just what I need to do

home from a weekend looking at cows bums and getting dusty, dirty, then more than a little damp and muddy down at the prickle farm, all of which I will share more of soon.

But first I just want to share THIS, which is just the idea I need.

The full details can be found HERE on Pinterest. Considering my current filing system of artwork and school work consist of one semester of Kate's prep year (she is now about to start year four) going into a binder and the rest tossed in a box, along with all and anything of Georgie's from the past two years, this could well be the perfectly simple solution.

One large plastic file box per child. School photos, reports (photocopied) artwork - that fits in the box and is flat, otherwise is photographed, etc. Easy to set up, easy to store, easy to put away.

And luckily, I just happen to be heading past an officeworks/big w later this week so I can procure at least ONE plastic file box to get me started, while the idea is in my head and enthusiasm reasonably high. You know me, I am normally an ideas woman and not so much on the follow-through-actually-DO-IT sort! ;-)

And slightly digressing, but still on a sort of similar topic, I don't know about you (it may be a conditioned thing for someone raised/living in the bush where rain or lack thereof can make or break?) but whenever we get some decent rain, and a break from the heat, I find myself refreshed and inspired again.

As now I am obviously rambling and tired from the weekends adventures, including The Branding of The Calves, I will leave you and return again, soonish, at which time I hopefully do not ramble, use poor punctuation and grammar, and make some sense! ;-)

M.I.A

yes, I know I've been quiet...some slight disruption to routine around here since it rained...husband has been at home since ? and of course hogging the computer or wondering why I am on the computer when I could be doing something more productive. Men.

Anyhow, I finally got HIM to do something productive and we have been finally finishing off the office - shelving, moving the desk, and clearing up the resulting mess.  Its taken longer than I expected, and my enthusiam for putting away the stuff I had to move is waning - especially as my new improved desk area looks so nice and uncluttered now....

Anyhow, pics soon, off to the dreaded 1st dental appointment tomorrow, which I am quietly scared silly about...the first of three or four visits, three weeks apart. Oh joy.  And while I am down there ("there" being Charters Towers) , my computer is also in for a bit of an overhaul and tinker, so here's hoping it comes home in one piece as well!

And then on Friday my cousin, his wife and daughter are stopping for the night, on their way to take their daughter to Ag College....so I really need to clean and scrub the toilet and do all of those jobs you do before visitors arrive (not to mention remove the piled office crap off of the spare bed!)

So hopefully I will be back here on Saturday to share some photos of my lovely new area! 

And here's a cute little doll I found, available on madeit.com.au.  Too cute. Love the flower in its hair!!