Fun At Home

Fete!!

2011-12-03T09:39:00.001+11:00

Hey,
Yesterday was our school fete. We usually have a production and a fete but this year we had some performances at the fete from each grade. It was called rock throughout the ages! Our class was the 1980's. We sung thriller, we will rock you and we are together! We had good make-up and costumes to suit all of the songs. It worked out really well and the audience seemed to enjoy it! At the fete we had rides and different games and lots of stalls. We had the combat challenge, mini golf, a junior jumping castle and a dunking machine. We got heaps of the teacher saturated, it was really funny!! We also had candy floss and popcorn and snow cones stalls. My friend Steph had 5 things of candy floss and her teeth went pink. There were also all different stalls and lucky cups filled with toys or lollies and chocolate. There was a trash and treasure and a silent auction plus a normal auction! It was really fun and my friend got a tattoo!! It was a great day and a good way to end the week!!

White Chocolate Mousse

2011-11-28T16:42:00.001+11:00

Hello,

I am going to give you a recipe to a really good white chocolate mousse. The recipe has come out of our school book and most of the recipes on my blog are from this book. It is a great treat that you will have to try! Click Here for the photos.

Ingredients

300g Of White Chocolate- Chopped

6 egg yolks

100g of caster sugar (plain white sugar will be fine)

500ml of thickened cream

Fresh Berries (optional) to serve

Method

Melt chocolate in a heat proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Or on medium in the microwave in 1 minute bursts.

Place yolks and sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer for 5 minutes and until thick and creamy. Beat cream with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Fold in chocolate mixture to egg yolks and stir until combined. In spoon fulls gradually add the cream stirring quickly to prevent lumps from forming. Once combined put into six large cups for a good serving.

Chill for four hours.

Serve with fresh berries. Remember if you'de like to see all the photos Click Here but the finished product is not there because everyone ate it as soon as it came out.

Camp

2011-11-11T18:40:00.001+11:00

Hello!
About a week ago I arrived back home from a very tiring camp. We went down to the beach and stayed at the nearby scout camp! Although it was very fun everyone was tired out by the end of the 5 days. On Monday we got our stuff put on the bus and drove down to our camp. It took about 2 hours to get there.
When we did arrive we put up or tents, got out our bags and lay down our sleeping bags. That day we also went down to the beach just to see what it was like! It was great. Over the days we went to the beach and played some games down there. We went on a great long hike for a few hours and afterwards relaxed a bit down at the beach. We also visited a light house and explored the rock pools and right off the edge we found a seal!! The seaweed was everywhere and it was called Neptune necklace.
We also went to a rope course and had a time challenge and went to another place called challenge valley with all sorts of different activities to do outside! We were very lucky with the weather but one night there was a bit of a storm but everyone lasted through it! The toilets were awful because they were drop dunnies but the showers were great with nice hot water!
All the things we did were really fun and on the hike there was a shoe cleaning place because the people who own the area didn't want a certain fungus to be spread! We also crossed a tiger snake breeding ground and walked along the cliffs. It was fantastic considering we had missed out on our other camp but that made up for it.
We were going to go to another beach but that got flooded out earlier in the year and wasn't going to be a very pleasant trip! That was the first time out school has ever gone to that beach and we all enjoyed it.

Meringues

2011-11-06T07:38:00.001+11:00

Hi,
The other day I made some easy meringues. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients.
4 Egg Whites
1 Cup Of Caster Or White Sugar.

Method.
Pre-heat oven to 100 degrees Celsius. Mix up egg whites in an electric mixer until soft peeks form. It will go bubbly at first but keep mixing until you can see the lines of the beaters or soft peeks are appearing continue mixing and very slowly add the sugar, a little at a time. If you add it too fast it won't work and it will make a mess. So just little bit a time sprinkling over the egg whites as they are mixing! When it is all mixed together get a spoon and just dollop the meringue onto a greased baking tray, you can also use baking paper. They don't have to be in any particular shape but you can do that if you like. I got about 12 or 13 dollops over the tray. Then put the meringues in the oven and check them about every five or ten minutes for 30 to 35 minutes or until very lightly golden. If they don't turn golden that's fine because you can eat them when they're white with a creamy bit in the centre. Once finished cooking turn of the oven and open the door slightly and leave them in there to cool completely! Once they are taken out they are delicious!
Hope you enjoy them!
Sorry I didn't get a picture to see how they turned out but they were eaten very quickly and I couldn't find my camera!!

Orienteering!

2011-11-04T16:00:00.001+11:00

Hi,
Today I went down to the district orienteering. Our school has now won 18 out of 21 times. We are going really well and have just taken the trophy once again! I was one out of two people chosen to go up and take the trophy to represent our school. The are three groups in each year level starting from grade 3 to enter for boys and girls. Girls A, Girls B and Pairs, Boys A, Boys B and Pairs. I was in the Girls B along with most of my friends and I was lucky enough to win. It took me 37 minutes to complete the large course and the 9 other people behind me took from 40 minutes to an hour or so! There were lots of steep hills but I managed to make my way up them. We had a great day out and have the trophy for our 18th time!

Halloween Party

2011-10-30T07:17:00.000+11:00

Hello!!

On Sunday I went to the Halloween party. When I got there the costumes were great. It's only my family who goes. Our Oma, aunties and uncles and our cousins. I dressed up as a witch and some funny comments and faces were shown towards me!! Especially by my sisters. When we arrived at the party there was a nice place set up, even eyeball lollies made out of marsh mellows, red gel and a black lolly in the middle. It was very spooky.

First off we played some games, one wasn't really a game but more of a contest for the best costume and I won! I dressed up as a witch and it took a long time to wipe off all the make-up from my face. Some of the other games were eating the doughnut off the string (with out your hands) and another one not using your hands, bobbing for apples, and ANOTHER one with out using your hands, there is icing sugar on a plate with jelly beans hidden inside and you have to use your mouth to dig them out and then eat them. We also played spooks, snakes, spiders. That was fun and then last we made some spiders out of pom-poms and pipe-cleaners. Afterwards we ad dinner, watched a movie, lit some sparklers and then it was time to go home!

