the weekend, the weekend, dadadadadadaaaaa (singing)

i am so so so happy it's the weekend......

jamie is away at the big GF in Sydney and i am alone for 4 days. i plan to exercise, scrap, relax and paint. today i had this overwhelming feeling that i want to sit in the patio area outside (yes i said outside) with all my paints and just see what happens. been feeling inspired by stuff like this, this and this.

do you ever find just the most amazing things just following other peoples links and favs. i found these links after checking out Deanna's (prairiewillow) favs over at flikr.

a share that kirsty n i didn't get around to yet. idol round 8 - no pics and a saying, poem or song lyrics.

kirsty:




deanne:





some quick tidbits:

• i forgot to mention earlier that i WON friday night live over at embellished. woohoo, free stuff
• my trainer asked me if i wanted to join him and some others for a mini triathlon in november. i said, why not. egad.
• my brother called me today. i love him...... and he's coming to visit 4 like 3 weeks over christmas. yay....
• i love turtles and frogs. so cute. i saw a turtle at shopping yesterday. you know one of those kiddie holiday things. how old am i?
• jamie and i bought the newly released singstar yesterday. we own them all. and i am a singstar.... ahahhhhhhh.... hehe
• i just cooked tuna patties for dinner. tuna, feta, sundried toms, parmesan, potatoe. yum...
• it's k-macs 21st next weekend. glitz and glamour. i love dressing up!!!

it's time to go, deanne.

good night, dee n kirsty xoxox

Yum, yum!!!!

Dee and I have been incredibly busy scrapping for the last 5 days. So many deadlines so little time. If only I didn't have to go to work. In the middle of all the scrapping chaos I tried to relearn how to crochet. It took me a while, and considering I was never that great, I am happy with the results. I will share my efforts when I get around to taking a piccy.

So a little late but here in the end - the photos from my birthday on Sunday.....

Mmmmmmmmm food...

Dee doesn't even drink tea or coffee but shocked us all and had a cup.

The cutest little cupcakes & gluten free for Ally!

Ally who never takes a bad photo - she should scrap.

The gorgeous Dee

Some photo love of Kaylee before she leaves us and my cooking

Bethany's first High Tea with the ladies

Christie enjoying some time with the girls

Kath posing it up for the camera

And Sue-Ellen who it was great to see. She has 3 little babies to keep her very busy

Full bellies and bright smiles. Trust me we're going back to relax in the lovely garden of Gnomes really soon!

holy sh*t.......

i have just completed my fourth layout in 5 days!!!! which is unheard of for me, seriously UNHEARD of.......

will be posting my others at a later time but for now here is my latest.... this one somehow just blurted out, all at once, which also never happens. yay for me.

mojo is go.....

Sarah Bowen Jack:

i have been completely in love with SarahB ever since i found her and couldn't let this go undone.

talk again soon, luv dee n kirsty

you'd have to be puffin muffins to be doin anything else.....

just saw one of those very very weird ads, you know the ones???

anyway i am in the middle of finishing off my last scrapper standing layout for round 1. are you doind it too? if not are you puffin muffins?

i am in the middle of trying to watch the first ep of dancing with the stars.

i am in the middle of trying to keep my home spotless everyday in case someone wants to come look through and BUY it..... like making my bed EVERYDAY, which i never do. (do you love my bedspread? oh, how i love it! and there is a little peek of my scrap room at the end there.)

i am in the middle of not feeling crash hot at all.....

but i am soldiering on..... i think....

i also really wanted to do the sarah bowen jackin but am not sure i'll get around to it. might do it anyway, even if i don't make the deadline, cos she is amaaaaazing.

hmmm. off to make sure i have 8 and 8 only transapent objects on my page and have a little lay down.

seeya, luv dee n kirsty xoxoxox

Wedding pics

Hi Everyone,

Firstly I'll start be saying congratulations Bryson, Tammy and baby Kiana. The wedding was really low key, relaxed and very , very personal. The wedding stress was absent, the focus on love, family and committment strong and everyone just had a really good time. Way to go guys!!!!

