I love the satisfaction of finishing a project and there is a special sense of satisfaction that I’ve finished this project with an 8 week old baby in the house. Yes he’s 8 weeks today!!!! And it’s all thanks to mastering feeding and knitting at the same time. Now I have to admit that I […]
{Keep Reading...}knitting is in my genes
Well daylight saving has totally thrown us here. We missed 8.30am mass since everyone was still sleeping, well everyone except for me and our little guy and I thought we’d get to 10am but were still getting little people dressed and trying to find a hairbrush so we got to 10.30 in the end and […]
{Keep Reading...}roast chicken + smoky sweet potatoes (gluten + dairy free)
This is my favourite dinner at the moment. Inspired by an instagram pic from Against All Grain and I figured out how to do the smoky potatoes. I hope you enjoy this one. It’s great for families because you can do 2 chickens and have leftovers the next day. Having a chicken and mayo sandwich […]
{Keep Reading...}long weekend in the kitchen
Well it’s the Friday before a long weekend. I know I’ve been a bit quiet here on the blog but lots has been going on behind the scenes. Feeding my little man while the kids destroy the house while I’m stuck on the couch, cleaning out the pantry and kitchen, enjoying our holidays at home […]
{Keep Reading...}a week of meals at our house
On the weekend over on facebook I mentioned that I was doing a quick meal plan and grocery list and a lovely reader Vanessa said she’d love to see the meal plan. So here you go. Usually I’d write it on the back of a used envelope (where the best things are written down of […]
{Keep Reading...}Horizon and other new fabrics
I have a few deliveries of fabric still to come over the next few weeks and months and it’s always exciting! Especially since the kids get to play in the big boxes! On Friday we took delivery of some lovely new ones including Horizon by Kate Spain which I’m going to try to find the […]
{Keep Reading...}tuna nicoise
Warmer weather and a bit of pregnancy weight to lose means that my thoughts have already turned to salads for dinner. Not that the little ones enjoy salad for dinner but the adults of the house do. My trick is to put some of the salad ingredients into bread rolls or tortillas for the little […]
{Keep Reading...}spring is here
I love spring with the warmer weather and the gorgeous flowers in our garden. I’ve probably admitted on the blog before that I don’t get a lot of time for gardening but am loving how many different types of beautiful flowers there are at our house at the moment. and the biggest surprise was a […]
{Keep Reading...}Quirky Cooking’s Cinnamon Blueberry Scrolls
I love to bake but time has been in short supply. So with a snoozing baby (modelling his hug me tight made by my nana)………….. and all of the right ingredients and the big kids home on school holidays we set about making Quirky Cooking’s Cinnamon & Blueberry Scrolls. We did need a few new […]
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