MIGHTY MAROONS

The MIGHTY MAROONS have done it again, 7 series win WOOHOO. Well all I've got to say is : They're simply the best, better than all the rest, better than anyone...........   Good on you MAROONS we are all very proud QUEENSLANDERS....... 2 games in Brisbane next year, bring on series 8...

I hope you all have a great day.......

Cheers
Kaylee

STATE OF ORIGIN GAME 3

WOOHOO bring on game 3 and series 7 for QUEENSLAND, I am so excited about the game tonight and one proud and excited QUEENSLANDER, my daughter Kate sent me a photo at 10.30am of her with Bill Slater, the MAROONS were kicking ball at the Botanical Gardens so I downed my coffee and grabbed my camera, mobile, permanent marker and headed to the gardens only to find they had left, boohoo :-(   I knew they were staying at Royal On the Park (opposite the gardens) as they do every year they are playing in Brisbane. So I went over to the Hotel and walked through the lobby and saw "Gilly" (Trevor Gillmeister) and asked where the boys were, he was very obliging and I waited outside the room and as each one came out I asked for a photo and an autograph on my Jersey. They were all so sweet and very obliging. As you can see in my photos I am a little excited and I haven't taken that smile off my face alllll day, I was so excited I couldn't even eat any lunch today LOL !!!

         So, firstly we have Kaylee with Cameron Smith and Nate Miles

                                         with Sam Thaiday,

                                     
                
                                          with Corey Parker
                                                             

                                                           
                                        with JT (Jonathon Thurston)

                                        with Ashley Harrison and Ben Hannant

                                                       
                                                     Kate and Billy Slater

So now in 4 hours the BIG kick off, GO MAROONS, QUEENSLANDER, QUEENSLANDER.

Have a great night everyone.

Cheers
Kaylee

GIVE AWAY BOOKS

Two weeks ago Anthea of Hibiscus Stitches had a giveaway of some craft books. I received this lovely parcel in the mail yesterday. I was most surprised as I was only expecting the one "Patchwork and Stitching" book however when I opened the packet I found not 1 but 2 books AND a fat quarter of lovely red on red tone fabric. How lucky am I !!!

The photo of the fabric isn't true to life colour, the leaves in the photo look a little yellow but they are in fact red.  Thank you so much Anthea, I love it.

Cheers
Kaylee

STATE OF ORIGIN GAME 2

It's State of Origin fever in our office today, LOL.
State of Origin Game 2 tonight and kick off is just over 4 hours away and I'm bursting with excitement. It's so exciting, if QUEENSLAND win tonight that will be 7 series won consecutively. WOOHOO !!!
QUEENSLANDER             QUEENSLANDER 

Go the Mighty MAROONS.

Cheers
Kaylee

TUESDAY TREASURES

I am joining the lovely Melody over at "The House On The Side Of The Hill" for Tuesday Treasures. A few weeks back I found out a lovely girl named Marina who used to work with us and now living with her husband in Tokyo is pregnant. Marina is one year older than my Kate and I think of her as a surrogate daughter. Marina is due early December and it will be winter and very cold over in Tokyo so I decided I would love to make some warm crocheted things to send to her for the baby.  I came across this gorgeous book by Annie's Attic with "Cuddle Cocoons", I have never heard or seen of them before, have you ? To puchase this book in Australia the cost was $13.95 plus $7.50 postage so I decided to look at "The Book Depositoty" website in the UK and WOW what a surprise, I purchased The Cuddle Cocoons books for $8.33 with FREE postage, for those of you who don't know EVERYTHING is FREE postage from The Book Depository so it's well worth checking out before buying books locally. I was able to buy this so cheap I decided to check out what else they had in crochet for babies/toddlers. These Cuddle Cocoons won't take long to make as they are for babies 0-3 months old and are small.

I also bought this book by Darla Sims for $9.27, this little cardi is crocheted all in one piece and then sewn together, how clever is that, I can't wait to get started. It's the same pattern for all the cardi's in the book just adding collars, frills, etc.

This one has some cute projects to make including cardi's, ear hats, booties and a couple of rugs. This little book with 7 patterns was $3.67.

The fourth book I found and bought has gorgeous baby shoes to crochet. This is an Annie's Attic book as well and it was $8.33.

So I was able to purchase all four of these books for the total sum of $29.60, what a bargain. Thankyou Book Depositiory. I am so excited with all of my purchases and now to work out what I will make for Marina's baby, purchase the wool and get started.

Cheers
Kaylee

TUESDAY TREASURES

I love shoes, shoes, shoes and handbags. Today on Tuesday Treasures I would like to share the latest addition to my shoe collection. I was up at Myer last Friday in my lunch break looking for a pair of nude patent shoes but sadly they didn't have any in my size BUT I did however come across a great bargain.  These lovely cream satin shoes which WERE in my size, if you look closely you will see they were $130 reduced to $89 BUT I did not pay this price.

I paid $5, no this isn't a typo, I paid $5, I had to pinch myself after confirming this with the sales staff. I even took a photo of the receipt to prove it, a NEW pair of shoes for $5 AND they also came with a pair of spare heel bottoms. WOOHOO I had a huge grin on my face all afternoon at work.

Have you found any good bargains lately...

Join in the fun over at Mel's Tuesday Treasures.

Cheers
Kaylee

MY DARLING KATE

My Darling Kate woke on Saturday morning with stomach pains which had turned excruciating by late morning. Kate's BF took her to the Medical Centre where the Dr confirmed Appendicitis and gave her a letter to take to the emergency at the local hospital, they did some blood tests and checked her out and finally sent the surgeon down to talk with her and decided at 2.30pm it was appendidcitis and they would have to be removed. HOWEVER they had to do emergency c-sections and meanwhile Kate was waiting, waiting and having morphine and other pain killers for the pain. It was a VERY long and drawn out day and FINALLY at 8.50pm on Saturday night they took her in for surgery which lasted for 2 hours. I still can't believe they released her from hospital a little more than 12 hours after surgery, she was home at 1pm yesterday, I think that's so disgraceful, in my opinion they should have kept her in till at least today. I know with key hole surgery these days it's not as invasive but I know someone else having had the same operation was in hospital for 4 days and given 3 weeks off work. Kate came through the surgery good and is now recovering at home, it was a stressful and tiring weekend and I am so glad it's all over now. This is a photo of Kate and I on Mother's Day, I didn't want to post a photo of her not looking so good in hospital.

"I love you to the moon and back sweetheart", Hugs and Kisses. Mum

How was your weekend, I hope it was less stressful than mine.

Cheers
Kaylee