Pink Ruffle Cake for two darling girls.

The most divine looking cake that I have ever seen in real life was this cake made by the lovely Leesa.

I was in heaven, need I say more?

Lou x

Our cosy new TV room...

The final make over.

The Fam enjoying our new room.

Evie in her nursery one last time.

This has all been moved to her new room now.

Before the final touches

This little room off our bedroom has been many things over the years, originally it was a horrid blue and pink nursery with 2 giant giraffes on the walls. 1st we turned it into a junk room, then it had its first makeover into a beautiful Beauty Room for my clients. Installing a sink and painting it pale blue and yellow, which was all the rage, with a sky blue ceiling that my Dad helped me paint, so that as the clients had their treatments they would be looking up to a nice view. A few years later my we repainted it a soft green with all white accessories. After our major reno, when a new Beauty Room was built, the room turned into an office and we painted it a cream colour.  

Then when baby # 2 came along it became her beautiful nursery, we painted it white but left the sky ceiling.

It was so nice to have her so close to us for those 1st few years, but she out grew her cot and we really wanted our own space again so we decided to move her to a bigger room and turn the room into what I hope will be its final makeover, into a cosy little TV room for us. We have kept it simply decorated, its a place where anyone can go to chill out for a while. I have borrowed some books and other pretty things to fill the shelves from my sister, just to decorate the room for a while.

Lou x

I admit, I am an addict....

We love our coffee. Even though I MUST have 1 a day or I get withdrawal symptoms, I still only have a medium half strength, skinny late with 1 sugar. So that can't be too bad. We love our local coffee shop. Its called SWICH ESPRESSO and it's on Logan Rd, Holland Park. The reason we love it is because the service is always friendly, fast and we have never once had a bad coffee. The kids get baby chinos (just warm milk and chocolate powder) and they even remember the kids names!! It's our little treat a few times a week  (the rest of the time we have to slum it by making our own).

Lou x

A breather by the sea...

 On Saturday, the day before we cleaned out the shed, by lunch time we were going stir crazy, so we jumped in the car and went for a short drive. This is where we ended up, at the beach at Thornside. I don't remember ever going there before and it was a really nice afternoon.

Lou x

Spring Cleaning...

We had a very busy weekend of clearing our shed. We were amazed at the things we had accumulated over the last 15 years. It was fun seeing it all again but we are slowly letting go emotionally of a lot of it. I pretended I was staring on American Pickers, finding some great things, yet the beauty was that it was already in our shed! We cleaned, photographed and listed many items on Ebay. Whatever money we make will go into our Christmas Gifts Fund.  Here a few items that I have listed on Ebay. 

Lou x

Jump for Joy

We hired a small jumping castle for the party. It was so much fun and so worth it as it kept kids of all ages entertained all afternoon!

Lou x

Thats so Old School

We are trying to clear the contents of our shed and so I have started listing a few things on eBay. This is my favorite listing at the moment: Old School Chairs. They are the wood look laminate back and seat with metal legs. Soon I will also sell older ones which are the same shape but ply wood instead of laminate. For just 1 of these chairs at the Wolloongabba Antique Centre, they were selling them for $45each, so hopefully my starting bid at $5 will go well.

Lou x

Coconut and Pineapple Cake & more Tiny goodies!

I made the coconut and pineapple cake, it's coated in pineapple butter cream and coconut.

I wanted the cake to look a bit "not too perfect". My older sister made the tulle skirt for the baby doll on the cake.

These are my "cute as a button" strawberry cupcakes made out strawberry puree.

I made the yellow buttons out of fondant icing

My beautiful Mum made the little lamingtons.

I decided to have a menu board instead of individual food labels. My younger sister, who is a graphic designs did up all the printed material. She designed, printed and framed the menu's, I thought they looked fab. Thanks to my Dad for taking all these gorgeous photos.  More photos to come, bye for now, Lou x

More Tiny Party photos for you Lisa!

For the Tiny Tarts, we had Lemon Meringue, Caramel and Custard. I bought pre-made tart shells from a local deli as that saved a heap of time and looked better than what I could ever make. I made the Lemon Meringue and Mum kindly made the custard and caramel. She did a few tests to get them just right.

Do not fret, more photos to come!!

Lou xo

Little Miss Evie's Tiny Party, cute choclate crackles

Cute chocolate crackles.

For chocolate crackles, I always use the recipe on the copha packet, except I halve the amount of copha used and it still holds together perfectly!( without the gross cohpa waxiness) I am onto a good thing with the cocoa that I always use as well. Its Woolworths home brand 100% cocoa powder, it is the richest, darkest colour and makes chocolate things so much more chocolaty. It is found with the drinking chocolates like Milo rather than the cooking section. All the crackles got eaten up quick smart!

Lou xo

Tiny Party Prep

The little lolly shop being set up on our very useful front table.

Our little girl had her "tiny" party on the weekend and I would say it all went very well. More photos of the actaul party to come, but here are some of the photos of all the preparation. Thanks to my sisters and parents for being so wonderful with all their help. This will be a party we will remember forever.

As usual for any of my party's, we visited the local flower markets, more just for the fun of looking. We purchased just 2 bunches of miniature pale pink roses. As seen  on my sister blog, who helped me with all the styling: pale pink roses for the party

A test run of the "Tiny Treats" table.

I wanted to see how it would all work and that I had enough plates and stands, which I borrowed extras from my Mum and sister instead of buying more.

The uncooked Lemon Merigue Pies, ready for the oven. Seeming that they where so small, I made them extra lemony with lots of zest added. They where a hit, may I add!

The tiny Trifle, ready to be topped with cream in the morning. I made raspberry jelly and added a lot of fresh strawberry puree to it. The sponge was also home made strawberry  cake to make the trifle really yummy.

The party was such fun to plan and do! ( but a lot of work too)

Lou x