When it rains, it pours...

I know, a completely over-used phrase, but it's true - sometimes it really does pour! Here's proof...

It all started about 6 weeks ago. We had just just parked our car innocently on the side of the road, when we heard a loud 'BANG'! A somewhat careless Tradie had just backed his ute into our car, its metal tray ripping a huge gash into its side as if it was made of paper...

If that wasn't enough of a headache to sort out, only about two weeks later, I came home to find someone in our unit. Yes, a man had jumped over our fence and broken in through our sliding door and was upstairs when I came home from walking our dog! Had our little Maltese Terrier, Melita, not sniffed him out and alerted me to his presence, I probably would not have known that someone had broken in, that is, until I noticed the missing kitchen chair he had set up outside beside the fence for his getaway or went upstairs and saw the mess he left going through our personal possessions...

So, yes, sometimes it does pour. The past few weeks are testimony to that! All going well though, we hope to fix the car - despite being written off due to additional damage to the suspension. Thankfully too, I've been able to lend various camera's from my family, so have been able to work around the inconvenience of having mine stolen just when I was in the middle of doing a product photo shoot..

We're also very fortunate that neither incident was worse - especially considering the fact that I was still in the car when our car was hit, and that the thief was still carrying the screw driver he used to get in when he came running down the stairs in front of me... The situation also would likely have been quite different had just a few small details been different - had my husband not got out of the car a few minutes earlier, had he not decided to come home with me instead of stop by the shops on the way, had I not come home when I did - all could have made a big difference in both outcomes. Makes you think, just how amazing things sometimes work out, how one insignificant decision can make such a world of difference sometimes...

Anyway, all said and done, we're all okay, no one got hurt. The car is repairable and I should, hopefully, get a nice new camera soon. So perhaps that's enough to be thankful for. But it certainly makes you realise how quickly life can change...

♥

So, this is Christmas...

Hello all! Welcome to the new year - and the first anniversary for this little blog!

A little late, I know, being already almost the end of January (can you believe it!?), but better late then never, I say....

After all, I do have my reasons. I didn't quite start the new year as I would've liked...

Remember Christmas day 2011? Remember hail as big a golf balls? If you were in Melbourne at the time then you'd had to have been in a coma not to remember...

Well, we were flooded. Bad. The rain flooded our courtyard, so much so that my husband had to go out and push it out through the garage with a broom. Rain also came through our garage roof (little did we know that a tennis ball had somehow found it's way into the down pipe...). For the worst part of two weeks (plus some) I was mopping up, sorting through piles of books, supplies and even photos that I had unfortunately had kept there. No, not the best way to start a new year...

Thankfully I am s-l-o-w-l-y now getting on top of things, but it's been a really rough ride, both emotionally and physically - far more then I ever would have expected!

BUT, on the upside, I have managed to get a little break from the mess, and work on a few new creations. Here's a little sneak peek of something I made for a little girls' first wedding...

(yes, she bought both - her mother couldn't decide which was the cutest of the two... Can't wait to find out which she actually wore on the day...)

Stretch Lace 'Bella' Bow headbands

... more pics coming soon - including some from Kids Style Hub's first official photo shoot!