An Expat Kiwi Crafter

Worlds Greatest Shave - Sponsor Someone and Have a Chance to Win Prizes

2012-02-07T08:33:00.001+08:00

A fellow stitcher, Australian and all round lovely lady is doing the Worlds Greatest Shave this year. If you sponsor Terry Louise for this very worthwhile cause you go into the draw to win some fantastic prizes, and all money raised goes to the Leukemia Foundation.

STITCHERS PACKAGE for Tazzy’s WORLD’S GREATEST SHAVE fundraiser
MAIN PRIZE

A full set of Dinky Dyes silk floss – Sincere thanks to Jo for such generous support.
Dinky Dyes

$25 Gift Certificate to 123 Stitch

$25 Gift Voucher for Fiona Jude’s Country Threads. Sincere thanks to Fiona for her generous support.
Country Threads

4 x Fat Eighths (13”x19”) of hand dyed fabrics from Countrystitch in New Zealand (or 2 x Fat Quarters) – winners choice. Sincere thanks to Catherine at Countrystitch for her generous support.
Countrystitch

1 x Janet M Davies (New Zealand designer) - Alby Owl (5 Blackwork designs)
JMD Designs - Alby

1 x Janet M Davies (New Zealand designer) – Rainbow Galaxy (4 Hardanger designs) JMD Designs - Rainbow

1 x Nutmeg Company 3D Weekend Cottage kit – Easter in the Cotswolds Nutmeg Company - cottages

1 x Nutmeg Company Trios Kit – Peeping Tom Nutmeg Company – Trios

1 x Chatelaine (Martina Weber) chart – The Knotgarden

2 x 12” Tuck Pillow covers – pillow insert not included

6 x Christmas themed Tuck Ornaments

Some Australian lollies and chocolates

OTHER PRIZES

A very generous anonymous benefactor has offered to donate additional gift certificates as the fundraising reaches set goals.

I will also add a gift certificate to 123 Stitch for every $500 of donations received through this and other stitching boards. Each certificate will be at least $10.00.

$10 gift certificate to 123Stitch or an LNS of the winner’s choice. Generously donated by Norma Braden. Thank you Norma.

TO PARTICIPATE

1. Please sponsor me at my Worlds Greatest Shave site. Payments many be made by credit card or Paypal.
Terry Louise's WGS page

2. Then email me at terrylouisetas@yahoo.com with Stitcher’s Package donation in the heading and let me know the name under which you made your donation and I will enter you in the draw.

OTHER INFORMATION

One chance to win this Stitcher’s Package will be given for each $10.00 donated through my site with donations of multiples of $10 having multiple chances. Winners will be chosen at random. The draw will be made on or about St Patrick’s Day as we are still trying to confirm a time with a hairdresser.

The donors of prizes or I will pay for postage and we will post anywhere in the world.

Anyone who donates to my page before St Valentine’s Day will also have the chance to win the gorgeous SNOOPY HO HO HO Stocking Kit that Mary in CA has donated to the cause. For more information please check out Mary’s post.
SNOOPY Stocking Kit

For anyone who is unsure about donating in a different currency – the Aussie dollar and US dollar are close to parity at the moment. The Australian dollar was a couple of cents over the US last time I looked.

If anyone has any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at the above email.

Best wishes

Terry Louise - Tasmania

Perth Western Australia aka OMG I'm Melting!

2012-01-25T11:54:00.000+08:00

And you may ask yourself "Why does she live there?" and I sometimes wonder that myself..........

Wed Jan 25		Thu Jan 26		Fri Jan 27		Sat Jan 28		Sun Jan 29		Mon Jan 30		Tue Jan 31
Mostly sunny		Mostly sunny		Mostly sunny		Sunny		Mostly sunny		Sunny		Sunny
Maximum	40°C		41°C		39°C		42°C		40°C		38°C		38°C
Minimum	24°C		26°C		25°C		26°C		24°C		22°C		24°C

A Stitching Post - yep two posts in one week!!

2012-01-18T08:28:00.000+08:00

This is what I have been stitching on over the summer. It is a design by Cricket Collection and the fabric is from Sassy's, it was part of my colour of the month club a few months ago.

And this is what it should look like when I am finished..........

I am enjoying stitching this as it is all full x stitches, has very little back stitching and large blocks of one colour.

* Sorry for the crappy photo I think my flash was turned off - I promise the next update the photo will be 100% better :0)

Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire

2012-01-16T09:20:00.000+08:00

Wednesday the 4 January started out like any other day. The temperature soared as the day progressed and by lunchtime there was a smell of smoke in the air. But living in Western Australia bush fires in summer are a regular occurance and you usually just listen to the radio to see where the fire is.........

The afternoon progressed and you could hear the fire fighting helicopters taking flying backwards and forwards from the airport, this is not an uncommon sound for us as we live by the airport. I had a friend popping in after he had finished work for the day and well being the first day back at work for him he left early and arrived at my house about 3pm, we cracked a drink and that is when all hell broke lose!!!

The noise of the helicopters was getting louder and they were flying really low over the houses in our street, so being the nosey people that we are we went outside to have a look and......

Yep the fire was actually down the other end of our street, it has started at the airport jumped a highway and threatening houses at the far end of our street.
Now this had happened a couple of years ago and it was soon bought under control but with the winds we were having this had the potential to jump again and take out houses.

About 4pm the police came along and told everyone to grab important documents, pets and meds and evacuate the street. Now when this happened we kind of thought WTF. So we loaded up the dogs, grabbed passports, meds, turned the front sprinklers on, jumped in the car and thought "where shall we go" as we didn't want to go to far from home, so we went to a friends place around the corner. The police had completely blocked off the street and were only letting people out so that they could evacuate.
After about 90mins we returned to the blockade and found all our neighbours there also and after about another 30 mins we were allowed back in our houses, but all night fire engines and police were cruising the street to make sure that that the fire didn't flare up again.

