Wednesday, 31 October 2018

A new kind of creativity!!!!!!!!




Hi, everyone!!!!!!


Remenber me?????  LOL!!!!!  I can assure you I remember each and every one of you and think of you guys sooooooo often!!!!!  And I still visit your blogs and keep up to date on what is happening in the card making community!!!!!  Yep, I am still around and I thought I would like to share with you what kind of creativity I'm enjoying lately!!!!!!

During May I started baking and I can't believe how things have worked out!!!!!!  I take orders on Tuesdays on Facebook and I bake on a Thursday for delivery or collection at my house on a Friday!!!!!  It is really keeping me busy and it is picking up all the time!!!!  I have to bake 133 cupcakes for Friday and I'm expecting a few more orders tomorrow!!!!!!  Apart from all the cupcakes I have an order for a 50th birthday cake and a cake for a christening on Sunday and another chocolate cake.  That's quite a lot to do all on your own!!!!!  I bake the most wonderful Carrot, chocolate, Bar one, Red Velvet and Vanilla cakes.

Here are some photos to show you what I do:













It is as much fun as making cards, but I do miss playing with my stamps and dies!!!!!!!  ...but I have to say I actually had some time to make Christmas cards last week, will have that in the mail soon!!!!!!

Thank you so much for popping in!!!!!

Have a great day!!!!!



Thursday, 11 January 2018

A very short, but exciting visit to Cape Town!!!!!

Hi, everyone!!!!


No card today, but I am so excited about a very short and unexpected visit my husband, our eldest son, Tiaan, and myself had to Cape Town today, I would love to share it with you guys!!!!! 

Tiaan was in his final year at high school (matric), in 2017 and during Oct and Nov he wrote his final high school exams as set up by the national Department of Education.  He achieved excellent marks in all his subjects and got the 2nd highest mark in his school!!!!!  (....may I say that 98% for both Maths and Physical Science is not bad?????!!!!!  .....somewhat better than mom's marks at school!!!!  LOL!!!!!  ......so glad our boys take after their father!!!!!  LOL!!!!!!)  On Sunday morning Tiaan received a phone call from one of the members of the Western Cape Province Department of Education inviting us to attend the function where the top performers in the Western Cape Province are announced!!!!!!  We could not believe it!!!!  So we traveled to Cape Town yesterday afternoon, stayed over in a hotel last night and attended the prestigious function at the Western Cape Premier's residence, Leeuwenhof, this morning!!!!    It was such a great honour to be there and Tiaan will definitely never forget this day!!!!!  The Wester Cape Premier, mrs, Helen Zille as well as the Western Cape Minister of Education and lots of other people from the Department of Education were there!!!!  Definitely this is an event where one has to take lots of photo's!!!!!!


Apologies for the poor quality of the photo's - it was taken with cellphones.



 Me and Tiaan in the hotel before leaving to attend the function:





Tiaan and his father on the lawn where we parked at the venue:





In the background you can see the beautiful residence of the premier at the foot of Table Mountain.





 Tiaan receiving his ceritficate from the premier.





On his right is mrs Zille, the premier and on his left is the Minister of Education:





 Tiaan, mrs Zille and the top performer at the Outeniqua High School, Emma Nel.





The three of us with mrs, Zille:





And how could I not ask to be photographed with mrs Zille!!!!!!



What a great time we had!!!!!!  We returned to George after the function and were happy to arrive home safely this evening!!!!!



Thank you so much for spending some time with me!!!!!!  Till next time!!!!