On Monday we went to another party and went trick or treating. We went to heaps of houses and got lots of lollies. Some houses were decorated really well and had Halloween things everywhere and one house was really scary because the man dressed up as a vampire and his 'pet', or so he calls it opened the door very slowly with a monster costume on and just when you think, this isn't that scary he opens the door and shouts out at you!! It was pretty funny. We should have seen it coming because there were signs everywhere reading, Danger, Beware Of Monster and Enter At Own Risk!! Then we walked back down to the party and just played on the flying fox and special swings. I built a huge tower with my friends younger sister and it was really good and stable because it kept going on taller than me and was very close to touching the roof! When we left we had to walk back tot the car on the cold and dark night but we had a great time over the Halloween time.

I would also like to say my sister has a blog and not many people are interested, if you are interested the link is here.

The Fox

2011-10-29T18:15:00.001+11:00

Hi,
Lately a fox has been coming to our house and catching out ducks. We started off with 5 and have gone down to 2. It is very annoying and not very nice when you look out the window and see a fox sneaking around your house.

Weekends

2011-10-29T09:47:00.001+11:00

How is everyone?
I am good and a busy weekend has crept up on me. Today I will be going to the cinemas with my friends for a birthday party. Ten grade 6 girls are meeting at my friend Mikaela's house and will be going to the movies. On Sunday we will be having a Halloween Celebration at my Oma's house. We are having it the day before Halloween so on the Monday we can go Trick Or Treating. I will be going with a few of my friends down the road. I will be dressing up as nothing in particular but having a French braid up the back of my hair tied in a bun and having a "spider" in my hair. Really just some pipe-cleaners and something to make a spiders face. For the Halloween Party

That's the look. I found this website after looking for graduation hairstyles and came across this one, obviously NOT for graduation!! Click Here for the link to Princess Hairstyles! It's a great for tweens and young girls.. Click on Halloween and find the one of a little girl with a cute braid and spider in her hair.

Plant Stall

2011-10-21T16:44:00.002+11:00

Hi,

My plant stall is running well and I have made a fair lot of money from it. I have leeks, people take heaps and some flowers, oregano, parsley and some more. I will now have to start watering them regularly considering summer is coming!! It is going very well and some plants are getting ready in the green house. Also I have found a site called Pinterest which is really fun. Search it on Google. It's a site to out everything you find so you don't have to go back or remember websites.

Athletics

2011-10-18T17:09:00.003+11:00

Hi,
As you may remember me saying about my districts athletics and moving up to the next level, I did, if you haven't read it you may want to see it first and then come back to this. Click Here To Go To Link. Anyway I went down and it was great, hot weather but really fun. I caught the bus down there and arrived just on time. My event was second of the day at 9:45, it didn't go for too long but I was in triple jump and there were alot if girls also competing against me. I cam 4th out of about 20 girls. You would only move on to the next level if you came 1st or 2nd, and I didn't but some of my friends from the other school did. There was a canteen there and I got some things, it was a very hot day. Even though I thought I had put on sun screen it appeared that I was wrong, It was great fun and a long day!!
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Catching Up

2011-10-16T08:27:00.001+11:00

Over Flowing

Hi,

Parsley

There hasn't been too much going on around my house but I thought I could just write a post about how everything is going.

Veggie Gardens: What is there to tell except that they're huge and we are getting alot of use out of them! They're very tall now and some are over flowing our space for them!! The pics be easier to see.

School: At School I have to make a musical instrument for music class, I looked at 4 different ones and two were actually new instruments. I looked at a tambourine because it would be reasonably easy and able to be decorated, a pan flute because it has a good sound and would be fun to make and then the two made up ones. First was based on a set of newton balls which is a frame with balls hanging, you pull the end and the energy travels through the rest and causes the end one to glide through the air and back down knocking the last one over and over again. So I thought if I extended the frames and hung keys of pipe to make chimes on either end, that when you pull the newton balls it would hit the chimes and make a noise. The second made up one, was to attach bells on a pan flute so you could still blow through it and also jiggle it around like a tambourine! In the end I chose a tambourine!

Party

2011-10-09T12:39:00.003+11:00

Wow

Our Balloon Pile!

Another sleepover. Last night my cousin, Brittney slept over at my house after the busy day before. We had both of my sisters parties.

Instead Of A Cake At Kata's Party We All Made Cupcakes!

Katarina, the youngest turned 8 and had a very successful bug party. My mum and I organized the party with help from my dad and other sister Elizabeth who turned 10 and had a great disco party! Katarina's party was great and almost everyone turned up. They played pass the parcel and keep the balloon off the ground along with pin the stinger on the bee. There were fun bug related prizes and I think all the kids enjoyed the time! Next up was Elizabeth's party. Her disco party went well. The games played were well done and the party was good. All the kids who came their time!! 2 parties in 1 day was very busy but good because it was all over and done with! That night our cousin stayed over seeing as her younger sister came earlier for Katarina's party! Today we are at our grandma's house keeping her company! Tomorrow we will be going back to school for the last term of this year! Then I will be starting high school. YES!!!

BALLOON FIGHT (Brittney-Left, Me-Right)

Busy With Sleepovers

2011-10-06T08:10:00.000+11:00

Hi,
Well that was a busy time. I have had two sleepovers in a row. First was with my grandma, and then with my friend. At my grandma's house I had fun and we had ravioli for dinner. The next day we went shopping for our Christmas presents, even though it's a little early! We thought that before all the super Christmastime presents came in we would go and chose our presents now and at Christmas we would get them! Then that day I went to my friends house and we watched some movies, we watched, Mean Girls 2 which was funny and Yours, Mine and Ours which was also funny. It was about 2 people a, who wanted to get married and each one had kids. The girl had 10 and the man had 8. They ended up with 18 fighting kids. They fought so much to break up their new parents but as soon as the Dad needs to leave for a military ship they decide they should be a family and the dad leaves his ship to come home! The day after we went down and played outside and then walked around the local street!