The firefighters and helicopter pilots did a wonderful job finally getting the fire under control and luckily no property was damaged.

Doesn't Anyone Proof Read Anymore?

2012-01-12T10:55:00.000+08:00

I was getting ready to mail off a form to a Government Department and picked up a couple of typos. Sorry that the picture isn't very clear. Geez doesn't anyone proof read anymore and I can guarantee that they will have thousands of these forms sitting around waiting to be used. And the bizzare thing is that declare is spelt correctly all the way through the document until the end LOL

Last Check In Before Christmas

2011-12-21T09:15:00.000+08:00

Well this will be my last post before Chrismas and possibly the last post of 2011 - can someone please tell me where this year has gone!!!

So in the count down to Christmas:
Presents - DONE
Tree - DONE
Wrapping of said Presents - yeah right LOL - probably Christmas Eve
Buying of the Christmas Food - Friday
Christmas Alcohol - Friday or Saturday

So basically I am done, I have one more day of work left and then I am on holidays till the 6 January - WHOOO HOOOOO.
I have our new air conditioner for those days that are just to hot to go outside, mulitple tv channels,DVDs, books downloaded to my kindle and cross stitch stash so I am pretty sure that my time away from work will be well spent.

Here is some pictures of a couple of ornaments I stitched for the exchanges I was in....


For Lynne in Canada - Exchange at 123mb

Design is from an older issue of JCS Ornament Issue. I have stitched this one a couple of times now and it is one of my favourites.

For Marilynne in Canada - Exchange at Stitchers Circle

Design from this years JCS Ornament Issue.

So to all of you who read my blog or just stumble across it accidentally I would like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday season and I will see you all again in 2012.

Oh and just a follow up from my last post, I am still to watch Upstairs Downstairs, mum arrived safe and sound and the house was cleanish.........

Feliz Navidad etc etc

2011-12-13T10:07:00.001+08:00

This is just a fly by post as I just don't know where the time has gone. Can you believe that it is nearly Christmas. I am going to have to do my usual Christmas shopping blitz and hit the mall with a list and a couple of spare hours on Sunday.......not quite the night before Christmas but pretty close LOL. At least I don't need to buy any Christmas paper as I have a huge stash left over from last year as I went gift bags instead, me wrapping presents is not a pretty sight, have you ever seen an adult get sticky tape stuck in their hair...............

My mum arrives on Friday afternoon and I have but one christmas decoration up and the house is a mess. I did go home with good intentions of doing some cleaning last night but well a recorded episode of Upstairs Downstairs and a glass of wine won the call instead, maybe tonight.

My last day of work before the Christmas break is December 23 and I don't come back until January 9, boy am I looking forward to that break as 2012 is going to be the working year from hell if 2011 is anything to go by!!

I will pop in again next week and let you know how my Christmas shopping went, if my house was clean for when my mum arrived and what happened in the next episode of Upstairs Downstairs so until then..........

And remember

November - The Month That Money Could Fly

2011-11-21T09:28:00.001+08:00

November started out like any other month. 30 days, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening. **Christmas** fast approaching. Each work day you dream about how long it is till your next holiday blah blah blah blah.............

THEN

The car goes in to get the air con regassed as summer is coming and nothing worse than driving around in hell like temperatures, comes out again costing a couple of hundred $$, yep we can live with that, goes back in because the air con is not running cold. Comes out again a week and a half later with a price tag of over $1500 (apparently the air con had a leak, duh don't they check that before regassing!)..............needless to say that "mechanic" will not be seeing us again or any of our friends that we have recommended him to (I wont go into all the tech talk as I really really want you to continue reading)

We don't use scheme water to water our lawns or gardens we have a bore. For the last few months our bore hasn't worked due to a problem with the power pole out the front of the house and the power company continually going "No problemo" - this has not been an issue as we were still getting rain which was enough. Well the weather is warming up and our lawn is starting to look like this..........

So we replace the bore (nearly $1000) get it fitted then find out the the switch that turns it off and on does not work..........now the hunt begins for those invisible tradespeople called ELECTRICIANS!! People have heard of them, but they are rarely seen actually on a job doing electrical work. After 2 failed attempts at getting an electrician around to look at the job let alone replace the switch, oh sorry yes one did turn up but failed to turn up on the day he allocated to replace the switch so he got told where to go.........we resort to dragging the local paper out of the recycling bin and ringing every bloody electrican that is listed. Now tell me what does "mobile phone" mean to you - you are contactable or can ring someone back when they leave a bloody message!!! (INSERT BIG DEEP BREATH)

Finally we get an electrician that says he will come around and look at what we need doing, insert a couple of high fives, hand pumps, happy dances whatever you want as he does turn up and we proceed to give him a list of what we need done............

1. Hook up the new air conditioner that we have just had installed as previously we spent our summers hanging out like this and fighting the dogs for the fans .....

2. Replace 6 ceiling fans

3. Get the bore working buy installing switch blah blah blah

Can't you tell we were so excited that we added things to the original list!

Well this lovely man turned up on Saturday morning, installed the new switch for the bore and proceeded to install the new fans.. here you would think we would be so deliriously happy with this man well we were but I think he might be bad luck or something............

I was getting ready to go and do the food shopping and opened the freezer door and everything had DEFROSTED!!! Opened the normal section and everything was warm, even my wine which is a crime and can not be tolerated at all!!!! That is unless I drunk red wine, but I don't so there!

