jump jump jump

If you feel you want too....

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Having a child PLUS a husband that leaves early for work and comes home late PLUS currently 'living in the sticks' living in the outer suburbs leaves me with little time to do any exercise on my own.

Way back when I was training ALL THE TIME and more specifically getting in shape to look fabulous in my wedding dress I was doing a lot of skipping.
My PT at the time stole borrowed a skipping rope from the gym and oops! What do you know I still have it now! (It's a yellow 'jump rope for heart' one - remember doing the skipping at school? collecting donations and getting different prizes? well I do!)

So, I just may have put on a little a lot of weight (ok 5kg's) since I stopped breastfeeding and going back to work... But after multiple moves I found my skipping rope the other day!

It's been the perfect exercise to do while Abi is asleep.
Phew! It's hard work though! I never remember it being this hard!

What other things can I do at home to exercise? What do you do?

do you instagram?

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I have had an account for ages. But I kinda forgot about it till about 2 weeks ago.
I know how long I've had it because the first pic I posted was a baby Abi at about 3 months old!

Anyway, I'm getting back into it. quicker and easier than FB and less/no whinging!

Feel free to follow me! SHOESAMMIE and let me know your user name and I'll follow you!

(BTW - This is my 400th post! - WOW!)

babys got style

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Woah... I spent most of my morning yesterday online... Shopping...
Yup, you heard right... MOST of my morning... Actually I think it rolled into the afternoon...
The Baby's got style sale was just way too good! But way way too slow.

Picked up some wonderful bargains and some great gifts!
I love to think forward to birthdays, new babies (not mine!) and special gifts and stock up when I can!

Can not wait to get the order!!! And I shall post back about it all then!

I even went back for more! But what I wanted sold out before I had a chance to check out.
Oh well...

Now, I'm warning you... There is still a lot of bargains there... Be prepared to spend up BIG!

Happy shopping! And you can call me 'The Enabler'

* Please note that I am in no way being paid or sponsored by BGS (Although I'd like to be!) I just like to let everyone know of the amazing bargains out there!

hang it

We are still living in a rental. Though we moved to a new one about 6 weeks ago. It's much nicer, lighter and brighter.

The problem with rentals is not being able to hang things on the walls.

We have quite a bit of art and many of those originals. Sadly they are all packed away in the spare room and it's coming up to nearly a year that they have been like that and lonely.

I really wanted to 'jazz' up Abi's room a little. You may rememeber a few posts ago I wrote about the Colette Dinnigan & the Australian Ballet for Target range?

Well I bought 3 x tutu's on sale! a pink size 3, a purple size 5 and just receintly a blue size 7.

And this is what I did!

 

There are some other posts on her room from January 2012 here and then April 2012 here.

Now, I am not one to steal all the credit and I'm always happy to say that most of the time my best ideas come from someone else! (Just ask any HN store that I did training with!) And I have to say the base for my idea came from here. Yup, somehow seeing a tutu hanging on a cot gave me the idea to put them on the wall...

I'd love to put up some other stuff, but reading the instructions for the 3M wall hanging thingies and then weighing any of our art means it's not going to happen.

Anyone else got some ideas??? (Other than 'buy a house! - And there's another story there too!)

bunny hop

Here's my little bunny from Easter!
We were away for the long weekend and had a ball!
A little chocolate (ok so maybe I had a lot) was eaten, lovely champagne was drunk, meals out, roast dinners and more!

Many many months ago I did buy Abi a cute little pair of bunny PJ's from Peter Alexander but sadly my little bunny hasn't grown quite as much as I was thinking she would and they are HUGE on her so I whipped these Baby Gap buggy pj's out instead. The PA ones probably wont fit till next year!

Don't you just love the long 4 day weekend we get at easter!

The bunny ears are Oobi. You can see quite a few bunnies sporting their ears HERE & HERE! And I'm sure there's more!!! Post a link to your ear wearing bunnies so I can (and others!) check them out!