What is MVP you ask? It is the Most Valuable Player that is awarded to one of the team each week after their inline hockey game.
It is done for all the teams in both ice and inline hockey.
This week my daughters team (Dragons) won their match 4 – 2 against the home team Skate Paradise. Skate Paradise is the name of the rink where they skate also. This week my daughter was named MVP for scoring 2 of the 4 goals.The reward, a puck that has been spray painted gold on a Mr T type chain.
She gets to keep it for a week and then it will be given to someone next week after their game.
They have a tradition that whoever wins the MVP has to put up a photo on their club page in a most unusual surroundings or with another VIP.
Whether the two she put herself with (AI) are VIPs is up to the individual to decide!!
This weeks designs are Anniversary cards where a couple reflect back on the wedding day.
I was spoiled by my kids this Mothers Day. My son sent me a couple of gifts. A tin of biscuits and a giant Toblerone! And of course, a comical card. My daughter gave me a pretty heart-shaped cake, an orchid, and another fun card.
As it was our granddaughters 15th Birthday on the same day. We all went out for a fab lunch in our favourite cafe, which does VERY generous portions!
The garlic vine that is on the fence with our neighbour never fails to deliver when its in bloom. First the flowers start off as a very dark purple, then turn to lavender and then go white. When all three colours are on at once it is spectacular.
Its a fierce climber and as well as being along the fence, it has climbed up the trees right to the top (about 40 feet) and puts wonderful colours amongst the greenery.
The flowers have no scent but if you crush a leaf you get a hint of garlic smell. It loves tropical and sub tropical regions and hailing from northern south America it is used by people in the Amazon as food and for healing properties.
It is also considered to ward off evil and bring good luck. As for the western world it has been used in herbal medicine. What a pretty plant……..unless you are a vampire of course! This weeks designs are a couple from my Watercolour Floral and Cats designs
I feel spring is just about making an appearance now. Its my favourite season, new life, new beginnings, buds appearing and beautiful spring flowers.
It seems to have taken ages to get here, we seem to have had non stop rain or just dull cloudy days, so its nice to see a bit of sunshine with some warmth.
In the village where I live the roadside is always lined with beautiful daffodils and in the garden beds outside the bungalow weve had crocuses, tulips and now hyacinths.
There were a few which had flattened out and broke at the stems so it cut those and put them in a vase, the fragrance was beautiful, better than any air freshener.
There still was a lot very array in the flower beds and I just had to take a picture.
Hi everyone hope you all had a great Mothers day ,My son booked an Egyptian escape room for my Mothers day ,i had never done anything like it before,so didnt know quite what to expect, we were locked in a room and had to work out the clues to get out of each room to another room in 1 hour they gave us an i pad with a countdown clock on ,as a team we worked things out really quickly to start with and soon got to the second room and then the third room getting harder and with 10 mins to spare we thought we wouldnt make it but with did with 4 mins left on the clock ,cant wait to do another one .we finished off the day with a nice meal, perfect .
I live in a retirement bungalow which is lovely. It has everything we require and the insulation it boasts is great in winter not so much in summer. Our heating bills are low because of how well insulated it is.
However, when it comes to fresh food storage it can be a nightmare especially with bread storage. We are limited in space so only buy one loaf at a time and store it in an airtight container.
This does have problems as we dont eat bread every day annd would go mouldy very quickly so there was a lot of waste and also after watching a documentary about shop bought bread it put me off eating it.
So we decided to invest in a bread making machine and making our own to our requirements and size. What a difference it has made, the smell alone was lovely but the taste and texture was a game changer for us.
No more shop bought and hello to freshly baked bread and no waste.
We have just cut another bunch of bananas off our trees. They are Sugar Bananas and everyone loves them. Last bunch we cut about 2 months ago had 180 bananas on it and this bunch has 176 bananas on it.
Each hand has about 16 bananas on it.
There is no way wed get through all those bananas so we give them out to family and neighbours as well as keeping some for ourselves of course.
The neighbours love them and always look forward to when we cut them. They are very sweet and dont have that claggy sticky taste like other bananas do. We have another two bunches on the trees at the moment. As we cut one bunch, there is another bunch growing.
By the time its half grown another appears so we have a constant production line. The marks on the skin are only on the skin and dont affect the actual banana inside the peel. This weeks designs are cocktails and could be used for a few different occasions.
I just finished sewing my latest bag, and it took me quite a while to complete. At one point, I really disliked it, but then I grew to love it.
The process tested my patience, as there are a lot of straps and hardware, and I kept losing track of the rivet holes.
Thankfully, I had my trusty awl tool to help me. Im very happy with how it turned out, especially the beautiful blue fabric. However, the sheer amount of hardware makes it quite heavy, so I might not use it very often. Its called The Meridias by Country Cow Designs.
Well the final day of our trip arrived and we headed off early again to see Mum. She was intrigued with all the photos on our phones and asked if we ever ran out of film!
