baking and making with my family of 9
Well I’m all craft show-ed out. I haven’t been to the quilt and craft fair at Darling Harbour for a couple of years as I’ve always had a baby or something on that weekend. But this year I decided to pop in for a few hours on my own and check it out. I was not disappointed. […]
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Nothing like the satisfaction of finishing off a project, putting it on your model and grabbing some photos in the sunshine. And this is my first knit for the winter season and I’m loving it. But to tell you the truth there are not enough hours in my day to get through all the winter knitting […]
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We’ve been a laptop household for a long time. In fact the last time I had a desktop computer in my home was probably 2001 when I was a single girl. So we’re going back a bit there. But recently I knew that it was time for something bigger for me to be blogging on AND […]
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Well it has been a long time between fabric giveaways. I’ve been getting organised and up to date on all my past giveaways. I still have 2 running – the mother/daughter netball session with me, Keira and Liz Ellis here and the 4 x $1000 family bike packages here. And now it’s fabric time. I have […]
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I have called this date night risotto because, well, date night happens at home these days. The kids in bed, a nice meal, maybe a bit of takeaway, a little glass of wine which I don’t drink much of these days and you have date night in. You could also call this dish ‘I have nothing in the […]
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Well the green carpet has left the building! I repeat, the green carpet has left the building. And as I was moving things out and cleaning rooms out before the carpet guys came I kept singing a few little lines in my head. Now please excuse the fluff and carpet bits. I have emerson and […]
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I love a good quiche and there is just no comparison between a home made quiche and one from the supermarket. Don’t you think? But it takes time to make quiche. I won’t lie. You need to put in a bit of elbow grease if you want to make a good old quiche from scratch. […]
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This post is sponsored by Telstra NetMum Growing up I loved netball except for one thing. Centre position. Going to girls schools meant that we played A LOT of netball during PE. And being the smallest person in the team. Always, always the smallest person meant that I had to play centre. I was always […]
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We are soup people here. Well except the 3 big kids, they are not big fans. The rest of us love soup. So when retro daddy took those same 3 big kids to the AFL for the first time on the weekend, I took it as an opportunity to have soup for dinner. It was cold and rainy […]
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