A quick fold

A quick fold for my fellow housewives.

It pains me to admit this but honestly, truly, I have to confess that just knowing that my fitted sheets were in the linen closet looking puffy used to make me uneasy.

I tried and tried but no matter what I couldn't get them to look nice and uniform like my flat sheets. I like things to be neat, I could never figure it out until....

This video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHTyH2nuFAw

Now I have perfectly folded fitted sheets.

Gee life is interesting, isn't it?

My unrequited love for Savannah

Before you jump to conclusions, let me say first off that I am not talking about some sort of skanky adult film star. I know that "Savannah" is a very bogan name and tends to conjure images of Boogie Nights type folk. However it wasn't always the way!

I am talking about the city of Savannah, Georgia.

A place I have been in love with since I was a little girl and I saw Driving Miss Daisy, and then later when I saw the wonderful Forest Gump. I also read about it in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I can't quite remember what got me hooked initially but for as long as I can remember I have had this almost stalkerish fascination with the place.

I have never been, the closest I came to Georgia was New Orleans but that isn't really that close anyway. My husband was going to book our honeymoon in Savannah as a surprise but we ended up deciding together to go to The Maldives and Dubai instead. Getting to Savannah from Sydney isn't all that easy and it wasn't a great time of year.

You know when you see a great dress or a stunning pair of shoes when you are out shopping and for whatever reason you don't buy them and then for months (or maybe in my case) years later, you pine for it. You build it up in your imagination as the best damned dress ever created. The dress that instantly makes you a size 0 supermodel. The most amazing, comfortable, beautiful shoes ever to grace the earth. In reality the dress was not cut for you, may not have even been your size and the shoes weren't even leather inner. *gasp*

Well this is probably what my Savannah idea is like. I'm sure that when I do finally get there, it will be pretty ordinary. For now, however, I would like to share with you a few lovely pictures of this amazing place and you can see why it features in my daydreams...

These photos below are from the galleries of Savannah Photo Outings:











And these were featured on Mayakashi.net:

Chapter 11

Oh I am so bummed, my very favourite baby store has gone bust.

Babystyle.com sold the best baby clothes, toys, nursery decor and maternity wear. I had a major addiction and now I don't know where I'll get my fix.

My daughter adores their Lulu the Lamb range, I had hoped to finish buying her all the accessories this year.

Here she is fighting with our dog for a seat on Lulu The Lamb her favourite Babystyle toy:




I can't believe it. I just found this on their site:

We're sorry but we have suspended operation of our site.


babystyle is sad to announce that we have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Due to this filing we are prohibited from accepting or issuing babystyle Gift Cards and babystyle Merchandise Cards at any of our remaining stores. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Any pending orders that have not yet shipped have been cancelled and your credit card will not be charged.

Now I need to stalk them online to find out who is stocking their liquidated stock. I wish I'd known they were going under. I kept getting vouchers from them and so many discount coupons (now I know why) and I was putting off buying anything until our Aussie dollar picked up. Hmmf. So glum now. I loved this store.

Gosh I sound so shallow, there are so many serious things to be sad about in the world and I have chosen to blog about Babystyle.

Sunglasses ID

Anyone recognise these sunglasses the crazy Angelina is wearing?




I have decided that I MUST have them.

The little tinker has not been loving towards my current pair and I think they might need replacing or at least demoting to the "car glovebox emergency" status.

Let me know if you've seen these. Not sure if they are current or not.

Naughty Noo Noo

"Naughty Noo Noo" my daughter's favourite phrase this week. She learnt it off the teletubbies. She said it to me earlier tonight and she is so right.

It is almost midnight. In 3 hours I have to feed her. 3 hours after that she gets up to start the day and then we are off to the airport to board a 10 hour flight to Thailand with our one year old.

Won't that be fun for the other passengers?

So I have not packed our bags yet. Not sure when I plan on packing them... Here I am telling you about this great bedding I saw at DJs yesterday. It is from Yves Delorme and it is called "Jour". I must have it. I must. Even before my apron wearing days I had an addiction to quality bedding. Now even more so. I must have this. Here it is, isn't it pretty?



Some more info here:

http://www.yvesdelorme.com/store/page/cat_2/id_25/n_jour/

Anyway I should be packing right now. The problem is that my husband reckons I have laid out too many things and we won't have enough room in our luggage. I find it hard to believe that our one year old can manage without 4 swimsuits, 14 dresses, 8 pants/shorts ensembles, 6 hats, 4 pairs of shoes, 10 onesies and 8 bibs. Really, I mean really. I have culled and I have culled and that is all that is left on her pile. I don't know how he thinks we can go away for 2 weeks without all this stuff not to mention to the stroller, the nappies, the toys...

Ughh I feel unwell. I hate packing dammit. Ok so I think I have to go and sit in the empty room and stare at the bags and the piles of clothing some more. Over and out! Bon Voyage to me. xx

The Bushfires

I thought I should say something about the fact that I am waffling on about holidays and hairdressers at a time like this.

Like everyone else in Australia my heart is heavy with the knowledge that so many people have lost their lives and their homes as a result of these killer bushfires.

Blogs are full of sad stories, heart wrenching photos and moving tributes.

Because my TV is on and my computer screen is bursting with this info I figured yours is as well. So I'm purposely not bloging about this extreme tragedy so that we can all take a light hearted moment to look at a boot, laugh at a hairdresser and hopefully thank our lucky stars that we are able to do that.

All I'll say is that I hope everyone takes a minute to donate a few dollars if you are so inclined. The need is great.

That is all. I'll now get back to my shallow lighthearted posts.