Etsy finds for the big and little girls

lizarietz NuxieMade Look at these gorgeous finds!! I fancy myself in that dress (except the colour would never do , I would be bound to spill something on it) and little girl with the hat...tooo cute!! Still feeling a little spacey so this is just a short one..but all in all and nice quite weekend with the kids. Little man had his little girlfriend over to play, they are so cute together as he is so blokey and she is a real little princess. Big boy skated all weekend, better than playstation!! Little girl slept, she is the best day time sleeper...BLESS!! x

To sick to do a big post!

I have a head cold..stuffed up, feeling sorry for myself, but not sick enough to stay in bed!!! So short update. The car has been very popular, one of my big boys friends Mum wants me to do her car and put our logo on it...so free advertising, she is also such a cool lady so will give anyone that asks (maybe even if they dont ask) the spiel about us. So YAY to her!! Si and our neighbor have just built Si the most awesome desk..so Stickytiki HQ is looking very professional. Will post a pic later when I dont feel so lousy. My Mum made little girl the most beautiful purple dress today..she looked so cut even with the snot in her hair. x

Spot my car!!!

Inspired by Heidi from America and Jackie from Australia I decided that it was time to put the spot-light on my car! So two lots of Hundreds and Thousands later..this is what you get! I only did it yesterday afternoon and already have had so many comments. I must admit I do feel a little self-conscious, because the car gets looked at...a lot! My big boy and his friends think it is cool..well that was until I had to drop him off at school this morning and he said 'just drop me round the corner Mum'! We are testing a new Eco friendly product that will make all our decals completely weather proof, and wash proof, so they can be put outside as well...how cool is that!! So stay posted as we will be doing a special offer on two lots of Hundreds and Thousands SOON!! x

Happy Birthday NZ time Jodee!!

Today is my sister Jodee's birthday..well at least for us it is, tomorrow will be her birthday for her as she lives in the States! Here is a little picture I took on my walk this morning, this is just one street over from us and right across the road from where Jodee and her family lived before they had to go to the States for Matisse's transplant. In fact the view could be seen from their house. 'So Happy birthday Jo' I hope you have a great day x PS: I told you my big boy flew in from Australia last night...which he did and was very grownup, except his passport did another couple of flights back to Wellington after he got off the plane!! Yes he s a grownup 12 yr old, but when he is excited about seeing us and his mates ...unimportant things like his passport get forgotten!! But hey it expired today!

Some of our favourite things!!

We have this shelf in the kitchen where everything that you use on a regular basis goes......BUT it was meant originally to look nice! You know with those cute little bits and pieces ...retro dinner tray, cool coffee set your friend has given you, funky 70s book! But somehow it always seems to get over taken with hair ties, dead batteries, birthday cards, pencils, bits of blue tac, loose change, screws out of the door, broken bits off toys that you promise you will fix but end up staying there for 6 mths! Until one day you clean up, chuck it all (feel guilty for doing so) ...then start the whole process all over again! Also note the gorgeous castle that Ja ja made me! 

This is my shelf...yes after a cleanup!! the things that have snuck back in and are always used are: Babybaby's healing balm...because everyone with kids should have this stuff..multi use, bumps & scrapes, anti bacterial , anti fungal made with NZ Manuka and Kanuka oils.....its just damn good for everything....even the odd sore tummy!! My very talented sister developed this product..and yes I am biased but it really is the best. One customer buys 8 tubes at time and uses it for her rheumatoid arthritis!! The other thing on the shelf at the mo is our honey sticks that we bought from Lola & Ben. The kids love drawing with them..they smell divine and are easy for littlies to hold..plus they are made from beeswax so safe for little people. My big boy arrives home in just over an hour, he will be waiting at Wellington airport right now (so grownup!). he has been with his Dad, big brother and sister in Australia for two weeks. The two small ones cant wait to see their big bro..neither can Mum. x

Yummy scrummy colour!!!

Here is a sneak preview of new colour combos I am working on for a variation of our old favorite! I am just loving these mixes. Will be interesting to see if any of them prove to be as popular as our Hundreds and Thousands, which are living many lives all over the world, we have some more sold today that are off to Liverpool...sooo exciting! Lovely quiet day here on the home front for our Queens birthday holiday. Too cold to do very much so I was actually able to stick my nose in a book for part of the day..while poor Si was working away :( x

Brrrrrrr

Its really cold here today, so really have done nothing much except stay warm. Here in NZ we are celebrating the Queens Birthday ...which just really means everyone gets an extra day off work.....poor Queen no one is particularly worried about her birthday !! Sorry Queen ...some kiwis are! Do you remember shaking my hand by chance when I was marching girl aged 10? I was the one at the bottom of the 'J' that spelt out JUBILEE...I was very excited and very proud! You asked how I was...I said 'I am fine thank you' in a nervous small voice. But I did tell a lot of people that I had shook your hand and that made me a minor celebrity for 5 minutes. So dear Queen I wish you a very happy birthday!! I would watch my back though because young Willy and Harry are becoming very popular and might want to push you off your perch soon. But you do appear to be very resilient so I think you will be ok! I am a little sad though that Susan Boyle won't get to sing for you now that she lost out on her own crown...and we know what pretty voice she has, I think you would have liked her.

