At My House

We are playing along with Buttons by Lou Lou's at my house again this week. Junior sprout has a new chalkboard and things started out well so I happily went off to make toast.....

On my return ( I was gone a whopping 3mins) I discovered this............

I wasnt worried as I thought it was only chalk and would wipe off, but no this is crayon added to the chalk bucket by the ever helpful Eldest sprout............

Whats happening at your house??

Things That make You Go Hhhmmmmm #9 (Warning X Rated)

This Hhhmmm was kindly emailed to me by Michelle an Aussie blog follower living in South Africa, thanks Michelle! What I find most hhhmmmming is that 25 of these have been sold.............................

A Prayer to the Apple God

I am so excited, there are apples on my apple tree! The apple tree that my 6ft5 husband has to duck under to get to our front door, the apple tree that he wants to cut down, the apple tree that he said would bear no fruit. Well ha dee ha ha Mr Brusselsprouts cos I spy me some apples, now comes the hard part how to keep them on the tree long enough to get big and fat and edible??  so my argument for not cutting down the tree has some merit..............

At My House

Today I am playing along with Buttons By Lou Lou's what's happening at your house. We bought little Sprout his first bed and here he is having his first sleep in a big bed. My 2 sprouts now share a room which we call the 3 bears room as all in a row there is a single bed, a cot and then the new junior bed. I'm expecting Goldilocks to show up soon...............

A Bad Mother Throws a Party - The Finale

 

Well here it is the party table. I ended up being very slack and bought mini cupcakes and a mudcake, not wanting to battle with my oven I thought this would be the easiest way to go and the kids did not mind at all.

The lolly jars I picked up at Kmart and pirate themed them with Kit Kats as planks and Maltesers as Canon Balls, I got some white paper bags from the local craft shop for free (thankyou ladies) and used  little wooden pegs to close them. The little wrapped boxes were a thank you gift of chocolates for the parents.

The goodie bags were a big hit with bubbles, slinkys, bat & balls and stickers. I made treasure maps and hid some treasure chests in the backyard with chocolate gold coins in them which had the children running all over the place. And finally I served the fish shaped crumbed fish and chips in newspaper cones, easy for the kids to walk around with and no cleaning up later!

A Bad Mother Throws a Party Part 2

Well the date of the party looms closer (this Saturday!) and I think I have it pretty much organised and pretty cheap too :) In keeping with the pirate theme I have made treasure maps, thankyou free clipart! and will be serving fish and chips. I have been to the local red dot store and bought a heap of goody bag items, matchbox cars, crayons, bubbles, stickers etc which totalled a whopping $20. Tomorrow I bake cupcakes buy some nibbles and balloons and I am done. I will post photos of my scrooge party soon.........

Cheap Party Themes

Following on from my last post I surfed the net (etsy!) and found this awesome seller 'The Moo' where for $7 dollars yes thats right $7 dollars I got sent a PDF file containing
• Personalized invitations
• Matching envelope
• Round gift tags
• Folder square gift tags
• Party flags
• Pirate hat
• Eye patches
• Gift bag
What an absolute bargain! And the lovely Kim from The Moo even personalises the invites before she emails the file. All I have to do is print it all out easy peasy :) A pirate party is in the making..................