Happy Friday everyone! Only one more sleep until the weekend! We are looking forward to it over here we can tell you. This Friday we thought we'd share some amazing raw jewellery we are crushing over at the moment.
Source: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Friday 23 August 2013
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Finished table!
Yay we finally finished our table! I am so happy with how it turned out, it brightened up our little space so much and gave us lots more room without having the massive chairs there anymore. I am finding we are using it so much more than we ever did before so totally worth the effort!
I took some photos along the way so you can see what we did. Pretty self explanatory really :) We sanded the top then took the table apart. From there we sanded all the legs and sides, gave the table a wipe down and then painted it. And voila! I must warn you though in case anyone is thinking of tackling this job, all the sanding is a real leg work out! (and when i say work out, I mean just standing up for the next few days hurt !)
Kirsty X
Friday 16 August 2013
Oh happy friday!
Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes. Light, fluffy, sweet, delicate, delicious.....mmmm cupcakes. Cupcakes are amazing, what can we say, delicious and always beautiful and just the right size for a sweet treat without feeling too guilty.
This Friday we envy the amazing designs that can be done with cupcake icing.... enjoy x
This Friday we envy the amazing designs that can be done with cupcake icing.... enjoy x
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| Cream butter icing roses - always beautiful |
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| These beautiful white vintage inspired cupcakes could be perfect for a wedding |
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| Pink and sweet |
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| brighten someone's day with these sunflower cupcakes |
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| just how cute are these? |
Monday 12 August 2013
DIY painted table stools
In our quest for a new awesome dining suite we came across these cute stools. We has already decided to keep and paint our old table white so thought that these could be perfect in replacement of our current brown high backed chairs that didn't really fit our suit our space. Bonus, these stools can totally fit under the table! Once we got them home we decided that they could use some colour to really make them pop and to add a little bit of excitement to the look. So here's what we did: (ps. will post pictures of the fully finished table soon!)
Step1: Buy cute, cheap stools - these were $12 each from The Warehouse. Originally we were planning on making our own but wood here (surprisingly, since we grow enough of the stuff!) is super expensive. It would have cost us more to make one stool than to buy 4 of these ones already made!
Step two: Decide how much of the chair leg you want to keep white and measure a line around each of the four legs. Make sure to do this carefully, you don't want each one to stop at a different height! We left approx 20cm white.
We had to give each stool about four coats of paint to get a fully covered, smooth look.
Happy painting! Kirsty X
Happy painting! Kirsty X
Sunday 11 August 2013
Recipe: stuffed bacon, onion and rosemary scones
Every Sunday, well almost, I whip up a batch of scones for afternoon tea. These simple little goodies take no time to prepare so are perfect.
Today I decided to jazz the classic cheese scone up a bit....voila bacon, onion and rosemary stuffed scones :)
Ingredients
3 cups of flour
Pinch salt
75g butter
1 - 11/2 cups milk
1 cup grated Edam cheese
2rashers shoulder bacon
Half a small brown onion
A good handful of fresh chopped rosemary.
Method:
Prepare ingredients first -it makes the process faster, dice onion and bacon into small pieces, cube the butter and grate cheese. Finely chop the fresh rosemary and muddle with the back of a spoon to release the flavour.
Soften onion in a pan with the bacon and rosemary then set aside.
Rub butter and flour together with salt using your fingers until it the mixture resembles breadcrumbs (this was always my favourite part to making scones with my grandma when I was a kid) then gradually add the milk to form a doughy mix.
Turn out onto a well floured board and knead gently then flatten out with your hands.
Spoon the bacon and rosemary mix out into the middle of the scone dough. Then fold over the sides. Cut into pieces, pop on an oven tray and bake for 12-15 minutes at about 180degrees. Best served hot.
I hope you enjoy these as much as we do - lisa x
Thursday 8 August 2013
Oh Happy Friday
Mason Jars - such wonderful things in all sorts of sizes, for all kinds of uses.....here are a few that caught our eye this happy Friday - enjoy x
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| Such a cute way to have those fresh gorgeous smelling herbs handy |
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| love this idea for a sweet gift - all you need for a baileys hot chocolate YUM! |
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| dainty little centre pieces - simple yet sweet |
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| COCKTAILS - nothing more said |
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| now this is storage brilliance at its best - mason jar lids screwed into an over hanging cupboard |
Have you got a collection of mason jars? What's your favourite way to use, or display them?
