when the Herald Sun Home magazine featured
they also took some photos of my fabric hoops
for a later edition
& what a surprise I got on Saturday
when there in print was a feature on my
it was an exciting morning
full of happiness & smiles!
Easy Sunday: Super scrummy muesli bars
Cappers, The Badoo, LOML and I are in love with these little bars of happiness. I can't say I managed to persuade Maxi-Taxi to love something so healthy (it's got 'green bits in it'). But next time I'll probably leave out the pepitas and add more oats and tanis and hopefully that'll win him over.
1 cup rolled oats (use the 'quick' chopped up variety so the bars aren't jawbreakers)
1 cup desiccated coconut
3/4 cup wheatgerm
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup sunflower kernels
1/2 cup pepitas
1 cup sultanas
125g butter
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup brown sugar
Lightly grease and line 3cm deep 16cm x 28cm baking pan with baking paper.
Toast oats, coconut, wheatgerm, sesame seeds, sunflower kernels and pumpkin seeds in a frying pan over medium heat, stirring for 8 - 10 minutes until golden. Transfer to a bowl and set aside to cool. Once cool, stir in sultanas.
Cook butter, honey and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring for 3 -4 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer on low. Simmer without stirring for around 7 minutes. (Here the recipe called for some complicated thing involving small balls forming when you drop a little of the mixture in ice-cold water, but I didn't bother.)
Add caramel mix to dry ingredients and stir until combined.
Spoon mixture into pan and use a large metal spoon to press down firmly. Press and press and then press some more. Allow to cool and then unlike in the photo above, I cut them into 3cm by 1.5cm little bars, wrap each in al foil and then into an airtight container. They keep for over a week this way and I can't see any reason why you couldn't freeze any extras.
Recipe is adapted from one at taste.com.au and I used the photo from there by Steve Brown as for the life of me I can't find my camera (cue panic!).
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Homemade museli bars
1 cup desiccated coconut
3/4 cup wheatgerm
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup sunflower kernels
1/2 cup pepitas
1 cup sultanas
125g butter
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup brown sugar
Lightly grease and line 3cm deep 16cm x 28cm baking pan with baking paper.
Toast oats, coconut, wheatgerm, sesame seeds, sunflower kernels and pumpkin seeds in a frying pan over medium heat, stirring for 8 - 10 minutes until golden. Transfer to a bowl and set aside to cool. Once cool, stir in sultanas.
Cook butter, honey and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring for 3 -4 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer on low. Simmer without stirring for around 7 minutes. (Here the recipe called for some complicated thing involving small balls forming when you drop a little of the mixture in ice-cold water, but I didn't bother.)
Add caramel mix to dry ingredients and stir until combined.
Spoon mixture into pan and use a large metal spoon to press down firmly. Press and press and then press some more. Allow to cool and then unlike in the photo above, I cut them into 3cm by 1.5cm little bars, wrap each in al foil and then into an airtight container. They keep for over a week this way and I can't see any reason why you couldn't freeze any extras.
Recipe is adapted from one at taste.com.au and I used the photo from there by Steve Brown as for the life of me I can't find my camera (cue panic!).
Winter Joy
Flannelette pyjamas. Icy cold feet. Stacks and stacks of cushions. Look out!
Vintage ice cream tin signs
1. Tasty Treats ice cream vintage metal art sign
2. Ice cream cones vintage tin sign
3. Bordens ice cream sign
4. Knickerbocker Glory vintage sign
5. Ice cream sundaes
6.Waffle cones vintage metal sign
This week in my series of posts, "Fridays Finds", I bring you a collection of cute vintage tin ice cream signs. On a recent trip to TK Maxx I found the pink knickerbocker glory vintage sign and I just had to buy it! My idea is to get a few and hang them on the side of my garden shed as artwork for my "outdoor living room".
Don't forget you can click on any blue lettering in any of my posts to link through to the relevant store website or blog post for more info!
Have a sweet day!
lOVE it
is there anything better than getting 'happy mail'
a hand written card
not just on your birthday
but just because
you can win some
adorable fabric cards
is giving away
head over to her
blog to enter
The Public Meltdown - Dontcha Love Motherhood?
I was really quite looking forward to today. The plan was, put Fern down for her usual morning sleep then head out to the shops together to meet a friend and her new baby. A little lunch... a poke around the shops... maybe even a visit to the indoor playground, if Fern played her cards right.
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The morning started off beautifully. Fern awoke h-a-p-p-y and we had a lovely morning before I popped her down for a quick nap. Half an hour later I could still hear her chattering away to her dolls and I began to get a little nervous. Our 'sleep window' was fast closing in and I had to meet my friend by a certain time. By the time we got out the door (only half an hour late - orrright!) Fern had not slept a single wink and I prayed for a car-nap. No such luck.
We reached the shops and my friend and enjoyed about 3.5 blissful minutes of catchup, with Fern squirming in my lap (no highchairs!) picking at my banana bread. Then it all went a little pear shaped.
We had been at the shops no longer than 45 minutes when the meltdown descended. Its never happened to me before, at least not since the early baby days when a nipple popped into a mouth solved 95% of all dramas before they really got started. But since then I've gotten complacent.
In retrospect, I was asking for trouble:
- No wrap
- No teddy bear
- No dummies
- No bottle of milk
- NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!
We were in Target by this stage; my friend's 4-month old baby was gooing contentedly inside his capsule while my dear daughter was screaming her lungs out just loud enough that the WHOLE OF THE SHOPPING CENTRE could hear her anguished wails. I tried picking her up. I tried putting her down. I tried lying her in her pram. Stealing the 4-month old's dummy. Nothing worked.
Of course, every person within a 100 metre radius was staring at me with either pity, accusation, condescension or a mixture of all three in their eyes.
I couldn't do anything but run. As fast as I could, with my pram, a bag, a toddler under my arm and my 30 week belly surely justifying the looks of "she's having another one? But she can't handle the one she's got!" from almost every person we passed on our way back to the car.
There's a lesson to be learnt here, peeps. But I'm just not too sure what it is at this moment -- Fern still hasn't slept beyond a 6 minute kip in the car on the way home, despite two (failed) attempts this afternoon. My eyes are literally rolling back in my head and I'm wondering how I could ever have possibly allowed myself to think I have got this mothering gig under the wing.
Sorry about the rant - have a great weekend!!!
xo
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