My pamper list:
- a massage
- a good book
- some quiet scrapbooking time
- spending time working on/flipping thru my Create your Shining Year workbook
- podcasts
- cake
- chocolate
Wanna go on a date?
I’m sure I’ve been asked that before. A long time ago. Hubby & I don’t do date nights. We probably should.
Dinner & a movie would be nice. Maybe I should schedule one in. December sounds good. Namely cause the new Star Wars movie comes out 😉
Do you do date nights?
100 Happy Days 2015–the story so far
Today’s prompt is photography so I thought I’d share my #100HappyDays so far…
I can you have no idea what the #100HappyDays project is, go here. We’ll wait 🙂
Ok so now you are up to speed yes? Yes, good. I started on 24th March so here’s my March & April pics
March 24. Loving my daughter has an amazing group of friends; 25. first soccer training; 26. Making cards with my Cameo; 27.A new window, wall & door; 28. My YIAH kit arrived; 29. Watching the WWE Hall of Fame; 30.Wrestlemania 31; 31. Love that Miss K enjoys swimming.
April 1. Kindy Easter cooking; 2. New recipes with YIAH; 3.Blogging & listening to webinars; 4.Copic colouring for Easter; 5. Easter lunch with family; 6. A little gold bunny & a hot chocolate; 7.Fresh crusty bread and homemade butter; 8. New soccer boots; 9. Playing in Silhouette Studio to make a Shopkins card; 10. Friday night crafting; 11. Outside time; 12. Miss K reading to Miss A; 13. Miss A crawling; 14. Kitty cuddles; 15. Soccer practice; 16. Miss K’s writing; 17.Peek a boo; 18. First soccer game; 19. Cheeky chocolate face; 20. YIAH steak and veggies; 21. Sound asleep after swimming; 22.No explanation needed!; 23. Best mates; 24.Clean laundry; 25. A St George win makes me happy; 26.Card making day; 27. Miss K striking a pose; 28. Happy & sad – last cadbury creme egg; 29. YIAH Apple roses; 30. An invite to Mother’s Day morning tea at kindy
Top tips
So I racked my brain trying to think of some tips I could share and I really couldn’t think of anything original so I put off blogging yesterday. Then I saw today’s prompt and I thought OMG beauty & fashion blogging :/
I’m not a fashion/beauty blogger at all.
Anywho…. here’s my top tips for beauty sourced from Pinterest 😉
In the Den Kitchen – Food Glorious Food
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An early edition this week. This recipe went out to the subscribers to my YIAH newsletter earlier this month but I thought I’d share it here too.
You may have seen these stunning creations floating around the net in the last few weeks and let me tell you they are so super easy to make.
All you need is
- a sheet of puff pastry
- an apple
- some apricot jam
- YIAH Baked Apple Pie spice
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Get a microwave safe bowl and put some water and a squeeze of lemon juice in it.
- Cut the apples in half, remove the core and cut the apples in paper thin slices. Leave the peel on to give your roses colour. the colour of your apple skin will determine the colour of your rose. Place the sliced apples in the bowl with lemon and water.
- Soften your apple slices by microwaving for about 3 minutes.
- Roll out your puff pastry to make it a bit thinner. Cut into 6 strips.
- In another microwave safe bowl, put 3 tablespoons of apricot jam and 2 tablespoons water. Microwave for about a minute. Spread on your pastry.
- Drain the apples.
- Place your apple slices along one edge of the dough, with the skins hanging over the top. Sprinkle with a little Apple Pie Spice.
- Fold up the bottom part of the dough and roll your rose.
- Place in a silicone muffin cup.
- Repeat with remaining pastry and apple slices.
- Bake for about 40 minutes to allow pastry to cook. If the apple gets too brown, place on a lower shelf.
- To serve: dust with icing sugar (or some YIAH Rose sugar)
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Walking to work
Or in my case, getting out of bed, having a shower, getting dressed then sitting down at the laptop 😉
My wish list
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
Today I thought I’d share my Mother’s Day wish list
(FYI I got this awesome terrarium made by Miss K at kindy)
So what would I like for Mother’s Day….
I think I’m inspired by Leonie who decided to take herself off for a night at a hotel by herself, no hubby, no kids, just herself. That would be lovely. An entire evening to myself. A bubble bath. Room service. A good book. Some scrapbooking. A sleep in. Room service for breakfast. Late check out.
apart from that…..
stuff for my silhouette. more scrapping stuff. a trip to a day spa a massage. a new camera lens. all the chocolates.
What would you like for Mother’s Day?
Special talents (or lack thereof)
Hmm special talents?
I can cook a mean cake (or a not mean one if that’s what you’re in to LOL)
I love organising kids birthday parties. I love the planning and everything that goes wit it – thanks Pinterest 😀
I can’t think of anything else
A day in my life
I’m kinda sad. The app I used to do Day in the Life/Week in the Life on my phone before no longer works. So today instead of getting lots of pretty pictures (like last year) you get a text rundown of my day. If you know a replacement to the Days app I will be forever grateful 😉
3am (rough guess didn’t look at my phone) – Miss A awake, kinda. Quick cuddle and back to sleep.
7:30 – awake to Miss K yelling out to me from her room. YouTube doesn’t work :/ go in tell her it’s broken so either go back to sleep or go watch kids TV. Go back to bed.
8:40 – decide we should probably get up. Miss A awake and babbling to the cat.
9:00 – finally crawl out of bed. Morning cuppa, couple of crumpets for breakfast and quick check of my email. Install preview of new Office.
9:30 – shower. Hubby lit fire.
10:30ish – take Miss A for her morning nap. Text mum.
11– help Miss K clean her room so she can go out to my Mum & Dad’s this afternoon.
12 – sit down and get some work done for a client
12:30 – lunch (just noticed – had the same lunch last time I did this LOL)
1 – chuck a load in the dishwasher and a load of clothes in the washer
1:30 – mum picked up Miss K for the afternoon. Miss A woke up.
2 – pottered round the house doing some housework
4:30 – sit down to do a bit more work
5:30 – tea (garlic pizza and stromboli)
6:30 – girls bathed and into bed
7:30 – hubby out for the evening playing D&D with his mates
8 – make a cuppa, grab a snack, sit down and check facebook & email
8:30 – scrapbooking time!
10 – still scrapbooking. Time for a cuppa and something to munch on (hot chocolate & a forest fruit muesli bar)
midnight – finally crawling into bed.
Night all!
Home Sweet Home pt 2 #BEDM
I looked back at what I did last year and big surprise the house looks like a bomb hit it again cause we’ve just done more renos (new front door & window and new shelving in the hall this time). This time around I thought I’d document my plans for the girls room reno.
As much as I love the furniture we’ve got (a wardrobe from hubby’s grandad plus a bed and chest of drawers that are mine) nothing in the room looks cohesive or organised. There are toys everywhere and it looks like chaos and truth be told I hate it. Now that Miss A is getting older and transitioning from the bassinet in our room to the cot in the room with her sister we’re looking at ways we can change the room around.
There’s an alcove on one side of the room which is more of a pain than anything else at the moment. Solution – turn it into floor to ceiling wardrobe! Something along the lines of this. Looks super easy and we can DIY.
We’re thinking bunk beds when Miss A is older (like these maybe)
but I love these ideas too…
For the studying and reading
Colour wise I’m guessing Miss K will want pink or purple and for decorations and other storage…
