Catering Plus Maggie Comp - Innovative Table Setting WINNER

So I got a courier with a copy of the Magazine and it showed the winner and some others who had entered this comp - I personally didnt think much of it but I am going to try it again this year...one of the other competitors was one of my co workers...I also got back the CD with the photos and my story boards....not sure what I will do with them I might frame them....dont know..

The comp closed in November 2009, and it was meant to be annouced in Jan who the winner was but it never was, both myself and my lecturer Gina just ended up forgetting about it until a few months down the track and I got the courier..!

Altered Bucket/Tin

I have done my first altered bucket/tin...! Picked this up on clearance at the Warehouse and I have it tucked up my sleeve as a gift to send to a special person in America who LOVES Candy....!! Im going to fill it up with lots of NZ Candy eventually...and send it off....

Happy Mail!!

So I won a RAK in the Fiskateer Chat Room a couple of months ago now.....and I had all the emails from FedEx saying when it would be collected and sent and stuff and it never came so I sent an email to Angela Daniels about it and she looked into it.....and sent me out some major goodies to make up for it....!

I know have freaking breeding Buttons....! I was only expecting ONE of these as that is what I had one....(Im completely cheated, incase anyone wants to know we had to say when Betsy's birthday was and I checked it on facebook....ahahahaha Im soooo evil and cheeky I know...!) I also have breeding landyards too....hehe

Along with this I also got a parcel from Mary Charter - she promised me and Kerri Poptarts....om nom nom nom Its funny that a few of the fiskateers know how much of love them and cant get them in New Zealand anymore...

Baby Gift Boxes from LBH Studio

So I had drawn a winner for my RAK of my Nappy Cake.....and I have given out a few runner up prices for a few ladies who will be having new additions in their families this year....first up is Cordelia Gordon who has welcomed her first born child Jayden into her family in March.....! He is a little cutie!!

This is the card that I made to go with the gift box:

And this is a photo that her mum Donna took of the gift box I sent (I forgot to take a photo of it, infact I wouldnt have known how to set it out...!)

The gift box contains the following:

•  Bib
• Socks
• Outfit
• Two Disposible Nappies
• Bottle
• Spoon
• Photo Frame
• Sign for the Car
• Toy

Photo Montage

So Ive gotten a little addicted to doing photo collages lately, because Im back at Uni its all Ive  got time to do right now, and its free and doesnt cost me...! But Ive been wanting to do this one for a while now, as a special gift for my mate Andrew - so I hunted down through his bebo profile and his facebook for photos of him djing over the years...along with his logos too.

Kinda farewell gift as he is off to Australia for a bit...

Campaign for Living Wage - $15 per Hour

Last year in October I think it was I was walking to class and was stopped in The Quad at Uni by a couple of guys at a stand outside the library near Bennetts Bookstore (now UBS) and they had a petition to help raise the minimum wage in New Zealand from $12.50 to $15....being a low wage earner and I have sat on the minimum wage at every job I have held, though my rate goes up by about $1 each job I start this is only based on usually the fact the govt. has put the rate up each year or because of the  fact I have expereince and i earn a few cents or maybe a dollar over the minimum wage.....however working in Hospitality is known as being one of the lowest paid industries....what I make in a year some of my friends can make in a week or a month...! Heck my doctor probably makes that in a day..! So I signed the petition and carried on my merry way and never really  thought about it.

I did however look them up on facebook and connected to one of the people who was driving it - they went to all sorts of events and gigs and stuff to get signatures, but I never helped out, however finally on the 1st of March they were at Auckland University and I was going over to see my friend Justin Sane djing there in their quad and he was only a few feet away from where the people running this petition were set up. I went over and met them and within seconds I was signed up as the first student representative  for AUT University, and was handed a couple of badges and some petition board and was sent on my merry way to get signatures...

From here I started to help them out, I spent most of my first week at Uni doing that, helping Unite Union get signatures to help raise the minimum wage and I started to slowly learn about it all and became passionate about it - I was running off a massive buzz set by my mate Drewy from the weekend before Uni went back and I was on a mission to mate it into a week long thing and a month long buzz....so in between classes I would help out, I went to a protest at Auckland Uni when John Key came to visit....I hid my face behind signs because i was scared I would get caught on camera or something...I also got my first teeshirt and I was so warmly welcomed by the crew....

I have spent the past month infact being a volunteer worker at Unite Union helping get signatures, I have spent endless hours at their headquarters and at events just to get signatures....but it wasnt all just going out and getting them we had fun and had parties and the boys are a great bunch of guys to hang out with, never felt ashamed being one of the only girls...a Unite on Campus group was created and I was elected the President for AUT of it....and it became my second home Unite Union and my second family...I focused more on the campagin that my own Uni work..I struggled big time to settle down this semester I have...but its been great, with my work hours taken a sudden drop to nothing with the addition of being on sick leave I have been able to help out alot.

Just a matter of time to see if we reach the 300,000 signatures needed...not long to go for the deadline..!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY JAMES!!!

Today my youngest nephew James or Jamie as I call him turnt ONE!!!

Happy Birthday my little dj...!! Party Hard little man......one day you will be all big and grown up and partying like Uncle Drewy!! Hehehe

I made my nephew a card....because Im slowly getting into the card making...its enough to get the LadyBlackHeart Studio name out to people..a Curious George Card for him, not that he watches it I dont believe but he is a cheeky little Monkey...! We got him some pjs with cheeky monkeys on them, and a maraca..so he can make some MUSIC!! Aww yea....!! Why cant they make dj turn tables for babies?? lol