Summer Lovin'

....Had me a blast at Noosa a few weekends ago with the girls, sunshine, delicious cider and a rather territorial kookaburra.

kickin' it beach style!

the view from our beveraging verandah

old mate

just a few photos to make you jealous xx

Christmas Markets!

Just a quick one before I head into town for the Bleeding Heart Christmas Markets today kids.

Don't forget, 

Bleeding Heart Gallery,

166 Ann St,

Brisbane.

And to get you in the mood, here's a sneak peek of what's to be expected from my wee stall...

I will also have treats from my sister Ash, timber christmas decorations and brooches as well as creations from my mate Nikki, from uptight but dangerous.

There are also 21 other stall holders and delicious coffee awaiting you so get on board!

Party time, excellent!

I love Waynes World, for all the trash and big hair and baseball caps.

This has nothing to do with my last two weekends though {which is what this blog is about} except for the fact that they were both mucho excellentay!

This first was an all round winner of a weekend that began with my sister, mum and I going to a handbag sale and then sliding over to the Kit and Nancy yard sale...hello awesome new YELLOW uni bag and kitschy vintage kitchen scales! I also then mounted a raid on my youngest sisters bedroom {which was mine before I moved out} because I knew my old cane kids rocking chair was still about but hadn't spied it in a while. I was on a mission to save it and save it I did, from an old computer monitor that was squishing it and god knows what else has made that wardrobe its home!

i am going to ROCK uni, yellow style!

now holds the more miniature of our cookbooks on the kitchen bench

all my saturday treasures.

Then it was all about the Christmas craft seeing as I have been asked to have a stall at the Bleeding Heart Gallery Christmas Market,
 Dec 2nd, 10am - 4pm
166 Ann Street, Brisbane.
 {if anyone was keen to pop by?}

me looking super attractive in my working hat and loving the fact that it was 1 million degrees, in the SHADE! {i was not in the shade..}

the trees

the helper Millie

delicious.

I just found this recipe and actually cannot wait to try it out, I'm almost at the point where I want to get in my car a drive to the nearest 7-eleven and pay through the nose for a packet of overpriced tim tams just to give it a go! {did I mention that it's 11:03 PM on a MONDAY night...}, tim tam tarts?! Come on!

Anyway, for the good of the world please go and check it out at Chantelles blog, fat mum slim.

Macarena!

Not really, more like Macaroons, but it was my first attempt and I feel as though it was worthy of a song.

Now this is going to be the shortened version of my epic adventure but only because I'm STARVING and beginning to slur my words here, my typing has hit a land slide and is quickly heading down hill.

Anyway, my family was having a pre Christmas, Christmas dinner and for dessert I decided to try my hand at the ever elusive macaroon. I won. Take that hard to bake sweet things!

Ta daaa!

Strawberry fields

It might not be a field exactly but our strawberry plants are coming along nicely {as is the rest of the garden!} and as proof, here is our first harvest!

I've also been eating the snow peas, lettuce, basil, mint, bok choy and shallots and I'm counting down the days to when the rocket {from seeds} and tomatoes will be ripe for the pickin'!!

It's getting to be that time of year!

I love Christmas, so much! I'm not even kidding. 

Last year I made {from scratch} gingerbread men for all my work peeps and other besties and gingerbread reindeer as gift tags for all my family. I also managed my first ever stocking and my market stall was full to the brim with handmade felt tree decorations and garlands.

Anyway, this year my sisters and I are joining creative forces, I can't give much away just yet but here are some photos from last years markets to get you curious!!

All the felties are made by yours truly, the ceramic decos by my sister Ash and the timber trees {painted green and gold} are done by us both {with some Dad help}. The timber trees have been a feature of our Christmas' since forever and we decided to give them a bit of a come back tour this year. They stand about 40cm tall and come with or without decorations {each branch had a small hole drilled into it so you can trim your tiny tree} and are painted green with the star being gold and a slight mist of gold around the branches as 'tinsel'. We love them and hope that they'll be a hit outside our family too!

Oh Anthropologie..

How does a girl decide?!

Here are my pick for the summer, loving the chunky bright colours and different materials!

Choose your {credit cards} poison in the accessories sections online at Anthropologie.

