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FUN!

April 3, 2012

in Being a Mum, Coco, Events, Family, baking

What a jam packed weekend, absolutely choc full of goodness. However, I am almost voiceless and more than a little weary after the past month which was then punctuated by this gobsmacker of a weekend. I tried to keep Coco’s party fairly stress free, yes I did some baking and made Coco butterfly wings but those are things I love doing and find relaxing and wherever I could I included her. She even helped whip up everyone’s invite!
But really aside from my mate Peta, who helped with all the food preparation among other things, it was really Dawn Tan who swept in and saved the day. Book her! Book her now! She’s awesome.Now as tears fill my eyes for the millionth time these last few days (I am soooo emotional at the moment. Who’s with me?) I just want to say this to my dear little ladybird.
Coco, I hope sometime we can look back on this day and you will see yourself surrounded by family and friends who truly love you. That you can see how you’ve always been so creative ever since you were little. And that we can reflect on the one and only time Mama ever made cake pops for you. Because quite possibly, I will NEVER make those freaking things again. Love Mama x
So here goes….Coco’s party in 20 photos or less. Like all good parties there was barely enough time to pick up the camera…. Continue reading “FUN!” »

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I bought this amazing box of illustrated recipe cards the other day. It’s a collaboration between the super clever Dawn Tan and those excellent ladies at Harvest Textile. One day when I have the kitchen of my dreams or at least less of a kitchen of my nightmares (read current kitchen) I thought I’d frame a few of my favorite recipes and hang them up. I’d definitely feature the chocolate chip cookies recipe card. Yum and yum again.

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It’s been a hard week this week. Yes again with the drama. But all’s not lost. Decided to take a leaf out of my pal Cassandra’s book and figured a house full of chocolatey smells would do the trick. And it did. Yum!
I decided to just use Cass’s adapted recipe (which she got from here originally I think) because it just made sense. If I’ve come to know anything about Cass over the past year or so of reading her blog, is that she can bake. And draw. And knit. And crochet. Humph. Off to drown my underachieving ass in cake!
And in other news Andy and I just finished a little collaboration for one of my stockists. Will post pics tomorrow!

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