bigbucketgirl

Mosaic Madness

My creation, originally uploaded by big_bucket_girl.

I've been to bed and got back up because i thought i'd figured out how to add notes on the photos. Flickr will not beat me. TYpepad might but i'll save that fight for another day!

How i'm supposed to sleep when I've got Colin Firth on my mind is another matter.....I need a cold shower!

Game on.

On a night when i should be in bed early recovering from this, taking advantage of the fact that DH is out on the town, all three kids have been cherubic all evening and were all asleep by 8, it seems my dark side won and encouraged me to just have a peek at a few blogs before bed. Just a few.

It seems it took only ONE to keep me up til gone 2, (and an infuriatingly slow laptop), but I did eat a tin of cherry pie filling to sustain me!

Over at Ali's blog she was playing a game...and i joined in. Will you? With a glass of wine, bottle of wine, the cherry filling and Air Supply in the background(!) I ended up with this!

1. Mum and a pram, 2. Marmite, 3. go hardknocks, 4. GT.500, 5. Ladies love Colin Firth, 6. Raffles Hotel, 7. Raffles Hotel, 8. Green... and crunchy, 9. Suzy Homemaker Oven, 10. Raccoon Family, 11. Carousel - Harry., 12. chalk 5

I know I have 2 pictures the same. Not what i intended but the tag was the same! What I haven't worked out how to do is tell you the answers like clever people i know!

The Game is to:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

Can't believe it took FOREVER to upload and i had to redo the post 33867 times until it would go in! Why when i open up to do a new post does half the editing things disappear? Aaaargh! Edited to add: Thought i should point out that DH returned well before midnight, fully upright, coherent and capable of rational thought. I meanwhile was being tormented by Flickr and so only then did i resort to the bottle of wine!

Making a list is easy.

Here I am making a list of  craft projects that I want to complete begin because it's easier than frying my brain and letting you in on my world. So I will at least make this positive as I will be without the computer until the weekend. This imposes a blog free few days and so I could actually make something instead of thinking about it and oohing and aaahing at other peoples wonders!

1. make a recorder case for ds for school. He's starting to regret signing up for the class because his peers are teasing him. He loves music and making noise(tuneful or not) and the way things work in the school is that kids who can commit to recorder will be the ones next year who get first try at trumpet/saxophone etc. Besides that he does beam when he hears HIMSELF playing twinkle twinkle little star!! even though it's not so cool for an almost 8yr old boy! I played the recorder, clarinet and flute through school and have been trying to find 2 minutes in secret,  to recapture my youth and try and work out how to play the Scooby Doo tune! Somehow I think anything Pirates of the Caribbean will be too hard! DS does adore the Grease soundtrack though...but i keep going off into Good king Wenceslas(sp!) and Greensleeves!  Anyway I have found some wonderful skull and crossbones fabric on Ebay. I want it to be a lovely surprise for my strong minded boy. Lets hope he stays like that!
2. Make a PE kit bag for DD with her name on it. She has a very unusual first name that I love but makes it impossible to buy anything personalised like mugs and keyrings. One day if we get to USA then I have a feeling that there would be lots of 'her' over there, and we'd have to commission a private plane to bring back all the personalised booty! I have planned to use an old dress of DD's and adapt it into a bag. Simple? I'm thinking sew the bottom of an A line dress and that'll be it! I will line it because I've seen polka dot fabric to kill for(!) and of course applique her name on it somewhere! What have I forgotten? If its that simple then how come I've put it off since the beginning of September!?!?!? Oh yes. Life gets in the way.
3. This list is taking longer than I expected!! This is probably why I don't achieve as much as I want to because my lists are a job in themselves! LOSE THE LISTS! You can stop shouting at me now. I CAN HEAR YOU!
4. Move my bed and hoover under it.
5. Dust on top of wardrobes.

Another reason why I should ditch lists is that I write things down and change my mind before the ink has had chance to dry! The dust can stay a while longer.

Oh. Head feeling scratchy..must go and find head lice comb. Must check for visitors.

Phew. No lice. DS had a medium sized ONE from school on Thursday. It wasn't HIS but it was on his head long enough to lay about 1/2 dozen eggs. SOD. I don't like using potions and lotions on their little heads so i must admit I pulled 3 hairs,with eggs on, out with tweezers! The boy didn't mind as he had a mouthful of chocolate for each hair yanked out. We don't like the lice but use their annual visits as a nature lesson! and with a white bath, it means that when we find any lice we line them up on the side of the bath and pop them to see whose make the most noise and whose have the most blood in! Are you still there? Are you revolted by my louse massacre? We make the most of bad situations here!

