Tuesday 27 July 2010

New kit and hunting weekend

WOOHOOO- Thank you EN-verge for listening and coming out and sorting out my wireless internet connections. Morne your customer service has been awesome and here’s hoping I won’t have to phone again soon- lol

I have speed that I can live with now- not as fast as I have at home but not having a ADSL line I never expected too, but it’s at least good enough to open web pages without sitting for 10 minutes each time- YIPPPPPPPPPPPPE.

Oh my gosh, well I have been to more places and seen more wild life than I have ever done in my whole life since I have been here- which has been really really great ;-)

Wayne reminded me on Wednesday last week that we had to go on a Company Hunting trip- errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I’m going too???? Hell yeah, was his reply. But it’s all men going?? Well, you’re one of the boys so start packing your bags. hee hee, I DID! I had a blast with the guys from work and some customers too. The only woman between 7 men until Sat when Frans secretary drove out too. PHEW! lol

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The farm is called KHALAMANZI (Zulu term for crying water) and is in Thabazimbi. It’s a game farm with tons of wild life ( Zebra, buck and even Giraffe) and owned by SNS (Frans) the company Wayne is working with on one their projects.

The 4wheelers outside were MY PLAY TOYS for the weekend- hee hee, (boys with rifles, Kim with wheels) and rode all over the place on them like a hooligan- WHEEEEEEE. I wanna go back ;-)

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Friday evening taking a drive around the farm and having a social watching the sun set over the bush. That’s Frans(co-owner of farm) in the blue striped shirt and Gerrit (works for Wayne) in the Navy.

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Of course non other than Deon, and what do they always say about the kids that always sit in the back of the bus???- BWHAHAHA

5Early Sat morning (still in PJ’s- and YES those were Waynes PJ’s- lol) and VERY hung over with the fire from the night before STILL burning- lol Hangovers blamed on me of course as Wayne *died* on the bed fully clothed at 1am and I stayed up yakking and drinking with the boys till I think around 2,30am- yeah OUCH-lol

3 a Buffalo that is part of a group that landed up behind the house in the morning.

10  This *gentleman* just strolled around our feet during the day. HIs partner was also with him.

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That evening he actually jumped into a tree and up on top of the house roof- looked really regal up there ;-)

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Gerrit and Phillip( the other owner of the farm) who did most if not ALL the cooking on the weekend ( I wasn’t allowed to do a thing except enjoy my weekend!) Thanks so much Phillip!

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NIGHT RIDE!! Well a good excuse to drink-lol. You can see Phillip with one of the cooler boxes under his arm. I LOVED these on Friday and Saturday night. And yes that’s me at the back-lol  Looking for wild life at night is exciting and of course the comments from Deon behind me had me looking in the bush for a place to PEE! lol

I had a great time and even tho Wayne forgot my whole make-up bag at home, and I felt *bare* and undone, I loved it and would leave the bag at home myself next time- BWHAHAHAHA.

I have a new kit up, it’s something I made to use for some of Nathans *Beachy* photo’s I’ve had stashed for so long.

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And of course my Girls had a great time playing with it too-

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And Bunny made a stunning card with it too ( be sure to check her blog for hows and whats ;-)

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By Bunny

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And I made my page into a FREEBIE QP for you too ;-)

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You can pick it up HERE.

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Big hugs and loves

Friday 16 July 2010

Happy belated Bday Sis- and monkey business.

* WARNING- GRAB COFFEEEEEE-lol*

OMG- I am just crossing all my fingers and toes that this thing has enough OOMPH to post this from Live writer today.

Internet connections still not right and I’ve been pulling my hair out here- but that’s the *samo samo news* at the moment. Will just have to hang in there for a while longer- BWHAHAHA.

Nathan has now left to go back home ( he starts University again on Monday) and this house is like a MORGUE at the moment. Can you say sob like a baby??- Yup that was this mother yesterday morning when he left.  I looked like a gold fish from hell by last night and cried every time he let me know how far he was from home ( had a 12 hour drive home and this mom only breathed again when I got the *I’m HOME safe Mom*). Was far easier me leaving him at home and coming up here than him leaving me here - HAHAHA. OY, what am I going to do when he eventually *leaves* home for good- I have NO IDEA ;-)

We had a great time while he was here and he kept me hopping every single day.

We landed up at the Snake and Animal park the one day by just driving past and deciding to have a look around. OMG- well it was huge and we landed up watching a snake demonstration with popcorn and slush puppy’s as we did when he was small- It had every animal under the sun which actually shocked us ( sort of like a huge zoo).

