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Happy Hump Day :-)
x S.K.K x
Ms Nosybella: How do you...?
Hello my lovelies
Summer's coming, it's just down the hill parading its beaches and pools and flimsy, floaty garments. I see oodles of orange, dimpled flesh about to spill forth like a wishful offering to the sun. Shudder.
I don't do the fake tan business. I'd rather be ghost-like than splotchy brown with that strange orange glow radiating just under the surface. The stinky goop and unctions necessary to prep the skin, the time commitment involved to maintain it all. One of my most freaky beauty therapist moments was the nude fake tan, up against a white wall while she brandished the air gun like an AK-47. Meet the Firing Squad Moment there.
So, all in all, my summer preps are reasonably modest. I shave my legs more often than once a winter. After 20 years of waxing, I shaved when preggers with Maxi-Taxi as the waxing was waaaaay too painful and... it was so easy, so convenient, so exactly the same result as waxing but without the pain factor that I never went back. I go back to regular pedicures for sweet toes. I exfoliate more than once every month. That's it.
You'll note that the word Brazillian did not come up, not even once. I have never and will never go there. I'm not interested in looking like a pre-pubescent (and really, the idea that LOML would like such a thing turns me right off instantly) or a strange little barbie doll*. I do a bikini line tidy up whenever things begin to get ursine, but no landing strips for this herbal diva. No freaking way.
What about you? Do you fake tan it? Do you wax or shave?
Do you take it aaaaaall off?
* With respect to those who indulge. It's a personal thing, you understand. x
'Til next time,
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wordless Wednesday
thank you ♥ for all your support this past week
after reading all your caring comments
I have decided to continue on
with wordless wednesday
as nothing else really sums up what
it is all about
so please continue to come here & link up with your wonderful wordless posts
after all
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'meeting' new bloggers
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Fun Things I Bought on a Whim
I love a good sale... doesn't everybody? When else do you buy things you don't really need but suddenly can't live without because they are ON SALE, folks! Last night, I was a little bit bored and found myself ordering the following from Ten Little Indians. Just because.
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Oobi Nappy Covers -- surely a Summer essential for little Elliott to be teamed up with a white chesty Bonds singy?
Oobi pencilcase set - an essential stocking filler for Fern!
Lolligraph T - because in a week of confessions, I must admit hubby and I are more than a little addicted to licorice allsorts... and it was <$10!
... and the whole lot cost me $45 inc postage!! Have a squiz yourself, and all orders over $50 get a 30% discount. Just add KIDSTYLE at the checkout. Boredom is a costly exercise...
Pear and maple gluten-free cupcakes
Pear and maple gluten free cupcakes (makes 12 muffin size cakes)
Ingredients
60g white butter, softened
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
110g brown sugar
2 eggs
1 fresh pear, cut into small chunks
60ml maple syrup
150g (1 cup) self-raising gluten free flour
Cooking instructions
- Preheat oven to 160-180 deg C (325-350 deg F).
- Line muffin tray with paper cases.
- Beat butter, flours, eggs, cinnamon, maple syrup and sugar with an electric mixer until the mixture turns a pale colour.
- Stir in pears.
- Divide mixture among cases.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Place cakes on a wire rack to cool.
Maple Frosting (covers 12 muffin size cakes)
Ingredients
60g white butter, softened
4 teaspoon maple syrup
100g icing sugar (2/3 cup powdered sugar)
green food colouring
Cooking instructions
- Beat butter, icing sugar, food colouring and maple syrup with an electric mixer until the mixture stands in peaks.
- Spoon into a piping bag fitted with a small star nozzle.
- Pipe on top of the cakes in small peaks.
To decorate (12 muffin size cakes)
You will need
Roll on white icing
Flower blossom plunger cutters
Pink sprinkles
Instructions
- Lightly dust surface with icing sugar, knead icing till soft and pliable.
- Roll out white icing using rolling pin to be between 3-5mm thick.
- Cut out 36 medium and 36 small flowers using flower blossom plunger cutter.
- Lightly dampen undersides of the small flowers with water using a small paintbrush and place on medium flowers, push pink sugar strands into centre of flowers.
- Place 3 flowers on the centre of each cake.
Have a sweet day!
Halloween at "Love to Celebrate"
The big talk in our house this week is Halloween - something that I am still getting used to as growing up here in Australia Halloween was never something that we really acknowledged.
Times have changed and Halloween is now another major event on the celebration calendar. Last week while I was visiting the lovely Gaby at my favourite party shop Love To Celebrate she was explaining to me just how huge it is in America and how October has now become such a big month for her now that us Aussies have picked up on a another reason to celebrate.
I couldn't resist taking a few great shots of her wonderful window and lovely displays to show you all - take a look at all this spookiness!
I couldn't resist coming away with one of those great pumpkins that lights up!
On Sunday evening we will be heading out with some friends in our wonderful neighbourhood for some trick or treating - the kids are really so excited about their first "real" halloween
So what are you up to - are you celebrating Halloween at your house?
little nans house
a friend of mine has started a blog
she loves to be creative
through craft & photography
pop on over & say hi!
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