Hi Everyone,

Well I really didn’t think I’d make this one but I did! I had 3/4’s of this done and on my desk before my surgery adventure and now that that is over, bit by bit I managed to finish it off 🙂

Caitlin mixing up a storm in the kitchen; one of my fav things to do on a Sunday afternoon.

Thanks for popping by and for all the well wishes, thoughts and prayers. I am certainly on the mend and will be back to myself (minus my appendix) in no time!

Gwen

Hi Everyone,

Well, what a week I have had. As you know last week in my post I mentioned that I had been unwell, I had caught Caitlin’s flu. I was on the mend from that but just didn’t feel quite right. Then on Monday night I started suffering from serious stomach pain, just out of the blue. Well, turns out my appendix was gangrenous and so I needed emergency surgery to take it out which happened on Tuesday afternoon. I spent Tuesday night in hospital and came home on Wednesday afternoon. Lots of bed rest and I’m now feeling much much better! It has been quite dramatic let me tell you!

Chris has been amazing doing all my jobs as well as his and Caitlin too has been the perfect little miss helping her daddy however she can. More bed rest for me and no driving until at least Friday next week!!! But, I think I’ll go crazy before then! I’m hoping I can get back to work really soon but will just have to wait and see how I go.

I have had a chance to draw my RAK winner though AND it is Sandi!!! Please email me your address Sandi and I’ll post off your prize 🙂 gwruck@iprimus.com.au Congrats!

That’s it for now, yes Mum I am resting, promise!
Gwen

Well what a weekend I’ve had!! I’ve been house bound for 4 days straight. Caitlin was sick on Thursday and Friday. Friday night was FANTASTIC with me winning the Purple Pumpkin give away $50 voucher – sooo excited!! Then on Saturday morning, I came down with what Caitlin had and boy has it knocked me for a six!! I slept 13 hours straight Saturday night, had the shivers and all, it wasn’t pretty!! Feeling better today but still not myself. Don’t you just love kids and their germs 😉

Anyways, lucky for me I did this before I came down ill… my take on BITW’s “Today” challenge.

Hopefully I’ll be feeling even better tomorrow – just in time to get back to work!
Gwen

Morning!

Just a reminder about my RAK…

I’m a big fan of paying things forward and as I have been blessed with the stack of ribbon Mum gave me, I’m RAKing some of it (is that the term???) onto one of you…

All you have to do is be a “follower” AND post me a comment on what you love about my Blog and that’s it! I will then draw a winner out of a hat 🙂 There is around a metre of each of these ribbons and I’ll post them anywhere.

Now off to do some scrappin!
Gwen

Hi Everyone,

Seems my post about Mum’s ribbon inspired a lot of chat and emails regarding my scrap space and organisation ideas; you are all keen to see how I keep things sorted. So I thought I’d post a pic of just one small part of my scrap space. It is actually our formal dining room, however we stopped having formal dinner parties in it long ago and I have slowly taken it over. We still have all the furniture so I’ve had to work around it. I scrap on the dining table which is in the centre of the room and I bought this Expedit from IKEA and it sort of acts as a room divider (the other end of the room is our formal sitting room which is now Caitlin’s play area.) Everything is sorted by colour as I find I work best that way. The lil jars have all my small bits and pieces in them and the larger ones are all flowers. Colours are Pink, Browns, Yellows, Blue/Green, Red, Black/White/Metal and Purple. The draws are punches and other bits which I’ll show you some other time… I’m thinking it could take a while to show you everything so I’ll do it bit by bit. That way the whole room doesn’t need to be perfect either, which it RARELY is!!

Now, onto the RAK. I’m a big fan of paying things forward and as I have been blessed with the stack of ribbon Mum gave me, I’m RAKing some of it (is that the term???) onto one of you…

All you have to do is be a “follower” AND post me a comment on what you love about my Blog and that’s it! I will then draw a winner out of a hat 🙂 There is around a metre of each of these ribbons and I’ll post them anywhere.

Oh, and last but not least, Check out what I’ve been doing over on the Craft Queen Blog here.

Thanks for stopping by.
Gwen