Upsetting News.

2011-09-29T17:38:00.001+10:00

Hello everyone,
I have a bit of bad news that I found out at around 4:30 on the 29/9/2011. As I said in my storm post we were visiting the hospital to see our grandpa, we found out today that he was no longer with us. The doctors didn't even expect him to be alive yesterday but he was as well as today but i don't think he felt too good. He wasn't really able to talk and he only said help and muttered words from his original language, German. My Oma (German for grandma) is going to stay the night and she isn't too happy. It's all very sad but I am happy that he doesn't have to live the rest of his life being sick and ill. I guess everyone has to come to the end and that was his time.

Storms

2011-09-29T08:56:00.000+10:00

WHOA!
Last night was the worst storm I have ever been in. Usually I am hearing about flood warnings and what to do and what not to, but this time I was in it. We were driving to the hospital to visit our grandpa who isn't doing to well and a storm came crashing down, we knew it would happen because it was pouring before we left and the only reason we went out in the flash flooding was because dad was prepared with a our wheel drive. If we had of had one of the smaller cars we would be staying inside. Before we were getting ready to leave the power kept going off and lightning strikes shot through parts of our house through the sky lights. Our cat was underneath a sky light when the crashing thunder and lighting struck, she looked up to see what was going on and ran out of that spot immediately. It was horrifying. We were literally driving through sort of a river about half a metre to a metre high. On the way home my dad had taken a different car to mum seeing as she was already at the hospital, dad and my sisters told us that they had almost gone off the road due to all this water. Mum and I were going to turn off a road when we found our selves stuck in extremely high water. It was hard but we managed to turn around and take a different route. The same thing happened on a bridge and if we got stuck there was only one way of getting out, pushing, but on both roads leading off the bridge they were steep and uphill. Luckily we got through. Throughout the entire drive water was constantly being bushed off the road from the tyres and onto the footpaths, grass and especially all over the car. When we got out to have dinner there were floods everywhere, and wearing my good open shoes didn't end well. I was saturated from just below my knees down. It was just bucketing down rain causing flash flooding all over the state. Sorry I couldn't get any pics, the camera would have probably been broken in that weather!!! It wasn't the best night out!

S.J Young

2011-09-28T09:22:00.001+10:00

Hello,
I am very impressed with a fabulous blog I have decided to find a blog award that matches her blog. Sarah.J. Young. GREAT JOB Sarah! Remember to pass this award on Sarah!
Sarahs's Blog Link

Uniform Fitting

2011-09-28T09:14:00.000+10:00

Hi,
Yesterday my family drove to the new high school I will be going to next year. As I am familiar with the school because I was there in grade prep and 1 I new a little bit about the uniform. So we were having the fitting to make sure everything was right and see what I got to wear. The uniform was very big with all different clothes. I Summer and Sport because we would do the Winter next term. For the Summer there was just a dress plus the other uniform you wear all year round which is ankle socks, the jumper and blazer. The sport uniform was very simple, shorts, tee-shirt and a rugby jumper. I thought the uniform was pretty good and I really liked it! It was a great day and fun to see what I would be wearing next year.

Show Day

2011-09-28T07:19:00.003+10:00

Hello Everyone,
Last Friday, last Friday of the school term it was the annual show day. It started off with the pet parade. Everyone brings in a dog, a bird, a cat, a sheep, a horse etc.!! Then they would walk around the schools oval showing off and playing t=with their animals. If you don't have a pet or don't want to bring one (like me) you can bring a toy. I brought a koala puppet! It was the only thing I could find in a rush!!

After that which goes for half and hour or so we move onto the exhibits. The hole school had been working on something to do with our theme. Country/Farms. Grades Prep-4 were working on 2D art such as drawings. The grade 5's and 6's get to create 3D pieces.

Then it was optional whether you put in a cake or a flower arrangement. The cakes were judged on the decorating. We even had the CWA (Country Women's Association) come in and judge all of our work as well as all of the students!

Next it was time to go inside, our class just relaxed and packed up quickly for the rest of the term. We didn't do much but sit down and have a chat with our friends. After that it was play time. That's just like any other day and was pretty fun! Next the years 5 and 6 went over the road to a block of land our school owns. We played games all earning points leading up to the final prize! 1st up was the wheel barrow races, my team did quite well, as other teams had a few tumbles!! It was then time for the egg and spoon races or spoon and tennis ball races! We dropped a few but hid it from the people watching. That was it and then it was lunch.

This is they best part of the day. We could buy everything, there were stalls set up all over the netball court with hot pies and sausage rolls. Hot dogs and sausages. Cordial, dim sims and ice-cream. The lolly stall, full of delicious treats.
Whilst it was still last play most of the school joined in on a big game of soccer. It was 5 and 6 v the rest of the school. Because we've had more experience and we kick harder a few kids ended up with some injuries but the game still went on. The final score was 3-1 but we only had about 25 minutes to play! Then we all went inside and relaxed again until it was time to go home at 2:30.

