But With the Cool Comes

Yarn Cravings!!!

Croheted Cowls

Home dyed Yarn

Scarves for swaps

Granny ripples

eye candy

And you cant do yummy magazines with out yummy tea!!

My current favourite as it tastes just as good cold as it does hot 

and as a mumma with four

psychic "mum wants to sit down with a cuppa" kids.........

Ps I was hoping to share this crochet doll Ive been working on but i cant decide on her hair, so she is a baldy while i make her her clothes and cute shoes!! And a girl just doesnt like to be seen while she is bald.....

Soaking up the last of the sun!!

Winter is my season - in my dreams. 

My dreams are filled with warm quilts, hot drinks, trashy telly, soups and good magazines. 

And while I do get these things ( in dribs and drabs) in reality my winter is 

Snotty noses, endless washing, and cranky kids stuck inside. 

So before it hits we are soaking up as much of the outside as we can.......

Walks in mumma made dresses and stockings!!!

Stockings are my favourite thing of dressing little girls.

Under everything!

Art with chalk.

Makes me smile every time I pass the driveway

And pure kid happiness for 40 cents - Bliss!

Our own Ancient ruins with rubble from our deck building

Walks by Nepean River

Eye candy filled street performers in the city

Oh PS - how the heck could I forget about Man Flu. We get a lot of Man flu here - over run by future men!!

PPs - smelly wet dog as well - thats always fun.

For Beth..........

the past 6 months or so

Cake 

redneck waterslides 

Bushwalks

14

Family time

8

funny four year olds  

Sisters and cousins 

The Gift of Cake

Cake. 

Cake keeps me happy and I get a sense of accomplishment from Cake, as it has to be finished I cant just leave a cake unfinished lying around the house. 

And my favourite part

Cake makes other people happy.

Since Lara's dog birthday cake, Ive been a lil busy.

This pineapple for my brother in laws hawaiian party  (just cause they could!!)

 This was a bugger of a cake to figure out, but once I worked out how I wanted to do the skin away we went.

4 tropical white mud cakes with a tropical ganache YUM!!

And just cause im proud of the fact I figured it out 

a mini tutorial on the skin!

This finished photo is missing some of the taller fronds from the top 

( nephews and sons I suspect!)

Labrious, 

a pinch of ganache applied individually in a sort of pyriamid shape to get the bumps

after covering with the yellow fondant, a large star tip indented to the top of each bump 

and then scratched around each shapes in rough multiple lines. 

And finally brushing of green and brown petal dust. 

with the taller leaves before the sand and hibiscus.

( scotch fingers and brown sugar)

ONE?!?!!!!

I have no idea how it happened all so quickly, but its here and tomorrow I will have a one year old baby girl . Thats crazy to me. 

Hello, Is it me you're looking for??

Oops I did it again.

Sorry am in random singing mode today.

I didn't scrap, I barely baked, no real crafting and I didn't read or blog.

I Dropped off the end of the world.

Something had to give so I could get my self together again.

I did what was needed

I grew my baby girl big ( one in three weeks!!!!) I grew my boys even bigger.

I nurtured my self through winter and the long repetitive months of frustrated baby and having no life.

Despite this, I managed to get published once or twice ( layouts from the last time I scrapped and blogged). 

And this month, I got a huge surprise. 

The cover. Thats my baby!

( no sir, I dont mean maybe)

I had no idea. 

I love him, He makes me smile. 

So im glad he has the chance to make others smile.

Ps sorry about any songs I may have unintentionally put in your head.

PPS if you didn't get any songs in your head

"This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend....."

PPPS I had the full house theme song in my head the other day. I was going to put up a random facebook post about it, but then I realized a good chunk of the people on there are too young for Full house. And that makes me sad. 

PPPPs I borrowed a sooty dvd from the library for the school holidays was going to put a fb post about that. Same problem. I guess that just makes me old. 

PPPPPs we wont talk about my first grey hair I just found. Husband is not sympathetic — he has been grey since early 20's. Salt and pepper looks great on men - George anyone!!!

 Not the same on me. I dont have the class or classic beauty of Helen Mirren