The fridge had died, gone to that great white appliance ground in the sky, become landfill fodder (just joking on that, we are actually going to get someone around to collect it they can try and get it going again and onsell as a beer fridge or something useful like that)

So was heading out to tell the other half the fantastic news about the fridge and he comes in and goes "Guess What" but I jump in and tell him my fantastic news about the fridge and he loses it - WOW the dogs took off and hid behind the shed, I think the electrician went back down the bore hole he had just crawled out of and our flatmate skulked out the back door. Because unbenonst (is that a word??) to me the other half was coming in tell me that the bore would still not be working by the end of the day as the wires that went from the switch to the bore had broken somewhere underneath our back yard!!!
So Saturday night was spent digging a trench from one end of our yard to the other so that the electrican can lay some new wiring and hopefully come back one night this week to finish off the job....

But I did get a new fridge (totally new story on the delivery driver that delivered it) it has LED lights inside, door alarms and a quick chill section for my wine, which will probably get a good work out once I get my new supply delivered.

So all in all November has probably cost us around $7000 including the new air conditioner. I have come to the conclusion that Summer hates me as all the above are summer related things to assist with making our life so much nicer during the hot months.... oh and if you know of an electrician, love him, treat him with respect, make him cups of tea or coffee as they are a rare breed............and if you read to the end of this thank you :0)

Back from Holidays

2011-11-04T10:04:00.000+08:00

Ahhh, the break away was wonderful. Leaving Perth in the wind and rain and stepping off at the other end after only 2 hours into bright sunshine and warm weather - life doesn't get much better than that.
Opps yes it does.........sitting on the deck at the Novotel Resort, slurping a mojito, looking out over perfect blue seas and in the distance seeing a whale breaching. Now that is close to perfect............or is it??

Well how about driving over to the west side parking the car up, walking over the dunes, looking at the amazing blue water and seeing it swarming with turtles which are only about a meter off the shore (yes it was turtle egg laying time, so turtle porn was going on everywhere but it didn't seem right taking a picture of that so here is a couple of basic snaps of the turtles LOL).......

I would have to say that was the highlight of my holiday, seeing all the turtles but then again you turn round the next bend in the road and HELLOOOOO a super cute site greets you..........

Daddy emu out for a stroll with his babies...I learnt that the female emu lays the eggs and incubates them and once they hatch she is off and it is up to the ole man to raise the chicks. What was really cool was that when they were walking down the road the dad was on the outside of all the chicks and when a car was coming along he herded them onto the verge.

So all in all a great holiday away with one of my besties, visiting family, drinking to much, eating to much and seeing the wonders of nature in nice warm weather...........

In The Words Of Madonna and Sir Cliff

2011-10-24T15:12:00.001+08:00

Well its not exactly summer and its only for a week but ciao and see you all when I get back ..........

We're all going on a summer holiday
no more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on our summer holiday,
no more worries for me or you,
for a week or two.

We're going where the sun shines brightly
we're going where the sea is blue.
we've all seen it on the movies,
now let's see if it's true.

Everybody has a summer holiday
doin' things they always wanted to
So we're going on a summer holiday,
to make our dreams come true
for me and you.
for me and you.

Gee Two Posts In One Week :)

2011-10-21T13:09:00.000+08:00

Before I actually do my blog post - GO THE ALL BLACKS!!!

Just Popping In.................

2011-10-17T13:52:00.001+08:00

Available from here http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/

Finally A Finish

2011-09-28T08:54:00.000+08:00

First off apologies for the bad photo :). But I finally finished something in time for Halloween ( I wont be around for Halloween but that is a totally different story LOL)
This is a freebie from Jaunty Fox Designs, and I can see myself stitching this one again as the design lends itself to a mulitple choice of fabrics and threads.......


Fence Cat by Jaunty Fox, stitched on 28ct Mulberry Linen using Carries Creations overdyes with a touch of Kreink Glow in the Dark

The A-Z (I say zed!) of me!

2011-09-22T13:14:00.000+08:00

A-Age:

How rude!

Over 45!

B-Bed size:

Queen

C-Chore that you hate:

All of them!

D-Dogs:

Well with two I them I have to say “love em”

E-Essential start to your day:

Waking up!

And Shower!

F-Favourite Colour:

All!

G-Gold or silver:

Silver, but I have started wearing some gold in the last year or 2 as they are special meaning pieces

H-Height:

5'4" ish

I-Instruments you play:

Took guitar and piano lessons at school but really can’t play a lick LOL

J-Job title:

Executive Support

K-Kids:

No thanks, couldn't eat a whole one.

L-Live:

In an old housing commission home, big block but house is built in middle meaning subdividing is gonna be so hard LOL

M-Mothers name:

Janice

N-Nicknames:

Dragon, Vicks, Vickster etc

O-Overnight hospital stays:

Yep, just the one

P-Pet peeves:

Where do I start?!

People who don't take responsibility for themselves and their actions, empty containers left in fridges or cupboards......amongst others!

Q-Quote from a movie:

“Whoa, whoa. You better watch what you say about my car. She's real sensitive.”

If you can guess the movie you get a prize :)

R-Right or left handed:

Right!

S-Siblings:

1 bro

T-Time you wake up:

5:30am week days-it's not natural.

U-Underwear:

Yep

V-Vegetable you hate:

Brussel Sprouts, horrible little cabbages!

W-What makes you run late:

Other people!

X-X rays you've had:

Teeth, Leg and I think that is about it…..

Y-Yummy food that you make:

Mexican,Indian! Lots, as I am a keen cook!

Z-Zoo animal:

Otters and Meerkats

I've Got Me An Addiction!

2011-09-20T08:37:00.000+08:00

Hi my name is Vicky and I am a kitchen gadet addict! I just couldn't resist my latest purchase it was all red and shiny and with summer heading our way I am sure it will get a lot of use.

