New Year

Since I am very tired today....
And no, I did not party wildly last night.
I had one beer.
I snuggled on the couch with my dear husband and watched Back to the Future on tv.
But then the little one woke up at 230am.
I did not get back to sleep until 4am.
Then she woke again at 7am.
Too tired to talk so I'll just share this photo I took yesterday with you.
If I get enough coffee into me I might put a giveaway up later.



I hope everyone else is starting the new year fresh, not with their head in a toilet bowl.

Best Ever Potato Bake Dinner

Last night I rummaged through the pantry, dove head first into the fridge, looking for something for dinner.
The fridge was a sorry state.
Soft, bendy carrots, cauliflower that was not so white anymore and a white cucumber, slightly wrinkled.
This is what happens when you go away for a few days and leave food by itself.
The pantry was much more promising. Pototoes! Garlic and onion too.
Tinned tomatoes with herbs.
My mouth was starting to water.
I was in a loving moood, so I decided to whip up something meaty for my husband.
I grabbed out my awesome Christmas present (it is so cute!) and popped some onion, sausages, garlic and the tinned tomatoes in chucked it in the oven. It looked so small in there.


(Please ignore the dirty dishes behind, I like to cook, not clean)

Then onto the food for both of us.
I roughly sliced the potatoes (was trying to entertain baby at the same time so I really didn't care for appearance).
Then into my big casserole dish went the slices of potato, followed by slices of onion and garlic and then more potato.
Pulled out the cream I got from my mum (and her gorgeous cows) and mixed it with some milk.
Poured that all over everything and then told my tummy to shush it had to wait until the food was cooked.



At this stage I looked into the dish and thought to myself "I need to have more than just potato and creamy milk for dinner, this can't be the healthiest thing around".
I know, silly brain!
I found some frozen spinach and sprinkled some around, poured the remaining tinner tomatoes on top and added some of my vege fake "bacon".
Lid on and in the oven!
Then after quite some time cooking, then more time with cheese and no lid......This emerged...



The smell was amazing, the taste was even better. I have never cooked a potato bake with a lid on and I will be doing that every time now! The flavours had been infused in the potato, mainly the fake bacon, and man it was goooood!



My man's food looked alright, smelt ok and I'm pretty sure he liked it too (the totally bare plate tells it all!).



Should get some time today to list a couple of things on my Etsy, it will take a while but I have an extra set of hands to help.

More stamps and a decision made...

We had an amazing sunset the other night...

The heavy clouds lit up as the sun slowly set after yet another wet day.
The puddles were like pools of pink fire on the ground.

After a pretty shocking morning (little girl has decided she is my alarm and it has been moved to 5am every morning for food and lots of play) I was happy to see my other stamps had arrived.
Yes, sad I know, when stamps are exciting, but I love getting nice mail of any kind.
I got some vintage car stamps & Australian wildlife.



Even the envelope they came in had some interesting stamps...


After finding my huge stash of resin I decided that now Eve is a bit older I will reopen my shop again. I have already made new things and want to just get all the old out!
I'll be giving things away here and in the shop with purchases so keep an eye out!
I took a whole bunch of new photos today using my gorgeous cupcake plate as background (I LOVE my plate!)
Here are some of the things I need to get rid of...





Now off to keep the little girl entertained. She has become so excited after learning how to stand up that she just wants to do it all the time and gets quite upset if I don't help her!

Stamps ahoy!

I was wondering if it was in any way normal to be excited over stamps? No. Oh good, because I don't feel I fit in that 'normal' category at all!
Today I got my package in the mail of Japanese stamps I bought off eBay. I think they cost me a total of $1 for a whole bag full.
So why would I want stamps?
Resin!
One night while pondering what the next thing I could embed was, a light switched on and flashed STAMPS!
So I looked and found many on eBay for a very good price and after receiving my first lot I am rather pleased.
There are so many pretty, kooky and cute ones I took a few photos of course....
Oooo opening it up to see inside...

Some of the cuteness.

This one reminds me of Babar....Oh I loved Babar as a child!


We did some shopping today, our little girl is not so little anymore and is growing out of her clothes very fast as well as growing out of her toys! She is no longer amused by most of them and would much rather crawl everywhere instead.
So we bought her a few toys and some clothes (Wonder Woman jumpsuit SO CUTE!)

My lovely husband is working on Christmas Day (but might get off early) and they have told him he can wear a festive shirt if he likes so we went to 4 shops looking for shirts and found NONE! Only cheesey baby outfits which made me want to puke. I turned to my man and asked him...."Why are there no Nativity outfits? Or you think they have pissed Jesus off enough already with profiting from religion?"
We finally found a shop with a shirt and it wasn't too bad but the best part of all was the craft section. found letter beads which I have been looking for for so long (for my resin of course!) and some magnets too. They were awesomely cheap and make me just want to crack out my stuff and start gluing!
I'll just have to wait until the little one is asleep tonight and then away I go!

And yeah we found black tinsel it is AWESOME!

Oh and the little girl said her first word the other day....Mum! It melted my heart.
Today she crawled properly for the first time. It fills me with such love seeing her grow up and learn all these things we take for granted.