Hanging Out at Home

I love nothing more than just chilling out at home after a busy week at work. Last weekend while I was hanging out at home I made some water melon sorbet (for the first time). My daughter and her friends agreed that it tasted yummy. All I did was blend frozen water melon, one egg white and some icing sugar until I had the right consistency and flavour.

After a bowl of sorbet the kids retreated out to the cubby house to play shops. So cute!

I recently picked up this cute mushroom stool from Thingz.

The kids just love playing shops in this cubby house and they get so excited when a 'grown up' visits their store to buy something.

Fi xx

Birthday Cakes Make Me Smile

Happy birthday to me. I had a lovely birthday over the weekend. I ate lots of yummy cakes. I just had to share an image of a gorgeous pink cake that my friend baked for me. Thanks Sharnie! 

My hubby also baked a boiled chocolate cake for me using his mum's family recipe. It is a delicious cake so if I get permission to share it I will definitely post the recipe on this blog.

The cute mini bunting is from Lil Blue Boo. You too can download this cute happy birthday mini bunting by clicking here. I just love this little cake topper. It is sooooo cute!

I also baked a yummy banana bread loaf and added a cute moustache prop to the top of the loaf to inject a bit of birthday fun into the healthy cake.

Check out this cute pic of my little niece Eva trying to sneak a piece of cake. I love that you can see that she is up on her tip toes and reaching as far as she can! There is a lot of determination evident in this pic - especially given that she is not walking yet but can still reach up this far for cake! Bless her!

After everyone in my family ate way too much cake we retreated to the pool area where I snapped this very cute pic of my hubby. Thanks for the yummy cake hubby!

Fi xx

It's getting cooler

It's getting cooler in my neck of the woods. Hello yummy comfort foods (healthy of course). I cooked a great vegetarian risotto last night. 

It got me thinking........do I actually change any of the home decor of my house with the cooler months? I change my food (a bit) - how about my house?

Image via Blanaid

This dining rooms looks lovely and warm with the sheep's skin on the chairs and the hide rug on the floor. I love this look but my little girl would have those lovely sheep's skins looking less than white in no time at all!

Fi xx

Clown Nose Biscuit

Here is a cute photo taken yesterday of my daughter eating one of the left over "Clown Nose" biscuits from her circus themed party. The children at the party loved these cute little biscuits. 

Clowning around.

I made similar biscuits for Christmas - shortbread "Star" biscuits. The children loved pretending that they were little fairy wands.