made with love

Cam's dada whipped this up over a couple of rainy days.
We will pop it outside this summer

Our nest

vintage kitchen swap...♥

We ate curry in these beauti's, Cam says they are his "pots". Think i'll be taxing these back at the end of everyday.

a massive stack of my very own recipe cards.

for the lil tot

as you can see this lil guy loves his new home,isnt he toot.


"sweet little vintage kitchen swap"

here is the lovely parcel i received a few days ago,it felt like my birthday,thankyou Sarah.
you can see what i popped in the post for FaerySarah here..

wonderfully organized by Stella , thankyou Stell ♥ cant wait to see what everyone send and received!!

Watch this space for a vintage fabric swap ♥

project love

For Cam Cam....


have been painting a few new chalk boards around the place.

Cam's little race track i made him,he loves it!!!





For the Wedding....

Didn't turn out how id imagined may try again "love is sweet"

Sewing doilie's onto woolen or crochet blankets which will throw over every hay bail. (so bestie's please look out for blankie&doilies at your local oppy's)



& A new baking Buddy..

Our new flour bucket that fits a 5kg bag of flour in,woop woop.


Hope everyone is having a lovely wknd, will back soon with some baking..mmm. xx

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

image from here

About time for a yummy summer treat! I've been hanging out to make this again (with our delish Zucchini's out of our garden!!

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups regular all-purpose flour, unsifted
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3/4 cup soft butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
• 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
• 1/2 cup milk
• Glaze (directions follow)

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°c.

1 Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.

2 With a mixer, beat together the butter and the sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini.

3 Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into the zucchini mixture, including the nuts with the last addition.

4 Bake in the oven for about 50 minutes (test at 45 minutes!) or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes; turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly.

5 Drizzle glaze over cake.

Glaze: Mix together 1 cup icing sugar, 2 Tablespoons milk, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth.

hope you get time to make this one!! I'll try do recipe post's for the next few days =) I find summer is so busy its even harder to get dinner on the table at 6pm let alone know what to cook!! but baking on the other hand mmm wish i could bake all day!!!

a sneak peak at our little home #2

1st sneak peak found here...

happy home making!!!!!!

yesterday.....

yesterday Cam did some wheel burrow work with his Dada (well he sat inside it while it wheeled back & forth), while i sat in the grass&sun and enjoyed the paper,and when the wee one returned to my side...........................

there was a tad bit of mud here...


oo and here.

mmmm

i let him go for another half hour,i had to right,i couldn't just whip him inside to get changed right? why?....
he was having a blast!!!

and today......

i enjoy a morning to myself while the boys are out,its been just about three hours. i must say i did text them to see how they were getting on..
the house is spotless! even tho i know a tornado will of hit by bedtime. its just what we do,i don't call it chores i call it "we love our home" or something..
we all just love the satisfaction of a lovely clean home,its rare!