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More holiday snaps with shadows to share this week! I thought in the spirit of the Australian Open tennis and as the finals being played tonight with Nadal, I would share some photos that we took in Nadal's home town of Mallorca. We visited this lovely part of the world on a recent holiday, the seaside town where he and his "uncle Tony" (coach) live is very pretty and worth a visit...
As usual I am playing along with other shadow chasers, stop by and say hello!
Oh and best of luck to Nadal!!!
Getting ready to have some friends over this afternoon for a suasage sizzle and pavlova..the girls have been baking, using my 'new toy'...
Well okay so blue is not everyone's cup of tea but hey they are at least colourful...
I promise you the pavlova is just normal....Happy AUSTRALIA DAY to all the aussies out there! ENJOY XXX
Last weekend we had dinner with close friends to celebrate their recent "surprise wedding". They had 'escaped' overseas to get maried without anyone knowing so we wanted to 'surprise' them with a dinner to celebrate...a "WEDDING CELEBRATION" dinner, with all the trimmings..
Okay, so I love a theme...and a colour pallette to work with, I choose cream, grey, silver and white as the main colours and then accented with hession and natural card to compliment...I was so happy with the way it turned out....
Its amazing what you can do with simply one bunch of beautiful roses and some greenery from the garden, oh and assorted glassware in different shapes and sizes...
Next to each place setting was a chocolate and a bag of heart shaped gingerbread cookies ...
The Menu was simple but yummy (even if I do say so myself LOL)..we started with Smoked salmon, avocado salsa and prawn stack....then Atlantic salmon with soba noodles and mirin dressing, and green beans and broccolini to accompany...then Wedding cupcakes...and assorted 'tastings' of dessert. The truth is I couldn't decide when it came to choosing a dessert so I served a few, just tiny versions. There was vanilla pannacotta served with balsamic strawberries (thanks Jacki), lemon meringue tarts, custard creme brule and home made chocolates and toffee brittle to have with coffee.
CONGRATULATIONS Mr and Mrs T, we love you both and glad we got to celebrate such a special occassion with you....xxx
Hi there, a sunny day here in Sydney today (so much for the forecast rain)...joining in with shadow chasers from all over the world in today's SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY
Whilst recently on holidays aboard the Costa Concordia our waiter showed us this clever trick! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
We are still in shock over the devastating news that the beautiful Costa Concordia ship is no longer....on December 4, 2011 just a short time ago we set sail from Rome on a wonderful 7 night Mediterranean cruise on the magnificent Costa Concordia ship....just over a month later the same ship, covering the same route has been destroyed!
Here are some of our wonderful memories.....
The ship had over 1000 crew members looking after all the passengers...
Wonderful waiters who looked after us every night in the dining room...
And made 'special' animals and characters out of towels that waited on our beds every evening, always making us laugh...
Talented crew that entertained us every night after dinner with world class shows and musical spectacles...
It is so upsetting to then see images like this...
All our love and prayers to those who have lost loved ones, to those who have suffered, and to those still waiting to hear news...such a tragedy!
Playing along this week with the new hosts of SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY make sure you stop by and say hello and see what the other shadow chasers from all over the world have been up to.
This week a few shadows to share from our trip overseas...we travelled to Lille in northern France and went to an eclectic exhibition called "Collector"...lots of shadows...
And our favourite part of the exhibition, a 'deconstructed' American flag, made from equestrian po...where do people get these ideas from?
So there you have imy first Shadow Shot Sunday for the year...enjoy the rest of your day!
Spent a few hours last night creating a few cards and tags for Birthdays on the horizon...
There are also a few weddings coming up (including some dear friends who disappeared os before Christmas and came back married!)....a wedding card production line was in full swing..
Then I ran out of that paper and started on a different theme...
I love using the supplies that I have on hand and just simply 'creating' its very therapeutic!
Slowly starting to feel better, hopefully the second script of antibiotics has kicked in! Its probably a good thing that I have not felt well and have stayed away from the shops and all those amazing sales! Hmmm... well we did manage a visit to David Jones late last week and with the help of some vouchers and nifty price-matching look what follwed me home...
Oooooh yes thats right, its a bright and shiny, brand new, almond cream ARTISAN KITCHEN AID and its all mine, I can hardly contain myself. I have wanted one of these babies for such a long time...sick or not the next day I set about to make my first creation.....
A delicious sponge cake from Donna Hay ("A Cooks Guide")...since then we have also created yummy caramel ice cream and yesterday Taylor created some heavenly slices that sadly disappeared before we had the chance to take a photo!
Did I mentin I am LOVING my new toy? I feel very grown up and almost 'Martha like'! Look forward to sharing more goodness with you as I 'play'!
Our dream holiday is over!
Its hard to beleive that this time last month we were in Europe sipping on lattes and immersing ourselves in local markets and oh so much culture.....and loving it! We retuned to Australia just before Christmas unpacked our winter woolies then repacked our summer clothes to join our family up north for Christmas celebrations..back to Sydney for NYE then....sickness! We have been stuck down by some flu virus and it has really knocked us. So sad I had so many wonderful plans for the final few days before my return to work...sorting holiday snaps, cathcing up on ironing (where is that ironing fairy I ordered for Chrsitmas???)etc etc. Hmmm instead dear hubby and I have been quitley recuperating and dining on antibiotics!
Hopefully we are now on the mend and my new year resolutions can kick in next week, I have so many plans, there has been too much time for me to think lately (always dangerous) I have begun list making (yet again) and am eager to get started.
But for my my blogging friends this will have to suffice...
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See you soon, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all xxx
