tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13424666352063915512024-03-04T22:29:00.397-08:00.... by bex ................. { inspired to create } ..Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-12447343955050428162013-05-11T21:13:00.000-07:002013-05-11T21:13:53.321-07:00mother's day 2013...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother's day has rolled around for another year, and like I said last year I want to take a photo of me and my darling child each year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some cute photos of our day playing in the backyard on a Sunny Sunday afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then to finish, one with Dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are the sweetest darling little girl Summah, and I love you to the moon and back. I'm glad to be your Mumma and love the fun we have together.</span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-76950043523446723582013-05-09T15:34:00.001-07:002013-05-09T15:35:33.554-07:00gift bag tutorial no.2...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week my kindness gift was given in one of these bags and it was a jar of homemade apricot jam...yummmy!!!</span></div>
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<br />Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-84273952212916625922013-05-06T17:24:00.004-07:002013-05-06T21:57:52.544-07:00an everyday knit top...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. orange knit - long sleeve winter top, cost: $8.50</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. bronze/brown knit - top or leggings (if it's long enough), cost: $7.20</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Black - a skirt, but maybe cushions for my lounge now?, cost: $8.00</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Grey/black wool - front panel in a winter <a href="http://by-bex.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/i-made-jacket.html" target="_blank">jacket</a>, cost $12.50 (completed)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">back view, and Summah photo booming....<span style="font-size: x-small;">(oops! bombing, mind and hands not communicating to well today :) )</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If my daughter is going to photo bomb, why not get a decent photo of us both?! <span style="font-size: x-small;">(at this point I noticed the neighbour was cleaning his camper van just above me... awkward!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have completed my first lined, jacket without a pattern to follow, just logical thinking and playing around with ideas in my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The out come has been a success! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I say no pattern...I didn't buy one from the shop and follow it, instead I fished out two jackets in my wardrobe and used them as a guideline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cut out my pieces, and stitched away to every moment I had free with out Summah climbing over me or the cat for that matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did the idea of making a jacket ever enter my head??? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it was all because I visited a fabric shop last week, browsed the remnant bin and found 4 fabulous fabrics that I could make winter clothes from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were bargains, 3 out of 4 were less than $10 and decent sized pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The front panel on my jacket was most expensive as it is wool this cost me $12.50. The black fabric on my jacket was $5, lining $5 the ribbing was an expensive wool cardigan that shrunk in the wash and I held onto it, and I'm glad I did!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new winter jacket for less than $25 and no one else has one like it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My new winter jacket, and yes I checked that I could fit a jersey on underneath to layer up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On to the next new piece of clothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we are getting some new occasional chairs for our lounge and I wanted to disguise the toys that sit in the corner of our lounge room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dislike messy looking toys, yet I am aware that I have a small child in the house, so I need to let her explore and play with them when she pleases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore I can not remove them completely from our lounge but at least I can pack them away tidy at night and now shut a lid on them, so when I sit and relax I'm not looking at a pile of messy toys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My two finished suitcase's, one for general toys and one for dress-up/doll's clothes, perfect solution to a messy toy area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around our house we love homemade muesli, so this week I've decided to make this as my 'kindness gift' as blogged about earlier in the month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5-7 cups of oats (I mix wholegrain & rolled oats) into a shallow roasting pan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heat 2/3 cup of canola oil with 3/4 cup of Manuka honey & 2 tsp cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(very rarely do I actually use that much honey as it costs a lot! cheaper options are golden syrup, honey/maple syrup or maple syrup)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pour the oil & honey over oats, toss thoroughly, put in oven on bake at 180-200 Celsius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Toast for about 10mins, stirring a few times so it doesn't burn/stick to dish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When quite golden, remove and cover with the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/2-1 cup of unsalted roasted cashews</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(or just chop some whole almonds)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">put back in the