Blog This: Challenge 8

Bought something fabulous lately? Wanna share? Wanna brag? Blog some pictures, write a sonnet about it, tell the story about how you got it in the house without your husband noticing. What made you buy it? Have you been secretly coveting it for a while? Or are you an impulse shopper. And of course, now you have it, was it worth it??

Having a tiny shopping addiction, I had to think long and hard about this.  Do I mention the cool bed my son has got, something nifty I brought for the garden, a delightful handcrafted item I recently purchased, what should I dedicate this blog post to?

I decided to do it for something I use nearly every day and would be lost with out – Envirosax.

  

Love em,  love em, love em.  Be gone horrible daggy coles green bags, and hello funky shopping bag.   Envirosax roll up nice and small so I can easily keep one in my handbag and one in my nappy bag and all those colours and patterns are addictive. 

In fact I can colour match my outfit with my envirosax now! 

I was excited when I heard Target where doing away with their plastic bags – why?  Another reason to use my envirosax of course, ahhh the joy and excitement of whipping one out at the check out whilst other shoppers are grumbling over having to pay for a plastic bag!

Kookie Kids Giveaway

Want a chance to win one of our rattles?

There is a giveaway on Kookie Kids, so make sure you enter for your chance to win:

http://kookiekids1.blogspot.com/2009/06/whos-behind-product-and-giveaway_28.html

Etsy Treasury

Thank you to everyone for including an Ollie Rose item in your treasury. 

The one below is currently up, so pop on over and leave a comment HERE – Thanks to JaEmArt

Here are a few others that popped up ove r the last couple of weeks

 

Blog This Challenge 7 – Fifteen Facts

Tell us fifteen facinating, far fetched, frightening, funny or frivilous facts about yourself. Those bits of trivia that are floating around in your life.

Can you eat 10 burgers in one sitting? Do you sleep with your eyes open? Can you tie a cherry stalk into a knot? Speak 5 different languages?

All those things that you’ve bored your friends and family with for years – We want to know.

I missed the last two previous Blog This challenges.  Even though I wanted to join in, I blinked and the time was gone.  I am a little scared of this one, do I want to admit some of the trivia in connection with myself, because admittedly most of the weird, funny, strange things that have happened to me happened in my young carefree days.

Fact #1  I cannot stand creamy foods, urggh they make me gag, if I even get a little bit on my skin it makes me gag and my skin crawl.

Fact #2 I wander my garden every single day.  Yup every day I walk the path to the chooks and stop and admire every plant on my way down and check it’s growth.  Sometimes just sit down the back staring at my plants.

Fact #3  Giving birth left me on a zimmerframe.  After the birth of my first son I had a condition called Diastais Symphasis Pubis which is basically a separation of my pelvis.  It meant I couldn’t walk unaided for some time.    DH at the same time tore his Achilles tendon and we left hospital together, one in a wheelchair the other on a frame.

Fact #4   I love dress ups.  I have quite an extensive Op Shop collection of various outfits.  Every 2 months we have theme dinner parties with friends where everyone must dress up in an outfit from the theme country.

Fact #5   I am a scavenger.  I inherited this from my grandfather, I love recycling things.  I can be found out the recycling yard at the rubbish dump tutting at all the good things thrown out and have been known to grab something from the curbside throw out (my most recent a gorgeous wooden dolls cot)

Fact #6 I owned an orange and white Datsun 180B it was my first car and only had an AM radio.  It was super cool.  My Uncle gave it to me for completing Year 12 and my Grandpop fixed it up for me.  She lasted many years!

Fact #7  My first job was as as a fast food chick at Red Rooster.  I worked there for over 4 years and can cut a chicken in quarters under pressure.

Fact #8  My favourite band as a teenager was Indecent Obsession!  Sad I know, but what is even sadder is I still have the posters that adorned my wall.

Fact #9  Dolly Parton is my favourite all time singer, and if I could sing like anyone it would be like her.  I have a closet country and western obsession and once went out with a cowboy who wore bad shirts and rode bulls in the rodeo.

Fact #10  I have a salt & pepper collection which was my grandma’s and sits in a big cabinet in my lounge room.  It has hundreds of novelty salt & pepper shakers my Grandma collected over many years and as children she would pay us $1 to dust them all.

Fact #11  I can fit 54 bits of popcorn in my mouth and eat 12 tacos in one sitting.  Interesting facts I discovered about myself whilst being a broke backpacker with nothing to do.

Fact #12  I have lived on soup for every meal for one month, another backpacker moment, it was not through choice however.

Fact #13    I have bungee jumped and also completed a free fall sky dive on my own.

Fact#14    I have always wanted to get married in Las Vegas in a chapel with James Brown singing the entire service and Elvis making an appearance somewhere.

Fact #15   I am not a shoe person.  If someone creates some thongs suitable for winter I would be a very happy woman.  I probably own 4 pairs of shoes.  I stress when I have to go out somewhere that means I can’t wear comfy thongs and usually have to borrow shoes from my sister.

Introducing ………

Meet the lastest giraffe rattle to join the gang, Boston.  Boston is made from fabulous red and blue argyle fabric and is a lovely funky new boys rattle.  They will be uploaded soon, so keep your eyes open.

 

Ollie Rose Treasury

I don’t often get a treasury on Etsy as I always seem to miss out or my computer decides to freeze at the all important time, but the other day I scored one, so here it is.  Pop along and say Hi and leave a comment http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=67163

 

Inspiration

I was a bit inspired by all of Sara’s lovely things around her house yesterday so had a bit of a look around my house.  Inside I couldn’t think of too many interesting things, but I do love my garden, so here is a look at a few things hiding out the back.

 

 

More apartment therapy

And Sara has done it again….see post below. Another feature on The Apartment Therapy Blog here

Now I have been in her lovely home and it is as cool as it looks.There is always something interesting to look at and it is forever changing. I love that eveytime I go there something is new, moved and inspiring to look at.

For more Sara gorgeousness you should check out her blog. She is also the talent behind some items found in the Ollie Rose store like these keyrings………..divine.

This handpainted stuffie is just too cool!

Apartment Therapy Blog

Congratulations to our friend Sara who recently had her hallway featured on Apartment Therapy - how cool is that?

 

 

Copyscape

 It really is amazing sometimes what resources are out there on this big old internet.

I recently discovered Copyscape.  It is a place you can go and enter in your URL and can find out if your website content has been used by other websites.

Where there is are so many websites with original content, this is a great resource to make sure your content is not being used by others.  Copyscape is great as it takes the hard work out of it.

Very interesting, I suggest giving it a go for your site.  Heeeehehehehe just had give one of their little logos a whirl!