It’s a bloggy weekend

Well, here we are again the Biannual Blogathon. Can you believe the last one was January? Where has that 6 months gone?

What is the Biannual Blogathon?

You know all those items on your Blogging To Do list? Those things you’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t had a chance? Now’s your chance to get a large amount of them done!

I will be hosting two blogathons a year, one in the winter and one in the summer. They will be held in January and June. The event will take place on a weekend and will run for 72 hours. 8am Friday to 8am Monday EST.

The next one is June 20-23,2014 – sign ups open May 9

100 Happy Days – I’m still going

Can’t believe I’m still going with this. And still enjoying it. Here are days 69 to 82

Lemon Butter Teacakes

I’m doing the next 14 days of cooking with the Thermomix challenge and on Monday I converted this Lemon Butter Teacake recipe.

Here is my conversion if you want to give it a go 🙂

Lemon Butter Teacakes - Thermomix conversion

The road to our new bathroom pt 2

We started the new week with our new bath in and the plaster up. The tiler came in and did the waterproofing (which Miss K thought was awesome as we had an orange bathroom!) while the builders put in our new toilet window.

Tuesday was floor tiles and our new hot water cylinder

Wednesday through Friday was more tiling and grouting.

Another couple of days and I’ll be back with the finished bathroom.

14 days of cooking with the Thermo

I joined a group on Facebook that challenges you to cook something new with your Thermomix for 14 days. The latest challenge for 26/5 to 8/6 was…

1. – “I’ve had my tmx a yr and I still haven’t made…..” that thing everyone raves about that you keep meaning to try, something that’s so simple but you haven’t got round to it yet, that thing that’s been on the to do list for ages or something you thought you would make in the first week that you just never got round to!!!

2. – winter warmers – hearty nourishing winter meals

With that challenge I decided to make a list of things I’d like to make and thought I’d blog about it.

Monday 26/5 – Yummy Chicken Pasta (recipe community)
Tuesday 27/5 – Pikelets (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p57) and lemon butter (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p47)
Wednesday 28/5 – Tomato Soup (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p 78)
Thursday 29/5 – Impossible quiche (Devil of a cookbook) – first time doing quiche in thermo
Friday 30/5 – Chicken Stroganoff (Devil of a Cookbook) – a family favourite
Saturday 31/5 – Raisin bread (from Thermo Affairs)
Sunday 1/6 – crumpets (recipe community) – a bit of a fail, not sure what went wrong 🙁 and I forgot to take a photo

Week 2

Monday 2/6 – Super simple sausage rolls (recipe community)
Tuesday 3/6 – converted mum’s one egg meringue recipe – still working on tweaks
Wednesday 4/6 – Apricot Balls
Thursday 5/6 – taco mince (using the packet stuff)
Friday 6/6 – Parmesan Garlic Bread Wheel
Saturday 7/6 – i was out all day so didn’t make anything
Sunday 8/6 – Chicken Cashew Nut (TM31 Everyday Cookbook p111)

Overall I think it was a pretty good 2 weeks. We’ve found some new recipes we’ll add to our family favourites, some that will need a bit of tweaking before we decide and a couple that won’t get made again. I’m looking forward to the next challenge 😀

The road to our new bathroom

As I mentioned in the Home Sweet Home post we’ve recently started renovating out bathroom. We looked at doing it ourselves then decided too hard and after a few quotes decided to go with locals, 2am Construction & Plastering.

When you look at the before pictures you can see why we needed to renovate – wood panelling – everywhere. Old bath. Old sink. Nearly no storage. Mould. And I hate it with a passion. It’s not somewhere I can go to relax and unwind. That & I think it was making us sick 🙁

We had no real idea of what we wanted to do except get rid of all the wood panelling and maybe use our awesome cast iron claw foot bath we’d been given. Sadly after much discussion with the builders and plumber it worked out we couldn’t really use (or afford to use) our bath. Boo. On the upside we have a bath for when we win Tattslotto and build up and get an ensuite on our new bathroom. Hey a girl can dream, right?

The first couple of days was gutting the bathroom completely, plumbing, moving power points and light switches, putting in the new bath and bathroom window. Then it was plastering the walls.

Having no bathroom has been fun but thanks to the in-laws we’ve been showering there.
I’ll be back in a couple of days with the next stage – waterproofing and tiling.

And we’re done

Woo hoo. Managed another Blog Every Day In May (albeit with a few scheduling hiccups along the way)

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Hello to all the new readers & readers who have been here for awhile. Leave me a link to your blog and I’ll pop on over and say hello 😀

Talent – What makes me awesome?

I’m a good cook – at least that’s what I’m told.
I’m pretty creative
I’m pretty tolerant – most of the time

What makes you awesome?

More Happy Days

update time again. Days 57 to 68

My PL wish list (May 2014)

This list could get really, really long but I’ll keep it to what I really want this month. Things I would actually use in current projects not just buy & leave sitting around 😉
(Images are linked)

The Daily Stamps (digital) at Peppermint Creative. All 5 versions (so far). This is the May set
Peppermint Creative LIP: Hello Let’s Go 3×4″ Journal & Filler Cards (digital) for my BYS album
Personal Yearbook Mini Kit for Miss K’s yearbook I plan on starting this year cause she started pre-kindy this week!
Cats Theme Pack for a mini album I want to finish on our cats. Started way back when I started scrapping in 2005!
School Theme Pack for Miss K’s yearbook.
List cards from Becky. Not sure what project I might use them in but I do want them LOL

What’s on your wish list right now?