Mmmm....butterscotch. Mmmmmmm......really fudgy chocolate icing. On top of brownies.
No, stop. They're supposed to be for the cake sale. But - mmmmmmm....
Anyway. The latest Dotty Divas challenge has arrived, and here it is:
I really wanted to see this being used other than as an inspiration for the title - although there's nothing wrong with that! - and Kim has done it with her gorgeous LO. Go and take a look!
Also this week our guest designer is Christina Clouse from our sponsors, Label Tulip . They're giving away a beautiful kit AND yet again Cardinal Colours are providing a fantastic 25-sheet pack of Bazzill cardstock!
I made this
...my black ink ran out, so I rummaged about in the drawer and found four new cartridges, of which only two were the right sort. Oops. Bit of mis-ordering there. I printed a thing or two and then the cyan ran out. So I got online and ordered some cyan, which turned up on Monday. I put the cyan cartridge in and the printer told me it had run out of pink as well. Well, maybe it would have been an idea to mention that before, printer.
So I stuck with the photo I had already found of my daughter taking a picture of herself. Which is all 14 year old girls seem to do...
Today has been a hectic day, which started when I got up IN THE DARK and found that even after I had showered, dressed and made a cup of tea, IT WAS STILL DARK. I have some issues with this, but apparently it happens every morning and there's nothing I can do about it.
I wanted to leave quite early so that I could get to uni before I was meant to be there, as opposed to the last time when I arrived 15 minutes late. If you leave at 7.20, I was told, you will get there at 8, whereas if you leave at 7.40 you could end up being 15 minutes late.
Unfortunately I had woken up at 4.30 so I don't really know how I'm still awake. Today was the day of our Presentation. I won't bore you with the details except to say that we had to compare our school with another one. And whilst we could use a powerpoint presentation, the tutor did ask God to save him from a whole day of such things.
The tutor also told us that because last year's students did such a RUDDY GOOD JOB of their presentations, he had decided that this year he would actually be including them as part of our assessment. So, no pressure.
Now, I like to think that I can talk pretty good, so I had decided not to read anything off bits of paper and to create a super-groovy selection of visual aids from my scrappy supplies. You know, corrugated cardboard, acrylic paints, cardstock, markers etc. Glue. Lots of glue.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake, just as Victim #1 had finished her trembling, breathless presentation, of turning to ask the tutor something. It wasn't 'Can I go next please?', but he thought it was and said yes, I could. I hadn't even softened my blutac, for heaven's sake.
Nevertheless I rose to the occasion and started sticking things to the walls whilst banging on about mission statements and the school ethos. It was all going okay until I got to my conclusion, which had no visual prompts and therefore, I realised with sudden clarity, needed to have been practised a LOT more. I probably shouldn't have said 'Oooh, I'll just get my bit of paper, haha'. And in any case, when I looked at the paper nothing went into my brain. Reader, I missed bits out.
Apparently, we all passed, which was good news, although when we get our written feedback I'm expecting mine to include the words 'blabbering' and 'shambles'.