E-MAIL

2011-09-25T17:58:00.000+10:00

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My Very First Blog Award

2011-09-25T08:11:00.004+10:00

Hello,
I have just received a blog award from S.J Young! Thank-you Sarah! I didn't know that I would get this award. Anyone who hasn't seen Sarah's blog here is the link. Easy Make And Do .
This is the award I won!!! WOOHOOO
For this blog award I have to give it to a few different blogs without many followers yet. Don't forget, if I gave you a blog award you can write it on your blog and pass it on to some other blogs without many followers.
So 1. Elizabeth- Butterflies And Polka Dots
2. Kirra- Kirra's Creations
3. Christine- Slow Living Essentials
4. Katarina-Kata The K Kid

Athletics & Softball

2011-09-24T08:54:00.001+10:00

Hello,
A few weeks ago my school was doing some sport. We did Athletics as well as a softball day. They were both on separate days. First up was athletics, we caught the bus down to the stadium type thing!!! There were all different events such as jumps, high jump, long jump, triple jump and hurdles. Track events- 100m sprint, 200m, 800 and the furthest, 1500m. The field events were discuss and shot-put. Plus a relay which was held at the end. I was in a relay, high jump, triple jump and 200m. I got =4th in high jump! 5th in 200m, 5th in the relay and 1st in triple jump. Because I came 1st I move onto the zones which are in October. That is when I compete against all the different areas who came first in triple jump Quite a few people from my school got in zones and will be catching the bus there.
Softball- We caught the bus just like athletics to the field. The mixed team and the girls team split up and went off to their games. The girls won their first game lost the second and third and lost but not by far to the best team in the area. There is no more competing for another level and was just too have fun. I heard the boys won 3 and lost 1. That was a better day for them. Softball is a bit like base ball and is very fun. During the day we got hot chips and lots of lollies! In both sporting events we had a great day out. I would also like to thank S.J Young for passing on a blog award. THANK-YOU!!!

Alohamora

2011-08-21T10:47:00.000+10:00

Hello,

Just yesterday I went down the road to my sisters friends house to find a bunch of 9 &10 year old girls running a cafe called Alohamora. I decided to join in. There were brownies, meringues, choc-chip muffins and toffee! Only 4 different sweets plus some cordial made something like $40. The best part was that we could pay her dad back the money for change and got even more! We would also be donating all money to charity for Cystic Fibrosis and MS. Hopefully we can actually get it there! We chose those 2 causes because people we know have those problems. We thought we could help out by donating some money. The name was decided by one of my sisters friends for the stall Alohamora, it is a spell in Harry Potter, a spell to open a door as in open the door and walk into out cafe, even though it is out doors!! We were though for 3 hours from 12:30 to about 3 or 3:30 so maybe only 2 and a half but we still got a lot of customers and sold things for a very good price!

Excursion

2011-08-13T17:09:00.002+10:00

Hello,
As you may have read from my "Holidays" post you would know that I went to a gold mine. I have now gone again with my school and to the discovery centre, in the local area! First the 5/6 unit had to be at the train station by 8:00am! Then we would catch the train at 8:12 to the gold mine. When we got there we travelled 61m below the surface and started to explore. We went down an elevator which was great and looked all around and learnt lots of interesting facts. We had split up into 3 groups so it was easy to get down safely and not be all crammed into the small tunnel underground. By small I mean width! We found out that in that same mine they held 8 different weddings but everyone had to wear the hard hats until they got into the right room! Then we went down to the Discovery Centre. It was very interesting and there were heaps of different things you could do. There was a theramin which makes different sounds depending on how you use your hands and you can even play different songs using it by just waving your hands in the air! There was also a tube that when you spoke into echoed your voice. A box with mirrors and a plate of fruit making it look very effective if someone put there head in a hole where the plate of food is circling around. There was also a thing where you sat on a chair with a rope and got to pull your self up and a big xylophone that when you stepped on a key it would make the noise come out a long metal tube. HEAPS of others. Then there was the vertical slide, you had to hold onto a bar and then be dropped down and slide for a while. We had to wear funny suits that were too big and extremely slippery! Then we caught the train back to the station and were picked up by our parents!

Last Sunday

2011-08-10T08:14:00.003+10:00

Hello,
As you can see I sent a post on Sunday but that was early in the morning so now I am going to write about what we did on the afternoon. So after we collected Elizabeth from the cubs camp. We got in the car and went to the market. I got some fruit drops which are hard boiled lollies and they are delicious. We also got some special donuts that are nice and warm with cinnamon and sugar. We looked around for the magic man that is usually there but unfortunately we couldn't find him. We did find some special things that you put over a candle and they melt and smell nice. We walked around for along time and there was lots of different things to look at.
When we went home we relaxed for the rest of the day!

Netball-FINAL DAY!!

2011-08-07T09:05:00.003+10:00

Hello,
Yesterday was a big day (For Netball). At first we got all ready in the morning so we could be at netball my 11:00 for training but when we got there we found out that netball actually started at 12:00, a whole hour to wait. Whilst we were waiting we went to the park and had a snack. Then we got back to netball and did some training but our coaches didn't show up for the whole game! So the other teams coach helped. Seeing as we were playing later she could stay around to help. We didn't have the best game like last year as we won our last game but, we did get 1 to like 15!! But I was pretty happy because I shot that 1 goal!! But the other team was very good!! After the game we had an awards ceremony and got a medal, chocolate and soft drink!! But in a few weeks we are having a day where an Australian netball team is coming to sign autographs and give out the best and fairest awards!! That will be pretty cool and the team will also be answering questions and hanging out with all of us. But not the whole team is coming, I think it's just a few players. That will be happening in a few weeks to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our netball suburb!! After netball on Saturday we went to a house and mum and dad went and looked at some antiques for sale and the whole house was pretty much full of them!! Then we went home and relaxed a bit for the rest of the day. Whilst our weekend was going my sister Elizabeth had been at camp the whole time and will be coming home tomorrow.

WEEKEND

2011-07-31T17:48:00.002+10:00

Hi,
It's now coming to the end of the weekend. Saturday was quite busy. I had netball on and there was an annoying mix up with the other teams scoring which said that we lost 7-9 when really the other mum did it wrong. There was one goal the other team shot and she stepped or held it long or something so it was counted as a "No Goal" but yet the mum goes and writes it down as a point for their team any way. That should have made it 7-8 but since she wasn't paying attention when I got a goal she didn't write that down which was quite silly. It should have been drawn on 8 points but thanks to the scoring by the other team we didn't quite get the truth. That wasn't the best game I have ever played but there is only one more for the season and then we have to wait until next year so I just hope we do well on our last game next Saturday! After the game I went home and had lunch. Then our mum dropped us off for our Oma to pick us up so we could go to her house for a sleepover. We got there nice and early and we ordered delicious pizzas for dinner. They were delicious and we had the rest for our lunch today. At Oma's house we played with the Lego and watched Enchanted. I really liked it thought it was funny which was good. We had salty popcorn whilst we watched it on television. Then on Sunday we had planned to go to see some lambs but those plans didn't work out so in stead we went to the shops, got a new kettle and d.v.d player for mum and then came back home. It was all very fun and a good weekend out.

