Ding Dong - Avon calling....

So, who would like to host an Avon party?

Nothing majorly involved, invite a few girlfriends round for a girlie night in, I'll bring the products, some freebies, samples, run a raffle and I'll even do a few mini foot treatments on your guests using all the Footworks products!

You'll receive a hostess gift and a percentage of your sales to spend with me.  I'll even offer some special incentives to get your guests spending their pennies.  Not hard really as Christmas is FAST approaching and there are just LOADS of great offers in the brochures....

I have some dates available October/November time, so please contact me NOW to get booked in!

Personal Avon brochure

How's this for cool?  You can now click on the image from C15 above and submit your Avon order directly to me!

Go on, try it!!!

Lee's birthday treat!

Lee turned 38 yesterday and although Alexander was at Rachel's house for a sleep over the night before, Cassandra and Nicholas made Daddy breakfast in bed :)

Lee's birthday treat this year was family indoor skiing up at Milton Keynes!  We'd seen SnoZone when we'd gone up a few weeks previously to the indoor sky diving and it looked REALLY good..

So, as they were doing a special offer of an hour's family instruction AND Cassie could take part too, I booked it!

It's harder than it looks and Nicholas was probably the best one out of the three boys as he has so much lower body strength due to playing so much football...

Cassie unfortunately decided 10 minutes in that she didn't want to ski, so we sneaked over to the sledging area and had a few goes down the slopes - very brave as she went down on her own :)

Was a brilliant morning for a special occasion - just wish there was a centre nearer to us!

Scrappin' Challenges: Frosted Designs - Fab Friday office supplies

I'm getting back in there with my scrappin mojo and this entry into Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday - Office Supplies challenge was a real fun one for me to do.

This is their link: http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

The challenge was to use some kind of office supplies on the layout - so could have been anything like staples, string, post it notes etc etc, but I found this little book mark clip and thought it went well on my layout to hold the 4 small photos...

Scrappin' challenges: ScrapFit - warm up 31

Again, looking to get my scrappin' mojo back so this challenge entry is for ScrapFit's warm up challenge 31 - to use only patterned papers for the background of a layout - no cardstock!

This is their link if you would like to enter...  http://scrapfit.blogspot.co.uk/

I used a photo of the boys when we were in the Forest of Dean and had a lovely piece of corner patterned paper that I then flicked paint all over to make it a little more interesting!  I love working with patterned papers, so I really enjoyed this challenge!

First day of school...

Emotional wasn't the word...  well, not on actually on 4th Sept 2012 when the kids started back at school, but the day before when I was sorting out clothes, shoes, book bags etc etc...

Maybe it's 'cos Cassandra will be my last one to start school, or that she's my girl I don't know, but I did get rather clingy to them on Monday and all 3 got lots more hugs than usual on the Monday afternoon...

Lee went into work late on Tuesday as he does on the first day of school - he like to play official photographer...

 We also managed to get a pic of all the kids with their new teachers..

 Nicholas has Mrs Wiley this year - Year 2 Crocodile's class

Alexander has Miss Mitchell - Year 4 - Kangaroo's class

And Cassandra has Mrs Green - Bears Pre-school class

So, bring on my year of the school run 3 times a day.... They are however, growing up WAY too fast...

Week 6

Again a little late, but hey I'm blogging!

Bank Holiday put me all out day wise, but on Tuesday I took the boys back to Family Pottery - only this time they had an idea of what they wanted to make... Alexander made some book ends and Nicholas made a pot that you can put a tea light in...both just need to air dry, be painted and then they are good to go :)

Nicholas had his last football training session at Soccer Hub today and Cassandra was in nursery, so an Alex and I day... we didn't do anything major, had lunch in Leigh and spent the day at home - doing "stuff" although I couldn't quite say what other than we cleared his room up and you can now see the floor!

Thursday we went out with Mum, the kids wanted to go crabbing again, but high tide was at 12 noon, so there we were at 9am down on the beach in Southend. It was a little chilly to say the least but we were there and boys did brilliantly in catching crabs...

 Cassandra however, preferred to be snuggled under the towel!

I'd done really well this week in that I signed up TWO new reps to my team whilst going for Avon's Rising Stars programme..  Hope they succeed!

Friday saw my first day without ANY of the kids - Cassandra had her last day at nursery and Alex and Nicholas were over at Deanes in Thundersley at Waterzone and Rounders... I spent the day tidying up, sorting paperwork and catching up on stuff...

The countdown had been long, but Saturday finally arrived and Leigh Ramblers U7 Tigers had their first tournament of the season.

Lee had spent AGES sorting out rotations so that all the kids got to play in every game etc etc and they all tried very hard.  Nicholas got to be goalie for two of the matches and he did very well....

It was their first real tournament as a team, and unfortunately they didn't win any games, but all had a good time and Freddie Knight was pleased as punch to get the Man of the Match trophy!

Lee and I were especially proud of our own little star..

The weekend was rounded off with both the boys doing some back to school work with Liam, Alexander's teen tutor...

and then a visit from Lisa & Greg and the twins..

The 6 weeks have actually gone quite quickly...

Week 5 - a little late

So I'm a little behind to say the least, but thought I'd post anyway!

Week 5 saw both Alexander and Nicholas throwing up Sunday night/Monday morning, so the planned meet up at Shoebury East Beach didn't happen for us, instead it was a day of tv until 3.30pm when I dragged everyone to Clarks for our pre-booked appointment for school shoes.

£100 later and the 3 kids were kitted out for September.

Tuesday was a disaster as Alex was booked into Clements Hall to do his Bikeability certificates, but on route, the bike rack fell off the back of the car and his bike was trashed :(

We were VERY lucky there was actually a police car following us who was driving at a safe distance behind that could brake without running into the bike I was dragging along behind the car or crashing into us.  No one was hurt thankfully, but the cost of not taking part in the course, the repair to both Alex's new bike and the car was not great!

Wednesday was a "chill out day" as we call it and Thursday saw Alex over at Belchamps with my friend Karen's son Ash - they had a great time.  I dropped Nicholas off at Chase for Rueben's birthday football party and Cassandra and I played with the playdough and moonsand until it was time to go and collect everyone.  I then dropped Nicholas off at Mum's for his summer sleep over and Alex and Lee had fun on the PC after dinner.

Friday saw Lee, Alex and I up in MK for sky diving.

Bank hol Saturday we finally ventured to Waldgraves over at West Mersea for our 2 night camping experience, but the weather just wasn't being nice to us and it just hammered it down.  
 

Not ideal for cooking, so we ventured out in the car and found the local chippy!

However, the pants weather, coupled with the fact that I'd forgotten my sleeping bag, made the decision Sunday morning that we were not staying a 2nd night.

After breakfast of bacon and sausage sandwiches..

the kids played cricket and on the tree with the family next to us

and then we after we'd packed the tent up we went down to the beach - which was the best bit of the entire weekend - digging in the sand!

So as we were home on Bank Holiday Monday, I let Lee have a well deserved lie in and I took the kids up to Blenheim's bootsale and Cassie got yet ANOTHER baby doll - this one is called Lucy...

Almost there!