Happy Friday!

As we are about to enter a time of celebrating peace and goodwill I thought I'd share this

really beautifully made message for equality and anti-discrimination from getup australia

travelling via books and vintage maps

This little reading corner will have to be disrupted soon to make way for the Christmas Tree 

which will go up in about a week - ahh! 

The rocking chair was passed down from my mother or was it nan? 

I fed and rocked my two baby boys on it. 

The lovely map table was a derelict piece of junk on the side of the road a couple of months ago 

with a crumbling chipboard top. I really loved the cane frame and the little rusty castors for shoes and wonder what it was used for in it's past life. I tossed the remnants of the top and passed it on to my dad as a project to work on with my boys {I think Dad did most of the work!}. 

Dad is my Go To Guy when I need help with anything serious although, especially being a single parent I feel pretty good at doing quite a few things on my own {and by that I mean my 14 yr old helps me quite a bit, strong points being anything electric or digital or from ikea}. After building a new table top he suggested decoupaging the surface with old maps and I think it now looks marvellous!

So between my maps infront of me and my bookcase behind me, I can go anywhere! 

I am thinking of painting the cane white - thoughts?

icy poles!

This weather is too hot already and there are some tempers in our house that need cooling down!

I have found an inexhaustible source of inspiration on pinterest. 

Some healthy, some not healthy, some for kids and some for adults only. We are making vanilla yogurt with fresh blue berries tonight, I will let you know how they turn out. 

raspberry yoghurt 

herb infused lemonade 

coffee

green tea

lychee saketini 

{lots more delicious looking poptails here ➡ endless poptails from endless simmer such as 

  bloody mary, white sangria and bourbon butterscotch latte just to get you started}

oh my goodness they all look marvellous... I guess you could very easily make kid friendly 

versions by omitting the alcohol.

and finally...

rainbow popsicles!

do you have a favourite concoction for me to try?

The Jungle Giants - Mr Polite New Video

Aww the Jungle Giants' new video for Mr Polite is Amazing, Epic, Tragic, Beautiful!
I just can't even comprehend the work that goes into these animations!
The ending just kills me...

a fern in a cup

so maybe things can be fixed...

Susan suggested a bit of tarzan's grip so I got some and fixed it and it worked.

It now has a pretty fern in it and everyone's happy ~ Happy Friday!

Jacarandas!

I think they may be gone soon, the storms will blow the blossoms away. 

As I took these photos I could see them gently falling. There was also a beautiful soft scent and a lot of bees, possibly humming but I can't remember. 

Halloween Party and Trick or Treating

      

      

It wasn't much of a stretch to transform my little one into The Devil. 

My friend Leesa hosts trick or treating at her house every year as her neighbourhood goes to the most spectacular effort to celebrate Halloween. 

It's such a great experience and my boys came home with {literally} a bucket load of treats.

Some of the guests brought some wonderful halloweenish food. 

The handmade toffee apples' tags read "eat at your own risk".

There were also beautifully decorated cupcakes adorned with black rats, picket fences and tombstones.

The savoury food included some severed sausage fingers, which tasted great but kept giving me the creeps because they were so realistic. And these mummy pizza muffins were a cute idea and were very yummy too. Aren't the chocolate vampire fangs and brains gorgeous! 

The brains oozed out with gooey strawberry fondant!

Spiders crawled up the walls and spectres spectated from outside, hanging about waiting for someone to throw them a bone.

Halloween Rocky Road

There is still time to make this before Halloween!

It's not pretty but it tastes good!

In a large bowl add as much of the following as you like; 

white marshmallows, 

salted pretzels, 

salted peanuts, 

reese's pieces, 

toasted shredded coconut and 

yellow and orange sour unbearables {the natural confectionary company}

Mix together with about 

two large blocks of white chocolate {melted with about 50 gms copha}

*Once it's all combined, pour out into a slice tin lined with baking paper and set in fridge at least 1 hour.

*Make sure you put it in the fridge to set for as long as possible. 

I did mine at the last minute so it was a bit soft, not as good.

I was planning to mix candy corn in with this, in fact I wanted it to be the feature but my source turned out to be a dud. I substituted with some Reese's Pieces which were probably the better choice in the end.

 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •   Happy Halloween!   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 

jacarandas

It's that time of the year.
People say you can't see the seasons living in a sub-tropical climate but really you can.