Plant Stall

2011-07-28T18:51:00.002+10:00

Hello,
I have been running a plant stall since the start of the year. I have received a fair bit of money from it so I would encourage any children to have a go and see what they can earn. I sell plants such as leeks, strawberries, nasturtiums, avocado and a few other types. I have some plants all stored in my mums green house which is very convenient. I have set it up on sort of a table with one wooden bench on the top and another on the bottom (but still a few inches off the ground) held up my some metal poles, it's spaced out quite well if I do say so my self!! I think mum and I have done a pretty good job and now that our family has had a tree come down on our land we are using the wood shavings to make a path way with bulbs we have planted in sort of a curvy path shape so when it has finished growing and the wood shavings are there it will look really cool. When I first opened my stall I used to (on the weekends) put out some fresh veggies or herbs. Or a bunch of flowers and eggs and different types of things that people might like to buy. We kept the eggs nice and cool in the esky. It's very fun and great to do. You may be wondering what we use to collect the money. Do I stand out their all day waiting? No, not really!! Actually not at all. I have a locked money box which we have tied to the stall and everyone is pretty honest and do put the money in with out taking off which is very good. If someone for some reason doesn't put the right amount which has NEVER happened I guess it would just be a bit of bad luck I guess. In the summer I need to water the plants pretty much everyday to keep them cool and not go completely dry. In winter it pretty much gets watered it's self from the rain and I very rarely have to go and water them.

Holidays

2011-07-26T18:49:00.002+10:00

Wow, Our holidays just finished last week. We were at home playing the Wii, for quite a bit of them. We also went out and did some other things, but we saved the best thing for last! Just while I am here I was wondering the other day I was wondering why it was called "Wii", I soon found out, it means we, as in a multilayer game, the 2 i's representing 2 people playing side by side. We played alot of games on the Wii over the holidays because it was new and all of the kids were excited. We also spent some time at home and went out for lunch or to see our grandparents. We also did alot of other regular things such as watching T.V playing at home and jumping on the trampoline. We also had sort of a party with all the kids in our family in my bedroom with music, lava lamps (homemade), disco ball or disco cylinder (also homemade). It was easy to make. All we did was get a black piece of paper, folded it up, cut out little holes on the creases and covered them with different colours of cellophane and stood it up on a box (just on the edges) and inside the box we rested a very bright torch and it looked really cool. We also performed a magic show for mum and dad which was so fun and really exciting. But we saved the best thing for last. See, at school we have been studying the gold rush, and at school we had booklets teaching us to use old fashioned writing. Which I now use in my school work!! We also tried to at least every day of term 2, try to write a diary entry. We based it on 2 things. Our teacher put up the temperature for the day and the scenario. It might say something like (in detail) Lola Montez the famous dancer is coming to town. The tickets cost 10pounds and so on...Or maybe Miners are putting together a fort for the Eureka stockade and anything about what was going on at the time. And then everyone got their own scenario card that said gold strike-double today's gold finds, or mine collapse lose 2 days of work, or gonna eats your food must go shopping tomorrow, or some sort of disease, neighbour dies leaves you 10oz of gold and all sorts of crazy things. We have to pick out out scenario card each day and turn it in to sort of a story. We also reached in a box with the amount of gold we earn, if we go to that bank to turn gold into pounds or buy food or something we can only mine for half a day!! The little yellow card tells us how much gold we received. Like 2,5,7,10,12,15,20 and 25oz, which ever one we get we double it if we don't go out, but if we do we just leave it as it is. We record it each day and we have the assay price each day and the highest is 10 pounds. So if we were taking a weeks worth of gold and it was 80oz we multiply it by 10 to see how much money we earned. We also have a sheet with different assignments we can do and we need to do 7. I chose to make a piece of jewellery including the use of gold, make a miners licence, say how I may have felt if I had to leave home to go to the gold fields, create a diarama of a town, Invent a new use for gold and draw some mining tools!! Then we had a day where we dressed up and did some out-side activities, at the end of the day they announced the winners, I was one of them. I got my family a trip to the Bendigo Centeral Debborah Gold Mine. It was so cool. We got hard hats went down a lift. Learnt alot of new things and we saw it raining undergroud! Beacuse the rocks have moisture in them it just kept pouring down water. We turned of the torch on our hard hats off and couldn't even see our hands in front of our eyes! It was incredibly dark with out them. We even saw some LOUD machines. I think they nearly broke my ear-drums!! It was a great experience and a heap of fun!! PICS TO COME