Also, thank you Dee and the rest of the girls for the birthday wishes, presents and helping me celebrate yesterday. I'll post some pics from tea and my birthday later on.

Have a marvellous (wow, haven't used that word in a while) day everyone out there, and we'll catch you tomorrow...promise! Luv Kirsty & Dee. Oh, Dee made my the most awesome b'day page too check it out here.

Happy Birthday my MESSYHAPPYFUN friend!!!

Hey Kirsty, it's me, Dee......

I knew that i would be the first to not post in consecutive days. So there you go it's done. I missed it, a whole day with no blogging. And a really important one. Kirsty's Birthday!!!!!

I did remember you over here though so i think that counts.

Why did i forget our blog yesterday you might ask.

This weekend i have soooo much to do. I am cleaning the apartment, cos someone is coming to take photos tomorrow to put it on the market. ka-ching $$$$$... I have scrappin deadlines, this weekend i hope to finish this, and this. Good news on those 2, i have finished one and have things STUCK DOWN on the other. I also have on my list a couple of other challenges, here and here. Plus i have 4 little gift projects to finish really soon. So im under the hammer. But i did it to myself cos i just luv all these things to do.

Then my parentals came over to watch the footy last night and i couldnt watch from my scrap room, that would be very rude. Boohoo for the Cowboys....... I wanted to give Thurston a big hug.

Had to shop and print photos for all my pages aswell. So wish me luck with my weekend, i feel like im gonna need it.

Anyway i'd better get movin and get ready for our HIGH T party. Can't wait.

Kirsty'll probably still drop in and show us some pics from her wedding yesterday, so this will be our first 2 post day.

Seeya soon Kirst.

Bye all Luv Dee n Kirsty

A little toilet humour today....

Read this when I got to work this morning and thought it was hilarious!!! Hopefully it adds a little sunshine to your Friday morning too!

ISN'T THIS THE TRUTH ??????
When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied. Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall. You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants! The dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down your pants, and assume " The Stance." In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance." To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake more. You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. "Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the he TOILET SEAT It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get." By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too. At this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks. You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting. You are no longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (W here was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, "Here, you just might need this."
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?" This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!).
It finally explains to the men what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door! This HAD to be written by a woman! No one else could describe it so accurately!

Dee & I are going to the Embellished Girls Night Out tonight - can't wait! And I'm going to a wedding at 9am, yes 9am in the morning, tomorrow so I should have some pretty pics to share on Sunday!

Have a great Friday and bring on the weekend!!!! Luv Kirsty & Dee

fun new people and places......

just a quick not to let you know that i have started getting our links up to date over on the side there........ keep an eye out for a while, i'm adding some really cool people and places to check out.

for now, there's ali, deanna, lalalee, lucrecerb and these amazing girls http://visualchronicles.typepad.com/ whose book

i am dying to get my hands on.

have fun, luv dee n kirsty

A Heads Up on Spring/Summer

Hi-ya,

So the day after the fashion parade........Sadness for Dee she didn't buy a single thing! Before the parade we were like (in a very excited voice with facial expressions to match) 'I'm going to buy a dress, & pants, & a shirt, & accessories, & a bag' & so on..you get the jist. But, nothing was really doing it for us. In desperation a bought a Wish dress, which I like and I'll get a lot of wear out of it but it didn't make me go 'WOW!!!!!' & it was old stock & not featured in the parade.

Oh well at leastI bought something. Actually I bought some really cute shoes too. The most amazing part, as Kath said, I bought them from a 'grown up' shop. Yes that's right I wear kids shoes. It sux! Cheap but sux! I need shoes to wear with a cocktail dress atm and I don't think red polka dot canvas shoes with blue rhinestones are going to cut it somehow! Anyway my 'grown up' shoes (which need adjustment & are a little bit big for me).

So yes, I love Billy for giving me my shoes!

Some tips for Spring/Summer fashions from the experts:

And Dee hopeful of winning the $100 voucher!

