Paying it forward baby

EEKKKK deep breath.....here goes nothing.......

Cate from Keep Cate Busy has taken up the pay-it-forward challenge (from LJ at with my own two hands)...and *I* have taken up the challenge from Cate... with me so far??

"I promise something handmade to the FIRST 5 people who leave a comment here.
However, to be eligible, you must repost this message, offering something handmade to 5 other people. The rules are that it must be handmade by you, and it must be sent to your 5 giftees sometime in 2011. Ready, set, GO!"

Please don't be intimidated by this idea...I'm craftily challenged - but I will do my best. The 5 recipients will receive something that will genuinely be made with love and care...that much I can promise.

I'm unsure what it will be at this stage, at least I have 11 and a half months to think and make. This should keep me occupied for the year 2011.

I'm nervous. Oh boy am I nervous!! I can't even sew on a button.

But I'm taking up the challenge...... who's with me?? If you are just leave a comment with the URL address of you paying it forward.

'Show it Like it Is' Challenge

Nicole from Bubby Makes Three blogged recently about how lovely show room homes look.

You know what I'm talking about. Nice polished tables, bench tops that glean with cleanliness, not a piece of rubbish in sight.

I'm the first to admit I love a clean tidy home. I try my best, really I do.

But there are times, like this week, when I've been out of the house more hours then I've been in it.

When I'd rather go to the movies for the first time in six months then worry about vacuuming, mopping and putting on yet another load of washing.

When a clingy boy is teething and won't let you put him down for a minute unless you want to hear the shriek that will bellow from his mouth.

So anyway, this is the current state of my kitchen.

Pretty darn messy!!

I tell my husband all the time to take out the rubbish. He walks past the bin every morning on the way to the bus stop. But every single week our rubbish pile builds up. I get sick of nagging. So I guess I just turn a blind eye to the bin pile.

I actually did wash up last night. And even put the dishwasher through. But after that my cleaning burst ended. My energy stores were depleted.

The Amazing Race and a packet of M&M's were calling me. So the dishes were left to drip dry.

I did hope that the dishwasher fairy would come and unpack the dishwasher while I slept. She didn't.

So the breakfast dishes are still piled on the bench.

Sigh. What I wouldn't give for a cleaner right about now!!

Feel free to play along too.

That way I mightn't feel so bad for having a kitchen that looks like a bomb has gone off in it.

My Very First Blog Post

So what better way to start off my blog than to complete a blog this challenge:
Tell us fifteen facinating, far fetched, frightening, funny or frivilous facts about yourself. Those bits of trivia that are floating around in your life.

1. I'm obsessed with blogs. I waste many a hour just reading other people's blogs (hence I thought it was about time I started my own).
2. My husband and I have recently (3 months ago) started to try and conceive our first bub. Who would have thought it would be so mentally draining?
3. I'd love to have 4 children.
4. My books are organised in alphabetical order according to author's surnames.
5. My cd's are also alphabeticalised (is that even a word??).
6. I'm a vegetarian and have been for the past 8 years or so.
7. Im a surgical nurse and really really enjoy it.
8. I love peppermint ice magic and coconut on my icecream.
9. Actually, I love nearly everything peppermint.
10. I would love to live in Canada, no idea why Canada but have always felt this pull to go there.
11. I did gymnastics for over 7 years when I was in primary school.
12. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Gilmore Girls.
13. I name everything - i have a GHD called Geraldine, a car called Agatha, a TV called Sammy, a lounge named Ritchie.... I think you get the point.
14. I have 2 sisters, 4 half brothers, 2 step sisters and a step brother.
15. I love the feel of clean sheets when you slide into bed after a hectic day.