Disney Live! Giveaway!

Well the time has finally come for the Disney Live! ticket giveaway! I have 4 tickets to the Newcastle Disney Live! show on Tuesday 17th January 2012 at 1pm, in my hot little hand to giveaway to a lucky person!

You could be watching Disney Live! soon...!

It’s easy peasy to enter. All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post, (you’ll see the comment button at the end of the post) telling me who your or your kids favourite Disney character is. Then ‘Like’ Puff Pieces on Facebook. Just click the ‘Like’ button on the Facebook box to the right or head HERE to my Facebook page. Yep, it’s that simple!

You can only enter once, and the competition will be open for 2 weeks, closing on Monday 12th December 2011 at 7.30am. The winner will be chosen at random by www.random.org and will be announced here on Monday 12th December 2011 at about 9.30am, and also posted on Puff Pieces Facebook page and notified by email.

So what are you waiting for… start ‘Liking’ and commenting away! Good luck!

A whole new world…

Having kids is by far the greatest joy in the world. They make you laugh, cry, frustrated but so so happy. They also remind you of how it’s the simple things that can make you smile and take you back to your own childhood.

Abu the monkey!

Growing up, Aladdin was one of my absolute favourite movies. I thought Abu the monkey was the cutest thing I’d ever seen and Princess Jasmine the most beautiful. I wished that I could have a pet tiger and sing like she did. A Whole New World was my favourite song and I’d belt it out off tune all the time. Their adventures looked like so much fun. And who wouldn’t want their very own Genie and magic carpet!

The best thing now about having kids? It gives you the perfect excuse to relive these memories, watch the movies and introduce them to the wonderful world of Disney.

Watching Sophie bop around, wiggling her bum to the beat of any music, including ad’s on TV often has me in hysterics, so I can only imagine what she’ll be like when we go to the new Disney Live! show in January! The all dancing, all singing cast full of all our favourite Disney characters will no doubt have plenty of tiny little feet tapping and little bums wiggling to the beat of the music. I’m so excited and can’t wait. I mean Sophie’s so excited and can’t wait. Ok, so she doesn’t even realise she’s going yet, so I’m excited enough for the 2 of us!

Disney Live is coming to Newcastle Entertainment Centre on January 17-18. Tickets are already on sale through Ticketek. Follow the link HERE.

The whole Disney Live! gang

And don’t forget to stay tuned for a very exciting Disney giveaway next week! Yes I will have 4 tickets to give away to one of the Newcastle shows!

One of THOSE days…

Ever had one of those days where whatever could go wrong, will? You’ll be able to sympathise with my friend Louise* then! A simple trip to Melbourne for her sisters wedding, soon turned into a comedy of errors. And for us, a very funny read…

As Louise puts it:

My plans were:

0600 depart Newcastle

0730 arrive melb

1330 (1.30pm) hair in portsea

1630 (4.30pm) wedding.

Actual

Fly in and land as per plan. Other half advises that he didn’t bring pants (WHAT THE??) and that he would like to go shopping. Deep breath out… OK lets do breakfast then go to Chadstone (I’m sure the worlds BIGGEST shopping centre and even has its own Tiffanys and Co) Arrive Chadstone 1000, deal is Boy shop for pants then phone me when ready. Game over no later than 1200 to drive to hair appointment. I intended to go get mani and pedi to not spend too much money… oh yeah I LURVE CHADSTONE.

Well – long story short – I wandered round Chaddy, found a dress I have been searching for (involved asking a stranger where she got her RED dress from) had to buy new matching shoes, got my nails done and then…

Bride rang and said ‘can you talk to dad, he sounded distracted when she phoned him earlier.’ So rang dad. Dad was his usual organised self, not, and was charged with picking up the wedding cake. WELL. At 11.20 he had not LEFT HOME YET and the cake was at Chaddy, which was like Charlestown on a Sat morning. DEFINITELY NOT EMPTY and in no shape to simply breeze in and collect a wedding cake! So I said to dad that we were in Chadstone, and we would do the cake (I had visions of no wedding cake at reception…) So we hare around Chaddy to find a trolley then fang to the cake shop, get cake and hurtle into car. We zoom down to the reception (golf course), drop cake off, and I hurl Mike* off at the Country Club (next door thank Tgoodness) and race to get my hair done.

Meanwhile I forgot to metion why I am racing around… WELL

Jen* (Bride) had phoned and was telling me the updated location for …. PHOTOS. Um what photos I am thinking… the photos BEFORE THE CEREMONY at 2pm. Krikey! Hair appointment 1.30, cake dropped off at 1.20, and um PHOTOS AT 2? And amongst all this, Jen had booked my hair appointment time! SO arrive at hair 10 mins late (land speed records on back roads of Portsea) no chit chat, just wash blow dry hair pinned, off to the parents of the grooms small seaside waterfront mansion. Launch into a bathroom, did the superman change from jeans to dress, race out in time for one snap photo then off to the on-location photo shoot at the beach – it’s a clifftop ceremony. LOL the only makeup I have on is a swipe of mascara and some lip gloss! Note: father of the bride is at the parents of the grooms mansion.

Arrive at photo location with sister, bride and father of the bride. Take photos. Jane* (other sister) and I travel to next clifftop for ceremony.

All guests arrive, we all cram into a clifftop walkway and ceremony begins. I am facing bride (downwards) and Jane is on opposite side of crowd facing upwards. Both of us commence scanning crowd for father of bride. Nowhere to be seen… mind you there is 80 people squashed in. maybe he is just ‘amongst it all’. I am standing next to parents of groom. Mother of groom (Marilyn) and father of groom (Rob) whisper. Marilyn turns around and says ‘wheres Glen?’ (Father of the bride) I have to say ‘don’t know!’ mmmmm. Ceremony starts. Ceremony finishes. Celebrant calls for Marilyn and Glen to come forward to witness the signing. Marilyn – tick. Glen – absent. ABSENT!!! The father of the bride MISSED THE WHOLE WEDDING and was nowhere to be seen. I race through carpark to phone and ring him. He answers and I screech WHERE ARE YOU (I was hoping for no answer so maybe he had had a heart attack and a VALID reason for a – answering phone and b – not being on site) Im LOST he says. I have to resist the urge to tell him to keep driving – home – and make sure he gets here. I go back to the ceremony and Jane has signed the docs in dads absence.

THEN…

Father of the groom delivers a lovely speech. Then father of the bride is asked to step to the mic. Father of the bride spends the first 2 mins telling everyone how he was instructed to speak for 3-4 mins only and that the father of the groom spoke for too long, but, dear listener, he wont. Then he rambles and stammers in a speech so shocking that was focussed on why his wife didn’t come (including telling everyone how Grace (his step-daughter) was ‘last chance at australian girls choir’ ) two tearful, over the top references to our mother, then a long winded ramble about Jen (Bride) better fitting to a povo 21st than a 33yr olds wedding. The speech was so bad that people were talking about it AFTERWARDS.

Other than that, the bride looked stunning in a strapless vera wang. Weather was to die for.

Phew. I have vented.

Ever had a day like Louise’s?!

*Names have been changed.