Girly Girl...

Last Friday, Taylor and I took a trip to 'Girly Girl' at the Mall.

She had her 8th Birthday Party there, and she won a Makeover on the prize wheel.

Taylor's Mum dropped her and the prize certificate at my place and off we went to get her made over :-)


First decision is whether she wanted to be a Princess or a Rock Star..


She fancied herself as a Princess. She belongs to this little club, at school, that they named the 'Pretty, Pretty Princesses', so how could she be anything else. Being a Princess, apparently involves having your hair done in an up do.


Then came the decision about what colour eyeshadow to apply ...


She chose a pretty shade of lilac ...


Then there was glitter blush to the cheeks...


And a pretty pink lipstick gloss. I was rather amused at the people who stopped to watch. However, as soon as they saw my camera, they took off running..


Then came the serious business of painting the nails..


Which also involved copious amounts of gold glitter, at which point, I wanted to break into a rendition of 'Goldfinger'..


What was left after the nail glittering, was sprinkled over the hair. Later that evening, I found a whole trail of it down my sleeve, where she'd rested her head..


Showing off the fingernail bling .....


Then they wrapped a pink feather boa around her neck .... put her on stage ... and turned on a Hannah Montana tape. She has this 'YOU WANT ME TO SING!!!' look on her face..


Princess turned Future Rock Star !!! You saw her here first, folks!!

I had to laugh when we leaving. It had started to rain lightly as we left the Mall.

Miss Taylor, looks out the door and announces in a tone of horror 'It's raining, I've just had a makeover!!'

Okay, I roll my eyes and stiffle my laughter. She holds her jacket over her head as we dash over to the Mall bus terminal.

We step inside of the bus shelter and Little Miss Diva eyes the roof and announces 'Good, it's not leaking. Perfect!!'

Another BAER from me and then it's Taylor's turn to do the eye roll thing when I call her Mum to tell her the latest utterings from her offspring. :-)

Don't you just love kids and what they come out with....

My Odyssey ...

I had been plucking up the courage, for about a week, to give my blog a face lift. A new template, a couple of widgets and so on. Found some templates, that were blogger friendly, here , so yesterday, I decided to give it a go.

First up was a three column, cafe template. I followed the directions, saved my blog to a file on my computer, took a deep breath, deleted the old code, and pasted the new. It didn't work. Further investigation revealed that I have 'new blogger' and not 'old blogger', which meant I needed the XML coded templates.

Okay, no problem, I have my old code saved on my computer. Delete new code and paste old code. View my blog and get a blank, blue screen. Arghhhhhhhh!!!! Apparently in copying the old code, I'd missed something.

Fortunately, and I'm not sure when, a copy of my original blog had been saved on blogger and when that popped up, I was able to restore the blog. I still can't work out where that happened, but believe me I was grateful. :-)

You'd think that at that point, I'd learn my lesson and give up. Not this girl! After taking an hour or so to recover, I girded my loins and once more jumped back in the fray.

This time, I noticed the button that said 'Download full template'. Template duly downloaded and sitting snugly in my hard drive. Now I could go play.

Installed the right version of the cafe template. Added photos and assorted widgets. Hmmmmmm. Phoned daughter in New Zealand and asked her to take a look. She agreed with me that it didn't look quite right. The photos and widgets didn't fit neatly for some reason. So we started going through the various templates on the aforementioned site. Fortunately my phone company gives me good rates to NZ and an hour on the phone is only $3.60..... :-)

We made a list of possibles. I hung up and then spent an hour happily swapping templates. Finally found one that I thought I could live with and went to reinstall it. At that point, I think Blogger might of got a little fed up with this female that obviously could not make up her mind, because it threw a wobbly and refused to cooperate any longer. Tried another couple of times, kept getting the same error message. Okay, I'm not stupid, I know when to give it a rest. Not throw in the towel, mind you, just take a break.

Reinstalled the old blog, though it was now missing it's SITS button and other stuff, and went to bed.

So, today is a new morning. If anybody happens to visit my blog today and it either isn't there or is acting oddly, it will just be me doing a renovation and embarking on another learning curve :-)

Cheers..

Cool Contest

That Saucy Twosome at SITS have done it again. They're featuring a contest where you can win a blog makeover from Shannon at EIGHTCRAZY DESIGNS .

Her designs are awesome. She has a number of them, featured on her site. Shannon also did the design for SITS. Don't you just love the leopard print theme? :-)

Why would I like to win?

I'm currently making myself over. I'm droppin' the pounds, sculpturing the body, sweating away on the elliptical trainer and walking and biking miles and miles a day. I've cut my hair, my hairdresser called it young and sexy, sort of a bed-head look and I'm actually thinking of wearing makeup a bit more often. This ol' granny is on the way to be smokin' hot !!

So, in a nutshell, I think my blog deserves the same. :-)

Cheers