Each Animal cage has a meter barrier gap and a bar safety fence between the animals cages so it stops anyone getting to close- with huge signs on the cages to not feed and BEWARE *dangerous*.  RIGHT???- BWWWWWWWWWAHAHAH.

Yup Nathan had his brand new sunglasses on top of his head and we were watching the gorilla's when he sneezes and lands up flinging his glasses a few inches from the INSIDE cage mesh! We both look at each other with huge eyes and me giggling as the gorillas all come flying to the fence and start sticking their fingers through to try grab his glasses. He is in a flap and we look around quickly for a *personnel person* for help, but see none-

no problem to Nathan he vaults over the safety bar fence and leans forward to grab his glasses- his head a few centimetres from the gorillas fingers,which is now trying to grab his hair-lol. He turns and tries to jump over the safety rails sooooo quickly and in a panic that he can’t get over the first try - and the gorillas decide that the glasses were THEIRS and start banging on their chests and making one hell of a noise while pushing their mesh cage back and forth. lol. I have never seen Nathans eyes so big and he got over that fence the second time with about half a meter more to spare! BWWWWWWAHAHAHA- looked like a pole vaulter without his pole I tell you. His face was snow white and he walks away trying to pretend it wasn’t him that caused the huge ruckus to the other display saying * gee’s mom, did you see this lizard here* BWWWWWAHAHAHA- I pee’d myself laughing and so did he.

And then we went to Sun City this last weekend so the boys could play golf- all the photo’s I tried to get of Nathan turned out like THIS-lol

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MOM- put the camara away!!

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ARRGH- but I don’t give up-lol

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GOTCHA!! ( and yeah, he’s going to kill me-lol)

We had a ground floor room that leads onto the gardens. We were warned about the MONKEYS and to not leave your doors open etc etc.

HAH, me laughing at Nathan came back to haunt ME-lol

They come close to you and play round near the rooms on the grass and in the trees, even if you are sitting outside but not close enough to really scare you- you just stamp your feet and they run away.

YEAH RIGHT - Until I met this mommy!

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I was reading outside having coffee and lunch waiting for the boys to come back from golf and none of the monkeys were bugging me ( always around at meal times-lol).

I wasn’t paying attention as I was stuck in my book- until I heard this growl! YEAH I mean GROWL!

This little bugger came running with it’s teeth bared at me, pink mouth looking huge and SCARY, and I of course just stamp my feet and clap my hands thinking she is going to run- BWWWWWAHAHAHA

Guess who went running! Yeah you guessed it- ME!!

She just kept coming and jumped up on the table with her teeth bared bringing her head forward – I jumped out my chair and flung my book on the ground and RAN!

She just sat there and ate my toasted sandwich while I stood in the garden with the other little monkeys! lol!

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This is the orange she grabbed off one of the other peoples plates too-lol

I think she’s learnt that by bearing her teeth and growling she gets food - even though it’s US usually that shout and bang to scare them- YUP, went the other way and I ran like hell-lol

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YEAH YEAH- THANKS LADY- you got my lunch! lol

Ok, goodness I really need to fight this thing more huh as I sure am yakking up storms when I do post! lol

and YES- I have a new kit out! WOOHOOOOO ( don’t faint guys-lol)

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Some stunning CT inspirations for you too-

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By Ruthy ( who also used her own messy stitches- details on her blog ;-).

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Be sure to check it out in store HERE while still on sale ;-)

And some great new stuffies and a brand new designer at DSO too-

WOOT – welcome Deanna (aka Flower Scraps) who has her first kit in store.

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Are you still with me?? lol, well you won’t go empty handed today as I have been playing behind the scenes waiting for my internet connections- lol

I want to wish my dear dear SISTER GAYE (GS Creations)a happy happy Birthday for the 14th July! I couldn’t get on here to wish her that day so have waited till NOW to do it.

I made up this little kit as a Bday present for you to enjoy as well.

( THANK YOU LOUCEE for getting it uploaded for me!- thank goodness for our ftp at the moment as I can’t upload ANYTHING-lol)

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You can GRAB IT HERE

http://www.4shared.com/file/ntnBifbn/kb-perfectDay.html

and if you look inside there is another little *gifty* included! lol (making up for your long reading today)

Hope you all have a great weekend and GO BOKKE for tomorrow!

Hugs and Loves me

Sunday 4 July 2010

Happy 4th July

Wishing all my American readers and friends a fantastic 4th July today. Hoping that you are having a great fun filled day with your families.

