a new day

It's a new day, a new week and I feel a new beginning.

Lunches with friends, beautiful walks and seeing the positive side of so much rain. What did you get up to this weekend?

xx

Eclectic dining

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I'm back! Phewee I'm really seriously in need of a relaxed weekend. I've been here there and everywhere recently :-)

Luckily I don’t have many plans except dinner tonight with friends in Pyrmont (we’re having south Indian cuisine yum yum!) and a beach catch up with friends over some tapas later in the weekend. As usual all my socialising revolves around food!!

Speaking of food which you eat (typically) on plates...yup trying to neatly link this in folks! A few pictures above of a design idea for walls that I love. So easy to do with all your mismatching china or an easy look to achieve by hunting down pieces at flea markets, vintage shops or antique stalls.

Love it, just wondering though if seeing all these bare plates is making me hungry!

Have a super duper califragilistic expialadocious weekend!

xx

Cupcakes by Cornflake

Here are some of the cupcakes I made the other weekend when it was raining. Posing on my vintage and antique thrift plates of course!

Cupcakes are about the only thing I can cook which are guaranteed, every time, to always turn out right. Yes I know ladies, sad but true! And do you know why?

Because of my Dad's recipe!

So all you need to do to make cupcakes or any classic sponge cake according to Dad is this:

1. Weigh your eggs (in their shell)
2. Weigh your flour, caster sugar, butter each to the same weight as your eggs!
3. Then just do the usual.............. and hey presto, cupcakes in 25 minutes!

If you haven't worked it out yet this recipe came from my Dad because it's super easy and you'll never forget it! Just what a man (AND me) needs when having a little 'kitchen time'!

Wishing you all a beautiful weekend full of sunshine, happiness, love and if you're lucky, cupcakes!

xx

Thrifty Tuesday

Some antique plates I bought on the weekend (last one I got a few weeks ago). I bought others but I'll show them another time! In total I got about 10 plates and they all cost next to nothing. From left to right: $1, $6, $2.

I also got this beautiful lace doily for $12 which covers our 'new' round table (which we salvaged from a neighbour who was throwing it out a few months ago). The doily looks so pretty and because the table has a glass top it can fit underneath and avoid all the usual spills that come from dining.

But what, I hear you ask, has all this got to do with Easter?

Simple, all you need to do is arrange some favourite (mismatching) china plates on a table, add nests, eggs, flowers to you hearts content (I cheated and bought meringue nests!) and voila you have a beautiful setting for Easter tea!

Thrifty Tuesday

We went to see a sneaky advance screening of the new French movie, Micmacs last night. A lovely film which I'd definitely recommend putting on your 'must watch' list this month.

A key element in the story was turning discarded 'junk' into useful or delightful pieces that have meaning or purpose.

It's so often true: one man's rubbish is another man's treasure.

A little local hunting brought me these beautiful fabrics ($3 each) and Shelley fine china plate (I was lucky enough to find two for $2 each). I love them so much.

Thank you to all the people who give away such gorgeous items for us to buy :-)