da funk!!!

It's almost 10pm on a Saturday night as I sit here to begin this post...

I just came from my bedroom, whereby I rocked my sweet Blossom to sleep...

I walked to the older four childrens bedrooms and kissed them all goodnight....

came out to the kitchen and made myself an enormous mug of milo and sat here at my desk cradling it in my hands to warm them..

I can glance to my right and see my husband with a serious look on his face watching the Bombers in the lounge room...

*sigh*

and so here it is.....

I think I'm in a funk!

and not the groovy Saturday Night Fever kinda funk...no no no...it's the shitty ass kinda funk!

Have you ever been in a funk?

It's not pretty...

I have sat here a few times over the last couple of days and began 3 posts that never quite turn out the way I planned, and so I just put them into my edit box for a day when I have the brain capacity to finish them...

I hate doing that, especially since there was one in particular I was dying to publish

but it needed to marinate a little longer before other eyes could read it...

It posed the question

"When did it become more socially acceptable to eye roll your children to strangers than to praise them?

It kinda gives me the irks...Mothers bagging their children...eye rolling the thought of school holidays and Mothers in need of "me" time....all the freakin time...''''''

*sigh*

See...I'm shitty...and if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all....

p.s don't publish a post in that state of mind...it'll come back and "Bite Yo In Yo ASS".....

I'm throwing off negative energy and that's not like me....

I've got the funk.... majorly!

Hmmm maybe I should smudge myself????....jokes""""

It's time some Rainbow chasing, lolly pop lickin, yellow wearing, fairy loving happiness....

I've come to know this about myself, whether it be from the more children I have or the age I am but

sometimes a Mumma needs to hibernate, to stop, slow down, do as little house work as possible, to cook only the basics, stay in her pj's for a few days, only getting dressed when necessary, to come out the other end....gloriously recharged...

or maybe that's just me?

The funk can go leach off someone else....

I'm ready for some fun....

xoxox

Almost finished...my project

If you follow me on Instagram...then you've already seen this.

I haven't finished sanding her back yet, but my lack of patients had me hauling this bugger from outside to it's old home against the wall....alone.....I got the bottom half in by myself, the top half was a bitch 

so I called Naz to duck home for 5 minutes and help me lift it.

We stood back admiringly...we both love painted wood now...

I was all alone in my love of white-ish wood....until now...he was so reluctant to have me paint everything white.

but he's totally converted...."see my love I'm always right" I couldn't help but to gloat as he stood there smiling at it with me...

"I love it"...he said back ignoring my smugness.

Of course we will have white crap everywhere once I really hook in and start sanding it back to reveal the pink edges (it's subtle don't panic), and I have to put the doors back on the front, and find some cute pink vintage porcelain knobs to finish her off, and better hinges than the ones that were on it before...but I'm almost there....

I have a lot on lately...so hopefully I'll get it finished this week.

We had lasagna for dinner last night....and we're having it again tonight...leftover's aren't my favourite  but as Wednesdays are bat shit crazy it just makes sense...

below is the picture I sent to my husband to entice him out of a boring family meeting at his work last night...

I sent him the below picture and said 

"Lasagne"....

he wrote back "U beuti"

I wrote back "Dont come home without alcohol!!!!!!xxxxxx"

20 minutes later he walked in the door with a four pack of cruisers in his hands and a smile on his face

I kinda really like this guy of mine...he gets me.

I took this baby below shopping today, we had to help my sister buy clothes for her husband....

he's heading to The States for a week for work, and needs to look smooooooth!!

and as his stylist, I had to make it happen..he called me today with a big thumbs up on the clothes my sister bought home for him....mission complete.

I should totally charge a stylist fee.

Once we were finished we moved on to more pressing matters....

"cotton on"

...we had to have them....look at them....you want them too don't you????

hell I want them too...thankgoodness I just bought myself a pair from boohoo.com

I'm waiting for them in the post....

we get to be twins...that's a little weird isn't it?...ah I don't care...matching Mummas and Babies is cool in my book...

we also got some trackies and a sweet navy duffle coat for her too....

Holy crackers is that the time...5:33pm I have to go.....

...can't believe I squeezed this post in on a Wednesday....

xoxoxox

There's always a project....

