Blowing the candles

You’re a silly little goose, a dare-devil, a performer, Mr Athletic, a cheeky monkey, a very determined little soul.

You love you big sister. She’s your idol. You copy her – everything she does and says.

“Hiding” with Abby while mummy and daddy were seeking.

You’re a parrot. You have been talking so much. You can count to fifteen, say ‘Please’ and ‘Nank you’. You can ask to be excused from the table with “May I be excuse me please?”

You are so smart. You are great at shape-sorting and can name the hard shapes like hexagon and trapezoid. You can recite your alphabet (close enough). You love singing, even if it comes out “Murray had a little lamb”. Boys can have lambs. Boys can also demand hair ties and sometimes a fairy is better than a pirate. As long as it’s a loud stompy fairy.

Shape sorting and rocking his hair style

After all the havoc, you still love a cuddle. Not any cuddle – it has to be a ‘big cuddle’ that involves heaving you off the ground and squeezing you close. You may be tough-and-rumble, but you’re mummy’s boy at heart.

What a tiring but lovely two years it’s been my son. Love you lots.

I am so happy for those who now can marry the ones they love and be acknowledged in the same way as all marriages.

Yay for New Zealand!

View: MP’s ‘epic’ same-sex marriage speech

Today after doing her shopping, she says “They were giving these away. I’ve had one – it’s yum.” while handing me a Red Bull. Lol. Oh mum.

The recipe is pretty flexible – just use more or less to fit the pie dish. If you’re using a rectangle dish, just cut the pastry and arrange to fit – you don’t have to do anything special except push the pieces together to close the gaps.

I was onto my second serving before remembering to take a photo

Mercy Ngan-Woo

Congratulations!

You’ll have your own unicorn shirt to wear shortly (or however long it takes for cafepress to deliver it to your country).

Thanks to all those who have entered and supported my design.

You can still purchase my designs from the eggshell green cafepress shop (and don’t forget to check for special offers on the main cafepress site).

Here’s the idea I came up with for bunny Easter baskets / treat boxes, using the cardboard noodle boxes that I already had.

Fill me with chocolate

Instructions are as follows:

Face and feet pieces

1. Cut ears into the front flap of the box.
2. Cut off the other three flaps and save.
3. Cut feet from one flap. I kept both feet on a single piece.
4. Cut a face from another flap.
5. For extra detail cut out a nose and ear inners. I used pink coloured card for ease.
6. Using a hot glue gun, attach the nose to the face, the ear inners to the ears, and then attach the face and feet to the box.
7. Draw on eyes, mouth, paws, whiskers etc.
8. Attach a pompom tail.
9. Give to squealing children to fill with chocolate (or the other way around).

That’s all I had time for. The Easter egg hunt was a bit of a rush with random eggs hidden amongst our forever-mess that is our house (the garden was the worse option, let’s say…). Hope your hunts are better organised. Happy Easter!

(And don’t forget to enter my unicorn Rainbow Shuffle t-shirt giveaway before end of Sunday 31 March 2013.)

Oh yes. You could win a t-shirt featuring my original fantastical butt-shuffling unicorn.

The original Rainbow Shuffle shirt design

You might have seen the image posted on places like reddit.com, 9gag.com, and George Takei’s Facebook page among countless others.

Leave a comment on this post about how you came across this competition, and you may be the next to have a unicorn smearing a rainbow across your chest. I will select a winner at random and you will need to complete the email address field so I can contact you. Winner will be contacted by 7 April 2013 and announced on this blog.

Entries close 31 March 2013. Extra chances: Share this and say where you shared it (eg. Facebook) in your entry for an extra chance to win. You can only enter once with a maximum of one extra chance granted with your entry.

Shirts from the Eggshell Green cafepress shop

I got my sutures (stitches) out a couple of days ago. It felt so good to have the bandages off after 11 days.

Warning: If you are wussy, then you might not want to look at all the pictures. Or you  might if you want to give yourself a regrettable thrill.

Are you ready to see..?

Mmmm, disgusting… what else lies underneath?

Frankenfeet – that’s what lay underneath.

“It shouldn’t hurt” she said. LIAR! Getting the sutures out was by far the most painful part of the entire process of getting my bunions removed!

The worst part now over – all the sutures have been removed. (The drops running down my feet are from the saline that the nurse used for cleaning.)

So, contrary to my recent nightmares, my feet do look different (in a good way) to before. My bunions are gone and my toes realigned. There’s at least 4 more weeks of healing to go though.

I can now also answer “Yes” to the question “Do you  have any metal inside your body?”. Apparently they used screws in my bones to realign the toes – that would’ve been a nice-to-know before I happened to spot it in the post-op x-rays. Only because I’m a nosy bugger and I like to know these things about my body!

Both of these things are not like each other

My feet feel a little naked now without the wadding of bandages covering them. But that’s ok, they still have the super duper Darco shoes to hug them… (I’m actually going to get a new pair today and they’re actually going to be in my size and you know what else – they’re going to match! Wowsers.)