I want to pack these bags!!

Look at these cute suitcases from nanacompany on Etsy... I have always had a thing for suitcases for some reason, I think its that gypsy in me that just wants to keep packing and moving! When I was young we shifted house 25 times by the time I left home at 15!! I KNOW... but we did mainly stay in the same town. x

Happy sad day!

Today a Waipawa man was sentenced to 5 years in prison for defrauding a community out of 20 million went to jail My parents lost over $300,000 which was put aside to help my niece Matisse who is waiting a life saving transplant in the states. Some people lost everything... their whole life savings ... very very sad. On a lighter note I just got a call from an old school friend I haven't seen since I was 16 as a result Of her watching the news and seeing my parents on there... lol what a blast from the past! Unfortunately it was right at story time so the kids wouldn't let me talk for too long... will definitely have to catch up with her... soon. Very happy! Oh yeah and Stickytiki is about to get even BETTER...stay posted!

My little corner of the world!

This is my patch, my little room in the house where the creating gets done. It is away from the computer, it is small but it works. The kids come in there to help me but know that it is my special space and are always careful with my things. My little drawing desk is teeny tiny and it does give me back ache..it is made for a child and... I am small but not that small, I am going to look out for another one. I will go in there soon as I have so many ideas and need to get them out. I also need to focus on creating as yesterday I sent a letter (the one that took me a year to write) that will take on the powers that be!! I have finally made a formal complaint about a misdiagnosis involving one of my children that turned my world upside down and that will have huge repercussions on them later on in life if I don't do anything about it. So I did it... and although I am a realist in what I am taking on... at least I haven't done nothing, and hopefully some else wont have to go through what we have because of it! x

New Camera ??

I am needing a new camera: At the mo I have a cybershot 5megs so she is getting a little old and really just doesn't cut it for the product shots. I have and old EOS 5 film camera with a 100 macro lens that I have just sold on trademe for $650.00 ($500 for the lens and the camera is sitting at $150 so I will get at least that). I could have kept the lens and gone for a digital SLR camera, but I find that they are just to bulky to take everywhere so like my old one sit around for a few years without being used. Soooo does anyone have one of these G10? I looks like the ticket, wide angle lens to take product shots, should be able to keep kids and decals all in focus!! And if I can get rid of a few other bits sitting around the place we should be paid for! Oh but the roof needs fixing! ...ummm camera or roof??

Bring on Summer!!

Kahlo and Ja Ja with their cuzzies! Summer 09 My little summer princess! It hasn't stopped raining for 3 days now and our roof it leaking...I MEAN LEAKING!!!! We have about five containers of various sizes scattered around the bedroom, so we go to sleep with drip drip drip drip.....Loving it! I found these pics of the kids when I was trawling through my hundreds of photos today and thought they might brighten the day. Bring on lake Rotoma, bring on summer! On a high point .... summer is coming The roof will be fixed when it stops raining. And I finished a very important letter that has taken me a year to write..! x

The Fabulous World of Social Networking?!

The Scream by Edvard Munch I must say I am feeling a little bogged down with all this social networking...on one hand I love it because I have got to meet all of these fabulous people (you know who you are!) But on the other hand it just takes sooooo much time and I start to feel my life is controlled by it. Maybe I just have Mondayitis! Both of the little treasures are back at daycare to day, one of the staff had bought in a mouse to show all the kids (eeewwww...I am not a mouse fan). We had a great weekend baking, catching up with friends, painting and just snuggling up in the warm....it is freezing here. Oh and I have discovered something .... If you have a heat pump...CLEAN IT!!!! They work much better, says she who hadn't cleaned hers for over a year and wondered why it wasn't working that well! x

'Children of the world' Babushka dolls

We have designed these gorgeous 'Children of the World' babushka dolls exclusively for Lola and Ben NZ. I have hand painted them to reference to different cultures, so a little imagination mixed with a little realism. They are like our other decals made with a really fine fabric adhesive that will stick to almost any smooth surface without damaging your painted walls. They are printed with Eco friendly inks to be kinder on the environment and little hands. All of my kids love these ones, and Kahlo keeps saying 'these are beautiful mummy'. Jasper has already decided to give some to his little (girlfriend) for her birthday. I have put some on Kahlos white dresser...they look very cute. So for a girly room that you don't want to go overboard in these are perfect...who doesn't like stacking dolls! Lola and Ben are doing free delivery world wide on these at the moment....so get in quick!

