Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tutorial, Recipes and Inspiration To Feed The Inner Craft Monster

I love to Stumble.
While I sit in the darkness every night, patiently waiting for my baby boy to go back to sleep I open up the StumbleUpon App on my iPad and away I go.
The App is great, I love it. The design is simple and easy to use.
My one problem is that it can be slow between stumbles.
So this week I found an amazing new collection of goodies to share with you.
Just click the picture to go to the link.














Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Shopping Expedition & A Giveaway!

We did a little shopping yesterday.
Of course we forgot to actually get the things we went out for!
But it happens.
You see a sale.
You find the clearance section.
Your favourite clothing store has major price reductions because they are being renovated so need to clear all stock.
You find something you have been looking for.
For a long, long time.
Of course you squeal with excitement and scare your shopping buddy when you see it.



I found this set of cookbooks in Target.
I bought one of them a while ago at Big W and love it. I saw the others on the back cover and had to get them for my little budding chef.
They are not easy to find!
(Keep an eye out because since I have two copies of the one book, one will be in another giveaway!)

Typo is one of my favourite stores.
I love it.
I found the clearance section and could not resist...



Everyone needs too many sticky notes!



And stamps, ink and cute things...



The stamps are gorgeous!



It's a little DIY kit.



Of course I had to try them as soon as I finished...



These are my favourites...



And I could not resist the funky pop art....



My little girl was watching me rummage through my goodies...
So I stopped.
She had the look on her face.
"Mummy I wanna do something!"
So we found some bits and pieces....
Did a little painting...
Drawing...
Cutting... (Mummy did this part)
And voila!



Bees!
I was inspired by a picture I found on Pinterest.
Follow me if you like.
Of course our bees have bigger heads and smaller wings.... But it's ok, she loves them so much she can barely wait for them to dry.

Now the best part of this post!
A giveaway!!!
When I picked up my little stamp set there was another sitting next to it.
I couldn't just leave it there, all alone.
So I thought...
"I'll buy it! I'll give it away to a loving home."
So here it is..



A lovely little tin sealed with DIY stamps inside ready for some inky fun.
And I'll throw in the funky pop art notepad....



It is perforated with lines..... *Swoons at papergoods*



But wait! There's more! (I know, so cheesy but I could not resist!)
I'll even throw in these cute little sausage dog sticky notes!



So this is what one lucky (random.org generated) winner will receive:



All you need to do is one of the following:
  • Comment on this post telling me what your shopping weakness is.
  • Become a follower of my blog.
  • Send a friend over here and get them to comment saying you sent them (make sure they mention your name as it appears on your profile, I would hate to not be able to contact my winner!)
  • Blog about my giveaway and include a link to post in your comment.
All of these will get you one entry each, all you need to do is comment separately for each so the random.org generator can work it's magic.

Giveaway closes in one week, on the 16th of August 2011.
Good luck to all!


In My Kitchen

On the menu last week....



Mushroom, spinach and asparagus quiche.



I was sneaky and added some pureed vegetables.



And made a mini, and very rustic, one for Eve.
Of course little miss fusspot didn't eat it!

Then there was the delicious vegetable polenta pie.



This recipe is from my favourite vegetarian cookbook and made me fall in love with polenta.



Then sweet things.
Of course there are sweet things!

These pancakes were a delicious breakfast.



I started with my basic pancake recipe, but used wholemeal flour.
I added raspberries, oats and dark chop chips.
They were so good!



Then I made these rice bubble treats. A rip off of LCM bars but they taste SO MUCH BETTER!



And what else do you do with little blocks like that?



Make a little house of course!
(Please excuse my terrible Paint skills)

The recipe we used is HERE.

Today we made cupcakes.


Yes, more cupcakes!



Neopolitan cupcakes.



I wanted to make a neopolitan cake but cupcakes were a lot easier with the lack of time I had.

We played around with lollies to decorate...



My trusty silicone cupcake molds watched on...



The gumballs were my favourite decoration...



But they all tasted delicious!