Can someone please explain why as soon as you decide to watch what you eat in time to look decent for summer, everyone around you seems to be eating cake!!!

Can someone please explain why as soon as you decide to watch what you eat in time to look decent for summer, everyone around you seems to be eating cake!!!
Oh My God - I'm in so much pain!!!
Tonights pain was totally self-inflicted at my reformer pilates course. (Which I am absolutely loving by the way)
Tuesday's pain was kind of by choice but I stepped innocently into an open pilates class with the gorgeous Karla who I have now re-named the 'Smiling Assassin'. Little did I know her love of travelling lunges, duck walks and crab laps!! As a result I have not been able to lower myself without my thigh muscles screaming. Sitting at the computer was hard but getting up from this chair is going to be harder!
Wednesday I stupidly agreed to help out one of the instructors by allowing her to use me as a guinea pig while she practised her routine. God I'm stupider than I thought.
So... having done very minimal exercise in the last 6 months I opt to do 3 open pilates classes in 3 days!! Can anyone say 'moron'?
Excuse me while I get Kahuna to rig up a rope and pulley system to lower me into a hot bath...
Yesterday I was so excited you could see the drool on my chin. My heart rate was soaring and my hands were all warm and clammy... the reason for all this panting and sweating was maybe not what you would expect.....
'1000 square metres of fine antiques, used furniture, collectibles, books, and a few things we haven't quite figured out yet!'
I'll save our purchases for another day but let me assure you there are a lot more items with my name written all over them - if I only had a bigger car (and a bigger house for that matter).
The kids and I took a drive down to the beach house today, and what a glorious day to do it. The town looked like it was in dress rehearsal for summer. It was worth the drive just to see this vista. Photos like this have always made my heart sing - I must have dozens taken from the same spot over the years and it still thrills me.
I think there is even a photo just like this in Mum's album of Mick and I many moons ago!
The loveliest sight was the blanket of yellow flowers that has been thrown over the Bellarine Peninsula. I know these are weeds but they are just gorgeous. Every paddock, roadside verge and spare inch of grass is starred with gold. We kept catching our breath as around every corner there was a new delight. What a gem of a day!
Last summer we stocked a brand called Littlehorn which is owned by Anita Horn-Cosgrove. Anita lives in Bali for much of the year and is married to Sean Cosgrove (former owner of Mooks, M-One-11 and Stussy stores). She involves Sean and her 3 kids, Sheriff 5, Sweeney 3 and Cash 1 the whole way through the Littlehorn design process, letting them choose styles and select their favourite prints, or even design their own items for the collection.
James left to go interstate again today so I thought I'd concerntrate on the things that made me smile....
1. The gorgeous tray I was given as a belated b'day present.
2. Finally hanging stuff in the kids room.
3. Dressing and printing out these girls from Barbie.com with Emma.
4. Jasmine starting to flower outside my window.
5. My Georgette Heyer collection.
6. My new mouse pad.
7. My evenings viewing.
Here are the boys from the 90's that have been suggested so far - pretty good selection I think.
First up is the poster boy for good moral judgement (with a minor alcohol problem along the way) - Mr Brandon Walsh..
followed by the boy we all wanted to fix - Mr Dillon McKay
Next we have the underlord of dark and brooding - ANGEL
And the fun loving prankster forever in Dawson's shadow - Mr Pacey Witter
and last but not least the head of the cheery Salinger family - Mr Charlie Sallinger.
They were all so cute I had to show you a shot of each to help with the decision making...
Tonight I need your help.
I was about to change the 'Eye Candy of the Week' and decided I'd throw it open to all you discerning blog readers. I'm going to theme it though so as to narrow the field and this weeks theme is 90's TV stars. So start racking your brains for hot candy from 90210, Melrose, Dawson's Creek etc. (This will give you a reprieve from the Keith Urban photo I was going to post!!)
I you have as much trouble as I do with the comments page just shoot me an email and I'll post it on the blog. jenny@chalkconcepts.com.au
I went to the Life In Style trade fair today for a wonder around and who should I meet but two of my favourite bloggers,Angela and Alison. It was lovely to be able to put faces to the blogs and to see all their wonderful products.
There wasn't a lot there that I hadn't seen before but I did find some great alphabet friezes from Miriam Bereson which will be great and they also do these amazing mirror birds for your wall which I think are amazing. They should be arriving instore early September so I'll keep you posted.
The other product I am looking forward to is the School Days Record Book from Milestone Press. This is a fabulous looking book with pages to record memories from the first day of Prep to the last day of secondary school. Each year has a pocket to store items such as paintings, certificates, photos etc and it is an amazing record of the school years.
We are also doing their baby version 'A Book About Me' to record memories from pregnancy to age 5.
All in all a successful outing - now hopefully everyone else will like what I chose and come a buy up all these great new products. (Or I'm going to be giving everyone I know an Alphabet frieze for Christmas!!)
A MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS TO
LISA AND SAM
- THE POSTER COUPLE FOR THE PERFECT PARTNERSHIP. WE LOVE YOU LONG TIME.
If you haven't already done so please visit these 2 very special Flashback Friday posts! Believe me it is worth it. They will make your heart sing. Bec and Call and Poppalina
God It's Flashback Friday again already and I nearly forgot!!
This photo just scrapes in as it's taken in 1985. It's one of my favourite photos as it is so evocative of my fabulous school days. This is Kris and I catching some rays in the corridor at school and although I look like I'm puckering up for a kiss I 'm sure Kris was just offering me some of her lunch. This photo makes me want to go back to those days so much... when you spent all day with your best friends instead of trying to catch a spare half hour together around kids, work, husbands, LIFE!!!
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