Brace yourselves, it's another long post with lots of photos!

Feel like we can LIVE more now, as we've found a cream that really seems to control Callum's eczema. It's a protopic ointment that has an effect on the immunology of the skin cells, changing them so they don't react to whatever it is that is causing his ezcema. We use it up to twice a day when his skin is showing redness, yesterday his skin was so good I didn't use it at all. Today he had a slight set back, probably because I hadn't given him his lunchtime anti-histamine - at least I know that at the moment he still needs to have a/h three times a day. The specialist was really pleased and amazed at his skin when she saw him yesterday. So hands up if you've got great skin (excluding the mucky hands, all will be revealed later)...

This ointment doesn't work for everyone, it's a matter of finding what works best for each individual and thank goodness, at the moment we've found one that is working wonders for Callum. Of course the beautiful summer weather we've been having here (not) means we haven't been able to fully test it's effectiveness when he has been playing outside, but maybe we will soon. I think I must be one of the only people who have been seriously glad that the summer has been a cool wet one so far!

This picture made me LAUGH when I saw it on the AOL welcome page a couple of days ago, just had to share it with you! It's an advertising stunt for the new Simpson's movie. Homer with doughnut, has been painted in a field next to the chalk giant at Cerne Abbas, the giant is thought to be a fertility symbol. (I hope you're not offended by this picture)

Talking of laughing, here are some more photos Jeff took of Matthew and Callum helping to make the fantastic 'Boland Family Stuffing'. I had to laugh when I saw the photos, Matthew just can't stop himself from making funny faces and striking poses. This is so him at the moment.

I LOVE having organised scrap supplies in pretty storage. Sheila gave me some lovely boxes for my birthday last year and I hadn't done anything with them until a couple of nights ago. Well Sheila, I totally stole your idea of putting label holders on them and now I'm storing my ribbons inside them. The bottom box had contained a christmas present, I'd kept it thinking that one day I'd do something with it and now I have - I covered it in Basic Grey's Marzipan paper and it now contains ribbon and twills too. Making alternative storage for my ribbons meant I could better use the chicken wire basket which my friend Ros gave me (again for my birthday last year) to store flowers and tapes in. The lovely wicker basket was part of a raffle prize I'd won at the pre-school Nativity, it now contains all my chipboard letters and embellishments.

I had also been wanting to store my sewing machine in the same room as my scrap supplies in the hope that if it was accessible I'd use it on scrapbooking projects and yeah me I did today. This is my layout for PL sketch #41; 'Kings for a day'. How could I not use the sewing machine on the layout when I'd used it to make the Kings costumes!

And finally, my boys LOVE their new remote control car RC, Toy Story is very popular around here still (don't tell Callum, but we've got him Mr and Mrs Potato Head for his 2nd Birthday next week!). Callum insists that when he eventually gets his turn to play with RC, Woody has to sit on top just like in the end scene from Toy Story 1, how very cute!