Chickens & Other Pets

2011-07-24T07:57:00.001+10:00

Hello,

I have some bad news that happened a while ago. I came home from netball training and my mum had said that all of our chickens were gone and no where to be found. All that we could see of them was a huge spread out pile of feathers all over the ground. Which was sad because one of the little chickens laid it's first little egg. It was so small and smoothe. Our ducks occasionally lay eggs buut none of our family know where. Any way mum thought that the chickens had been taken by the fox and she was definatly right. Later that night when mum was taking me to acting we saw a fox up near the fence coming back for another dinner. As soon as it saw the cars bright headlights it dashed away. We still don't know if it comes back any other night but we haven't seen it scince, which I guess is a good thing. We're still not sure if we should get more chooks in case the fox comes back but Dad says that he could fix the fence very well with cement and other materials. We're pretty lucky that the fox didn't try and get the goats when they were sleeping, but our goats are very tough and strong anyway. Well, at least we think they're strong because they've pretty much destroyed the only piece of shelter we made for them. But now they have moved on to a huge tree stump that they covered in furs to make sort of a couch! We are still trying to decide wheather to get more chickens or not, because we don't like to buy the eggs when we could have a perfectly good chook with a good and happy life laying eggs for the whole family!! Our cat Tiger is going very well though, considering how old she is she is acting like a kitten, jumping, sprinting around the house. We even have a set of cupboards with a huge whole for a stereo which we have, and she runs in the gap between the wood and the radio!! It is very funny to watch! Tiger also won't eat her food unless we sprinkle the tiniest bit of new food on. I just pretend to though by going to the pantry, sticking my hand in the dry food bag, moving it around pretending to get some, scine she always watches me I make a fist so it looks like I have food in my hand, race over to her bowl pick some of that up and by that time she's made her way over to watch me sprinkle "a new" bit of food when really it's just the same. But before I do all that she'll turn her nose up at it! Our ducks are having a good old time out in the rain, seeing as it is Winter, it rains a bit! They now get all the food scraps that used to go to the chooks!! Lucky Ducks!!

Easter Sunday

2011-04-25T20:19:00.000+10:00

Hello!
Yesterday it was a very tiring Easter Sunday. An early start and a busy day. In the morning I found a delicious chocolate rabbit with some eggs and an Easter Chick. It was delicious. I haven't eaten the Easter Bunny yet though!! Later in the day, at about 10:30 I was on the radio talking about what we usually do on Easter Sunday which is going down to my Oma's house, having an Easter egg hunt, some lunch and doing some arts and crafts! It is great fun and alot of work. In the arts my cousins, sisters and I painted some hard boiled eggs and some chine ones. It's great fun. My sister also made up a little activity booklet and I made up some iris folding kits. We also rode the horses and then the hunt was on. There were 36 eggs all together and we got 6 each. YUM!! We also watched a few videos that my sisters and I had made. After all that we all just had a bit of rest and some of the kids went back out to ride the horses and relax for a little while. After a while we started to head home! In the end it was a great day with lovely weather.
P.S
If you would like to check out on how to do iris folding, have a look at this link... www.circleofcrafts.com/irisfolding

School Schoalrship

2011-03-06T08:42:00.001+11:00

Hello,
Yesterday I went to a school scholarship test around the area to good to get a place in a very good school!!! They had 4 different tests that went for 2 different times. 1&4 went for 25mins and they were both writing tests. The 1st one was there was a picture of button saying PUSH TO EXIT and I think I wrote a pretty god story in 25mins! The last writing test had a sentence. "It wasn't funny at the time but it is now!!" That test was pretty easy and I put a few stories into one. The middle 2 went for 40mins. The second one was a humanities test and that was very easy. It was probably because we did alot of practise tests on line! Then after the second one we had a 15 minute break and the school provided us food and drink. YUM! Then it was back to testing. The 3rd one was a mathematics and science test which was a bit tricky!! I don't know when we get the results but I think I did well.
I will also write my story that I did as a practise test!

Horses

2010-12-23T09:41:00.000+11:00

Hi,

Today I went to my Oma’s house. In the afternoon a man called Ian came around to check up on his horses; Appy, Mystique & Cody. Appy is a small, lazy Appaloosa. Mystique is a large wild horse and Cody is a very large tamed horse.

I got to ride Appy first and I got to trot and canter, it was really fun because she was very frisky!! Then I rode Cody on the back of him when Ian was riding!! I was on a gate and we had to link arms and I had to try and jump on the back of him, it was a bit hard but I did it.

We started to trot down the driveway and then we did a slow canter.

Master Chef (Again)

2010-09-21T08:06:00.005+10:00

You know how I was doing master chef? Well the people who did all 3 plates were chosen to have a cooking session to make what ever. My group made cupcakes with fondant, lollies and food colouring. We even used alot more. I Was in my mums group with some other people in my class. One of the girls, Ashley decided to fill hers with fondant, alot of colouring and other stuff. But when she finished it was sopping wet through the middle! So she just ate it!!!!! It was so funny because her teeth started to go black with all the food colour in it. 2 boys were in our group and used fondant to make toxic signs and but it near Ash's cake (Meaning hers was toxic)!!! HERE ARE THE PICS!!!!

Sweet Handburger

2010-08-31T16:31:00.000+10:00

Hello,

The other day I was playing with white fondant. I used food die to colour the white fondant. It was pretty easy to do. I decided to make a flower, but that didn't exactly work out!! So I made a funny looking burger. Here are some of the pics.

Jumping Jellybeans

2010-08-25T17:32:00.000+10:00

Hi,

About a few weeks ago, (Same day as when I published dress post) my sisters and I were jumping all over the trampoline. We had a fun time and played games especially for the tramp. We also got some great pictures of us in the air! We had some funny poses of us doing different "moves" and they were pretty funny.

Here Are Some Of The Pics!!!!!!

Dresses From Countries Everywhere

2010-08-15T19:11:00.001+10:00

Hi,

Today I visited my Oma (She is Scottish) and I saw that she had some dresses from Scotland and Germany and I also had a new one mum had made me. It's really good and very green. I just love the big black buttons she has put on it. But anyway I decided to try on the kilt (Scottish) and the German dress and they look really good.

The German dress is my grandpas sisters because she was born in Germany and that's what they wear (Well the girls do anyway!!). The Scottish kilt was my Oma's kilt that she used to have and my mum also used to have one when she was a girl! The green one is the one mum made me just yesterday and I've already worn it alot.

Jumbo Choc-Chip Cookies!!

2010-07-30T20:40:00.000+10:00

The other day I decided to make some cookies, but these weren't regular cookies! They were Jumbo Double Choc-Chip Cookies.

Here is the recipe.

