Fresh air and sunshine

One more sheep and three more beanies.

Our Dolls

Recipe

Today I tried the swap recipe.I followed the "cake" recipe closely. I've never added vanilla essence and instant coffee to my date pudding before. However I cheated with the sauce and did my usual; 1 cup cream and one cup of brown sugar in a jug, microwaved for 2 minutes.

Very nice thank you Eileen.
And because I like it, this picture.

Dandelion seeds remind me of the fun parts of being a child.

Sheep!

Our Sharon sent us this link and so here are Shee-Baa and Lam-Baa exploring our yard. It was a little chilly so it was on with the woolly tops, then back to the garden.

Yum, lettuce!

Our new 'hobby'

Our Girl arranged the home made collection neatly for this picture.

Outside

We have autumn

and spring. The children's bulbs are sprouting.

We have enjoyed fresh salad leaves.

Our window box flowers are blooming

and it's has been a while since I have posted a picture of my washing on the line so ...

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Pot Holder Swap

Today I received a nice parcel - some pot holders and matching tea towel for Down to Earth's Pot Holder Swap.The parcel also contained some beautiful cards, some books for the children, and a recipe for Sticky Toffee Pudding that I shall be trying this week . Thank you so much Eileen.
Here are the items I posted. I prefer to knit but decided I better challenge myself a little so I used some of Sarah's chilli fabric for one of the potholders.And since I like to knit I had to try this because I had seen it on this nice lady’s blog a while back. I used Bendigo cotton but it seemed a bit thin so I bought a skein of 4ply Panda brand cotton from the local Kmart and knit the two yarns together. I included a recipe for ANZAC biscuits because the 25 April (the swap deadline) is ANZAC Day and a recipe for chocolate cake that I often use because we all like it here.

May already.

Time is flying. It is a lovely drizzly day here and I am making soup. I've been knitting another little doll sweater. This one is in left over sock yarn and should be more roomy and easier to put on than one I just finished in baby wool.

Last week we received a wonderful parcel. Thank you so much Sharon. Our Girl has lots of fun with her gifts and Our Boy will be wearing his apron tonight when we do our cheese rolls.

I have been organising some of my things ready to fill up this excellent knitting case and I'm looking for the perfect place for the cross stitch.

On the weekend we took our bicycles to Port Melbourne. Very nice .