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Whoo Hoot Wednesday!!

Yep it’s Wednesday. Where has the week gone. Jamie only has half a day left at school this week. The teachers are on a course for the rest of it.

So what do I have to Whoo Hoot about this week:

1. Today I started an assignment & guess what?? It’s nearly finished!! Now this is a first for me and I am super stoked.

2. My big news – I have signed up to be a Stampin Up demonstrator. Yeah!!! So excited about this. Will be nice to be able to share my passion for creating. So if you live down my way and would like to have a workshop let me know. Or if you would like to see a catalogue or place an order just sing out (Even if you are not in my area! ). Just in case you are not sure what Stampin’ Up is all about check them out here. You can also view the cataloge on there too. My goodies havn’t arrived just yet but should be here any day now.

Right I better go & tick some things off my list of things I had to do today. And start a list for tomorrow lol (It is the only way I am getting things done at the moment!)

Terrible Blogger

Man I am so good at reading peoples blogs but keeping my own updated is another story!

What can I tell you??

We all survived the holidays. Lots of trips to the park (when the weather played nicely), heaps of boards games and the odd swim at the local pool.

Jamie was plesased to get back to school today. The biggest reason……….. she has her first wiggly tooth!! She is so excited about it. Though she was in tears yesterday when she found it to be really wiggly – she was really worried that someone would pull it out (Andre had to have a broken tooth pulled out not so long ago). A few hugs and promises of the ‘tooth mouse’ coming to leave money & all is OK again.

Now the “tooth mouse” – apparently this must be a South African thing?!?!? According to my husband the mouse comes & leaves money in your shoe. I like the idea of the fairy but it looks like Andre is getting his way with this one.

Uni started again last week. Wahoo! Ok enough of the sarcasm. I am having a tough time with a few things at the moment but hopefully I will get myself sorted and be on the track to the end of the year.

I have some exciting news to share – hopefully by the end of the week or early next week. So stay tuned – I’m super excited about it!!!

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Heck I can’t believe another birthday has come & gone. It seems as though they are getting closer and closer together as the years go on!

I was lying in bed Thursday night thinking about the last three years and I have finally realised why I feel so exhausted and in need on a LONG holiday on a tropical island.

In the last three years my family & I have -

* Moved house TWICE. I’m not talking just around the corner or within the same town I am talking large distances. I have had to say goodbye to two sets of awesome friends as we have made these journeys. As well as moving further and further away from my parents. Don’t get me wrong I have ‘enjoyed’ the challenges of moving but man I have had enough of it. No more moving (unless it is to said tropical island!)

* I have started studying full time. I am half way through a teaching degree and I have hit a low. I am just about ready to chuck it all away for the sake of my sanity. But I will keep going (unless someone offers me said holiday on a tropical island) - I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel just yet but I’m pretty sure that it is there somewhere.

So many other things have happened to us – lots of good things and a few not so flash. It has been a rollercoaster thats for sure.

Right, need to pull my socks up and get out of these ‘turning another year older blues’. The girls & I are going out for lunch with friends and then I am going to spend the afternoon scrapping. The weather is nasty here lots of snow around. Have a great weekend.

Ohhhh before I go – I went & saw “Sex in the City” on Thursday night. I have never watched an episode of the TV series so I was a little bit hesitant about going to watch it but man it was a really cool movie!!! A must see in my books.

Thank you

thank you, thank you for all of the amazing comments that you have left me. You have truly made me feel even more beautiful.

Kelly from Beauty and Beyond rung me yesterday to ask me to write a bit of info about the whole experience that they can use in their newsletter and I think she said for the paper too. So I just sent her off this (thought I would share it here too).

“I could do with a hair cut”. Those were the exact thoughts that ran through my mind when I heard the ad on MoreFM for the 2008 Extreme Makeover. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would win a place in the finals or have the experience of a life time.

I had no idea that the competition was such a huge deal until I was interviewed by Nicole and Kelly – a new hairdo, maybe a new outfit and a touch of makeup that would of made my day. But in fact what was about to happen to me was something bigger and better than that.

I was ecstatic to find out I had won a place in the final four – nothing like an interview on the radio to bring out the nerves. Almost straight away I was thrust into the excitement that was the competition.  The next eight weeks were a mixture of consultations, treatments, interviews, photographs, workouts, healthy eating and shopping trips. I truly felt as though I was being worked on from the inside out. After putting myself near the bottom of the pile for so long, I was shown how to feel like a woman again!

