Flights are booked!

Yes, finally, flights are booked for the 7th January. One way tickets for all of us, and Mark will have to come back in Feb to (hopefully) finalise the house and ship his tools out! Can you believe that we have over a container's worth of stuff?! Mark would tell you that most of it will be my art and scrapping supplies lol and between you and me he's not wrong! (Well he's got his tools and I've got mine!)

The kids are really excited now as they know that it is finally happening and are counting down the last couple of weeks of school.

So it's full steam ahead here with packing and clearing...wish me luck.

No Christmas Tree :(

I have been formally told that in no uncertain terms that I will NOT be purchasing a Christmas Tree this year :( Bah-humbug I say, although the miserable buggar does have a point about "wasting" £25+ at a time when we are counting every penny and meant to be packing for our holiday to Oz...but how will I feel without my beautiful glass ornaments to ooh and aah over, no flashing twinkling coloured lights that sparkle in the dark, no angel to watch over us during the festive period :( Oh, how sad is all that?

So technically its not snowing but I just love this tag that was made for me!

I've just finished the last of the swaps I got carried away with joining to and am now awaiting the goodies in return for my efforts. 30 different cake recipes should make a neat little book for my kitchen :)

October UK Art Raffle

I found some me time today and created this fun enterpretation of "The Dark" which I am really pleased with :) Here's hoping the recipient will feel the same way when the draw takes place at the end of this month.

And then I crashed......

...back to reality and have the biggest hangover head :( Me and Mark tried to blot out the pain and upset of being let down last night as our house buyer has pulled out; and as I sit here at 6am typing with tears rolling down my cheeks again, I realise that it didn't work.

I would just like to know what the hell me or Mark ever did in our previous life to deserve this constant kicking in the guts we always seem to get when we endeavour to acheive anything for ourselves. I am not a bad person, neither is Mark. We are not perfect either. Just a normal couple trying to do something for our kids' future. We don't want to be millionaires or rule the world, so why is this life journey so damned hard?


And I've just broken my promise not to pour my heart out on here, but I couldn't help it. Sorry.

SOLD!!

Yep - you heard me - WE'VE SOLD THE HOUSE!!!!!!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!!!!

Can you tell I'm happy/excited?!

We've acccepted a formal offer on our house with solicitors to be instructed next week which means that we will be in AUSTRALIA by the 12th to stamp the visas! What's more, our friends Lorraine and Darren in Adelaide said we can pitch up at their house from the 8th of Jan until we get ourselves settled! Lot's of exclamation marks but hey - we are so happy!!!!!!!!!

Stressed...

and I have a burning desire to write it all down here and share with you but not just yet - I don't want to tempt fate. Instead I am off to get my contribution to Flo's UK Art Raffle created - I NEED TO GET MESSY TO DE-STRESS!!!