A lovely Sunday Morning!

Hi everyone! Today I don’t really want to write a lot, I just want to show you pictures!! Sunday was a beautiful day! It was warm and we were all outside. My mother sowing, my dad pruning trees, CJ and Josua working in the vegetable garden, the little ones playing and me taking LOADS of pictures! We all had so much fun:

Watering the veggie garden...

Playing in the mud...

Livin My Life 4 Jesus Photo contest this week is Anything!! So I’m entering the top photo into her challenge!

Climbing trees...

Isn’t he just adorable!!

Playing cars.....

Playing with water!

I’m entering this top photo into Lisa’s Gordon Photography Challenge the theme is Creative Exchange

Some pictures of our garden:

Our fig tree starting to get leaves and the first fruit...

A yummy, big, red strawberry almost ripe!

Beautiful carrots. Purple ones too!

Celery.

Some herbs:

Parsley,

Rosemary,

Thyme, 

Marjoram.

I’m also entering this top photo into Melissa’s Monday Moments Photo challenge. The theme is “two of a kind”.

I really hope you liked my pictures!! 

Photo Greetings

Pink Card - For Stampin For The Weekend

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. Today is Friday and that means it’s time for a new challenge over at Stampin for the Weekend!

The theme for this week’s challenge is.......

Tickled PINK!!!

Yes, we want to see lots and lots of pink creations!

Our fantastic sponsor for this challenge is Simon Says Stamp.

 Here is my card:

I just love this theme!! I’m a “Pink Card Maker” and I absolutely love making pink cards!

I used a digi stamp I won from The Paper Shelter. I was surprised at how well the image turned out, I normally really struggle to colour digi stamps.

This beautiful little image’s name is Spring Swing and I coloured her with the following Copics:

E35, E33 and E53 - for the girl’s hair.

R20, R21 and E00 - for the girl’s skin.

RV34, RV13 and RV10 - for the girl’s dress and the flowers.

RV10 - for the girl’s bow in her hair and shoes.

 G17, G14 and G12 - for the green parts on her dress and the leaves.

E37, E35, E33 - for the swing.

B05, B02 and B000 - for the blue bird.

W3 - for a shadow around the image.

I used some flowers I bought from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Here I put a wide white ribbon, then some beautiful white lace and a thin piece of pink ribbon with a bow.

 So I hope you like my pink card! Please do hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and see if you can take part in our pink challenge!!

I would also like to take part in the following challenges with this card:

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Circles

For Fun Challenges - Kids at play

Kelley Kid's - girly girl

Bearly Mine - Flowers Flowers Flowers

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps -  Lace

Try It On Tuesday - Monochrome (My card is pink)

Have a blessed weekend everyone!

Crafty Greetings

Important Announcement About My Baking Challenge!!!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!

Hi Everyone.

Thank you for stopping by. This is a VERY important post!

I decided to stretch this Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge - Pudding and Desserts with two more weeks. Since I only had 3 entries AND because my mother bought me a prize for this challenge!

The Australian Women’s Weekly Recipe book: 

Delicious Desserts - With 70 Delicious recipes! 

The Australian Women's Weekly Cookbooks are some of the world's most successful cookbooks. You will find them in almost every English-speaking country; they are even translated into French, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, Hebrew and Polish.

These cookbooks are so successful because the food is inspirational and easy; every recipe is photographed and has been triple-tested, guaranteeing enviable reputation for reliability.

This book is amazing! It is old traditional recipes. To give you an idea, the main parts of the book are

Pavlova Shells 

Sauces 

Verrines (desserts in a glass)

Ice-Creams 

Fast Fruit Desserts 

Join in NOW and stand a chance to win this STUNNING recipe book! 

You have two weeks to enter. Click here to enter.

I will ship this book anywhere in the world! So anyone from any part of the world can enter. 

Also this is not just a children challenge, yes it’s a child running it, but please if you’re a mother, a young girl, or an older lady you can ALL enter! 

I specially would like to inspire people without blogs to join in! You just e-mail me your entry! Read more here.

