ONE more sleep to ... CROP FOR KIDS!!!

It's tomorrow. All of us are so excited. It has been a crazy couple of months. We only decided to do this fundraising event in February, and from then on, it was just bang-bang-bang! During last night's final committee meeting, we all just sat there and thought... WOW! This is IT! How did we even get here? We know there has been a few glitches with emails and to some, it might even seem a disorganised. But we are certainly going to learn from this first encounter. We already have streamlined plans for another one next year! So keep watching us!

Speaking of watching us... we are going to be TELECASTED LIVE!!! on Channel 7 tomorrow! They are going to have film crew coming to film us in action and have a short interview!!!! HOW COOL!!! And the girls are all frantically making hair appointments today... can't look too shabby on national TV now, can we? :) :) I think I'm just gonna iron my hair and mod podge it down .....

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Dinoco King

OK... need to tell you this story about my son and his Dinoco King car. My son is a CARS fanatic. Not just any car... but the Disney Pixar movie, CARS. At 3.5, the number of times he's seen that movie, is equivalent to the number of days he has lived on earth. He can recite the script along with the movie. He can name each and every individual character in the movie... down to those 5-second extras. So recently, when we were shopping at Target, DH found almost an entire range of the diecast toy cars from the movie, of EVERY character. And he wanted to buy ALL of them, as a collection. I wasn't going to come between a man and his toys, so I let him. There were a few characters short, including the Dinoco King. But when we did some research at home, we realised that that was actually a rare and sought-after character. So EBAY-ing we went. After a week or two of bidding and buying, mostly from the US, we now have the entire collection. And when DH said it was going to be a collection, he meant that it will be stored in their original packaging, unopened.

Naturally, my son saw the cars and demanded some of those toys too. He particularly loves the main characters - Lightning McQueen, Mr Chick, Sally, Tow Mater, Sheriff, Doc Hudson. Dinoco King ... etc. So we got from the shops, a few of those characters for him, but Dinoco is once again, a hard-to-find. One day when Phaedon and I were shopping, at Big W, we found the King. It was like we found a pot of gold. I rang DH immediately, and he said get ALL of them (which was only 2 on the shelves anyway)!!! Of course I refused, thinking it's ridiculous! Why would I need 2 of the same character!?!?!

Less than a week's time, Phaedon lost it. We turned the toy box upside down, flipped couches, lifted furniture, even tidied up the toy room .... no sign of him. We couldn't stand him whining and whinging for days on end, "I want my Mr King... I want my Mr King"... we went on eBay again and bid for another one, won it, and told him that Mr Postman will come with Mr King in 10 days time. Then he started whinging everyday... "Where is Mr Postman..... where is Mr Postman.... "

grrr...

3 days after we won the eBay auction, my DD found the lost Dinoco King, in one of HER doll's bags.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH

So we are going to get another Dinoco King in the mail anyway... as a spare. sigh...

MIND YOU!!!! All this while... DH HAD a Dinoco King in HIS collection.. and you think he could have said to let his son have it first just to stop him whinging????

MEN and their toys!!

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Layout & BB Celebrated Scrapper!


I did a photo swap layout for Peta, a scrapper I know from Blue Bazaar. A fabulous lady, who is gorgeous at 50!


Oh... and I'm the "April Celebrated Scrapper" on Blue Bazaar's Newsletter too!!! There was a short interview and a few of my favourite layouts posted. Still giggling over it ... "celebrated" ... kekeke... Go have a look here...

Blue Bazaar --> Newsletter --> 05 April 2007


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OK... that's all I have for now. Have a Happy Easter, everyone! Don't eat too much chocolate!!