I actually did a test run on Sunday and made some raspberry icecream. I had the raspberries in the freezer, went low fat on the milk etc. I was surprised how much it made. If anyone has any good ice cream recipes that they care to share please email me :)

Yes I Am Still Stitching LOL

2011-09-07T11:55:00.000+08:00

But I am currently stitching exchange pieces so no pics until sent and recieved :)

Yesterdays mail day was great, I got my copy of ............

Spent hours drooling last night and after going through it about 4 times figured out that there is probably only 3 or 4 things in the whole bookazine that I am not interested in stitching. Me thinks 2012 is gonna be the year of Halloween stitching LOL

Good Mail Always Comes After The Weekend

2011-08-29T13:44:00.002+08:00

Monday was a great mail day. I have been waiting for these DVD's with anticipation (nearly a month in a couple of cases). But of course they couldn't arrive in time for the weekend nooooooo they have to arrive on a Monday. But oh well guess next weekend is looking great......... Now which one to watch first LOL

Do You Remember.......

2011-08-18T09:12:00.000+08:00

In the days before computers, when we were still at school one of the things to do was have a penpal. I remember having penpals in Scotland and Japan but as most things go when you are growing up writing letters takes a back seat to running amok after school (ahem that should be doing homework after school), finding out that the opposite sex is interesting etc.

Well a blogger friend decided to bring back the art of penpalism and set up a secret penpal exchange, via normal post . We are to send a card or letter to our person the first week of the month up until Christmas. The person I sent to received their card earlier this month ( I sneakily checked out their blog) and I received a lovely letter from my person yesterday in the mail. Getting a letter or card in the mail sure is different than getting an email from someone. You forget how nice it is to hold something solid in your hand and read about someone,something, some place.
Bring on next month !!

I Got Mail :)

2011-08-05T10:12:00.000+08:00

The blogging world is amazing. I was reading someones blog and they were talking about some jewellery that was available and part proceeds went to the Christchurch Earthquake appeal. Now as some of you remember I was there in February when the earthquake struck and the devastation to the places and people of my hometown (yes it is still my hometown even though I haven't lived there in 20+ years) was heartbreaking.
I checked out Cloud Nine Creative and ordered a necklace. Let me tell you this has been one wonderful experience. The communication with the owner has been great. Australia Post actually managed to get it to me in a super quick time (check out my previous post LOL) and I have managed to make a donation to help Christchurch. So all in all a very warming experience.

Oh I suppose you want to see what I got..............well here it is!

The other side is black. I did have to pull back and not order the earrings but hey that might be a treat for me in the future LOL

WOW

2011-08-02T11:41:00.003+08:00

Well what can I say, Wicked was in one word "Wicked". I went having no idea what the storyline was going to be and came out after the show like a kid at christmas. The humor was great.
The cast were fantastic and it was great to see Bert back in the saddle again.
This is one show that if it ever gets put out on DVD I will be getting a copy to watch again......

Going to See.........

2011-07-19T15:07:00.001+08:00

On Sunday 31 July. Can't wait!!

Participated in Swap

2011-07-12T13:59:00.000+08:00

I recently participated in a swap over HERE, it was really well run and the participants all appeared to have fun and there were no flakers :)

This is what I received from Shannon who has a wonderful blog *here*

She did the most amazing finish on her stitched item, I am so jealous.......

This is what I sent to Ann, who has a wonderful blog *here*
I did pinch the picture from Ann's blog as the picture I took was crap as most of my photos are LOL.....

Australia Post have just put up postage rates so I am going to have to rethink which exchanges I participate in from now on which is a big shame as they are great fun.

2011-07-06T15:29:00.000+08:00

This is one of the most beautiful places in the world and you can see what they want to do to it HERE. There are other places or options for the "gas hub", this is just Greed at its greatest!

It Arrived!!

2011-06-15T13:36:00.000+08:00

Whoot Whoot, my parcel finally arrived.............

To see what it is going to become and where to order this funky stuff from CLICK HERE and let me say that the customer service from this place is great. Next time I visit Brisbane I am going to pop in for a visit.

Total Ramblings!

2011-06-12T14:00:00.000+08:00

I love online shopping but it is so much harder to hide your purchases when you are not the first person home from work :) I could use my work address for deliveries but then I would have to haul my purchases home on public transport! The downside to online shopping is having to wait for your "goodies" to arrive, I have been waiting a week for some yarn to arrive and I have itchy knitting needles to calm down every evening. Now this is not the fault of the supplier it is stupid Australia Post who have no concept what so ever of good service.
An example of their not good service is that I have 3 postal agencies near me and when you aren't home you get a card with the pick up post office stamped on it. A few months ago I got a card and the stamp was smudged so I went to the post office that is closest to me (we will call this one "A") and the man behind the counter goes "not here try the "X" post office", so off we go to "X", get to "X" and "X" goes not here try "A", I explain that I have already been to "A" and they sent me to "X" - duh this took about 5 minutes for them to understand and finally they said try "Z". Now "Z" is not the closest post office to me but the farthermost away and the busiest. But low and behold after going to "Z" standing in line for 20 minutes while MOTH is parked in a 5 minute parking zone I got my parcel. What is so hard about putting a parcel into collection at the persons closest post office and having a card that is legible??
I posted a parcel to the US last week and because the parcel was over 500g I had to pay an extra $9 dollars or whatever - they try to palm this off as a fee put on by US customs to cover the extensive screening of mail now but how come no other country is charged this "fee"!

