I need a new camera

Why, you ask................ well my phone has one and I keep on forgetting to download them.  I have a camera that my gremlins keep on pinching out of my hand bag.  My senior gremlin has one. But when I put batteries in it, they seem always to be flat when I grab it.  I need one to take photos of my quilts and other stuff....... 

I'm whinging and I know it...

So dearest family I want a camera, not to fancy one, one that can be thrown into my bag, easy to download and is mine only.  Not to be taken on trips to skate park, football, camps and other places that I am not there.  Maybe a pink one or purple, that is to girlie for you pinch (oh sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrry I mean borrow).  

Gremlins just think, I won't be grizzling, nagging and pestering you anymore about a camera.  Or lack of one.  

Just a hint gremlins, juniors and senior.  Mothers Day is coming up soon.  So no smelly stuff, slippers that are dog fodder, chocolates that I reallllllllllllllly don't need, garden gnomes, mops and Dustbuster.  I want a camera!!!

I hope this message is received loud and clear.

Take care

Suzy

The Great Escape, Man or Dog

What the different between Steve Mac Queen and my sons dog "Nipper".  Well Nipper is still alive and kicking...............................................

Nipper is now UN-officially called "Steve".  He is the best dog escapee I ever met.  Lovely Senior Gremlin has been trying to make a secure dog pen.  Toby "the normal one" quietly sits and watches the other get chased, yelled at, cursed and quizzed when "Steve" escapes.  Senior Gremlin has re enforced, the pen.............. and the dog still escapes.

He also can escape from...............dog containers, harnesses, cars, vets pen and can break into houses....(that is another story)

Nipper has gone under, over, around and bite through the wire fencing material.  Leaping on to the dog kennel, then over, after it being made higher..... was one of my personnel favorite.  

It has been a great watching DH and Nipper, it is amazing.  The concentration, the determination, the damn doggedness of Senior Gremlin fixing this fence.  A dog watching planning its next escape.  Who will win....................... Who will lose.  

Score Man 0, Dog 6.................................................................... DH angry, Dog happy, Us Laughing.

Oh its less then three metres long.  It started with a wood picket fence, now it is a re-enforced two thickness fence.  With pegs, wood, star pickets and bricks.  

Now its ugly, it was pretty.  Now its waiting for the next attack, will it be dog or man....

Does this look dangerous.....................I think not.  We are all waiting, Nipper

Take care

Suzy

M.I.A

Well I am back again.  With DH away in the land of the "feral chooks".  Having the gremlins birthdays and stuff everything time got away from me. 

So what happened...................

Well

Mum and Dads 40th Wedding anniversary

 

Then Oldest ones birthday

(okay it was going to be a giant cupcake)

Then Youngest gremlins birthday

 

So there is my month of cakes................. 

I think this is a keeper month I really enjoyed this. 

Take care 

Suzy

Valentines

Hi,

This year Valentines is going to be sad and happy for me and the gremlins.  The oldest gremlin is away from work and will miss his, both junior gremlins birthdays and Valentines Day.  So its sad I don't get to spend the day with Richard, but he know I love him and I feel that every day should be a Valentines day.  Okay I am the one who forgets.........

The Boys are going to be my Valentines, yes they think its sad.  Too Bad..........

On the Upside, my Mum and Dad are celebrating 40years of marriage.  I spent the day decorating a cake.  Its a carrot fruit cake, the boys are happy about that.  I will post a picture this arvo, when its finished. 

So Happy 40th Anniversary  Mum and Dad

 

From Me and the other two Gremlins

Take care 

Suzy

Death to barbie

Yesterday was a really funny and disturbing day. Youngest gremlin had pleasure in dismembering a barbie doll. Before you band me from never touching a barbie again, please be aware the the said mentioned doll was bought from the “Salvos”and we did buy one that was determinately pre loved, haircut real short and had no clothes.

The D/B is to be used in a cake for one of my girlfriends bridal shower. It might be seven weeks after the event, and I have been dared to make one. Putting it out there that I am going to learn how to decorate cakes has people coming out of the woodwork.

Youngest gremlin would like me to mention that it was me who used the garden shears to cut off the arms. The arms where a tad difficult to pull out. I couldn’t let him completely loose with those.

We where going to post photos, but just in case there are people out there that don't want to see the death we decided not to. I decided to use this one instead.

In a very sad and demented way, why did I found it very satisfying. I am not going to analyze that.

Take Suzy and youngest Gremlin

The Tablecoth Dress

My life here is not always normal, far from it.  Two delightful boys, a husband and now two dogs.  I feel that sometimes I walk into the "twilight" zone.

Take for example the "The Tablecloth dress".

Well late last year we the family had a wedding to attend.  I had decided to make a dress, instead of trolling the stores. Store shopping scares me, I mentally work out the fabric costs and making times and feel ill.  It is the bargain shopper/sewer coming out in me.

I found a beautiful a beautiful cotton sateen in the furnishing department where I work, okay it was on the clearance table.  I love the colours, so I bought and made.  I wizzed it out in less than two hours, whoo hooo I thought, done and dusted I thought.

Oh no not in my house. I proudly walked out to show the boys, feeling on top of the world.  It had hidden all the yucky parts, and looked pretty and me look taller (ok, it could of been the 12cm heels).  I swanned out, feeling damn fine, hot to trot, red carpet ready.  My delightful three gremlins told me I was "great", "beautiful", "looked not fat", "happy", "okay for the wedding", "don't kill yourself on those things".  Self confidence on top of the world.  Ready to take on the world, and the family wedding.

With that, the happy gremlins all depart..  

The oldest child gremlin walks up towards his room saying himself

"I still think she looks like a Tablecloth on legs" Yes I heard.

Yes I did make another dress, same pattern but dark gray.  I wasn't loosing the shoes... Still haven't wore it either.

 

Simplicity 2886

Take care Suzy