Chickafinty ~ A Life in the Laundry

in which I eat my words and a large slice of humble pie

remember this??

Well, there is a bloke from Telstra sitting right across me from me at this very minute as we sign up for Telstra.

and that's all I have to say about that.

Picture Post

One of the skirts I made for the Ladybaby using the Lazy Days pattern...really, really simple, but pretty and easy to embellish.

The outside of the spectacular cake

The inside of the spectacular cake which was a modified version of this

Dot Point take 2

As you may have guessed from the brevity of the last post, it got interrupted and I never got to finish it.  So, here is our second try.

• laundry soap - see previous post
• jam - made two pots of blueberry, with plans to make more, but not necessarily blueberry
• grammar - have been learning along with Chickabid...he thinks it is hilarious that we are learning this together and that I have to keep stopping to check the book.  If it wasn't so sad, I'd think it was funny too.  BTW exactly who decided that it would appropriate to stop teaching formal grammar in schools leaving a couple of generations of kids floundering
• I know what a predicate nominative is and yes, I am VERY proud of that!!
• housework - stuffed
• dishwasher - keeps blowing massive amounts of smoke during the drying cycle after a plastic spoon melted onto the element and nigh on set the house on fire.  Yep, nearly set the house on fire.
• am so tired I am sleeping for about 2 hours every afternoon while the kids play Mathletics etc
• have lost around 8 kilos
• have made two skirts for the Ladybaby
• am about 20% of the way into a dress for the Ladybaby but got stuck so am waiting for my mum to get home from holidays to help me interpret the bewildering instructions in the pattern
• have got about 80% of a knitting bag crocheted...ran out of both wool and money so waiting for payday so I can finish it
• made a SPECTACULAR birthday cake for Chickabid.  ABSOLUTELY. BLOODY. SPECTACULAR.
• am itching to try out this quilting project (now that I've established that I can sew a straight line, I really want to get into quilting)
• have found an awesome site for a space nut where we can watch NASA takeoffs and landings whenever we want.  In a word awesome!!
• Ladybaby is reading everything
• Don't talk to me about Christmas

Dot point

A quick catch up while kids are at swimming...
- have now made over 80 liters of liquid soap and loving it. Have found it works best with a lidful of disan oxyaction from aldi; still a HUGE saving on laundry powder

Everything you ever wanted to know about...SPACE

• the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Chickabid
• Pluto is a dwarf planet Chickabid
• Mercury is the second hottest planet even though Mercury is closer to the sun than Venus Chickabid
• Venus is hotter because its atmosphere is very thick.  The thick atmosphere makes Venus hotter because it stops the heat escaping Chickabid
• the sun is much bigger than our planet, Earth The Duchess
• Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are rock planetsChickabid
• Jupiter and Saturn are gas planets Chickabid
• Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are ice planets Chickabid
• all the planets are very far away from each other Chickabid
• Saturn and Uranus and Neptune have ice rings that go around them Chickabid
• there was a man who walked on the moon and his name was Neil Armstrong The Duchess
• the moon is smaller than the earth The Duchess
• the orange fuel tank on the space shuttle wasn't always orange The Duchess
• the first two space shuttles had a white fuel tank The Duchess
• they stopped painting it white because it was less heavy when it was orange The Duchess
• Neptune is closer to Pluto than all the other planets The Duchess
• the Moon is a very cold place at night, and really hot during the day Chickabid
• twelve people have walked on the moon...Chickabid
• there were seven moon missions, but only six of them got to land on the moon's surface Chickabid

more information coming soon along with some videos that we have found and pictures of our lapbooks about Space.