HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEN!

Summertime, and the eating is eaaasyyy

I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. Millie and I have grown Strawberries for the first time, (in a hanging basket - thankyou Jamie Oliver for the idea) and we are ridiculously excited to have eaten the first of our babies today! Woohoo

Millie turns two - it's a teddybears picnic!

You may remember the vintage 50's cookie cutters I bought a few months back. Well it's taken me this long to get a dough which worked, and a method for unsticking.

Some of my little army of teddybears for the party on Sunday look like they've been in a terrible factory explosion, but I love them as if they are my own ;-)

Now for the Teddy Bear cake...

do you mind eating food with faces?

Guinevere morphs out of Lancelot

Yesterday I buckled down and transformed Lancelot into Guinevere (to save time on this big project I am reusing characters wherever I can) & got it to this stage in about 3 hours, which was good work! Good to be back into it though. x

PS as an aside, Spring is here!

Tea & flowers - life's simple pleasures.

Becoming house proud (in a good way)

Over the last years I have started to really dig gardening! (Millie and I spend ages out there weeding, her tiny toddler's fingers are great for those stubborn little ones in the brick cracks) and I guess because we've thrown some money at landscaping I suddenly feel the need to make it work! Yesterday a local landscaper (who I'd nervously contacted after getting his flier in the post) arrived to spend a day here. We talked about what had gone on before (he wasn't very complimentary about the last guy!) and decided things were in the wrong holes, too cluttered and a couple of planting beds which I'd wanted to become 'walls' of planting (only because real brick walls cost too much) were looking pretty sad. A mere smear of ground cover then a couple of spindly tall trees do not a wall make! After dropping Millie at kindy we took of in his ute to the big tradesmen's nursery where I fell in love with Corokia Frosted Chocolate and we agreed it would do a lovely job of being that middle tier I so needed. SO we bought 23 and came home and stuck them in the ground. It was a drizzly warm day, perfect for transplanting. I attach a photo of the patio and planting...oh and one of Millie washing sand ;-)

Aspects of Millie

A busy sketching month with one of Millie for David's 40th, and an invite to her 2nd birthday (a teddy bear's picnic) which is only a month away. She's developing a rather delightful lisp, like an old person whistling through their false teeth. Ricies becomes rishies. Cute!

Those Danes, they sure know how to design

Thanks to a lovely blog I follow, Design Totally Rocks for this link. http://www.housedoctor.dk/Pages/eng/Kollektion_UK.aspx

You can select a catalogue and peruse online. Sadly no NZ stockists I know of. I might start a shop ;-) Wonky Eye Day and Kirsten D can come and work with me! WOOHOOO (dreams are free...)