Speaking of public transport I had to ring up and complain about a bus driver this week, the knob head was talking on his mobile phone while driving the bloody bus, he thought he was hiding the fact by having the phone on speaker, but hey I may be blonde but even I know that bus drivers have to pass certain tests to make sure that they are competent to drive a bus loaded with members of the public, and I am pretty sure that talking to yourself is a test they have to pass. He was so engrossed in his phone call that he didn't even hear the bell ring for my stop and proceeded to drive past it until I yelled at him to stop!

I have been stitching but can't show any pictures yet as it is for an exchange that I am in. The mailing date is the 20th and I just have a little bit more to do this afternoon and I should be finished - whoo hoo, then I can go back to "me" stitching :) So I might put in a DVD kick back and get my fingers flying so I can finish this part of the exchange get the rest of the goodies together and mail it off and let Australia Post slug me extra for it going to the US and weighing over 500g!

Boy I just realised that this is a whingey whiney post, not sure why, could be the weather, could be it is Sunday or could be that I have to face a 5 day working week.............

Wherever You May Be.......

2011-05-27T15:34:00.002+08:00

Enjoy your weekend when it gets here!

Mothers Day - Belated Post

2011-05-24T10:22:00.000+08:00

Here is a card that I made my mum for Mothers Day, it is very similar to the birthday card I made the other week but what can I say, my imagination is on holiday LOL.
Anyway Happy Mothers Day mum hope the day wasn't to hard with us kids living in another country and this being the first Mothers Day without dad around...................

Baking From Easter - reposted!!

2011-05-14T12:32:00.000+08:00

Not sure what happened with blogger but they deleted this post and the comments that went with it grrrrrrr.

I whipped this up over Easter and it was so easy and yummy. Sorry but I can't remember where I got the recipe from but I am pretty sure that it was from one of the blogs that I visit....................

ROCKY ROAD

Ingredients

2 large blocks of chocolate, I used Fruit and Nut and Crunchie

100 grams mini marshmallows

1 cup of flaked coconut

2 bags of candy, I just used Homebrand jellies and soft jubes

How To

Break chocolate into small pieces and melt in a glass bowl over a bowl of simmering water.

Cut up candy

Once chocolate has melted add candy, coconut and mini marshmallows.

Pour into a greased or lined cake tin and put in the fridge to set.

Once set cut into pieces and you will get......

Cross Stitch Finish!!

2011-05-08T15:19:00.000+08:00

Well this blog is supposed to be about stitching but not much has been happening on that front lately, well not finishes any way. But TA DAH a small finish but a finish none the less.


Sue Hillis Design - Burnt to Perfection

All The Help I Can Get

2011-05-07T11:54:00.001+08:00

I received this book in the mail yesterday after waiting nearly 4 weeks (this online store doesn't tell you that they source and mail from overseas until you get your invoice) after a recommendation from a friend.................

It will hopefully get me going on decluttering my house. I have only just started reading it and so far the book has me relaxed and getting into the right mindset to tackle the job. This is more than some other decluttering books that I have bought and read (now you see why I need to declutter LOL) has made me feel. These other books use timers, racing around like a lunatic etc. So wish me luck!

Oh and another reason I need to start is that I watch "Hoarders Buried Alive" and that tv show freaks me out LOL

For a Country of Approx 4million People.....

2011-05-03T13:43:00.001+08:00

Tornado in New Zealand

First this year it was Earthquakes in New Zealand now Tornado's - Mother Nature sure is pi**ed with NZ.

A Card For My MIL

2011-04-26T12:58:00.002+08:00

Easter Sunday my MIL celebrated her 91st birthday. The family all got together for afternoon tea, it was a great afternoon and I am sure that MIL liked getting out of the home she is living in and sitting there being queen for a day :)
Well with it being Easter I totally forgot about getting her a birthday card so had to make one on Saturday afternoon...........

A Stolen Idea - Revisted

2011-04-26T10:20:00.000+08:00

The Book List!

Stolen shamelessley from another blog

This list looked fun.

Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.)

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2.Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (WallyLamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

More Harddrive Finds

2011-04-21T13:52:00.000+08:00

I am just filling in time till it is time to head home from work for 5 days off!!

I found this picture on my hard drive. It is my girly dog Raelene and I don't have any idea what was going through her little mind when this was taken but it cracks me up LOL

And finally Monday is a very special day here in Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC Day..................

I know its not Christmas

2011-04-14T15:50:00.000+08:00

But this cracked me up :)

Why Is Blogging So Hard LOL

2011-04-12T09:47:00.000+08:00

I can't believe how long I go between blogs. Some of you blog every day others every other day. I am lucky if it is once every month, and half my blog posts are BORING LOL.

This weekend was MOTH's birthday and he whinged all Saturday that I hadn't made him a cake or got him some chocolate etc. But ha I showed him and whipped up this Choc Chip Slice late Saturday afternoon for him.

The recipe came from HERE and it is so simple and quick. And while you are checking out this recipe check out the rest of the website as there are some fabulous eatables posted there.

I haven't been stitching much but on Saturday afternoon I picked up the crochet hook and whipped up some of these little babies......

They are super quick and once you make a couple they seem to just flow off the hook. The pattern is HERE if you are interested.
I am not sure what I am going to do with them yet but I am leaning towards christmas ornaments or something along those lines.

And there ends another ho hum blog post. Until next time followers :)

What Was On My Camera.

2011-04-01T13:14:00.001+08:00

Well it has been awhile since I have downloaded photos from my camera so today was the day. These are just a few of the random photos that I had sitting on my camera........

This one is just after the earthquake in Christchurch, amazing that a 6.3 can topple over a huge heavy concrete fountain!

This is another one from the earthquake poor St Francis got decapitated!

These were the wonderful flowers that were on my desk when I got back to work after my New Zealand trip.

Now what do you do to your friends Harley after a couple of drinks.........why add tassles of course!

