Olive Baker 1910-2008

RIP Olive Baker (98yrs old)

Mar 22 1910-April 28 2008

Sweet Ollie, Your pain has now eased and you are happy. You have been ready for so long! Peace at last our funny, loving, stubborn, happy, still very English Mum, granny and great granny:)

We love and miss youxxxxxx

Some photos to share,,,finally:)

Okay some photos to share...so for those of you who have been waiting to see pics of my new house..here are the living areas and our bedroom.....also i have attatched some of Leighs airbrushing artwork...the dolphin and skull he has done this year and the wave one (plus about 4 more i havent found yet LOL) he did last year in his first year of the course. This one taken from our double sliding doors we use everyday.
My scrap room.
Leighs dolphin
His skull
his waves

Our bedroom
looking from window towards ensuite
taken from couch
looking towards lounge area, from kitchen
from potbelly.

Hope this post makes sense and looks okay when i post it:)

Another fantastic day

I am so glad that there are alot of these at the moment, they are making a very stressful time of our lives at this point in time very bearable:)

First of all a couple of things just for memories sake....darrels granny was taken to RAH on Wed night, we went to visit her in the hospital and while we were there she started to vomit a dark liquid.....after it not stopping they rushed her to the hosp that night and not on Thurs as planned.
Turns out she has bleeding ulcers, she is 98 years old and doesnt want anything invasive done, they managed to stop the bleeding with medication and she apparantly is quite bright at the moment so that is good news,,,,however not sure when she will be brought back here.

Leigh went to an extra airbrushing course on wednesday as he missed the last one because of the school holidays, Brett his teacher was more than happy to do the extra class.
Leigh brought home his dolphin picture, im going to have to take photos of his artwork,,,we are so proud of him and it is what he wants to do as a job later on in life......keep trying to tell him you need maths, english and science but he doesnt seem to believe us.....poems to work out how words work in different contexts, maths to see if what he wants to get on a canvas will fit and science, well maybe he needs something different to clean his air brush machine with, does he know what would be safe to use LOL.

On to our fantastic day:)
First off i was allowed time off for good behaviour to go visit Belinda at RSS. We shared layouts and chatted for a good couple hours...hi B:) She spoilt me with a rak, thankyou so much and yes i will use it all:) Im sorry i brought the stamps you wanted but when we scrap together i will let you share them, hows that:)

I got to the old house where the gang was atabout 1pm and got stuck into stuff that needed doing there......we just got home after being there for 4.5hrs and we acheived SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

We were hoping to just get the laundrey trough in and the tiles done, and maybe get the bathroom vanity in and that would have been great.......

Well we got the trough and vanity in, painted the whole laundry including, door and window frames and the ceiling, so apart from sticking down about 6 tiles under the laundrey it is DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then not to be outdone while the boys were in the bthroom, i managed to cut in around all the doors, windows and power points in Leighs room and half of Zoe's so they will take no time at all to paint...so great,,,,,,

We have just gotten home and i have showered and are in my comfies and i am so going to scrap............there is a blind challenge on at scrap therapy being hosted by Belinda and as i love blind challenges im popping over for a session LOL

okay so for now im off,,,,,not that many people read this but at least it is down for future reading:)
cya char

What a fantastic day!!!!!

After getting up early this morning i decided to clean my scrap room and do a layout using no paper, it was a challenge from Belinda at Scrap Therapy.

Mitre 10 was having a big sale on paint and seeings as we have to paint our old house ready for selling we thought it a great opportunity to get 3 x 6lts of paint and two tins of ceiling white as well....and for spending over $150 (yeehah!!!) we get a free chair and the chance to win a camper trailer...bring it on:) Anyways i digress...

After we got the paint we went out to start painting and lo and behold DH had left the shed keys home so we had to come all the way back to get them...grrr.....while home we grabbed some lunch and the picnic rug as well as the kettle and coffee stuff for lunch.

We started painting the second coat on the outside of the house and we took the guttering off that needs replacing, ready to do that tommorrow........we finally left there at about 4.30.

After getting home i said to daz so are you ready to start picking apples now LOL.....we have SO many things on the go at the moment and ALL of them are priority unfortunately, including BAS, painting, picking apples and scaping the pears.....we will get there eventually and i refuse to let it get to me.......

Anyway after our mammoth effort today we completed the outside of the house and also managed to pick a bin of apples....for those of you who are interested i shall take and upload some photos of our apple harvesting so you can have a looksee:)

So that is why it was a fantastic day!

Tommorrow will bring painting of trims and fixing some facia on the house and the replacing of the new guttering......as well as i guess just final touching up then during the week we will move onto the inside of the house:)

So that is all for today, its getting late and i was hoping to watch Lewis on TV it i some cop show i think......hmmm just looking its only 9pm...time i went to bed...this show isntsupposed to start until 9.45 i might be asleep by then LOL
anyway night
cya charxx

Back from Adelaide

We had a great time away, we only managed the overnight part of the trip, not arriving there until 5.15...it takes 2 and 3/4hrs to get to my friend Kells house in the Hills.

I managed some awesome pics and have been playing with a couple of them.

Now i have forgotten which ones i have uploaded....lol im playing with my new Lexmark printer.....it allows you to chose many different sized photos to be added to different sized pages so im trialling a heap of wallet sized and four other sizes to see what they are like:)

Oh okay obviously the first couple are my sweet little petals:) MrFeral is looking lovely as usual and a bit like Yahoo Serious....but believe it or not this is a cool look:(!

The tiny one of Zoe i took the other weekend and i think it is gorgeous

and some scenery from on the trip, thats it for todays short boring post....im tired and off to bed

Oh its our 19th wedding anniversary tommorrow....i CANNOT believe where that time has gone....i dont even feel like im 20 let alone nearly 40 LOL...isnt it ad getting old hahaha

Sunday

Hmmm today is supposed to be a busy day.....painting, scraping pears, paying bills, organising my menu and shopping for the week, help daughter with a project on naked chickens.....yes they are a real thing LOL

I spent a bit of time in my scrap room yesterday on and off as well as doing other stuff .....we should have done yesterday what we are planning to do today...oh well.

We must get the od house painted so we can get it on the market....while it is sitting there it is costing us $1000 a month in interest:(...........

oh just remembered Dh muttereed something about picking apple too.......at least we can do 2 or 3 hours of everything and get a heap done.

Im so not complaining i love multitasking and doing lots of stuff..... you have such a great sense of acheivement when you manage it all

Am posting a pic of me as a littlie....the girls at Chookscraps asked us to post a pic of us as bubs,,,so here are two of mine:)

Have a great Sunday and catch ya later