Caroline - Nightwolf's Den

BEDM – Getting to Know Me

38 things about me at 38 (in no particular order)

Favourite shows – Supernatural, Lucifer, Game of Thrones, Ghost Adventures
Podcasts I listen to – Pocket Talk, Paperclipping Round Table, Nightlife with Tony Delroy, Conversations with Richard Fidler
Current phone -iPhone 6s
I love a good hot chocolate with marshmallows
I’m glad soccer season has started again
I am happy to use a Mac or a PC
I’ve just gone back to uni. Doing one unit
Looking forward to Mother’s Day
I’m LOVING being on the Awesome Ladies creative team
Cooking is inspiring me again (thanks in part to YIAH)
I’ve been blogging at Nighwolf’s Den for over 10 years!
This November marks our 10 year wedding anniversary
August is Miss A’s 2nd birthday
I just became a great Aunt.
It kinda made me clucky but my body has gone ‘no more babies!’
Really like my Apple watch
Meeting Becky Higgins was amazing
I’m a big fan of Becky Higgins, Ali Edwards, Shimelle and rukristin
Honey joys are one of my favourite snacks
Leonie Dawson is amazing. It’s on my bucket list to meet her and have a long chat.
I use the word amazing and awesome A LOT
I hate having my photo taken
I hate winter (& the cold) but love having a fire
Nothing beats the flickering of a candle or two
I’m a mum to 2 gorgeous girls
I’m wife (& best friend) to an amazing man
I love scrapbooking
I think cancer sucks
I really should make more me time
Windy weather is the pits, I’d much rather rain
I love dragons and fairies
I love planning
I’m a bit of a cat lady
I love to travel
I want to visit Canada and Scotland
I have a tattoo and I would really like a few more
Purple is my favourite colour
I didn’t think I’d make it 38 things

Currently #8

(changing it up a bit)

WEATHER: windy and raining

EATING: donut cupcakes

DRINKING : Coke or hot chocolate or water

LOVING : having a fire

READING : Ali Edwards blog

ANTICIPATING : Going to bed early tonight. Week in the Life

LISTENING TO : MUSIC : a bit of everything. Lots of Prince PODCAST : Pocket Talk

WATCHING : Lucifer, Super Girl, Deadly Possessions, Supernatural, AFL

PLANNING : Week in the Life. A surprise for hubby for our 10th wedding anniversary. Inspired by this post and thinking I need to do a Project My Life.

LOOKING FORWARD TO : getting to cuddle my great niece (born on the 28th of April – 7 weeks early)

CREATING : Awesome Ladies Project layouts, Project Life

NEED TO FINISH : Miss K’s & Miss A’s 2015 PL albums – just the journaling to go

WISHING : I could have a little bit more sleep

MAIN GOAL : to start organising my scrap stuff.

What are you “CURRENTLY” doing?

Blog Every Day In May – the 2016 edition

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100 Happy Days 2016 – Month 1

This is the third year I’ve decided to do the 100 Happy days project. Here’s my first month of photos…

1. Happiness is a gorgeous sunset. 2. Happiness is a day baking. 3. Another day another cake creation. 4. PJ day. 5. Today this makes me happy – 2 sleeping kids nice and early. 6. Flowers and good news from mum make me happy today. 7. Birthday pressie for hubby. 8. Waiting for her sister to get home on the school bus. 9. Soccer season. 10. A win for the Hawks and MVP for Gibbo. 11. Our sick little piggy is getting better. 12. Back to uni. 13. Happiness is blowing bubbles. 14. Homemade sushi. 15. Love the random doodles and drawings from these two.

16. When hamburgers become rissoles. 17. A close game and a good win. 18. Taco salad for tea. Another yummy Favour Stack meal. 19. Road trip with Mum & the girls to Devonport. 20. Planning on doing some scrapping tonight. 21. Sleep. 22. Paperclipping Round Table & some blogging. 23. Footy day. First game in Tassie for the season. 24. It’s the simple things that make me happy – like a clean laundry. 25. Happy little monkey up late. 26. Cat games – Neko Atsume. 27. Loves soccer, just like her big sister. 29. Daddy teaching someone how to do Windows Updates. 30. A happy memory of Prince who passed away today. 31. 3 weeks in a row she’s scored a goal! 32. Baked spuds for tea. 33. Meeting Becky Higgins

WTF 2016?