oven and watch carefully, take out once coconut and almonds nicely browned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/2 cup medium/finely sliced apricot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/3 cup wheatgerm <span style="font-size: x-small;">(or LSA mix)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/2 cup craisins/cranberries <span style="font-size: x-small;">(optional)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Countdown supermarket sells: Berry Mix in 400g bag that lasts me 3-4 muesli </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vanilla extract is good too <span style="font-size: x-small;">(add to the oil at start)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(the last two make the muesli last longer and lighten it up a bit)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are possibly my favourite homemade cookies, they not only taste good, they look bought when baked and you get a load of cookies from one batch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's an all round winner in my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Serves 30 <span style="font-size: x-small;">(if you don't eat lots of cookie dough)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>125g butter</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>1 cup brown sugar</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>3/4 cup caster sugar</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>1 teaspoon vanilla essence</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>1 1/2 cups self-raising flour</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>1/2 cup cocoa <span style="font-size: x-small;">(the richer the better)</span></i></span></div>
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* packaged them up in the little gift bag and set off to see a friend who is husband less for a few weeks, 32wks pregnant and has a near 2yr old...I figured she would love some home baking to pass the time.</div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-29127335040280532542013-04-23T17:27:00.000-07:002013-04-23T17:27:12.206-07:00a quick recipe...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">4 Eggs<br style="outline: 0px !important;" />1/2 cup canola oil<br style="outline: 0px !important;" />1 1/2 cups milk<br style="outline: 0px !important;" />2/3 cup grated tasty cheese<br style="outline: 0px !important;" />75g feta roughly chopped into 1/2 cm chunks<br style="outline: 0px !important;" />4 cups self-raising flour<br style="outline: 0px !important;" />1 red onion - finely diced </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(cooked to eliminate strong onion flavour)</span><br style="outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="font-size: 15px;">2 tomatoes - diced</span></div>
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Heat the oven to 180 degrees.<br style="outline: 0px !important;" /><br style="outline: 0px !important;" />Either butter large texas muffin trays, or line them with squares of baking paper*<br style="outline: 0px !important;" /><br style="outline: 0px !important;" />Whisk together all the wet ingredients until combined.<br style="outline: 0px !important;" /><br style="outline: 0px !important;" />Sift the flour into the mixture and add the tasy cheese, onion, tomatoes, spinach and salt and pepper (to taste) and fold gently into the wet ingredients.<br style="outline: 0px !important;" /><br style="outline: 0px !important;" />Spoon mixture into the muffin trays and bake for approx 20-25 minutes until cooked.<br style="outline: 0px !important;" /><br style="outline: 0px !important;" />*I like to line my muffin tins with baking paper - there is a lot less mess to clean up and they look really stylish wrapped in the baking paper, especially if you tie some twine around the baking paper cases in a bow once they are out of the oven and cooled.</div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">This week my husband asked me...or maybe I offered to make muffins? for 2 days training that he was helping run for work instead of him buying them from the supermarket. I instantly hit google up for some recipe ideas on savoury muffins, as I didn't have a favourite one in any of my books, now I have found a good recipe. The original recipe can be found <a href="http://www.annabel-langbein.com/recipes/cats-feta-and-spinach-savoury-muffins/574/" target="_blank">here</a>, but I have adapted it to suit our taste buds. When it comes to savoury muffins my husband loves cumin seeds in them, fresh herbs, and lots of salt flavour, so I've added a few extra spices and herbs in to the original recipe.</span></i></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-91751068604638325212013-04-21T02:56:00.003-07:002013-04-21T02:56:39.845-07:00my tribute to Ross...<div style="text-align: center;">
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{21.04.1983- 28.01.2013}</div>
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My dear brother<br />
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You looked different and talked different, peoples eye's lingered on you as we walked through town, chatting, shopping, and joking around as siblings do. <br />
To me you were normal, perfect, the right brother for me and I stopped noticing that people gazed at you for an extra long time. As for me you were the only Ross I knew, the brother God had hand picked for me to grow up with, to laugh with, to cry with, to build lego with and dress up as a girl during our childhood years.<br />
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To have you journey with me for the past 29 yrs 9mths has taught me so many things, and I'm still learning from you even now that you are gone. With out you I wouldn't be half the woman I am today, and I thank you for helping shape who I am today, and I thank God for placing you in my life to be used in this way.<br />
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You've taught me to appreciate the finer things in life, you loved all things Royal, Regal, Classy and Refined...if it wasn't done properly it wasn't worth your time.<br />
