My Knife Block

I know, you are going to think I have totally lost it.......... Why oh why do I want to write about a knife block??? I love my knife block. It's awesome. My sister in law manages a knife shop and I was lucky enough to get this set at a good discount. It has everything, bread knife, chef's knife, smaller utility knives, and I use the scissors alot too. It even comes with a really good heavy duty steel. I have wanted one of these blocks for years........ They hold their sharpness too, I haven't used the steel on them yet, and I have had them since the Father's Day weekend......

Good friends, good times, good fun.

Every single day I remind myself to count my blessings. I am amazed and humbled by the number of blessings that I have.

I have a group of amazing women, who I am so proud to know. And what's even better, is that they are my dearest friends.

One of them I visited during the week. I spent all Wednesday with her. We chatted, and fiddled around with her poor, dying computer. We just sat and talked, while the kids played.........the hours went by in great company. A lovely way to spend a day. On the day before I had the opportunity to do a class run by Sue. She is a wonderful girl who works at Daisy's and does the most amazing work. It's pretty special being considered a friend, and sitting in on one of her classes. She is truly talented and such a sweet girl as well............I have so much to learn from her.

Last night, I looked after the store for Barbi. She spent the afternoon and evening with her family as it was Holly's 13th birthday. She had a great afternoon, and I was waiting at the shop at 11.30 pm with a cuppa to hear all about her day. We chatted until 1.30am..............the time just flew. I turned my nightlight out at 2.30a.m!!!!! I have attached a photo above to show where I spend every Friday night. This is taken at Daisy Chain Scrapbooks, the best scrapbooking shop in the country!

Today Kerrie came around to drink a pot of coffee and pick my brains about all the things I love doing on the computer. Kerrie left with a sheet of notes, and a newly created blog. She left me with a real comfortable sense of feeling totally relaxed, you know that really warm fuzzy feeling you get from spending time with someone wonderful. She is my mentor. She is what I will be in about 8 years time. Her kids are older than mine and she runs her family like I run mine...........I love her to bits! She is proud, confident, organized, clever, articulate and has a heart of absolute pure gold! When we met, we hit it off straight away, and we only saw one another every month, or so, sometimes a couple of months went by. We never had contact details or anything, as we knew we would catch up at scrapbooking. Then when I was banned from attending CM workshops, Kerrie continued to attend, until she found out I had been banned!! Fortunately I knew a mutual acquaintance who was able to put us in touch with one another! Thank goodness, as now she no longer patronizes anything to do with CM and she regularly comes with me on a Friday night!!!!

Thank you to my precious girlfriends................

Pelican Waters Tavern

We had lunch here one day. Didn't look this impressive as it was day time, but I thought I would add the photo anyway.

Highlights

I was not impressed, last night I wrote a long post all about my holidays, and they have disappeared................... I even went searching for a new blog hosting website, because I thought this just wasn't good enough. But I couldn't find another one that I liked the set up of. So I am here again. In the future I will save my post onto a Word document, so if it disappears, I can reload it without retyping it.

We went away last week, and it was fabulous. We stayed in a holiday unit in Caloundra, right on the water. The highlights of the week were many, so I will write in dot point format.
* Money wasn't tight, so we ate out lots..............including Fish and chips, KFC, Chinese restaurant, Pizza from a restaurant, lunch at Pelican Waters Tavern, and a yummy dinner at an Italian Restaurant. It was great being able to take the kids out to a restaurant, and I was so proud of how they behaved..........
* Boat cruise from our jetty to Pelican Waters Tavern for lunch
* Unit had a huge bath
* Unit had a private jetty, so the kids and Bunny fished every afternoon
* We had our surf ski and paddled around Golden Beach, had a ball.
* I read lots of books, three I think
* Took my scrapbooking stuff, and did none.........

I am going out to lunch now............will come back later and continue this post.

OOoppps, apologies to blogger...........

Here's my post that I thought had been lost..........my mistake, I hit 'save as draft' instead of 'publish'...............sorry blogger!



I know I don't post enough. If I took all my emails and connected them all, I would have an awesome post every day.

It's week two of the school holidays and I can't get over how quickly they are going............We went away last week, which was just fabulous... Highlights of the holidays to date are
* arrive in unit in Caloundra
* unit has private jetty, so kids and Bunny can fish everyday
* money isn't tight, so we have done things like, eat out..........
* Chinese meal with Oma and Opa
* Boat cruise with lunch at Pelican Waters Hotel
* Fish and chips twice
* Pizza from an Italian restaurant
* KFC
* Italian meal at a restuarant...........absolutely delicious.

Other highlights
* We could walk everywhere
* Bunny picked up 'boat' and we could use it at Golden Beach
* Unit's pool was heated
* Spa bathtub was ginormous.......

Highlights since we have been home
* lovely to relax and not rush anywhere
* took kidlets to cinema to see 'Monster House' It was Mickey's first time......he loved it.
* Went scrapbooking for the whole day, I did two of Sue's classes.
* Spent a day with a dear girlfriend
* Lunch out with my husband.

And the best thing is, that there's still time left..........