My name is on the WALL!

I will start this post by also asking if you want to hop over to my other post at 7yummymummies where I have just updated an eventful week with my darling children don't forget to come back.

This week in the Village it’s been fairly busy – I joined our Village Oil Consortium, dropped my photos off for the exhibition, visited the exhibition as well as entertaining a long lost friend of Husbands.

Two weeks ago Husband got an email from one of those websites which reunite you and a long lost school friend made contact with him, there was a flurry of emails back and forth and as the friend was working fairly near by a meal and room was offered with the opportunity to ‘catch up’.  All seemed to go well as I managed to get the kids to bed and Dinner was served a homemade lasagne, green salad, a good bottle of wine and a nice warm pudding.  All was going well and conversation was around what where they had both been up to – [I did feel like I should have gone out for the evening or would that have been bad manners – no I was glad to stay] But the elephant in the room was finally asked – so what brings you to look us up?  The answer came back, “well, there’s not many names I remember from my past and when I do I think those must be the important ones”  so at 11pm I left them to carry on their catch up and think lights went out around 1am.

At the end of the week I asked husband if he had heard from friend and said no – we now have more questions – are we bad hosts? Do we not warrant a thank you? Should we expect a thank you? Will we see him again? – the answer to these questions do not really matter, what matters is that we were able to offer a room, food, and conversation.  If he did not like what he found then maybe we will not see him for another 25 years well we will continue to be a happy family who will help any friend who is in need.

I was quite pleased with myself with joining the Village Oil Consortium as I just happened to ring the organiser on the day of an order being placed how timely was that? The price was good too all though I seethe every time I either fill the Oil tank or the put diesel in the car.

I eventually found the address of where to drop my photos off for their first exhibition after about 15mins of driving up and down a dodgy road at the side of a canal.

My parents arrived Friday for a day at THE EXHIBITION!!!!! For the first time We all managed to pile into Husbands 4x4 which was surprisingly comfortable for the 6 of us even though part of our route was over some very bumpy country roads.

When we arrived at the Exhibition we were all very surprised by the fantastic venue, I was somehow thinking it was just a church hall, but what confronted me was a majestic building with a mixture of different architectural styles from Medieval to Victorian via the Georgian era.  Ayscoughfee Hall, in Spalding was a fantastic place to let the kids explore inside and out and it was FREE admission.  When I entered The Geest Gallery where my pictures were being shown, I felt like a school girl excited and in awe seeing my name on the wall next to my pictures. – I think I have got the bug!

10 Things to do in February 2011

Gonna try and do a listography with I need curtains for the window in my head  its her first attempt of creating a linky tool so thought I would support her.
10 things I am going to try and do this February 2011

1) well my first has to be to deliver my photos to their first exhibition next week - ooooo getting excited!

Thought you might like to see the three photos which were chosen:

"The Strip - Las Vegas" (c) mummyrella 2008

"WINTER" (c) mummyrella 2011

"Resting" Clearwater, Florida (c) mummyrella 2009

2) putting my form in for Voluntary Redundancy.

3) come up with ideas to help raise £100k for my local Church Roof.

4) make Poppy dog a doggy Birthday Cake - she will be 5 on Valentines Day,

5) exchange Christmas Prezzies with Cousins - yes I still have some to receive too!!!

6) try not to eat too many sweet things of an evening,

7) be postive in looking for a new business venture,

8) GO and VIEW my photos at the exhibition see TIN website for more details

9) sort out new business cards ready for cybermummy11,

10) start organising my Street Party in the Village for the Royal Wedding Day

Yay I've done it - 10 things wow I'm going to be busy busy busy in February and only 28 days to do it all in.

So I Made Cup Cakes

So 3 1/2 yr old daughter was having a tantrum on a Friday afternoon, banging her bedroom door, screaming shouting, "No I Won't ...." so whilst it was going on, I decided to make a batch of cup cakes and try out my new icing nozzle [ooo a lovely word nozzle].  In between mixing, baking and icing went back to daughter to console but it was no good.  Held and held her but her pain was too great she pushed me away, so I took to my first attempt of trying to ice cup cakes like they do in the shops!

What do you think?  

(c) mummyrella 2011

I have to say that i'm quite pleased with the result and Daughter thought they were very yummy double bonus!

3 things to be cheerful and Poppydog licking is not one of them!

So this is the week when I have a mixture of news and I have been bugging myself to take part in metalmummy 's listography's of some kind and realise this blog could take part in the 123 things to be cheerful! which was set up by mummy from the heart so here goes

My first listography:

1) three of my seven photographs got accepted and I will be exhibiting in my first ever exhibition - yay!!!! wooop wooop! So I would like to thank everyone for their kind words of encouragement through the Gallery link last week.  The "Winter" picture was one of the accepted ones.

(c) mummyrella 2010 - "Winter"

2) My second achievement of the week was finishing my second assignment for my Open University Course - it was nothing special just a 1500 word essay but it's done and dusted no use worrying about it now, just got to wait until mid march for my final mark.

3) My third accomplishment is that I managed to listen to a webinar and book some web design training ready for when I hit the big wide world of Redundancy!

Final thought for today is that I am still trying to work out what I want to do - think I want to go freelance not sure what in but I am enjoying my new hobbies blogging, twittering and photography.  Not forgetting of course being a mummy but I think I do need to have time for myself and this maybe something I can do and enjoy at the same time.

 

Oh and I have agreed to help my Church raise £100k for a new roof so looking for lots of fundraising ideas.  A BIG challenge me thinks. 

 

Finally I will leave you with this lovely thought caught my lovely son licking Poppydog's tongue!!!! he reply was "well Poppydog started it first" OMG yukkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!