Epic Fail...

HHHEEELLLPPP!!!!!!!!!

I knew focusing on what I ate was a silly silly idea! If I was a normal person this would be fine but I have a crazy crazy manipulative mind! This works wonders when I'm positive - the magic of my positive thinking is beyond awesome - but when I'm down gosh it hits me hard. On Monday I wrote about trying to make a healthy change and start replacing the sweet biscuits and chocolate bars and snack foods that I eat on the run during the day for more fresh fruit and yogurt and other healthier goodies. I actually found some yummy treats that were so good to eat and were quite healthy. I'm loving cut up red delicious apples with peanut butter spread on them - YUM and I love corn wraps with avocado! But I have a confession to make and I am so embarrassed for it but I have to admit it so I can see the foolishness and then move on haha

 Tonight I ate FOUR donuts!!! YUK YUK YUK

One after the other - in my car...alone - I ate four huge donuts - glazed and iced with sprinkles. I HATE DONUTS!!! They are so ridiculously unhealthy and I haven't had a donut in about 10 years. But tonight I scoffed them down like no bodies business - like it was my last meal - I then came home and ate my WHOLE dinner! I feel like I am going to be sick and I have no idea what came over me this evening on my way home from work. Like I said before my mind is so crazy - I wasn't even hungry - But because I have had NOTHING sweet over the past few days it was like my body was going into crisis mode AGAIN and just absolutely craved something huge and sweet and gross - and it was so gross - I didn't even enjoy it - but I couldn't stop - I sound like a crazy person! I was literally lining up in line at the petrol station fighting with myself - one voice was saying yes and the other was saying no - the YES won and even as I was picking up the packet I was yelling no but i just bought it and ate it. So stupid. 

BAAAAHHHHH so anyway now I'm sitting here feeling so stupid and defeated by my own self and really need to work out whats best for my body! I need to find the balance somewhere. I know they say chocolate is a 'sometimes' food. But with the hours I work and the job I do and considering I do not drink coffee, tea, coke, V, Mother or any energy/caffeine drink I think it's o.k that I have one chocolate a day! Just to give me that sugar rush and pick me up throughout the day! I still want to keep up and increase my fresh fruit, yogurt and water intake but still allow myself that little treat. Because clearly my mind thinks I'm starving myself and will turn into a crazy comfort binge eater and that DEFINITELY is not good for my body!

So once again wish me luck and lets go for round two ;)

x S.K.K x

Plumo Autumn/Winter 2010

Plumo by Torie Jayne
Owl & bird hooks by Plumo
Facet tealights by Plumo
Ottomania bowls by Plumo
Odessa folk cushions by Plumo
Bulgarian folk chests by Plumo
1920s paper clips by Plumo
This week for my 'shops i love' page I bring you Plumo, an online boutique selling gorgeous vintage-style products for the home and a boutique-style range of designer clothes, bags and jewellery. Each unique piece is beautifully shot and the whole site is a visual treat, from the pretty facet tealights in washed out vintage shades of smokey grey and berry to the chunky silver coloured metal 1920's paper clips.

Have a sweet day!
Shades of blue...

I'm not sure if it's because I have a little boy...


but I am noticing gorgeous shades of blue....dotted through my photographs. 


i love everything about this old sandpit boat...


i don't go anywhere without a ball....you can just see our favourite globe ball
 poking out of my beach bag

he has his daddy's eyes... twinkling blue


a vintage desk, globe and a wooden tool kit...what's not to love
 about these old treasures


crisp blue skies, cold water and the sun just setting...a very happy boy.

Pink and Mauve Dessert Table

Isn't it great when with no planning whatsoever something comes together!
I spent months thinking and planning Sienna's recent circus party - last Sunday however things were very different and at the drop of the hat it was time to create another dessert table - no stress on my part, just lots of fun.

Regular visitors to my blog will know about my love of dessert and candy tables, so it is exciting to now be able to say I am open for business.  I have found myself a partner in crime, Rebekah, who is a wonder in the kitchen so on Sunday we put our love of food and styling together and created a dessert table for her 4 year old daughter Saskia and her best friend Tiana who turned 5.  Here are some photos from the day.

The birthday girls love pink and mauve so that was our theme for the day.

Popcorn and sweet treats are always a hit


Pink Lemonade and Ribena Jellies and White chocolate rocky-road crackles!

Yummy guava juice in my favourite bottles

Pretty pink lanterns hanging from the tree

The table also included Toffee Strawberries and Strawberry Cream Tarts 
with Rose Fairy Floss

And finished off with a perfect birthday cake filled with love.

Happy Birthday Sas and Tiana - I hope your day was super special.


Leanne

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The best bits are the little bits: part 2


It's true that the little bits make up the best bits of memories! Not always postitive, but imprinted forever! ♥

I’m standing in line at the check-out wailing to my friend about having been up two, three times a night for about five years FIVE YEARS and that sleep deprivation has become just plain DEPRIVATION and I’m really going nuts because I’m just so bloody tired and just so bloody over the agonising nights when I felt a tap on my arm.

I turn around.

“Have you tried hot milk?” the biddy behind me asked.

I only stabbed her 37 times. My friend stopped me then.


Tell me, what's the most useless piece of parenting advice you've ever been given?


[Image by farmgirl in flipflops]

Creepy meringues

Halloween table - Blackberry meringues
White chocolate & blackberry meringues

Ingredients
125g double cream (heavy cream)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
50g blackberries, blended
100g white chocolate
24 Mini meringue shells

Cooking instructions
  1. Bring cream to the boil in a small saucepan.
  2. Remove from heat immediately and stir in chocolate until melted.
  3. Stir in blackberries and vanilla essence until glossy.
  4. Refrigerate for about 25 mins.
  5. Spoon a teaspoon of ganache onto back of meringue and place another one on top to form the ganache sandwich.
  6. Spoon excess ganache over the join of the meringues and let drip down.

I made these for my candy table last year. I love how quick and easy they are to make and how effective they turned out.

Have a sweet day!