Seven Random {Favourite} Things

A few weeks ago my lovely friend Katena from Taylor Made Baking tagged me to play along with the 7 Random things game,  so today I have put together my list of 7 random things that are all my current party favourites.

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE LOLLY

I have become a little obsessed with these yummy treats - chewy clouds - I had a few left from a purple party I put together a few weeks ago and well ... the rest is history!  They taste just like bubblegum only better.  

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE COLOUR FOR A PARTY SCHEME

I have a thing for yellow at the moment - it looks great with so many colours - pink and yellow, brown and yellow, grey and yellow, white and yellow

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE JAR

I love this tall elegant jar which always looks so pretty on a Christening and Wedding table

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE CAKE STAND

Need I say any more.

Image: My Sweet and Saucy

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE RIBBON

I love this pink, red and white ribbon - I have used it on a number of my parties this year.

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE DESSERT

The cookie pop of course!

MY CURRENT FAVOURITE BACKDROP

The lovely pink and green ribbon backdrop I used in last weekend's party - you can see more of it here (I will do a post next week with more info on how to make this backdrop)

I thought I might pass this game on to one of my readers who has recently started a blog - pop over and say hi to Rachel from fabrik of life who has lots of pretty things for you to see!

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Kilda, Scandinavian Living Berlin

This week for my 'shops i love' page, I bring you Kilda, Scandinavian Living, an adorable boutique in Berlin, Germany. On a recent birthday weekend to Berlin I discovered this delightful shop. Located at:
Hufelandstr. 17
D-10407 Berlin
Germany.

Unfortunately I left my camera at home, so apologies for the iPhone pics! Owner Heike Vogelsang has stocked this treasure trove with the best of Greengate, tons of pretty door knobs, reels of gorgeous ribbons and beauty products. I treated myself to some "i love you" ribbon and small glass jars.

Have a sweet day!

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Do you have a look?

I was surprised to learn last Friday (at an impromptu 'yay we survived the first week back at school' pool party) that apparently I have 'a look'.

Me. A look.

I've never considered that this could be the case, but I was assured by a very stylish  (all the School Mums I hang with are very stylish) friend that she "liked my look".

"Really?" I said, rather shocked. "What look is that?"

Apparently I have a "smart neutrals with a bit of a quirky boho" thing going on. Who knew?

I've improved a lot over the years, but I'm definitely more of an 'Avoider' shopper than a 'Selector'. When forced away from the shoes, handbags and jewllery (ie. fun) part of shopping, every garment I purchase answers 'no' to the following questions:

Is it fattening?
Is it restricting?
Does it highlight the fact that I have a footballers' neck?
Does it require ironing?
Is it faddish?
Do I look like mutton?
Does it look like mutton?
Do I already own 5 just like it?

Who would have thought that an Avoider Shopper could develop a unique and admired (oh, okay admired that one time) look? I'm joyous! So joyous, in fact, that I just went right ahead and created the above outfit using Polyvore. How very Fashion(ish) forward(ish) of me!

Are you a Selector or an Avoider dresser? How would you describe your own 'look'?

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Edit 11.17 am 10/2

I've been reading through the comments (fab!) and I just had to pop back here to emphasise that this combo is skinny pants and a DRESS. There is no way I would ever, could ever wear skinny pants without a dress! Just so we're clear. The only problem with my new best friend Polydore is that all the clothes are skinny people sizes and the bodies are skinny people bodies. I am not a skinny person, a fact you can read about on my weight-loss blog 40 Skinny Street if you felt the urge to torture yourself through boredom.

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The extra-curricular child

Mrs Woog wrote a great post today about the cost of raising children and the extra-cost of raising extra-curricular children. Hear hear, Woogsy!


The pressure on children and ourselves to be all singing, all dancing, all languages, all sporty, all musical, ‘all rounded’ uber-people is just incredible these days. I have always been very good at bypassing the kindergyming, jumping jacking, bee bop a wop bop todder classes. I just turned a blind eye to those sweet little ballerinas and the cute little boys with footy socks up to their armpits. But when the Tsunamis started school this year I found myself planning the following timetable:


Breathe in.

Mondays – (Maxi) Italian, 3.30pm at school.
Wednesdays – (The Badoo) Kinder dance, 10am / (Maxi) soceer training, 3.30pm at school
Thursdays – (Cappers) Jazz Ballet, 3.30pm at school
Fridays – (Cappers and Maxi) Brightsparks drama and dance, 3.30pm at school
Saturdays – (All) Swimming, 10 am at home / (Maxi and Cappers) Karate, 12 noon up the road / Soccer match, whenever, wherever


I kid you not, I'd even filled out the necessary 28 pages of enrolment forms I was that serious! I quickly came to my senses and talked to the children about what they really, really wanted to do. This eliminated soccer for Maxi before I even finished my sentence. Okay, so we won’t worry about pushing him into the ‘team sports’ thing for the third year in a row. Then I red penned the rest indiscriminately, arriving at the actual Term 1 2011 timetable.


Fridays – (Cappers and Maxi) Brightsparks drama and dance, 3.30pm at school.
Saturdays – (All) Swimming, 10 am at home / (Maxi and Cappers) Karate, 12 noon up the road


Breathe out!

How do you feel about all the extra-curricular activities available these days? Do you put a limit on your children’s activities? How's our taxi driving job working for you?

[Image via weheartit, please let me know if you know the original source.]

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Edit: I wrote this post this morning to publish later in the week; read Woogsy's post in the arvo; edited my post to include a link to her; and then hit 'Publish' instead of 'Draft'.  Have you ever done that? So here we are with two posts in a day! And you will note from the date at the top that Blogger thinks it's 9/2 so what's that all about anyway! Ah well, enjoy! x

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