Bye bye beloved Holiday...

"Oh my cupcakes!"

An ode to thee holiday...

Farewell my beloved, long summer days

to 10am wake ups and lazy ways

Farewell to all I hold good and true

for 10 weeks be gone till I return to you.

Far from me now only a memory

yes, two peas in a pod...

Holiday and me

xox 

Haha! A little bit dramatic I know, but holidays and I have a strong relationship and I will miss her dearly...

Right enough of that, time for a catch up.  So, Miss Hania, my niece, had a wonderful 21st birthday on Saturday (not to mention that was the whole excuse for going to Tauranga) My sisters, mum and I were assigned the pudding's, we take such assignments verrrrry seriously... so we made delectable chocolate trifle's, creamed pavlova's, mum's famous steam pudding, fruit salad and hot creamy custard. 

Traditionally, for family events such as this, the celebratory cake would be the delicious German Chocolate, however Miss Huni decided that she wanted cupcakes and so she made 150 chocolate cupcakes and her clever mum iced and decorated them... don't you just want to lick the screen? Mmmmm! And don't get me started on her theme colours... super dreamy!

Anyway, I assigned myself as official photographer of the event.. here are some of the ones I really love...

 I especially love the ones of the B-girl with her sisters and her brothers...

So of course holiday time included some serious beach time, here are the kids having fun burying their big cousin...

 And here they are following him in to wash off...

... and finding STAR FISH

 We also went to visit some family land at Welcome Bay that has this stunning swimming spot...

  So after all the fun of the birthday, a beautiful home, hot scrolls, beaches and rivers, beautiful Tauranga, we hit the road again...

...And I started work yesterday...

Oh but on the bright side, one of our lovely little girls from the junior class came in to visit with her gorjus little puppy... talk about getting a serious case of Puppy Love, she was so CUTE... 

The gorjus Mrs H took this photo with her new iphone... so geuss what??? I got me a new iphone3GS from the Telecom website, afterall my trusty old apple green slide-up Samsung is a little over the hill and well

DAG-NAB-IT... I'm a blogger now and I need an iphone lol! PLUS I get to keep my vodafone number BONUS!.... I can't wait for it to arrive AND to use it and finally start taking picts like my dear friend and photographic inspiration 'Manahi' who lives in  the BIG apple... New York, New York! 
He took this  stunning photo here with his iphone...

(Description in his own words...This is a beautiful 9/11 memorial, looking directly across the river to the spot where the twin towers were. I don't know the man walking through, but thought he might add something visually to the image.)

and also like Miss Elsie at a Beautiful mess... http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/03/my-favorite-iphone-photo-aps.html she is my fav person in all of Blog Land...

Ok blog land, thank you so much for looking at my ramblings, I have had nearly 300 page views, I have 4 followers at Blogger and 10 over at twitter and it's just been a little over a week... Sorry I didn't get around to taking photos of the dress I designed and made but I will do it this week...

maybe on Super Sunday...

Oh my Cupcakes!!! This is so long, I'll have to practise on

summarising better...

I'll be back on Friday

See you then blog-buddies

Mrs C

xox