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Rebecca and Scruffy

Senior Room Pastel art

Rebeccas third prize for her Pastel Urban Art

Painted stones Rebeccas is the big one in the middle with pink on it

Just after the leading

Ag Hort Day

Callums playstation cake

James mi mi

Well we had a good Ag Hort Day yesterday and the rain held off for most of the judging. It did pour down in the middle of the day which was a shame.

Rebecca enjoyed her day. This was the first time for us to have entered a lamb so didn't really know what we/she were doing. She got a second for leading so she was wrapped with that. Scruffy behaved really well. Vun didn't do so good but did get a merit ribbon which he was wrapped with. Both lambs and kids enjoyed their day. The boys reckon next year they will enter a lamb. There were some beautiful looking calves and a gorgeous Hereford Bull who looked stunning for the occasion.

James got a second and third for his craft entries - which were off the page scrappbooking. Rebecca got a third for her pastel drawing, Callum didn't get any certificates and was disappointed but we have explained to him that thats they way things go and he does have his rugby trophies / certs. His teacher did comment on his cake and said he thought it was a great idea.

I am really impressed with the senior rooms pastel art work. All the pictures looked awesome and I have three original art works to frame!

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Well I dropped by to upload a couple of photos but it doesn't seem to be working this morning.

Ag Hort Day has arrived today and both boys baked cakes and iced them and also have art work to show. Rebecca has done a vegetable creature and also has Scruffy the lamb to exhibit. Believe it or not its a quiet morning so far as I'm not working and the kids aren't catching the bus as I will take them and the lambs (Vun's as well) down to school. I think it will still be on - it poured with rain last night. Have recently been blamed for bring the rain to the Bay lol. Yeah it rains here but not half as much as Mt Bruce. I see they have been getting a bit of a battering down there lately as well. Hope you are all ok in Eketahuna - wave wave.

I'm not really into towing trailers but since I have been here I have done it a couple of times and yesterday I was asked to take the 4 wheeler into the motorbike shop. I thought I had enough petrol to get to the petrol station and guess what .... I ran out of petrol!!! Yeah and someone did say 'trust you to run out of petrol' lol.

Catch you all later and hope you all have a good day.

Nicki

Felt Pockets, Zek and and a IPod Nano

Well I think its a IPOD Nano anyway lol.

As most of you know I'm not very good at just sitting and like to keep my hands busy so when we hit HB and I didn't have anything with me I went and brought needles and felt to fiddle around with at night. This became quite a production line!

When we got to Debs Zek had spied the felt and ask if I had any felt that he could have as he had brought a new IPOD Nano (I think that was what it it) its the tiniest little movie player that I had ever seen. He had brought it on his trip to OZ and its so new he informed me that they don't have covers out for it yet and he would love a little piece of felt that he could use to make a cover for it. Zek, I said, would you like me to make you a felt pocket - ohh yes please auntie - so I felt quite privilege that my strapping 18 year old nephew still wanted his auntie to sew him something. Zek is like his mother and in to crucifixes and I managed to get a small cross from spotlight and sewed that on to the front of it. There were then a number of smaller nieces and nephews who all also wanted felt pockets for mp3 players and yugi yo cards so I ended up sewing felt pockets! Of course they all also wanted to do there own and Libby, Tom and Callum all did great jobs of theirs.

The great news is that Zek has been offered his first job as a Electricians Lackey in Turangi - I wish him all the best as his embarks on his adult working life and hope that it turns into a Apprenticeship.

GOOD LUCK ZEK - and auntie loves you!

Naughty Lamb!

Oh dear James decided to plant his plants out in the vege garden and Rebecca put her lamb in there and it ate his sweetcorn plants! Had to dive for cover on that one .......




Ag Hort day is next Thursday. The boys have homework of doing a craft on there own at home. James has done a double canvas. He has cut a A4 photo and then stuck it down on to the canvas. He hasn't quite finished and is going to put it together so that it hangs in two.

Callum had made this holder out of felt for his Weetbix Rugby Cards during the holidays so decided to put his craft work in as his homework. He's done a great job!

Where did the days go!

Well the days are just zooming on by and I know it will soon be Christmas - my favourite time of the year. Phil thinks I'm mad cos I start playing Christmas songs in October lol (probably earlier too! but shhh) My favourtie Christmas album is Celine Dion This is Christmas...

Anyway I've not been on for a day or week or two oops and I've had a friendly reminder from one or two that I had better up date the blog so here it goes ...

We had a good school holidays and Phil managed a couple of days off the farm which did wonders to his temperment! We stayed at his mum and dads for one night and he went and helped fed out which he and the boys enjoyed. Then we went to Deb and Karls and caught up with mum and dad. The kids had a ball there and we didn't really see much of them apart from when they were hungry, we went to the Napier wharf a couple of times for fishing and didn't catch anything. Phil went home on the Saturday to get ready for AB and the kids and I along with Tom came back to Te Puke by bus on the Tuesday. Managed to catch up with Heather and Jo and not a lot of other folks but maybe next time ...

