Fresh ...

... pink and clean from shower time with Dad. I just couldn't resist snapping off some pics of our clean yummy baby.

I just love baby feet! This is sooooo cute!

Play Time with Emily

Vienna enjoyed play time with her fairy god sister Emily last weekend - it looks like Emily enjoyed it too.

Cute Food - Thanks Andrew

A little thank you to Andrew (my biggest baking fan!) for dropping Ashley off on Friday and saving me a drive out west to pick him up.

Cute Food - Last Staff Meeting

I made these treats for my last staff meeting at First Steps Wiri. The triedv and true Edmonds Cup Cake recipe with added dark chocolate drops, then iced with chocolate frosting, a chocolate button and white sprinkles mmmmmmmmmmmmmm decadent!

Cute Food - Nicola's Baby Shower

I was totally inspired by the 'Mini' food theme for my cousin Nicola's baby shower - they couldn't have picked a better theme for me if they had tried!

This is what I came up with and was very pleased with it!

Nap Time in Tariki

Am loving using up old supplies and patterned papers, refining my crafting stash.

Cute Food - Winnie the Pooh Party

I have been busy making and baking for Paula's granddaughter Sonia-Marie's first birthday party. It has a Winnie-the-Pooh theme which is a first for me.

These cookies are an adaption of the ginger cookies I have been making recently. I swapped out the ground ginger for cinnamin, and the golden syrup for honey. The icing is also honey and cinnamin - unfortunately it isn't honey coloured though.

The honey pot marshmellows have golden sugar sprinkles (from Aussie) and are most cool.

I hope she enjoys munching on these at her birthday today YUM!

Tiny Packets of Bling

Everyone knows that Miss Wendy loves little things - yesterday these little packets of bling arrived in my letter box, they are very very little - just a few centimetres. The bling inside the packets is tiny!

Thanks Kat!

Northland Holiday

For my birthday Ashley took Vienna and I away for a night, we decided to head up North as Ashley hasn't been that way and I wanted to show him what I had seen when I went up to stay with Val and Andrew in 2008. Ashley climbed Tokatoka Point (I had already had the pleasure and wasn't keen to repeat it with a baby to carry), we stopped at Tane Mahuta - the oldest Kauri tree in New Zealand ( @ 2000 years old), spent the night at Opononi Resort, then carried on to Whirinaki and had a lovely visit with Val and Andrew, and lastly carried on to Whangarei to visit Poppa and Margaret.

BIG tree, little girl.

Bush walking baby (and Daddy).

Opononi Beach - so gorgeous, we walked for ages along it.

The view from outside our little unit, back from our walk.

I think we made Poppa's day! He loved meeting Vienna.

We had a most lovely 2 days away.

Princess Emily

Happy Birthday to Me

Strawberry and dark choc chip cupcake with strawberry frosting (made with strawberries grown by me!)

Big Bed Small Girl

Daddy's Girl

Blissed out with Daddy ...

soooo chilled out


hmmmm maybe not as chilled out as you thought ...

... arrrrrrrrr attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


xxx

Why

... does it have a pocket? Her hand doesn't reach to fit in to keep it warm ... she doesn't have anything to keep in there - keys etc ... so why is it there?

I Can't Believe ...

It seems like so much has happened since then ... it is hard to believe it was only just under 4 months ago, she has grown so much.

Still Harvesting

These plump red beauties were ripe and ready for picking today - YUMMY!

Cute Food Tools

New creating tools! Thanks to Fred and Evelyn for providing the $$$$$$$$$$ to purchase these great new tools. They have already had a workout creating the ginger cookies last week. Let me know if you want me to try them out on some cute food for you.

Renee's Pool Party

Renee had a pool party for her birthday this year. Vienna and I went along and had lots of fun! It was Vienna's first swim in a big pool and she LOVED it, she kicked and splashed and wore herself out!

After swimming the girls and Kauri played in the water squirters outside and then we had a yummy lunch and CAKE!!!

Vienna slept through the food and cake, I guess that swim really was tiring!

It looks so weird but Vienna sleeps in her tummy, even in the pushchair!

A Different Angle

Those cute little baby feet, they are so irresistible ...



The cute little fingers ... the tiny fingernails ... just so sweet!

Emily

Doing the obstacle course at Camp Maynard.

Gingerlicious

Yesterday afternoon I spent some time watching episodes of Nestle Hottest Home Baker on the interwebs. Then I became inspired! I printed out a recipe for ginger cookies made by one of the contestants and whipped these up, I made a little change by using ground ginger not fresh. The cookies are OK, i probably will make them again, maybe tweak the recipe a little. The contestant iced hers with fondant and royal icing but I did this instead - I made an icing based on ginger crunch icing, pipedit on and topped it with a mini (1.5cm) cookie cut out with my new cookie cutter.

I think they look great, but I need to work on the icing a little as it didn't hold the lovely piped shape - any ideas?