Cool ideas and crafts for kids on holidays!

While surfing the web for quilting help I came across this cool project for a  floor rug that the kids can make over the holidays!

I might go to the Salvo's tomorrow and try and score some cheap t-shirts, to start this project off!

I will hopefully have some kind of results by the end, wish us luck!

Wilston Winter Magic Fair!

Our two winter princesses!

     

Fairy Floss, ice cream cones, ice and snow(well the closest thing Brisbane will ever come to snow and ice anyway), smiles, giggles, circus acts, our little princesses singing in the choir, stalls, balloons and even a feather duster!  What a perfect afternoon. 

  What happens after all this pomp and pageantry, well you crawl home(well to a friends!) put your feet up and have a cuppa, sometimes too much of a good thing, is well...... it is exhausting, well to all the big people in all these little peoples worlds it certainly was anyway!

 I hope your weekend was a sparkling one!

Inspriration!!!

Two ever so inspirational and favourite quotes from the very talented my concrete sky.

How inspirational is this quote!

Isn't it amazing how a single quote or photograph can some times inspire and change the whole way you think! It makes you want to go out and change the way you live your life.  Positive life affirming messages they make you want to sing and dance and live a life free of expectation and routine even to capture a little of that in each and every day is something to aspire too and run towards!  Possibility and an open heart can bring such joy and surprise!

I hope everyone can find a little something in their day that makes them excited and inspires them to share with you there uniqueness!

Big thank you to these gorgeous bloggers like my concrete sky,  who believe in sharing all these wonderful and unique little treasures they have created or found, it brings such sunshine to my everyday and I love spending time reading through and feasting my eyes on their gorgeous images and words. 

A beautiful quote for a beautiful friend!

I found this over on Shabby blogs one of my favourite places to visit and thought what an amazing quote, just one of many inspirational quotes and photos that these amazing girls share with everyone, but this one reminded me of my close friend Linda and the struggle she has had over the last 2 years since loosing her husband.

 Her loss I am sure is something that has changed her and the way she sees life and the fact that she stills sees hope, opportunity and beauty in everything she does and displays it in her every day, just blows me away.  I feel so fortunate to have her as a friend, she is truly one of the most beautiful people I know on the inside and and the out.

I wish her now and always blue skies and butterflies as I don't know anyone that deserves more!

Easter holidays at the pool!

The weather this Easter holidays was unbelievably warm and perfect for going swimming, I can't believe we actually spent several days at the pool!  Usually it is starting to cool down a little by this time of the year!

It actually makes me feel a little sad, as I am a summer girl all the way, not terribly fond of winter!  I hate having the feel of blankets on my bed weighing me down.  I do like the snuggle in the morning in a warm toasty bed but the flip side of that is that you eventually have to get out of bed!

The fact is I find it a lot easier to cool down than warm up.  I guess I am well suited to living in Brisbane where we are lucky to get to below 5 degrees Celsius and it rarely goes below 20 degrees during the day.
  

Mind you there are joyous to winter, I love hot chocolates when the temperature turns down and I love sliding around the house in my socks.  I guess if we didn't have a winter would I get to appreciate how wonderful summer really is!  All you lucky ducks on the other side of the world heading into those warm summer days, I will be drooling all over your blogs and counting down the days until we will be off to the pool again!
 

The Jetty, Coffs Harbour!

We spent a gorgeous couple of days visiting Davids parents at the end of the Easter holidays.  Amber had a Persuasive talk to prepare on her favourite part of Australia, so it was an added bonus visiting her favourite part of Australia while catching up with family.  It also gave us an excuse to do all the touristy things we don't normally do when visiting Coffs.  A rainbow even made an appearance, so it was just magical!

So this trip included places when living in Coffs Harbour that I would not be caught dead visiting.  I will share these photos in a later post, as this post is about my favourite part of Coffs, the Jetty, The Harbour and Mutton Bird Island.

We meet the most gorgeous family in the background of the below photo visiting from Newcastle and the kids both got a treat being spun around like an aeroplane before heading down to the beach.

It was so lovely staying for the sunset even though it was a little cool, the kids still managed to warm themselves up and get a little wet in the end and I got to ogle over the sunset and go mad with my camera!

I can't say that the ensemble that my children were wearing was exactly fashionable, but they were comfortable and had so much fun and that is the most important thing as it enabled them to play uninhibited.