Day to Day

Reading, making, baking.

Reading: Super Charged Food, by Lee Holmes.

Making: Fresh juice every day for afternoon tea. Today is pineapple, apple and orange. Mmmm. 

Baking: Aromatic herb & garlic crackers :: recipe, Super Charge Food book.

Seeing: My boy working two after school jobs for extra money :: catalogue delivery + shop cleaning.

Trying: A couple of new granny squares for my crochet sampler blanket.

Watching: The Voice & The Block as I sit and crochet my granny stripe, it's slowly growing!

What are you doing this week?

Easter magazines

I'm not particularly a magazine kinda girl - I have a Real Living subscription and Mr Goodsell has one to Australasian Dirt Bike magazine, but that's it.  Usually I don't even look at magazines in the newsagency, because if I look I'll buy and then I won't find time to read them and then they'll all pile up and gather dust.

About once every 6 months though, I treat the whole family to some serious magazine goodness.  With the Easter holidays upon us, I thought now would be a good time for such a treat - yes!

For myself I picked up Mollie Makes.  Craft fans will notice that this is an old issue and that's because my local newsagency is a few months behind in stocking.  

For Bella, it was the newest Moshi Monsters magazine.  

James was treated with two mountain bike magazines and poor Mr Goodsell had to be content with his new issue of Australasian Dirt Bike, because it just happened to arrive in our mailbox yesterday.  I know, I kind of cheated there but he doesn't mind.

So there you go, our Easter weekend reading is all sorted.

Have you bought any magazines to read this week?  Do share!

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Driving in the country

A peek at my road trip to the country on Wednesday - all photos snapped with my phone.

The main reason for my day trip was to have my hair dyed back to it's natural colour, but I couldn't help but notice how pretty that end of the world is, as I drove down.  We live in such a beautiful state, sometimes it's easy to miss the extra details.

We just hit Autumn here in Australia and the temperature literally dropped ten fold yesterday! How's the weather in your part of the world?

In my mailbox

I love good mail days and thought it would be fun to share a few things that landed in my mailbox a couple of weeks ago.

These wooden sewing spools were a gift for myself that I bought from Quilt Fabric Delights.  They are teeny tiny - I'm talking just under 3cm high and 2cm in width - and super cute.  Do you know what they're for?  To wind embroidery cottons onto - yes!  They're still sitting here, waiting desperately to be filled up.  That's my mission for tomorrow....

Another package that arrived during the week, was this sweet little Blythe dress.  It was a second hand purchase from We Play With Dolls.

Something lovely about having a blog is that nice people sometimes send you fun goodies to try out.  Bella was beyond happy about those Disney bandaids, and I felt the same way about the Nivea cosmetics.  I seem to using cleansing wipes all the time now - they're just so fast for removing make up.  Is anybody else reaching for them, instead of normal old cleanser?

I only owned one other nail polish until these Orly ones arrived.  I love, love, love them - they go on beautifully and last super well.  They have sweet names too, like 'artificial sweetener' and 'you're blushing' - I'm hoping to add a few more from this range to my teeny tiny stash.  

{Tipsy toes painted with Orly's Artificial Sweetener}

The final piece of happy mail to arrive that week, was a lovely Valentine's Day present from a fun swap I did with some online friends.  I'll share photos of what's inside that pretty red box tomorrow.

So, there you go - my mailbox lovelies.  Here's hoping for a few more happy mail days in the next couple of months.

In my cosmetic purse

I'm not sure why, but I'm the world's biggest sticky beak when it comes to seeing what other people keep in their bag, cosmetic purse, wallet, etc...  I find it fascinating to see what we all carry around with us.  Too often, my bag is filled with junk - old receipts, itty bitty bits of rubbish, tissues and other sorts of randomness.

But, my cosmetic purse is always tidy.  Hooray!  It's where I keep my teensy weensy supplies, and it saves me scratching around for ten minutes to find my lip balm.  We've all done that, right?

So, here's what I keep inside:

• A few gold coins for emergencies. This time there's a whole $9.
• Ear-rings. Admission - I took these off several months ago, popped them in the purse & they're still there.
• Mini sized Beautiful perfume by Estee Lauder.  I bought a few of these mini perfumes on our Hong Kong trip. I actually rarely wear perfume, but you never know when a quick spray might be needed to freshen up! 
• Jane Iredale lip drink.  Super yummy lip balm that contains a sunscreen, has a delicious lemon/orange scent and is full of delicious oils and waxes.  I always carry a lip balm or lip gloss with me - always.
• Jane Iredale blotting papers - natural papers made from organic flax seed, in a cute gold compact. Yes please!

So, there you go - a peek into my cosmetic purse.  Are you a bag/purse sticky beak too, like me?

I could show you what's in my bag, but that might be too scary for you to see.  Oh wait, I could clean it out first...yes?

Nice things to do on instagram

This month I'm participating in two daily photo challenges.  Hooray!

The first one was organised by the divine Kate Mason and will be lots of fun.  It's all about sharing Blythe doll photos!

The second one is by the lovely Chantelle and has been running for two months now.  I didn't join in last month - kicking myself about that now.  Oh well, I'm always slow to the party with new things!

For those lovelies that aren't on instagram, I'll try and share my photos on here at the end of every week.

Are you participating in any of these challenges too?

A dose of summer

This week we've had silly string, splashing and finally a big old dose of summer.  When summer hit this weekend, I bought two blow up pools for the back yard.  Two?  Well, yes....because bath sized pools with colourful fish on the side were all that I could find.  So, two seemed like a good number to squeeze a 10 and 16 year old into.

The silly string was $1 for the can.  $1 for thirty seconds of fun - yes please!

There was baking on the weekend too, by Bella this time.  She cooked up a double batch of Nanna biscuits and they were delish.  So good.

Oh, and the crochet.  My laptop cover is nearly finished - buttons and those twenty million pesky ends left to sew in.  

We've also had a hooky break through here!  Bella has mastered the 'join as you go' method and is working on a green and pink cushion for herself.  It's been quite lovely to sit, chat and crochet together, in-between the sunshine.

....and camping.  We'll be heading off again soon for a couple more days, so I've been doing last minute tidying and packing in the caravan.

Mind you, that summer wave of weather vanished yesterday.  We're back to sock wearing and warm clothes wearing here.  I think the forecast is nice a little later in the week though, fingers crossed.

Instagram

I'm addicted to instagram on my iPhone.

Here are just a few of the images that I've shared over the last couple of weeks.

Are you on instagram?  My username is onecraftymumma .......incase you want to follow along :)

Today we

• Went shopping for fresh fruit and veg.
• Collected our mail.

• Washed up.
• Dried up.

• Played ball with Trooper.

• Relaxed outside.
• James - had a bike ride
• Friends came to visit.

• Played battleships & Pictureka.

• Baked a cake to turn into cake pops tomorrow.

• Cooked crunchy pink slice.

• Cooked dinner with my little helper.

....and that is all.

Oh, I did squeeze in a few games of Plants vs. Zombies on the iPad.  Addicted much.

How was your day?