bunting.

A little gift that I made as a housewarming present. I've been dying to post about it, but had to wait until the present was received (I didn't want to spoil the surprise!)

what I want.

What I wish I was doing right now:

Making chilli jam
Finishing a crotchet project
Baking a chocolate and beetroot cake
Sew, sew, sewing
Knitting something useful for someone
Baking pumpkin muffins

hashbrowns.

I have an addiction to hashbrowns. I thought I just really liked them, but I have come to realise. I am addicted. I understand that hashbrowns aren't the classiest of foods (or the healthiest). So I try and dress mine up with a little bit of salad.

Hashbrowns with spinach, carrot, apple, walnut and lime salad.

elli.

Elli and I just chilling in the hammock

new shoes.

Mum wanted some new shoes for her upcoming European adventure. I convinced her to get a pair of these. I also convinced her to buy a pair for me!

breakfast.

I went out for breakfast with Mum & Dad on sunday and stumbled across a great little cafe on Smith st. Which was run buy a couple of french guys. The food was delicious! The service was great (I even got o practice some of my french), and they even gave me some great tips for when I move to Paris!

working.

This morning I worked for my mum. She owns her own interior design business, and is crazy busy at the moment. All I had to do was pick up some cushions and take back a whole lot of fabric samples to various fabric houses in Melbourne. It's a pretty good deal.

Our house was recently published in Home Beautiful magazine and named House of the Month. See here for more.

salmon patties

Everyone in my house has been super busy lately, and dinner duties get thrown to whoever is at home around 6.30pm. On Wednesday I decided to make a very quick and yummy dinner. Salmon patties.

I then cooked these again yesterday at work for my kids, and 2 out of 3 liked them. Success!

Sorry for the photos. These are taken the next day straight out of the fridge :)

drive.

I took this photo on the drive to Kaarimba. It was beautiful day for a drive.

breakfast.

I cooked breakfast for dad and I today. Tomatoes with feta, basil and red wine vinegar on toast.

puddings.

With all the left over brioche I had. I decided to make bread and butter puddings. I bought some raspberries and Lindt white chocolate.

brioche

Last week I decided to try my hand at making brioche. I have made breads before, and love the feeling of creating something from scratch.
They were delicious with Grandma's homemade jam.

changes

A think a little revamp is needed here in this space.

Blogging will return shortly.

baking.

Can you guess how all this might end up?

+

Last night I booked some tickets. I leave on Sunday for three and a half weeks. Are you jealous?

studying

I had a great study spot

and then...

market

Today my brother and I had a stall at the Camberwell market. We have lots of old clothes that we needed to get rid of, and we booked the stall 6 months ago!
So today we got up bright and early and made our way down to the market. As you can see from the darkness in the photos it was REALLY early. 5.30am to be exact.
To add to the incredible early start, it was also freezing cold and rained for the first 2 hours. We were constantly putting tarps over the clothes, and then taking them off again.
But all in all we had an extremely successful day and managed to sell almost all of our clothes, and made a fair bit of money in the meantime!

booties

This week, one of the mum's I work for is due to have a baby. This is baby number 4 for this family! I made these booties once before for a girlfriend from uni who was having a baby, but I didn't know the sex of the baby last time. This time I know it's going to be a gorgeous little girl, so I could have a little more fun with choosing fabrics. They are so quick and easy to make, and super cute also!

study

So, really I am supposed to be writing an essay. But today I got my new camera! So I have been distracted by taking pointless photos of things around me!

finally finished...

My camera is broken at the moment, which is really annoying, because all I want to do at the moment is take photos and blog about it!

So for now I'm gonna steal other peoples pictures instead :)
A little while ago, I mentioned that I took on the task of organising hoodies for my uni class, as it is out last year! Well, after what seems like ages they are finally ready! We handed them out at uni on Monday, and everyone seems really happy with them.

Personally, I think they are a little bit boring, but they were super cheap, so I guess it's alright.

Here are a couple of my classmates modelling them:



The front has the Melbourne Uni logo, with a couple of child's handprints, and the back says BECE 2010. Which stands for: Bachelor of Early Childhood Education.

my garden

My new little garden. I've got coriander, strawberries rocket. Now I just have to remember to water it, and hopefully it will grow!

My boyfriend is an alien