And finally "One of these things is not like the other"

And Another Weekend Comes Along

2011-03-25T14:52:00.001+08:00

Well my day couldn't have started of any better than this...

I jumped on the bus at my normal stop only to be greeted by a sign over the tagger onner "Free Rides, System Error" whoo hoo that saved me $2.50.

The morning was busy and before I knew it, it was lunchtime and I met up with a girlfriend to wander up the street and grab a bite to eat. She didn't get what she ordered and my bagel was very lacking in Avocado, but even that didn't put me in a bad mood........

Do you know why?

It is Friday and I now have 2 days off to recharge my batteries before I have to do it all again.

The weather in Perth is still fabulous.........

The girlfriend that I had lunch with is coming over for a drink after work............

A blogging friend got the new apartment that she wanted

Australia is out of the World Cup Cricket

Moto GP is back

AFL season has started again

and
All is right in my little part of the world.

As We Head Towards The Weekend.........

2011-03-18T15:45:00.003+08:00

Just remember that Monday will roll around again - enjoy your weekend folks!

A Rough Couple of Weeks

2011-03-12T17:52:00.000+08:00

Hi Everyone well I am back but this will just be a short post to update you on a couple of things........then I hope to be back posting as normal next week or weekend.

On the 18 February my dad passed away after a 10 month battle with cancer, he was a great dad and we shared a special bond as I was his first born and also born on his birthday so each year from now on my birthday will be more special than ever.

I flew out to New Zealand (Christchurch) arriving on the 21 February along with my brother and his family.

Tuesday 22 February a 6.5 earthquake happened in Christchurch and basically wrecked my home town, luckily none of my family or friends were seriously injured but some of them did lose their houses.

My dads memorial service was the 24 February but many people couldn't make it due to the earthquake and the damage to the roads etc, but it was still a wonderful day.

Needless to say the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a blur due to death, earthquakes and lack of sleep but one of the best things to happen was a phone call from my girlfriend of 20+ years from the UK she tracked me down at my mums house to make sure that we were all ok as I couldn't get on the internet due to no power and a lack of internet cafes.

I hope that you all stick with me over the next couple of posts as I post some amazing things that came out of the visit back home for me and I promise not to dwell on this subject for to long.

Brief Hiatus

2011-02-18T11:00:00.000+08:00

I have a few things going on in my life at the moment that are taking me away from updating my blog regularly and basically moving along with life in general.
I hope you can all stay with me during this time and I will be back blogging again soon.........
Thanks so much my blogging friends :)

A Catch Up.............

2011-02-06T16:53:00.001+08:00

My other half normally just gives me $$ for Christmas and I go off and buy what I want but this year I dropped in a few hints (actually took him to the shop and showed him what I wanted LOL) and he bought me this.................My kitchen is tiny and doesn't have a lot of bench space so this is just perfect for that extra bit of room that I need for kitchen prep or putting out an appliance. It was kit set, kind of like Ikea but easier and our track record of putting stuff like this together normally ends up with us not talking to each other the dogs MIA, but I can proudly say that the instructions on this one and the use of the supplied allan key was just the ticket and about 90 minutes after it was out of the box it was in my kitchen :)

Craft wise I have been busy crocheting this lovely pillow, I got the pattern from The Royal Stitchers and let me just say that Michelle is wonderful as I had a bit of a problem emailed someone who has just completed the same pattern, they passed my email to Michelle and wham bam problem fixed!

I am catching up with my SIL tomorrow who lives a 2 hour plane flight away as she is flying out to New Zealand to visit her family and mine tomorrow night, so it is a flying visit. So the wine is in the fridge and chicken will be roasted in her honour :)

Now if you are still reading this post, I am sure you are aware that the Eastern States of Australia have been having the weather from hell, well today here in Perth, there are two massive bush fires out of control and I have heard on the news that 20 homes have been lost so far. Can you please now keep my town in your thoughts and hope that lose of life does not happen with these fires. Our firefighters are stretched to their limits and really don't need to be fighting two huge fires!

Just a Quickie :)

2011-02-04T19:24:00.002+08:00

Just updated my TUSAL page, I will do a longer post over the weekend. Have a great one all!

Cyclone Yasi

2011-02-02T11:35:00.000+08:00

A catagory 5 cyclone is headed towards Queensland. If any of you who read my blog are in the area or have friends or family in the area you are in my thoughts.........

You can follow the path of the cyclone HERE

Should I or Shouldn't I ?

2011-01-20T09:26:00.000+08:00

Okay I love Halloween and I love purple, but this year was going to be the year of non stash buying and stash busting what I already have but this has just been bought to my attention........

So the big question is should I just go ahead or stick to my resolution of stash busting instead of stash buying.................

Queensland Flood Relief Fund - UPDATE

2011-01-12T11:43:00.001+08:00

THE PEOPLE IN BLOG LAND HAVE RAISED $45,000 SO FAR, WHAT A GREAT EFFORT AND A BIG THANK YOU IF YOU HAVE PASSED THE WORD ON OR CONTRIBUTED IN ANYOTHER WAY :)

I am sure that many of you by now have heard about the savage floods occuring in QLD on the East Coast of Australia.

Well the wonderful blogging world is standing up and raising money for the Premiers flood relief program by auctioning and raffling off many wonderful handmade items. The program is going to be really taking off after Friday so please click on the flood relief button on my side bar and see what is happening.

Also Jodie over HERE is having a raffle and the prize is her wonderful handmade softies.

So I encourage as many of you as possible to donate one way or another and help support the residents of Queensland.

Thanks

Made It!

