picked up my coffee from my old haunt, Jerry's Milkbar, on the way to a makeup job.
old timey tiles. have you seen Gemma's collection? love love love
Valentine's Day lunch at Baba. Turkish Delight cocktail to begin the onslaught of to die for dishes that just did not stop coming to our table...
She does love a babycino.
Fun toddler serves of their fave.
Cool pink basins at The Forum during Emiliana Torrini, who is Icelandic and very funny - who knew?
Cookin'... Pete has been going nutso on the Spanish dishes since we brought home the cookbook from Movida!
Bakin'... I even set foot in the kitchen and made this butter cake with raspberry and vanilla bean mascarpone filling. GOD it was good.
Decoratin'... found a space and a way to display my lovelies without them being broken by menaces beginning with M.
Adorin'... this little fairy. We took her to the show twice in a week. Once with one cousin, once with another. Watching your little girl spinning in a costume - it don't get much better! (even if the songs were a bit irritating!)
Workin'... on Twiglet. Got some new colours/fabrics coming and some designs in Size 2! Come and visit me here on 2/8 and 18/10. I will be peddling my wares and covered in Leon drool.
This is..... Sunday Lunch:
Yep - a good ol' pastie from the local bakery with HEAPS of sauce eaten in front of the computer whilst I catch up on either blogs or boring admin. Sentimentally, though, Sunday lunch reminds me of going to my Nans in Northcote and she would cook a roast for us all. The lamb would be beautiful and the roast potatoes perfect. Peas, honey carrots and mint sauce. SO should have learnt how to cook from her while I had the chance!
Do you ever go to the supermarket and spend $200 and come home and realise you didn't buy any actual meals? Our cupboards and fridge are now stocked with snacks, drinks, fruit and nappies. Nuthin' to eat for dinner tonight though... (These are Ginger Kisses - I LOVE them and, preggers or not, I will try not to eat the whole pack at once.)
spag bol!
I keep thinking "I'll do a post as soon as I have found my camera charger." The camera is completely out of batteries and the charger is absolutely nowhere to be found. A bit sad that I must have images to accompany a blog entry, but true. This week has really just been me walking around with my head in a cloud of baby brain. Did a trip to Mikes and had a spot of lunch in Richmond (Mahlie flipped a bowl of Minestrone onto my lap and into my handbag at Richmond hill Cafe and Larder!) while Kerri and I tried to enjoy our lunch. We made a mess all over the table with our swing tags and price guns. Hmmm...I bet they just loved us. Been trying to organise Mahlie's 1st birthday parties - yes there will be two! One this Sunday, and the Sunday after she is sharing a birthday party with my Dad at a local cafe. We still haven't bought her a present! Can't think of anything... I cannot believe she is going to be one! It freaks me out and made me look back at some pics of when she was born. And not born yet. Here's some.
Took her to the playground yesterday for the first time. She loved the little baby swing and the sandpit and yep, she ate some. Waiting for my sister to post about her new arrival - but it's her news so my lips are hesitantly pursed tightly. Thinking I might visit the Genki Caravan thingy on Wednesday. The sickness is coming and going but somehow in between I am managing to scoff down this, which I highly recommend along with the Tira Misu flavour! Soooo Goooood
Well, this week we have been tour guides for our friend Fraz whom is here in Australia for a month and is staying with us for two weeks. We spent two nights in Hepburn Spings in our favourite accommodation, The Church, which is currently(unfortunately for us)now for sale:
We had a great time, althogh I could't keep food down for almost 3 days due to severe morning sickness (again! arghhhh!) and ended up at the Royal Womens on Wednesday with a drip up my arm and was sent home with some hospital grade drugs which are working, thank the lord! So Thursday and Friday I soldiered on and joined the gang at the Melbourne Aquarium, the casino and then up into the Eureka Tower:
Friday we went to the Melbourne Zoo, Saturday to Victoria Market (Fraz stocked up on Aussie Souvenirs and I stocked up on Jam Donuts) and today we did nuthin as we went out for dinner to Marquis of Lorne and then everyone went to the Night Cat to see Los Cabrones except for me cos I FEEL SICK AGAIN!!! Had to come home after dinner and let the boys go dancing... Anyway *sigh* I shall hit the hay now as we are off to Apollo Bay tomorrow morning for three days so keep your fingers crossed for me that I'm not sick all the way there in the car... I'm quite excited on the other hand as my sister is due to give birth any day now and I can't wait to hold my little neice or nephew! It will be interesting to see how Mahlie reacts as she has never seen a newborn.
"Look Mama, no teeth!" hee hee.
I must also mention that I recieved the first issue of Mixtape Zine and admit I have only had time to flick through quickly - I will take it away with me for a thorough read - well done chicks!!
Finally I have a bit of time to catch up on posts! The past week has been really busy with work and social occasions and party organising! My makeup website is almost finished and I can't wait til it's online. This past week or so it has been my mum's birthday, my brothers' birthday, good friend Claire's 30th and little Ava's 1st birthday and it's my 30th on Sunday!
The other day I met up with Leslie and Jo in Yarraville which was fun - but I had to run off early to go to Ava's 1st birthday party at the Aquatic Centre. Pete took Mahlie in the wave pool and she smiled and giggled for half an hour! We will have to go back, for sure. Ava's cake was so cute....look!
(The blue jelly in the middle was the best bit.)
Had (quite a few) drinks at Acqua e Vino on Saturday night due to old friend, Lana, contacting me through myspace after about 10 years... it was great to see her and great to have girly drinks and stumble home afterwards.
My mothers group had 'dinner and a movie' on Tuesday night and we saw Romulus, my father. Such a beautiful movie, but so, so sad. Glad I saw it, though. Eric Bana was amazing. Favourite line:"It is not a waste of time if you enjoyed wasting it".
Claire's Birthday last night - we had dinner at a really great Lebanese restaurant in Bridge Rd, Richmond with belly dancers and all. I gave Claire, amongst other gifts this little guy which I purchased from Melly and Me. It was really hard to give him away - Mahlie & I became very attached! His name is Hooty.
And here is Mahlie meeting him - so cute..
My mum, brother, myself and Mahlie took a drive down to Geelong to see Shae as it is all of our birthdays at once and she has no car and is very pregnant - 10 weeks to go before Mahlie will have another little cousin! We went for a walk to have coffee and cake and passed this cute little tiled wall.
And check out the birthday gift Shae gave me here!
I guess the most exciting news this week is that our baby & kids stuff went into Meet Me At Mikes today! Pip is so lovely and gave us such great feedback and a few pointers. I could hang out in there forever and look at all the cute stuff for sale. I am so over the moon it is in there with all that other goodness..
So anyway, as you can tell it has been a mental week and I spoke too soon about having some time to do this as Mahlie just woke up after a very short sleep and is screaming. I will just put this photo here and all will be forgiven..
Please excuse the basic post - I may have achieved lots this week but i am feeling a bit simple today. Time for a cuppa and a TimTam, I think!
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