Frogs & snails & puppy dogs tails....

That's what little GIRLS??? are made of....











Yup girls were in their pj's and i couldnt hear them so went looking and found them out in the backyard having a ball finding snails!! Needless to say they had another shower and new pj's before bed but the smiles made it all worthwhile!

Heather Bailey papers & craft in Australia....

This is just a really quick post especially for my aussie readers that i found heather bailey craft stuff at my local spotlight the other day!! Was super excited about this find (they also had some martha stewart stuff too!!). Could it be that Australia might finally stock the stuff we usually have to either buy from overseas or just drool over!?!?!?!

Anyway here are a few pics, i used the papers and ribbons to make some boxes for a fundraising night i went to last night!! Too cute!







Happy shopping :-)

Last day of school holidays...

Today was a crazy end to some incredibly hectic, yet fun school holidays!! Despite having to vacuum twice a day due to various cooking, eating, crafting, spilling that has happened these holidays i have really enjoyed the lack of routine as a nice break to our ordinarily organised busy life!!

Hannah & Caitlyn both had friends over today and my nephew was over this morning whilst we were making "face biscuits" which was what the girls requested we make with their friends and of course J couldnt be left out of all the fun!!

At first he was spotted in the playroom at the play kitchen eating a fake doughnut!!! It was hilarious as he kept looking at it strangely yet shoving it back into his mouth in the hope it might be the real deal!!


Here is J with the fake doughnut!!

This is what happens when you feed lollies and iced biscuits to an 18month old then proceed to clean him up and not give him any more lollies!!!









And here is the difference between some bikkies made by the girls and bikkies made by the boy (hannahs friend) See if you can guess which is which!!!





And just a couple of pics of my 2 older girls (E was at kinder!) because...well just because!!

Raspberry White Choc Muffins!

We had some friends over for morning tea, and some others drop by in the afternoon so i decided to make some muffins with using some raspberries we had early this morning! This was the first time using this recipe and they were delicious so i thought id share the recipe with you all!

Raspberry & White Choc Muffins
(makes approx 15)

2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 cup milk
2 cups self raising flour
1/2 cup oil (i used peanut oil for mild flavour but you could use any)
2 eggs
2/3 cup castor sugar
180g white choc cut up into chunks (plus extra if you want to some to the top before baking)
200g raspberries

(preheat oven to 170 for fan forced)

Place flour, sugar and choc into a bowl



Stir to combine

Add berries



Gently stir to combine, try not to mix too much or berries will lose their form.

Whisk all wet ingredients together (milk, lemon juice, egg and oil)

Add wet ingredients to dry and mix gently and for as little amount of time as possible.

Spoon into muffin cases and place choc on top if desired.



Bake for approx 25 mins and serve with a dusting of icing sugar on top



DELICIOUS and easy...

EB Bag Swap!

I particpated in a bag swap and i opened the parcel i received today from Lisa!! The bag is just gorgeous...i LOVE the Amy Butler fabric used and i cant wait to go out and take this bag with me!!!

Here are some photos!


This is all wrapped up and looking gorgeous already!


Here is the fabulous bag!!


This is the cute matching purse!

I made a bag and wallet for Anna and i forgot to take ANY photos of what i made so go and check out her blog!!

The pattern i used for the bag i made can be found here and the pattern for the wallet can be found here both PDF files from ETSY!!

Thanks again Anna for organising this swap - i had a BLAST!

Some Sunday goodness...

Firstly just to apologise about the lack of blogging in the month of June!!! How very slack of me!! To my defence i have been completely FLAT OUT and barely had a second to stop so no time for blogging!! However, we have 3 weeks of school holidays starting tomorrow and i plan to get back into blogging and crafting and spending lots of time with my gorgeous girls...so stay tuned im sure i will have more posts to blog soon...

Anyway, we were meant to have friends over for morning tea today but they let us know early this morning that they werent going to make it. I had already planned on scones for morning tea so the girls and i set about making the scones together! They were very YUMMY and the girls wanted to make some chocolate milkshakes (another of their faves!!) Hannah even set about making us invitations to her special morning tea and wanted to make sure we would all be there!! After we had eaten we played a family game of charades (which has become a fav with Hannah lately). Family fun is SOOOO important, i cant wait for some more of that over the holidays as we let go of our routines and just enjoy being together!!

Anyway here are a few pics from our day so far..




Milkshake mustache!


Hannah loving her scones!


Can you tell she isnt impressed by the scone!! Caitlyn is a VERY fussy eater and it took her a bit of convincing to try this!


Sisterly love!!

I will be back tomorrow with some more blogging goodness!!

My baby turns 4!!!

I can hardly believe that my baby turned 4 yesterday!! Hubby and i have spent all week wondering how time has gone and how our little girls are growing up so quickly!! I really LOVE babies so in a way its hard to let go of knowing you wont have anymore!! In other ways its fabulous as babies really are hard work!! I have lots of sisters so im hoping as long as they keep having babies i should get my "fix" somewhere!!!

Eleisha has been talking about her birthday for a long time now and given that her birthday is the day after my birthday it makes for a busy time of the year!! I was going to throw Eleisha her first real party but a lot of the people we wanted to come were going away as it was a long weekend so we had a little get together with her cousins at maccas!

Here are a few pics i took of Eleisha throughout the day!


This is the new vanity thing we got Eleisha for her birthday, she loves it as you open the doors with a button on the wand and then its starts singing!!


Eleisha with the new library bag i made her. We put her sleeping beauty costume in the bag and also tickets to disney princess on ice which we will hear about for the next 4 weeks til we get to go lol!!


This photo truely captures Eleisha, this is just E being E!! (with her new barbies in hand!!)


Eleisha blowing out her candle on her cupcake at maccas!!

Oh and i heard her telling everyone at school this morning that she is turning 5!!! Wow..can we just be four for a while before we are turning 5 :-)