Update on the Cupcakeinator

Well, he slept for 2 hours and when he woke he was a veritable furnace! No kidding - he was hotter than a radiator - even down to the soles of his tiny, still cute, feet.

Took his temperature and it was 39.8 - too hot. However, he was more perky, and after a shot of Ibuprofen perked up for the afternoon, enough to play Cars on the Wii at least.

Still didn't want to eat very much but I nagged him to drink some water at least. Told him I was going to be the 'Water Nagger' to which he replied that I wasn't and added, to quote, "Mum, you're the greatest!".

<<<I'll remind him of that when he's feeling better and decides that maybe I am a pain in the proverbial...!>>>

The Cupcakeinator is Sick

Yesterday Noah and I made cupcakes. Oreo cookie cupcakes.

Yes, it took far longer than if I was just making them by myself. And yes, they took so long I had to wait to ice them until this morning but look at our results. Look at those cute mini Oreos:

Of course he had to call himself "The Cupcakeinator" (The Cat in the Hat movie has influenced our family greatly...).

But sadly the Cupcakeinator is poorly today. In fact as I type this, at 12:42pm, he is in bed with a headache, a reasonably high temperature (38.8) and fast asleep. And for all of you with 5 year old boys you will know how unusual this is. As a mum, I'm trying not to worry and enjoy the relative peace and quiet, but the worry is always there...

So, sadly the Cupcakeinator has not even had a cupcake yet! Although I have to admit that this is probably not such a bad thing - that icing is soooo sweet. Reminder to self 'use less icing sugar next time'!

Learning...

... lots of new things.

I recently signed up to do a Jessica Sprague online digital scrapbooking class, Now We're Rockin' With Photoshop, and I am learning so much, you wouldn't believe it. Now, I don't by any means consider myself an expert in PS but neither do I consider myself a complete beginner. But I have been amazed by how much I have learnt by doing this course. It's worth it for the short cuts alone!

Here are the class layouts for the first 3 weeks (it's a 4 week course):

       

I love Jessica's use of brushes, not something I've used a lot of on my previous experimenting with digi-scrapping, but something I think I will use more of in the future. Can't wait for next week's lesson and will definitely be signing up for the next course (Digi: In Deep).

The other thing I've been learning (apart from how to exercise patience when Noah is involved in the equation) is web design. I signed up last September to do a course in basic web design at the local college and even though I did learn something, to be honest the course was just too slow for my liking and I didn't learn anywhere near as much as I would have liked to. The course was due to go on and develop further and I was considering enrolling but decided against it, which is lucky because not long after I received an email from the course tutor saying the course had been cancelled as he was ill.

Buy boy am I glad that I did decide not to sign up because I got pointed in the direction of Lynda.com - and cool is that site! There is so much there to get your teeth into and learn. I feel a little like a kid in a sweet shop: where to start, where to start? so much to learn, so little time.

I've taken on the web maintenance of a local church (NS Church). So far I've only tidied things up a little (created a template, done a bit of CSS to create a more uniform look to the site etc.) but do have some ideas about bringing up to date and giving it a bit more of a 'wow' factor. I feel it is far too wordy at the moment and looks slightly outdated but I don't want to run before I can walk and also I need to be a little sensitive and not just start out by saying too many negative things. The code was all over the place though, hardly any CSS used (mainly just setting out fonts used etc.) so it has taken a lot of time and effort to even make the small improvements I've made but at least now the maintenance of it is much quicker and easier.

OK, that's all for now, my brain hurts.

I'm back!

So, iWeb just didn't work out for me. I don't know why.

Whether it had to do with it being different that I just wasn't in the habit of using it.

Or if I was just so bowled over with my fantastic new Mac that I spent too much time playing with it doing other things to actually spend time doing the blog.

Whatever, I've decided to come back to the tried and trusted Typepad. For me at least, it just seems to work.

Lots of things to tell, lots have happened in the past few months and lots of stuff to show you. I'm big in to the whole digi scene at the moment. Have been doing some web design stuff. Have gone back to work, to the sort of work I swore never to do again (wouldn't you just know it). Have a second car (as of today) now. And, well, lots...

... I'll catch you all up over the next few days.

Oh, it feels good to be back :D