1 1/2 Cups of Plain Flour

3/4 Cup of Cocoa Powder

1 1/2 Cups of Brown Sugar

180g of Butter

200g of Chocolate

3 Eggs, Lightly Beaten

1. Pre-heat oven to 180C and line 2 biscuit trays.

2. Sift flour and cocoa into a bowl, add sugar, make a well in the centre.

3.Melt butter and chocolate in a pot, take off heat.

4. Add butter mix to dry ingredients, stir well and once mixed drop 1-2 tbs of mix onto prepared trays and put in the oven for 12 minutes (If you cook to long they will go hard).

5. Leave on trays to cool down. Once cooled store in an airtight container for 2-3 days.

Tips

Mix will be very gooey, but that's the way they are!

If you want a smaller cookie use a smaller amount of mix.

Netball Rox

2010-07-24T10:03:00.000+10:00

Hi
As you might know, if you read my profile, I play netball. I play it every Saturday against other teams in the area, I also train every Wednesday. Last Saturday we played against another team and we bet them 14-6. It was the first time we have won a game all season so if we are going to win it's a pretty good score.

Our coaches were so proud of us we had a huge party and we played alot of games, ate alot of lollies and we were mucking around alot. It was very fun because we got to make up a theme song for our team (Our team is called the Cats). This is how it goes,

This is our theme song (Clap, Clap)
It is totally awesome (Clap, Clap)
With all our effort we play (Clap, Clap)
We are surely to win today (Clap, Clap)

It's really fun and great to sing when we compete on Saturdays!!

Tomorrow we are going to go play all day in a tournament and I will do a post tomorrow. Sorry got to go to play netball!

Bye

"!!TIMBER!!"

2010-07-11T09:07:00.000+10:00

Uh-Oh!

The other day it was an extremely windy night and we live in the country so we have alot of trees. We are very lucky one of them didn't fall on our house because there's one tree that if it did fall over it would fall on our living room :( When I was in bed that night, all of a sudden I heard this huge bang and mum and dad were out-side looking around.

A huge tree had fallen and broken our fence also blocking the driveway. It was extremely dangerous and big. It's trunk had fallen right on the nature strip (next to the road).

But the next day when we had light we called up some people who could come and cut up the wood. Now we have stacks of fire wood and some is still in little piles on the drive way.

We were lucky because they came right away to clear it up. But the trunk was very easy to get out because they just ripped it. For a while they put a sign up about the tree trunk.

It was pretty cool though because we saw people working in the cherry pickers.

Chocolate Banana Cake (Master Chef)

2010-07-11T08:52:00.000+10:00

This is the banana cake recipe from the school Master Chef Competition
Ingredients
What you will need. 125g cubed butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla essence, 1/2 cup milk, 2 1/2 cups plain flour, 4 tblsp cocoa, 1 tsp bi-carb soda, 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt, 3 small mashed bananas

Directions
Cream butter & sugar, beat in eggs & vanilla & milk.
Add sifted dry ingredients then stir in all of the mashed bananas. Cook in a medium cake tin or muffin trays at 160C. Cake for 40-45 minutes. Muffins 20-25 minutes.

Ice with chocolate icing if desired!

My Famous Choc-Chip Brownies (Master Chef)

2010-07-11T08:34:00.000+10:00

Here is the recipe of my brownie, from the school Master Chef Competition.

Ingredients (Makes roughly 30)
You will need 125g of butter, 1 1/2 cups of caster sugar, 1/2 cup of cocoa, 2 eggs,
1 tsp vanilla essence, 1 cup plain flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 200g broken white chocolate.

Method
Turn on oven to 180C.
Melt butter in a medium saucepan, remove from heat and turn off stove. Stir in cocoa, sugar, eggs and vanilla until well combined.

Fold through combined sifted flour and baking powder. Stir through the broken up chocolate pieces.

Line an 18 x 28cm slab tin or a brownie tin with baking paper. Spread brownie mixture evenly all over tin.

Bake in the oven (180C) for 25-30 minutes until nice and crispy. You can check with a skewer and if it comes out clean it is ready. The brownie might seem soft but will firm in cooling. Leave in the tin to cool completely and cut into squares.

You can ice them dust with icing sugar if desired.

Beautiful Birds

2010-07-02T09:03:00.000+10:00

The other day we had many visitors come to our house. Those visitors were some beautiful birds. We live in the country so we see many everyday but yesterday we some millions. We saw cockatoos, Rozella's, kookaburras, ducks and tons more. I got some great photos, especially of the cockatoos! They're are all so beautiful.

We don't usually see so many birds and if we did they are usually very hard to get a photo but they were so tamed even in the wild they didn't care if we came close. I didn't even use the zoom tool on my camera or on the computer and it only flew away after about 5 minutes.

The kookaburra was pretty hard to get a photo of not going near people very much. The kookaburra is on top of my mums green house which I helped her build. The kookaburras are sometimes my alarm clock in the morning because they are so loud.

We also get Rozella's on our bird house alot but they usually fly away if we get close so I was pretty lucky to get this picture. Again I didn't even have to zoom in.

We also have pet ducks so they were easy to get a photo of. We also have 3 other white ducks.

Master Chef (At School)

2010-06-25T18:12:00.000+10:00

At school just the other day we had a Master Chef Competition, or as my teacher calls it MC! It wasn't a real Master Chef thing it was just a bit like a cook off between 2 classes. I made 3 different dishes. I will show you one is this post and 2 others in different posts. Hope you enjoy.

LEMON GELATI

First you get 1 cup of sugar and 2 cups of water. Pour sugar and water into a pot bring to a boil and then simmer for 3-5 mins. Then you will need to put that in th fridge over night.

In the morning grab out the liquid and put on a bench whilst you make your lemon juice. We used 5 lemons. But you will need 1 1/2 cups. First you heat up 2 lemons in a micro-wave for 1 minute. Be careful, they're hot. Now you cut one in half. It was funny because 1 our ones was stubborn and some off the juice flew out!

