Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
April Colouring Competition! Yippee!
Okay. Here's the dealio:
1. Choose any of the pictures below (or all of them) and click on the one you want. It should come up nice and big. Print it out onto paper.
2. Colour the picture any way you like, using anything (crayons, pencils, textas, glitter, coloured sands, torn paper....). Have fun with it!
3. You will need to scan it back into your computer and make it a file that you can then email to me and I'll upload it to the colouring comp. photo album on our Facebook page. Please include artist's name and age.
*Closes 30th April 2009, drawn 1st May 2009.
*Winner's name will be posted here with their picture and be the title photo of our album on Facebook. I will email the winner with gift certificate.
*Open to children from 1 to 10 years of age.
1. Choose any of the pictures below (or all of them) and click on the one you want. It should come up nice and big. Print it out onto paper.
2. Colour the picture any way you like, using anything (crayons, pencils, textas, glitter, coloured sands, torn paper....). Have fun with it!
3. You will need to scan it back into your computer and make it a file that you can then email to me and I'll upload it to the colouring comp. photo album on our Facebook page. Please include artist's name and age.
The winner will get a $30 gift voucher to spend at beyond pink and blue!
My 2 little girls will be the judges.....*Closes 30th April 2009, drawn 1st May 2009.
*Winner's name will be posted here with their picture and be the title photo of our album on Facebook. I will email the winner with gift certificate.
*Open to children from 1 to 10 years of age.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Detox update #2: on the home straight!!
Well nearly.... have started week 4 (our final week) today.
Week 3 was a toughie because we were fasting. It was a liquid fast for 7 days.
Our daily menu went a little like this:
Upon waking: veggie juice
Mid morning: herbal tea
Lunch: veggie soup
Dinner: veggie juice and small salad
Before retiring: miso soup
We could have a small salad at dinner if we wanted to and a piece of fruit with morning juice.
It was really hard by day 5.... thinking of what we could chew on, looking at what others were eating!
I suggested to Mr bpab that perhaps we could shorten the fast a day, but he said no.
Then yesterday, Mr bpab was complaining about having to eat another miso soup etc..... he was really struggling too. I felt rather weak yesterday and just wanted to chill out watching movies. Instead I went food shopping for the next few days worth of food and then drove 40 minutes each way to see my very sick Vovo (grandma) with my sister. (It was her only day off....)
Also was very edgy during the week and the kids were tipping me over the edge.
I've come out to the other side and have lost 5kg in the process. We had a beautiful lunch today of brown rice, homemade tomato sauce, steamed tofu, carrot, corn on the cob and seaweed. I enjoyed cooking it all too! Lots of love went into our first meal!!
Week 3 was a toughie because we were fasting. It was a liquid fast for 7 days.
Our daily menu went a little like this:
Upon waking: veggie juice
Mid morning: herbal tea
Lunch: veggie soup
Dinner: veggie juice and small salad
Before retiring: miso soup
We could have a small salad at dinner if we wanted to and a piece of fruit with morning juice.
It was really hard by day 5.... thinking of what we could chew on, looking at what others were eating!
I suggested to Mr bpab that perhaps we could shorten the fast a day, but he said no.
Then yesterday, Mr bpab was complaining about having to eat another miso soup etc..... he was really struggling too. I felt rather weak yesterday and just wanted to chill out watching movies. Instead I went food shopping for the next few days worth of food and then drove 40 minutes each way to see my very sick Vovo (grandma) with my sister. (It was her only day off....)
Also was very edgy during the week and the kids were tipping me over the edge.
I've come out to the other side and have lost 5kg in the process. We had a beautiful lunch today of brown rice, homemade tomato sauce, steamed tofu, carrot, corn on the cob and seaweed. I enjoyed cooking it all too! Lots of love went into our first meal!!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Welcome to new brand: Red Chalk
How fun are these??Red Chalk is a Queensland based clothing label, imagined by graphics designer Kate Perry.
This Winter the collection of hoodies, jumpers, dresses, leggings, tracky pants and skirts are exploring the joys of food and why animals love what they eat!! (Well.... not too sure if oxes eat spinach, but the littlies won't know that!)
We've got hoodies in charcoal and red and crop jumpers in charcoal at the moment. More stuff coming in over the months ahead.
Proudly Australian made!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Eye Spy... a new development
I have some shocking news to share!
I have officially started sewing again! It's been a few years and I have mended things and dabbled in an odd project here and there, but it's been so hard in the past to keep going. The girls are older now and I can concentrate on crafting in bigger blocks. When Chai was a bubba, she was on my knees while I was busy sewing Carmon & Chiley stuff, it was a juggle and that was what I did as a 'job'. Many of you reading this do it now.... it's amazing what we can do when we have to just do it.... as well as not give up doing something we love.
I got to the point of it being all too hard to juggle and my heart wasn't in the business any more. I think I needed a rest from constant sewing and selling at markets etc! So that was it! I stopped sewing and Carmon & Chiley was no more.
It was such a relief!
Years later.... we are here and I see so many of you sewing and crafting. I'm so inspired by everything I see going on around me. My creative juices are flowing again and I yern to sew and create!
I've been 'waiting' for the right time to set up my sewing area (thinking this is what I need to do to get sewing again... so I don't have to pack up all the time and keep things out of every ones way.). Well my mini-shop/warehouse/rainbow comfort packs storage area is full to the brim at the moment. My idea was to have the sewing area in there as well..... so I have been waiting for things to clear up in there and then I'd set up the sewing area.
Stuff it! We've worked out a little corner of the dining room for my 'temporary' sewing area. It's out of the way of everyone. Soooo, I started sewing yesterday and the above photo shows my first project!! Yay! I'm making the girls a chenille bunny each, from fabric I've had stashed away forever. We'll give them to the girls for Easter (cutting back on the whole chocolate thing a bit me thinks!).
Feels so good! Will post again when they are finished.
So that's a new development for me!! (Wow... I think I've just had some therapy there! Sorry for rambling on.)
Thanks to A Little Bird Told Me for this weeks great theme.
Join in the fun by clicking on the Eye Spy button on the left.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Time for new Winter shoes.....
If your kids are anything like mine, they'd be complaining about their current shoes: "mummy they hurt!" "mummy my feet are getting wet!". Yes? Sounds familiar??
Sounds like baby needs a new pair of boots!
Here are my favourites from this Winters range of boots and shoes from Yunginz:
The great thing about Yunginz is the fact that they last. After one child finishes with them, which is often in the same season (!), you can save them for the next child or pass them on or even sell them. Kids need footwear - there's no doubt about that! (Although my 2 yr old refuses to wear anything other than her too small sandals at the moment, but she's also a nudist...)
Check out the whole range of Yunginz here.
Sounds like baby needs a new pair of boots!
Here are my favourites from this Winters range of boots and shoes from Yunginz:
The great thing about Yunginz is the fact that they last. After one child finishes with them, which is often in the same season (!), you can save them for the next child or pass them on or even sell them. Kids need footwear - there's no doubt about that! (Although my 2 yr old refuses to wear anything other than her too small sandals at the moment, but she's also a nudist...)
Check out the whole range of Yunginz here.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Enter our competition with Style Collective
We are offering up this gorgeous bird mobile to one lucky person!
If you want it, better enter:
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