Life as I know it ...

Well it has changed I fear. I've gotten a bit of the "dithery old lady syndrome" (apologies to any elderly folk who read this, put it down to me still being in shock over my stupidity).

The other day when I went to Melbourne both myself and the lass I was with both nearly tripped over when we were going into the building. Day before yesterday I went to sit on my chair and it rolled out from under me. Well they say things come in threes, oh boy it did yesterday.

After work I'd parked up at the store I get my fresh meat from for the menagerie and dutifully locked up the car and grabbed the shopping bag and walked up to the curb to step up onto the footpath. Just at that moment my sunglasses fell off the end of my nose so I went about catching those, but forgot about the curb and completely tripped, propelled forward and landed flat on the footpath.

OMG, firstly the embarrassment factor kicked in ... who saw?

Then the pain took over. I gave myself quite a gravel rash on the left forearm, bent a claw in my engagement ring and whacked my right knee on the ground as I went down. A young fellow in his 20's was coming up behind and rushed over to see I was okay. I rolled over and came up into a sitting position and told him I was okay, just let me catch my breath but I'm okay. Then the lady from the shop who saw it came out fussing, helping me up and carrying my bag.

I wanted to scream ... "I'M OKAY EVERYONE, STOP FUSSING" but inwardly my arm was really hurting and I just wanted to sit in the car and cry. After I bought the dog meat I did do just that.

I took off a couple of layers of skin around my left elbow, but that part is okay. It's just darn sore to touch around the muscle area leading down from there. Plus my poor engagement ring, it will have to go to the jewellers as I'm too scared to wear it in case one of the diamonds comes out. And my knee cap has a lump on it.

So is this it? Is this where I start getting clumsy? Well okay ... MORE clumsy than I already am? :-(

I had shown the page of the trail of destruction the other day. Well by the magic of cropping photographs, I did happen to get some nice photographs of my ranunculas without seeing the rest of the de-headed ones! I still can't believe I am actually growing flowers, pretty coloured ones at that.

Credits here.

A garden fair

We went to a garden fair today, it was a glorious day, one of those out of the box beautiful Spring days, which we have not seen many of yet this year. The garden fair was to raise money for the local nursing home, the most amazing gardens, flowers that I've never even seen before, beautiful meandering paths. I could only imagine the fun that Lucky would have to explore this place! ha. If only. There was a craft market in the horse stable area, an art show in one of the big sheds, lovely food stalls to eat lunch at in one of the courtyards, devonshire tea out on the front porch. Wonderful!

I didn't even know this house existed only 10 minutes from where I live, but out of town. Incredible. I actually thought they had a lake, but was told that was the dam, it was so big. So here are some of the photos I took today, hot off the press.


Firstly the house, it wasn't open to the public though, I would have loved to have seen inside.

What is this flower? It had me fascinated. There were a few different ones like this dotted around the property, all different colours.

Okay, I'm in love, I have no idea what this is, I am garden challenged! But isn't it glorious?

And just when I see that one, I walk a bit further and see this amazing colour too. I'm feeling a need to get these for the garden, along the driveway, it would be beautiful. What are they? Someone help me out.

Oh and there was an area in the garden for fairies, lots of little girls dressed up having a great time, face painting, reading stories. I loved that I captured this, see ... there really are fairies in the bottom of the garden.

What a great way to soften the look of an old water tank. There were LOTS of water tanks around the property, you'd need it to tend to all the plants.

Such a cute weather vain. I want one.

Ahh, and fuschias, they are really so beautiful and elegant. I now have a need for hanging baskets with fuschias in them.

I also found a need for one of these cheery daisy flowers that one of the stall holders had displayed. I bought one of these and it's now cheerily staked and sitting in my garden.

How is this for the rolls royce of bird houses. Cute hey?

Beautiful trees with leaves in every colour, and it's not even autumn!

Did I mention there was entertainment? Some music being made.

Yeah okay, I'm a groupie! ha.

What a magical day it was today, loved it. We need to do things like this more often. Time for bed, it's been a long, exhausting but totally wonderful day.

