Friday Favourites...Happy Birthday Madi!!

Madi turned 5 this week!  Seems like only yesterday we were bringing our little baby girl home from hospital and here she is starting school and becoming a big girl!  We woke up early and she opened her presents before getting ready for school.

Here she is with her new Prairie Posie Blythe and her new Lalaloopsie Little.  She LOVES them!  She also got a Lalaloopsy DS game, a cute new dress from us and some lovely jewellery from her Nanna & Poppy. :)  She was one very happy birthday girl!

Off she went to school with cupcakes in hand ready to share with her class.  When we picked her up she'd had a lovely day!  There was also another lovely package waiting for her when she got home...

from her best friends Livvy, Lucia and Georgia!  Such a nice surprise!!  (Thankyou Mel! xx)

We got changed and headed to the shops...you see the other thing Madi reeeeaaaalllly wanted for her birthday was to get her ears pierced! She's been asking to get them done for well over a year now so we finally caved.  She was SO excited!!!!  Here she is waiting in the chair (wearing her new birthday dress)...

We were a little worried about how she would go but she was SO good!!!  There were no tears...she didn't even flinch!  And just when we thought her smile couldn't get any bigger...just take a look at her face afterwards!

Sorry this pic is a little blurry..but here she is proudly showing off her lovely new earrings...

They look so cute on her little ears. :)  The hairdresser sprayed her hair all glittery to make her feel extra special too.

We then went for dinner at the Promenade (Madi's choice).  The kids love it there as there's lots of restaurants to choose from and a great play area for them to run around and have fun.

Then it was home for Madi's icecream cake (her cake of choice)....YUM!

And that was how our Madison spent her 5th birthday!   I'm still in denial that she's growing up so fast. LOL

Sheree xx

Thrifty Thursday

I probably should have called this post Paul's Thrifty Thursday since Paul was the one op shopping this past week! LOL He spent a week up in Roma with work and while he was there he did a little browsing.  He's getting so good at finding little treasures!

He picked up this cool 1975 Super 8 movie camera to add to our old camera collection.  It was in its original bag and still has film in it too!  It all seems to be in excellent condition.

We're wondering if there's anything on the film?

He also came home with this teeny tiny gold bird cage...love it!

There's a teeny tiny bird inside the cage too and the whole thing is only about 2 inches high!  So cute.

Have you found any little treasures while out shopping this week?

Sheree xx

Photo a Day

It's the end of January and I've completed a whole month of January Photo a Day  photos!  Yay!  I wasn't sure I'd stick with it but it's been so fun following along with the prompts each day...and I love that I've now got this collection of random photos for the month!  (Plus it's been fun seeing everyone else daily pics too.)

Here are the last few days of daily pics snapped on my iPhone...

Day 29/Jan 29 - Inside Your Fridge:  You can tell boys live here...I found a Lego yeti on the top shelf of my fridge! LOL  Not sure what he was doing in there!

Day 30/Jan 30 - Nature:  In my backyard

Day 31/Jan 31 - You Again:  Can't say I like doing self portraits...but here I am!

Here's a collage of the whole month of photos arranged using the Project 365 app...made it so easy to put them all together!

I'm happy to say there's a new list for February so I'm going to keep following along.  Would you like to join in?   You can find all the details HERE on Chantelle's blog. :)  I love that these photos capture the everyday things...and some things you wouldn't usually think to photograph!

Please let me know if you're playing too...I'd love to see your photos!

Sheree xx

Scrapz Daily Challenges...

A new week means a new Scrap a Rainbow challenge over at Scrapz.Biz.  This week I've chosen the inpiration pic and colour pallette which you can find along with my full sample page HERE.

Here's a little sneaky peek of my layout...

You'll can also find all of this month's daily challenges so far HERE if you're feeling scrappy!  You've got until the end of February to get your entries in so there's plenty of time...plus you could win a voucher to spend in store....nice!

Remember my sneak peek for last week's Scrap Write Now challenge?  I can now share my full page...

I love these fun pics of the kids on our holiday to the Sunshine Coast last year.  They had so much fun in the pool and spa there...it was hard to get them out!

Some closeups...

I've used a mix of Echo Park, October Afternoon, American Crafts, My Minds' Eye and Pink Paislee goodies on this...and I love those little Stampin Up silver clips too. They're so tiny and cute...perfect to use for a banner!

Part of this challenge was to journal directly onto the page using your own handwriting. :)  I don't do this enough!

I'll be back with another Scrapz.Biz challenge soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

Sheree xx

Photo a Day

Here's this week's Photo a Day challenge pics snapped on my iPhone this week...

Day 22/Jan 22 - Your Shoes:  Love my red flats...so comfy!

Day 23/Jan 23 - Something Old:  My camera collection ranging from 1930's to 1980's.

Day 24/Jan 24 - Guilty Pleasure:  Mmmmm...chocolate...

Day 25/Jan 25 - Something You Made:  Little sewing machine pin cushions I stitched a while ago.

Day 26/Jan 26 - Colour:  My fabric stash

Day 27/Jan 27 - Lunch:  Cheese and tomato on toast...and yes that might be a coke zero up in the corner there...

Day 28/Jan 28 - Light:  My beside lamp

That's this week's pics up to date!  Thanks so much for dropping by!

Sheree xx

Friday Favourites

Just sharing my fave family iPhone pics snapped this week!


Monday saw the start of the new school year...which meant Madi started her first year!  She's a proud and very excited little Prep girl now and loving every minute!  The boys weren't so keen on starting school again (enjoying holidays too much) but were happy to be seeing all their friends.


Here are Madi, Ayden and Riley ready to go on their first day...

Madi in the classroom the first morning of Prep just before I left her for the day.  Love that happy face!  So glad and relieved she was so excited about starting school. :)

We celebrated the first day with smoothies and thickshakes on the way home. Yum!

Day 2 of school saw the rain set in here on the Gold Coast ...and it hasn't stopped since!

Umbrellas everywhere and it was a very soggy walk into school.

Other things we got up to since my last photo update were...

A trip to the dentist for checkups for all three kids...

We saw The Muppets at the movies...so fun!

And the boys' bowling league started back this week too!

Mostly we've just been trying to stay dry and out of the rain this week.  Looking forward to a little sunshine...whenever it decides to make an appearance!

Hope you've had a great week!

Sheree xx

Thrifty Thursday

I found a couple of new (to me) op shops this past week and came home with a few little things...

I finally found some beautiful vintage sheets!  These will be perfect for my vintage square quilt and backing...just the sort of thing I was looking for.  Yay!

Also couldn't resist these beaded necklaces...

And then I found this really cute bag for Madi for only $2!  She loves it. :)

Have you had any thrifty finds this week?

Sheree xx

ps.  Happy Australia Day!