There's a new project brewing in The D'Angelo household...

there's nearly always a new project....

A change is as good as a holiday, and so with all the changes that happen here

I guess I need to go on more holidays...

Thank goodness my Naz's bestie is a painter....

And after a big job he had to finish in Melbourne last week he came over and started 

my project...

He paints with an audience of adoring babies.... Violet, Blossom and Brody (The Coastworths Little Boy)....were in a trance.

That was yesterday and today 

 he has come back to finish it off....

if you need a painter here is Shane's facebook wall, all his details are there.....

I spy a little Blossy eating a Bakers Delight roll...

My friend Manda's farmer boy Muz suggested that I put pink under the white paint and so when I sand the edges back a little, some highlights of pink come through the white....

I thought this was genius and so that's what we're doing....

I just love pink...

while I was outside taking these shots, I spotted my Hydrangea friend has given me a beautiful flower even though she is beginning to hibernate.....

Last night was Monday night dinner at the In-Laws...

The food was yummy as always...the room was loud like always, there was plenty of laughter as always and I had a glass of wine in my hand as always.....did that make me sound like a drunk????

On these Monday nights...The Blossom is the youngest baby there and so she is smothered in 

Love.

Jaiden and Clover

Attention.

Nonna, Uncle Frank and Clover

Time.

Aunty Molly and Clover.

Just like at our home.

This sweet baby Blossom of our's lives in a happy world.

I have to go..I would love to stay and type some more, but the house looks like a bomb has exploded

and it's not going to clean itself.

Plus I promised my little lady I would bake cookies with her, and she's being super patient waiting for me.

Have a beautiful Tuesday...I like Tuesdays

xoxo

p.s My website is almost done..

So Kelly...what have you been up to?

As per my favourite children's book

"the days were growing darker and colder"

Autumn has found her home here...she is full of coldness, colour, wind and rain...

Leaf collecting has become something Blossom is doing...she picks up the leaves and then throws them down and crunches them under her little bity toes...

I can't decided whether this is a happy

 "Oh i love the crunching leaves in Autumn...la la la joy enchanting happiness and fairy floss"

thing 

or a 

"I'm gunna crush every last leaf in protest of crappy good for nothing freezing cant feel my feet weather"

kind of a thing.

either way.....it's fun to watch her do it...

I love warmer weather but

at least cold weather is a great excuse to stay indoors...right?

As sucky as this weather is for me, I am happy about one thing

we're heading into birthday season...and birthday season is Bliss..crazy pressent swirling, cake making

balloon blowing Bliss....

Birthday season is June July August in our family, these are the months 4 of my children were born, and the majority of our extended family...

I've been planning my Baby Blossom's second Birthday Bonanza..erm..party....I was just kinda on a roll with the "B's".....

We have decided  upon a Beachy Dora Fiesta...in the middle of winter!

Some things for it have been slowly trickling through snail mail to my door...there is so much more to come...

The children had Thursday and Friday off school, so that meant we could sleep in a little...

this monkey and I slept in anyway, everyone else was up at the crack of dawn...

We've been dressing up...A LOT.....

Here's my little kitty cat Clover.

The girls have been enjoying Blossom's bedroom since I cleaned it up a little...

In my daft attempt to keep it clean, every time they leave the room, I rush in and straighten everything out, and place everything back the way it was....

It's a battle I'm totally loosing.. I should just be happy their playing......right??????

Oh..and some super cute Organic fabric came in the mail...

I'm excited by it because it's not for my children...

It's for whoever's children....

Yep...I'm making some things to put on my Oopsi website...

It's been empty for far too long...I've been paying for the Domain....just in case I decided to do my Oopsi thing....one day....and well....I'm doing it.

I have some change/play mats for sweet little babies.. and some little bit's and pieces...mostly Organic fabric things...

I'll hopefully be uploading in a couple of days...my Domain needs a little Love and Attention...it's a bit crap at the minute..it'll be done a.s.a.p....plus you know....I have to kinda look after these 5 babies of mine...etc etc etc...crap I should say these 5 babies of ours....do you do that too??....say "my children"...not "our children"...I always feel like a bit of an arsehole when I do that....

Label making fun...I spent hours doing this last night and today...

