Weekends are lovely aren't they?

Sunday Sunrise (thats just wrong isnt it??)

Panorama fun...

lovely to swim...

bread baked

Sewing in pyjamas

FAILED yogurt.......

and nearly 12 yrs old....

I hope your weekend was filled with things you relly wanted to do!


Jacq :)

Back from the Wild!

Hello JaxFanciers!!

We are back from our camping trip, feeling tired (damn camping beds) but very creatively refreshed! 

After the very busy end to last year I have really appreciated the past 2 weeks of relative quiet ( I did take my children after all!) and simplicity.

I have cooked up a few ideas which I will be sharing with you soon,

but in the meantime how about some holiday snaps??

ahhh peace!

fun!

quiet

One of our daily visitors

family fun

friends

Rapids

Exploring

I hope you have been having a lovely Summer, or if your up the top end of the world, a lovely winter.

Now I must keep working on the mountain of dirty washing and 

enjoying the miracle of my electric kettle!

Jacq :) 

Yarn Along

I am joining in with Ginny from Small Things with her Yarn Along this week, for the first time! 

I love Ginnys Blog, I always look forward to reading about her adventures in life and looking at her stunning photos...

Here is my 'on holidays'  project, a cardigan for Avalon (Zaras comes next in a different colorway) The pattern is from Magpie Patterns and is this pattern. I have knitted this many times in the doll size, its a great top down knit, nothing complicated, would be good for a new knitter :D

Happy Holidays JaxFanciers!

Jacq :)

Summer Days

January is a month that I think about all year, I kid you not, I really do mean ALL year. When I am sitting at basketball freezing my bum off, I think about January. When I am juggling all the things working mums do day after day,  its January I look forward to. In the weeks leading up to Christmas when life becomes a blur of parties, supper plates and dress up days, its nearly January I say!

The Summer Garden

Four weeks of sun, swimming (I am sure my family is part fish), going places, still being in my dressing gown at 11am, no where to be by any particular time and relaxing. Relaxing....?

 A 2nd hand pool which has been the most wonderful entertainer!

So now that January is approaching rapidly why does my brain turn to cleaning and de-cluttering?? CLEANING?!?! Since when has cleaning is been in the January plan??

The Christmas Tree , now

Sometimes we really are our own worst enemy. (cleaning in January....sheesh!)

So as it happens when the New Year is coming, I am questioning life and its craziness. There's a lot of energy spent in this world trying to organise our lives and all the stuff that comes with it. If you google it, you will get a fright....we must all be in the same boat...

I think it's time to take a good look at the work/fun balance in my life (its way out of whack) and simplify this house to make *that* part of the work easier to manage, leaving me some time for fun. 

 Then maybe I won't need to think about cleaning next January.

Sounds like a plan.

That still leaves me with the 'cleaning this January' problem.

.........Lets call it simplifying instead, and I'll promise myself to do something relaxing everyday in January.....well I will try anyway?  :) 

How is your work/fun balance? Do you examine your own life because its New Years? Any thing you want to change??

On a lighter note I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, all kept safe and with family you love. We got a lovely surprise with my brother and his love announcing their engagement. I really couldn't be any happier for them both, I know how much their lives with be enriched 

and their love multiply when they say those words  'I do'. 

Well Done Luke and Colly xoxo

Well its 11am, time to get dressed :D 

Sunny Days to you

Jacq :)

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My Summer Girl

Yesterday marks ours last Birthday for the year!

Its always a double celebration, a 'Happy Birthday!' and 'YAY! It's finally summer!'

After this cake I felt more confidant with my cake making abilities, so I tried something similar yet different! 

PURPLE!!

I REALLY loved it! Its really not difficult but so effective, even with dodgy mismatched candles! ( I forgot to buy wrapping paper too!)

 

Our next birthday is the LAST day of Summer,  so I have a few months to think of an awesome 12 yr old fella cake.....Do cakes get embarrassing for nearly teenagers??? :)

Have a great day!

Jacq :)

Weekending

 We had a great weekend filled with new ideas, making stuff, dinner with people we love, a sleep-in, finished off with a little backyard picnic dinner of good óle baked bean jaffles with the kids! 

I can see Summer coming .....

Truly I can...!! I love Summer!

Life has been incredibly busy here at JaxFancy headquarters,  with lots of orders (which is marvelous!) and we are back into sporting commitments with the kids (sport is good for children...sport is good for children, I will just keep repeating that to myself! ) 

and that has led for little time for fancy blog posts!

But I have to say we are so loving daylight savings, the girls are out there trying to get all their 'work' done before that last ray of light has gone. Reindeer food is very important business at the moment :)

I did get out and snap a few photos tonight, nothing says summer's coming more than pink clouds.
I am off to conquer Mt Clean Washing....I think I can,  I think I can!

How's your week travelling along?

Jacq :)