When did this happen...?

It seems that over night my baby girl turned into a 19 month old toddler!

Deep breaths Erin...deep deep breaths!

An apron for Heidi

While going through my wardrobe and clearing it out the other day, I came across a skirt which I was going to give to the goodwill, But instead I decided it was perfect for a little project I wanted to make for Heidi.

Here is Heidi's apron. I think it turned out pretty cute! She helps me with baking and cooking tea every night so I thought she would like an apron like I wear...

And here she is modeling it while making Vegemite toast with me this morning.

Happy crafting :)

Erin :)

My First Bread (and comp winner)

Today I used my bread maker for the first time...and I LOVED it :)

I made a Sourdough Rye bread.

And the verdict from the family, after having some warm and fresh with Vegemite...

...nice and tasty!

With a little tweaking, I may just be converted to baking all our bread from now on!

Happy Baking :)

Erin :)

P.S. Sue from Cyprus - you won my little comp! Can you please email me so I cant send you my little home made dishcloths?   :)

A Giveaway for my Birthday!

Happy Leap Year Birthday To Me!! Hmmm...should I go with the age 28 or 7?  :)

Since it only comes around every 4 years, I figured I would have a little giveaway to celebrate.

Now I am absolutely in love with hand knit dishcloths and at the moment I am making some from the beautiful Sugar'n Cream yarn.

If you want to know what all the fuss is about and would like me to send you these two which I made this week, then leave a comment and I will draw a random winner!

Happy Birthday to all the other Leap Year babies out there!!

Happy Leap Year,

Erin :)

Finished Cushions!

A while ago Mark and I bought two beautiful paintings from a local artist for above our bed and I decided to make some cushions to pretty up the bedroom and make it all tie in together.

By a while ago I mean quite a while ago...maybe 6 months?

But I was tidying my sewing room the other day and thought, instead of trying to find a place to store my cushion project, why not just finish it!? I'm kind of ashamed to say it only took about an hour!

I LOVE how they turned out! Its kind of hard to tell from the photo, but the red ones I really didn't do much to, just used the fabric as the focal point. The light green ones are quilted in straight lines and the dark green I just scrunched some ribbon down one side.

Yay! I can cross something off my list for the year...and I have an empty UFO storage box in my sewing room!!

Happy Crafting!

Erin :)

Our first harvesting!

This morning I was absolutely super excited to find some of out tomatos were red enough to pick!

And so we did our very first ever harvesting of something grown in our own back yard!

I was starting to worry they wouldnt go red - there are a mass of them on the bushes - but the hot weather is back in Adelaide and they are all reddening up.

 

  Here are our babies...three beautiful perfect cherry tomatos!

And hopefully soon we will be harvesting a whole heap of these..there are about 15 all together growing nice and slowly.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Erin :)

St Valentines Day at our house was...

...slipping a little note and Marks favorite lollies into his lunch box...

 

...finishing work and coming home to the most beautiful rose I have ever seen...

...helping feed Wicket some of Heidi's dinner...

...a family walk along the beach...

...tasty pizza (with home made dough!) with a glass of wine and StarWars Eposode 4...

...perfect!

I hope you all had a fantastic day with your loved ones.

Erin :)