small kitchen tales

Today we are making those cookies we had planned to start the other day . Have you made your cuppa yet, let's pop round to Kirsty's and say hi to some others. You can also pop round here for some date scones and I absolutely LOVE these cupcakes . Have a wonderful April and a great Easter weekend with your family whether you celebrate or not. ✗ ♥

I was all ready to bake you some cookies, the flour was in the bowl, the spices were added, the butter and sugar all melted and then there was a scream outside. Aidan fell and cut his forehead and I panicked, I saw blood and I was not the calm mum I normally am, I cried, he cried...Amelie cried and then we went to the hospital. After alot of crying, he got some gas (I could have used some) , calmed down and three stitches later and a cuddle and sleep, we were playing with trucks in the hospital room. Maybe I'll get to those cookies tomorrow...right now I am still a little shaken... ✗ ♥

Happy Monday friends, I feel exhausted today and the week has just begun! Hope you celebrated Earth Hour in style, we were lucky enough to have been invited to the Zoo to celebrate Earth Hour in VIP style...yes, FUN! Zoo Victoria invited a bunch of bloggers to celebrate with animals, music, food and wine, what a way to spend the evening. We had a behind the scenes tour of the zoo and relaxed on the lawn listening to the Wagons & Tim Rogers . Was great to see other bloggers around, and you know a true blogger when you see them taking pics of their food. Was very lovely to meet Pip and her family and the lovely Anthea . On Sunday we had a great time at the Apple Tasting Festival thanks to a family pass by RRR . A wonderful family day out with kids activities, yummy bio dynamic food, apples, icy poles and music to entertain young and old. Now back to reality and some pincushion assembly. Enjoy your week ♥ ✗ ♥

We had a lovely relaxing evening last night , chatting , cutting , making yoyos , brooches , stitching , photographing , creating and so very lovely to meet people in person after knowing them in blog land. It was all happening last night, if you are free next time pop on down. Have a great day friends , I hope you are doing something exciting! ♥ ✗ ♥

A bit of a late creative space this week as we have had a busy end of kinder morning and now it's all about ME! So I am cutting pieces and hopefully getting a start on my pincushion to take with me tonight . Hope to see some of you there and hope to visit some of you here . ...and a huge thank you for your sweet words ♥ ✗ ♥

It has been a fun year, meeting fabulous, sweet and kind people and I really am happy that you find some time in your day to pop round for our virtual cuppa and chat. In the words of my 2 1/2 year old "me love you" ✗ ♥

Happy Monday friends, I just wanted to share a vegan muffin recipe with you, very simple and good for kids lunch boxes. This is the base for the muffins, you can add whatever you like to it in the end. I made normal sized muffins but you can also make mini ones as well and freeze them when they have cooled by wrapping in plastic. Vegan Muffins makes 24 conversions ingredients 3 cups self raising flour 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 1/2 cups soy milk 1/4 cup vegetable oil 3-4 ripe bananas method preheat oven to 180 C, oil spray muffins tins mash bananas and add to soy milk in a small saucepan over a low heat and allow to heat slightly for a few minutes, set aside add vegetable oil to milk mixture put flour and sugar in a large bowl and mix together add milk mixture to dry mixture and mix by hand just until combined, if the mixture is too dry add a little bit more soy milk. mixture should not be dry or too wet, just thick enough to hold it's shape now you can add anything you like t...

We were at an intimate wedding yesterday held at the Eureka building..which was AMAZING and then a lovely dinner at The Richmond Hill Cafe & Larder . Hope you are having a great Sunday, I have some vegan muffins in the oven so I hope you can pop by again for some afternoon tea. ♥ ✗ ♥

Today I am really baking, but I can't bore you with that every week. What i really want to be doing is completing this project. I found this lovely frame tossed on the nature strip the other day...(yeah, i know!!) and I had this vision that it will be my new note board, I just need to find a cork board which fits that isn't already framed (any ideas where to get that from Melbournians) and cover it in this lovely apple fabric. It will be done by next week and I can show you the finished product. Are you having a tea or coffee? Grab another and pop over to Kirsty's . ♥ ✗ ♥

Today we had a fabulous baking experience at Amelie's kinder where the kids helped bake vanilla cupcakes (can't go wrong) and decorated them all by themselves. Amelie wrote her name by herself for the first time on a painting she did which was a wonderful thing to witness. Spending the day at kinder I have a new appreciation for kinder teachers because they really are fabulous and I love that my little girl is in such a wonderful environment before she begins her long school life. Hope you are having a great week so far, my head is still a little fuzzy but I am guessing it's this sudden burst of heat we have had the last few days. Ahhhh, Melbourne weather, it really does give us a variety. ♥ ✗ ♥

Markets are over and the cleaning has commenced. I wanted to thank you for your lovely comments, sorry if I haven't replied back lately, I am still living with this fuzzy head that will hopefully be better soon. It was a beautiful Melbourne day yesterday but I really wished I was at home sleeping, not a good feeling. Overall, very enjoyable day and always lovely to put faces to names. The little one and I have been op-shopping lately..maybe a bit too much, whilst the bigger one is at kinder, so we wanted to play along today with Sophie and show you our finds. You know I love suitcases , well we found two, at our local tip shop ( thanks for the suggestion) and some beautiful golden books as well . Pop by for some more finds . Hope you have a lovely hug filled Sunday friends ♥ ✗ ♥

I have been battling with a head cold turned migraine the last two days and now I am up to my ears in flour, dough, sprinkles, icing....you name it. We have two markets on tomorrow, the wonderful Northside Makers Market and The Gardens Market . Would love to see you there, you may even find some gorgeous handmade stuffs and a cupcake or two there aswell. ( this blatant advertising tells you more) Hope you have a great day today, I'll have another cup of lemon honey tea and some paracetamol and let you know how I go. ♥ ✗ ♥