Ahoy from Adelaide

Here we are in Adelaide again for some of the school holidays. The kids and I drove over on Friday (technically the last day of term, but we usually skip the last day of term 1 to avoid Easter celebrations at school). On Sunday morning I had a fantastic time running Loving Light Chapter Two workshop at the Port Adelaide wool sheds. This is Marlie, our lovely model for the morning...

And the gorgeous ladies who attended. It was really a lovely morning, and the light was very nice!

A couple of snap shots of Sienna and Ash from yesterday morning, they were in a good mood to see that I had picked up daddy from the airport the night before so that he could join us on our holiday here. It was our 13th wedding anniversary on Tuesday, so Ben and I went to Kenji Modern Japanese on Hutt Street for dinner - heading straight from the airport. It was truly amazing! The highlight would be the Creamy Brie sushi, with brie cheese, roasted capsicum, walnut and something else I can't remember in a sushi roll, tempura battered and deep fried. AMAZING.

This morning we went and saw "The Pirates: Band of Misfits" which has become a new family favourite. Ben and I both loved it, and obviously Ash was just enthralled, but everyone enjoyed it. We even had the whole cinema to itself, Mt Barker obviously wasn't as excited as we were about seeing this new film at 10 in the morning! A highlight was when the Flight of the Conchords song "I'm not crying" started while Pirate Captain wandered the streets of London. Loved it.

A few family gatherings planned for the weekend, and a bit of stress regarding some delayed award mounts for my photo prints (so that I can enter the AIPP VIC photography awards, due next week, for the first time), plus a couple more scrapping deadlines to complete while I'm over here, and by Monday I will be ready for the road trip back home I think!

Mr Pirate Ash (of course)

At the billabong at Reedy Creek, we visited Nan & Pop on the long weekend last week. The kids love playing outside there, in particular! And Ash loved adding his new pirate vest and hat from Nan & Pop to the other pirate jacket and accessories that he had - of course - felt necessary to bring with him. Just in case an adventure was to be had.

This was just one of many...

This is brilliant

Yes it takes time to watch, but try and just watch the first 4 minutes - the first poem - if you can't fit in the whole thing.




Via Dumbo Feather

Happy scrappy

I keep forgetting to share my scrapbooking projects for Aussie Scrap Source - oops! Here are a few from the blog over the past month or so... click over to the Aussie Scrap Source blog for the team's work and also close ups :)

Apple pie, baby

When you would like to make some sweet treats but would like to justify them at the same time, using up fruit that is getting old is the perfect excuse. And I'm not afraid to use it. I reduced my fruit bowl load by a couple of apples (um, wow! yay!) and made up these scrummy cupcakes after searching for 'apple cupcakes' on pinterest. I thought a bowl of apples was a fun way to photograph the cake - hmmm, which one would you pick? A healthy apple? Or a pretending-to-be-slightly-healthy-but-actually-full-of-sugar-and-butter cupcake?

The cupcakes are particularly awesome fresh. Really light and scrummy. They get a little heavier over time but still yum yum yum. I do have a bit of an obsession with cinnamon at the moment, so the icing is a win. Despite the 15 minutes of beating, which I would never normally bother with. But it is good.

Apparently the original recipe is from a Donna Hay magazine, but I like the personal notes the blogger added. I also halved the recipe and made 10 big cupcakes. I only halved the icing recipe, not 2/5th like the blogger noted, but that did make too much. So 2/5 is about right for the 10 cupcakes - or make the cupcakes a bit smaller and make 12!

Click over here to read the recipe and comments :)

Linking up with Kell's 'Pin It? Make It?' challenge this fortnight.