I am here!

You are forgiven for thinking I have fallen off the planet! I am here. My holidays from work finished, and I've been back there this week. I just finished a huge project, shhh, more later about that.

But added into the mix we have had terrible troubles with our phone line, which meant our internet went on the blink many MANY times over the last few weeks. In fact we've had the phone company, I better not say their name out loud in case they decide to switch us off entirely!! we've had them out three times in the last 2 weeks to check our line. Finally they decided to replace the line. We are still getting crackles, but at least now the 'net is staying on. Every time the phone went crackly we'd lose the internet before.

And they can put a man on the moon ...! Hmmmm. Enough said.

In amongst all of this, I got to spend a fabulous day with Esther up in Daylesford, one of my favourite places of the state. It was a glorious day. We looked through some of the gorgeous shops, took in a drag photographic exhibition, most interesting! Then up to the convent gallery for lunch and then to wander through the botanical gardens. So many pretty flowers in full bloom to photograph. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon at Lavandula. Although it wasn't lavender season, it was still a lovely afternoon wandering around the farm.

Creashens has the most fabulous new kit Furever. A must for animal lovers. While I have kept it simple here, there's a huge range of elements in the kit.

When I saw the soft colours, I instantly knew what I was going to scrap. Molly is a big sook, she is laying at my feet right now, which I must say is keeping my feet lovely and warm, because it's a cold day here today! She's never usually far from my side. So whilst I know she's a girly girl at heart, others see a big black dog and they think she's a boy. I had to scrap that!

Well it's blowing a gale out there and has been raining on and off. We are going out tonight to a dinner, but I don't want it to be a long one as the dogs will have to be outside. Whilst Lucky will go into a kennel, Molly is a stubborn old miss and won't, she'll sit outside and get wet ~~rolls eyes~~ So they'll both have their lovely warm coats on tonight.

Be careful what you wish for

I did say that in the last post that I wanted to see Eddie cry, didn't I? And yes he did cry. But I didn't want to see tears of joy. Darn that Collingwood!

That's the AFL grand final to anyone who is from overseas reading this or on another planet if you're an Aussie and have no idea what I was talking about!

Anyone but Collingwood and I would have been happy. Grrr.

I am safe to display this page because my brother doesn't look at my blog, I don't think he even knows I have one, hmmm. Anyway I'm making calendars for Christmas and have just made the first one and it arrived today after being printed by Snapfish. I'm so pleased. Photos will be forthcoming.

I wanted to do something different for the cover, and here it is, using the new Darling Dear kit by creashens, absolutely gorgeous colours, go check it out.

I have an enjoyable day planned for tomorrow where I am meeting up with my friend Esther and we are going to see each other's projects and take photographs in the beautiful scenic town of Daylesford. What could be better than that? Lets hope the weather holds!

Something wrong with me

Is there something wrong with me? My garden, my beautiful new garden which is blooming magnificently, lead a trail of destruction today after the menagerie decided to have some fun in it. There's a trail right through the flowers up on the garden bed. There's deheaded ranuncular flowers strewn everywhere with flowerless stems now bobbing in the breeze. There's a very VERY squished viola plant after Molly's large frame was caught in the act laying on it in the morning sun. I was furious.

I yelled and ranted and raved, and pointed at the plants and growled at the dogs so they knew in no uncertain terms what I was yelling at.

And then the scrapbooker in me took over and had to photograph it all, already thinking about the journalling that would take up the page.

Is something desperately wrong with that?

So anyone reading this, if you've had problems with your dogs deciding the garden is a nice place to be (and mind you it's only been at this stage, flowers in full bloom, smelling very pretty, that they've decided to take an interest). So any ways of keeping dogs out of the garden, apart from erecting a rope fence around it which Mike has now threatened to do, any suggestions gratefully received.

Credits here.

I'm a little over the football for this weekend, the grand final should have been decided last weekend, so whilst I'll watch it, I think it's been a big anti climax this past week. I hope the Saints win and Eddie cries. There, that's what I am hoping for. (nasty piece of work I am! ha)