2011-01-07T15:46:00.000+08:00

Well today is Friday and only 20 mins to go before I leave the office and start my weekend. It has been a funny week one day busy and the next day hardly even getting an email :(
Weather wise one day this week we peeked at 38 deg (100ish) and when you walked outside you would have throught you were in Bali the humidity was so bad! We are heading back up to the mid 30's over the weekend and it looks like it will be continuing well into next week.
Well my friends I hope you all have fantastic weekends and I will leave you with something that made me giggle this week :)

2011 TUSAL & Other News

2011-01-05T08:25:00.000+08:00

Totally Useless Stitch A-Long....TUSAL hosted by Daffycat! Now some of you that follow my blog aren't xstitchers so rather than bore you all with the pictures and details I have created a new page for the TUSAL.

I have just read online that Gerry Rafferty has passed away at 63. I just loved the song Baker Street...

Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day, you’ll drink the night away
And forget about everything.

This city desert makes you feel so cold
It’s got so many people but it’s got no soul
And it’s taken you so long to find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything.

You used to think that it was so easy,
You used to say that it was so easy
But you’re tryin’, you’re tryin’ now.
Another year and then you’d be happy
Just one more year and then you’d be happy
But you’re cryin’, you’re cryin’ now.

Way down the street there’s a light in his place
He opens the door, he’s got that look on his face
And he asks you where you’ve been, you tell him who you’ve seen
And you talk about anything.

He’s got this dream about buyin’ some land
He’s gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he’ll settle down, in some quiet little town
And forget about everything.

But you know he’ll always keep movin’
You know he’s never gonna stop movin’
Cause he’s rollin’, he’s the rollin’ stone.
And when you wake up it’s a new morning
The sun is shining, it’s a new morning
But you’re going, you’re going home.

Drums: Henry Spinetti
Bass Guitar: Gary Taylor
Keyboards: Tommy Eyre
Percussion: Glen Le Fleur
Rhythm Electric: Nigel Jenkins
String Arrangement: Graham Preskett
Saxophone: Raphael Ravenscroft
Vocals: Gerry Rafferty

Well 2011 Is Here

2011-01-02T09:47:00.000+08:00

Yes it is the usual post from me this time of year. It is HOT here in the west! Today is supposed to be about 40 which is over 100 in the alternate temp taking gauge LOL. The air con and fans are on, the house is closed up tighter that a maximum security prison and I still have to go outside soon and bring some washing in off the line - I am procrastinating as usual about doing this and that is why I don't do new year resolutions LOL

I hope you all behaved yourselves on NYE, I managed to stay awake until 11.30, we spent the night sitting out the back listening to a band play at a party 2 doors up the street. We were invited to the party but just couldn't be bothered LOL

Only 2 more days then it is back to work after being off since Christmas Eve, but why is it now that I am only starting to sleep in and relax.

In a previous post I mentioned that I was joining a challenge for 2011 to try and get rid of some UFO's that I have lying around, well I have made a new page just for this and have uploaded a couple of pictures of what it should look like when finished and where it is up to and let me say that it is pretty sad but hopefully posting updates and pictures will spur me on.

Probably My Final Post Of 2010

2010-12-21T11:57:00.001+08:00

I would like to wish all my followers and the people who accidentally come across my blog or link from another blog a very merry holiday season and I hope you all have a wonderful time with friends and family during the season.
And for those of you having to deal with snow, sleet or hail please take care and think of us here in Australia as we are looking at hitting 38 (100) here Christmas Day in Perth.

The Year Ahead

2010-12-14T09:20:00.002+08:00

This time of year there are many 2011 Challenges going around. I have decided to join this one to try and get rid of some of my unfinished cross stitched projects completed or near completion up4achallenge
Now my list currently only has 4 things on it, and can be found in my sidebar, but I am sure I will come across a few more before the 1st of the year to add to the list.
I will be keeping you updated via my blog of course so any comments you leave on my posts will be a source of encouragement, so just telling me to get off my lazy **** and finish something or hey girl way to go will be greatly appreciated.

On a totally different topic my Christmas spirit has got up and went and I don't know where it is, so if you find it wandering around dazed and confused can you please give it a shove in my direction LOL

Ornament Exchange - What I Recieved

2010-12-08T08:16:00.000+08:00

This is the ornament that I received from Lynne, he is so cute. She also sent me some wonderful hand dyed fabric, ornamnet kits and some yummy Chocolate, which I have currently hidden LOL.

Well the Christmas spirit hasn't arrived at my house yet, and this year I really dont' think it will. All the cards that I receive along with the ornaments that are arriving in the mail will be put out but as for hauling out the box of decorations I just can't be bothered, plus I would have to go out and buy a new tree as we through our old one out last year. ( I might just wait till after christmas and pick up a new tree for next year in the sales)

Ornament Exchange - What I Sent

2010-12-03T08:29:00.002+08:00

Okay, don't get excited - 2 posts in 2 days LOL. I had to wait until my ornament had reached its destination and my track record of getting things to a recipient in Canada are not that great.......but it arrived. This was for the annual ornament exchange over at 123 Stitch. My partner was Lynne in Canada and since I didn't want to send her a package all that way without a little something extra, so I asked Lynne what would she like from Australia and her response was .....

Cherry Ripe®

The ripe juicy cherries and moist coconut smothered in rich Old Gold® dark chocolate ensures a unique taste experience.
As Australia's oldest chocolate bar, Cherry Ripe offers consumers an indulgent and rich treat.
Available in 52g, 80g, 216g and 18g Special Treats pieces, Cherry Ripe is the only bar to offer you the 'big cherry taste'.

So I sent her a bag of 12 mini Cherry Ripes.....oh I seemed to have gone off on a tangent and forgot that this post was about the ornament that I did for the exchange so without further ado here is a picture. It is from an issue of JCS Ornament Issue Magazine (can't remember which one) and using DMC.

