Posts Tagged ‘presents’
Happy Birthday Me!
Yep, on the 27th May 1987 at 11:13pm I entered the world.
I was the first of four children. The only girl.
My mum was 29. My dad was 33.
We’re a family. And we are awesome at it.
Presents and Cards from Sunday’s party…
So, I’m 23. How did I go with my 23 by 23?
1. Finish my scrapbook from our Jan/Feb travels. DONE
2. Secure the Hutchinson job at work. DONE
3. Be a good blog commentor and comment on at least every 3 or so blog posts I read. DONE
4. Buy Powderfinger’s new album DONE
5. Persue graphic design and photography lessons/online courses DONE, Only one more week and my Graduate Certificate is finished!
6. Take an enormously large bank loan for our investment FAIL
7. Find the perfect cupcake recipe DONE
8. Have a handmade christmas DONE, though family members were the only ones who appreciated this. Gifts I gave my friends are unused.
9. Start saving my $$ again (in the piggy bank- loose coins) DONE, though not that well…
10. Loose 5+ kg DONE! I’ve lost 6.6KG!
11. Make a header for this blog!! (have been meaning to do this ever since I put this theme on!!) DONE
12. Read through 2 more books of the bible FAIL
13. Get my reader to 0 DONE, though this is defintely not CURRENTLY the case!!
14. Drink 2 bottles of water a day HALF
15. Start Luke’s scrapbook DONE, it’s STARTED, which is all I required this year. 
16. Make plans for another holiday DONE, Booked, and paid for!
17. Track my Weight Watchers points every day! DONE almost completely. I think I’ve only had a few days when I haven’t.
18. Finish editing Pete’s mime photos! FAIL
19. Make some pants for summer FAIL. They are cut out, but not sewed together.
20. Finish my christmas wall hanging DONE!
21. Finish my paining I started the other week, and paint another DONE! I’ve done several since then! (here) and (here)
22. Scotch Gard the car seats! DONE!
23. Keep Shabbat better. FAIL
Keep an eye out in the next month of so for my 24 by 24!!
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Embroidery
I’ve been working on three new embroideries, which will be Christmas presents for Luke’s Nonna, Luke’s Nanna and Pa, and my Nana.
Luke’s Nonna doesn’t celebrate Christmas, so technically this is just a random gift, which I will happen to give her when we see her on Christmas Day… She’s really into the Hebrew Roots things, like us, and so I made her this “Shalom” embroidery, which is basically Hebrew for “Peace” Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of the complexities of Shalom…
For my Nana, I made “Love” and for Luke’s Nanna and Pa I made “Family”. Hopefully they like them!
I have a questions for you all, do you think people would be interested in buying embroidery kits? With the Calico cut and the design drawn on it, the pellen for the back, and one (possibly two) coloured embroidery threads? Needle wouldn’t be included. I was thinking I could do “Christmas” “Love” “Joy” “Peace” as well as people’s names… if you think it’s the kind of things you would buy, or if you know people who might get it, let me know, and I’ll put some in my store!
Gifts, Glorious Gifts!
This is Challenge 13 of Blog This.
Do people think you’re hard to buy for or are you constantly dropping hints? What’s on your ultimate gift list? If you were to write a list of 5 things that would be on the list of perfect presents for your next birthday what would they be? Would it be a particular thing or anything from a particular store/shop? An
experience or something with pretty bows? Practical or whimsical?
I’m going to be heaps practical about this. Not cause my birthday is any time soon, but because CHRISTMAS is just a few short months away. My FAVOURITE time of year!!
1. Spotlight voucher. Yes! fabric, craft supplies, scarpbooking, knitting… it’s all there! A few hundred dollars would be perfect…
2. Embroidery threads. I know that sounds kinda boring, but didn’t you hear?! Embroidery is my new thing!! I need to stock up on some more colours…
3. Walls. Okay, so this one isn’t so practical, but I have heaps of stuff I want to put on the walls, and just no wall space really left! (P.S my newest thing I’m doing is framing small embroiderries and putting them up on the wall!
4. Photos Printed… you know I love scrapbooking? And I’m working on my travel scrapbook from Jan/Feb at the moment, but I have HUNDREDS of photos that I need printed from post-schoolies week (2004) to well, now. The earlier part of my life is already scrapbooked. So if all those could just get printed out for me, that’d be great!!
5. Suprise me! As much as I love getting what I want, I really, truly, madly, deeply (Oh GOD, Savage Garden moment…*shakes head in shame*) love SUPRISES!!! They’re my favourite, and really make an gift giving time special!!
Click the picture of Pepper (below) to see all my Christmas photos from last year (there’s not too many- I promise!)
My best girl stuffed after all the unwrapping on Christmas Eve "08
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