You've taught me to appreciate history, your love for castles and all things British was outstanding and it always amazed be how much you knew about these topics.<br />
The biggest lesson I learnt from you Ross was 'Patience'.<br />
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To slow down, as you were unable to walk and move as fast as me, if I wanted to chat with you I had to walk at your pace. There were many times in our childhood we'd just sit out in the paddock for a rest to help you catch your breath and then move on, it took take us long time to get home after exploring somewhere. This never stopped us having hours of fun, loads of laughs and various sibling squabbles about who was carrying what home or riding the bike or scooter home. It almost always ended in me taking both, but I didn't mind it was part of life with a brother like Ross.<br />
You were born with a faulty heart (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot" target="_blank">tetralogy of fallout</a>) but it was an enormous heart when it came to loving those who were dear to you. So caring, and generous, you always thought of others and always rung for a catch-up. With the uncanny knack of ringing when we had just sat down for dinner...love you for this Ross!<br />
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To me these phones calls were sometimes very timely, just when I needed to chat with my brother about life, other times I found them annoying as I thought I was too busy to catch up. But on the whole I always tried to answer your calls as I never knew if it would be my last chat with you. That was the difference with having a brother who had a heart condition...life expectancy was originally 6wks! each day was borrowed time after that. Now we've had our last chat on earth, and it was great! you challenged me, you questioned some of my life decisions at the time, and you asked about my friends and said to say 'hi' to them. Next time we talk you will be perfect and I'll be perfect in glory land on one of those streets paved with gold, and I'll be able to visit your castle, the one that God had designed for you from before you were born. I can guarantee that it is better than any castle you ever dreamt of building from you lotto ticket winnings. I await the day when I get to see you again Ross, for now though it's farewell.<br />
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And I want you to know you were the best brother I could have ever dreamt of having, you were more than a brother, but a very close friend too. I miss having you around, but I'm thankful that my life was blessed with you being in it for 29 years and today you would have turned 30!!! (21 April 2013).<br />
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Happy Birthday little brother...love you forever!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Homemade is definitely best when it comes to most things in life, there is a sense of accomplishment, and satisfaction that you've made it when you thought it was too hard. This I reckon is especially true when it comes down to gifts, they may be simple or elaborate but the fact that you've spent more time on the gift usually means it is better suited for the receiver. You have thought a lot more about what you are going to make and in return it is better designed for the receiver, and I think that makes it so much more beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2013 through us my family a curve ball back in January, when my only brother passed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what passed through my mind when my Mother called to tell me he had gone to be with his Lord? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- this is surreal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I've seen him close to death many times before</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- now he has actually gone!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I have to see him to believe he isn't here anymore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I'd been expecting this phone call from Mum for the last 15yrs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- it still hurt to know he had gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(regardless of the fact he had lived his life with a heart condition which was deemed in-operable at birth).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've lost all my grandparents, but to loss someone so close to you feels like your heart has been ripped out, trampled, and it's hard to breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the other thing that grieving does to a family is it brings the remaining members closer together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You embrace each other like never before, you share stories of memories you hold, then you laugh and cry at once and that is perfectly normal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You become more aware that every day is a blessing, to bless others, and to embrace those closest to you to say you love them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It reminds you that those fickle family frauds, are they really worth the divide between loved ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since my brother's funeral I've been to 3 more funerals, none of which have been easy, but I was blessed to have had nearly 30yrs with my brother, where other's have only had 4 days with their loved one. Needless to say I've shed a bucketful of tears in the last 2 1/2mths, and I've learnt a lot by letting them stream down my face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So tonight/today reach out to those closest to you and tell them you love them immensely.</span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-26292570950518906192013-02-10T00:22:00.001-08:002013-02-10T00:22:58.253-08:00a quick up-do...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The days are hot at the moment and I'm trying to grow my hair, it's feeling health at the moment since I haven't coloured it as much over the past year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in growing it I am trying to be inventive with hairstyles too! I can create them on others so why can't I do them on myself, I am trying!