Happy Easter.......

If you are travelling please drive carefully

and hope the weather is great

for all of you!



1 year old already:0)

The little princess was one on Saturday,

it has gone so quick and has been

amazing.

She is the most beautiful little girl

and so loving:0)

but I also think she is going to be

very stubborn, lol.

Here is the dessert table from the party,

it had lots of goodies

that we are still eating.

Here she is all dressed

up in her cupcake

birthday outfit.

and with her Daddy:0)

This is her birthday cake a friend

made for her

and yes it is those owls again.

On her new swing and

it goes really high .

Mummies cupcakes are

yummy and the icing hold my hair in

place:0)

It was a great day and she was a good

girl all day.

Happy Birthday to my precious little

princess,

love Nannie



Orders taken....

I have just received a letter from the ABC saying that they have the copyrights to

these and I am breaching it:0(

No time to blog.....

At the moment I am busy crocheting.

The owl in the last post is very

popular with little kids around here.

We are supposed to be getting 

a lot of rain in the next few days

300ml (12")

I hope they are wrong.

Have a good weekend everyone.

I made Hoot abelle :0)

I finished Hootabelle!!!

I am so happy that it turned out so good

and Everyone loves it.

I know I said it was for her birthday

but I had to give it to her, 

I can't help myself:0)

The  look on her face was

priceless.

Crocheting.........

I have been using up all my small balls and odds and ends of wool

and making these little squares.

I will eventually crochet them all together

and it will be a blanket for the little princess.

They will all have the white border and should look pretty when it is

 all done (which will be a while).

I need to buy a peachy colour as that is the colour of her room so

 I will put a lot of that colour in the finished blanket.

I am also trying to make a Hootabelle for the little Princess

for her birthday.

For those who don't know who

Hootabelle is she is the new character in the kids

program Giggle and Hoot on the ABC.

It is an owl, she has Hoot which is the boy owl

and just loves him.

I have found a pattern for Hoot so will change the colours and

see if I can come up with 

Hootabelle.

Wish me luck!

Mustard Pickles......

I had a tray of Lebanese cucumbers that 

were sitting in the fridge untouched, so I 

put them to good use in some

mustard pickles.

The recipe I had makes a large quantity so 

I made up a smaller recipe.

This only used about 650g of cucumbers and a cup 

of frozen corn kernels.

to that I added

1 onion

2tsp mustard powder

3tsp curry powder

1/4tsp turmeric

1 tsp salt

2 cups vinegar( I used malt)

1 cup  brown sugar

bring all of this to the boil and  simmer

for 15 mins to vegetables are cooked.

then

2 Tbsp plain flour add enough vinegar to make a smooth paste

and add to the simmering vegetables and stir 

till thickened about 5 mins. 

It made these 2 bottles and about another 1/2 cup which was 

eaten yesterday with cold meat for lunch.

We have sunshine today and

my washing is flapping in the breeze.

Hope you have a great day!

My first fig.......

Today I picked my first fig.

Figs are my favourite fruit ever.

I have been waiting for my to ripen so

I can enjoy them.

As these are the white figs they

ripen later than the black ones.

The wet weather is making them split open.

I hope to get enough off the tree to make a small amount

 of jam too.

That is if they don't ripen one at a time

cause I will eat them if that happens, and get no jam.

I am lucky as Daryl isn't fussed on them 

so I get them all to myself:0)

Hope the weather is nice at your place 

cause it isn't here.