Inspiration Friday- Buttons!

Hello all, back again with another post for  La-La Land Inspiration Friday

'Buttons'

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So I blew the dust off my buttons and this is what I came up with!!!
Take 1 small foam wreath (mine came from Lincraft and is 7.5" in diameter), a ball of Jute twine, buttons and felt and voila, this is the end result!!

Covering the base was the most time consuming, but well worth spending the time to get a neat outcome!

The little buttons in amongst the roses are wired and stuck into the foam, some of the roses have been wired too , the rest have been hot glued on- as you can imagine there was hot glue strands everywhere!!

Have a great weekend

Darcy Turns 12!

Better late than never, I am only a month behind!!

Darcy turned 12 last month (where have those 12 years gone!), we had a theme of Minnie mouse for her party, bit difficult to tell from the photos below-lol!

The birthday card, gotta love Minnie mouse, always a favourite and so much fun to colour.

Once again featuring the Pebbles Double Sided Basics Rouge cardstock-love love love!!

 

The invitation and little pillow box which held little mickey earrings for each of the girls

The setting, Rylee was in charge of the plates- don't they look cute!

She folded the napkin to make Minnie's bow.

Darcy and I

The Girls having photo fun!

One of the games was 'Foil Fashion', 2 rolls of foil and this is what they came up with, love to wear that out one night!

Another fun game, passing tissues with only straws, if you drop it you are out.

Pin the bow on Minnie

M and M's with Straws, the person with the most in the end is the winner- so much fun to watch!

Our new little addition...... Angus!

On Friday we welcomed a new member to our family, a little 9 week old labrador puppy Angus!

We didn't tell the girls of his upcoming arriving, as you can image they were excited beyond belief!!

We have become Guide Dog puppy raisers, he will be with our family for the next 12months, he heads off to complete his training as a guide dog, that is as long as he passes all the requirements with 100% pass rate!!  We are hoping he will be successful and become the 'eyes' for a vision impaired person, he has a beautiful nature and will make a perfect companion for one lucky person!  He will take a lot of time to get him up and trained, but we are up for the challenge, he has become my new 'job'- can life get much better????

Not looking forward to the day when he leaves our family, but we will certainly be enjoying him while he is 'ours'

He's just soooooooooo cute, as you can see by the photos, I did struggle to limit the number of photos 'cause he just looks so darn cute in all of them!!

The girls and I went shopping yesterday and bought him a few toys to play with, among them were a tigger toy and this cute little heart, both of which he carries around with him!

Angus with my Niece Lauren, who is worse than the girls when it comes to picking him up-lol!

My favourite to finish off with..........................told you he was a cutie!

Our 2012 Christmas Celebration

Popping in with a few of my favourite pictures from our Christmas!

Rylee and Darcy in their element unwrapping all the presents!

Our festive table, white, silver and black

 Our lunch!! 

 With the recent purchase of a thermomix, lunch was easy and soooooooo yummy!

Greek style lamb,rosemary baked potatoes, beetroot salad with pomegranate dressing and Chicken/Prawn/Avocdo salad with Avocado mayo- needless to say we ended up with very full tummies, but still had room for plum pudding with brandy cream!

The Thermomix also got a good workout making our cocktails too! 

 My very silly family!

still struggling to get a 'Normal' photo-lol!

My Mum Joan and Step father Jim