And I wake to the news this morning that we’ve lost another legend – his purpleness – Prince.

Yesterday was former pro wrestler Chyna.

So far in 2016 … Davie Bowie, Ronnie Corbett, Terry Wogan, Alan Rickman, and many others.

Love this cover by Chris Cornell

RIP your purpleness

Nightwolf snaps pt 2

I’ve gone back to uni! Admittedly I’m only doing one unit but it’s a start.

The unit I’m doing is Photography & Social Media. I’ve started a new blog so I can journal my progress of that (& any photo challenges I decide to take part in). If you’re interested in checking out my work pop on over to Nightwolf Designs

My Declutter 365 journey – March check in

Hello my decluttering friends. Our decluttering journey in March started in the laundry.

Here’s a before….

and an after….

We got rid of old laundry supplies and things we don’t use any more, created a stain removal kit, created some decor to make the laundry a bit brighter, created a laundry schedule and a system for putting away clean clothes (something we struggle with), and organised and decluttered a pile of odd socks.

Next was creating a cleaning schedule . Now to get everyone on board and actually using it. So far it’s helping me, the kitchen is staying relatively clean. We also created morning & evening routines. We started routines for Miss K last year and are bringing them back so mornings aren’t so hectic. It’s nice to have a routine for us adults too.

Our family folder is slowly getting more information added as we go along and if anyone in the house asks where something is now it’s ”check the family folder first”.

Finally in March was the basement – we don’t have one but it was interesting reading and we can apply some of it to our garage which is a total shambles.

Grab yourself a bargain goddesses!

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Afternoon Teal 2016

This past Saturday we held our annual Afternoon Teal event. This year it was Cheers for 5 Years, an Afternoon Teal at Braehead. Why Cheers for 5 Years? This year marks 5 years since mum’s surgery. In Australia, the overall five year survival rate for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer is 43%. In comparison, the overall five year survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer is 89%. Big difference. So it’s a big celebration year.

We had a lovely afternoon ….

and some seriously yummy food ….

There was a silent auction and I must thank some amazing people for donating – Rabbit Hole Organic Tea, Personal Planner, Little Finch, Flat Out Bottles, Popping Candy Shoes, Your Inspiration at Home, Braehead Crafts, and Hillwood Coffee Shop.

Speaking of the Hillwood Coffee Shop, they have been amazing and are hosting out 1000 ribbon challenge. The aim of the challenge is to sell 1000 ribbons for a gold coin donation and add them to our wall. So far we are just over 400. If you would like to donate and have a ribbon (or 2) added, please get in contact and I’ll send you my paypal. I’ll send you a photo of me adding your ribbon to our wall.

The finally tally is yet to come in but at the end of the day we had gone over my $2000 target. My donation page is still open if you wish to add to the total 😉

That one where you forget

I had an awesome idea for a post last night and then I went to bed, not writing it down, cause, you know, I’ll remember it in the morning…. Nope. Nada. Can not remember what it was. So today you get a brain dump.

Internet in Tasmania is slow as a wet week for some – basically nearly everyone who isn’t with Telstra. Makes work difficult. Access to FTP is patchy at best. Updating Windows, don’t even bother *sigh* For those not in the know, we have a large cable between Tasmania and the mainland called Basslink. It transports electricity and fibre. Awhile ago it broke, well the electricity bit broke. To fix it, they cut the cable. Hence crap internet for those using it. Telstra users have their own cables so are unaffected. Everyone else has to wait to be ported to the Telstra cables. We’re being told Thursday this week. *fingers crossed*

Things are going well ahead of our Afternoon Teal event on Saturday. You can still donate here. We’ve had some lovely people donate some amazing items for our silent auction that is taking place on the day – Rabbit Hole Organic Tea, Personal Planner, Little Finch, Flat Out Bottles, Popping Candy Shoes, Your Inspiration at Home, Braehead Crafts and many more. Looking forward to having a nice afternoon. I’ll be sharing some photos after the event.

I have some exciting news to share on my craft blog tomorrow.

I’ve managed to get Miss A’s photos for 2015 into her Project Life album. Now to print Miss K’s photos for 2015 and get them in her album. Then go back and add journaling cards and filler cards to both.