All I Can Say Is WOW!!!

2010-12-02T11:25:00.000+08:00

A few months ago I signed up for a "seasonal" swap over at Parsley's Blog , we didn't know who our partners were and it was most exciting.

The person that was sending to me was Christy , well I picked up the parcel at the post office yesterday and was absolutely amazed at what she sent me, even though we had never communicated, she knew me so well it was freaky :) There were goodies stuffed inside things and everything was individually wrapped which was a lovely touch! Oh and there was also some chocolates,but I put them in the Santa tin so that I wouldn't sit there and chow down on them LOL

Please check out Christy,s blog as she makes the most wonderful cards.

Belated Halloween Post

2010-11-20T16:46:00.000+08:00

This is an ornament that I stitched for Jamie for a Halloween exchange. I used a frame from a Just Nan chart that I had and the chart is from Cats Whiskers (I think LOL)

Alphabetical Blogging

2010-11-10T09:10:00.000+08:00

Challenged by another blogger (Sus) I shall recite the ABC's of me....

A - Age: 47 and holding.... a bit scary to be staring 50 in the face!
B - Bed size: Queen

C - Chore you hate: Gardening
D - Dog's name: Raelene and Norman (see a previous blog post of them hogging the couch)
E - Essential start your day item(s): Shower, caffine
F - Favorite color: can't name just one
G- Gold or Silver: Silver or White Gold
H - Height: 5' 4
I - Instruments you play: CD player and that was after guitar and piano lessons LOL
J - Job: Personal Assistant
K - Kids: One 55 Year old
L - Living Arrangements: in a house...lol.
M - Music you love: Varied taste..... Metallica to Dixie Chicks and a bit of classical
N - Nicknames: Vicks, Dragon
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Knee Operation
P - Pet Peeve: People thinking that I am psychic

Q - Quote from a movie: Check out my side bar on my blog, I change it every month
R - Right or left handed : Right handed for almost everything
S - Siblings: 1
T - Time you wake up: 5.30am weekdays, weekends between 6 and 8am
U – Underwear: of course LOL
V - Vegetable you dislike: Brussel Sprouts
W - Workout Style: WHAT!!
X - X-rays you've had: Many many many.
Y - Yummy food you make: Curries
Z - Zoo, the best place to visit: Meerkats

Okay...now it's your turn to spill the beans! Come on...you know you wanna do it!

I'm Back - Picture Heavy Post

2010-11-03T09:26:00.000+08:00

Well I had a great holiday. Mind you the first 3 days I thought I was holidaying in Hell as the temps were in the low 40's (Low 100's), then the weather levelled out to the mid 30's (low 90's) which was much more agreeable to little ole me.
The other half went fishing just about every day and didn't catch a thing but I think that is karma as he had just come back from a weeks fishing charter with his limit of 20kg of fish fillets.
So with out further ado here are some holiday snaps.

This is the shipwreck of the SS Mildura, The SS Mildura was a cattle ship on its way from the Kimberley when it got lost in a cyclone in 1907. It was a 2217 ton steel steamer built in Glasgow in 1901. The Mildura was wrecked on March 10, 1907 when it clipped the North West reef. The crew was rescued by SS Burrumbeet but all the cattle on board were left to die.

Salvaged timber and iron from the Mildura were used in renovations at the Yardie Station homestead. The hull sat on the reef until WW2 when it was used for bombing practice.

Okay, now this doesn't look like much but it was a Bronze Whaler shark about 1.5m long. I saw this not long after arriving at a small beach and thinking gee what a great place to have a swim!!

This is Learmonth Jetty, where we spent about 5 hours fishing and catching nothing. This is where I saw the shark in the above picture. Mind you I didn't mind not catching anything as we saw sting rays, dolphins, and other marine life.

We went out on a glass bottom boat to look at the coral and marine life. It was the beginning of the turtle mating season and yep we saw it LOL
This is the website to look at the tour and wonderful people that run it (they are currently nominated for a Western Australian Tourism Award, Good Luck Guys!!)
Ningaloo Ecology Cruises

Now this is Coral Bay, I had never been there before and the colour of the water just blew me away. Coral Bay is basically a small holiday town which is slowly being commericalised, but it is to soon to say if it is in a good way or a bad way, I might go back and visit in 10 years and cast my vote then..........

No kidding this was the road!! Then you had to cross a creek to rejoin the road. Needless to say we didn't use my Brother's 4WD to try this!!!

We just happened to stop for lunch here, this is Mauds Landing and a few years ago it was going to be the site for a Marina - luckily that didn't go ahead! The Threat To Mauds Landing

The 3 pictures above are just shots of the landscape, and at the right time of year you can see whales frolicking in the ocean - Now I have lived here in Australia for over 20 years and up until last week had never seen a real whale, but Friday afternoon after getting off the plane and going for a drive I saw my first ever in the flesh real whale and it was awesome!! They weren't super close to shore as normal as they are currently doing the migratey thing to cooler waters.

This is looking down over a caravan park, the large pole things in the back ground are all part of the United States/Australia communications base. Because Exmouth is a cyclone prone area the poles can withstand winds up to 500km per hour.

This is Vlamingh Head Lighthouse, Due to the location of this lighthouse it provides sweeping views of the Cape. It was built in 1912 and was originally known as the North West Cape Lighthouse on Vlamingh Head. This lighthouse was built because of the wrecking of the Mildura in 1907 along this coastline. The first light to come from this lighthouse was on 10 December 1912.

It was damaged by Cyclone Vance but today it is fully restored. It also has the distinction of being Australia’s only kerosene burning lighthouse.

Well I hope you enjoy looking at my holiday snaps if you want any info about where I went, what is there to do there etc just flick me an email or leave me a comment..............