Catch you all.. looking fabulous of course now that you all know what the go is this season!!!!!!

Luv Kirsty & Dee xxoo

til now.....

today was vedy vedy boring...... (i did a workplace health and safety audit on our workplace, snore)

til now!!!!!

kirsty and i are, as i type, are getting ready to go to a most beautiful fashion parade!!! the most beautiful store in rocky has invited us to a sneak peak of all the new season fashion before they put it out on the racks!!!!! i feel very speshal.

hopefully we'll have some pics for you tomorrow, of the parade and of the pretties that we buy....

is anyone else excited for this????

bom chicka wah wah!!!!!!

before i go, some cool pics that Ali @ Embellished took of us working a couple of weekends ago.

seeya on the flip side with some hot new threads.

dee n kirsty xoxox

A nothing Monday

Today is a nothing type of Monday. Nothing exciting, nothing bad, nothing that overly enthuses me...just a nothing type of day!

Round 7 of Idol

Dee (seeing this lo did excite me, but that was long ago now - 7hrs almost a lifetime!)

Kirsty

And the recipe for 'the slice' that I made last week. If I was chewing on a piece of this right now, I can tell you that I would be obscenely excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chocolate, Pecan and Coconut Slice Recipe

250g packet Nice biscuits

120g butter or margarine, melted125g milk chocolate, chopped into small chunks

90g pecan nuts, chopped

80g (1 cup) coconut

395g tin condensed milk

Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Celsius fan-forced). Line an approximately 18cm x 28cm baking dish/tin with baking paper.Crush biscuits in a blender or food processor. Combine crushed biscuits and melted butter (we do this in the saucepan that we melted the butter in). Press firmly into the lined dish.Sprinkle base with chocolate chunks and chopped pecans.Sprinkle over coconut.Drizzle with condensed milk, covering as much of the coconut as possible.Bake for about 35 minutes, until lightly golden on top. Allow to cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until cold and set. Remove from tin and cut into squares. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

inspiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiring............

i found this today.

http://categorystories.blogspot.com/

you HAVE to go there!!!!!

all the girls are AMAZING and i am feeling very very inspired.

how bout a little random photo action for the day: (excuse quality, i've been on fire with my phone camera)

kirsty made this for morning t at work on friday. its a choc, pecan, coconut and condensed milk slice thingy. omg its orgasmic!

me eating said slice. mmmmmmmmmmm

kaylee, i love you and i'm gonna miss you (and hi there in the background marty)

went to a cafe after thai dinner the other night for coffee and cake. nothing looked good for me so i had a diet coke. very dissapointing. next morning decided i couldn't live another moment without having something wicked to make up for it. hence this for brunch with the girls:

tropical mango splicey thing and caramel cheesecake. yum yum



my guy plays netball. he's a gun. i luuurve watching him play. ahhhhhh. hotness to me.... al sweaty and aggresive. (did someone say it's not a contact sport?)

all done. and before i go, i have to say we are loving this thing called blog.

luv dee n kirsty (aka messyhappyfun)

As promised...

Kaylee was offered a job in Brissy Thursday night, which is great for her, not so great for us, so we went out for dinner to celebrate/commisserate! So congratulations Kaylee, we wish you the best of luck and look forward to you coming home for visits. Dinner was superb and to make you all a little hungry here are some pics....

My very cute new purse. Not really dinner related but too cute not to share!

MMMMMMM - stirfry beef.....

My stomach was not so good so some simple food - cold rolls. Still heaps yum!


Curry is REALLY exciting apparrently!

The best part - chai latte!

Kath contemplating her new role - she is about to step into Kaylee's shoes and be the 3rd scrapper of our little group. She is feeling pressured and so she should be. We need her!

A rare photo, actually the only photo, of Dee and me together. Just for you Ali!

Whahooooooo...... vodka!!!!!! = giggles!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dee got pretty stuff from spotlight today so drop in tomorrow and she might share!

Luv Dee&Kirsty