Christmas is now just 90 days away and already the Christmas creep is showing up in stores, mentions of Xmas laybys, a few decorations here and there, and in no time flat we’re all going to be living in a land of tinsel and fairy lights! With Hercules due to arrive any time in December I’m not making as many hand made gifts as I normally would, but one of the things on my to do list is making some [...]

I only just spotted this, otherwise I would have been all over it for the return of Glee on Channel 10, but hey, any day is a good day for cupcakes, right? Even better if they look just like McKinley High’s famous Big Quench slushies. Tamara, of Cupcakes By Tamara created these awesome cupcakes using sanding sugar (don’t waste your money buying it, make your own!) and plastic cups – although it’s the red cups that really make these look [...]

My four year old has recently developed a love of writing, it’s been awesome watching his little scribbles slowly turn themselves into recognisable words (along with constant requests of “How do you spell….?”) and he’s absolutely enamoured with the idea of writing letter and emails to everyone he knows. We printed out this letter writing kit from Kate at Picklebums this morning and have had a lovely time writing letters to everyone we know, even my 3 year old got [...]

I absolutely adore the rainbow cakes that have populated the blogsphere over the last few years, but, as a Mum who tries everything to avoid artificial flavours and colours, they’ve always made me wince just a little to think of the amount of chemicals and toxins going into little bodies. They are just so awesome to look at, but I don’t think I could bring myself to eat one, let alone feed one to my kids, particularly the hypersensitive four [...]

I first spotted this pattern over at Living With Punks, Susan made an awesome version in Michael Miller’s groovy guitar fabric and I fell in love. Of course, I wasn’t so in love that I bought it straight away, instead I fussed about for six months, staring at it on Etsy about once a fortnight and daring myself to give it a go. I know I’ve said it before, but I’m not a clothes seamstress. I can make a quilt [...]

We celebrated my birthday yesterday with a beautiful cake covered in passion fruit icing and decorated by my mum and my boys. It was the first time my Mum had been here for my birthday in four years, my birthday is normally a bit of a non-event, as I have no family in Australia, so it was awesome to have her here and taking the initiative with the boys to help them make cards and presents for me, I was [...]

On our first Christmas day together, my husband and I took a walk along the beach. I was a mess of emotions, it was a large collection of firsts, my first Christmas in Australia, my first experience of a southern hemisphere Christmas (this December marks my eighth and I still find it just as weird as I did that first year!), the first Christmas without the chaos of my Mum, my sisters and niece and my first Christmas with the [...]

“Check out this stunning artwork made entirely from potato prints!” is something I never thought I would say (or type?) but seriously, check out this stunning artwork made entirely from potato prints! Jordan and her family are only based in Paris for a year and obviously don’t want to spend too much on artwork or decorating their home, but still want to make it feel like someone lives there. Although you’d think “cut up potatoes, print them on paper” would [...]

  Megan from The CraftyCPA created these funky coasters using tiles, paint chips and Mod Podge, she offers a full tutorial and tips, as well as a few things she would change if she were to make them up again! Megan mentioned how awesome they would look in a monochromatic range of chips, and she’s not kidding, I think they would be awesome in various shades of purple. See Megan’s full tutorial here.

I LOVE Rashida Coleman-Hale’s new fabric collection for timeless treasures “I Heart”, not only because it features Robots (up there with pirates in my fabric stash) but because it features robots AND flowers… in pink! My uterus is yearning for a sweet geeky girl to make up some awesome summer dresses with pink and orange robots on, so you can be guaranteed that I will be stashing some yardage! I’m also going to be picking up some of the blue [...]