2nd Attempt at a Gingerbread House

Well my mum and I decided that we wanted to decorate a gingerbread house, a mother daughter bonding session.

Mum made a mini Christmas wreath for the front door of the house, and I think I ate WAY too many lollies!!! We had a lot of fun doing it and even more fun trying to keep the roof on and the walls up, BUT so far so good. I guess the true test will be tomorrow morning when I wake up and see it still in tact (and that it hasn't had a visit from the Christmas Earthquake)

Valuable lessons have been learnt and what NOT to do next time.....

Ahhhhhhhhhh Christmas, my favourite time of the year!!!!

Wow with only Christmas 7 sleeps away, hope everyone had done their Chrissy shopping!!! I managed to finish my over a week ago and have happily already given out Christmas pressies to some of my closest friends. All my Christmas presents are wrapped and under the tree, actually the tree is looking quite filled!!!


I love this time of the year, giving presents, catching up with amazing friends, being able to reflect on the year that has passed. I love seeing all the christmas lights that are up, every time I see the lights, they make me smile. Actually taking a trip into the city tonight to check out all the lights. I have a Gingerbread house to make,a list of recipes that I would like to attempt over Christmas and New Year.
I can't wait to spend Christmas day with my gorgeous boyfriend and my family, it's what the day is all about, spending the day with people you love the most!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Christmas, my favourite time of the year!!!

Cooking Update

I have to admit, I have been extremely slack with my blogging lately, been so busy with work and socially

I have been cooking and baking though and still loving the creative outlet.

I've managed to make sausage rolls, savory and sweet pinwheels, coconut cookies and today I made christmas shortbread.

And according to the critics (my folks and my boyfriend) they have all been a success!!! Yay!!!!

Coconut Cookies

Sausage rolls and Savory Pinwells

Sweet Pinwheels

Christmas Shortbread

Attempting a Gingerbread House Part 1

One fine sunny Sunday, three lovely ladies attempting to build a gingerbread house for a raffle.

Whilst attempting to construct the house, many many many lollies were consumed, many mistakes made and plenty of laughs were had!

Pretty happy with the results!!!

2nd attempt coming soon......

Lazy Sunday Cupcakes

I had planned my Sunday to be quite lazy, had a stack of DVDs to work through and not much else planned, but sadly after watching 1 DVD boredom set in......

Soooooooooooooooo I headed to the kitchen and this is my latest Culinary Delight

Lamington Cupcakes!!!

Added this pic in cause the flowers are just gorgeous!!

The cupcakes turned out quite well and they tasted even better (even managed to make the icing from scratch!!)

Bon  Appetite!!!

Fathers Day Baking

Well my second attempt at baking in a week has been quite successful!! I decided to bake Dad some biscuits for Fathers Day and surprisingly enough they turned out quite well.

Cornflake jam biscuits

Bon Appetit!!

Happy 1st Day of Spring

Welcome to the 1st Day of Spring!!!

It's now time to start packing away the big coats and dusting off the thinner jackets.

Time to start seeing beautiful flowers coming to bloom

But with flowers comes Claritin

Perfect weather for enjoying picnics

Walks at the beach

Time to start eating healthy

Catching up with friends

What are your favourite things to do in Spring???