Family.

Family.

Just recently, my sister, mum, aunty and myself (with percy of course) had a girls day, dedicated to talking about and looking through old photos of my narmie (grandma) and their mum. My narmie is no longer alive, but is definatly always part of our conversation, and I have very fond memories of my childhood growing up with her. I sometimes get sad that I can not see her now, to sit and sew, or learn how to knit,to bake, now that they are things I love to do. My narmie was a sewer. She sewed alot of my clothes and she made glorious food. I hope my crafting and cooking are making her proud, up there somewhere! My Oupa will often write in his letters (yes he still handwrites letters) how proud she would be of me, and I feel very humbled to know that! My aunty wanted to share some of the photos that we had never seen before and information she had gathered over the years about Narmie and our family history, so that as Percy grows up, he may feel like he knows who we are talking about, whos recipes it is we always run too, whose physical features we all seem to have! We had a lovely day and enjoyed eating homemade food from Narmie's recipes. I thought I would share with you, some of the beautiful photos of my Narmie that we looked at! She was quite a stunner too!

My narmie as a little girl, fishing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My narmie on the left. I want her swimming costume!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Sunbaking in style!

 

Narmie in the middle with Oupa and my mum!

 

 

I loved seeing these photos of someone's life before I knew them! And I love knowing that Narmie will somehow be part of Percy's life!

 

 

Have a look through some of your old family albums..you may just find some gems!

 

 

Taz

 

 

 

 

The Tesselaar Tulip Festival

I went to the annual Tesselaar Tulip Festival in the dandenongs this week with my hubby and Percy. It was just so beautiful. There was so much colour it made me rather happy, so I thought I would share with you some of the photos we took! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The three of us ended our lovely day out at a favourite cafe of ours, the Kallista Tea Rooms for lunch. You might just need to jot down in your diary to visit the tulip festival next year and make it a nice day out!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed these photos!

 

Taz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cute!

Cute!

On saturday just passed, we celebrated my nieces 2nd birthday! The little lass, belongs to my lovely sister in law, Mezz at mezzmakesstuff.blogspot.com. We celebrated in very cute style, with a tea party being the main theme. Everything was cute. The fresh flowers everywhere, the colourful handmade bunting (made my Mezz), the delicious heart shaped banana cake(also made by Mezz), the mini tea set and the story time that the little miss requested! I didnt take any photos of the party, but Im sure you have a pretty cute picture in your head!

This year for a pressie, I made some cute clothes. Well I think they're cute, and knew they would suit the birthday girl. Last years effort, was a MAMMOTH one. I made this patchwork dog!

  

 

I was quite suprised with myself that I could make something like that! Anyway, this year, it wasn't going to be as tricky! I made her two cute tops and found a very cute top at the opshop. I found a vintage card and cute wrapping paper (all opshopped), and I was set for a VERY cute day! Here's what I made...

 

 

 

 

I lined the inside with pretty fabric for extra cuteness!

 

 

 

A summer top made from a pillowcase 

 

Love the stitching on this!

 

 

The back of the top with cute floral buttons I found!

 

 

This very cute top I just had to get from the opshop!

 

 

I then wrapped it all up in some cute paper and wrote in a cute card..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't wait for her 3rd birthday to come, so I can make her something new!

 

 

Taz

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Pinky creamy housey cake!

Pinky creamy housey cake!

A lovely friend of mine just bought her own house! Isn't that just a little bit exciting! We were invited round for dinner, and I thought, to celebrate, why not make a cake! A house cake to be exact! This was a delish cake and went down well with the whole new house theme! I found the recipe here. I looked up a cream cake as I had some seriously good cream that was hovering around its use by date.

 

 

Sweet Cream Cake..

 

2 eggs

1 cup rapadura or coconut sugar

1 2/3 cups sifted all-purpose flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup heavy cream (35% butterfat)

1 teaspoon vanilla

 

 

Beat eggs until thick and lemon coloured; gradually beat in sugar. Sift together the dry ingredients. Stir in sifted dry ingredients alternately with the cream and vanilla. Beat well.

Spread batter in a rectangle greased tin and bake at 180C for 20-25 min or until skewer comes out clean.

 

 

 

 

Once cooled, cut into house shapes. I went a bit overboard and made a dog kennel and picket fence but you can be a bit more simple.

 

 

 

 

Place on a pretty plate and get ready to ice.

 

 

 

I made two different icings. One chocolate and one pink with natural food colouring. Use your favourite icing recipes or just add icing sugar and butter till you like the flavour and consistency. Add cocoa or food colouring to your liking.

 

 

 

 

Ice your cake and serve!

 

 







Hope you've enjoyed this post!


Taz



Craftober!

Craftober!

 

 



 

I can't wait to get back into some serious crafting! My sewing space has been a mess for so long that I have avoided going in there! But im in the process of making a whole new sewing space that im sleepless with excitement! Keep your eyes peeled on what I get up to!!


Taz

Chocolate banana cake and peanut butter cookies!

Chocolate Banana Cake and peanut butter cookies!

Here are two seriously easy recipes you can bake and enjoy in the blink of an eye!

Cake...

I love cake, and this cake is up there for yumminess! Its also incredibly easy to make. I made this cake for my lovely family when they came over for dinner. I had brown bananas and a craving for chocolate, so found this recipe! I did change the ingredients slightly and halved the recipe.

Here it is. It is good!

2 ripe bananas, mashed
1 egg
1 cup rapadura sugar or brown sugar
1 tbs honey
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup milk
pinch salt
1 1/2 cups spelt flour
2 tbs cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

Mix everything in a bowl. Pour into a greased and lined tin. Bake at 180C for 30-35 min or until skewer comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

Ice with your favourite chocolate butter icing. Mine is 50gms coconut sugar with 50 gms butter and 1-2 tbs cocoa. Mix well in a bowl. Spread on cake!

Icing is optional, as it really is lovely and moist by itself, but I LOVE icing!

 

 



Cookies...

This recipe is amazing because it only has 3 ingredients! We had these biscuits in our mouths in about half an hour from when I started to make them to bringing them out of the oven.

I found this recipe here. You may question how they turn into biscuits without flour, but they do!

You will need
1 cup natural peanut butter
1 cup rapadura sugar or normal sugar
1 egg
pinch of salt if your peanut butter is unsalted

 

 

mix well...

 

 

 

Roll and place on baking sheet..

 

 

Press with a fork...

 

 

 

 

Bake at 180C for 7-9 min. Cool on rack...

 

 

 

 

Serve and eat!!

 

 

Enjoy!!

 

 

Thanks for reading and happy baking!

 

Taz