Nothing much to report

The last week or two seem to have just flown by - not sure exactly what I've done but I know I was doing something!!

The exciting news is that I'm off to Brisbane on Thursday for a couple of days and to go to the Pregnancy, Babies and Children Expo... am really looking forward to this! I've been wanting to use modern cloth nappies instead of the traditional cloth or disposables so this will be a great chance for me to have a look at a couple of different types. The amount of choices out there can do your head in but I think I've pretty much figured out what I want now - until, of course I get down there and find a heap of new things! LOL This time I'm hoping to take heaps of pics as it will probably be the last chance I get to go and stay in the city for a while now!

Oh, here's a pic of how my belly is looking at the moment....

It's really starting to feel like the kid is starting to run out of room big time and things are starting to stretch. Have also been getting jabbed in some internal organs which really hurts at times! My stomach also feels like it's somewhere above my belly button now - weird!

On the scrapping front, I haven't really done much in the last week or so. Have been to 2 crops but have mainly just been making backgrounds and playing around with paint so I have nothing finished to show for it. I've also finally given in and joined up on Facebook. There's a group of ladies on Essential Baby who are all due around the same time as me so they've started a group on Facebook so I thought I really should join up... I've been avoiding it for ages now as I already waste so much time surfing the net that I didn' t need another excuse!

Well, that's about it for today - must go and catch up on a few things before I go away!

Can't type... brain melting...

Well, baby brain has definitely started to kick in for me now! Find myself remembering useless bits of information but not the important stuff - sometimes someone will tell me something and it will take a few seconds for it to actually sink in so I probably have some dumb blank look on my face for a while there. Even my fingers seem to be suffering from a severe case of dyslexia today as this post is probably taking me twice as long to type as normal!! And just think, the worse is probably still to come....

After all my exciting mail in the last week or so - today was a crappy day for mail. Got a bill from the real estate in Brissy for over $1000 and it said it was due today! Like they've got any chance.... rang them and it's all sorted now. Have I mentioned before how much I hate real estates??
My other bit of wonderful mail was a notice for jury duty... now ordinarily I don't mind doing it - have done it once before and kind of enjoyed it and it is my civic duty... blah blah blah. However, it's for two weeks starting from the 28th July - the day before my birthday. We were hoping to be visiting my Mum and Dad before the kid is born then, also I'll be 32 weeks pregnant at the time - surely that's good enough reason to get out of it?? Isn't it? Man, I hope so....



Have started doing this workshop with Samantha Kira, the first assignment was about finding your space and getting away from all your "stuff", being outside and creating with just a few bare essentials. Well, I didn't go outside but I did go upstairs in the lounge room and just used some different pens and oil pastels. Totally different for me - no photos or patterned paper which I normally use. I do like them though and I had so much fun doing them.

On another topic, yesterday was the first day that we have officially banned our cat from the upstairs of our house. Our cat is extemely moody and I just don't trust him to be around a baby without doing something to it. We put up our baby gate at the top of our stairs and shifted some furniture around downstairs so he has his old bed back to try and distract him from the fact that he can't go upstairs whenever he wants. Last night was he tried to come up and saw the gate and just kept meowing at us and looking at me with sad kitty eyes like he was saying "Why don't you love me anymore?". I felt so guilty, like I was doing something really mean to him.... kept thinking to myself "Don't give in, don't give in..". I guess I'm getting some practice at saying no before the real baby comes along.....

Bye for now!

Just Appalling....

I was watching Oprah today and she had a show on about puppy mills in America and the state in which animals are kept. It was just disgusting how the animals are treated as nothing more than breeding vessels to keep producing more and more puppies. My initial reaction was.... only in America could it be that bad.... it wouldn't be like that here in Australia - which I guess is a pretty typical reaction for Aussies. I WAS WRONG!!

There are puppy mills operating here in Australia which supply pet stores with pets for people to buy. I just don't understand it - I remember doing my Year 12 work experience at the RSPCA and going in to one of the sheds to find a ute covered with a tarp. Out from under the tarp I could see fur and little paws sticking out a bit - it had been the day when the euthanised animals that were either unwanted or too sick to be adopted out. Why have these puppy farms churning out all these dogs just to have so many spat out at the other end through animal shelters and such?? Not to mention the horrific lives that the breeding mothers have - being kept in cages all their lives in terrible conditions.

I found this blog and this website which tell you more about puppy farms in Australia, I also "borrowed" the above pictures from their site.

On happier news... I have managed to do a bit of creating over the last couple of days so here are a look at some of them....

Playing with paint and hidden journaling - hid the journaling so well you can't even see it anymore! LOL

Also had a bit of a play with some masking fluid on this one.... didn't quite work out like I thought as the masking fluid was a lot runnier than I thought it would be...


Did this next one a while ago... reminder to self - Glitter paint takes a LONG time to dry!

I like this next one cause it feels all light and airy - you can't really see but there are seed beads stuck in some of the circles.

Well, that's about it for today... BYE!!