Jikana Damaru

Easter Bunny Scramble

Today being our last gathering before Easter, us mothers held our homemade Easter bunny scramble at the local park. It was lots of fun, and while we responsibly neglected to serve our children ~~alcohol~~ chocolate, that didn't mean we abstained! Honestly, this Easter I have already eaten my own body weight in hot cross buns and Cadbury eggies!

In my excitement, (and the fact that Fern was wrapped around my leg for most of the morning) I neglected to take many photos... here's what I grabbed to give you a little taste of the day!

... and of course, a pic of Ferny modelling her new dress (see her little rabbit tucked into the pocket - cute!) She had a matching little orange hairclip, but that got lost somewhere in the abyss of my car on the way to the park:

ps. Tomorrow is my big unveil of my homemade chocolate Easter eggs. It's been a process, let me tell you. But I've been determined!

in 9 days time

on Saturday April 10th

for anyone

in Melbourne

it will be the day

to buy

the Herald Sun newspaper

as my

dolls house

will be featured

in the accompanying

Home magazine!

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Don't eat too much chocolate....

As the long weekend rolls around for most, I thought I would quickly wish everyone a wonderful, safe and happy holiday. I am so looking forward to having hubby home for a few extra days. We plan to do some odd jobs around the house, with a lovely big bike ride tomorrow and a lunch with family and friends on Sunday.

I also have a few crafty projects to finish up and some new hair pretty orders to start.

I hope you have lots of fun things planned...

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Happy Easter

Yay Easter is here and being a serious chocoholic there is nothing better than a basket full of eggs to keep me happy. Hope you have a happy and chocolate filled Easter - I am off to relax with the family - see you next week.

Image courtesy of Bakerella

When Your Cupeth Runneth Over

Now that I'm well and truly up the proverbial duff (I'm almost halfway, can you believe it - I can't!!) I am starting to notice a definite little bump and though I managed (just) to squeeze myself into my skinny jeans today, I fear more of me was above the waistband than Levis might have otherwise intended. But that's not the only change.

All of a sudden, I have grown absolutely enormous k-nockers!

This didn't happen last time. Not that I recall anyway. I distinctly recall cankles, a football head, puffy fingers, swollen feet and a lovely brown mask all over my face. But big bosoms? Not so much.

Technically speaking, my new twosome are not textbook behemoth. If I'm completely honest about my size, I'd say I am now a well endowed B-cup. But let me tell you, this is larger than I have ever been in my life, which says much about my size previously! I never quite realised how, ahem, little I had until I finally filled a B cup!

Have I lost you yet? I've sort of lost me. Call it pregnancy brain. Surely I have more to think about than the size of my own knockers?

Check out these lov-e-ly brassieres I treated myself to today, in celebration of growing out of my training bras!

What occupies your mind this week?

Creative Egg cups

Flower arrangements in eggshells

Eggshell votives

Ceramic handmade egg cups

Hand painted polka dot wooden egg cups

Design a wooden egg cup

What Easter breakfast table would be complete without egg cups for your freshly boiled eggs! As I didn't have any egg cups that went with my colour theme I recently purchased the design a wooden egg cups and have started painting them in the pastel colour paints I used to decorate my Easter bird houses last year. This year I am having guests for afternoon tea at Easter so I was thinking of putting chocolate eggs in mine, but I also love Martha's idea of putting flowers or candles in the empty egg shells.

I hope to finish painting my egg cups soon and I will post the pics up here.

Have a sweet day!

Easter Gifts

We have been busy making little easter gifts to give out to class mates at school and pre-school. Thanks to the lovely designs by Kim at The Tomkat Studio our project has been made so much prettier!

We made little favour bags with gummy bunnies and chocolate eggs all topped with a little tag from Kims Bunny Love Easter Collection. Check it out here.