Some little man Organic Grandpa pants...

the children entertained themselves a little bit this afternoon...it was nice to see...

Violet child had some enormous plans with wood and cardboard...

She was still in her Pj's...can you read her top?

It say's

"Only  A Vampire Will Be You BFF Forever"....

which now that I type it, it makes no freakin sense, considering BFF means Best Friends Forever...

and so it has an extra Forever after the BFF...some dude's made a HUGE mistake with that..or

actually is it meant to be funny like Best Friends Forever Forver, because there around "forever"...but in that case wouldn't it have been easier to say BFFF?????....

IT's messing with my head now!

A sun set shot, because it makes me happy..

Tell me this doesn't look like Heaven?

A chocolate Brownie Cake for dessert a few nights ago....

I ate it for breakfast the next day...

That's it...I'm starting Yoga this week...I swear!

Some new shoes I'm trying to break in, but the bitch of a thing's kill me with every step!

WHyyyyyyyyy Oh Whyyyyyy do they punish me when I love them so much...

last but not least...this was Yesterday's weather....

Uh huh!

It's so much nicer to stay in a nice warm bed

with toasty warm baby feet to swoon over and smooch!

Happy Weekending my friends....

My son The King of Online Shopping

I just bought these shoes for my Clover Bear..from Sole2sole...I have been looking for them for ages, and the Livie and Luca website had ran out of the size I wanted....

Sitting at the computer frustrated that I couldn't for the life of me find a size 8 anywhere in Australia or the States, my son walked by and asked what I was doing....

our conversation went a little like this...

Bailey: there cute shoes, whatcha doin? buying them?

Me: I would like to buy them for Bloss but I cant find a size 8 anywhere

Bailey: I could find them for you?

Me: dude I am the queen of online shopping and if I cant find them you can't find them. It's impossible I've missed out damn.

Bailey: Betcha I could find them

Me: Betcha you can't

He walks away calling over his shoulder 

Bailey: "are they called Livie and Luca Yellow Petal Patient Leather Shoes?"

Me: Yep...you won't find them.

Seconds later he walks back into the kitchen.

Bailey: I found a size 8.

Me: Bullshit!!!!!!!

Bailey: See for yourself (he said as he hands me his laptop)

Me: Are you freakin kidding me...you did too!

Bailey: Your not the queen of online shopping

Me: You are awesome my son...awesome

Bailey: Yeah I know 

(to which he then did some weird gangsta thing by slapping his hand through the air and saying something like "shut dooooown"...) or something odd like that.

Me: I am no longer the queen....I get it. Thanks Bay

Another reason why my son is just amazing!

I think I'm a crap fabric dyer?

I had a crack at dyeing something......and it's so much fun.

in the pot above it a nightie that My Rose child accidently ruined of mine...

she didn't mean it...she'd thrown a face washer that was covered in blue face paint in the laundry and it landed on my white nightie....p.s I love the word nightie...

so if I still wanted to wear it another Summer,  I really had to dye it...no amount of scrubbing, bleaching, soaking would make that darn blue face paint come off.

I got the dye from spotlight, and it smelt really bad, but it was so much fun...I wanted to dye everything this colour.

I accidently bought the polyester dye, not the natural fabrics dye, and I think maybe there is a difference for a reason..

I'm guessing the lace work and the label on the nightie is polyester, because they look awesome....the rest of the nightie?....is cool, but you can still see the stains..and it's a little lighter than I imagined.

plus it's really splotchy....actually...I may be a crap fabric dyer.

dude.... I could have ironed it before I showed you...but...I don't iron unless completely necessary.

Oh well I had fun doing it...and it hasn't stopped me from dyeing again, although this time, I'm going to dye something red, or maybe peacock????

The Violet want's to try tye dyeing next...although she said I had to buy some face masks, because the smell was pretty bad.

Now for some random's....

Observations from my computer desk....

I finally packed away Blossom's baby bed yesterday...it was time. I had it in the corner of the room...next to her cot.

It was painful, and made me cry...I know I know..... "I'm crazy someone needs to lock that woman up" sentimental...but man...when she wasn't on me, she was in that little bed...:-(

So while I packed it away I decided to shuffle the room around as well...we made quite a mess...

a tired Clover waiting for me to finish the dishes...

p.s I was next to her the whole time..sink is to the left :-)

a new puzzle for the ladies...

