Jess' Blog

I'd been making these confectionery tea cup biscuits with the Kindergarten kids last week...

We had left over 'handles' (lifesavers chopped in half)...

I thought 'Hmmm, mum will like these, they're cute."...

So Anthony and I sat down on Friday evening and made a plate of confectionery tea cup biscuits.

Mum loved them.

Time well spent :) .

Hey blogging world!

Yes, i'm still here...

The reasons i haven't posted in AGES:

1. I worked 9-6 almost every day for the entire duration of my school holidays (not that it could be called a holiday when i worked nearly everyday). Yes, i enjoyed the money. But it meant that i had little to nothing to blog about because all i did was work.

2. This semester of school not only am i doing a condensed semester, i'm doing overload as well! For those of you who don't understand what this means, i'll break it down for you. For a full-time university load you must do 4 units per semester. the recommended time to spend studying per unit is 10 hours (and that doesn't include the time you spend on assignment writing). So full-time load is about 40- 45 hours of study per week. Overload is anything over full-time load. I'm doing 5 units. So yes, i spend roughly 56 hours (averaged) of the 168 hours i get to live each week. Conclusion= extremely busy and stressful time of my life!

3. I haven't made time to do it because i haven't found anything worth posting about due to the above 2 reasons.

Oh! And another reason i haven't been out and about is because my body finally decided to fall apart after 1 and half years of stress and pressure with no holidays or breaks. Yes, no significant holidays or breaks in the past one and half years. Crazy, i know! So i've had regular visits to the doctors and the hospitals in the past 3 weeks and now i've come to the point where i need to a) make some major changes to my current lifestyle and b)get better!

you might have seen this quote kicking around facebook: "Change isn't what i'm afraid of... it's the potential consequences of change that intimidate me". Firstly, yes i came up with that by myself. Secondly, it's exactly how i feel right now. I know the changes i need to make, but i'm intimidated by the potential consequences from making those changes. But i know if i don't make those changes... i can't progress for the better.

Such is life.

Hope everyone is well and happy in the blogging world (and in reality too)!

It's been great catching up.

Consider yourselves officially updated ;)

Jess.

So a while back i mentioned that i was doing a bit of creative problem solving...
Well i haven't stopped!

Problem 2: Boredom & Losing pens all the time (because they don't have a place).
Pens get 'misplaced' in our house.
Pens disappear in our house.
Pens are eventually found in random (unusual) places in our house.
And i was bored during family week-planning Sunday night...
And Bek had just eaten a kinder suprise...
And this is what happened:

It's a pen holder made from half of the plastic egg that comes from inside a kinder suprise (it usually has a toy you can make inside it), sticky notes, and whiteboard marker pens.
That one pen now has a place.
Problem solved.

Now that uni is all over for this year...

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Well THANK HEAVENS that's all OVER!
Feeling confident and very very relieved.
Time to unwind by cranking the music and cleaning up this neglected home ;-)

Problem 1: The hubby's catalogue fettish.
Anthony LOVES catalogues.
Seriously. We get a catalogue for nearly every big business in Launceston!
Anyway, so unfortuately the catalogues get left on the floor, table, couch...
Here's how i dealt with it this week:

Ah. What a pretty way to get rid of 4 full catalogues!

Stay tuned for more creative solutions ;)

Well Anthony and I found ourselves in this situation not very long ago.

STEP 3: Smoosh the other cake on top. You may need to give it a bit of a twist and a wiggle so it sticks to the icing on the bottom cake.

STEP 4: Trim off overhanging bits. Use these bits to plug any gaps.

STEP 5: Cover it, really thickly, with the Betty Crocker Icing. This way no-one will recognise what the cake is actually made of!

STEP 6: Decorate!

And that's how it's done! ;)