wowed by The Whitsundays

emersonwhitesundays

If you’re on instagram then you probably have worked out that I’m not sharing my usual pics from home but am far away in the Whitsundays for a couple of days. I have never left the little ones for a night except to be in hospital giving birth so it was a pretty big decision […]

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knitting tikki’s granny’s favourite

grannys favourite

I love how I had this crazy idea that the school holidays would mean more craft time. I had visions of being in my sewing room or sitting outside knitting while the kids played each day but we’ve been doing swimvac every day and the days have flown by. Swimvac for the unititiated is a […]

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quick quesadillas for dinner

spinquesadilla

I spend a lot of time in this house feeding people. And by the time dinner rolls around the last thing that I want to do is go back into the kitchen and prepare a hot dinner!!!! So the quicker the dinner, the better. Now in summer one of my favourite and healthiest dinners is a […]

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made a dress

made a dress

My sewing machine has been gathering some serious dust here. You can have a lovely organised craft room (as seen here) but whether you get the time or motivation to get into the room is another thing. The last dress I made was back here. But I’ve been holding off buying too many winter clothes […]

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thai chickpea burgers

veggieburger

one of the things I’m loving about the school holidays is just spending more time at home. Two ladies were chatting behind me at swimming – about me – but in that nice way where they know I’m listening. So I turned around and started chatting. They said what’s your number one secret for being so […]

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zucchini + feta slice

zucchinislice

Once upon a time I was the queen of the frittata…………….but the frittata needed a bit of a rebrand here at retro mummy. A bit of a revamp. Because just the very word frittata was bringing out groans from everyone including retro daddy. Here was my all time favourite – sweet potato and feta frittata. […]

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my retro kitchen

retrikitch

My house has the lived in look. I’ve perfected it over the years. I could get a 10 out of 10 for making a house look like a family lives in it.  I can swiffer my lovely dark new floors as many times as I like but it only takes one packet of jatz or […]

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tillie + finn in shop 4 kids

shop4kids

Oops! Life has been so busy I totally forgot that I hadn’t shared the super cute pics of my twinnies from the photo shoot they did for Shop 4 Kids. I shared it on Facebook in all my excitement the day the magazine came out and forgot to share here. Silly me. So this all came about because there was a call […]

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joining a local organic fruit & veg co-op

organicfruitveg

Last week I was super excited to be making my first order as part of a local organic fruit & veg co-op. And I’ve had a couple of questions about it so I thought I’d put down my thoughts for you. You would be right for thinking that I had been using Aussie Farmers last […]

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