Are you scratching now from the mention of crawly beasties on heads!? HEAD LICE, HEAD LICE, HEAD LICE, now?  Sorry, that's my dark side coming through.

I'm going to go and get a jug of Angel Delight(scratch scratch) and check the (scratch)dryer.

Mrs

It's way past my bedtime, my eyes are sore from a good hearty sob over Jane Eyre, and my rear end is numb from sitting trawling through new blogs which might explain as to why the only title I could think of for this post was Mrs. It is my title after all! Mrs.

Anyway, it's not like i've got anything really to say. No creative musings to air, or children to photograph and share their splendour. Nope. None of that. Could just go to bed. Have to finish the jelly first though. Mmmm., yes a pint of strawberry jelly that was made with all the best intentions for my kinder, but all along I think it knew it wouldn't make it through the night. Life expectancy of jelly in this house is measured in how long it takes to set and no longer! tonights feast is the 'set in less than an hour' variety that when placed close to the open back door with occasional blasts of COLD autumn air, sets in approximately half the said time! RESULT! Incase you're wondering whether or not I am eating from a vintage bowl or dish worthy of a description..I shall scoff at the thought of it. Pyrex 1 litre jug and a large serving spoon. The same way as emergency, menstrual demanding instant potato mash is best eaten straight from the same jug with lashings of salty welsh butter, there is no point in serving jelly. (Parties excluded!)

I have memories flooding back to me...and feel a tesco.com order coming on for Dream Topping(!) which I used to eat by the pyrex jug full!

Where did that come from? I had no intention of telling you that I was scoffing jelly. Oh dear.

My mind at the moment is shot to bits with heavy, emotional, bleurgh! 'stuff'. What should be a happy, exciting and generally wonderful time in a familys life is being spoiled by people whose job it is to make these things happen! I realise that without telling you more that that may sound,will definately sound melodramatic and attention seeking! I have planned all week to write tonight about life here with me and us. Tonight doesn't seem to be the night. Sorry. I'm thinking that to put the most personal 'stuff' out there is more pressure. Will it make me feel better, will writing it all down stop me biting my fingernails tips down to the bone? Will it stop me eating and menu planning Pyrex jug meals? Will I lose the feeling that I have someone, a large, solid being kneeling on my chest making it hard to 'really' breathe? Bleurgh!

Oh for goodness sake. I have taken myself off for a good talking to and a vigorous shaking. There is something going on here but noone has died, everyone is ok, dh is in London for 2 sleeps but hasn't gone anywhere (if you know what I mean), and so I have more than my fair share of big buckets full of things to be grateful for and in the grander scheme of things little to moan about. Bleurgh talk over for now. I must share the other stuff at some point because it is an enormous part of me and I want to share. Best done I feel without the jelly. Could get very messy! The photo is of a bird in my lounge that lives high up by the picture rail. It was originally a xmas decoration many moons ago but one year it stayed up and never went away. It makes me think of one of my most favourite books which i find gives me a familiar calm. I am fully aware that i am not a photography expert and apologise for poor lighting etc. but it is very late and I got up to take the photo as if I'd pooped my pants because my legs have gone to sleep. Trying to keep the camera still and balance was no mean feat!

I shall leave now and climb the wooden hill to bed. Probably find a plastic scorpion under the pillow or a half eaten Rolo left on my pillow from the two darlings that are sleeping upstairs. Love that.

What will today bring...

No news..

I am here incase anyone (anyone?, anyone at all?!?) was worried!

I've been busy reading everyone else and catching up on the blogs but have no opportunity to post myself. My cameras are playing silly b***ers with me and refusing to give me their photos, so no photo here. I've had some minutes and I mean a lousy amount of time..to go to the charity shops and hunt for treasures but have found some real wonders. Linen, baskets and another bucket. Wonderful things to photograph and show but not today it seems.

I'm going to cut this blog session short tonight because I really need a bath.Not that i'm not nicely fragrant or having  a bad hair day, but I want a soak with Radox bath salts and a can of Grolsch! I am going to take my much loved book, Wind in the Willows in with me and immerse myself in the world of Rat! It all seems so simple and endearing. Life is going through its complicated phase for us here at the moment and we are feeling just a little bashed and sore. A little recharging is in order for us all. DD has had her bedroom re arranged, spring(?) cleaned and her jewels(!) organised and DS has started recorder lessons. A good way to take out frustrations without getting physical!

So without any more intrigue and espionage style vague-ness, i shall leave you all to it. Hopefully i can post on Friday night with cheery news and a sunnier disposition.....ooh! I think I'd better have 2 cans in the bath!

Take care and see you soon.....