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. If it helps tip your head upside down and braid from the nape (base of head) using a basic french braid technique, till you reach the sectioned up hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Back comb your high pony tail and tuck under and secure with bobby pins.</span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-83574427021519462972013-01-22T15:45:00.001-08:002013-01-22T15:45:45.590-08:00a simple grey singlet...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I said I'm on a roll with sewing so must keep at it whilst I'm inspired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I've made a simple grey singlet, what I love about it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. the colour! goes with anything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. the white lacey back to it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. the fit...it's designed just for me!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. my new double needle for stitching around the hem of such tops...it looks bought.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">first I lay out the singlet/tank top that I wanted to use as a pattern<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the result! a cute little top for Summer to be worn with your favourite shorts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and taking self-timer photo's of oneself is never easy when toddler wants to be apart of the action, <br />
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-7601606821717800972013-01-21T19:20:00.000-08:002013-01-21T19:21:07.907-08:00on a roll...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm on a roll at the moment making clothes for myself, and loving it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've taken some of my favourite tops that are wearing thin and cut patterns to make new tops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week I've made this tunic which really was just two rectangle shapes sown together, total of 3 seams...easy!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hardest part was sewing around the neck, hem and arm holes as my fabric is a silk...super slippery!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">worn here with a white slip and no belt, nice and light, <br />
summery and easy to wear.</td></tr>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-28197194273589494852013-01-14T00:01:00.001-08:002013-01-14T00:01:44.628-08:00welcome 2013...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a while since a blog...the last month has been a whirlwind of events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. packing and moving house consumed a bit of time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. unpacking and rearranging things in the new house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Sister visiting...major HIGHLIGHT!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we've moved house and had a HUGE clean out of things we don't need and passed them onto our favourite op-shops around Hamilton so someone else can use the goods we don't need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I can not handle very well things out of place...it does drive me slightly nuts! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've spent the afternoon trying to unpack the final few boxes and rearrange things into better places/cupboards. The office was driving me crazy there were boxes still on the floor, and I just had to try to sort them out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although all I think I did was move them from one box to another...hahaha!! At least I felt like I was winning at clearing the floor of boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all we are loving our new house, and don't miss the old house one bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought I would but nope, loving the new place and Summah loves it, and so does the cat (Austin).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking forward to it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My first attempt at a christmas cake, we made one large and 9 muffin tin sized cakes. The larger will be kept for christmas day, and iced with brandy butter icing not the traditional marzipan icing...eeck!! </span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-13553437539133156652012-12-04T23:14:00.002-08:002012-12-04T23:14:35.725-08:005 + 1 = 6 kiddos...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monday afternoon Summah and I packed the car in prep for a spontaneous trip out to the West Coast to visit my parents and my older sister and kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wasn't really planned as I was to be packing the house up, we move in 2wks and there seems to be a lot to do..but not really, I'm a little bit of an organised freak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I took the opportunity to postpone some packing and just hit the coast for a nights relaxation with the family. It was bliss, a pre-christmas break and catch-up with out all the hype and fuss was wonderful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did do some christmas baking which at Mum's I thought I wouldn't get time, but reading one of her latest magazines I was inspired and baked the morning a way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a form of relaxation for me to bake and this time round I made some cranberry and pistachio biscotti...delicious!!! never attempted biscotto before and it turned out good. My sister gave it the tick of approval anyhow and that counts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Any how the last time Summah saw her 5 wonderful cousins she was a crawling lego destroyer, now she is a walking kind of talking little girl that want's to be apart of games. She adores her oldest cousin Jada and I caught her copying Jada few times over the period we were there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now we are back home and back to the reality of packing up our