Please sir, may I have some more?

Today I got some new wool! I have not finished my current pair of longies... will hopefully do that tomorrow at the rat show instead of judging! and then I will be able to start on the new and exciting pair that is in my head. Colours for that one to remain secret...

Then again - I also got some wool/angora mix that I could make into a soaker...

Or I could make a pair of plain purple shorties.... (should have gotten two balls but I forgot, so it has to be shorties and not longies...

SO I am set to start making things... but! There is a WAHP Mall opening tonight at midnight... Do I dare try and buy stuff and then ask OH for more money to pay for them? I'll not be allowed to buy soakers/longies simply because "you can make your own" (at least, he tries this with clothes!)

Mmmm... not sure not sure...

There is a nappy or two there that I want though ;)

More mula! LOL... someone hire me to make them a logo!! haha *hits head on desk*

Breakdancing Baby

Y'know those breakdances that do those funky moves, especially the one where they lay down on their shoulder and use their legs to move around in a fast circle?

That's Tara. But just add some wee ;)

Tara is currently naked on her playmat. She's worked out how to roll to her side constantly now and is spinning around in circles in the nuddy. Projectile wee adds to the amusement (yes, she can! she *almost* got the cow on the gym!).

The little monster decided to cry last night. Lots. Now for those of you that know Tara in the flesh, realise that she does not do this very often. But last night she decided to do it lots and lots.. every time she woke, she cried. Every time she came off the boob, she cried. Every time I moved her back to the cot, she cried. Every time I picked her up to bring her to bed, she cried. It was enough to make me cry!!

She barely slept all day yesterday, and so was really sleepy last night, but just could not get into a deep enough sleep. My poor baby girl.

I have 3/4 of one leg done on the longies.. just adding the pattern to it which is taking a bit longer... and then I have the other leg to go... eep! Hopefully it works.. the patterns were a little adventurous for a first time go at something!

The longies are actually huge I think.. not sure if she'll fit into them for at least another 6 months LOL. they might be shorties... or 3/4 length trousers in the end...

Argh! Brain stop it! My fingers can't catch up!

OK - so I have longies on the brain. It's a bit of an understatement actually - but they are pretty much all I am thinking about.

Well just then the most amazing longies idea came into my head and I am only halfway through what I am making!! I am pretty sure I could make what it is in my head, but can I really wait that long?!!

*paces* if I get these finished on the weekend then I should be able to make some more if these work out... can I wait that long... *argh!*

NO FAIR BRAIN! Stop thinking!!

Zen Cart, the art of making me cranky.

So, I figured if I am going to doing some web work for WAHPs in the future (*fingers crossed*) I should look at one of the shopping carts that many of them seem to like using. I figured I would have a few minor issues trying to scrabble my way around the set up and design stuff - I am a designer first and foremost and hate reading Source and Source products...

I battled my way and uploaded some products, only to find an error coming up. At first, I thought it had to be me stuffing it up, afterall, I am not that savvy... but noooooo they have a bug in their code! They don't support MySQL 5. MySQL 5 has been out for quite a while now and version 4 is dead in the water. You would think the Zen Masters (er, developers) would be quick to support a new database system if the other is no longer being supported.

Wrong answer!

Their solution is for you to go and tell your host provider to roll back from version 5 to version 4 if you want to use their software. Apparently the problem will be fixed in version 3.1 (or something..) but they said that at the start of January.

So now here lies my quandry. Do I look for another free Shopping Cart to fiddle with and create online stores free to offer (potential) customers...

Or do I twiddle my thumbs and say "I will be able to offer this solution to you, when they offer the new product" if customers really want Zen Cart.

My head hurts... I thought Zen was supposed to offer enlightenment!!

It's so funny, I could cry.

At least, that was Tara's reaction to me tickling her. I gave her a quick tickle on her chest because she was playing around at the boob. Anyways, she gigled mixed with a chuckle!! Eeep, this was her first cause/effect giggle. Anyways, I did it again. And so did she! We had laughter!!

So she gets all excited and lets out these squeals mixed with the giggles, and then all of a sudden they morphed into a whimper. It was such a sudden change. She kept laughing, then crying - there is such a fine line for her. The emotions are different, but the language is so similar. She was trying to laugh more, but it just came out as cries. So I gave her more boobie, she laughed, dazed, and has now gone to sleep.

Ahhh... the joys of "first times"

What a pain in the butt!

TDF has nappy rash... Yesterday it looked really bad - it's been chaffing somehow. Anyways I found some Brauer's Nappy Cream and it seems to be healing it rather quickly! Hopefully it will have gone by tomorrow. I know what it feels like to have chaffing between the legs - and it hurts like all buggery. Poor little Bubbles.