Saturday 3 August 2013
Friday 2 August 2013
Oh! Happy Friday
Happy end of the working week lovelys! We are seriously looking forward to the weekend, how about you? Here are some cute tattoo's we are loving this Friday.
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| Stay gold |
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| To infinity and beyond |
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| Cross / Arrow |
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| Birds |
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| Owl |
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| Sugar skull |
Thursday 25 July 2013
Old Fashioned Sponge Cake
Serves 6-8
• 3 eggs, separated
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla
• 1 cup cornflour
• 1 Tbsp flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ cup jam
• 200ml cream, whipped
• Icing sugar and doilies for dusting
1. Set oven to 180C. Line the bottom of a 20cm round tin with baking paper, grease the sides and dust with flour.
2. Beat egg whites until thick and add sugar a quarter at a time. Add egg yolks and beat until mixed.
3. Sift the flours and baking powder and add to the eggs and stir gently until well combined.
4. Place in the middle of the oven for 20-25 minutes until, when touched, it springs back. Do not overcook, or your cake will be dry.
5. Cool cake in tin. Remove, slice through the centre and fill with jam and cream. Replace the top.
Wednesday 24 July 2013
We are watching, reading, listening, eating...
Kirsty
Listening: At the moment I've had pretty much a solid 2 weeks of listening to the new Paramore album, Paramore (self titled). It's much popper than their last but definitely still worth a listen! My favourite songs off it would have to be "Ain't in fun" and "anklebiters". Oh and the little ukulele interludes that pop up here and there are really good! The other band i have been listening to lately is The Civil Wars. They are a band that I only really started listening to a couple of months ago, but they are amazing! They are a boy girl duo who met in Tennessee and its fair to say their voices will most likely knock your socks off. As a bonus (if your watching the videos) the dude also looks like Johnny Depp!
Reading: Ok so i would like to state here, right now, that i love reading. Give me a good fiction novel or a great magazine and I turn into "that person". The kind of person who forgets that what their reading isn't actually real and that when something great happens you don't actually have to yell and fist pump. Or alternatively stomp around angrily for two days when the book doesn't go your way. There's also those times that you cant help but laugh so hard at something funny that tea comes out your nose and before you realise everyone is staring at you and they all most likely think your totally crazy. I'll be the first to admit, its a little strange and probably a lot awkward for people around you but i think its time we celebrated these awesome written things. Laugh out loud, cry, throw the book on the ground- it's all good! It just means what you are reading has connected with you in some way and that the author is most likely also awesome for making you enjoy it so much. The first of two things that are making me feel like that person at the moment is my new and seriously awesome Frankie magazine (I like to draw reading this out as much as possible as the mag is only bi-monthly so you have to save the goodness!). Frankie is definitely a snort into your tea and "holy crap that's awesome" kind of a magazine. If you haven't read it yet, go, right now and buy it. The second is a novel called The Collectors, I haven't got too far through it yet but I think it is going to be a goodin!
Watching: If you had asked me two weeks ago I would have said Revenge, and damn it was good! But sadly the season is over so I had to move on and find something new. So "The Event" it is. Let me tell you right now, if you are planning on watching this, be prepared to use full brain and eye power. You really don't want to miss anything. It's pretty intense but well worth a watch. Enough said. Oh and also if you have a spare 10 minutes, watch the Bravest Warriors on you tube. HILARIOUS. And totally cute.
Eating: The list for this one could potentially be massive so I'm really going to have to edit it down for you. Porridge in the mornings with apple and yogurt. Delicious. And chickpea, almond, lentil and spinach curry. Also delicious.
Lisa
Listening: I'm a little bit, Ok a lot bit, of a fan of the singing competitions that grace our TV screens, The Voice Australia is the perfect accompaniment to my Friday night snuggled up in front of the fire. I bet you will think I'm waffling, writing about the wrong thing in the wrong section - but just give me a moment here. I love these shows to see how different artists compose and deliver old classics! I'm not a hug fan of the artist to signs the latest Rhianna song - its too fresh in my mind - do not touch it! So what I am listening to at the moment is actually a lot of old classics. These are the songs that instantly make me feel amazing, relaxed and ready to party in the same tune, these are the songs full of memories of cold gin and tonics on the deck after a day of swimming and sunbathing, frosty beers around the bon-fire of a high school party, get my rambling now? So i am re acquainting my self with these ageless tunes. If you are keen to take a walk down memory lane have a listen to these old favs..
