A Collection of Thoughts

Hip Hip Hooray For Winter

Mel from One Crafty Mumma and I are teaming up to bring you some fun projects with a new Hip Hip Hooray for winter series.

Seven days of craft tutorials and simple projects you can create on all the cold wintery nights ahead. We will be sure to share some winter warmer recipes too - simple ones that you can set and forget so you can keep crafting along.

 Starting next Monday - tell all your friends ;)

 Hip Hip Hooray for Winter!

 

 

Kraft Livefree Cheese Winners

YAY It's time to annouce our Kraft Livefree winners thanks to  the lovely Laura from Nuffnang who was in charge of choosing.

The winner of the $100  Stayz voucher is

Aung said...
Oh Tamar, those peanut butter balls are to die for! My partner & I always fight for them!
To live free, I meditate. Meditation allows me to be focused, be positive & most importantly, be calm. It makes me feel free because I am no longer worrying about what if's in my life


The runner up and winner of the Coles voucher is

Denise Barrett said...
Hi Tamar,
My "live free" moments are spending time with my family, get aways in our caravan, time to craft such as stitching, cardmaking, quilting, knitting or getting lost in a book/magazine and the joy I get from doing "random acts of kindness"

 

 Ladies please email me so I can arrange for your vouchers to be sent out

Yoghurt Substitutions

via foodpinsnow.com

I found this little graphic on pinterest today and of course pinned it :) How good is pinning? What on earth did we do before ?  While we don't use chobani much in our house we do use alot of yoghurt.   Simple conversions to help clean up/lighten up  recipes. Got to love that!

 

When you thought I wasn't looking

This Wednesday I was fortunate enough to be able to juggle my schedule to pop into the girls school for a mother's day celebration.

So far fingers crossed I have been able to get to each one. This year they are in Grade 5 and I am keenly aware that they only have two more mother's day events at school before that chapter closes.

I guess I'm feeling even more vulnerable about being a Mumma at the moment too after the last 20 months and the fact that this year marks the end of my first decade as a Mumma. Seriously where did that time go?

The teachers always go to so much trouble to make things special and this year was no exception. In Talia's class we had the chance to write a letter to one another and to decorate it - with glitter and pom poms too ( of course! )

In Sofia's class the students all made their own card's with a variety of printed elements. On the back of the card was a beautiful poem that made me so so teary.

I had to share it with you. I've recreated it and used a digital frame from Pugly Pixel. You can download it and print if you like:).

 Here is the PDF version - it's A4  size :)

Download When you thought I wasn't looking

I've also had a quick look and found a non religious version too if you would prefer.

Download Wasn't Looking Version 2

Photography Courses

I am a sucker for anything that looks like it may help my girls be more creative:) They love it and frankly so do I! When Mel posted about this earlier this week I quickly added it to my to read later list.

via www.littlesideklick.com

What's not to love ? photo course delivered to your inbox  - FREE for the first three weeks and if you complete the whole course you get a little book with your photos in

 YAY says me.

and then I saw this

Big Picture

Sigh this one is not free - but far out I want to give it a go- and honestly the girls would love this too! They can shoot on their ipod touches. We share an itunes account so they also share apps with me .... and Im thinking for $39 eeek I could almost claim it as a Mother's day gift right?? I'll hit Richard up for that and see how it flies.

I've been head down in a number of personal and work projects over the last two weeks but I'm surfacing again. Expect a little flutter of links and posts as I share some of the goodies I have been gathering in my down time.