What a Bad Blogger I am!

I just knew that's how I would be, blog like mad for three days and then fade out! Fortunately with so many other wonderful blogs out there it's not the end of the world if mine isn't happening! And I can just about guarantee that after his post there will be a couple more and then I will fade again! But I guess if you check every six weeks or so there should be something new!

Anyway I have been very, very busy, I redid my whole back garden, due to the awful drought we are having here I have given up trying to grow an English cottage garden in an Australian plot of land. I culled and weeded out all the poor little weaklings who were struggling to survie, just left the tough nuts, planted a couple of hardier things around the place and mulched like mad! It actually looks much better, and I will still have all my bulbs popping up in Springtime, but I just have to face defeat when it comes and kicks me in the butt. And it will be much easier to manage....but I don't have any photos here on the computer right now so will take some soon.

Next I decided that a wonderful old drawer unit I brought home 7 years ago, and was going to sand and wax back to it's former glory would finally happen! It has been sitting in our dining room all that time but I decided it really took up too much room and couldn't be seen, so I bought a new shelf to replace it, see blog below, dragged it outside, and started sanding, thankfully my two darlings decided to help me out, otherwise I would still be there now! But it is finally finished and in my family room, all neatly labelled, and filled, with all our booze on top! Nice to have somewhere to keep all that stuff handy, it has always been shoved here and there. And inside are all my magazines, craft, painting, decorating etc, all with their own little label on their drawers!

And that is not the pic I meant to upload but wouldn't you know it, and it took forever!

This is a better one, 66 drawers in all, each one had to be sanded, waxed and polished, the old handles were a coppery colour but even after cleaning they looked dirty and pitted so I sprayed them all a gun metal grey in a hammered finish, they came up really well, as

well as one of those little label holder thingys. It took us two whole days but we finally got it all done, it looks amazing now, it was missing two drawers but my dear old dad made two up for me, it's still missing three or four handles but I can live with that. Anyway, there's no pic of it finished yet! I can't take one at the moment as sitting in front of it is this.............

which has taken me the last four days to paint, for my sil neices baby who turns one at the end of the month, they are giving it to her for her first birthday,

So when I move it in the next couple of days I will take a photo of the unit then.

Other than that, been busy doing things for the craft show I have coming up, some mosaic trays and birdhouses, [well, one birdhouse,] some fake plaster of paris cupcakes, some rose petal cakes....what else? Am sure there must be more but I can't think right now, anyways, everything is half finished so I need to get moving with it this week, I have to go into hospital on May 29th so need everything finished by then......eeeeeeeeek!!! That wasn't in the original plan. Some know I had a lap band fitted 2 and a half years ago, well, it's giving me dramas so have to have it removed and replaced, not the best timing of course, but better now than in a couple of months when it would disrupt my trip to England! So wish me luck.

Okay, I seem to be rambling a bit tonight, think it's past my bedtime, I will try harder in future I promise!

What I did today

Decided I had better move my lazy butt and get some things done for the craft show I have coming up in June, thank goodness they changed it from early May as I sure wouldn't have been ready for then! Having looked at so many pretty blogs out there I seem to be leaning towards those sort of colourings with things I am making now, I just hope they go here.

The first two pics are done by decoupaging serviettes, really quick and easy, [as long as you don't glue the serviette to your fingers first!] The pic in the frame is another from my favourite book. I love the saying about the Prince, brought tears to my eyes when I first saw it.

The birdhouse is yet another atempt to paint roses,keep on trying, these are so so, but still not happy with them. Hopefully someone will like them.

This was a gold frame I had hanging around, painted it cream and sanded it back a little, some pretty scrapbooking paper and sweet Mary Elizabeth in the centre, the more I look at this one the more I think she may have to stay here and live with me.

That's my lot for today, I really need to get a move on if I want to have a decent amount come June, seems there's always something else to do, or another blog to look at!

Another project on the go

Yesterday after my painting class.................

And here's what I'm doing...see anything yet?

