Gingerbread Workshop

Saturday, 23 December 2006

Today I delivered the last of the wedding cakes (pictures to follow) and then took advantage of a simultaneous household nap (jon, zali & jett) and went down to BigW to do my xmas shopping. Unfortunately in my excitement I forgot about the child-free GingerBread House workshop Denny had arranged (weeks ago) with Suzanne which was taking place in our house. Luckily although I arrived an hour late it turned out I hadn't missed anything - the Ikea gingerbread house kits were still in pieces waiting for assembly. Unfortunately they were in a lot more pieces than they were supposed to be in.  Still - we managed to assemble them (ok, so they don't have walls) and get them up to such a point where we would be proud to enter them into the craft section of the Huonville show (in the under 3's category anyway)

Cute Little Cupcakes

Friday, 22 December 2006

Jett came home from creche on Tuesday with a  book filled with  photos of activities he'd been doing  there during the year. Much to my surprise these included pictures of him playing happily with  playdough, neat-and-tidy painting, decorating  biscuits with sprinkles etc etc..  So yesterday instead of  waiting until  Jett was asleep before decorating some left-over cupcakes with Zali, I thought I'd give him a go at home too.

So here is a picture of Jett delicately placing blue sprinkles onto a cupcake.  I am beginning to suspect that the creche carers wait until the children are asleep then arrange them in nice contented poses in the middle of craft activities as this was about his most neat and tidy moment during it all. Still - we all had fun. 

Vrooom

Tuesday, 12 December 2006

Lately our trusty 1989 Toyota Corolla 4wd Station Wagon has been rattling..  Actually it's so loud the whole suburb rattles as we drive through it and people laugh,  point and stare, then rush to protect their children's ears from permanant damage..   Thankfully, due to a bit of encouragement from mum and some financial help from dad we now have a replacement we bought today at a government auction thingy.  We got a dec04 *Magna Station wagon. Very boring but very practical and very good value as it's still got lots of its new car warranty to run and its got all the wizz bang things I've been hankering for since the tragic loss of my beautiful ford *Laser - central locking,  ability to hear the radio over the engine noise...etc etc  Now all I need is my extra point four of a child, or is it point two nowadays. Either way I'd probably rather just have the dog.

* I like to say these words humourously using Dr Evil's accent (from Austin Powers)  -but it doesn't really translate via text does it. 

Anyway - here it is -  we'll buy a Prius the moment we can afford it - but this will have to do in the meantime.

getting into festive mode

Tuesday, 12 December 2006

two of four

Monday, 4 December 2006

Cousins and Cake

Monday, 4 December 2006

Zali  loved catching up with her Adelaide  cousins and  also with  her friend Chelsea, who  she  last spent time with when she was  just one  and at that  awkward  'dipping the washer in the toilet then using it to clean the bathroom floor stage'.

I used the opportunity to test out a new cake style - for Jon's parent's  50th wedding anniversary (the main reason for our trip). I wanted to do something slightly more old fashioned - I was happy with the result but it was interesting to note from the original wedding photographs that the real cake 50 years ago was pretty different to my poppy creation!

it's KI to the locals

Wednesday, 29 November 2006

We're here on Kangaroo Island for a few days, happily avoiding the heat of Adelaide (38 there today)  and enjoying a few days of KI lifestyle, which, at least when staying with Jon's parents, involves being served delicious meals and snacks at all times of the day.  Our SA holiday started out on shakey ground though with Jonno going down with a bout of gastro on the first night, which he kindly shared with the rest of his sister's family just as we were leaving for KI (nice timing by us there). We had a beach day yesterday and today we visited a wildlife park and a honey place and spotted a free-range koala. I've got some good photos but of course I can't upload them.  I don't have any mobile phone reception at the moment which is a little frustrating as I can receive cake enquiries via my message bank but I can't reply.  Also the missing Dish Washer Guy has reappeared via my voicemail but I can't reply to his message either. doh.