Jikana Damaru: 12/12/11

thank you pinterest.

I loved an idea I found on Pinterest and I had a minute to myself tonight after I put the little one to bed.

I could have taken a little more time to perfect it, but I think it's 'good enough'.

This idea was for an announcement but I'm going to print this out and hang it on her wall!

overall it was super easy and I'm glad I took a minute to do it!

gah, I can't believe my tiny girl will be three whole months soon!

I made lots of pretty hair bobbles and hair bands to put in my advent house for cute Molly, and lip balm for my sisters. I also wanted to make some cute gifts for my adorable nephew, Samuel, so I decided to make some chunky gingerbread shaped crayons. I did not have any old crayons so I bought a new pack but you can use old bits too.

Gingerbread Crayons
Tools and Materials

Crayons
Gingerbread mould (pg 4)

Gingerbread Crayons, How-to step by step

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Start by removing all the paper from the crayons and chop them into small bits. Fill your mould with the crayon pieces and place in the oven for 15-20 mins until wax is melted (you can add more bits of crayon through the melting process so the moulds are completely full). Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Then push out the crayons and they are ready to use.

I think they look a bit like jelly babies?!?

Have a sweet day!

Through the Instagram: little peek at November

Forgot about November!

These Instagrammy posts are all for me, so don't worry if you're not here to see them (if you know what I mean!?!). Just a snapshot, a keepsake, a little 'we were there'.

Lazy days... and (OMG!) a radical haircut!

Reading in Cappers' classroom with the Badoo.

[Image of kids in the bath removed by Maxabella 10.1.2012... do you know that there 21 perverts out there that downloaded that photo off my blog? Thanks for the 'Download' stat heads up, my anonymous friend!]

Is it wrong to put pictures of your kids in the bath on the internet? Possibly. [10.1.2012 - now I say, yes! Definitely!]

Holidays! Yay!

Oh, this was me getting my makeup done at the Revlon counter at DJs. I won a fab prize of a makeover and a 'night out' (Jersey Boys) at Fat Mum Slim. Waaaaaay too much makeup, don't you think!? Bit scary-tranny.

I went to a 'business breakfast' which started at bloody 7am, so I drove. Regretted it in the afternoon peak hour crawl home!

No doubt you can't remember by now, but did anything exciting happen in your world in November?

New Years Eve Ideas with The Party Dress Magazine

I know we are still to make it through Christmas but today I have a little New Years Bling for you from the recent article I put together for the Party Dress Magazine.

I went with an elegant theme of black, white and silver for my new years eve cocktail party.

I decided on a cheese stack instead of a sweet cake as my centrepiece item - this way I could cater to the savour lovers as well as those of us with a sweet tooth. Beautiful cupcakes and cookies by Jacki from Blissfully Sweet Cakes added some more sparkle and in my mini pots I created a little cheesecake using brownies as the base and topped it with a mixture of mascapone cheese and icing sugar.