Family Fun

We have had some visitors the last few days so of course I slacked off in the blogging department.
So much fun we had!
The front yard was full of big crispy leaves which we just had to run through....





Though the leaves weren't quite so appealing earlier in the morning.....



But this demanding girl tantrumed until we went out to play every day...


(Oh yes she does tantrums REALLY well!)



But she really had so much fun.
And so did we!
Such serious people we are....

Cookies and A Cutie

My tummy has been grumbling at me.
My cup of deliciously warm tea looked lonely.
So I made some Coconut Jam Drop Cookies.



They must have looked good as someone managed to sneak up while I was taking photos....



So I bit one in half, taking the sugar filled jam and gave her the rest...


She even wiped those pesky crumbs off her jumper :)

Nap Time Activities

Today my laptop died.

The battery I mean.

No big deal..... If my charger wasn't busted.

:(

The cable on the charger had been slowly falling apart but I had managed to fix it with tape, you just had to move slowly near it or it would click back to battery and frustrate the crap outta me!

Silly me must have left it and bumped as I went as when I returned the screen was blank, lights were off, nobody home.

Good thing we had found a replacement charger on ebay for $11 with free postage. Weeee!! Now I just have to wait 7-14 days for arrival. Hmmm!

So my usual nap time freedom is taken up by relaxing in bed, surfing the net on my trusty lappy, reading blogs, oogling at other crafty goodies and checking my emails.

Today I must say I was lost. I wandered around the house contemplating what to do...

I walked out to the letterbox and got the mail.

Hmm 5mins down....40 to go....

So I decided to just sit at my crafty desk space and fiddle with whatever I found.

I found a jumper I had begun to sew for Eve at my mum's place and had stopped after my attempt at stencilling in a hurry had bled through and made an awful mess.

So this is what I came up with to hide the hideous:


And yes, there will be matching elbow pads!

I just need to sew it all on and finish the neck and sleeve openings with ribbing.

Then I found some ribbons, fake flowers and super glue..... Mix that with some of my resin pieces and voila!

Of course just as I finish typing this the little girl has woken up......

:)

The Return Of The Polka Dot Dress And Some Other Yumminess!

This morning I made my daughter do some modelling for me....
I made her try on the polka dot dress from yesterday.....



It was way too big!



She wears store bought size 2 but I guess silly old me should have measured her.
I think I wanted the surprise.
And at least she will grow into it.

This doll I made for her when we were at my parent's place...





She loves it...





Food in our house is pretty scarce at the moment. It's those last few days before pay day where every meal is a creative concoction.
We have no flour, eggs, butter, milk, powdered milk, cheese, hardly any vegetables (carrots and cabbage and frozen peas which I loathe) and the pantry is almost bare.

So for dinner last night I scoured the pantry and found a few things I knew I could put together to make something yummy.
I ended up with a can of tomato soup, lasagne sheets, frozen spinach which had thawed in the fridge, a carrot and my imagination.
So here it was...



And I have to say it was DELICIOUS. I am glad there was plenty left over, enough to freeze some for Eve and some for our lunch today.
I do have to admit we have some milk. My mum gave it to us from her cow a long time ago and it was frozen but once thawed the fatty solids seperate and won't mix back in so it's only really good for cooking.
Making the white sauce without butter was new for me but it tasted petty good!
With the only cheese in the house a tiny packet of long life dried parmesan I was also pretty surprised it cooked up nicely on top.

And of course it just isn't right in our house if we don't have something sweet to ssnack on. My dear husband is a big sweet tooth.

So all I could find were rice bubbles, a packet of Reese's pieces Blake's parents bought us (not a big fan of them, they have been sitting in a bag for a month or two...) and a half a block of Cadbury Tiramisu chocolate. We bought the chocolate ages ago when they were on special for 99c each and I think we ate too much and just got sick of it!
After melting and mixing here's what I got...


YUMMY!

Then I found a recipe in a kid's cookbook for marshmallows and had to try!



I think I should have beat them a bit longer as there is a little jelly layer on the bottom but they still taste good, but a bit too sweet for me.

But today there won't be any cooking (except dinner of course-which is still a mystery!), I am in the process of sewing another dress for Eve with another vintage pattern and would like to start cleaning out the pantry (easier to do it now when it's almost empty!) but we have to go for a drive today as my husband has a job interview.

:)