at the front. During this time, I was trying to focus, but not having had communion there before I didn’t know how they did things. I copied the person after me. Then we had to sing a Psalm, I left my book behind, doh! So I took the Elder’s who was facing me and about 100cm away from me. Ok, so he looked awkward, but hey, he covered well. The drama of it all.
The reason for staying local is that Stephanie had to perform at her teacher’s house for some experience before her first exam. There were about 10 students there with their parents. Steph was the only one who didn’t make a mistake. She had to play three songs, and announce them. I seriously thought that she was going to vomit, then and there, but she pulled herself together, and did well. Meanwhile unbeknown to me, empty lolly wrappers were falling out of my pockets, adding a colourful array of rubbish on the spotless tan carpet, doh, and double doh!
Yesterday Steph had her exam. 5th Grade piano, she came out smiling, she survived, in fact, she said that enjoyed it. I am proud of my girl, and Jared too, afterall he taught her right up until this year, and gave her a love for good music. After the exam, we filled in four hours at Ikea, had luch, and did some other shopping, the we picked up Lachlan from school I hate driving in the rain in peak hour. I become evil goofy behind the wheel, calling people all manner of names (clean names of course, just creative ones). This is a photo of relief, relief after an exam.
Oh, an this is Cassandra, who would have thought that those roll up crayons for $2 at the reject shop could be used for eye shadow, just so you can look like Cinerella!
Here is a sneek peek of some of the items featured in the book.
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I also made a reversible headband for Cassandra. 