Everything that I received from this experience – from the tips on how to eat healthy to the amazing Gly-C treatments that I received on my skin – I am truly thankful for and will continue to use from this day forward. In fact as soon as my facial treatments were over I brought a kit of the products that were used – why would I go back to using products that were drying my skin when I knew that I could have a healthy glow. In fact I even went out and brought myself some makeup – something that hasn’t been seen on my skin for a number of years. It is amazing how even a touch of lip gloss make you feel just that little bit better.

The day of the big reveal is something that I can honestly say will stay with me forever. I had no idea that I could look and feel so amazing. But I can!

Not only was I lucky to receive an amazing new hair cut from the makeover but I also received a new outlook on life!

The new me!!

So the big reveal happened this past Sunday and what a fabulous day it was!!!

The day started at 11am with gettin my hair and make-up done. Then it was onto the venue where we did a lot of waiting around. A heck of a lot of waiting around – while they announced the celebrity guest, had a fashion show and some auctions. Finally it was our turn to go out. I was second out after Jenny, the other lady in my team – who ended up winning!!! I was escorted out by a lovely young gentleman onto the stage and through some of the crowd. I was then asked some questions and the ‘team’ that worked on me told the audience what ‘work’ they did on me. Meanwhile all these photos of me that had been taken throughout the 8 weeks were shown on a HUGE screen. lol

All in all it was a fantastic day, a wonderful experience and I would do it all again in a heart beat.

So photos – I forgot to get someone to take some of me duh but thanks to MoreFM I have just ‘borrowed’ these from their website.

Before – this is the photo I sent in that got me into the comp.

And this is me now!!! Check out that bit of cleavage!!!!!!!! ROFL!!! (I am VERY small busted and wahooo to having some cleavage!!). Yeah for James who took this photo. I can’t wait to get my hands on copies of them. If you are in the SOuthland area I can highly recommend him as a photographer.

If you would like to check out the other contestants have a look at the MoreFM website. Don’t they just all look amazing!!

Back to reality for me now. But I will be keeping up with the new look for sure.

Sneaky peeks……..

Yahhhoooooooo I got my hair cut today & picked up my new glasses.

Sooo, I thought that I would share some peaks of the old me & the new me.

 

For those that have never met me – this is me. Hi!!!! Those on my face are my old glasses.

This is a very small sneaky peak of my new hair – heee you can’t see much but can you see a wee bit of colour in there?!?!?

These, my friends, are my new glasses. Hard to really see them I know. But I LOVE them!!!

Righty, I better go & organise food for my children. Tonight I will be chilling out in preparation of my full on day of pampering tomorrow!!!!

It’s Wednesday!!

That means we are Whoo Hooting!! (Don’tcha love the wee owl!!)

* I’m getting my hair cut tomorrow – now that is a big Whooooo.

* My glasses are ready to be picked up – will do this after said haircut.

* I have spring cleaned two rooms – many more to come.

* Tiana had a nap today – the peace & quiet was bliss – finding she had pee’ed in my bed was not ROFL!

* Only four more days till the big reveal – very exciting & a wee bit nerve wracking too!!

So what do you have to Whoo Hoot about today???

Sad News

I received an email from my very good friend Joanne yesterday telling me that her sister -in-law was tragically killed in a car accident on Tuesday night. I have since seen it on the news that the police are now treating it as a homocide investigation. As they believe the man that caused the accident was trying to kill himself. I just can’t believe that someone would be in such a state of mind that they think they should do this!?!?!

My thoughts, prayers and love goes out to her husband Darren and all of the extended family. I really hope that justuce is served!!!

Whoo Hoot!!!!

Yep it’s Wednesday and time to share some Whoo Hoot’s (a-la-Janine).

Today I spent three hours shopping for my makeover outfit!! It was HEAPS of fun.  I have ended up with a very cool outfit, some shoes with heels – yes people I will be in a pair of heels. Just that alone is worth coming to see me I tell you!!! Some very cool jewlery and some new underwear. Next on the agenda is the glasses – hoepfully we will get these sorted next week.

Another Whoo Hoot is I finished an assignment today. Just one more to tackle and an exam to study for then the semester is all over!!

Right I am exhausted after all that retail therapy. I’m off to watch LOST then hit my bed.