Beautiful Friends

Firstly I wanted to thank everyone for all of your encouraging comments on my last post! It is so wonderful to have great friends that support you. I am sorry that I didn't get back to you all personally it was just one of those weeks.

I am a bit nervous about posting the results on my week tomorrow because I have a terrible feeling that despite trying to be better with my choice of food (and I did exercise a bit) I didn't really loose any centimetres or weight! Oh well, we will see tomorrow and I will have to try harder!

On a very good note though, I received the most beautiful package in the mail last week.

My lovely new friend Laura from My Summer House sent me one of her gorgeous cushion covers as a gift!

I am amazed at the wonderfully generous friends that I have made through this blogging thing and It is something I never expected when I started.

Laura's cushion covers are just lovely and she sells them via her etsy store here!

Thank you Laura for your beautiful gift, I am truly blessed to have you as my friend and thank you to everyone of my wonderful friends who stop by and visit me I love hearing from you. I am hoping that I will be able to catch up with you all this week!

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Have a happy Monday!

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All things Spicey

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I had a productive weekend and managed to get a few of my smaller projects finished so that I can share them with you all over the next few posts. I found these cute spice jars at the local thrift store and they were $4 for the set of four. Not a great bargain but as soon as I spotted them I remembered Maria's Anthropologie Set of Spice Jars that she featured here.

What do you think?

I was pretty happy with the way they turned out.

I spent some time yesterday rearranging in order to fit in my new copy cat spice jars.

My Nicholas is on holidays this week, he is lucky at this time of the year to get an extra week off school but unfortunately I don't have any time off these holidays and given that the public schools are not on holidays yet there isn't any holiday care programs running this week. He has a slack mum who isn't organised and that means that Nicholas gets to come to mum's work for the week and hang out there! It isn't all bad we have a great tea room with a TV and DVD player and he can lay on the lounge and read or watch a movie or play the PSP or he can embrace the opportunity to learn all about the joys of banking ; )

Just a reminder if you haven't already entered Laura's first giveaway you should go and have a look at her gorgeous cushions.

Laura is giving one away in order to celebrate the opening of her etsy shop.

Laura has a lovely blog called My Summerhouse,

you only have a few days left to enter her giveaway here.

Hope you all have a lovely week.

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Giveaway and giving gifts

I would like to introduce you to my new friend Laura, Laura has a gorgeous blog My Summer House and now she has her own etsy store.

To celebrate the opening of her store Laura is giving away not one but two cushion from her line. You must go and check out her blog and her store. Laura's designs are just beautiful!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, we had a trip to Newcastle to visit our newest nephew. He is just gorgeous and we really enjoyed our short stay! I don;t have any photos of him to share yet but you might enjoy these!

I love putting together and giving gifts and I thought I would share this one with you.

I needed some bottles and some pebbles and

if they just happen to double as candles even better.

Pretty soap is good

I really love candles, you can never have too many!

Some shells

scrubby stuff

start putting it together strategically

Fill the bottles with luxury bath products

Layer them attractively

All ready to enjoy by the lucky receiver

Do you like buying gifts for people?

Do you find it easy to choose something special?

Have a great Monday.

xx