Look at all this....

I am so behind the eight ball here that it's not even funny. Ages ago, and I mean a fair way back now, I was lucky enough to win the *Jellybelly*jellybrain giveaway. It was the most adorable button necklace, which I am getting some very favourable comments on. It looks so darn cute, that I am lovin myself sick in it!!

But check this out, not only did Emma send me the giveaway, but a container load of other goodies.

The word overwhelmed springs to mind here:

I don't know how to thank Emma for her generosity, but I will try it by saying this

THANK YOU!!!

And the winner is...

JELLYBELLY*JELLYBRAIN

I had a very official picking process. You know the one where you tear bits of paper up from one of the kids refills, and write all the names down, and then put them in a little pile and close your eyes and dive your hand in? One of those. Now I wanted to take a picture of the process or at the very least the winners name, but in famous Busy style the batteries have run out again in the camera, and the the two spare ones are in fact only one due the fact that when we were in Rotorua, I dropped one and it fell through the planks of the bridge we were standing on and straight into the river, and I wasn't about to dive in and try and find it!
So what I would normally do would be to take a really dodgy picture on the webcam. Another bit of a drama, unfortunately, is that my computer is currently away, as it caught something very nasty and at this very moment is being poked and prodded to try and retrieve all my photos and documents, which is giving me a bit of heartburn as I think I could possibly lose them all.
Sooooo I am on the family laptop which as I may have said before is a bit like waiting at the deli where you have to take a number and wait your turn. You know the one where you are number 58 and they have only just called out 24? But thats not the point. The point is this flash RED laptop does not have a photo capture facility on it. Oh its got a motion detector and a time lapse thingy, in case you want to set it up in the garden to watch a flower emerge from the depths of winter or something. And a heap of special effects on the video, but nope I cannot just TAKE A PHOTO!
Lucky for me I already put up a flash pic of the little zipped pouch, otherwise I would not have got a record NINE comments. Yep this blog is getting real popular!!!

More Snaps and a Giveaway too!!!!

Woohoo, its only taken me about 18 months to reach 100 posts, but I'm here, and I feel as though I belong to a special club or something. I think the "protocol" is to do a giveaway, so I think I might just do that!

But first I will show you some more snaps of our weekend away!! Yeah you don't get off that lightly you know!!! I will try and keep it brief before I reveal the giveaway.
But first a word from our sponsors...

Paradise Valley Springs.

And a couple of interesting things

so if its good enough for Warriors its good enough for accountants...

I won't go on about it anymore, but Paradise Valley Springs was a wonderful place, and I didn't even mention the Lion feeding. Do you know how big a Lion looks when you only have a bit of wire between the two of you? Real big and very intense looking! Seriously if you are in Rotorua, check it out, the kids will love it!!

Part Two of the 100th Post
My last giveaway yielded 2 comments. Yep you heard correctly. Two. So just humour me eh, and leave a comment. I will post internationally and everything, because I'm good like that!

Up for grabs is this little zipped bag, and who knows, I might chuck something in it as well,

so leave a comment, and I will put you in the official draw. And if you link to my blog let me know and I will double your chances.

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What a week...!

Its been an exciting week. This arrived from Dear Fi , and was a delight on a raining freezing day...

It is the Pay it Forward from a while back. From memory Fi, in fact Paid it Forward to everyone who commented. What an all round good egg! She is working her fingers to the bone, getting ready for Shows all over the place, and then "whips" up all these adorable little purses for about a hundred and ninety people. Also some lovely little note cards, which just seem too nice to use. Perhaps I shall put them on my wall and let them inspire me when I complain I have too much to do!! So Fi... thank you very much.
And then, I was scrolling through the blogs I stalk... er follow, and was reading jelly belly jelly brain, and lo and behold there was my face (more like ugly mug) on her blog. Not only that but I had won her giveaway!!! Which is a beautiful button necklace.
I am one lucky little blogger.

Its big Wednesday Lotto draw here tonight,and Im thinking I should have bought a ticket, but do you know I have been so lucky this week, that perhaps I should shift over and give someone else a go!
Speaking of lucky. Lucky for me I had just been out and bought some brown and beige felt. I had been scribbling a few softie ideas down, and then jnr Busy comes home and tells me that they have to take a 'donation' to school. Not more bleedin money I muttered, but no, its for their lovely student teacher Miss L (really hard to pronounce name) from the States who is heading back on Friday. It had to be something that was New Zealand. Like Pinapple Lumps

or Milo


which are pretty much Kiwi staples, especially when you live overseas, as my fellow Kiwi expat Joanna from Applique today will testify.

So in true, Crafty Kiwi spirit, I whipped up one of these whilst the beans and peas boiled their guts out on the stove, and the jacket potatoes shrivelled up in the oven...





And as Kiwi's are protected, I branded his little bum, so he could be tracked wherever in the world he goes...

Blog Giveaway - (As long as you don't like gold!!)

JELLYBELLY*JELLYBRAIN is having a blog giveaway. I'm not going to give away all the details because you are just gonna have to get on over to her blog. I must mention there is a very mysterious condition for entry into the giveaway and it's all to do with the title. Intrigued? As I said get on over there and have a gander!!!

Remember that Pay it Forward giveaway thingy?

These litte fellas will be flying all the way to their new friend(s) at Trying Traditional. They are carrying a little pincushion so I hope their little arms aren't too tired when they get there. And before you all overload the comments (because I get so many... ahem) I realise they don't have any arms. But you know, I like to think of them as having a little bit of magic, which comes in mighty handy for things like Pay it Forwards, giveaway thingys.