The second part of Cam’s Birthday meal request was a cheese cake. This is the third annual cheese cake I have baked him for his Birthday (which is the only times I ever make cheese cakes). Cheese cakes can be a little tricky (to have set, but not over brown or heaven forbid crack!) and […]
We celebrated Cam’s Birthday yesterday with an evening picnic in the back yard. Cam chose what he wanted to eat which was a Soba noodle salad, or as he calls it, “Yummy Noodles”. This is a delicious and healthy salad, that is filling and tasty, so very satisfying. Soba noodles are a Japanese buckwheat and […]
What a joy it was to discover when we moved in, that our garden grows glorious summer fruits! Right here in the middle of Brooklyn we have Figs, plums, Blackberries and Raspberries growing. Watching fruit ripen on a tree is a slow rewarding pleasure….and then the day finally comes that you get to eat it!
While we celebrated Summer Solstice, on the other side of the world it is Winter Solstice. Had I happened to be on the other side of the world I would have gone to the Lismore Lantern Parade. Lismore is the town I was born in, and lived in until I was about 18 years old. […]
Everyone knows how mischievous Squirrel Nutkin is, and so we can only guess that it was he who ate our sun flowers heads. Would you believe it? I woke to a scuffling noise the other night and when I looked out the window I did not see anything, but then in the morning when I […]
Tonight we had a midsummers night picnic in the Park with Maya’s Waldorf Playgroup to celebrate Summer Solstice. The poetic, romantic, mythical night of the year when fairies might be seen along with other mythical creatures. The celebration of Midsummer’s night or eve was from ancient times linked to the summer solstice, the longest day […]
Today I had my hair cut, and I have to say, I am feeling a little remorseful. This is usual for me, which is probably why I have always had varying degrees of long hair because I can’t bare to cut it! I always feel bad after a hair cut. Well that is not entirely […]
We had a fantastic day full of colourful party games and activities! Rainbow face painting, a rainbow pass the parcel, a rainbow pinata full of glitter, freeze dance and then the rainbow sparkle cup cake Birthday cake! It was an incredibly hot day and at some points we were all a bit heat exhausted….funny though […]
A BIG weekend for us, starting with Maya’s Ballet Concert. It was the 10th Anniversary of Terrace Dance Studio and because so they had gone to effort to make it especially fancy. The concert was held in the auditorium of Bishop Ford School as it has been since the first production. Maya was a star, […]
A few months ago I came across and image of a home made cake stand. I filed it way in my creative memory thinking it would be great to make such a thing for Maya’s Birthday. So along with moving house (and a heap of other things) the last two week, I have also been […]
Maya wanted a bike for her Birthday, and so that is what we gave her. An eenie teenie hot pink and aqua bike. By 8am on her Birthday morning we were out on the streets of Ditmas Park learning to ride a bike. So far we have learnt that Maya can not steer, can not […]
Four years old today! Birthday breakfast in our house is often pancakes with candles which makes for one happy and adorable Birthday Girl.
Three years have passed since this magical day…..a special thanks to our guests, the loving family and dear friends for sharing in our special day, celebrating our love and watching us tie the matrimonial knot.
Three years ago yesterday, Cam and I were married. A dream come true. I recall being a teenager and declaring I would not get married which now I look back had largely to do with being brought up by a divorced single parent. My ambivalent feelings on marriage continued well into my adulthood, and it […]
With the end of Maya’s Ballet season I have to commemorate Dub Pies. This small corner savoury pie shop owned by a New Zealand-er (hence the name) is a favorite place to visit. We love Dub Pies! For the past year we have been going there on Saturday mornings after ballet. With no more Ballet […]
Maya, Maya, quite contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockrel shells and pretty maids all in a row…. This week we added a bell, colorful buttons, shells and wooden beads to our fairy garden. We made button borders and bead totems and added shells all around…
On Saturday Maya completed her first term of Ballet. Parents were invited into class to see the Children receive their award, or ‘reward’ as Maya calls it. A shiny golden trophy with pink ballet slippers on it. We were so very proud of her, being so young and being able stick with it. Despite some […]
Here is the Fairy House…..and garden! What happy Fairies we must have! Maya calls it the Fairy Botanical Gardens. We have also planted seeds which to our delight we are watching grow daily.
We hopped in our new car and drove to Shannon’s Nursery to buy some flowers for our fairy garden. What an exciting adventure! To drive a car as well as buy flowers to plant in our back yard! It was a very very hot day and so the flowers and plants were wilting under the […]
There are endless varieties of water play so we have discovered. Watering plants, making mud soup, and the latest favorite is washing clothes and then pegging them up to ‘dry’. I think this is the favorite due to the introduction of soup suds into the scene. Both Maya and Elle have spent hours washing and […]