It's Show Time

I apologise for the blog being a bit neglected but in our neck of the woods our Agricultural Shows are up and running.  Our home town show has just been held and our family is very involved.  This year we had both of the grils horses at the show so their was a lot of preparation for that.  My husband Woodchops, this is his first chop for two years.  In 2008 he had a fall off one of his horses while mustering and damaged his AC Joint (in his shoulder), and then in 2009 a young horse he was riding fell and rolled ontop of him and broke his leg quite badly.  His orthopedic surgeon actually told him that if he was a horse he would put him down!  So when it came time for the muster this year I practically wrapped him in cotton wool.  At the show I usually just run around like a chook with it's head cut off.  I tried to take some photos of our show but we have a funny saying in our family that goes 'If you want to see an Ag Show you have to go somewhere else to see it'. My husband and I are off on Thursday to another show to Judge their Miss Showgirl Competition so I am looking forward to that.  Hopefully I will get a few more pictures at the last few shows to show you what a country show looks like.

This is Miss S's very mischeivious pony.  He is only small but thinks he is a big horse, he has a lot of personality.

This is Miss M and her beautiful horse Honey waiting for their class.  She is the most sweetest and kindest horse.  Honey is 24 yrs old but looks much younger. (that is OLD for a horse)

This everyone who helps out at the cattle show/sale at our show.  This is the afternoon after the judging.  The sale is always held the next day.

This is the very beaustiful mare who won Champion Hack at the show.  She missed out on Supreme Hack of the show.  I would have picked her as Supreme but that is showing for you, you never know what the judges are going to like.

This is a friend of ours at the woodchop.  I didn't get any pictures of my husband woodchopping but I will at the next show, we are going without the kids so I will get to check out everything.

Angie 

We Have A Winner

Congratulations to Poppy (and Natasha).  You have won our fan photo competition :)

Look out for an AnK goody bag coming your way in the mail.

Thanks to all our entrants for the most beautiful photos.

Voting was certainly close !!

Stay tuned for some new AnK product photos this week :)

Angie & Kristy

AnK Fan Photo Comp Giveaway

It has been so busy at AnK Headquarters over the last few months that this blog has

 been a little neglected :(

So apologies it has taken us so long to finalise our fan photos giveaway. Due to new facebook restrictions on giveaways we have decided to use our blog to find a winner to our photo comp. So the finalists are listed below - please comment on your favourite photo. Photo with the most comments is the winner !! We will be announcing the winner over the weekend.

Thanks for your patience,

Angie & Kristy

                                                                   1. Madi

 

2 . Ashtyn

3 . Poppy

4. Clark Girls

5. Isabella ( photo by Rebecca)

Gymboree is coming to Australia

Good news, Gymboree is coming to Australia.  If you live in Sydney then you are in luck.  They will be at the Westfield Paramatta from the 29th April - 1st May.

Maggie Moo Update

Last year I posted about one of my cows sneaking next door.  You can find the first part of this story here. 
Well, I thought I would give you an update of how our Maggie Moo is doing.  She has grown quite a bit and has started to grow little horns.  These I am expecting to get quite large because of her breeding(Longhorn).  She is still very out of place and you can spot her a mile away.

What do you think?  Remembering that we breed Droughtmasters and they are a red/yellow colour.

Angie

The Front Verandah

With the kids off mustering for the whole day I decided it was time to get stuck into some much needed cleaning.  First job, the front verandah - over run with gecko/frog poo, spider webs and dust it was in need of some high level attention. It scrubbed up pretty well and looks great now that I have added my new cushions from Chicken Ink.

Tania (insert talented, multi -tasking Mum) Goranitis not only made these cushions but is also the clever creater of my removable diary cover.  Now if I could only remember to use it.  Maybe I should use it for our pettiskirt / beanie orders - Angie would be impressed as I'm certain that she thinks my 'brain notebook' will fail me one day :)

So now the front verandah is a place to enjoy a coffee and muffin.

Or catch up on a mag or a book.

Or even enjoy the view.

It might distract me from what I really need to do ;)

(O.K Angie I'll write it down for you :) ) write down what's in the 'brain notebook'.

Off to get some more much needed jobs done before the kids return from their mustering adventure. Ohhh musn't forget to send a BIG BIG thankyou to Catherine from

Catherine Mims Photography

I'd bumped something on my camera and as I NEVER read the manual for anything I had no idea what I did.  One quick call to Catherine and all those numbers and letters (which still don't mean anything to me !!) were fixed.  So thanks Catherine !! Much appreciated !!

Kristy

AnK and Catherine Mims Photography

We have been so very lucky to appear on the blog of Catherine Mims Photography.  Catherine is a mum just like us and also teaches her children distance education at the same school as us.  The difference is that she is an amazing photographer specialising in babies, children and families.  Catherine has just started a 'What to Wear' on Wednesdays of her blog to help clients with the dilema of what to wear to a photo shoot.  We have featured in todays post with some of our products.
She has photographed the very gorgeous Madi wearing one of our beanies.  Madi has the most amazing eyes.  You can check out her blog here.

Isn't she gorgeous.  You are a wonderful model Madi!

Angie & Kristy