Rasita My Family, My Animals, My Food

Today was the kids sports day. It was a fun day for all, and also my addition to Everyday in May. My creativity for today was organising teens and pre-teens, and adults, into groups for relay races, plus taking 136 photos. My favourite spot for pictures was the long jump pit.
I have dealt with anough pics today in sending them off to their appropriate families so they will be a little random, but of our girls and some of the things they did.
I was impressed with M11 and how she did her best in every race and competition even though she didn't win anything. She gave it all a go and her friends recognised that by inviting her to be part of their relay team. Way to go M11!
J9 did her best in her races but I hardly saw her all day as she spent most of the day hanging around friends, up trees!
E6 was a little champ, even running the 200m and coming 3rd. She put in her best and spent most of her free time playing with friends, new and old.
M4 just wanted to run and run she did. She won her first race, jumped in on E6's 200m and the boys 100m!!! She was a bit upset that she didn't get her winning sticker (She called them her win). By about munch time she started to droop and only wanting cuddles.
I am proud of all our girls and how well they did at their chosen races.
Now for the photos.

My motto should be "When there is housework to be done, and you haven't time to finish a project, start a new one".
Well, it isn't quite like that. Tonight I worked on my jacket some more. This time I managed to cut out all of the lining. It is a bright pink cotton. I think it will go well under the black faux suede and make the jacket more suitable for QLD weather.

I didn't go for the funny pocket things on the front of the jacket, but a pair of hidden pockets, which will be positioned differently to what they are on the short jacket. Some patterns, no matter how good they look just scream out to be altered to some extent. I can't help myself. Going completely by the rules just doesn't seem to work all that well, when it comes to some things. Other times the rules should be followed, and other times, you shouldn't keep that outdated baking powder, it just doesn't work after a while!

Well, tomorrow will be a big day and hopefully I will find some energy to do something creative, even if it is only a few photographs. The kids have their athletics day, all day. I will have 4 kids to look after, sort out and make sure they go in the proper direction, separately!

(If you turn your head sideways, you can see the pattern I am making the jacket from, the long, well fitted one.)

This is what I did creatively today. I sealed, and sanded (put sand on) it. It is a little uninteresting as I had a lack of liquid nails with which to adhere bits together, and I think a lack of creative thought and planning at the time. At least it looks better then a cardboard box. Once it is dry completely and the smell has gone it shall make a home in the bearded dragons enclosure.

To join the polystyrene together I used liquid nails (great stuff that), then I used a heat gun to make the exterior a little tougher. After that is was a coat of black paint (only paint I had in a large enough quantity), followed by the sealing and sanding with watered down PVA glue (50:50 ratio) and leftover reptile sand/playground sand. It should be ready for insertion by the weekend, to replace the good looking one!

What can I say about the 12th day, except that I just forgot to create! It was a busy hectic day, as most Monday's are and when it got to the time of the day when all I wanted to do was sleep, I hadn't created anything. Dinner was just simple packet mix stuff and the kids did most of it while i went to buy sour cream. I did sort through my scraps bag and dispose the too small pieces and sort out what was in there (heaps of usable pieces). I started on my big box of full sized pieces but ended up getting distracted by a game of frisbee out front.
Tuesday, the 13th, I did do some creating. We had activity day which involved speech & drama, art & craft, and sports. Apart from the numerous chats that happened, and always do, I helped E6 and M4 to make their slinky arm/leg creatures. I drew, in pencil the puppy shape and giraffe shape, then I folded up the legs/arms while the kids drew around the pencil shapes and then cut them out. We stuck on the legs and that was it. I haven't taken any photos because I have been a bit snowed under with catch up housework. (We got home, the kids got bathed, had dinner, went to bed, then I worked until hubby got home from footy training and collapsed in front of a little TV while giving and receiving foot rubs)
Today I may get something done, not sure what yet, perhaps some more work on the beardeds winter background. I will let you know later!

I took the day off. Can you blame me? Too bad if you do, it is Mother's Day and it is my day off, well until my birthday in a couple of weeks.
I did think of many different things to create (especially since M11 brought home a guideline booklet for entries into the local show), but instead I thought I would show something someone else created and that I received today.
Our church gave gifts to all the mothers and all the mothers to be (females) and any boys who happened to get their hands in the passing basket. To boxed gifts went to the mothers only and it was a nice treat.
They contained - a sweet cappachino mix (gave that to hubby), small chocolate bar, chocolate sprinkles, jelly beans, tea bag and a small note. The boxes and tags were all hand crafted too.
The kids did give me some hand crafted gifts this year also, which were lovely.
I received a wooden toolbox (will become a handy reptile toolbox), a handmade card, 2 decorated handmade foam flowers, a blue cap (perfect for mowing), a handbag/briefcase with a sketching pad in it, and a few other things they used to fill up what they thought of as empty spaces. No pictures sorry, though I may get some later.

Have a great Mothers Day to all mothers out there.