Oh, Happy Friday!

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.






































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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

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

Cream butter icing roses - always beautiful

These beautiful white vintage inspired cupcakes could be perfect for a wedding

 

Pink and sweet

brighten someone's day with these sunflower cupcakes

just how cute are these?

 

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.

Step three: Masking tape your lines to ensure you get a clean paint job and don't paint anything that is not supposed to be painted!

Step four: Start painting! We used Resene test pots and picked four different colours.

We had to give each stool about four coats of paint to get a fully covered, smooth look.

 

Happy painting! Kirsty X

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

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

Such a cute way to have those fresh gorgeous smelling herbs handy

love this idea for a sweet gift - all you need for a baileys hot chocolate YUM!

 

dainty little centre pieces - simple yet sweet

 

COCKTAILS - nothing more said

 

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?

 

August Desktop Calendar

Happy August everyone! Here is this months desktop calendar to enjoy. x