Am I a Top 25 Creative Mom?

from here

Late last week, I received an email letting me know I'd been nominated for the annual "top 25 Creative Mom" blog award from Circle of Moms. No idea who put me forward or why, but it was very unexpected and a little exciting! If you are not familiar with Circle of Moms, its a great resource for new mums - with practical advice, tips, forums and all manner of other fun bits and pieces to help make your first days and months as a new mother a bit more bearable!

To be nominated in this list is a lovely compliment... but to be one of the top 25 I need your votes! If you love Bubby Makes Three and would like to see my blog in the top 25, simply vote for me by clicking on the button on the top right of my blog and then the button next to my logo once you are on the page.

In return, I will send e-kisses your way... and vote for YOUR blog if you are also nominated! (just share your link in the comments below)

Even if you don't want to vote, I recommend clicking into the list for a looksy anyway -- lots of creative fodder to add to your favourites bar and some great, creative blogs you may not have discovered yet!

Thanks gals, and have a lovely week xx

ps. Thanks for your sweet comments about liking the pics of moi from my recent holiday, I realised I don't share too many images of my good self on my blog... at 35 I am not feeling like an oil painting these days, and am normally too vain to show my wrinkles to the wide world! You have shown me I need to just get over myself. So thank you! x

Rockin a Bit of Style.... Apparently!

Thankyou to the gorgeous and undoubtedly stylish Simone at Honey and Fizz who bestowed upon me a "Stylish Blogger" award... hmmm. I'm not rockin much style sitting here in my jammies at the mo, but seeing as you can't see me, I'll gratefully accept the award and play along!

This award stipulates I must thank my bestower (done) link back to them (done), share 7 things about myself (to follow), and forward the award on to 10 other worthy recipients.

Here I go. 7 random insightful bits of frippery about me: 

1. My greatest accomplishment to date (aside from my two children!) is riding a bicycle the 1000-odd kilometres from Sydney to Melbourne. I did it with 3 others (all men!) about 8 years ago, raising money for our local PCYC. Our journey covered around 1000km and we did it completely unsupported, carting our belongings and little tents on panniers on the back of our bikes. Though it was physically the hardest thing I've ever done, it was also the most empowering and made me feel I could accomplish anything. If you ever get such a chance to do something you don't think you can do -- do it.

Dan, me with scarily orange hair, our dog Jonah (he's still going strong!), bloke from PCYC and Crawford

2. I have dreadful arachnophobia. You won't see an image to illustrate this point. I can't look at an image of a spider without feeling sick. And I hope my husband doesn't read this, because he might be cranky to learn that I unabashedly chucked a little animal picture book he'd bought Fern in the bin when he wasn't looking... because it contained an image of a hairy brown spider. Shudder...

3. When I was little, I wanted to be a gymnastics commentator. I recorded all the gymnastics on TV and memorised all the moves and names of gymnasts. But after I never quite got around to taking up gymnastics myself, I changed my mind and decided to be an astronomer. Clearly, that never quite panned out either...

4. I'm left handed. And yes, there is always a little smudgy bit underneath my hand from when I write. And no, I can't use scissors.

5. At university, I made a one-minute silent film animation of the Kennedy assassination using...... lego. It took me days to build the set. It was pretty elaborate. And afterward, a guy I met who worked at a production company put sound to it. I wish I had it on digital so I could share; its priceless -- even if I do say so myself.

6. My favourite flowers are orchids... Each year when they are in flower my friend Kellie and I buy one from the local show to add to our collection. Technically I should have lots of orchids in my garden now. But the truth is, I've killed all but 2. I have one green and one yellow Cymbidium left. Hopefully they will flower this year and I'll post my evidence....

7. I proudly own (and refuse to be parted with) a pair of original 1992 U2 Bono Fly sunglasses.  I never ripped off the tag. Apparently there are now worth a mint. That's good, because I haven't gotten around to saving any superannuation...


And now. I'd like to forward this award to all the lovely, stylish ladies who took the time to give me words of encouragement, support and advice last week, when I bravely announced my impending little business! That to me, is the essence of style. Thankyou:

Lona De Anna
My Sweet Prints
Homely One
Leticia
Rubie's Place
Sweetpea Design
Photographer mum

Maybe Baby 

Tied With a Bouw
Tails and Whiskers
Wouldn't it be Loverly
A Boys Mummy
Life's Little Whispers
Procrastination Mama
Life on Planet Baby

That's Me... Over and Out!

Dearest friends, Christmas is just around the corner and so, with a billion things to do and a recently expanded family to focus on, I'm going to make this my last post for a while. Well, until New Year, anyway. But Im not going far, and when I do come back I am hoping to have had a little facelift (my blog, that is!) So please, make yourself some popcorn during this intermission but don't go anywhere because programming will recommence shortly!

But before I go, can I just acknowledge a few people:

Firstly, to my sister Louise who had no way of knowing how crap I've been feeling about myself of late (and neither did you - but I'm sharing it now!) but somehow bought me the perfect Christmas pressie: a massage and facial at a very luxurious dayspa! I can't tell you how much I need this, and when I can convince myself its ok to un-velcro myself from Elliott for more than an hour at a time, I plan to spend a good half day pampering and primping there! My sister also bought Elliott an amazing mobile from Etsy which sparkles in the sunlight but which I have only just mounted. It's beautiful, and so is she. Thankyou, Louise you are so precious to me...

Secondly, to the very sweet Sophie at Red Dust Love who bestowed the 'Blog With Substance' Award upon me, and to Emma Jane from Emma Jane Forever who offered me a 'Cherry on Top' award this week! I am so flattered, and as always just a tiny bit surprised... you mean people actually read my blog and (gulp) like it?! Thanks gorgeous girls, you made my week!

And thirdly, can I thank you. For reading what I write. For leaving me the most supportive comments and keeping me keeping going with this blog even when I think its all too much. Thankyou!

And so. I guess it's Chou for now! I wish you and your family the merriest of Christmases and I can't wait to see what's in store for 2011! Please, you have license to let me know what you like and don't like about this blog - what you want to see more (and less!) of next year. And whether you think I should have changed my blog name when I had Elliott!

ps. Yes. I know I am yet to post those pics of Fern and Elli's cubby. Naughty naughty me! It's because - after 3 weeks - I am STILL painting the darn thing! Its a work of art, I can tell you! Or maybe its that Im an atrocious painter. One of the two. But you have my word those pics will be in my very next post. Promise.

Love to you all!! x