baking and making with my family of 9
One of the things I love about blogging is the ability to use it for good. Quilts for Queensland was my project that kept me busy in 2011. You were all so generous with quilts and blocks. That was one big project that took over a room of my home but one which I loved […]
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This year I’d love to share with you my favourite family dinners. In this house dinners need to be hearty, they need to be eaten, don’t take too long, don’t have any fancy ingredients and don’t cost too much. One of my favourite recipes is this chicken pie. I’ve shared it before but have updated […]
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One of the best things about school holidays is the break from routine. No driving everyone around, no set time we need to be out of the house and no activities. It’s all pretty nice around here. And I’ve been using that time to get some crochet done. Craft is something I always try to […]
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Happy new year!!!!! I was asleep before 10.30 last night but no surprises there. Now with a new year brings new goals and one of mine is to eat better. And nothing says eating better than salad. I discovered ‘cobb salad’ in ‘Against all grain’ which is probably one of the best cookbooks I bought […]
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School’s out, my babies are home, my family are coming to visit, there are presents to wrap (OK, there are still some presents to buy), movies to see (just ask Finn which ones, he’s keeping a list of them but I’m hoping to see the Secret Life of Walter Mitty), parks to visit and things […]
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Ok what happened from August onwards? the twins turned 5…what a milestone I fooled a couple of you that I was on the front cover of the IKEA magazine, I wasn’t really…………… I took one of my favourite photos of my little miss I knit the cutest little cardigan and I knit a size 7 […]
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I’ve had a few questions about what we will eat for Christmas Day. We’ve got a busy couple of days planned especially as I’m hosting Christmas lunch, a few visitors staying over Christmas and ‘pudding and presents’ as we’re calling it on Boxing Day with more family. Now Christmas lunch for as long as I […]
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For a few years now we’ve been putting our Christmas tree in another part of the house and away from toddlers….since we’ve pretty much had a toddler or preschooler over the last few years. This year I decided to just to go with it, embrace the decorations being pulled off the tree…………….and the kids have […]
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I thought it would be fun to have a couple of Christmas giveaways this week. Tonight over on my facebook page I’ll be launching my soda stream giveaway where one lucky reader will have a new soda stream couriered to their door before Christmas. And today on the blog let’s do some fabric goodness. 6 […]
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