Author: Caroline

Monday Musing

Why are our politicians payed so damn much? And why do they need all the perks they get while in office and after?

It really irks me that they can come out and say oh lets cut this, let’s cut that, we need to save money (but support big business and screw over the little people – they don’t say this but it usually happens). I would (probably) vote for the one pollie with the balls to stand up and say ‘hey why don’t we cut or freeze our wages, let’s get rid of some of our perks. Let’s actually help the people who need our help. Let’s tax those who can afford it. When we retire we should go on the same pension as everyone else or fund our own retirement with super we build up while in office.’

I know I’m dreaming but t would be nice

My Declutter 365 journey – April check in

April started in the Garage. This is totally hubby’s domain, I’m not touching it because I would throw the majority out LOL so the first few days of April were spent catching up with March, as were the days dedicated to the attic. Oh how I would love an attic!

We then moved onto Contact Information. Our Family Folder now has all this information and it’s up-to-date.

Finally April ended with mail. I’ve now created a mail station where all the new bills are housed.

A nice easy month really and I’m looking starting May with no backlog of previous months 🙂

BEDM – Getting to Know Me

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

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

Blog

Currently #8

Donut cupcakes

(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?

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…

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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.

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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

My Declutter 365 journey – March check in

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

Here’s a before….

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and an after….

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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.