Pay It Forward

I am very excited to be participating in "Pay it Forward". I joined over at Curbside Style.



Here's how it works.

- I will make one handmade gift for the first three interested people who comment on this post.
- I have 365 days to do it in…
- What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise!
- you must participate as well
and....
- you must have a blog


Now, before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your own blog to keep the fun going!


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Alice in Wonderland

Lastnight the whole family watched Tim Burtons "Alice in Wonderland". We were all transfixed. I have heard that it's not to everyones taste..... I thought it was FANTABULOUS!!!!!



The acting was superb and the costumes, don't get me started on the costumes, they were just DELECTABLE!!!!!!



I am a big fan of Lewis Carol and absoloutley adore "Jabberwocky". It was my focus poem in year 10 literature. I still remember it.



If you are not familiar with "Jabberwocky" I recommend you read it before you see Alice in Wonderland so as too understand the story better.



Just love Johnny Depp, thought this part may have been a little Willy Wonkerish but came away feeling it was more Piratey :-) mmmm love Mr Depp.

Don't blame me if it's not to your liking, but ooooh, "c'est incroyable".

A Gift

Sorry, not for all you in blogland, it's for my sister.

I love these little pillow case totes so much, I hope my sister likes them too.






I managed to make a corsage for the tote which also doubles as a brooch. Next time I will add a hair clip also. Here is a close up of the brooch....






The ribbon rose is crafted from some leftover vintage pillowcase, and the leaves are from a jumper I felted a while ago. I love how versatile the felt is, I will be looking out for lambswool jumpers at all the op-shops from now on.

What have you gifted lately?

I've Been Busy

Alot has been happening that I have forgotten to blog about, well, haven't found the time is more like it. So what have we been up to?

We have made choc-chip cookies, I found the best recipe ever. This recipe is from the cadbury website. We remembered to take a few process shots.....



I hate creaming butter and sugar and avoid it at all costs, so we chucked it in the food processor.



The cookie dough...

We took them to a friends house and they all disappeared before we remembered to photograph the finished product. Whoops!

This morning we made some more and Monet asked if we could put some cocoa into the mixture to make them chocolate choc-chip cookies. We added 2 table spoons of cocoa with the flour, OMG, so luscious. This time we remembered to take a picture....




We made A few batches of cupcakes from the easiest recipe ever. I remember this recipe from when I had the magazine it was first published in. I love the taste website. It's Australian. So it is ingredients that I am familiar with. And now that all the recipes from those food ideas and good taste magazines are online, I don't have to leaf through 20 magazines every time I am looking for a recipe.

What else have we been up too? Potato stamping :-)
















This was so much fun, and we got some really good results. I think we will do this again if it rains this week.

Aaaarrggghhhh! The girls have been bringing the bunny inside. Now I love the bunny, but I do not like finding little bunny surprises around my house. They have been keeping him on the kitchen tiles which are easy enough to clean, but surprisingly, there have nit been any bunny surprises yet, yay!



He is soo cute!!!!! He has bucketloads of personality too, Monet ties a carrot to a string and he actually plays with it, like a cat. I didn't believe it till I saw it. My girls plan on winning a new tv on Funniest Home Videos.

Later in the week we will go to see Toy Story 3. I would like to know if anyone has seen it in 3D and do you think it is worth me driving half an hour and paying twice as much? Or should we just go to our local cinema?

Oops, I nearly forgot, I have also been making these.....



This is one I finished earlier.....



And here is a pile of half finished ones. I have an idea to make some corsages for them out of silk ribbons and a felted jumper. Who knows if I will get around to it....

Hope your holidays have been enjoyable, catch you all again soon :-)

Saturday Night

This is what I am up to tonight :-)






Crochet, chocolate and toasty fire, heaven :-)

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Floral Bedding

I was just thinking.......very dangerous. I wrap my beautiful baby boy in a floral wrap, there are many reasons...

They are my favourite wraps,
They were less than half price,
We were told he was going to be a girl....


I was feeling a little guilty and then I started thinking. Once he gets married he will probably spend 8 hours a day in floral bedding anyway.

This raises the question, how many of you have floral bedding, and who considers their husband and has something a little more gender neutral in the bedroom?

I have one floral and one stripes. The stripes are more for emergencies though, the floral doona cover usually gets washed and returned to the bed that same day.


It's not floral in the traditional sense, the flowers are machine embroidered and there is some hand beading in the centre of each peony (that's apparently what they are).

So tell me, floral or not?

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Some Crafting Supplies

Spotty had some great sales last week. Fat quarters for $2 and 50% off yarn.






What should I do with these fat quarters, I keep thinking I bought 6 but alas there are only 5. They are not really suited to my house but they were oh so gorgeous and calling my name. Perhaps I could make a gift, or even a giveaway???






With this I am going to make one of these



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Limited creativity

It seems lately the only thing I have been creative with is food. Cupcakes, bread, chocolate chip cookies. And I finally worked out how to cook a decent steak.




This is a lime cupcake that I am snacking on after I have put all the kids in bed. Unfortunatly it's not quite peaceful yet. I am still shushing them every 10 seconds.

Next I have to tackle the debris left behind the three little tornados that were confined to the house today.


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Best Bread Yet

This is my best bread yet!



I tweaked the recipe a bit.

I started with a large bag of defiance bread making flour just from the supermarket. I pretty much followed the recipe on the bag but I gave discovered a few things.

- Weigh the ingredients!!!
- Make the water hot but not burning (lukewarm water cools down too quickly)
- Oil the inside of the gladwrap used to cover the loaf
- I prefer to make a Cobb loaf thus avoiding the bread getting stuck in the tin.
- Use cornmeal to dust the baking tray.
- Dust the top of the bread with flour instead of glazing. (just my preference)

In addition to these things I replaced the sugar with honey, I had to use slightly more honey than sugar. I also used olive oil in preference to butter. I much prefer the taste of this bread.

Now that I am more confident I intend to try a few different recipes from the Internet. Occaisionally u will let you know how it is going.

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My Creative Space

I know I am late but I have been very busy. I have been baking bread... Well, trying to

This is my latest effort. Not too bad. You should have seen yesterdays, it resembled a very firm brick!

I decided that perhaps the tin was too blame (of couse it wasn't my fault) so we went for the Cobb today. So funny, I peeked in the oven half way through, this time my bread resembled a large mushroom.

Alot harder to slice when it actually rises, I need to be on the look out for an electric knife. They often show themselves at op-shops and garage sales.

I left the dough to prove for about 8 hours today. This wasn't intended, I popped out quickly and ended up gallavanting all over the country side, all afternoon. Anyway, the dough smelt like beer when I returned, and the bread tastes like sour dough, YUM!

Unfortunately it's nearly all gone. Tomorrow I will make 2.....