More flowers

Yep I have gone flower happy lately!!!! I love flowers and have been putting them everywhere in the house, be it fresh or silk, it really makes a house a home, especially coming into Spring, now off to get some white Tulips!!

Its the simple things that make a house a home!

What a great way to spend a Sunday, pottering around the house and garden.  We decided to brighten up our front porch area where I have my morning coffee.  So off to Bunnings (where we lost Huddy! but found him thanks to Bunnings staff and their walkie talkies, how embarrasing).  For only $30 I brightened up our front verandah, we cleaned it all down and planted some potted colour in our plant pots that hold our ugly, I mean potentially wonderful lilly pillys!  I then bought an old table from inside out to use for our morning cuppas and our books and put 2 potted colour plants in some Ikea pots I had been holding onto!  here is the result my little slice of tranquility in the mad house

Party Supplies

Following on from my last post, about our Emes Birthday party I have details of stockists for party supplies.
The little glass bottles (1.95 each) and the vintage blue straws (9.99?) are all from www.tlbc.com.au
The  glass drink dispenser is from www.wheelandbarrow.com.au for 49.00 on sale
The blue and white ice cream cups were $2.00 for 6 at the reject shop.
Blue plates and  blue cutlery from reject shop $2.00
Blue candy serving bowls from Red Dot $2 for 3 bowls
Blue bunting across desert table is from pinterest
Printable is from pinterest and is in an ikea white frame 19.9
Blue plastic ice cream cup holding the spoons was 50 c from the salvos
Glass base that cake was on is from Kmart and is part of a cake dome cost $19.00
Glass jars from wharehouse sale years ago (sorry)
All Pom poms, hanging disc decorations, big E and cake made by me :)
All candy boxes and treats were from reject shop.

Hope this help anyone that's interested

Emersons Ice Cream social birthday party

This weekend we had Emersons 10th Birthday Party.  She decided on an ice cream theme with  blue and white as her colours.  I made all the decorations leading up to the big day.  The tissue pom poms were easy (after watching Youtube), the hanging discs was an idea I got from a lovely blog called Organising the Three of Us. 

And the Big E I made using cardboard and lots of smaller pompoms stuck to it.    18 kids were here for 2 hours of candy, eating, games and ice cream.    I did a desert buffet style table, here it is before the kids arrived

I only put the desert on the buffet table as I had 2 big trestle tables set up for the kids to eat at.

The kids devoured sandwiches, party pies, sausage rolls, hot dogs, dip and vegetables and fairy bread and chips !! Boy the kids could eat

The kids played a whole bunch of games, my childhood favourite of Musical Chairs, musical statues, musical bops and a basketball game.

I spent all week making a pinata ice cream cone, once again thanks to Pinterest for the great idea!! the kids were so excited, I had to hurry the hubby along in hanging it up as the kids wanted to get into it!!

Hudson wanted to be blindfolded and decided to use his hood!
Once the Pinata broke the kids went for it.................

The we just had time for ice cream where the kids could put their own toppings on and they made some wonderful concoctions.

The Birthday Girl

We ended the day with a hot air balloon cake I made, so easy and so yummy it was vanilla and raspberry cake although only a few kids could squeeze some in!!!

A great day was had by all x

Cheese and Bacon Scrolls

Today I made some cheese and bacon scrolls with the kids for their lunches this week at school.  This is a family favourite and so easy to make using the dough setting in the bread maker.  Eme started off helping ...

Then Hudson decided to get in on the act which he tends to do now he can carry his stool over to the bench.

We made cheese and bacon and vegemite and cheese scrolls.  We subsituted MeadowLea for the usual butter and I have to say no one could taste the difference, they were delicious. 

As you can see the kids gave them the thumbs up!

MeadowLea luncbox switcheroo project

I have been lucky enough to participate in a number of projects through thesoup.com.au .  They are an awesome marketing company that will periodically send you products to trial and report back on how you enjoyed the products.  This time I was lucky enough to be invited along as an official blogger for the MeadowLea switcheroo project. 

This project invites users to switch from butter to MeadowLea which in a year can save you up to 2.5kg of saturated fat.  The soup sent me a replica of 2.5kg of saturated fat modelled below by my husband.

It was gross and did make me put down my kit kat that I was halfway through munching!
So with a large tub (because I love value) I set about making the kids lunches using MeadowLea instead of the usual Western Star. 
My fussy eater who will can smell salad before she has opened her lunch box was the luck recipient of a banana, apple and honey roll made using the MeadowLea spread.

For my healthy child, meaning Mac I made chicken breast rolls, with Meadowlea spread, spinach leaves, grated carrot, baby beetroot and dijionaise. 

The Rolls were all eaten as evidenced by the ball of gladwrap in their lunchboxes and upon questioning was told lunch was awesome, so noone noticed the switcheroo!

Travelling with a toddler

We are now in the great USA after having made 4 plane trips with our 3 little rascals.  The girls being older were fine on the plane but the little man was a nightmare!!! Our first flight started at 11pm (bad idea) he was tired and grumpy as he is usually in bed by 5pm.  He screamed blue murder for the 30 minutes we were boarding the plane I was sure we were going to be asked to leave the plane, so I kept praying they would shut those doors.  Then he continued to cry for the next 30 mins as more and more bells were pressed around us with people asking for ear plugs.  The stress was unimaginable knowing you are disturbing everyone on the plane, no one would meet our eyes!! Then the over dressed extremely posh lady asked us if she could try settling him down, are you kidding me! I am not inept he was just not going to settle until he went to sleep. Hubby laughed when she asked me in the condescending tone, I told her to step off and let me handle my business.  The little one probably would have ripped her much styled curls out and slapped her a good  one, later as he slept peacefully I contemplated  how easy the trip would have been without a screaming toddler but looking at him all peaceful and gorgeous in hubbys arms I thought Nah, the other passengers can just suffer in their jocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!