Baby Shower

Sunday afternoon spent the afternoon ,giggling,playing games and dress up

at a Baby Shower

A friend of mine had a post Baby shower

her little man (I and mean little ) came into the world early April he was due mid June 

We all had so much fun.......

on leaving each attendee received small gifts

There was a tree surrounded with homemade cookies

in shapes  of

Baby faces

Jumper suits

Pacifier (dummy)

Baby bottles

Nappies

all iced in lovely pastel colour icing

I chose the 

Jump suit 

 There was this beatuifull umberella  covered with bady bottles filled with candy 

 Unfotunately not a very clear photo but if you look real hard and close a cute blue pacifier was attached with the ribbon

As a rememberance of the birth and the day we where given a baby to take home

These where made by the grandmother ....... the facial expression is so real life

just as a way of letting you know the size ....

the red centre  is a 3inch suare

until next time   take care Marc

on the way to work this morning

On the way to the gym at 6.30am this morning, visibility was a bit limited, Master Fog was out, so the trip was slowed down a bit but, the atmosphere was just great, you know the old saying take the time to smell the roses.     Cheers Marc

Kris asked

Cauliflower and Bacon Soup

Ingredients

·         1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

·         4 bacon rashers, finely chopped

·         1 brown onion, finely chopped

·         2 garlic cloves, crushed

·         6 thyme sprigs

·         750g cauliflower

·         1Litre Vegetable stock

·         300ml pure cream

·         Salt and pepper, to season

Method

Heat oil in a large pan. Add bacon, onion, garlic and thyme.

Cook for 5 minutes or until bacon begins to brown.

 Cut cauliflower into small florets and thinly slice stalk. Add to bacon with stock and cream. Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until cauliflower is tender.

Process soup in a food processor until almost smooth. Return to pan, stir, and season with salt and pepper.    Enjoy    - Cheers Marc

Food preparation, Baking, Cooking,

                                           Saturday spent the day doing a bit of cooking..........

Pumpkin Soup

Cauliflower and Bacon Soup

 Zucchini Slice

Pasty Slices

Apricot Cake with lemon Icing 

Apple Crumble

That's my Saturday   cheers Marc 



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Long Wekend

Long weekend this weekend – Queens Birthday

The Queen's Birthday is held on the second Monday of June in most of Australia. The Queen's Birthday holiday in Western Australia is held on a different date proclaimed by the governor in Western Australia

Many Australians have a day off work on the Queen's Birthday. For many, it is a chance to do something with their family or to attend an event. Or take advantage of the three-day weekend to make trips to visit friends or relatives .

The weather in the Riverland over the weekend was quite cool.
So I Spent most of the time, inside.

Friday night together with a few girlfriends, went to the local theatre and watched.  

 

Starring  Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins

The film tells the story of Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a god who is exiled  from his homeland of Asgard to Earth. While there, he builds a relationship with scientist Jane Foster ( Natalie Portman). However, Thor must stop his brother Loki  who intends to become the new king of Asgard.

Saturday - done the domestic things ....... dusting, washing, ironing, vacuuming  blah blah

watched a couple of movies on TV for the night

Sunday was spent doing some quilting - secret quilting for a dear friend so unable to share any photo's at the moment 

Today spent time sorting out a couple of cupboards came across some quilts in the back of cupboards.

I had earlier on in the day prepared several meals.

So spent the afternoon watching a couple of DVD's while stitching a few Pies together.  

One of the quilts I found at the back of the cupboard was this one...... brought back a few memories.

In the mid 90's I was a member of a local quilt group, together with a few lovely ladies.

At a Christmas Dinner Break up we all brought along a fat quarter and placed in a basket, during the evening we all had the opportunity to pull a fat quarter out off the basket and you where not able to pull your own parcel out (chuckle)

This was the start of a quilt for the following year's challenge within the group

But wait there is more ..............

there was also 2 other baskets

Both baskets had sealed envelopes enclosed

One basket had  Shapes and Methods  

for example - Circles,Squares,Triangles, Stars, Hearts,Flying Geese,Log Cabin, Dresden Plate etc

The second basket had colours

examples: -

blue, red, green, black purple and colours together with themes like blue with circles or blue with spots or red with black etc

as I was just a learner I was nervous and thought what ?????

My fat quarter was a piece of pink fabric which at the time I thought was the most ugliest fabric.

The rules where you could use as much of this fabric at you like ,but it must be used within in the first block of the quilt

So as this was the first block you could do anything you like, as the next meeting which was to be held the following February ( remember December was the Christmas Dinner Break up )

So I made my centre block 4 dolls in which one of the dolls had the pink fabric.

 February meeting - pulled out of the baskets

(1) Log cabin

(2) Blue   -  oops forgot to mention you did not have to do everything in blue - so long as the choice of colour you pulled out was in the round

 March Meeting

(1) Stars

(2) Black

 April

(1) Hearts

(2) Blue fabric with spots

 May

(1) Flying geese

(2) Gold with spots

 June

(1) Circles

(2) Pink

For the rest of the year you had to finish your quilt for Show and Tell at the Christmas Break up Dinner.

Hope you had a  great weekend, with family, friends, food and fabric.

 I now off to have a cup of hot water with DH (he has coffee) and watch a bit of TV together, while I Stitch a few more pies

Until next time --- Take Care   Marc