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Hullo cupcakes!

Don't that word just make you wanna smile!!

No stories, no adventures, just a cupcake moment. 

Have a fan-tabulous weekend at your place.

Thanks so much for stopping by my place today.  

P.s. taking a moment is early, but sometimes early is good.

Especially when it's cupcakes.

Go on say it with me, just once more. . . . . cupcakes.  

See, made you smile just now huh!!  

Feels good too huh!!  

xx

'round and 'round

Another busy week ahead.

So busy.

This week will go fast.

I want to savour it.

I want to enjoy the kids I get to spend my time with.

I want to enjoy my own kids too.

I feel like I am going 'round in circles.

They are happy circles, but I still get dizzy.

Sometimes I like being dizzy.

But just for a little while.

I noticed there are lots of circles in my kitchen tonight.

Lots of circles.

They are round you know!

Yes, circles are round!

You just keep going, and going and going. . . . . . . 

around.

Thanks so much for stopping by my place tonight.  

Are you a little dizzy this week too?

map it out.

With our little caravan, two travelling adventures behind us and two little boys that are now into how far and where they have been . . . . . . . 

we decided to pin our stopovers onto our beautiful Map of Australia, which we purchased on the very last day of our most recent trip here.  

Each trip will have its own colour, and we have pinned only at the places where we have stopped overnight.  There are just not enough pins to do the day trips as well.  

This is now hanging on the wall.

Such a fabulous reminder of the memories we have created together.

Such inspiration to plan the next one.

Thanks for stopping by our place today,

here's cheers to a great week.

*clink* *clink*

sock it to me baby!

I know its my Friday b-r-e-a-t-h-e moment, however that was this morning.  

and now is now (8.45pm Friday evening).  It's a long time since my 'take a moment', and besides I am so excited I just HAVE to share.  

Fingers cold and stiff, current gloves too cumbersome and slows down my typing big time, so frustrating I ended up just not bothering to try and keep my fingers warm whilst typing my assignment today.

Study break from the cold depths of the cold part of the house, 

to the warm end of the house to thaw out and fold washing, 

*sniff* a fave pair of my socks, almost on their 'last leg' - will be sad to say goodbye to these. . . . . . . 

as I turned them in the right way, possibly for the last time, I stopped. . . . . . 

I grabbed my scissors. . . . . . . . 

I opened up my machine and set the stitch to zig zag and I stitched around where I had cut. . . . . . . . .

within about 2 minuties - *pffffft* cold hands - Not I says Joyce!  

 

 oh my wrists just loves these, they are so so soft and so so warm.  I can type faster than the leaves scuttling up the street in the howling wind, I can roll them back when I hang the next lot of washing, I can look at the flowers that now adorn my wrist and I can smile.

Hello sock hands, how are you today?

b.r.e.a.t.h.e. . . .

You can complain because roses have thorns, 

or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

-Ziggy-

No stories, no adventures, just a quiet moment.

It's a bit earlier today, I have to remind myself of my own advice.

b-r-e-a-t-h-e- Joyce, just b-r-e-a-t-h-e- - - - -  

Thanks for stopping by my place today,

many blessings to your and yours this weekend.  

p.s. all photos taken by me, unless stated otherwise.

This was taken in May 2011 at Cockington Green, Canberra.

Neck warmers

Still loving this scarf pattern.  

This is the scarf completed from this post.  It was super quick to hook up, and I just love it, especially with this dark purple top.

This can be either a scarf or . . . . . . 

one of my loop-a-liscious lushness' by stitching the ends together.  

These are all for sale.  I am not scared about taking the leap for these, cause if they don't sell, then they get to live with me.  When I tried each one on to photograph, I was rather quite tempted to not put it up for sale, and the next one and the next one.  

Please forgive the 'model' if you can call her that.  It's scary hair day, as in washed it, and head banded it 'cause it was my day off and that's just how it is.  Also my study books don't seem to mind if my hair is done or not.  

Thanks for stopping by my place today.

I hope you are having a lovely week at your place.

School Holidays Wrap Up

Trains. . . . 

long lazy breakies. . . . 

cupcakes. . . . 

preparing to socialise with friends. . . . 

puzzles. . . .

puzzle helpers. . . . 

snuggling with new books. . . . 

the very odd quiet beachy moment. . . .

living here. . . . 

It's been a wonderful second week of the school holidays for us.

Caught up for lunches with friends, walks, play dates, snuggling, eating, games.  What clocks, what schedules, who cares!  It's the way we like it - kids just being kids, you gotta love that!

Thanks so much for stopping by my place today.

If you have been on holidays, we hope you had a wonderful time too.