Apart from being crook as a dog (that's really ill with the flu for all my U.S. beady buddies who are learning Aussie slang), I had 2 lovely surprises yesterday.Number one is that I won a weekly bead challenge on http://www.beadingforum.com.au/This is a wonderfully supportive forum here in Australia and they have all sorts of challenges. There are seedie people, lampie people, clay people...

ok so how the bejiggles do I upload my own pic to my background... anyone??? And could I possibly get a bigger picture of myself on my header??? *snicker*

Oh my I have been a little slack in the updates... but after the hectic school hols, etc I have vowed to keep this updated.Starting with the background of this blog... after this post I will go looky see which of my pics is suitable for a background... while I DO love looking at Benny Bowling Ball and Tina Tenpin, I feel there is a blank space in the background. I did recently revamp the banner

(at last)7:00am: SHEEEEEERRR LXURY! I sleep in until 7am! Unheard of in these neck of the woods. It is the first day of school holidays after all. 'Cept we pay school fees to send kids to a good school and it seems they spend less time there!9:00am: kids happily watching cartoons, I pack and prepare beads for mailing. Some to the U.S. some to sunny QLD!1030am: Coffee o'clock. WHAT??? NO MILK???

I am getting worse aren't I? Should have posted this yesterday!7:00am: OMG I am blessed with very tired kids and a sleep in by my standards!10:00am: Still in jammies but don't care. Start formulating a plan to take over the world, beadwise. (read: do myself an old fashioned school timetable to promote my beads, etc)11:30am: take some bead pics, do some housework and plan out my bag that I want to