Greetings all,
Well i thought 'deception' might be an interesting title for this day - a federal election no less, quite suitable. Just thinking how many forms of deception, good, bad & surprising there are.
Starting with this purple patchwork quilt i made from scratch after dinner last night for an early morning pick up. The customer brief was 'lots of purple', keep it plain & to use a few childhood shots for a 6x6 patchwork quilt for a 21st today. Done!! The photo transfer paper worked quite well. It's actually quite detailed, alas, smoke & mirrors people!!
Well i thought 'deception' might be an interesting title for this day - a federal election no less, quite suitable. Just thinking how many forms of deception, good, bad & surprising there are.
Starting with this purple patchwork quilt i made from scratch after dinner last night for an early morning pick up. The customer brief was 'lots of purple', keep it plain & to use a few childhood shots for a 6x6 patchwork quilt for a 21st today. Done!! The photo transfer paper worked quite well. It's actually quite detailed, alas, smoke & mirrors people!!
So i was up at 6a.m. for the school BBQ & cake stall, selling snacks to voters. Can i please point out - we were on high wind watch & snow alert, yet I still got out of bed to volunteer!! After planning, shopping, organising & setting up, the day ran smoothly, we sold a zillion sausages & cup cakes, coffee & drinks. What's the deception, well i see this as easy (even with a migraine, sleep deprivation & dragging 4 children along) but it's actually a lot of work, i just keep being told i make these events low stress & fun. Yippee. That is one of those 'perception is reality' deceptions, where i appear to have it all together.
I'm quite good at making life look easy, but i can assure you, having a husband at war & hearing the news we lost 2 more soldiers, well it breaks my heart & worries me to my core. In order to not worry the children, i keep how much it affects me, to myself. I certainly talk to them about what happens, i've never hidden the news from them, they are proud of what their daddy does & are also realistic about the danger. Alas, my husband is my whole world, these soldiers who were killed yesterday, they were someone's whole world too.
I'm quite good at making life look easy, but i can assure you, having a husband at war & hearing the news we lost 2 more soldiers, well it breaks my heart & worries me to my core. In order to not worry the children, i keep how much it affects me, to myself. I certainly talk to them about what happens, i've never hidden the news from them, they are proud of what their daddy does & are also realistic about the danger. Alas, my husband is my whole world, these soldiers who were killed yesterday, they were someone's whole world too.
Now for a sneaky 6y.o. deception . . . as you can imagine, my priority upon arriving home was to shower, get BBQ grease off my face & smoke out of my hair, so i let the children play the Wii. My eldest daughter went home with another family today, so my son took this opportunity to log on as her Mii on the Wii & play some new games - terribly - in her name. Then he logged on as himself, played brilliantly & beat all her scores?? He likes his name at the top of the highest score board. I think that's kind of evil genius deception. Thankfully, he puts this much competitive energy into his spelling, maths & sport too!!
So after being school-parent-of-the-year today, i glanced over at the reason i do all this P&C stuff, my children, only to find 2 sitting on the roof of my car, one sticking a cup cake to the inside of the windscreen & one completely missing. I looked at one mother (whose child was leaning out of my car window throwing a ball) & yes, people were watching . . . i said "imagine being the mothers of those children". I can't even bother to defend my children's actions!!
Have less political Sundays everyone, love Posie
So after being school-parent-of-the-year today, i glanced over at the reason i do all this P&C stuff, my children, only to find 2 sitting on the roof of my car, one sticking a cup cake to the inside of the windscreen & one completely missing. I looked at one mother (whose child was leaning out of my car window throwing a ball) & yes, people were watching . . . i said "imagine being the mothers of those children". I can't even bother to defend my children's actions!!
Have less political Sundays everyone, love Posie
