Jikana Damaru

Pretty fresh Easter

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you a pretty fresh Easter palette with these gorgeous pics. Check back soon for some more of the most inspirational photographers on Flickr.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites (clockwise from top left):

The sweet butterflies, ducks, rabbits and eggs in Mini Eggs by jnmerrit
The pretty decorated in Soft & Sweet Chickie by creatocrat
The detailed decoration in knit one by Creature comforts
The wonderful Birth of flower in egg by alexey05

Have a great day!

Easter Wreaths

Easter Egg Wreath in Pink Green

Speckled Eggs Easter Wreath

Speckled Easter Egg Wreath

Glitter Egg Wreath

Last year I bought my Easter wreath from John Lewis and hung it on my door. This year I am bringing it inside and hanging it from my deer head.

Have a sweet day!

one hour

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

would love to know if you will be joining in tonight? we usually light some candles & sit & read or chat while our girls are sound asleep! what about you?

An Easter Stitch 'n' Biatch!

A few of the "I can't sew" turned "sewing goddess" gals from my mothers group came around today to assist with a little Easter project!

At 14-16 months our bubs are still a little young for chocolate, so when I spotted an idea from this blog to make little bunny softies instead, I had to pinch it!

With coffee and a few of these sugary delights to fuel the creative fire, we set to work:

We set up a little production line, with two of us cutting, pinning and stuffing, and the other two sewing. For such a simple design, it's amazing the 'unique' shapes we managed to create! Using old bits of scrap fabric, we also added little bells inside the softies along with wadding for a bit of fun. Here's the girls hard at work:

While we sewed, our bubs ran around the house like ~~little ferals~~ angels:

... and Fern 'helped' with fabric selection:

And the finished product? It turned out a little something like this!

Cant wait for our Easter Bunny scramble next week, it'll be so much fun!

Have a great weekend.... x

Princesses in Action

As promised a few pictures from Sofia's Princess Party in action! Thank you to Cinderella who kept the crowd under control and the to beautifully well behaved 4 year olds that made Sofia's day so special. If you would like to see all the pretty details from Sofia's party check them out on my earlier post here.

(Had to add this photo of "the dress" that ended up not being "the dress" - there was only a couple of shots with her in it before her costume meltdown)

Lots of Limbo

Lovely Face painting

A happy birthday girl with her cake.

Magical Princesses

Thank you to Fairy Fun for helping us with another wonderful party - check out their website here for the best fairies, princesses and disco diva's in Sydney!

Easter cupcakes

Chocolate nests by Torie Jayne

Bucket of chocolate nests by Torie Jayne

Easter toffee apple cupcakes by Torie Jayne

Flowers cupcake by Torie Jayne

I can't wait to start baking for Easter. Last year the toffee apple cupcakes went down a treat so I will have to make some more of those. For the above pics, just click the links below them to be taken to a post containing recipes and how to's.

To make your cupcakes look even prettier try out some of the pretty wrappers below:

Pretty pink plaid cupcake liners

45 blue floral baking cups

Assorted pretty pastel tulip cupcake liners

Pastel muffin cake cases

Cupcake wrapper wicker basket

Have a sweet day!

Mastery and an Unexpected Award!

Thanks so much to the very sweet Janette from My Sweet Prints who awarded me with a Master of Karate and Friendship Award yesterday! I am v flattered but completely crap at following any rules let alone these rules:

Master of Karate and Friendship Award are:

1. List 6 things you are a master in.

2. Pass it on to 6 bloggers you think are masters

at friendship and make blogging awesome.

Firstly, I cannot think of anything I have truly mastered, I am ok at a lot of things but a 'master'? Then, I went about selecting 6 bloggers to pass the award on to but discovered pretty much all of them have already been gifted this or the Sunshine award over the last few days! Can they be awarded twice?? So, thanks again Janette and sorry I am so completely hopeless... hey, I am definitely a master of hopelessness!!