baking and making with my family of 9
I don’t know about you but every now and then I feel myself slipping into a rut with my cooking. And that means it’s time for a new cookbook. I know you can print recipes off the internet but I’m a total book person. I’d been eyeing off a few Thermomix cookbooks last year but […]
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Now I must admit that I thought it was a bit ambitious starting a baby blanket. I thought I might get a bit bored of it but I’m happy to report that so far so good. The blanket is growing………….slowly…………and it’s been lovely to knit. So I’m knitting the blanket from this book here. It […]
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Now today it’s emerson’s birthday and we have some visitors coming up to stay tomorrow and the house looks like a bomb site! I’ve perfected the lived in look a little bit too well lately. So I’ll be collecting all the photos of emerson’s first year into a blog post, baking him a cake, madly […]
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One of the reasons that I love my thermomix so much is the way it cuts out the need for some baking ingredients. Let’s take almond meal. You don’t need it when you have a thermomix because chuck some raw almonds in the thermomix and after about 5 or 6 seconds you have almond meal. For […]
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I picked up a few things for myself at the Cath Kidston sale (online of course because I don’t live near a store) and I thought it would be nice to pick up a few things for you too. And here they are. A little giveaway just for my readers. This bag is gorgeous. It’s […]
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If you’re new to knitting or you’re coming back to knitting then you might be wondering how to substitute yarn for a knitting pattern. You might pick up an American pattern or find one on ravelry and they recommend a particular yarn but the cost or availability isn’t working for you. Well it’s time to […]
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I think there is a little part of me that could quite happily homeschool this family of mine…..mind you, maybe you should ask me that question in 2 weeks time. We are just having the loveliest break from routine. Waking up whenever we want (well not me, emerson likes to head butt me from about […]
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Choosing the oven for our last kitchen was pretty straight forward. I went to Harvey Norman (that’s a whole other story here), looked at fridges, looked at 900mm stainless steel ovens and bought the last Glem 900mm gas oven in stock at a special price. Done and dusted in one trip. Now this kitchen we […]
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No, don’t worry, you haven’t missed anything. Not my baby but I’m going to be an aunty soon and I wanted to have a few little things gifted before baby arrives. I figure with a younger brother and sister and my cousins just starting to get married that I can keep knitting for babies for […]
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