In other news, I am crocheting a pair of Longies. Black and Red/orange/purpleish colours... pretty funky. I have the waist done (going to be drawstring because I was being creative with my crocheting skills!), and I may just see about adding a pattern to them. I have some ideas, so will see what happens :P

I really need to do some work on the SydneyMums site. I really really hate doing people in logos though hahaha! I have some ideas, but I just can't get them from my head into illustrator. Once I have a logo I will be able to do the site more efficiently...

Other logos however are coming into my head fast and furious! I have designs in my head for different businesses, even though I am not actually designing stuff for them. I am just being inspired! I have a very cool logo (IMO) for one WAHM, but as I doubt she needs a logo, it'll stay in my computer LOL

Dog, I'm warning you, leave my computer alone!

So I get up for a loo break (yup, you -really- needed to know that, not!) just now, defeat the purpose by skulling a heap of cordial after and on my way back to bed decide to just check some stuff online. Only to find my dog has once again close all of my windows that I had open.

I need to lock my computer every time I leave it, but being the computer-non-nerd that I am, I don't know how to do that. I can choose to log off user, but dunno if that does the same, and when I request that things be spelled out to me like I am a two year old, I am given a funny look and told to "just do it like this" *insert a dozen different hot-keys in lightning speed*.

Yah-huh. I caught that! *grumble*

So, all the pages I had open for a reason before I went to bed, are now gone, and I have no idea what they all were. They were important before I went to bed - but will they be important enough in the morning for me to remember? Or will my ultra-tired-brain-fried-self be too frazzled to search for Doodlepants. Or was that Dobblepants. Dabblepants? Longies!!

In other news, Tara is now being wraped again - at least, she is as of 5 minutes ago. She's been tossing and turning and I've not been sleeping, and she works herself up when I remove booby. I'm not to fussed about comfort sucking, but if she's going to do it, I'd appreciate her putting a little effort in and not leave my nipples feeling as though she's dragged them across and industrial sander. So I wrapped her, booby fed for an extra five minutes and layed her down again. Success. Enough time for my loo break... and the fun that has ensued.

So, I'm going back to bed. Going to try and find those sugar-plum-faeries, beg them to dance in my head, and give me some ultra sweet dreams.

If I'm lucky they'll bring me a pair of longies!

Yay for them! Now bugger off!

Go the cheer squad! "Gimme a D, gimme an E, Gimme a V, I, L" *gag* Happy now? I've sung your praises, you are the masters, well done to you. You have shown how clever you are, you good hackers, you!

Now bugger off, and leave the site the hell alone.

Yes, Natural Parenting seems to have been hacked overnight, and I can't see anything but a message refering to Devil Team.

They have to be 13 to use such a boring name as that. They could not even be bothered to add a graphic or anything! (At least some other hackers seem to have creativity in their veins!). Instead it is just plain borning text.

Why hackers insist on targeting parenting groups is beyond me.

So, twiddle dee my thumbs of frustration. We shall wait for settings to be restored.

I thought I was special...

But not as much as I thought. I am a me me me sort of gal. Yup, selfish to the core. I thought that I was the special one with special people doing special things JUST for me because it's me. Trust me to be jealous when someone else gets the exact same treatment.

Is it fair? Of course it is - for them. I can't go around saying "Don't do that! Only I am allowed!"

Does not stop me from thinking I'm no longer at the top of the heap. Not that I really was anyways - but it is nice to feel that way occasionally.

Bah Humbug.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery

I'm a copycat. I admit it. I stole the idea from Katef.

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Gourmet breakfast for one, thanks.

She just ate poo! *cringes* Here I was, just changed her, getting ready to go out to the library when I turn my back for a second (ok, a little more than a second!) and when I look at her she'd swivelled herself around to the freshly dirtied nappy, wacked the hand in the pile of poop and had promptly smeared it across her face and arms... and I am guessing, her mouth due to her wonderful must-suck-on-my-hand-at-all-costs reflex.

gagh. poop for breaky. double gagh.

Going to go to the library now and find some books to read, or some crafty ones to follow. She's crying to go to sleep, so will sling her...

I'd better give her lots of booby juice today to cleanse that tum of poop. *shudder*

Be still my beating heart...

... for I just participated in my first hyena stalk.

Baa Bum Custom Wool Soakers

I do not know the results yet, I doubt I got in (8 places for 30 people!), but my head hurts from the concentration that was needed to hit :refresh" every 3 seconds from 7pm tonight.

