"insert witty title Here"

because I certainly can't think of anything.

I have no new layouts to share I don't even have any photos. May was light on for both I'm afraid.

This post will be yet another ramble of whats been happening over the past couple of weeks.

Wednesday week ago, a couple of girlfriends Andi and Karen arranged dinner at the Thai restaurant in Patterson Lakes for my birthday. (Yes yes I know it's the birthday that keeps on keeping on) and then last Saturday night Neil and I headed over to Brighton to the Silver Leaf restaurant with our friends Judith, Alf and Jenny and Trevor. Note to self, avoid Bay Street Brighton at 7:30pm on a Saturday night. Finding a parking spot is somewhat of a challenge.

This week I have been out with my friend Jan, who was also my Manager from Centrelink. We had dinner at Vincents in Beaumaris. It must be at least 10years since I've been there and it looks a little run down now but still the food was quite nice. Nothing to rave about but certainly nice. It was also good to catch up with Jan one on one.

Sunday we are heading off to Clover Cottage in Berwick for lunch to celebrate Neil's mums 90th birthday. What a milestone and while yes she's slowed down over the years, she is a remarkable women for her age, physically and mentally. Lots of the cousins have been invited, so it will be a bit of a family reunion and loads of fun, and lets not mention the absolutely amazing meal they have there. It's the best...mmmmmmmmm......begining to see a bit of a pattern here...no wonder I can't lose weight we're always out.

Popped in briefly to see Wendy in her new job at Kumfs in Frankston on Thursday. From all accounts her first day went really well. My prediction is she will be the first employee of the month there, and the second and the third and so on. (hehe) She looked like she was really enjoying the job, and she had on the most gorgeous pair of Kumf shoes. Gotta luv working in a shoe shop.

Ok well I think that's about it for now, hopefully i will have at least a Layout to show next time or a photo to share.

Take care

cheers

Leeanne x

Weekly roundup....and some layouts

Firstly thanks to everyone who has left me comments, emailed or called during the week to say Happy Birthday. I had an absolutely lovely day and was very soundly spoiled. Gotta luv that.

Saturday a few friends dropped over in the afternoon to share a champagne and a bit of a giggle, it was one of those impromptu things in that they all turned up at once so it was like a little party and lots of fun.

Saturday night we went out to our local Thai restaurant with Sue, Greg and Julie for dinner. It's always a good night when we get together. Julie unveiled her mid life crisis tattoo..... she assured us it was nothing to do with a mid life crisis but I'm not convinced on that one. (hehe). She has had the St Kilda football club emblem tattooed on the small of her back.


Sunday Mother's day and we had Neil's Mum, Dad and sister over for a roast dinner and for my birthday. All in all a pretty hectic but lovely weekend.

Wednesday Lynne and I caught up and went to the movies to see What Happens in Vegas with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. It was a really fun movie, predictable like all chick flicks, but still very good. Then we had a nice lunch up at Southland, and dropped into Scraptacular on the way home. All in all a very enjoyable day and it was great to spend the day together. We also managed to fit in a little bit of shopping in before the movie. By the time I dropped Lynne off I just had enough time to get to school to pick up Madeleine.

The new job is great, very very busy as there is still so much to do, putting all the procedures in place. After that it should be smooth sailing. Still busy but at least everything will be as it should.
Friday night Madeleine went to Youth group again and this time took her friends Alex, Laura and Max. They all had a ball, they come out of there so full of smiles and just plain happy. It really is great to see.

While they were there I dropped into Debling in Design to hand in a few Layouts I had completed for Deb. A few weeks ago she asked me to be a guest designer using the new Teresa Collins products. The products are just scrumptious and really easy to work with. I've had them completed for a couple of weeks but hadn't put them up on the BLOG yet because Deb has been away. I figured I should show them to her first. So here they are;











































































Today Netball got cancelled because of the rain. It hasn't stopped for most of the day which of course is fantastic. Wendy and I caught up at Blue Chair for a bit of lunch and a coffee. We kind of got kicked out around 3pm so they could close up. Congratulations to Wendy on her new job a new and exciting career about to begin.


Tonight we have been out with Andi, Steve, John and their respective children to the Indian Restaurant down at Patterson Lakes for my birthday. You have to love a birthday that just keeps on going. We had a very yummy dinner then headed off back to Andi and Steve's for coffee.


It's now nearly 12am and since I've been home I've been on the WII fit doing 45mins of exercise. What a great piece of equipment. Neil and Madeleine gave it to me for my birthday. It's fantastic, it covers Yoga, aerobic exercises, muscle workouts & balance workouts. As you get better at each exercise it unlocks different workouts. It also weighs you and tells you your bmi etc and helps you to set goals for fitness and weight loss. Pretty cool actually.

Well I think that pretty well covers the whole week.

cheers

Leeanne x

Hands up what day it is??? ooohh oohh I know

They say it's my birthday, I'm going to have a good day..........Love birthdays just don't like the getting older bit.

