I love paper. It is a well-known fact and one that I have mentioned here before. I don’t scrapbook, but do, do a whole lot of crafty stuff that involves scrapbook stuff, like paper and other bits and pieces. Well, this past week I was given the best gift ever…. Boxes and boxes of card-making [...]
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Just a quick update on my Birthday project – 40 Random Acts of Kindness. Some of my friends decided that instead of donating time, toiletries etc they would prefer to donate money to my chosen charity. AWESOME. So, just to let you know that we donated R 2 000 to Cuyler Homes, party of Algoa Bay [...]
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Ok, so I know that I “might” have said that I hate Pinterest but I take it all back, well most of it. Every now and then I discover something that I LOVE and I have discovered what I am going to do for my next birthday. I turn 40! Yikes and I have been [...]
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It was our annual Christmas outing with the girls from the cottage at the EP Child and Youth Care Center that the company I work at sponsors. We have been sponsoring it for over 3 years now and it is amazing to see how the girls have grown and become more confident. As they get [...]
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So I am sewing feverishly at the moment but I don’t feel like I am getting anywhere. I luckily got accepted to sell my Whachumacallit toys at the “Christmas in the Home” market at the end of October, but now I need stock. Who knew it would take this long to make a couple of [...]
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I had a great weekend. It as fantastic to see my sister again!!! We spent the whole day Saturday together which was great! I then “let” her spend Saturday evening with our brother, seeing as he is off on Honeymoon tomorrow so she will not really get to see much of him. Mr OL and [...]
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We started with a talk at the SAMREC Centre to learn about about penguins and see a few that have been rescued and then headed down to the beach and rock pools. The day ended with games on the beach. Luckily the weather held for most of it, but turned a bit chilly and windy towards [...]
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I am off to the beach this afternoon – what a fantastic way to spend a Tuesday afternoon and considering it is “work” even better. We are taking the kids from the children’s home for an outing to the rock pools. It should be fun. Well, sort of fun. There is an organization called Jonginenge that [...]
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I am scared! Nervous! And VERY EXCITED!!!! I came up with an idea which I made reference to here…. I started investigating the possibilities and things have kind of gotten out of hand – in a good way. In a very good way! At the moment it kind of feels like a steam train that [...]
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Ok, little bit more on my “something new”. And I do realise that this is not going to be as exciting for anybody else as it is for me so sorry to get you all guessing. And 6000 – it has nothing to do with kids! At least not any future kids of mine. I [...]
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