The sweetest thing

Just a little something I couldn't pass up when I was buying myself a treat online.

Sadly Mia won't fit this for probably another 6 months but when she does, going to be SO cute!

In search of the perfect burger...I thought it was a little weird, but still cool. This was the shirt I made my treat for the day!

Both t-shirts are from a little company in the US called Dressing On The Side. You can find them on etsy here or on their own website, here.

I would definitly 100% recommend checking them out for both guys and girls t-shirts.



Red Hill Kindergarten Art Show!

Hola tiny dancers!

 

This is just a quick spruik for a group art show that both my artwork and jewellry will feature in in a couple of weeks time. So, because it's in conjunction with the Red Hill Kindy, alongside the selected guest artists all the kids will also have pieces of artistic brilliance on display {i'm just saying now, future artistic genius right there!}.

 So if you're in the area please come along to support your local artists and kindergarten. All artworks will be for sale and will include but not be limited to painting, photography, ceramics and jewellry.

Guest artists include
* Imogen Macdonald
* Kristyn Roberts
* Xani Kennedy
* Rachael Sedgeman
* Nikki Roberts
* Chris Kemp
* Kim Aitken
* Morgan Kennedy
* Nadine Sawyer
* Kate Knapp

 

and you'll find the art, wine and nibblies at The community hall next door to Red Hill Kindergarten.

 

93 Enogerra Terrace, Red Hill

Brisbane, Australia

And did I mention it's one night only people so get on board!!

 



{an example of my work}

 

On a bicycle built for two.

A very close friend is getting hitched tomorrow and asked me to make the ring pillow seeing as I am cushion extrodinaire! So here it is, silk, embroidery and pearls, all put together by these sexy crafty hands!

Sarah and Craig I hope you have a wonderful day {please note I will be taking my payment in free champagne and baby cuddles at the reception}.

Again with the fatty recipes..

So i got bored of trawling the internet for design inspiration {for uni I have to design a house, great to start with but i've hit a GIGANTIC wall} and started just trawling for delicious sounding recipes, the nutella was my inspiration for this act of immenent fattiness I'm going to guess. Anyway, not the point. The point is that I love pancakes and here are two variations of your regular run of the mill pancake that I'm pretty much dying to try out. If it wasn't such a hot sunny day I would probably already be in the kitchen, frypan in hand!

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes from Recipe Girl look like a heart attack just waiting to happen but holy moly don't they look too delicious to pass on!

And then there's this one time when french toast met pancakes at tastykitchen.com...it says it all really. The two best breakfast treats combined, who could want for anything more?!

So here ends my procrastination...maybe...untill I find something else to waffle on about whilst pretending to actually do uni work. Inspiring photos for my design is a start but when the thing is due on Halloween and id worth a good 80% of my mark I'm thinking maybe I should pull my finger out...maybe.

peace out breakfast homies! xx

Study + procrastination = fatty boomsticks

So I know that it was my choice to go back to study and all that however, it's not a word of a lie when I say that the amount of procrastination that's coming out of this degree combined with the blog trawling I am doing as a result will no doubt turn me into one giant fatty. Especially when I come across blog posts like this one from icanhazcheeseburger.com....hello nutella deliciousness! See for yourself...smores-just-got-fancy

New dress!

New dress from Cue and sweet new opshop clutch purse, hello wedding outfit! Now just need to find some shoes that match....

Opshop gold!

Last week I took a trip down to the NSW north coast to visit family with my mum and along the way {both to and from} we stopped in at more opshops than I can count. We also took a trip into Bellingen {which is only about a half hour drive from Coffs} had some delicious organic somethings for lunch and hit all the wee boutique-ey shops and vintage stores they had to offer. The moral of this short and sweet post is I landed on some opshop vintage gold and can't wait to start new summer crafting projects!

My new, very plastic, very gold, very awesome clutch purse!

This ice-cream pillow case delight is double sided and I'll be making two sweet {pun intended!} cushions out of it, first come first served I'm afraid.

Who doesn't need more buttons?

or more zippers?

The golden find of the trip! Multi coloured zippers are so hard to find i'de say they're almost extinct, this is only the second one i've found in close to 3 years of zipper op-shopping and it's even more fabulous than the last one! Now my conundrum is what to make with it? Earrings? Brooch?