I know exactly what I want... and figure that even if Tara ends up being allergic to wool, I could get another type of wool (cotton/acrylic)... I am still testing out Tara with the wool (Stacey, rash not as bad as I thought!), it is possible that she is just getting red from the contact of the fibres, not so much an allergic reaction.

We are going to watch some CSI right now. Just the way to calm my nerves - watching crime scene stuff! Woot!

Edited to add: I wonder if jamming my fingers in a door will be as satisfying as knowing I came in #9 on the list of 8 custom slots....

The clock moves so slowly

Waiting.. waiting..

Is it 7pm yet? I want a pair of longies for Tara. I know that she's pretty much allergic... but Katanya said that she could always make them out of something else... So I am being a hyena for the first time in my life...

I don't know if I can stand the pressure...

I was going to do some more scraplets, but only managed one. Instead I went upstairs and stitched the applique on a fleece cover I am making. The sewing machine screwed up masses of it, but it still looks ok. I need to work out the quirks of my machine though!!

So I only managed one scraplet this arvo...

Half of the photos I was waiting for were blurred! Not happy. I have some baby goth pics I need to use, but not sure what to scrap them with...

OK... I should organise dinner now since there is just under an hour and half to the store opening... *argh*

If I close my eyes, I can still see it!

This blog, that is. And scraplets. Blog and scraplets. I went to bed after midnight, and was up at 7.30. What kind of idiot am I?

Three new scraplets.. I have no idea what I am doing, but hey, it's fun! I downloaded a heap of collections this morning (yay for lots of bandwidth!), and have been playing with them. Might have to join a scrapping community next... do I really need another forum to frequent?

Anyways, Here are the recent scraplets....

Last one, I promise

Well, this is the last one for tonight, I promise. My neck and shoulders are killing me, Tara is asleep, and in all honesty, I really should be too, considering it is after midnight!
This is just another mini scrap that I just created. Going to go through some of Tara's photos and see what I can come up with. I have some photos on the camera, or on OH's laptop that I really really want to create into some scraplets. Oh! new word! Scraplet: the Art of creating miniature pieces of digital scrapbooking art. See, you can tell when it is time for me to go to bed - I start making up new words...!
Oh - the pics are of TDF with her Uncle David (19) and her Auntie Alice (24)
With that said, the pond creatures must go to bed!

Scrappin' fun...

Mini Scrappin'. I don't have the time nor the patience to learn how to work on large pieces at the moment, so am going to stick with the mini stuff.
This is just going to be a bit of a time waisting hobby while I wait for some other graphics work to roll in... haha... not likely to roll in, but you never know - someone may just decide to hire me, and pay with with a snap press and a years worth of coloured snaps.
Dreaming!

Only a little obsessed... no, really!

Well, I got started on the blog and could not stop... Intralled in the design of it I am - and then what happens? OH decides to give me a new (semi-new) computer - immediately. So I had to shut down everything (does anyone else have 15 tabs open on firefox?!), bookmark pages, save files, export things, move bits.... ugh.

But! I have a new computer!!

TDF is sleeping again. She's been a bit funny the last few days. Mum left yesterday and I am certain she sensed that I was upset, and became upset too. Not to mention my mum's perfume lingered in the house, when she herself did not.

As many of the links on the right will show, there is a huge thing for digiscrapping at the moment. It was brought up on AB one night and although I had tinkered with it previously, I thought about doing some more... though,I am thinking I might do something different and stick with a particular style. If I can't be bothered going to bed yet, I might make the first one... that is, if I don't decide to keep fiddling with this blog template!

Fancy That!

I have two blogs. This one, which I thought was my other one, and my other one, which I cannot find the login for. Silly that. I came here to log in, and this one came up. At least this one is my proper login details!

I was going to continue with my Live Journal, but I thought, what the heck, everyone else seems to have a blog - why not me. And after the discussion on AB, I thought I should jump on the bandwagon!

TDF (the dragonfly faery) is fast asleep at the moment. Precious little thing she is. She is all cuddles lately and really wants to be held.

She put herself to sleep last night - in the cot... it was beautiful. I sat talking to her, playing with her mobile, watching TV with her and just playing peek-a-boo through the cot bars/slats and all of a sudden she was gone. And she slept brilliantly! Going to see if she does it again, but not going to hold my breath.

OH is formatting me a new computer. Apparently it is better than the one I have going on here - which will be fantastic with the graphics work coming back in again.

I am starting research on shopping carts at the moment and will be testing one out to see if I can use it easily.

I want to buy some new nappies. But it would mean getting OH to pay for more... LOL... and I already bought some PUL today without notifying him first. Oooops.