Any way, so then you get out all the juice and by putting it in the microwave you will get more. keep doing this whilst your pour it into a measuring jug. Pour the sugar and water & the lemon juice together and put back into the fridge. Now beat up 2 egg whites in a mug until nice and white. Get your lemon sauce out of the fridge now. Next, if you have an ice-cream machine pull it out and pour in the lemon sauce. after about 15 minutes pour in the egg whites. if you like you can colour the the gelati.

If you DON'T have an ice-cream machine, get an empty ice-cream container, Pour in your mix but NOT the egg whites. Put the lemon sauce in a freezer and every couple of hours pull it out and mash it with a fork, to see if it is frozen. when it is nearly frozen get it out of the freezer, get out the egg white and pour them in and give them a stir. Put them back in the freezer until it is frozen.

We also made up little chocolate shapes. Heres a picture of the melted chocolate.

E N J O Y

Ravioli

2010-06-18T20:31:00.000+10:00

A little while ago we made ravioli. It was pretty easy. All we had to do was make up a dough. We put 800g of flour on the table or in a bowl. Put in 1 egg at a time. Use eight. Mix it all together with either your hands or a spoon. Then make your filling. Do this however you like!Then you take all the dough out and bring it over to a special machine. Keep folding into thirds and put it through the highest setting. After 3 or 4 times you keep it in that shape. Then using some sort of hand turning thing (The same thing)that made our dough smaller, we put in on the highest setting again and once we put it through we went to the next setting down then the next and the next and so on. This is the special machine that we used all you have to do is put the dough in and turn the handle.

Then after you finish making the dough thin you bring it over to a clean table. Lay it out on the bench in the long line. Get your filling out and roll it into small balls. Don't do them to big. then place each one about 2-3cm apart. Then using a pizza cutter, trim the top, bottom and two end sides. Don't do the sides too far in. See how we put the filling at the top of the dough so we can just fold it over. Before you do brush it down a bit with abit of egg. Not too much though.

Now we fold over the dough and start to cut it. After you've used up all your dough and you have lest over meat, you could me hand burgers with it.This is what it should look like once you've finished. On the left is the finished and on the right is all the cooked pieces of ravioli with some toppings on them. They are great!

Like to learn some more about ravioli

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ravioli

Tiger

2010-06-17T15:49:00.000+10:00

Hi,
This is my cat Tiger. When we got her she was found in junkyard before I was born. She was only a kitten then and not long after she had some babies of her own. One of their names was Clawd but he ran away.

Tiger loves to sleep, eat and drink and sleep,eat and drink! She loves being cuddled and always climbs on you when you writing,reading,watching T.V or writing on the laptop. It doesn't matter what your doing as long as your in a comfortable spot she'll pretty much think of you as a climbing wall.

She usually makes funny noises when she is hungry. Sometimes it doesn't even sound like she is meowing. Tiger is getting old now but she runs around as if she was a kitten. If she is in a frisky mood you will usually find her behind our radio, because we have a cupboard around it which the radio goes in, so Tiger can sneak in the gap, and that's where she usually is.
We call her Tiger because she a ginger colour!

I Luv Cookies

2010-06-12T16:08:00.000+10:00

Hi today I made some cookies and this is how to do it. I first got the recipe out of my school cook book. The recipe is called biscuits for a crowd. I had to halve the recipe because it would be too big.

First I preheated the oven to 180 degrees and then I got my ingredients. Remember that you can double this and it will make about 80 cookies. So you get 250g of butter, softened, 3/4 cup of sugar. (You can use caster if you like), 2 and a 1/2 cups of self raising flour.It's probably best not to used plain. But then again I've never tried it! 1/2 a tin or 200g of sweetened condensed milk and 375g of milk, white or dark chocolate. I used milk chocolate.

Method

With an electric mixer cream together the sugar, sweetened condensed milk and softened butter until it is well mixed. Then get the bowl and sift in the self raising flour and and add choc chips or the cut up chocolate. Mix together with a metal spoon.

If it doesn't seem like it's getting mixed in don't add any milk or anything. The first time I made them I added milk and I had one big splatted cookie all over the tray. (It was a bit of a disaster!) This time I made them with-out adding anything and they turned out great.

I hope you like the pics!

This Is What The Should Look

Like When They're Done

My Pets

2010-06-12T08:18:00.000+10:00

Hi I am Georgia and these are my goats Muffin and Biscuit. Biscuit is on the left and Muffin is on the right. Muffin was too busy eating to look at the camera! They both used to jump over the fence into the neighbours property. It's a good thing he wasn't home! Now we put up an electric fence so they couldn't do that. We feed them every night and they're are always bouncing around wondering where their food is! Both of them like eating tree bark. One of our trees has a bit of pink all along the tree underneath the bark and when Muffing eats it and scratches herself (She does it with her mouth) she gets pink all over her body and it looks so funny. Now it looks like a huge pink rash all down her body. I also have 8 chickens. One of them is black and she is still young and is called Cutey. She was named by my little sister Katarina. We also have a grayish purply baby chook called Violet. (She has a funny hair style!) We had four old brown ones. Sadly one of them died. But the other 3 are still with us. When we got the two babies we also got 2 beautiful dark brown chooks. So that makes 7. The last one we saw wondering around the street for a while and our neighbour came up and said that his dog attacked so he gave it to us because he knew we loved chickens! At first our other old chooks teased her and were pecking at her but they're now starting to get along. It wasn't that long ago since we got her and now we can sometimes hold her. In the backround on the left of the picure you can sort of see a little perch mum made for them. It was very easy and good for the enviroment because we recycled and old swing that we had for years and it was all rusty and never got used. Mum also made them a little hut to lay their eggs. It is the red one with straw.

My Camera Bag

2010-02-08T11:59:00.000+11:00

One side of the bag The other side of the bag

The other day mum had made a bread bag. So she had the idea of making a camera bag!
The piggy is one side and the teddy is the other. It has a button to close it.
And soft padding in the two fabrics so it won't break!