Black Friday/Cyber Monday SALE SALE SALE!!

OK so Thanksgiving isn't a holiday we celebrate down here but I can still get in the mood with a sale right??!

15% off entire store Friday 28th - Monday 01st!!

3 x etsy front pages! Woohoo!

So all the talk of a recession and a depressed economy has been me feel quite low, especially in regards to my Etsy shop. Sales are sooooo slow BUT..

I was featured on the front page 3 times last week!


Firefly



Varley



And Maggie May was an alternative that got rotated to feature on this lovely one



So, Im keeping my fingers crossed that the sales start coming in, its almost christmas after all!

Dr's appointments, specialists, waiting, stressing, here we go again..

So.

Millie has had two seizures in the last couple of months. The last one, last week, she fell off her chair face first onto the ground.
That was pretty scary, she bit a chunk out of her tongue poor mite.
Both were while she was sick but that brings the total up to around 11 seizures in about 3 years. Too many for them to just say febrile convulsions with a swish of their hands.

Sigh...

We have been referred back to Dr Antony (Top pediatric neurologist) who she saw for her ptosis, have to have another EEG done with another Dr in Lindfield, a metabolic urine screen to rule out any other weirdo nasty sydndromes and then hopefully, hopefully we will be done with Drs.

I am praying in a way that they say she has Epilepsy because if so, we have a diagnosis and its done.
Im still super worried and cant help imagining all sorts of scary scenarios. Her pupil sizes have been quite differant of late and Im sure some Dr at some stage said thats to do with her ptosis but I am still so paranoid its giving me stomach ulcers.

We are all almost over this dreaded bott that seems to have taken us all out for the count. Millie and I still have a pack a day cough each which is driving everyone crazy. Thanks very much pilgrims, please keep your religious fervour and consumption away from my family and I please?

Thankyou.

When life kicks you in the nuts....

This is what gets me through..





We had our photos from Luisa back today. Just in time to remind me about all that is good in the world.

I feel for those that do not have a good relationship with their families, it is the most important thing in my life and I am very blessed to have great kids and husband, awesome parents and extended family.

Hug your kids tight and kiss them until they squeak, they wont be little for long.

I have nothing to live for....

Well maybe thats a 'slight' exaggeration but oh my, I am a miserable shit at the moment.

A couple of months ago I kicked my dreadful nicotine habit and then got the bright idea that I should now get in shape also.

Bad idea, terrible, the worst in the world.

I joined the gym a couple of weeks ago and felt very superior as I drove there in my shiny new trainers and bouncy gym type hairstyle. I sneered at the fatties waiting at the bus stop and brilliantly ignored the ever expanding brioche that was threatening to overlap my seat belt.

20 minutes on the treadmill, hooray!
15 minutes on the bike, huzzah!
a few ladylike crunches down in the weights room, I was going to be trim, taut and terrific in no time.

I chirpily signed up for my 3 sessions with the personal trainer and was very excited last thursday when my assessment with Christiaaaaaaaannnnn took place.
So, I could only do 10 push ups, 14 sit ups and was puffing and sweating like a cheap knockhouse whore after 3 minutes of stepping up and down on one of those frightful little boxes but Im sure thats about normal for my age (all of 32) right??

WRONG WRONG WRONG!!

I went back today for my results and was shocked to my very wobbly core to find out I have a fitness age of 45 years old!!!
Some stats for your reading pleasure..
Body fat: 22% - 21 years old (must admit feel a little bit smirky about that)
Flexibility: 15cm - 18 years old (hee hee)
upper body and core strength: 56 years old (er, not so good)

but the very worst of it...

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Cardio fitness...

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78 year old.

Oh. My. Freakin. God.

Im going to hide in a corner with a creme filled donut if anyones looking for me.

Just keep your trap shut...

A word to the wise..

Dont ever DARE to disagree (no matter how politely)on the Etsy forums or someone who may or may not ever have bought one of your items will stamp their foot, pout and tell you they are a big scary buyer so you shouldnt dare to voice a conflicting idea or they'll never ever buy from you....

I guess Im on someones DNB list.

Blow me.

Droooooollll!

I.Love.Labradorite.

Not in a pervy way (although now that I think about it....)

Finding a piece with awesome blue flash is so exciting. Am I a geek? Yes, yes I am.

This particular pair of earrings is sold...

But I have some that are almost as flashy here and some more on its way to me.

I cant wait to get my greedy little mitts on them...