Sewing. Motherhood. Domestic Engineering.

  I got a pie maker from one of the ladies at work. Using recipes from the manual we were able to cook dinner and desert at the same time!! Yep, 2 Aussie beef pies and 2 cholocate dampers. Both were delicious! Really want to make curry pie next time.  

I LOVE CHIPS AND GRAVY!!   This is me surrendering to a craving...I ate so much I had difficulty breathing and chest pain - well worth it :)

We got a couple of Frank's Alcoholic Ginger Beer's to try as they were on special at BWS. Mega fail on the ginger beer front. I rate this ginger beer 1/5 stars - it was flat, lifeless and very light on the ginger. Similar to a weak cordial experience - just sad and disappointing. Bede gave this 2.5/5 stars with pretty well the same description. Just not a very good ginger beer, sorry Frank :P

Saw Lorraine Pascale's TV show and watched her make Pain D'Epi bread and it looked really easy to make a super amazing. I've never made bread because my husband always does it so though I would give it a chop :P The only place online that I could find this recipe was on Good food, Shared by Lisa Duffy so thanks for that. I won't bother typing the recipe here again, just follow the link to get that. The only think I did different was to add some bread improver (1% of the flour, eg. 100g flour = 1g of bread improver). I did actually knead the dough instead of using the bread maker, turns out it is really good exercise and quite satisfying. Didn't have a spray bottle for the water so I just wet my hands and flicked the water on - worked fine. Finally, eat it HOT with some melted butter! Was very tasty. Will make this next time we are entertaining guests with some dips and pastes. 

Discovered that I could have more than one calendar on my phone, which is great because I can have individual calendars for the likes of personal, work, uni, tafe etc. So I got on the PC and super quickly knocked up some new calendars, they all had pretty colour codes and descriptions... THEN I spent about 2 hours trying to get them to appear on my HTC phone. Eventually I gave up and went to bed.  Today I did some googling and found a very helpful forum called HTC Wildfire Forum . Obviously I have a Wildfire but I figured that this may be a resolution for other HTCs suffering the same issue.

If you are looking for some striking print and/or oil canvas to decorate a room then check out HomePride . We got two really nice canvas prints from here when they had a stand at our local shopping centre. The size suited our living room and colours matched the furniture. The website shows everything that they stock and they have some stunning canvases - wish I had more walls so I could buy more! Would be fun to pick one or a set that you like and decorate a whole room to match.

This is Millie getting a hair cut. She's not so keen at the time but when it's done I'm sure that she appreciates that she is now more aerodynamic and cooler ;)