Mum isnt up with all the new phones and people taking photos, then being able to see them instantly is intriguing for her!
Again we stayed a few hours before it was time for her lunch and we left. So hard to walk out the door and see her waving…. I had to call one of the RNs because she was going to make a break with us!
We still had a few hours before our flight home so we went to one of the big shopping centres, had some lunch and then my daughter booked us in for a half hour leg and foot massage.
I really enjoyed that as Id had cramps in my calves for the past couple of days. Then we headed out to the airport where we went to Sheps Mound which is one of the airports viewing platforms.
Watching planes land and take off, seeing those beautiful big planes up fairly close is one of my favourite past times.
My fav of the day was seeing our own QANTAS A380 roll down the runway and rotate. Amazes me how something that big can just glide off into the sky.
About an hour and a half later we went back to the terminal, dropped the hire car off , had a quick snack and we boarded our plane to come home.
A very busy 3 days but a very satisfying 3 days. My designs this week are two sets of toppers of cowboys and cowgirls.
I shared a few weeks ago about putting together my first book nook which I thoroughly enjoyed. So last weekend my husband and I started on another one called Fall into Wonderland. As soon as I spotted it I knew I had to make this one.
I love Alice in Wonderland and over the years on here designed several kits with that theme. Im putting together a little area dedicated to Lewis Carroll on my shelf so this fits perfectly. It is cleverly designed but fiddley. My husband does the wiring and deciphers the instructions while I put it together for the most part.
I really love it and hopefully one day someone will design a Narnia one, but I havent found one yet.
Until then it will be on to the next one which ch my daughter bought me for my birthday.
We dropped in early to see my birth Mum and took a nice vase and soft and cuddly throw rug in for her.
The flowers we brought in yesterday had no vase so we nipped into K Mart to get one and I saw this lovely rug that I thought would be good for putting over her knees come winter time.
She loved the feel of it so we made a good choice! Then it was in the car for an hours trip up the coast to catch up with the most lovely people ever, cousins through my birth family.
We went up to the Golf Club for a yummy lunch with the most spectacular view of the coast to admire.
After spending a couple of hours there we went back to the house where the conversation just flowed as if wed known each other forever.
I met Rob and Susan the same day I met my birth mother but each time we get together the conversation just flows so easily.
Never run out of things to talk about either. Then just on dark we drove back into Sydney, got some dinner and back to the motel. Didnt take much to get to sleep after all that lovely fresh sea air. My designs this week are both from my journal style designs.
After so many days of continuous heavy rain in the UK, we finally had some sunshine! The day before this picture was taken, good old hubby took the boys out in torrential rain. This meant that they had to wear their raincoats.
Sam doesnt mind wearing his, but Billy is a bit of a drama queen and spends the first part of the walk trying to shake it off.
You can tell by his face in this picture that he was as happy to see the sunshine as we were.
Sam still got wet after a dip in the sea. My end of month SALE is now on! With 20% off of ALL my designs!
Empty that wish list and fill your basket with goodies!
About 30 years ago I lived in a married quarter at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire. As married quarters go it was decent and large. The kitchen was large and functional with a tiled floor.
One weekend my husband had mopped the floor I walked into the kitchen and slipped on the wet floor landing on my left knee.
To cut a long story short when I had it x-rayed I had broken my kneecap completely in half., and for 6 awful weeks was non weight bearing and has a cast on from foot to thigh.
At the A&E the nurse said that I would definitely get arthritis in that knee as I got older, and she wasnt wrong.
Fast forward to the last few years she was right and I now have severe osteoarthritis in that knee.
Since Ive always driven a manual car in the last year I was struggling with pain using the clutch and the village I live in has a few hills in all directions and hill starts were problematic.
My husband doesnt drive so this year we both knew that we would have to get an automatic car. I was nervous on first drive but soon got the hang of it and wondered why we didnt do this sooner.
We were unable to venture for days out with our other car but hopefully this year it will change.
… youngest granddaughter, Olivia, was competing in the English 800 metres final … she came 1st in her heat and 4th in the final, but as the the race was a combined England/Scotland race and the girl who finished 3rd was competing for Scotland Olivia is now the English bronze medalist!
Not only that but in the heats on Saturday she got a new PB (personal best) … and yet another PB in the final too!!
Her dad, my youngest son, is also a runner … and hes competing this weekend ….
Hes won many medals and is the reining European silver medalist in his age group, and hes competing this weekend in the qualifying races for that event this year, Ill update this with my news next week! lol
At our age, we dont make a big fuss on Valentines day. But we always give each other the same card every year. This tradition started when one year, we both gave the same card.
It was so funny that we decided we could never top that, so we should give it every year. But hubby also surprised me this year with a beautiful bunch of flowers. They look so joyful and summery, they really made me smile. Especially the big chrysanthemum blooms, as my dad used to grow to show, and I used to help him.
This week, I have added a couple of Easter mini kits to my page. And I have some really pretty mini kits coming up over the next few days.