yay.....some winners

Howdy all! Sorry I haven't much time to post. 

I just wanted to drop in tonight to let the winners of the A-mazing Finish Quantum Dishwasher tablets giveaway know who they were! The girls at Soup kindly picked two winners for me and they are:

• Sharnee ($150 Coles/Myer voucher)
• Anne ($100 Coles/Myer voucher)

Congratulations guys.  Email me when you can so I can pass on your details and your prizes can be posted and you can get shopping!

Thanks so much for entering everyone. It was lovely reading all the different things that amaze you all. Loved all the answers.

Promise I'll be back soon for some regular posting!!

Night night. xx

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bend and stretch

We've just enrolled little J in a gymnastics class and he starts this Saturday. He is super duper excited about it. It's his first proper class of any kind of sporty/extra-curricular type of activity. We went and visited the gym to pay our money last week, so we got to watch some of the kids in the holiday class doing their training. Fun!! The head coach was really lovely, and J didn't want to leave! I keep reminding him that he only has x sleeps to go before it starts. It always brings a smile to his little face.

Does your little one do any classes? How are they finding it?

I can't wait to see J in action! 

PS. Don't forget to enter my super duper amazing giveaway here too. Odds are good at the moment too!

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morning

I know it's really late morning, but good morning nevertheless!

Just wanted to share my latest Etsy love.....this lovely little store has the most delightful pillows and covers. I think I'm in love with them all. Go and have a look.

And please don't miss this, it's too good to pass up!

ahhhhhhmazing! {giveaway too!}

See those little rectangular things up there with the red ball in the middle? Yes, dishwasher tablets. Now, I don't tend to get excited about anything that revolves around cleaning dishes. All those powders are they same aren't they? Well, that's what I always thought. I would kind of just gravitate towards whatever was on special that looked like it would basically get the job done. I'm also one of those people that doesn't think they can really notice the difference between products either.

Towards the end of last year, I received an invitation from Soup to trial some new dishwasher tablets. The new Finish Quantum ones. I was pretty keen since we do give our dishwasher quite the work out so jumped on board to give them a go. I received a huge stash of tablets to try out myself as well as some sample packs to hand out to friends to try. Every one I have spoken to so far has been impressed. And I also have to say I have been totally amazed too. I've certainly been able to tell that these have significantly washed my dishes better than anything I've used before, including Finish powder, and it also seems to wash your dishwasher too. I'd never seen my machine looking that sparkling before! My cutlery was also less streaky that what I was used to seeing at the end of a wash cycle. Ahhhhhhmazing, truly.

I love it when you get the chance to trial something and it well and truly surpasses your expectations. I normally expect to love something but not this much!! Without a doubt I've been truly blown away by the way these tablets do their thing, and I will definitely be adding these to my supermarket trolley in future.

Now not only do I get to benefit in trialling out this new product along with friends, Soup and Finish are also providing an opportunity for you guys to experience something truly amazing too.

All you have to do is leave a comment below answering the question 'what is amazing, every time?' in  100 words or less. This giveaway will be judged on the creativity of your answers by the lovely people at Soup, so get creative and interesting with your answers.

And what will you win? There are two prizes up for grabs: 

• 1 x $150 Coles/Myer voucher and 
• 1 x $100 Coles/Myer voucher. 

How amazing is that?!

Giveaway runs until next Thursday 3 February 8pm and the winners notified within the week following.

Good luck!!

beep beep - new wheels

Well, I hope you didn't think it was me with the new wheels! In actual fact, it's Josh with the new set of wheels. I had a big fail with Christmas presents for Josh and Zoe in some super cheap Disney scooters. They were very difficult to put together and couldn't really be tightened properly so Josh's scooter sort of became a little unsafe to drive. My reasoning behind getting them was that if they weren't a hit then I hadn't spent too much money on them! Turns out Josh really loves the scooter, and recently when we went to the local park, he spied a little boy (and his sister) with this rad little scooter! It's called a micro scooter. Josh couldn't take his eyes off it and eventually coerced the little sister into giving him a turn of hers. He was in love. For days after, he didn't stop talking about THE scooter. So I caved, did some research and got him one.

He is still in love with it. It's a great little scooter. It's a Swiss design and there are two wheels at the front instead of at the back, and to steer it you lean from side to side. It also has a little brake on the back which is very cool. We bought the model up from the one we saw at the park. The toddler one isn't height adjustable so we upgraded to make sure Josh would get the maximum enjoyment out of it for years. If your little one doesn't have a scooter yet and you are planning on getting one soon, I'd definitely recommend looking at this one! We got ours from Rebel Sport and the mother I spoke to said she was always getting comments on the scooters. Now I know why, they really are great!

Hope everyone is having a great week. I have a few brilliant giveaways coming this week and next so please come back and visit later too. Anyone have children back or going back to school? I can't wait for Josh to start preschool again next week. Am fast running out of things to do to keep him occupied.....tips?

produce from the garden

Our garden bed for our vege patch isn't quite ready yet, but in the meantime we have a few other things growing around the place, and one of those things is a passion fruit vine that we have been growing since last year. A few months ago, we noticed some green fruit on it, and finally this week we noticed a few had fallen off the vine as well as there being another on the vine ready to pick! Here they are on the kitchen window sill ripening a little more. I'm just waiting for a batch of homemade vanilla ice-cream to arrive this week from a work colleague's wife so I can enjoy my first home grown passion fruit! Yum!