I came across this gorgeous little flower store on my journey through the city of Melbourne last weekend.
It is near a jewelry
store that is
very special
to me
more on that next week!
wouldn't you just love to buy them all?!
Ms Nosybella: How often do you... clean?
I'm curious to know how often others do the things we all need to do. I'm not sure why, but there's a yearning in me to ask and I just have to get it out.
So, how often do you (my frequency in brackets)...
- Clean the shower (most weeks)
- Clean the toilet (every other day)
- Change the towels (weekly if I can get them dry between goes)
- Vacuum (once a week / twice a week if the Tsunamis have been particularly forceful)
- Clean the fridge inside (fortnightly)
- Change the bed linen (about every fortnight - mostly, god sometimes it can be weeks... shocker! - or daily for bed wetters... sigh)
- Wash the floors (weeklyish)
- Clean the oven (gosh, hardly ever... but I do line with alfoil and change that, well, hardly ever!)
What are your 3 least favourite household chores? Mine are:
- Putting away folded clothes
- Ironing (I just don't)
- Changing the bed linen (see above)
- Scrubbing the bathroom
- Vacuuming
- Pegging out the clothes
Please share. Ms Nosybella really, really wants to know.
Clothing Co-ordination
When Indi was born last year some lovely friends gave us a voucher to get some family portraits done so this weekend we are off to use the voucher. My mind is now all a flutter with what to dress them in so that they all co-ordinate without being the same. Things were made a little easier today when the latest Seed Child email arrived in my inbox with some inspiration from their new range - here are my picks! Guess where I am off to tomorrow! (Shh don't tell Mr A!)
food for the soul...
Nothing better than home made chicken and sweetcorn soup on a cold winters evening and perfect for one little boy sick with sore ears. So a chicken soup was on the to do list today. I just made up my recipe with ingredients that I already had in the refrigerator.
Our made up Chicken and Sweet Corn Soup goes like this:
1 large leek
garlic
2 big blobs of butter
1 small red onion
1 large chicken breast
a little red capscan
a little zucchini
2 corn cobs
Chicken stock
In one large pot sauté the butter and leeks gently with a little fresh garlic.
Once browned add the corn (removed from the cob) and add 2 cups of chicken stock and allow to boil. In a separate saucepan add chicken breast to boiling stock and allow to poach for a couple of minutes in the stock and red onion. Once this was underway I used my hand blender to roughly blend the corn and leek broth. Once the corn and leek was a little smoother I added a handful of zucchini and capsican for colour and goodness.
Once the chicken had been poached and cooled a little I shredded the chicken and place it back into the larger pot along with some of the chicken broth.
I continued to stir and cook for a couple of minutes, just before serving to the 2 hungry boys in my house I placed some Chinese noodles and a handful of flat leaf parsley into the pot.
{I also used some chilli flakes in my husbands bowl - along with a little salt and pepper to taste}
A quick and easy meal and can be adapted with other ingredients, enjoy!
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Nothing better than home made chicken and sweetcorn soup on a cold winters evening and perfect for one little boy sick with sore ears. So a chicken soup was on the to do list today. I just made up my recipe with ingredients that I already had in the refrigerator.
Our made up Chicken and Sweet Corn Soup goes like this:
1 large leek
garlic
2 big blobs of butter
1 small red onion
1 large chicken breast
a little red capscan
a little zucchini
2 corn cobs
Chicken stock
In one large pot sauté the butter and leeks gently with a little fresh garlic.
Once browned add the corn (removed from the cob) and add 2 cups of chicken stock and allow to boil. In a separate saucepan add chicken breast to boiling stock and allow to poach for a couple of minutes in the stock and red onion. Once this was underway I used my hand blender to roughly blend the corn and leek broth. Once the corn and leek was a little smoother I added a handful of zucchini and capsican for colour and goodness.
Once the chicken had been poached and cooled a little I shredded the chicken and place it back into the larger pot along with some of the chicken broth.
I continued to stir and cook for a couple of minutes, just before serving to the 2 hungry boys in my house I placed some Chinese noodles and a handful of flat leaf parsley into the pot.
{I also used some chilli flakes in my husbands bowl - along with a little salt and pepper to taste}
A quick and easy meal and can be adapted with other ingredients, enjoy!
exploring our finds...
A winter walk and lots of little objects to explore once we arrived home. We put all the little objects out onto a tray to show Daddy when he got home from work. We had fun sorting bush flowers, sticks, pebbles, dried leaves and little seed pods and berries (not to be eaten)! a busy and fun afternoon exploring our local creek...
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A winter walk and lots of little objects to explore once we arrived home. We put all the little objects out onto a tray to show Daddy when he got home from work. We had fun sorting bush flowers, sticks, pebbles, dried leaves and little seed pods and berries (not to be eaten)! a busy and fun afternoon exploring our local creek...
what we discovered along the way...
a little boy who loves to explore and stroll...we had fun skimming pebbles in the creek, discovered a lone autumn leaf {the colours of autumn are so beautiful} and a seed pod which was a little wet and mouldy from the cold weather.
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a little boy who loves to explore and stroll...we had fun skimming pebbles in the creek, discovered a lone autumn leaf {the colours of autumn are so beautiful} and a seed pod which was a little wet and mouldy from the cold weather.
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