I've got a few photos to upload so will start with the Kids Holiday Project






Mosacis

We decided to get some tiles and tile a old table we had. This has been a joint effort with the boys doing all the 'smashing' James said on the day that he had had the best day as he was able to 'smash things'. This is a work in progress and I will keep you posted on how they are going. James and Callum decided to do tables as well. James has finished his and needs to grout it. Callum, Bec and I are still working on ours.

I've been tagged!

Thanks Lainie - she tagged me!

Here’s how it works:

1. Players must list one fact, word, or tidbit that is somehow relevant to their life for each letter of their first or middle name.
2. When you are tagged you need to write your own post containing your first or middle name game facts, word, or tidbit.

I'm not very good at these things!

N - Nutty Nicki lol
I - idiot
C - Can do
K - Kinetic
I - in to anything crafty

James' Plants

James got lots of things for his greenhouse for his birthday from Nana, Grandad, Auntie Karen, Uncle Gary, Ruth and Bevan and was given them a week before his birthday. They have started to sprout.

The beginnings of a pea plant.
Mmm might be eating them for Chrisy lunch!

James going into his greenhouse.
He had turned the hose on for the sprinklers.

James enjoying a shower in his greenhouse.
(There is that random behaviour again lol)

And this is how they grew so fast - here he is talking to the plants.
And yes he really is!

Bull Vallance

Callum feeding his calf Roseta (after the one who won NZ Idol)

Had a busy day at school today with a Super 4 Tournament, James was playing Soccer and they won one game, Callum was playing hockey and was very excited to have a scored a goal. He gets stuck into the game just as he did with Rugby. I was surprised to hear the other kids at school also calling him Bull so I guess that will stick. Sold lots of Moozees (over 200 of them) so if you are looking for a good thing to sell at a school function that would have to be it!

James' Birthday

James celebrated his 12th birthday in the weekend and had his mate stay the night on Friday. After a chosen birthday breakfast of hash browns, eggs, bacon and pancakes, we all then went fishing down at Pikowai Reserve. We didn't catch anything but the kids really enjoyed playing in the stream and sand, Phil had the weekend off and cooked us a sausage sizzle on the beach. James was heard to say later in the afternoon that he had the bestest birthday ever!





James has had a great desire to push a cake into his face and asked very politely whether this could be his day to do this ... so after we all got a piece of cake he slammed his own face into the cake and then proceeded to eat it. Sadly I think he gets this random behaviour from his mother, who gets it from her Auntie Caroline lol. The good thing about this act was that we were down at the beach and he was able to clean himself in the sea and there was no mess!

The lamb thinks its a puppy!

Rebeccas lamb - it thinks its a puppy and follows her around everywhere!

Random Feet

oh and this is posted just to make you all laugh ...... laughing .... its really good for the soul!

I hate feet and these are ugly!

This is my pic of the moon.

Very random photos lol

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One of the Challenges

1st challenge and no doodling!!!! not the picture that was asked for but .... couldn't come up with anymore favourite things lol


I started this one down at CC it was supposed to have more on it but I like this better.

Been a while!

Hi everybody - its been a week or so since my last post and I've been trying to work out what I've been doing lol. Certainly haven't been out to my scrap room and I know I have a couple of challenges that need to be finished ... mmm ... I've done one of them but still another to come. Will post when done.

My challenges are:

No.1----computer generate title and journalling,no fave colours like pink or purple,make the page about things you love most about your new environment--no people allowed!!

No 2----use your gorgeous black and white blog photo to create a black/white layout listing 10 of the favourite things about yourself--not Phil,the kids etc but YOU!

I'm still working on the first one. The second one I altered slightly - sorry Lani and Heather as I already had a half finished one of that photo from CC07 so I finished that one. But I did another one and only came up with 7 or 8 favourite things - its really hard to thing about yourself and your favourite things. Does anyone else have that problem? I will post those over the weekend. Thanks Heather for the 10 facts about me from your view - not sure whether I entirely agree thou lol.

We had a lovely weekend with Phils ma and pa- bummer that Phil was working all weekend but they caught snippets of him anyway. We all got shouted out for tea on Saturday night by the 'boss' (thanks 'boss') to a lovely family resturant called Bureta Motor Inn - really reasonable for a family and Callum has already asked to go there for his birthday. It is in Tauranga and I got to drive the 'little round bug' (ma and pas car) I was a bit nervous of driving it but didn't come to any grief apart from going a bit fast in a 70 km zone and getting a bit lost lol. Who else does that mmm forgets that its 70km and still carries on at 100km. Oh and don't tell Pa but I also did a little tiny skiddy as I pulled out onto the main road ... oops ... it wasn't really me it was the stones!

Well its James' birthday tomorrow and he turns 12 - can't believe where that time has gone it only feels like yesterday when he was a tiny baby in my arms - now hes this lovely big boy with a cool sense of humour struggling with the hormones of a 12 year old!!!!

Well till my next post hope everyone is well and happy. Have a good weekend - looks like we are in for rain which might be nice to get out into the scrappy place!
Take Care
Nicki

My handsome Boys!

James - aged 11 years

Callum aged 10 years