Champagne Dreams & Minty Wishes

I seem to have weddings on the brain lately and I can't get it out of my head.

So Claudz - this is for you.

Champagne and Green.

I had lots of fun compiling this collage of ideas - even though I could not find an apple spraypainted in bronze anywhere! ;-)

I loved the idea of Plantable Seed PlaceCards as well as little tins filled with seed sprinkles as favours. This idea keeps the cost of favours to a minimum but it is such a lovely idea.
Wine stoppers in a lovely organza bag is also a classic, but popular gift.

Make up idea (eye shadow on tip of eyelash for effect, not real life!):

Images above used from:
onecraftyfox.blogspot.com
GF Bridal
Wedding obsession

If any of the other images are yours - please let me know

This is Me - Round up

Ok guys - I have been really slack - so instead of procrastinating and trying to do a bigger collage - this is what I have put together.

I wanted to do more, but I just never seem to get there.

A big thank you to everyone that participated - I had an absolute blast.

I have pretty much made up my mind about the winner, but I would like to mention a few photos that were big contenders:

Reni over at My So-Called Life posted a stunning photo of a bicycle that had a cart full of colourful paintings for sale at her local market.

Check it out HERE



SwissMiss: Her waterfall called Bath - very original - loved it!





Kate's Car - I loved the layout - looks like a magazine advert



Beautiful architecture from SwissTwist - I love the way the angle of the photo enhances the grandeur of the building

The 2 Finalists are as follows (this is very ironic as I am a Cat Lover!):



Claudz' Doggy

Kate's Doggy



And the winner (after much deliberation & dragging colleagues in to give their opinion) is...

Kate's Doggy!

He looks so long suffering as the snow falls on his nose - and I love the almost Fish Eye view making his nose bigger. :-)

Well done Kate - please email me your address so that I can send you your little gift

Doubly Spoilt

"If you're gonna have more than 1, it might as well be Guess" - Tee

How spoilt am I? My friend gave me a belated birthday present - the purple Guess Purse. I now have 2 Guess purses - wow.

I guess it is all part of God's plan.

I am getting rid of things to pay off my debt and he ensures that my friends are looking after me.

I am so blessed, I sometimes seem to forget this.

Meanwhile the selling off of some of my things is going really well. I have made R950 so far - that is alot of money to go into a credit card!

In Loving Memory...

Dorothy May Easton

Born 28 May 1914

Died 20 September 2003

They say that time heals all wounds - what they don't tell you is that no matter how much time passes by, the scar tissue that remains still reminds you of the pain.

It has been 7 years since my Gran died and the tears still flow bitterly.

I was on a picnic with BD when I got the call to say that "granny" had died.

Granny was there to look after me when my mom had to start working again.

Granny taught me how to knit when my mom was still dropping stitches.

Granny brought me grated apple when I had runny tummy and played rummy with me to keep me company while my thumb was in a cast after being run over my a car

Granny showed me how to bake a fluffy cake

Granny brought me coffee in bed on weekends

Granny would let me look through all her old books as long as I looked after them

Granny told me stories with a sad faraway look in her eyes about how she had always wanted to be a tap dancer but was too poor.

Granny looked after her siblings when she lost her parents by working in a box factory and never gt the chance to learn how to swim

Granny  kept the pretty jersey I bought her to wear for a special occassion, but we found it in her cupboard still with the tag on because that special occassion had not come in time.

Granny kept a toy I had knitted for her, still on her bed by her pillow even though it was over 10 years old.

Granny had stopped wanting to live after my grandfather died suddenly 9 months before and after having a stroke from the shock of it all, she told me she wanted to be with him because she missed him.
That morning, 7 years ago they were helping her drink her tea and she just closed her eyes and stopped breathing.
Autopy revealed her heart was strong, doc said she just gave up and died from a broken heart.

Granny was 89.


