Great Aunt
Posted by: Vicky on: July 4, 2009
I am a great Aunt for the 3rd time…My niece had a baby girl on Thursday afternoon in New Plymouth. We are still waiting for Jodi to send through a pix. He was with her right up til an hour before the birth. They are very close cousins and the baby’s father is not exactly the dream partner apparently, I’ve never met him so I cant comment. But Jodi was so excited about his cousin having a baby you would think it was him having the baby lol. As long as him and Tracey don’t decide to start having babies just yet, they have a long way to go with their careers and want to travel before they settle down to have a family.
I cant wait to see photos of this latest addition to our family. more later
hugz
V xx
Raspberry giveaways and a win
Posted by: Vicky on: July 2, 2009
Raspberry is doing a giveaway and this one is open internationally..not often that happens. check it out here at their DT blog.
and a big thanks for Julia (former owner of Scrapbox) for drawing my name for her Scrapbook Innovations giveaway to celebrate her 10,000th hit on her blog, thanks Julia, and congrads on hitting the big 10,000.
well my back is on the fritz again, my own fault, I know there is a limit that I can sit in the dining room chairs but I was making Katie some dolls clothes for her cabbage patch doll yesterday and sat for way to long at the table and now I am paying for it. it is so frustrating not being able to do such a normal thing without ending up in pain.
a bit depressing but that’s life with RA I suppose.
anyway time for some more very gentle exercises. have a fun day all
hugz
V xx
Isn’t she beautiful?
Posted by: Vicky on: June 23, 2009
My wee great niece Harmony! She’s a wee darling, such a Mullen baby, she takes after our side of the family, right down to the big brown eyes and rather obvious ears lol. She even has the birthmark on the back of her head that all our babies have been born with for 4 generations! She is such a happy, content wee girl. She has a giggle that comes all the way from her toes. Just a wee enchantress!
It was, well, a weekend…Spending time with my S.I.L’s is great but my brothers drive me nuts. But that’s the joys of families right? It was good to see the kids
, Tayla is almost 15 and every time I see her she just gets prettier and more mature. And Marlon is a fab dad, he adores both his girls and their Mum too, its so good to see, he’s very young to have a family but he is handling it well and still managing to capture some of his teen years before they all disappear, he is only 17 after all, I couldn’t imagine either of my boys handling nearly as well as Marlon does, I am so proud of him.
On the way home we stopped in to see my cousin Shelly who lives on the other side of Nelson. She’s got a bit on her plate at the moment, Her dad is very sick and her Mum isn’t very well either (she has RA too) so Shelly is more than a little worried about them both. and to top it off Shelly’s birth mother turned up out of the blue, she has never met her before and doesn’t know if she should tell her parents now she has. poor thing!
Its strange, Shelly was adopted, her father was married to my aunty and they divorced year long before I was born but Uncle George has always been a huge part of our lives, he remarried and they has one child and adopted Shelly, who strangely enough looks a lot like me lol, we have been taken for sisters heaps of times lol. how weird is that?
well that was my weekend, we got home Sunday evening, Steve stayed home by himself for the first time and he cooked us a beautiful roast dinner! how good is he?
it was so good to get home, as much as it was good to get away for the weekend I do like my own bed and travelling is not great for the ol pain level!
anyway have a great Tuesday all…time for me to get moving, slowly…
hugz
V xx
What’s been going on
Posted by: Vicky on: June 19, 2009
this week has been…well kinda weird really…last week as you may have read on an earlier post, Katie was sick, well this week it was Mum’s turn, then Steve’s and finally me and Dad’s…talk about share the joy lol. I only seem to have a mild dose of this cold but it hit poor Mum pretty hard, she was down for a few days and even went to the doctor voluntarily which has to be a first. We are all on the mend and that’s the main thing.
I have to share a few photos I have taken this week…first what I made this 
afternoon, finished just before dinner (home made fish and chips, with the yummiest fresh fish!) Katie loves it, which as just as well since I made it for her lol.
This project has only been six months in the making lol…it was a round to it sort of thing, I had the wooden K sitting in my “must do” box for ages and kept thinking I should do something with it…finally today I pulled it out and turned it around for a while, then finally just grabbed some paint and some funky pattern paper and got to work, making it up as I went along lol, and this is what came out in the finish…and Katie tells me its bweatiful!
now two more photos of miss madam from the last few days…she makes me laugh so much
. the other night she decided to make a bed in the bottom of the hall cupboard, don’t ask me why, she was in there looking for one of her games and for reasons known only to her, she climbed into the bottom and decided that was her new cubby hole. when I went to get her for bed she informed me that she was sleeping there. so I got pillow and blanket off the shelf and gave them to her, then shut the door (at her instructions of course) thinking that she would last about 2 seconds in the dark….fat chance, she has no fear of the dark or enclosed spaces, it wasn’t until I suggested there maybe a mouse in there that she started to look a bit doubtful…then she starts calling to the supposed mouse “mousey, its me Katie, come down and sleep in my bed wev me” It took a wee while to convince her that her own bed would be better, in the end it was the offer to read a few stories that made her willing give up her cupboard bed, after I pointed out that I couldn’t read her nightly stories while she was in the cupboard because it was to dark in there for me to see! lol. then before she went to sleep she asked if the mousey would be alright without her! There was no mouse…lest not that I know of lol…our darling puddy cat is far to efficient for that lol
And this photo was taken about half an hour ago, while Steve was off doing the dishes Katie decided to play Xbox live with her cousins in Aussie lol, her beloved Tatty (Tori) was online and she wanted to talk to him lol. She has been known to do this occasionally. Steve plays Xbox live with his friends and cousins most nights and Katie loves to “help” him. Tonight she snuck in and put on the headset and grabbed the control and started talking to Tori (who just happened to be offline at that time) “Tatty, it me Katie, come play at my house pease” lol Its so funny, Tori lived with us for a while about 2 years ago before he went back to Aussie, Katie was only about 18 months but she remembers her Tatty. She must have an amazing memory, and a mother who points him out in a photo so she doesn’t forget. She’s a lucky girl to have so many big cousins, 11 in all, ranging in age from 14 to 26 and 2 (almost 3) 2nd cousins close to her age.
Yes Katie is most often the subject of my photos, mainly because she’s so funny and Steve moans if I take his photo to often lol.
I have decided to branch out away from Scrapbooking a little, I want to try my hand at a few sewing projects, I want to have a go at making some of these
and a few of these, for Katie and my nieces
and a few of these
and one of these
for me, the owls for my bed and the strap for my camera. for some unknown reason winter always makes me what to branch out with my crafty stuff lol. I also want to have a go at quilting and knitting, neither of which I have tried before. So watch this space lol….I can but try these things
have a fab Friday night all…we are off to Blenheim tomorrow to see 2 of my big bro’s and sis in laws and baby Harmony who is now 6 months old and I still haven’t seen. Yay, I finally get to see the baby! watch out for pics next week 
night night all
hugz
V xx
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