Benny and the Jets - Elton John (try this one after some wines with your mates - loud out of tune singing is ALWAYS fun!)
Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkle (just a beautiful and moving song - take a quiet moment and think)
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (swoon, I love Tom Petty and its really there whole collection)
End of the Line- Travelling Wilburys (I don't even know what it is...but I just feel happy when this is playing - Tom Petty's voice I'm quietly thinking!)
Reading: They say you can't judge a book by its cover - but when it has an intriguing young woman on the front and the word tea on it....who's not to judge? The Tea Rose trilogy by Jennifer Donnelly caught my attention in the book store recently so I grabbed me a copy of the first instalment 'The Tea Rose" and set myself up for being entertained - woah! I like Kirsty also become deeply involved in my reads and blur the line of character and actual person I know. I find myself thinking about these characters like they are my real friends and have on occasion had to stop myself short of talking about them like they are a real person in conversation with actual - real people. Any who, this book sucked me in. I found myself racing through the book trying to get to the end s fast as I could, fighting Fiona's cause and her achievements along with her desperate for a happy ending. I cried and I lusted over Joe and I felt at an absolute lost at the end. But its OK, The Winter Rose (the second in the trilogy) is just as amazing and I am about to get my hands on the final instalment - so an update will surely come.
Watching: With renovations and what seems like an active weekday social life at the moment our only moments of telly watching are reserved for the Voice Australia and rugby league.....sports controls my TV set. My Kitchen Rules and Revenge have come to an end - shedding tears at my loss.
Eating: a few things i am obsessed with at the moment...
Roasted pumpkin with dukkah, fresh green beans, pinenuts and feta cheese - ive popped smoked salmon through this before and it was amazing!
Chilli beans - canned chilli beans, nothing exciting but I must be on a bit of a fad at the moment - the boy is beginning to ask me if we are taking on a Mexican lifestyle haha and flowing on from this..
Tortilla's - Ive just discovered how easy it is to make my own flour tortillas - a post soon to come :)
Listening: At the moment I've had pretty much a solid 2 weeks of listening to the new Paramore album, Paramore (self titled). It's much popper than their last but definitely still worth a listen! My favourite songs off it would have to be "Ain't in fun" and "anklebiters". Oh and the little ukulele interludes that pop up here and there are really good! The other band i have been listening to lately is The Civil Wars. They are a band that I only really started listening to a couple of months ago, but they are amazing! They are a boy girl duo who met in Tennessee and its fair to say their voices will most likely knock your socks off. As a bonus (if your watching the videos) the dude also looks like Johnny Depp!
Reading: Ok so i would like to state here, right now, that i love reading. Give me a good fiction novel or a great magazine and I turn into "that person". The kind of person who forgets that what their reading isn't actually real and that when something great happens you don't actually have to yell and fist pump. Or alternatively stomp around angrily for two days when the book doesn't go your way. There's also those times that you cant help but laugh so hard at something funny that tea comes out your nose and before you realise everyone is staring at you and they all most likely think your totally crazy. I'll be the first to admit, its a little strange and probably a lot awkward for people around you but i think its time we celebrated these awesome written things. Laugh out loud, cry, throw the book on the ground- it's all good! It just means what you are reading has connected with you in some way and that the author is most likely also awesome for making you enjoy it so much. The first of two things that are making me feel like that person at the moment is my new and seriously awesome Frankie magazine (I like to draw reading this out as much as possible as the mag is only bi-monthly so you have to save the goodness!). Frankie is definitely a snort into your tea and "holy crap that's awesome" kind of a magazine. If you haven't read it yet, go, right now and buy it. The second is a novel called The Collectors, I haven't got too far through it yet but I think it is going to be a goodin!
