Elmo's Lullaby

While waiting for Nick to cook pancakes on Sunday morning, Lulu & I looked through a few youtube Sesame Street clips and came across this gem. Opera as a bedtime song, elaborate costumes, singing animal muppets? This clip has it all!

On setting goals

Last weekend Lulu & flew to Adelaide to escape the 'why don't you come camping for Finke' question & to spend a little time with my parents. While I was there I read a blog post by Joy from Oh Joy on being a goal getter. In the post she talks about knowing what your goals are & taking the steps to achieve them. While the goals Joy talks about are career orientated, it did start me thinking of all the half finished projects that we have going on around our home. We tend to start something and then another thing 'more urgent' comes up or we get sick or Lulu gets sick or Nick works a few Saturdays in a row and then we move onto the next project without finishing the first.

To start the goal getting, I made a list of all the unfinished projects, from the toilet walls to Lulu's first year photo album and everything in between. In the coming weeks I'm going to slowly start to tick them off, along with doing what I can to help Nick finish the things on his list.

But something has to give in order to make the time to get things done and it looks like blogging is it. I don't know about you, but I tend to jump on here to blog & suddenly two hour naptimes are taken up with posting & reading my favourite blogs, leaving all non internet things unfinished. This has to change if I'm going to achieve any of the things on my list. I will endeavour to check in at least once a week and over the next month I'll be posting ideas for our new bathroom & kitchen, along with photos of our finished projects, and any random bits of life that crop up, so please stay tuned.....

Frockin' up - Gypsy Skirt

A few weeks ago I happened to be in the local clothing boutique, Mixed Lollies, when the girls were unpacking some new arrivals. This skirt was one of them. I quickly snapped it up and lucky I did because the skirts never made it to the shelf! All of them, apart from mine, were bought by the girls who work in the store! Sometimes you're just at the right place at the right time, hey?

Sportsgirl top
Shakuhachi 'gypsy' leather skirt
Black Jwels Ring

PS let's ignore our bin stored up high now so the baby doesn't go through it!

Lulu's Nursery Tour

I have to be honest here and state that for the most part, Lulu's room is always a little bit messy. Every time I've thought of photographing it, I've changed my mind because as soon as I put things away, she pulls them back out again. I guess that's what a room filled with her things is supposed to be! For this reason, the tour includes only close up shots, no full room photos.

After setting up this nursery for a newborn Lulu, we bought a new* house when she was four months old. Looking back I cannot believe we moved house when Lulu was only four months old! Crazy. Moving did give me the opportunity to change the nursery into more of a toddler room, introducing space for play. After living in the house for a month we went on a trip to Adelaide and picked up a few things from Ikea to help make the room more of a kid zone.

In the last few weeks Lulu has started disappearing to her room to play. It sure has been fun catching her busy in the tent with her toys.


1. Enjoy sign - gift, Dolls - Ollie's Vintage
2. Bunting - gift, Mobile - made by me
3. Drawing, Dolls and shoes - gifts, carasel money box - vintage
4. Cot - IKEA, Monkey - BlaBla Kids, Sleepsuit - Bonds
5. Side table - vintage, Books - Dymocks and Amazon, Curtains - IKEA
6. Tent - IKEA, Bear - gift, Chair - vintage
7. Chair - IKEA, Cushions - Kmart


*to us. The house was built in 1954 & renovated in 1972.

Flowers, oysters and tacos

Aside from a Friday night pub night (for which Lulu went to sleep really quickly & woke up at the precise time that I wanted to leave), we spent the rest of the weekend at home. Photos above include our table dressed for brunch with girlfriends on Saturday, thank you tulips, oysters Saturday night, baking that was left in the oven a little too long on Sunday,  and old school tacos Sunday night to finish the weekend. Delightful. How was your weekend?

Link Love

What's on your fridge?

My beautiful friend Lucy has started a new blog with her cousin Matilda. It's called Two Fat for Fashion and it is so funny. They explore the old dilemma of fashion vs food. Check it out here.

Tabitha Emma blogged this week about an Australian Pj brand, Papinelle, I hadn't heard of before, but am now in love with their pjs. Check out her post here & the pjs here

Brendan McLean's tales of a month on the Great Gatsby set. Tales of abandoned Moet , drivers, arguments over sparkles and the ordinary: 'No matter the names or the money involved, at some point a director will ask their actors to sit like high school students in a group and just read'. 

The exercise front was so minimal this week that it doesn't deserve it's own post. I went for a run on Wednesday night and Friday morning I did a 5 min warm up and then this workout followed by some stretching. How'd you go this week?

Frockin' up - Fairy Wings

Some days you turn on the TV only to find that you've dressed the same as the people on Sesame Street. Friday Fairy Wings day.

Baking with a toddler

Sunday morning I felt like having a biscuit with my coffee, but we didn't have any biscuits in the house, so I decided to bake some. A while ago I found this very easy recipe, which doesn't include eggs, as we never seem to have any when we need them. I substitute ginger for cinnamon, as Nick likes ginger better (I do love the cinnamon ones, so sometimes I make them with cinnamon).

Normally I'd just mix together the ingredients while Lulu plays at my feet, however this time I involved her in the baking process.

Here's how to involve your toddler:
- Leave the draw with the baking utensils open for her to rummage through.
- Lift her up to see the ingredients melting together on the stove.
- Usea clear glass mixing bowl so she could see the ingredients in there, even from the floor.
- Let her help sift the flour.
- Let her pour the ginger and baking powder into the bowl. She thought this was amazing. She was very proud of herself for being able to do this.
- Get her to help stir the ingredients together. Some were flicked all over the kitchen but the majority stayed in the bowl.
- Let her flatten the biscuits once you've put them on the tray.

Be prepared for your kitchen to get messy but it's worth it to see how proud of herself Lulu was for being able to help. As for insisting on eating them? Well, she went for a nap while the biscuits were cooking & when she woke I showed her them but because I wasn't eating them she really wasn't interested in them at all. Win Win.

Have you baked with your child? I'd love to know your tips and please leave a link to your favourite recipe in the comments.