Personal reflections, life updates, and thoughtful posts from Nightwolf’s Den, sharing stories, insights, and moments that don’t fit neatly elsewhere.
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
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
Disclaimer – links are affiliate
The gorgeous Leonie has just announced there are limited numbers of the fabbo workbooks & 2016 diaries left and they are on sale! (yes that says 7 days but it started yesterday & I wasn’t home to share)
Head on over here and add to your hearts delight! Now is a perfect time to check out the workbook or planner/diary
Use the coupon code diarydeal for 80% off the diary and workbooksupersaver for 30% of the workbooks
Go! Buy! Enjoy!
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 😉
TIME: 8pm 1st March 2016
LOCATION : Our new dining room table
FEELING: stressed.
LOVING : our new (to us) furniture and slowly getting decluttered and more organised
READING : Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
DRINKING : Coke or hot chocolate or water or IrnBru
ANTICIPATING : our Afternoon Teal
LISTENING TO : MUSIC : random tunes PODCAST : nothing at the moment
WATCHING : new X Files, Lucifer, Agent Carter, Super Girl, Ghost Adventures, Supernatural
PLANNING : our Afternoon Teal
LOOKING FORWARD TO : a relaxing day with friends
CREATING : my Awesome Ladies Project (more about that soon on my Scrap blog)
NEED TO FINISH : my 2015 PL albums
WISHING : that children would go to sleep and there were more hours in the day to do things
MAIN GOAL : to get everything ready for our Afternoon Teal
What are you “CURRENTLY” doing?
Today (Feb 24th) is Teal Ribbon Day here in Australia.
Each year we wear a teal ribbon to show our support for women living with ovarian cancer, to remember those we’ve lost and to honour the 1480 women who will be diagnosed this year.
Ovarian cancer has the lowest five-year survival rate of all women’s cancers. All funds raised by Ovarian Cancer Australia (OCA) goes towards research, raising awareness, taking action on behalf of women living with ovarian cancer and to help Ovarian Cancer Australia continue to provide the best support possible to everyone in the community who has been affected by the disease.
Do you know the symptoms of Ovarian Cancer?
Women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer report four types of symptoms most frequently:
If you have any of these symptoms, they are new for you and you have experienced them multiple times during a 4-week period, go to your GP. To help track these symptoms, download OCA’s Symptom diary now.
You can buy your teal ribbons from your local Chemmart Pharmacy Australia, Black Pepper, and Coles Queensland stores.
Even our pollies (for once) are actually talking about it. Karen Mcnamara MP, Federal Member for Dobell addressed Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and #TealRibbonDay in Parliament in this video.
AND 1480 windmills have been planted on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra in honour of the women who will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year.
So do your bit and buy a teal ribbon, host an Afternoon Teal, or support one (like mine)
Kunghei fatchoy (Happiness and prosperity!) to you all on this Chinese New Year Day.
I’ve always been an avid reader. This year one of the things on my list of 100 things to do was
Make a list of 30 books I want to read & then read those books (0/30)
So I have made myself a list on Goodreads and thought I’d share it here too
Ok so I did kind of cheat by adding a few series but they are ones I want to read/reread. What’s on your reading list?
I decided to take part in 2 photo a day challenges this year – Fat Mum Slim’s photo-a-day and Paper Heart of Gold’s planner challenge. I didn’t do so well Instagraming them each day but did manage to take each photo.
and
I’ll be back next month with my February photos.
TIME: 10pm, 31st January, 2016
LOCATION : Dining room table
FEELING: good, tired
LOVING : that it’s nearly the first day of school
READING : Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
DRINKING : Coke or hot chocolate
ANTICIPATING : the first day of school
LISTENING TO : MUSIC : random tunes PODCAST : Simple Scrapper member podcast
WATCHING : X Files
PLANNING : on catching up with my 2015 PL albums
LOOKING FORWARD TO : school going back (sense a theme LOL)
CREATING : baking heaps of food to freze for school lunches
NEED TO FINISH : my JYC pages for 2015 and my 2015 PL albums
WISHING : for more scrapping goodies and it would rain more to help with the fires around the state
MAIN GOAL : to get my PL albums finished for 2015
What are you “CURRENTLY” doing?