DSO is having a fantastic STORE WIDE sale of 30% on ALL their products today. Don’t miss it. It’s for today only.

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Just some of the NEW goodies by the talented girls at DSO you can grab while on sale ;-) All Quality checked for your peace of mind.

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County Fair Templates by Kalo Designs

$3.00 Sale: $2.10

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Garden Bits by GS Creations

$5.25 Sale: $3.68

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Brilliant Beads Set 1 by Bunny Cates

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French Country Frames by Di@ Legacy4 life

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French Country by Loucee

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French Country Word Art By Jazzy

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AND TONS MORE to match these- check them out HERE.

Nathan arrived for his 12 day stay and he looks like a bad rendition of one of the *BEATLES*- BWHAHAHA, Mom needs to cut his hair or he needs to buy a surfboard for his car to match the look ;-)

I can’t tell you how great it is to have him here and Wayne is just *in sy knopies* as we would say – he’s more than thrilled ;-) We’ve both missed him terribly! He also did extremely well in his exams and got two distinctions- he missed three more by only 1%!!! So his *folks* are really proud as this year hasn’t been the easiest on all of us- yet he still maintained his studies! GO NATHAN!!

Okies- off to find some WARM supper and the heater- lol Hugs and Loves to all

Thursday 1 July 2010

JULY?

Youch, what the hell happened to JUNE??- lol. I hope most of you are enjoying your summer holidays up North? At the moment it’s a frosty winter morning where I am at the moment and MAN I would kill for some green stuff outside-lol. I’m used to having green grass at home, but here in this area everything goes dry and brown thanks to the frost in the morning- BLAH! lol But like Jenni says, there’s no wind. HAHAHAHA. I don’t know- at this stage I think I’ll swop some brown for some wind?? ;-P

I’m still battling to get connected, the people have been here twice already, have climbed on the roof and have had to calculate *line of sight* to the areal somewhere on the top of these mountains that I am in- hahahaha. Sheeeee’s maybe by Christmas??? lol

World Cup fever is really exciting here at the moment and all places are filled with foreign visitors. We’ve had a German visitor staying with us who is now touring the rest of the country, but it sure was fun riding around with the German flags on the car for him-lol

Okies- some EXCITING NEWS CATCH UP!

DSO FORUM IS BACK!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT. I can’t tell you how excited I am! Bunny has been working around the clock to get our NEW LOOK and forum etc up by today ( we still have a few tweaks but TRUST me when I say it’s looking FABO!)

Yup- all the Challenges have moved BACK to the forum- Including the new Colour Challenge! YAY.

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I managed to get it done on time this month even with this wireless piece of *beeeep beeep*- lol. Come play with us HERE and take a look around at the fab new DSO!!

Some MORE EXCITING NEWS!!

Bunny is being INTERVIEWED LIVE at Digimapscrap blog hosted by Hummie on Friday, July 2nd at 9pm CST. The girls at DSO have been extremely busy making lots of delicious gifts for Bunny to give away as door prizes. Trust me- there are Freebie STUNNING KITS, HUGE COUPONS- you DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!! You can read more about it on Bunny’s Blog HERE.

And it’s the First of July which means that the DSO Pick Ur Bits are up! OMG- I LOVED this months theme and colours

Called FRENCH COUNTRY – check out all the girls portions!

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hee hee- Yup, I hope you have your coffee with you? I sure know how to make up for non posting all the time don’t I ;-P

These are my portions of the Collab

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French Country Elements$2.50

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French Country Plains and prints$1.50

And my CT have been making my JAW DROP at there wonderful LO’s- Check this inspiration out for today ;-)

bed_gr13 By Bekah_E

fdg4lx By Kristine

clap10 By Vicki

fc-amazinglove-ruth1 By Ruthy

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Nature2 By Jenni

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Aren’t they stunning!!! Thanks Girls, you have got my mojo back- you just didn’t know it was missing for a while and you guys sure know how to make a girl wanna scrap! lol

It’s also DSV COLLAB GRAB BAG TIME and the new July one is up!

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7 QUALITY CHECKED and ready to use products for only $7!

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Be sure to check it out HERE!

Phew you still with me?- lol

I’ve tried to upload a freebie for you and it’s telling me it’s going to take over an hour to upload- ARRGHHHHH! lol

Will be back later with it as will have to go into Waynes office to upload- this thing cuts off all the time when uploading- drives me NUTS!

Hope you all have a fantastic day further

MWAH MWAH