Happy Bireasterday

April is always a crazy month in my family.

There are four family members with a birthday during the month, along with school holidays, Easter, and Anzac Day.

So to get the ball rolling, we all headed down to Clunes for the day to celebrate the first two birthdays and a slightly early Easter!

There was a bit of batless Totem Tennis action (while toting a manbag filled with hot wheels cars)

While Nana took the boys for a walk down to Widow Twankeys for traffic light lollipops....

..... the front garden was overtaken by easter eggs.

It's always fun to sit and watch them scramble around the garden to find them all!

Just to prove that we really were in the country. What's that driving down the road????

Ummm just a horse and cart!

After all that running around, they finally had time to sit down and FEAST!

Full to the brim

We celebrated Easter Sunday at my sisters house today


The tiny but intrepid warriors set off on an easter egg hunting adventure around the backyard.


It was a bit of a slow start, but they caught on pretty quickly once they realised that they could fill up their little carry bags with chocolate!

The table was set for a wonderful roast lamb and roast beef lunch with vegies and plenty of gravy........ but I had to save room for dessert

Homemade pavlova with peppermint crisp........

Homemade Creme Brulee.....

....and homemade Mars Bar Cheesecake (I had to bring a slice home because I just couldn't possibly fit in any more)!

Happy Easter!

A Good Friday

Good number 1 - A little Lindt bunny arrived on my doorstep thismorning.... very similar to this little bunny above. I don't think he'll last the day somehow!

Good number 2 - My sister sent over some homemade Salmon Patties for my dinner, so now I don't have to cook.

Good number 3 - I hemmed and then hung my new curtains, so now my bedroom is nice and dark, which means I can sleep in tomorrow. Yippee!

Good number 4 - I spent the entire day today pottering around, and working on some new prototypes for the next market. They weren't all entirely successful.... but it was still lots of fun.

Did you do anything good today?

On My Desk.....on a Wednesday

I'm playing along with Kirsty with 'On my desk...on a Wednesday'. I'm a little late today but before I left home thismorning, I was working on this little blankie above.

It's just a baby polar fleece blankie and I'm adding some cotton fabric to the back side to personalise it.

But then I just got home and found some lovely mail which has now landed on my desk.

I won a First Birthday Giveaway from Tracey & Bec at Crafty Bits & Bobs. The prize was a gorgeous zipper pouch and some chocolate.

The photo above shows the beautiful packaging including a lovely handmade card....

What I actually received was a gorgeous little zipper pouch jam packed full of cadbury easter eggs (my absolute favourite) and a gorgeous beaded pin. I'm going to use the zipper pouch to store things in my handbag and I think I'll attach the pin to a new handbag that I'm going to make for myself. Thankyou so much Tracey & Bec, I absolutely love my prize!!!