That was the week that was............

Wednesday... wow what a great day to have off, that was the day of the wild winds in Melbourne. Hooley Dooley what a day. No real damage done here except for the big gum tree in our backyard near the bungalow; which lost a couple of large limbs from high up in the tree. Because of that it looked like a waterfall of gum leaves around the tree. Then our front nature strip tree also lost a main branch (no photo), which was still attached at the bottom of the tree but had fallen and landed on our front fence, across the footpath and into our front yard. I called the council about that one and they were out within the hour to clear the footpath, then they arrived the next day to pick up the rest of it.

Thursday I went off to physio re my foot, and they gave me another couple of days of work to rest it. To cut along story short my foot is still really sore even after a couple of rounds of physio. They don't really know whats wrong with it so I suppose its a bit hard to treat when they don't know. Thursday was still school holidays here in Melbourne and a friend of Madeleine's Dad took them to Gold Class to see The spiderwick chronicles which from all accounts was pretty FAB. Then we caught up with Neil's folks and his sister at Doyles in Mordialloc to celebrate Neil's birthday.

Saturday morning we headed off to have Madeleine's haircut. The lovely Ally cut and thinned out her hair and then straightened it. It looks absolutely fantastic and Madeleine is so happy with it......it gives her even more reason to always be looking at herself in mirror (lol). Here's a few shots we took before she headed off to one of the girls from her school birthday party that afternoon.

Saturday night we picked up Madeleine for her party in Lang Warren and then headed over to Bentleigh to our good friend Sheree's 50th. I have known Sheree and her husband Bill since I started work at Social Security back in the late 70's (boy that ages me doesn't it). It was so nice to be part of her celebrations she is such a great person and together they are two of the world's loveliest people. So Happy Birthday again Sheree it was a great night.

Tuesday school started back again and this morning I had to drop Madeleine off by 7:30am to catch the bus for school camp. They are heading for 3 days to a camp down near Wilsons Prom. I haven't even got any photos this year, in fact I dropped her off and pretty much left straight away. rrrr the times they are a changin.

So this morning I met up with a girlfriend for coffee at 9am at the Blue Chair and then I was back there again at 1pm to finally catch up with Wendy for her birthday. We had a lovely catch up and then look what I got.

Isn't it yummy. This is my prize for winning the sketch challenge on Wendy's Blog. It has papers from the two scoops range, and the element stickers from the same range. Vinyl alpha from american crafts, chipboard flowers from Cherry Arte, the most divine pink lace ribbon with a velvet centre, jumbo ricrac and the green bling. Thanks Wendy the prize is fantastic. There is a new challenge this month,that went out with the Dolly newsletter (not sure if it's on the blog) the prize this month is a little sister dolly kit.

I also picked up my full kit from Wendy it is absolutely chock a block with cool stuff. Head on over and have a look at the kit and while your there check out the gallery featuring work from Connie Hatch, Willisa Hogarth and of course Wendy using this months kit. If their work doesn't get you all inspired then I'm afraid nothing would.

Ok thats it for now, till next time.

cheers

Leeanne x