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Coordinating homewares with fashion!

At the Kelani stand at the Craft & Stitches show a few months back, (you know, where I remortgaged the house to buy almost every bit of fabric on show) my crafty mother-in-law snaffled the most di-viiine pieces of fabric with which to make me a skirt. I helped choose. But it was hard; I liked pretty much everything at the store. I love colour though, and in the end the vibrant hues of this fabric won me over.

And on my birthday last week, my skirt materialised! (pardon the pun)


It's a wrap-around number that can be worn on either side of the fabric (it is purple polka dots on the inside - perfect for a more flamboyant occasion), and I think it rather lovely!

But out of the gift-bag came an added little bonus... a pair of matching cushions!

And now, I can sit on the couch in my new skirt, gorgeously coordinating with my soft furnishings... I mean. Could I ask anything more?



Please ignore the dreadful model -- but what do you think of the fabric? Would it be rude to want a matching fabric-covered canvas, too?!

x

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Gluten free vanilla doughnuts with strawberry glaze

Mini doughnuts for my Winter Wonderland dessert table

Yesterday I showed you my inspiration for mini doughnuts. I just had to have a go myself and love how they turned out. I will definitely be making some more batches for my Winter Woodland dessert table and to give as gifts.

Gluten free vanilla donuts (makes 24 mini doughnuts)

Ingredients
  • 110g (1 cup) gluten free flour
  • 1 tsp xantham gum
  • 115g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoons buttermilk
  • Non-stick cooking spray


What you will need

Cooking instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 160 deg C, fan assisted (370 deg F)
  2. Lightly spray doughnut pan with non stick cooking spray
  3. In a bowl beat the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla essence and oil together until you get a foamy mixture
  4. In a separate bowl, add the sieved dry ingredients to the sugar and mix.
  5. Gradually pour foamy mixture into dry ingredients and stir until mixture is combined
  6. Pour mixture into greased doughnut pan until each cavity is half full (I prefer to use a piping bag to fill each cup more evenly and cleanly)
  7. Bake in preheated oven for 10-15 mins or until doughnut springs back when lightly pressed
  8. Turn out onto baking rack and leave to cool


Gluten free doughnuts - steps 1-4
Gluten free doughnuts - steps 5-8
Gluten free doughnuts - steps 9-12
Gluten free doughnuts - steps 13-16


Strawberry Glaze
Ingredients
  • 60g (1/2 cup) icing sugar (confectioners sugar)
  • 1 tablespoon blended strawberries, sieved
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract


Cooking instructions
  1. In a bowl add the sieved icing sugar to the blended strawberries and vanilla essence
  2. Whisk all of the ingredients together until you have a smooth paste
  3. Pour into a small, shallow bowl


Strawberry glaze steps 1-4


Decorating the mini doughnuts
What you will need
  • 24 mini doughnuts
  • strawberry glaze
  • white sprinkles
  • pink edible glitter


Decorating instructions
  1. Dip doughnut into strawberry glaze, shake off any excess
  2. Sprinkle white sprinkles onto icing
  3. Sprinkle pink glitter onto icing
  4. Leave to set


Decorating mini doughnuts


I packaged mine in mini floral printed paper bags and sealed them with pink & white stripe Washi tape.

Mini doughnuts


Have a sweet day!

Winter Wonderland mini doughnut inspiration

Winter Wonderland mini doughnut inspiration by Torie Jayne

I recently picked up a mini doughnut pan in TK Maxx for less than half price. As soon as I saw it I started thinking about how cute it would be to have some mini pastel iced doughnuts for my Winter Wonderland dessert table. I am thinking vanilla flavoured baked doughnuts with strawberry icing, cinnamon doughnuts with green apple icing, aqua coloured chocolate-dipped doughnuts and snowy looking dusted ones. All served with mini glass bottles of milkshakes and striped straws!


Have a sweet day!

Fattyboomsticks

I have another blog. It's a 'weight loss' blog. It's one I rarely post in anymore. When I'm good, I'm very good, when I'm bad, I'm... absent.  I kept it separate from this blog because the whole topic of dieting just bores me to tears and I didn't want you all to drown.

Sometimes I think there must be more to my weight than just a 'big appetite', a 'love of food'. I joke that I just love butter. I joke that there's more of me to love. I joke that if I wasn't fat, I'd be too perfect and no one would like me. Ha! There is something in the sterotype of the jolly fat person... get in first because it doesn't hurt as much when you do your own teasing.

I have never felt depressed about my weight. I've never felt ashamed. God, being overweight is not the worst thing in the world, not even close. Sometimes I try to wring an ounce of remorse out of myself, but, like the excess kilos, not a drop falls. From time to time I feel left out because I'm bigger than the other girls, but then as a towering redhead, my whole life I've felt like that.

I've felt helpless though. I've felt defeated and frustrated and angry with myself. I've felt confused. I don't understand why I can't beat this thing. Year after endless year at the back of my mind someday when I get around to it tomorrow one last time this is it I am always thinking about losing 'the weight'. Sometimes I think that the only weight I really need to lose is this suffocating weight on my mind. This incessant need to be thinner rather than just be me.

I've been on a diet for about twenty two years now.

In my mind I am thin as a whip and I carry myself as if this is so. I am not slow or lumbering. I dress nice. I keep up. I am not someone who worries that my children are missing out because their mum's a bit of a lardy lump. From time to time they ask me about it - now that they're older. I use myself as an example of someone who doesn't always make the healthiest food choices. It's not a good thing, I caution. It's important to look after yourself.

But at the same time, I tell them that being bigger is okay. You can still be beautiful, just look how beautiful mummy is.  It's not okay to wonder why people are the way they are. That's their business and it's not yours. It's not okay to call people names just because they are fatter.

At the end of the day, I'd rather be fat than be mean.

What do you really think about overweight people?
Do you struggle yourself?

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Work / life integration


My life as a 'working mother' is not something that I talk about half as much as I'd like on my blog. Naturally it comes up from time to time, but to give it the same amount of focus that it has in my real life, well... I think my corporate job would bore the pants of half of you and make the other half cringe at my 'working for the man' status. Well, maybe one or two of you might be interested... so I've blogged over at the Careermums.com.au blog about my theories on 'work life intergration'.

It's not about the balance, baby, it's about the seamless integration.

Do pop over and see me there. I don't think they get as many passers by as they deserve. It's a really fantastic blog for women working in the home, outside the home and on the home. Time management, prioritising, goal setting, writing stuff down... see, we are all working mothers at the end of the day.

Come on over for a chat! (With a bit of luck, they might have me back!)

Are their parts of your life that you don't blog about in quite the detail they probably merit?

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