Pizzas for Dinner

Posted on February 11, 2012 by amadmin

On Friday for an easy dinner DS and I made pizzas. It was lots of fun, DS loved making his own pizzas, I had to help spread out the toppings otherwise they would of been very clumped but other wise he made his own.

The ingredients we used were:

Pita Bread for Base
Pizza Sauce
Carrot
Capsicum
Ham
Pineapple
Chicken and
Cheese.

The Chef loved putting everything on (except I wouldn’t let him put on both Chicken and Ham on the same pizza)

The Chef making his Pizza

He had lots of fun, his favourite pizza was one with Ham, Carrot, Capsicum and Pineapple. We didn’t put much cheese on each pizza to try and keep them healthy.
Here is one of the finished Pizzas:

Chicken Pizza with BBQ sauce

Coast Camping Trip

Posted on February 10, 2012 by amadmin

At the end of January we joined some other families from Church down the coast for a relaxed week camping. We had a great time paddle boarding, swimming, blueberry picking relaxing, and hanging out with our church family.

Here are some photos from the trip:

Me Paddle Boarding

DS playing in the sand

Combined Artwork

DS had number of willing helpers for his artwork, infact DS enjoyed playing with the kids over the week, he was most disappointed when they went home.

Given that we were in the same place for over a week, we added a Tarp over the top of the tent to stop the tent from getting dirty. It did stop that, we also expected it to help keep the tent cool, which it did, but it wasn’t as warm as we expected so the temperature difference wasn’t huge. It was a bit hard getting it up, but we had some willing volunteers help which made it easier.

The Camper Trailer all set up

WIP List With Photos

Posted on January 18, 2012 by amadmin

I started a list of Work In Progresses(WIPs) here and when taking the photo of these ones I found a few more. So my current list is:
WIP 1 – Lighthouse Quilt:
When taking photos of this I remembered I have a matching table runner to finish so that is WIP Number 2.
WIP 3 – The Disappearing 9 Patch
WIP 4 – The Horse Quilt

WIP 5 – Partially Complete Christmas table Runner

WIP 6, 7 and probably 8 – Remaining Christmas Squares to be turned into table runners or something else. Here are just some of the left over squares, there is about 6 of each pattern:
WIP 9 – Left over rectangles, which were possibly going to be used as the border for this quilt, but I decided it was going to busy. I think they might be turned into a Stacked Coin Quilt.
WIP 10 – Left over Squares and Blocks also from this quilt, not sure what I am going to do with them yet

Now I have spent the evening playing with my blog theme, changing the header and writing this post. I should really go and do some sewing so I have some progress to blog.

Camping at Rock Flat

Posted on January 16, 2012 by amadmin

Last year we bought a camper trailer to make it more comfortable camping. As we all love camping but not sleeping on air mattresses. Camping is also an easy option with the young man as he can run around lots and he loves it too.

After Christmas and New Year we went to Rock Flat Campground in Kosciuszko National Park which was a primitive camp spot – the only facility was a long drop toilet.

However it was a great place to just hang out and spend some time together. A couple of kilometres down the road was the Thomas Boyd Trackhead for the Hume and Hovell walk, we walked along the river for a couple of K’s. The young man loved climbing over the fences, like this:

There was a campground at the trackhead too, which had flushing toilets and electric BBQs.

We also spent time in the river swimming and playing, it was quite cold, but nice on the hot days.

I even got the young man to calm down and relax, by playing cards with him Junior Winnie the Pooh UNO and go fish. UNO was a great maths lesson as we played multiple rounds with scoring and we got him to add up the points at the end of each hand.

The boys also went fishing.

The campground wasn’t that busy, there were a couple of other groups and plenty of day trippers, but wasn’t cramped or noisy. We got to camp nice and close to the river:

The camp area:

Christmas Presents

Posted on January 11, 2012 by amadmin

For Christmas 2011, I attempted to make a fair few Christmas presents. I ended up making:

5 Christmas Table Runners, here are 2 of them.

2 IPod Touch cases, here is one of them:

2 Travel Bags, here is one of them:

2012 – I am back

Posted on January 10, 2012 by amadmin

One of my goals for the new year is to blog more. And given that the blog hasn’t been updated since August 2011, hopefully I can post a bit more this year.

One of the blogs that I subscribe to is hosting a challenge to finish 12 WIPs in 2012 and I am keen to join in, it will hopefully give me a good reason to blog a bit more and it will hopefully encourage me to finish a few things.
My Current WIPs are:
1) A Lighthouse quilt – which just needs to be finish quilting and binding put on;
2) A Disappearing 9 patch quilt – top is finished;
3) Horse Quilt – Blocks finished, currently pinned waiting to be joined up;
4) A random collection of 5″ Christmas Squares – was another WIP which I started quite a while ago that got up picked, some of the squares were then turned into table runners for Christmas presents. Not quite sure what I am going to do with the rest of them;

I probably have a couple of others but I will need to hunt in the cupboards to find them.
I also have stacks of fabric waiting to be turned into projects. In the pipe line at the moment I am planning:
1) A quilt for my sister’s baby which is due to arrive later this month ( I know this one will be late);
2) A stacked coin quilt using up a Moda Charm Square pack.
3) Using up a couple of panels I have to make some lap quilts for our house.

That is all that I can think of at the moment. I am sure I will add things to the list during the year.
Photos will have to come at a later date too.

Other finishes

Posted on August 7, 2011 by amadmin

In June, I has some time off work recovering from surgery so in addition to finally finishing DS’s quilt, I also spent some time sewing some other gifts. I made 2 table runners – one for my friend who got married and one for my sister and new BIL, unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the one for my sister and BIL, but here is the other one.

And the back:

Finished Quilt

Posted on August 6, 2011 by amadmin

Well the quilt that I started last year for DS is finally finished, in time for his 4th birthday.
Here is the quilt top finished:

It was the quilted by the lovely Raylee at Sunflower Quilting with an all over lizard design that looks fantastic, the quilting was done in blue so it stands out on the border but blends in with the patterns.

It is quite large, so there is lots of overhang on his bed, and it is keeping him warm at night.

Cars 2

Posted on June 5, 2011 by amadmin

Well my blog has been seriously neglected of late, but I wanted to share with you all this awesome giveaway.

Nuffnang are giving away family passes to see Cars 2, and given that Mr M is a huge Cars fan, I couldn’t help writing up about it.

I am a huge Disney fan and have passed my love of Disney movies onto Mr M. His first favourite movies was Monsters Inc and given that my extended family are all Disney fans, they introduced him to Cars and then to the Cars toons.

Mr M, has never been to the movies but this will be his first one, his Nanna and Auntie want to take him, I also want to see it too.
Watch the trailer here:

So winning tickets to see it would be awesome. To find out how to to get free passes see here and for Terms and Conditions here

Giveaways

Posted on December 22, 2010 by amadmin

Recently I have been luck enough to win 2 giveaways:

The first I won some Strawberry Fabric at And so, I sew which has arrived and looks fantastic.

Today I found out I won something in the Sew Mama Sew giveaway at Two Peas In a Pod

But I also wanted to let you know about 2 other giveaways:

Mad Quilter is giving away a copy of the new Make It Perfect book and Retro Mummy is giving away a swag of fabric.