Friday's Shoegasm

Happy Friday, Pretty Plonkers.

I have another busy weekend in store.  Megan is having a friend sleep over tonight and Kaylin has a friend coming over tomorrow afternoon.  

Sunday we have the CPF patrollers braai and looking forward to spending some time with my kids having fun in the sun.

Minty Stilletos with Pretty Bows

Funky Hidden Platforms

Polka Dot Heels

Pink Slingback Pumps with Bows and awesome texture

Funky Practical Wedges

Hot Pink Geometric Peep Toe Platforms

These Oxfords are so damn cute

My Wee Lassie Had a Fight with a Chair

Guess who won?

At the Hospital Waiting for the Doctor 

She came running down the slide, lost her balance and connected her face, mainly her nose, with a picnic bench chair.  

Crack!  

Blood everywhere!

We rushed off to the emergency room, where the doctor confirmed that she would need stitches to the gash on her nose. The doctor gave her pain medication and a sedative so we could go get an x-ray.  Kaylin then got really nervous, she because didn't know what to expect.  We just told her it was a massive camera that took pictures of her bones.

My brave wee lassie got her x-ray and we went back to the ER to see the doctor.  He injected a numbing agent into her would on her nose, and Kaylin screamed and cried.  

Poor wee button - it was really painful....and all I could do was hold her hand.  My Boerewors handled the situation beautifully and calmly.  He was awesome.

She got four stitches on the bridge of her nose and x-ray revealed no fractures only lots of swollen tissue.   I guess she's gonna have a shiner or two with this face plant.

Xrays show no fractures but she needed 4 stitches

Two hours in the ER and watching your little one ride the pain meds wave was certainly entertaining.  She was high as a kite last night and she couldn't understand why we kept giggling at her silly behaviour.

Now she looks a little like Neytiri from Avatar, minus the blue body paint.

Caption my Photo Competition #27

Just a reminder that I'm running this competition for another week, because I was so late post last week.

So, you beautiful Plonkers know the drill.

Leave a comment, captioning my daft image below and you can win a wee something from me.

Don't forget to go Nominate me

 

Ultimate Braai Master and The Road Less Travelled

Some of you may know that I'm a huge Ultimate Braai Master fan.  

Firstly, let me explain to my foreign Plonkers what exactly that is. 

The Ultimate Braai Master is South Africa's first original reality-based television series, hosted by Bush-Cook Guru, Justin Bonello.  60 Days, 8000 km of traveling through South African to beautiful locations, cooking everything on the braai.  Each week The Teams face challenges replicating or inventing their own dishes on the coals.  The best teams win awesome rewards and the losing teams face elimination challenges.

It's on-the-edge-of-yer-seat stuff and a show that is well-produced and extremely entertaining.

Now, here this....

I didn't watch the first season.  I'm not going to make trivial excuses for that, because I actually didn't know about it.  Anyhoo, since I knew it was going to be replacing Strictly Come Dancing in September/October, I figured I'd give it a twizzle. 

It was actually hubby that raved about it and wanted to tune in every Wednesday, but most of the time he fell asleep and left me glued to SABC3, while he sawed logs and snored like a bear.

Every Wednesday night, I make sure I have a cold beverage, tasty nibbles and maintain full battery life on my phone.  I constantly Tweet during the show and engage with other #UBM fans.   It's like a wee UBM Twitter Clan, where we chirp and tweet during the entire episode.

During the second or third episode, UBM Tweeted that they were giving away Justin Bonello's latest cook book from UBM Season Two namely Road Less Travelled.  I was after that piece of literature and I managed to win a copy!  

Booyah!

It arrived on Friday - autographed - and I couldn't be more stoked.  If you don't know what to get your hubby for Christmas, it's the perfect gift. (Especially if you want to spend less time in the kitchen and turn him into a BraaiMaster).  

Go and get yerself a copy and he'll be making BraaiPaais in no time. 

 

Music Monday 80s edition

Today's Monday Music Moves Me theme over at Xmas Dolly is songs that you listened to in High School.  

High School for me was 1985 until 1989 (God, I'm showing my age) and I was heavy into my music then...I used to watch Video 2 (a local music programme) every week, with out fail, and record on to our double-sided Phillips video tapes.  I would watch, listen and dance over and over again in front of the telly and listening to my favourite hits.

I was seriously in love with Bono from U2 and thought he was Sex on Legs!  He still is (in my eyes).

So, beautiful Plonkers, lets take a trip back to the eighties...

Friday's Shoegasm

  Happy Friday, Plonkers.

I have such a busy weekend ahead.  

It's not called the Silly Season for nothing.

Police Reservists Dinner tonight.

Sisters With Blisters tomorrow.

EOH Year End Function tomorrow night.

I'm shattered just thinking about it.

I'm gonna need a weekend to recover from this week.

Wishing I had a couple of these pairs of heels to wear this weekend

Happy Shoegasm, Lovelies.

 

So Vintage

Le Sigh

Christian Louboutins

Christian Louboutins

Christian Louboutins

 

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it Pink

So Last week I cocked up Monday Music Moves Me by jumping ahead a week and overtaking myself. I'm a Plonker I know... forgive me Xmas Dolly.

Go visit her wesite and link up, Lovelies.

   

 Go to last week's post Pink Outside the Box and you'll see my picks... But here is a couple more...

 



 Bathroom Concert Series on Ellen

 




Don't forget to Go Nominate my blog for Best Mummy Blogger (click on the top right hand button on my side bar).

The Winner Takes It All

 

And this winner for this bizarre caption is:

Scarlett Wonderland 

Congratulations.  Email me your mailing address to adaftlass@gmail.com and I'll be sending you something festive.
 
Scarlett captioned:

"When you said you had two tickets to the gun show Dave, I didn't know this is what you had in mind"

 

hey gorgeous Mistle Toes

I adore the hey gorgeous brand, love the look and feel of their products and the results are phenomenal.   

hey gorgeous skincare is a proudly South African company and choc-a-bloc with organic goodness.


Not only does each and every one of their products sounds good enough to eat with names like Chocnut Body Butter and Coconut Body Soufflé, but they are infused with pure love.

They look out-of-this-world-scrummy and every woman who loves indulging in pampering her body, and every man who wants a woman who smells like chocolate, should try these products.

Go check out their quaint website and shop for Christmas.  You won't be able to choose just one product, so buy a bunch for all your family members.

Images courtesy of Hey Gorgeous Skincare

   

 

Enchanted Forrest Year End Function

 Our Year End Function this year had an awesome theme.

Enchanted Forrest.

I immediately wanted to go and Little Red Riding Hood, but soon changed my mind and did Princess Ogre Fiona instead with full body make up.

 Here's the day and venue in pictures.

Enchanted Venue

Surrounded by massive old trees and some pretty gorgeous Jacaranda Trees

 

Some of the Group

The Big Bad Wolf

Princess Fiona in her Castle

Natasha Elf

The Wicked Queen

Princess Fiona wins Her Majesty The Queen Award!  

Cinderella, Pregnant Fairy and The Mad Hatter

Shrek, Pokahontas and Natasha Elf

Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf

Witch Larische

Pregnant Fairy

Even Zorro was there

And Snow White

The Evil Queen temps Snow White

The Food was devine and I even stuck to my Dukan

Table decor

Indian Princess Tamara and Pokahontas

Pinky Jo as a Woodland Fairy

Shrek and Little Red Riding Hood

Ogre Shrek and his Ogre Princess Fiona

Princess Fiona

Peter Pan

The Queen of Hearts

Getting into Character : The Queen of Hearts, Snow White and The Wicked Queen