Watching: If you had asked me two weeks ago I would have said Revenge, and damn it was good! But sadly the season is over so I had to move on and find something new. So "The Event" it is. Let me tell you right now, if you are planning on watching this, be prepared to use full brain and eye power. You really don't want to miss anything. It's pretty intense but well worth a watch. Enough said. Oh and also if you have a spare 10 minutes, watch the Bravest Warriors on you tube. HILARIOUS. And totally cute.
Eating: The list for this one could potentially be massive so I'm really going to have to edit it down for you. Porridge in the mornings with apple and yogurt. Delicious. And chickpea, almond, lentil and spinach curry. Also delicious.
Lisa
Listening: I'm a little bit, Ok a lot bit, of a fan of the singing competitions that grace our TV screens, The Voice Australia is the perfect accompaniment to my Friday night snuggled up in front of the fire. I bet you will think I'm waffling, writing about the wrong thing in the wrong section - but just give me a moment here. I love these shows to see how different artists compose and deliver old classics! I'm not a hug fan of the artist to signs the latest Rhianna song - its too fresh in my mind - do not touch it! So what I am listening to at the moment is actually a lot of old classics. These are the songs that instantly make me feel amazing, relaxed and ready to party in the same tune, these are the songs full of memories of cold gin and tonics on the deck after a day of swimming and sunbathing, frosty beers around the bon-fire of a high school party, get my rambling now? So i am re acquainting my self with these ageless tunes. If you are keen to take a walk down memory lane have a listen to these old favs..
Benny and the Jets - Elton John (try this one after some wines with your mates - loud out of tune singing is ALWAYS fun!)
Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkle (just a beautiful and moving song - take a quiet moment and think)
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (swoon, I love Tom Petty and its really there whole collection)
End of the Line- Travelling Wilburys (I don't even know what it is...but I just feel happy when this is playing - Tom Petty's voice I'm quietly thinking!)
Reading: They say you can't judge a book by its cover - but when it has an intriguing young woman on the front and the word tea on it....who's not to judge? The Tea Rose trilogy by Jennifer Donnelly caught my attention in the book store recently so I grabbed me a copy of the first instalment 'The Tea Rose" and set myself up for being entertained - woah! I like Kirsty also become deeply involved in my reads and blur the line of character and actual person I know. I find myself thinking about these characters like they are my real friends and have on occasion had to stop myself short of talking about them like they are a real person in conversation with actual - real people. Any who, this book sucked me in. I found myself racing through the book trying to get to the end s fast as I could, fighting Fiona's cause and her achievements along with her desperate for a happy ending. I cried and I lusted over Joe and I felt at an absolute lost at the end. But its OK, The Winter Rose (the second in the trilogy) is just as amazing and I am about to get my hands on the final instalment - so an update will surely come.
Watching: With renovations and what seems like an active weekday social life at the moment our only moments of telly watching are reserved for the Voice Australia and rugby league.....sports controls my TV set. My Kitchen Rules and Revenge have come to an end - shedding tears at my loss.
Eating: a few things i am obsessed with at the moment...
Roasted pumpkin with dukkah, fresh green beans, pinenuts and feta cheese - ive popped smoked salmon through this before and it was amazing!
Chilli beans - canned chilli beans, nothing exciting but I must be on a bit of a fad at the moment - the boy is beginning to ask me if we are taking on a Mexican lifestyle haha and flowing on from this..
Tortilla's - Ive just discovered how easy it is to make my own flour tortillas - a post soon to come :)
Friday 19 July 2013
Oh happy Friday - Birthday edition!
We seem to have quite a few Birthday's popping up at this time of year (that always seems to be the way doesn't it!) So this Friday we are taking a look at all things cute and awesome in the card making world. Use this for inspiration for your next birthday card making endeavor or to find your next purchase (we won't tell). Happy weekendending everyone!
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| It's always good to rub it in...just a little. Card found here from witandwhistle. |
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| And we love this card! How cute is that. Card by Emily McDowell, found here. |
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| Mmmm cake, yes please! This card also by Emily McDowell. |
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| Everything that Rifle Paper Co makes is oh so cute it was hard to pick just one! But sometimes simple says it all. Card found here. |
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| Perfect for the BFF in your life. Card found here, by DeLuce Design. |
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| And finally, a seriously cute idea that comes with free printables. What's better than that! Cards found here. |
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