Easter Project

Get organised and make your own message board to post those endless to do lists, school calendars and reminder notes. With this message board you won’t need to stress of constantly making mental notes.

To make a dazzling message board, glue crystals, beads, coloured tacks or antique buttons around the edges of a purchased board or if you’re really feeling energetic, you could even make your own message board.

A cork message board is the easiest to make, here’s what you’ll need:
· Two pieces of cork board (you can purchase mine at an office supply store)
· Heavy duty all-purpose glue
· Whatever fabrics you like to cover the board with
· Scissors
· Ribbon

1. Glue two pieces of cork board together – one isn’t thick enough for tacks.


2. First decide what fabrics you are going to use. Use a variety of colours to add interest, but you could use more simple colours as well. Warning, if you use really pretty fabrics, you may not want to put anything on your board!


3. You’ll want to cut a piece approximately one inch bigger than the cork board so you can wrap the extra fabric around the edge to the other side.


4. Glue the corners of fabric on the back side of your board, and then put glue around all the fabric edges You could also use staples instead.

If you have bought a whiteboard you could use memorable magnets to funk it up by gluing a pretty jewel onto a small mirror and attaching the assemblage to a magnet. Or customise magnets to include your favourite photo or company logo. These funky magnets will keep all your notes firmly attached to your newly created message board.

The possibilities are endless…use your creativity and get the whole family involved. A great Easter Project if you’re not planning on going away on holiday.

Tip : Make sure to use glue that’s strong enough for the materials you’re adhering.

A Family Braai

We had a get-together today with Riaan's mum and dad, his sister Ronel and her two boys (Werner and Morne) and even Ouma and Oupa Grootjie were there from Pietermaritzburg. It was great to have everyone together. (just missing Petrus and Andre)

Mom made great food as always (the brandy and date pudding was to die for and I had two helpings). Eish! Back to gym and back on on the eating plan tomorrow again.

Everyone seemed to have a great day except Morne who was really not feeling well. Get well soon Morne! Sorry you guys had to leave before I could take a snapshot of us all together. Here's some of us.

Oupa Grootjie Johan, Ouma Grootjie Marie, Riaan, Megan, Dad, KK, Mom

Sharon's Place

After Jarred's Walk, Sharon invited us to her house for a little braai and get-together with friends. We played guitar hero and had a chilled night around the table chatting and giggling.

Once again Sharon went all out and the food was delicious..

The fishbowl that Sharon threw together.

Sharon and Richard share a moment

Dale and Srdjen

Its been a long day, mum

Friendship Tattoos

My BFF (I fucking heart you, Mandy) and I went to get ink'd recently.  We got matching Friendship Butterfly tattoos on our left shoulders. We're so happy with the outcome.  
Aren't we just so bad ass?

Home Made Sock Puppets

Last weekend we decided to make sock puppets. 
It was quite fun making this one as I just used what I had at home. I bought the eyes and felt from a local sewing shop.

This lead us to make paper mache puppets too. 
We are going to paint those this weekend.

Its so easy to do...and keeps the kids busy...

Megan named this Sock Puppet Michael

Megan and Michael

Gillian, KK and Michael