shopping spree

Challenge 13 wants to know what we are coveting,

I don't really want for much. At the moment I am wanting a new car and think the hyundai i30 is pretty special (as well as being voted most green car!) and I have always wanted a wall that is an entire book shelf :)

The Parental Units

I think I might be too late for this weeks Blog This challenge but going to blog anyway. Haven't kept up with the challenges very well due to other committments but this week sees me home with bronchitis and flu so not much else to do really but knitting and netting.

This is my mum in her early 20's. I like this picture cos she isn't being serious and that doesn't happen often. The challenge asks for a memory of your folks. A fond one of my mum is one where she climbed into bed with me and held me in her arms. I was in my early 30's and had survived an attempt on my own life. No words were said, or could be really but from a mum who I didn't feel overly close to these actions were enough.

I like this photo of my dad. It is quite old as he looks like he has hair under that hat LOL and I wonder what he was thinking about too. He was a fisherman when I was growing up and I idolised him. One of my favourite memories is waking in the wee hours (around 3.30am) to the sound of him stirring his coffee as he ate breakfast before going out on the boat. If it was the weekend or holidays i would quietly get dressed and tiptoe out to him, batt my eyelids and he would just nod. This meant I could go out with him on the boat for the day. This was a big thing because I would puke pretty much the whole time, and be a complete PITA but he still let me and I still loved just watching him and being with him. Another great memory is the treks he and I used to do up Friendly Beaches at Freycinet National Park after there had been a big storm. There would be sea kelp piled high along the beach and we would find all kinds of treasures as we walked for miles, including live crayfish that would become dinner.

Your challenge should you accept it...............

From BlogThis this week:
"The Dinner Party

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to plan a fabulous dinner party. You've been given a healthy budget, so don't scrimp!
Guest list - 8 people, dead or alive, real or ficticious.
The menu - will this be your very own masterchef moment, or is outsourcing more your style?
Is there a theme? What will be the entertainment for the evening? What will you wear? What will you talk about? Don't forget the wine!
Have fun planning, be as creative as you like. If you're creative, maybe even design the invitation. Make this an event not to be missed!"


I have been thinking about this for the past few days. I keep coming back to the same thing and well, due to lack of time and energy I am going with this idea. I am using some Poetic licensing and stating that the term 'people' is of the collective for my dinner party.

My guests would be the following:
1. the 'people' of Australia who are living in poverty
2. the 'people' of Africa who are living in poverty
3. the 'people' of Europe who are living in poverty
4.the 'people' of North America who are living in poverty
5.the 'people' of Asia who are living in poverty
6. the 'people' of South America who are living in poverty
7. the 'people' of the Middle East who are living in poverty
8.the 'people' of the Pacific nations who are living in poverty

The Menu:
I would offer hope, followed by inclusion, social justice, peace, love, education, understanding and opportunity

The Theme:
Equality

What makes me happy

Challenge number three from Blog this
is to document what makes you happy via 10 photos or less. Obviously this is an impossible task when there is so much that contributes to my happiness. I have put the 10 most commonly occuring things!
from L-R (top to bottom) but random by choice
Beren, yarn, cats Nienna, both kidlets, creating, my family, my friends