The next morning I had a dream that she came to me and she was happy because she was finally able to tapdance. I think that really was her telling me that she was happy again.

We miss you Granny and we will always love you.

Uniquely Me - The Cow Jumped Over the Moon

I don't even remember how I found Kate's blog - but I am glad I did.

Kate is a person who is real. She makes me laugh and I guarantee you will love her blog. You will love her quirky sense of humour too!

Welcome Kate from The Cow Jumped over the moon

1: What made you start your blog?

I was - like everyone else in the world pre facebook - on myspace. I used to blog on there and was incredibly lucky enough to be chosen as a featured blogger of the week by one of the top bloggers on there, Stephanie. Thanks to her, I soon had a decent following, which was fun to say the least! It wasn't too long after that that myspace changed; lots of people were spending more time on facebook, and myspace became a ghost town of sorts. Stephanie decided to stop blogging on myspace and decided to set up home on blogger. Her blog is here - http://stephie5741.blogspot.com/ After becoming totally bored with myspace, I decided to do the same myself. I have to admit that I hated it on blogger at first; it was so different to myspace, but I guess it's me just not liking change, I soon got the hang of it. I have no idea why I actually blog, I don't tend to blog about one particular subject, I just ramble on about whatever takes my fancy. I have been so lucky to meet some wonderful people through blogger though, so I don't regret moving over here at all.

2: What is your last thought before you go to sleep at night?

I would love to say I thank my lucky stars for everything I have in my life, or something similar, but I'm much more likely to have a moan to myself about the time I have to get up at the next day!

3: If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?

I would be the yellow crayon. I think yellow is so cheerful and is capable of brightening up the most miserable of days. It would be nice to be able to do that.

4: Would you go back to a day in the past or to a day in the future?

Ooh. Neither. There are things I would like to be able to change in my past - I have made some woefully bad decisions in my past that have hurt people I love very much - but everything that has happened in the past has made me the person I am today. I don't think I would like to go into the future as I would then know what's going to happen way before it did, and I think that would take the surprise and fun out of life. (Although I would love to know what my wedding day would be like - and who the poor soul was that I marry!)

5: Do you like your name?

I have a love/hate relationship with my name. I have the exact same name as the girl who is going out with Prince William, and I get so fed up with people finding out my name and then asking me when I'm going to be marrying my Prince . . . sigh. I'm actually Katherine, which I don't like - I sometimes wish my parents had named me Catherine. Same name, but the C makes it seem so much nicer, haha! I do like Kate, and I love my middle name, Alice.

6: If reincarnation was real - what would you come back as?

I actually do believe in reincarnation. I just can't accept that we die and that's it. What would I like to come back as? I think a cat. They have a pretty cushy life, don't they? The being able to fall asleep anywhere you like holds a major attraction for me!

7: Really rich and ugly - or really poor and pretty?

Really rich and ugly. Strangely enough, having serious amounts of money always makes people much more attractive to the opposite sex, no matter how ugly they actually are, lol!  

8: Complete this sentence - When I was 5 I..... 

Wanted to be a ballet dancer. Having a growth spurt that left me just under 6 feet tall didn't help. Neither did my lack of discipline or my love of food.

9: What is your star sign and tell us 1 trait that you feel is true about you.

I was born on July 4th, so that makes me a cancer. Apparently we are sensitive, emotional, kind and caring. We also dislikes criticisms, can't stand rejection and gets deeply hurt by harsh words. Huh. All of those are me to a tee . . . 

10: What came first - the egg or the chicken?

I'm trying to find a really witty answer to this that will have everyone holding their stomach's as they gasp for breath as they split their sides laughing - but I'm only half awake and I haven't had enough coffee yet. My answer has to be that it's the chicken, it has to be the chicken!

Thank you so much for asking me to do this - I think I'm actually going to cringe when I exactly how much of an eejit I come across as!

Kate: You are not an eejit - I enjoyed this - thanks so much for answering these for me!