Cheers

Leeanne x

M.I.A.

that's me, whooley dooley I've been slack with the Blog thing. No excuses just haven't got around to it.


sooooooo whats been happening since the 16th April.....................


Long story short.


1. Finished up with Centrelink on 28th April, they were very generous when I left, and gave me these beautiful Tulips along with a $50 gift voucher. I also had two lunches out at the Vietnamese restaurant Yummy.






















2. Had a whole week off and caught up with lots of people:-

a. Monday coffee with Julie F and shopping at Frankston
b. Tuesday coffee with Karen H
c. Wednesday coffee with Sue B.
d. Thursday nothing (house work)
e. Friday coffee with all the mums from School and then lunch at the Blue Chair with Lynne.



I also managed 4 layouts but I haven't taken photos yet.



3a. Last weekend my girlfriend Phylliss had free tickets to an advanced screening of Mrs Pettigrews day out up at Southland on Saturday afternoon. The movie is very good and really funny, if you get a chance to see it... Do.


b. The move with Phylliss was kind of a last minute thing and I had already told Madeleine I would take her to the movies that day, so never one to break a promise I took her and her friend Laura along with Laura's two sisters to see Made of Honour in the evening. If you like Chick flicks and also like McDreamy its a must see.



Last weekend was also picture to page but unfortunately I didn't get over there. Saturday was busy with Netball and the Movies obviously, and then Sunday we were going out to lunch but that got cancelled and then Neil's friend Mark and his fiancee Jasmine dropped over in the afternoon. Which was very nice and we ended up having devonshire tea. mmmmm......... I wanted to get over to PTP to see Wendy but alas it wasn't to be.



Monday I started work at Uswitch and so far so good. John is very easy to work for , but boy oh boy I believe I am going to be very very busy once this all starts up in full swing. But that's a good thing.



Today (Wednesday) I've been off and had my hair cut and coloured, as you all know this is one of my all time fav things to do. Love it.


well that's all for now

cheers

Leeanne x

We Interupt normal programming for an unashamed PLUG

A couple posts ago I told you I was leaving Centrelink, to start work at a new company USWITCH. The company is an online website www.uswitch.com.au and compares your current gas and electricity costs and tells you the cheapest plan for you. By switching ( it costs nothing to switch) you can save anywhere from $50 to $600 per year depending on where you live and usage etc. The website has an easy step by step guide to help you along or if you get stuck, you can call the company directly for help. In this day and age where prices just seem to be going up and up it's nice to think you can make savings somewhere.



Anyhoo last night on A Current Affair they ran a story on USWITCH and the website had in excess of 100,000 hits an hour. WOW!!! what a response and of course you guessed it the server couldn't cope and the website crashed. Today John and the crew have been madly taking calls and ringing people back to help them out. A Choice magazine representative was very impressed with the site and to paraphrase him, said the site was simple to use and good for the industry, and would make the industry more accountable and competitive.



So if you want to have a look at the story from last nights show follow this link http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/general/ and under select video (on the right hand side of the screen) click on USWITCH 15/04/08. So far the only state that can't make use of the Service is WA as they haven't privatized their gas and electricity. Over the next few months you will also be able to use the service to compare your home phone plan as well as broadband/internet.

Well I think that's a big enough plug, switch and save I say.

cheers

Leeanne x

Short and Sweet

that's what this post will be..... believe it or not. (well by my standards anyway)


Friday: Maddy returned home from camp at Foster tired yet on a high. She had a fantastic time and talked excitedly the whole way home and then some. Then she had time for a quick shower, quick dinner and we were off to Rod Laver Arena to see Matchbox 20. What a great concert that Rob Thomas sure has a sexy voice. I ran into a couple of people I know;the funniest was running into Vicki B in queue for the loos. A quick photo or two later and I was on my way. Not sure what the people in the queue thought about the two mad women taking photos. Anyhoo the support band was Thirsty Merc, and they were fantastic alot More rockier than i thought they would be.

Maddy didn't quite make it thru the whole concert without having to have a bit of a snoozy on my shoulder. I brought the tickets back in early December before I knew the Camp dates, so while she enjoyed what she saw, she really was too tired to take it all in.



Saturday: Was pretty quiet really Back to Netball (they won) then in the afternoon Neil headed off to a jam and I headed down to debling in design. Deb had asked me to judge this months Layout challenge and I had, had the layouts at home for a week, checking them all out and coming to a descion. Boy is that a harder job than you expect. Everyone's layouts were fabulous and they all had little unique touches that I loved. However as they say in the classics there can only be one winner. Can't say who yet as I don't think Deb has announced it. So mums the word here. I also got to catch up with Merle while I was there, I haven't seen her in ages and it was lovely to see her.



I completed a layout last night using the new BG Sugared line. The design is based on a Sketch from the penciline web site from a little while ago.






























Ok thats it for me..... see not quite as long as usual.

Cheers

Leeanne x

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