My friend dragged me to our local second hand/antiques store,

where I picked up these plates, and a few others. Apparently we are going to be doing mosaics with them! She saw something at a craft show on the wekend and wants to try it. Guess it can go along with the other twenty five things I am trying out! At least the plates look pretty anyway, almost too pretty to break up! And does anyone know it there's a way to break them where you want them to break or is it just pot luck?

Am also in the middle of painting up little wooden blocks, you know the kind with words spelt out on them, think my darling dad has cut me out about 300 of them!!! Guess I need to get back to it!

My Favourite book

I thought I would share this, my very favourite book, with you, some years ago my mum got it for me in the Red Cross Shop she works in [a thrift shop] 50 cents was the grand price! It was first printed in 1930, this edition in 1933, the pages are all aged and yellow, and inside the book is filled with tales of "Important People" [Children]

What I found quite amazing was the following quote, obviously written around 1930,

"I suppose the modern child, though it is blamed as being bad at concentration and too fond of amusement, would seem very bright and clever to the child of a generation or two ago. Personally I don't put this down to any changes in children but to a change in educational methods and also in general life."

Ring any bells? Maybe things don't change so much after all!

Also inside, some of the most beautiful drawings of children, some done with just a few pencil strokes, some much more detailed, I have photocopied several of them onto parchment paper and framed them, I just love looking at them and often go through the book over and over just looking at those faces!

Is this not the cutest little face? She is definitly one of my very favourites, her name is Mary Elizabeth.

These two especially for Smooch, who has a thing for Monkeys.

This picture always reminds me of a photo of me and my sister and two brothers at the beach, 1965, have just added it here, that's me on the left, not really the same, but there's just something about it.

There are lots more beautiful pics in the book but it's time for me to head out the door, off to my painting class today.

Right, well I managed to stuff that up already!!! What I intended was...for my blog to be called Mozzis musings, and for my first post to be titled

Bossy Britches Smoochie Lips said................

and then the post follow on from there! Of course that's not how it worked and now it looks dumb, but that's the price you pay for making me do one when I don't know how!

And I forgot to even try and add the picture before I sent it whizzing off into cyber space, so maybe we will try that now!

Okay, figured that bit out, now to see if I can make the rest of it look pretty! If it's not, you'll know I couldn't! At least when you come here to visit me you will feel so much better about your own computer skills!

Mozzi

Mozzi's Musings

Write something at your blog so we can answer.......

Well, what to write, of course I have gone blank now, this wasn't something I intended to do, I only had to start a blog so that I could reply to every one else's! Didn't think I would have the time or inclination to fill one in about me, then one day my phone rings, and there's a definite American drawl on the other end, giggling away, ringing to tell me off for nagging her in her blog!
I'm sure she only wants me to start one so that she can nag me back when I don't write something everyday!

I don't even know how to set this all up so am hoping it does it on it's own! And how to tell you it's here? Well, hopefully I will work it out.

So, what's been happening here, Easter Sunday was lovely, big Family day of course, too much food, lots of chocolate and kids everywhere, just as I love it! It was quite warm, in fact some of the eggs the " Easter Bunny" hid in the garden for the kids Egg Hunt were squishy little brown blobs by the time they found them!
Today is even warmer, so much for Autumn, think we are expecting 29 today, that's about mid 80s the other side of the world!

Now, to this photo thing, let's see if I can work that out, I think, [hope] I have changed the size of one, it's a new stand I bought for my dining room, had a great big 66 drawer unit behind the dining table and while I LOVE it, it does take up a lot of room and really isn't practical where it was, so am in the throes of moving it into the family room, need to finish sanding off all the years of muck that were on it when I got it a few years back, I did the top two rows and the body but then ran out of steam, this time it's not going back inside till it's done! So, I needed something to put the stuff that was on the top of it on and didn't want to take up too much room, found this at a furniture shop on Thursday, picked it up Saturday and there it sits now, I'm really happy with it, what do you think?

Okay, that's your lot for today, will have to hope something exciting happens so I can do another one tomorrow!