Spring (Autumn?) cleaning

So today we had no uni so we finally got into the office and attacked it with gusto. It took us... well... all day, but it feels good to have it done.

We have a box of things that we have lent from people (mostly books), and pile of things to take to the tender center (hopefully to make some money out of!) and a full bin ;-)

I have decided to make my desk a craft desk, so I have all my scrapbooking bits and pieces out on the desk, which will make keeping up with my year of my life cards a lot easier. I also have my sewing stuff set up in the cupboard so I can pull that out onto the desk easily too. I fell ready to be creative now! Maybe tomorrow I will start doing the new painting for our bedroom wall...

Here 'tis... (it's a really hard room to get a good angle for a photo!)

Week Nine

Scrapbooking stuff unpacked = can do my card for last week!!

Profound

People always ask why I want to be a teacher. A quote from my lecturer today sums it up:

"People are a product of their environment. For some kids, you as a teacher may be the only positive person in their entire world. The only person who can affect change in their self-belief and in the way they see the world around them. In that way, the teaching profession is one of the most powerful vocations there is"

Back to real life

Uni started back today. I had my first class of the semester/year from 3-6. It's a course called Communication & Collaboration which sounds boring but hopefully won't be too bad.
Tomorrow we have a day off, then I have uni again at 3 on wednesday. I think this semester is going to be okay.

I'm SO tired. I'm not really sure why. My back is sore too and I really need to talk my husband into giving me a massage. Hopefully our awesome infared massage machine from deals direct will come tomorrow!

Nite :)

Fine Food

At 4.00 this afternoon, I started making pasta. At 7.30 tonight we sat down for dinner. Fifteen minutes later, it was all eaten!! Totally worth it though. I made pink and green pasta. The pink was beetroot, and the green was spinach.
Pete and I made the pink pasta into spinach & ricotta tortellini, and that's what we ate tonight. The green pasta is going to be used for lasagne tomorrow.

Our rolled pasta sheets hanging over the back of the chair.


Pink pasta rolled into spinach & ricotta tortellini


Cooked tortellini. Yum!


Dinner for two.

I have to say, I felt very industrious making my own pasta from scratch! And it was so yummy... and there is some left for lunch tomorrow!