Cheese-day comes but once a week in the Howard house and every single Cheese-day I think to myself "I must blog that" and I never do. Apparently it's Wednesday or Thursday before I catch up enough to find time. The tradition started a year or so ago when the price of cheese rocketed. The Howard children were clearly previously spoiled in the fact that I let them have cheese on toast for breakfast whenever they liked. It was, of course, one of my favourite breakfasts as a child so I never said no.
And then the price of cheese rocketed and it cost the equivalent of a small car to buy a block of cheese. Something had to give, and it was the favourite breakfast. And so cheese-day was born. Tuesday was re-named cheese-day and there is no whining about what to have for breakfast on that day. ooooooh noooooo. No cheese unless it's cheese-day and it's now a one day a week treat. 2 slices of toast with vegemite and cheese, standard.
And I wonder how long Tuesday will be called Cheese-day in our home.
So SENZ came and went here in Auckland. I didn't see much of the shopping area but I saw a few of the classes. I also saw the smiles on the faces of the ladies coming back from the classes and admit asking for sneaky peeks of the fabulous projects they were creating. I think it's one of my favourite parts of something like SENZ. As a teacher we see the same class repeated over and over and by the end of teaching 200 students, as I did over the weekend, I'm inspired beyond belief.
I admit my teaching weekend wasn't my best. I had been very sick for the week beforehand but thought I was better. Apparently not as I ended up with no voice. No exageration. NO voice. Trying to sign language instructions to 36 people at a time is darn near impossible, go on, try and imagine that! so thank you SO much to those of you that hung in there, completed the classes as best we could and didn't laugh at my attempts to get messages across. I was most frustrated by my predicament and was incredibly grateful for a fabulous audience!
There are rumours that this was the last SENZ – rumours are incorrect as planning is already going into SENZ 2010. Go here to vote on your choice of destination.
Autumn Escape 2010 has sold out with a wait-list already in action. We announced Kelly Goree as our third tutor but I think it really was the fabulous ladies we met at SENZ that filled the last spaces.
Talking of events, I saw this one on my cruising around the blogs. Paper Symphony is run by a lovely lady from further up north, with support from Crafty Tart, who is a fabulous retailer. It should be a good weekend if you are looking for somewhere to go in early September.
Another quick update. I've had some crazy nights this week with wrong number phonecalls through the night, the kids alarms going off at random hours and cat fights breaking terracotta pots outside my window. I need an early one to start fresh – I have a chat with my big Picture Scrapbooking Class tomorrow.
Oh – I have all the new Basicgrey and have been creating my little heart out with them – check back on the 29th for those images!
Leaving you with a layout I created with Collage Press Knave of Hearts (again). Created with the June Tarisota kit. I hear some schools are bannig rat's tails. I'll be encouraging Brady to keep his. He's a fabulous kid and it's the only ounce of rebelion he posesses.
Laters
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