Don’t miss the chance to win this stunning cooking book!

Baking Greetings 

Another Blog Award - One Lovely Blog Award!!!

 Hello everyone! 

I received another blog award!! This time the “One Lovely Blog Award” from Rebacca from Living For Christ. 

Thank you so much Rebecca for giving me this award, I’m honored!!

To get this award I have to share seven thing about myself and pass it on to 15 other blogs.

Here are seven things about myself:

1 First of all, I’m a daughter of the one and only King and I love Him very much. (I’m a Christian)

2 I love ballet and it is my heart’s desire to play the main cast in a ballet concert one day!

3 I want to get married young, so I can have ALL the children God wants me to have!

4 I want to go to Switzerland one day.

5 I love cooking in the kitchen with my mother and I have a Baking Challenge that runs every two weeks to encourage mothers and daughters to cook! 

6 I love my family and my mother is one of my best friends!

7 Since my mother lost a baby at 12 weeks, I want to have another little sibling with ALL my heart. We are desperately praying for twins!

Pass this award on to 15 other blogs. I don’t really have 15 blogs to give it to, so I’m only giving it to 7:

My little sister Danika - from Crafts by Danika

A lovely Christian girl Mercy - from My Weekly Photos

 A old friend of mine Melissa - from Just a Girl?

A ballet blogging friend of mine Izi - from My pointe of View 

Another ballet blogging girl, Chloey - from Surveil Guide for Dancers 

A sweet Christian friend Sarah - from This is my father’s world

My dear sweet Mother - Back To Ancient Ways

Congratulations everyone! You all truly have lovely blogs!!

If you accept this award, please do the two steps I did:

 1. Write 7 things about yourself and 

2. pass it on to 15 other blogs (or if you don’t have 15 you can do less!)

Have a blessed week everyone 

Happy Greetings!

My Feet Are Sore!!

Well, that’s right, I have sore feet! If you have been reading my blog for a while you might know that I got ballet pointe shoes a few weeks ago. 

We are only allowed to do pointe work once a week for a start. I had three lessons on pointe so far and after class on Monday my feet was a little sore, but nothing to bad. On Tuesday morning I found out that my right foot was a bit blue just at my big toe!

Here is what it looked like! It’s purple-blue!

I also discovered later the morning that my left foot was sore too when doing a rise. I was a little worried, because I had class that Tuesday afternoon at four.

So my dad gave me DMSO spray and CMO cream to put on (My dad’s a Naturopath). I put it on three times during that day and by the afternoon it was much better.  But as I went through the class the pain got worse again. I was unable to do “Releve” and “Pirouettes”, because of the pain in the side of my left foot. 

When I got home, I treated myself with the “Rikta Cold Laser”, put some more DMSO and CMO on and went to bed.

On Wednesday morning the pain was gone! I’m SO glad I have a great dad that know how to treat my sore foot! Because it was really sore.

I think I hurt my foot by trying to do “Demi Pointe” with my pointe shoes:  

Haha, this is not easy at all!

Or maybe not jumping right on to my block, but a bit skew.

Well ballet isn’t easy, but is a LOT of fun! I still enjoy working on my points a lot and it’s one of the best events in my week!

 Now since we are talking about pointe shoes.....

Does anyone know where this classic pictures had their origin? I know lot of ballet schools have pointe shoes hanging like this on the wall; as their logo; at the door; in a ballet movie or a book.

Well I just happen to find out! (Well I think so! Lol!)

You know, when you get pointe shoes they normally come in a bag like this one:

I really like this bag, but my ballet teacher recommend when you get home you must take them out of the bag and hang them up. Your feet perspire and that makes your shoes soft, TOO FAST! Then you have to buy new ones within a month or so!

So that is where I think the picture of pointe shoes hanging came from.You have to hang them in fresh air, where it’s open! So they last longer.

Now my pointe shoes is also hanging, from my curtain rail! I’m going to ask my dad to fit me a special peg in the wall to hang them on, but for now they will hang from my curtain rails!

I hope you liked the pictures!

Till next time:

Ballet Greetings!