Last nights sun set...I took this as I was hoping into the car headed to In-laws for Monday night dinner.

Goodmorning Mumma face...

darkened rooms always make my iphone pics grainy...this was 20 minutes or so ago...

Blossom's nap time.

Hope your Tuesday is beautiful my friends...

xoxoxo

Friday to Sunday

Friday night I went out with my friends... :-)...

We ate Thai food and saw The 5 Year Engagement...it was really funny...

During dinner, Manda and I gave Nance an Instagram shakedown...hopefully she'll become addicted like us....

My children complain when I go out...they usually say things like

"you always go out...what do you have to go? stay home with us...."

to which my reply is always the same....

I love being your mummy but once I was just kelly, and it's nice to sometimes just be Kelly.

If you asked them why I go out with my friends, they'd recite that to you.

...it's nice to sometimes not be Mummy...it's nice to giggle about inappropriate things over a glass of wine...say 'fuck' out loud if i want to without little ears listen in....

I like being Kelly....every now and then.

I came home that night with a full tummy and a grin on my face....

Saturday night we had The Coastworths for dinner...a post holiday get together, whereby I made lasagna and salad

 I totally suited up to get my "cook on"......

Ange bought all the ingredience for us to make our own Cold Rock's sundae's....

Her and I had, Hokey Pokey, Vanilla ice-cream with cookie dough and Cadbury flakes....I only got through half of mine, I was feeling a little nauseous from the sugar overload...but man it was good while it lasted...I handed the rest to Naz, which he totally consumed in seconds.....the pics I have were a bit crappy.....so you don't get to see them...sorry!

after dessert or before...it's all a little hazzy...Ange gave baby Tanner his first taste of farax...

This is him moments before...do you think he looks a little nervous....? 

I do.

He was a total champ with it though...he opened his mouth straight away, and funnily enough never spat any out....

Sweet baby Tanner bear...you so so cute!

So that brings me to today Sunday....

Let me begin by telling you, because we had visitors Bloss didn't get to bed till midnight the "little party animal"...and then woke up this morning at 6:45am...

Knowing it was going to be a tough day and cursing the fact that today was infact Naz's sleep in day and not mine....I tool a pic of my feet as they hit the floor hours earlier than they should have...

I think my feet even look tired....I just couldn't convince my ass to leave the soft cushy mattress, but alas

children wait for no man..or woman...! so up I got.

but I'm going to let you in on a little secret...I faked awake for an hour and fifteen minutes, until another older child woke up and climbed onto the couch with Blossom and I, as soon as they were settled under a quilt with her, I flew off that couch called "your in charge of Clover" over my shoulder and dove back into the soft warm covers...making sure my icy cold feet found Naz's warm legs and dozed on and off for 50 more minutes...and reemerged at 9ish.....

BOOHYA!!!!

We missed some peps while we were away and so today we did some visiting....

We left naz home to mow lawns and work on a small project we have a brilliant idea for..

cant wait to share....he was pretending to be uber cool about having the day to himself but I knew he was secretly thrilled.

here Clover Blossom baby is with my niece Eliana...we hung at their house for a bit..

My God awful sister forced me into eating one of her home made mini lemon cheesecakes...

and then forced two more onto my plate...I hated every minute if it...

:-)...just kidding...they were freakin delicious.

After gaining another 3kg's from the cheesecakes, we headed to Spotlight for some mini project fun, Flannel Sheets and a little inspiration for Blossom's impending 2nd Birthday party....

We're thinking Dora Hawaii theme....

Here is Casey being handed a Barbie box of something or other by Clove....she said to her

"I needs it"....so proud of that little girl....already differentiating between want and need...

I always walk out of Spotlight with 2 or 3 things not on my list....

I love that shop.

Oh and you can't see it in the above pic, well you kinda can it's in-between the lace and the Dora balloon (that was not on my list b.t.w)  I finally remembered to buy a V...for my L.O.V.E sign.

do yo remember? Finally!!!!!!

So my husband has just made me a cuppa, and handed me an organic shortbread

I should go drink and eat without typing...

I hope your Monday is going to be lovely....

my children go back to school....sob! sob!

I'm not ready.