Open Garden this weekend

One of my closest friends mum's is having an Open Garden this weekend with the Australia Open Garden Scheme.

I have featured "Glenelm" thoughout my blog a few times and I am just so excited to see Tina and Hans open their garden to the masses on Saturday and Sunday.

This year they are using the takings as a donation to the Snowy Hydro Helicopter, a lifeline for us here in the bush.

If any of you are in the snowies this weekend I suggest that your drop in - you wont be disappointed!!

Click Here GLENELM

So busy - So little time....

I've neglected my blog now for nearly a month and I feel bad about it.

I've had so much on the go atm and have just a few moments to share with you WHY I am not around so much.

Tis the wedding season so I have been to a few hens days etc and the weddings are about to hit us in the next few weeks.

And because I cant get enough of weddings I am holding a VINTAGE BRIDAL FASHION PARADE for a local charity called MCCR (Monaro Committee for Cancer Research) so hoping to make a bit of money for them as we ogle dresses from decades past!

I've been horse riding (never again) and had my 34th birthday which was great fun!.

We went for a weekend trip to Tathra to stay at a friends beach house and spoiled ourselves for a few days - Tathra is my heaven!

I hope you are all well and I will not neglect this long again!!

Me & Madonna

Love her - have done so for around 30 years!! I know - long time hey!!

These are a few of my fav photos......

Dinner anyone??

Just loving these white dining rooms atm.

White is just the perfect colour for adding a light and bright aspect to ones dining area.

Easily transformable with splashes of current colours, fabrics and flowers and as everyone knows "white never dates".

Husband and I were only talking over the weekend about the purchase of a new dining table and chairs and I might have to fight my way through the benefits of having white with three jack russell who occasionally sit themselves at our current dining table!!

Ooooo La La!!

Loving these today!!

Wittner Red Sparkle shoes - 11.5cm heel!!

Perfect for the post office!!! LOL

Here is Dad!

Proudly wearing a hat sent to him on Friday from WestsTigers!!

He will chat to his surgeon on Monday and then they will decide what to do next.

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments and prayers - I've told mum and dad of the support that I have been shown via the blog and they are sincerely touched.

Cancer Sucks!

Yep - it does.

I have some other words for it as well  - most of them are only four letters long!!

My Dad was diagonosed with Malanoma in May 2008 and has had quite the battle on his hands over this time and yesterday he had another big op to remove cancer from his groin.

In the most unhappy of news it was discovered that the cancer has now moved to his pelvis and more heartbreaking to his Aorta - we were all gutted last night and went to bed feeling very defeated - I can not even imagine how Dad felt.

I am flying to Sydney tomorrow morning to see him and most importantly spend time with Mum who has lived with the highs and lows of cancer with Dad for so long.

He is staying at Royal North Shore for the next 10 days at the least and then he has to decide whether he wants to undergo another round of chemo - I hope that he does but that's just a daughter being selfish - the last round that he had in 2009 really buggered him up so I won't be suprised if he chooses not to.

So I ask you to say a little prayer for my Dad and a prayer for your loved ones that are too battling this dreadful disease.

Pa - November 2008

10 years on.....

Yet it feels like yesterday.

September 11 2001 changed the world for each of us.

I was 23 about to turn 24  -  Dad woke me up - I think he needed someone else to witness the TV with him, to make sure what he was seeing was real - for many of the world watching live it was a horror movie.

The images that the world witnessed over the course of that day and those that followed, will forever be remembered - I simply wish the events of that day had never happened.

So on Sunday I will remember the people that passed away, the people that survived and mostly for the families and loved ones that live through it still everyday and remembering that day like it was yesterday.