A quilt

A few weeks ago I started planning a quilt.  It was a gift for my Aunty's 60th birthday that we celebrated last week.  It has taken me this long to download the photos off my camera.

I finished it the night before, as is my usual style (of course the night before was at my brother's house because the party was up at the beach - so I had to lug my sewing machine etc up there with me).

 
The fabric had to be Heather Bailey, because my Aunty is making a cushion out of some of her fabric on our craft nights.   Most of the fabric actually came from my stash and its from a few different collections but I did buy a little bit more to finish it.

This was my inspiration.

I am really happy with it, although my binding is a little messy (and I probably should have ironed it).  I just love the colours, it's so bright and cheery. 

Easter morning

Our Easter Sunday morning was a little more subdued that our egg hunt on Saturday.  The girls woke up to find a few more eggs (just what they needed!) in their Easter baskets.

The Easter Bunny came and left his evidence, and ate his carrot like a good bunny.

And the girls ate chocolate for breakfast. I'm not sure I let Matilda do this on her first Easter, so already Polly is getting away with things earlier than her poor older sister!

Egg Hunting

Last year we hosted an extended family Easter egg hunt on Easter Saturday and we did it all over again yesterday.  Hopefully we can continue and it will become a little family tradition.  There's a bunch of kids now in the next generation all aged five and under, so it's pretty fun.

We get up early and set up.

There's lots of yummies for morning tea.

I have been wanting to try making danishes for awhile now, so I made rhubarb and custard ones out of this cookbook. They were very yummy (if I do say so myself).

And homemade hot cross buns, which thanks to Pip's tips I made the dough the night before and let them rise all night and then cooked them Saturday morning so they were nice and fresh.

And homemade musk sticks, just because. Packaged up for the kids to find in the hunt with cute labels from Babalisme.

There are games, which we take very seriously around here :)

And craft.

Finally, we have an egg hunt.

And of course, two of the cutest little bunnies around (who refuse to look at the camera).

Hope you and your family had a great Easter too!

Sunday night supper club: at lunchtime

Ok, I'm back in business.  Hopefully to stay, although I have more busy weeks coming up.

Tonight's supper club was actually our lunch today and it's from the latest Donna Hay magazine.  It arrived in my letterbox on Thursday and amazingly I actually read it this weekend (unlike the other massive pile of unread magazines on my coffee table going back at least six months now).

Anyway, it was an absolutely beautiful autumn day in Brisbane today, so we sat out on our verandah and enjoyed a slow lunch.  Chorizo, tomato and feta frittata with salad and crusty bread.  I was very tempted to open a bottle of wine but I had stuff to do this afternoon and I think there's a good chance I would have fallen asleep.

I couldn't be bothered going to find the magazine for the recipe but I'm pretty sure I don't need it, so here goes...

Chorizo, tomato and feta frittata.

1 red onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 chorizo, sliced
some dried hot chilli flakes
1 x 400g tin crushed tomatoes (the recipe actually has 2, but i thought that might have been too much)
6 eggs
1/3 cup milk
200g feta


Cook onion, garlic and chorizo, add tomatoes and cook for a few minutes until it thickens up a bit.  Whisk together eggs and milk and then pour into frypan.  Crumble feta on top. Cook until eggs set and then finish under a grill.

It was yummo.

Hello blog!

I miss you.  I have been busy busy busy and keep running out of time to take photos/make stuff/write about stuff.

I have been...
doing assignments
listening to lectures
keeping our family alive, fed and in clean clothes
desperately trying to get Matilda out of nappies, again
planning an easter egg hunt
having craft night (yay!)
planning a first birthday party
planning catering for a wedding we're doing in a few weeks
trying to do fun stuff with matilda and polly
trying to clean up our very very messy house
organising a garage sale because my grandma has moved into a retirement home

Hopefully I'll be back next week with some fun stuff next week, because sometimes little blog you keep me sane and I need it!

Some woolen blankets from my Grandma's house.