Kids....You've gotta love them!

This morning

she told me she was leaving home....

But nah!,

I bet she'll be in by dark.

Caroline xoxo

Photos!

Photographing Boys is always hard

It wasn't TOO bad

Then it went bad

Then it went even badder!!

Mean while Emerald smiles away.....

Photographing girls is SO much easier.

Have a great weekend

Caroline xoxo

Thrift Shopping & Reducing Disposables

In my quest to cut down on disposable consumables in my home like paper towels, serviettes etc for environmental reasons and the fact that it reduces my grocery bill. (saving money is always a good reason) I have been trawling the local thrift shops for items I may be able to put to good use.

The other day I was lucky enough to find these four vintage Western Australian Placemats 50 cents for a set of four.

They had never been used as they still had the stickers on the back of them and while I won't be using them as placemats I have found a use for them where once I used disposable paper towel.....Lining the basket I keep my potatoes in.

One on the bottom to stop any bits of soil or dust going through the basket and one on top to stop the light getting on the potatoes and sending them green!

As there are four in the set, yesterday I threw the two I was currently using in the wash & replaced it with the other two. Easy Peasy.

I am now also using knitted dish cloths instead of buying chux. (disposable dishcloths)

I actually think this is more hygienic as every morning after cleaning the kitchen I throw it in the wash to then be hung out in the beautiful sunshine-Natures disinfectant.

A roll of disposable paper towel is now lasting me AT LEAST a month and I hope to reduce this even more and I'm not buying Chux at all now. Which has been a good saving.

Have you ever tried to reduce your disposable consumables??

If so HOW?

I know this is not a new thing to alot of you, so please leave me some tips.

Caroline xoxo

Wordless Wednesday

Where to......

Caroline.....

Slow Cooker Lamb Shanks

Dinner tonight....one of my favourites for this time

of year.

Lamb Shanks done in the slow cooker with fresh onion, baby carrots,

bunches of herbs & a generous splash of 2006 Heathcote Reserve Shiraz

with plenty left over to have a glass tonight.

along with a delicious loaf of nutty wholemeal bread I cooked in the

bread maker this morning.

I put the Lamb Shanks on at about eleven, so by the time everyone arrives home from their

busy day around seven we will all be able to sit down to a nice hot meal, much welcomed on these cooler nights.

What 's for dinner at your house??

Caroline xoxo

PS-It's making the house smell wonderful!!

The Pumpkin & Gourd Harvest

The cold weather we have had has just about killed off the Pumpkin vine and the Gourd vine has already finished.

SO......time to harvest. I am in-visioning Hot Pumpkin Soup on a chilly night.YUM!

But...the gourds does anyone know what to do with them??

Caroline xo

KATY PERRY

The Katy Perry

Concert last night was totally awesome

Anyone for a cupcake??

Caroline xoxox

Just Because.......

your a good friend to me

& yesterday you told me I don't blog enough these days.....

SO....I decided to do this post "JUST" for you

IS this a SON of yours??

Sorry I dress him this way when he come to our place to visit BUT I did do a good job on his head dress didn't I (Stolen from the pink house garden no less) with much procrastination on whether the red berries were poisonous AND if our sons would decide to eat them if they had one to many drinks. Mmmm they become most child like again don't they??

Lotsa love from our house to yours

Caroline xoxo

Looking forward to seeing this ultra handsome young man again this week-end Ha!Ha!

ANZAC Day - Ragged Bloody Heroes

Today is Anzac Day where we as Australians come together to lay our respect for the men & women who fought for our country.

With my eldest son in the Army and my youngest son who will play the drums with the Army cadets at four different Anzac day marches, our day will start early, we have to leave here by 2.15am(So I'm praying blogger will publish this respectfully on time :-)

Please take the time to listen to this wonderful song- Ragged Bloody heroes by Luke O'Shea and his band Medicine Wheel. Some of the footage in the clip sends tingles down my spine as my skin goose-bumps.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

LEST WE FORGET

Snorkelling

Snorkelling on The Great Barrier Reef wearing SUPER sexy stinger suits.