This is me!!!

Ok I hate having my photo taken... but today I had to because I am meant to getting a photo of myself to Kylie (from Cackleberry) for her new shop... we are one of the friends (Yay)!! Anyway today was freezing and I was rugged up warm!! So here I am, a little awkward (look at the hands), but Si was far enough back not to do too much damage, the light has given me a bit of a glow....and the tree looks great. So to all of you who know me just as this word (stickytiki) here is the face...well one of them, you can see a pic of Si below...our kids are far cuter!! x

More hundreds and thousands!

Look at the cool picture we have been sent!!! Talia's mum said ................

'Talia woke up from her nap and saw the dots on the wall she wiggled out of my arms and spent a long time touching and "talking" to them. They're a huge hit! ' This is awesome it is such a great shot...we love getting photos like this, keep them coming! Thank you Talia's mum (what a great name)! Today was mad here, we have heaps of orders to get out, which is great I am in no way complaining. but I also had to get the house clean for round two of the photographs for the magazine (will let you know more when it happens). Plus I had Mr Ja Ja at home really very unwell! So house got clean enough, photography got half done (we have another go tomorrow), orders done and little girl was sent home because she too is not herself!! Yep a relaxing life I lead! So kids in bed (big one in Australia) and time to do some work (twitter)....no work, really,... well maybe just see what everyone is up to. x

Finally... 'Dear Deer Tree'

Phew finally have this one done. I painted it about 5 months ago and it has been waiting to get Si's techy magic on it!! I am so excited as I think the kids find this one really magical and because there are so many ways to put it together it makes it a really interactive piece of art!... And because it is hand painted once on the wall looks as if you have painted on there yourself...really you could get away with passing it off as your own work of art. We print on a really fine fabric (almost like an ultra fine canvas), we use Eco friendly inks and package our products in Eco friendly packaging..we are trying to do our bit. And because our stickers are reusable so long as they are looked after (not too much dust on the sticky side) they will last for years. On a personal note: the main model in the photo...my little Ja Ja is at home today with a tummy bug, little sister had to be spirited away to daycare and my big boy went on a plane by himself yesterday to Australia to stay with his dad. His grownup sister, brother and new nephew are going to be there too so they will have a ball...the house is already too quiet without him. I will save money though! x

Our little Miracle Girl in the 'Miracle league' in Cranberry at the weekend!

Matisse Reid is our little miracle girl. Matisse is my niece, her mum Jodee is my sister. Over two years ago Jodee and her husband packed up their four kids and moved to Pittsburgh thanks to the kind help of the NZ public and government, and massive fund raising. Matisse needs a lifesaving transplant and spends most of her life in pain. When they first left and we all said goodbye we thought that in two years they would have been back in NZ with Matisse's new tummy... but it was not to be that way. They have now had six false alarms thinking that Matisse would get her transplant, but unfortunately each time for very different reasons this was not meant to be. Matisse need a child's organs which makes the whole situation doubly awful as we know what this means! Life over there has meant major adjustments for the family and because of the green card laws they are not allowed to work so the money they have raised is used for living... and this is running out fast. There are many many families living in the States like Matisse's who need to make sure their child gets well but also need to earn their keep... what can they do???? x

Stickytiki's most co-operative model

Yesterday we had a photographer over because there is a feature being done on us and the house for a magazine. A whole tribe of skateboarders turned up (my eldest sons friends) to get in on the act..there was some fabulous shots of them done. My little girl turned her head the other way when the camera was pointed in her direction..I know how she feels really!! But it was our four year old 'Ja Ja' who stole the show. He just did as he was asked, went where he was told and looked too cute (biased I know).....but look at that face!! Will let you know when the mag is out..very exciting!! x

Hey Hey work all day.....

Dad taking small ones to daycare. As the song goes... (Otahuhu allstars ) work all day there's bills to pay... got no time to play!! Well in fact that is not true, I LOVE my job soooo much it means I want to work, but I just do hate those bills to pay. Beautiful day here in the Bay like really blue and sunny, just what is needed to bring Napier out of its slump! Huge and fitting send off for Len Snee yesterday, a man greatly respected and loved! The funeral of Jan Mollenaar is tomorrow. I spoke with one of his close friends this morning who as you can imagine is terribly sad for the loss of his friend and even sadder the way he went out. I hate to see anyone sad but to see a man (I mean real bloke man) close to tears breaks my heart... I guess it is because men don't cry so readily... us girls know how much of it is a release being able to cry, and you usually feel better afterwards... you guys need to cry more, IT HELPS!! So this morning after that had the photographer round who is taking photos of us for mag... turns out it is not one page as I thought... 6-8 pages ARRRGH I will really have to have a good cleanup. They want quirky... well they have come to the right place, there is nothing flash about our house, but quirky it is! x