house to move...2wks tomorrow we will be in our new house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She'll often wonder out the back door to where Austin is lying in the garden sleeping in the shade from the summer sun, or waiting for a bird to miraculously fall out of the sky into is mouth...never going to happen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She'll waddle out to him, back herself up and plump her little bum next to him and start chatting away about what ever takes her fancy. Then she'll all of a sudden see a leaf or a flower go pick it and bring it back, saying "ta, ta, ta...etc" waiting patiently for Austin to take it from her as a gift. In the end she just places it on his furry back and walks off to find something else to share with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I was informed to get a small gift for a dear friend, something that resembled her and what she meant to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I needed this by today!! so of course leaving it to the last minute, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I had an idea in mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went about typing up some words that I knew would mean something to my friend and words that resembled her strong Faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello...computer and a mixture of fonts and a few brilliant colours later I had the exact gift I had in mind completed ready to give.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this very easy to make the hardest bit was coming up with what to write, I love the end result and the colour I went with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is loads of Typography prints around so why not try making your own personal one I reckon.</span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-42001199039790851732012-11-28T10:26:00.000-08:002012-11-28T10:26:01.578-08:00baby steps...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few weeks back now Summah took her first official walk, then she got a really bad ear infection that effected her balance badly...so no walking for at least 5days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now though she is practically running about the house, although another ear infection has arisen, she is walking slightly drunk looking at the moment. </span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-84486068412626290232012-11-27T22:20:00.001-08:002012-11-27T22:20:56.092-08:00cheesey bacon twists...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a Mother you get sick of cooking very quickly and often feel uninspired to create amazing meals, as by the end of the day you are wearing thin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me I like to be organised and know what I'm cooking in advance then I don't feel frazzled and rushing around like a headless chook at dinner time with a whinging toddler nipping at my ankles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, there are definitely days where I am not organised and those days the meals are less than desirable at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway today I was in the mood for cooking and felt I'd try something new. With the fact that Summah is at Daycare on Thursdays I went about making something she could take for lunch, and we could add to dinner as a side.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ingredients:</b><br />1/3 cup diced bacon slightly cooked<br />1 cup grated mozzarella or normal cheese<br />handful of fresh oregano finely chopped<br />salt and pepper to season<br /><br />simple ingredients and you can make up your own variations </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cheat and make my bread dough in the bread maker, <br />once it is finished remove your dough and roll out into a long sausage on a lightly floured surface.<br />Then divide dough into 8 equal portions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">then roll each dough ball out till it is roughly 12x12cm square<br />then place your fillings on a diagonal on each square.<br />Also place the dough on baking paper on your tray this makes it easier to remove once cooked<br />and if you spray cooking spray on the tray then place the bread to cook on this it burns!!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">before placing in oven to bake fold opposite corners together, pinch tightly<br /> and I brushed mine with some milk to give them a nice golden look.<br />Bake at 220C fan bake for 15-20mins<br />Mine only took 15mins to cook that was ample time.</td></tr>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-5134251977706419972012-11-25T19:41:00.000-08:002012-11-25T19:41:18.798-08:00baby to toddler...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've learnt recently the transition from baby to toddler can happen with the blink of an eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then within days of discovering their feet and balance they can be off, and you think were did my baby go? now so independent (within reason of course), so excited to walk and toddle around the place shaking their little bum as they go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's an adorable phase and Summah has reached the toddling stage, she loves it, since walking/discovering she could walk she has not stopped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The poor sole got an ear infection a few days after learning to walk which put her balance off so she crawled, but once her health was restored I turned around to find a girl who would not crawl anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She literally walked around the house all day long, exploring new cupboards, hiding things in random places, she would walk along kicking a ball (for real), walk around in circles, just because she could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I have a toddler not a baby girl, and every day she looks more and more like a little girl, who can wear pigtails, and shoes that fit her feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has started to pretend play, I often find her creating and making her own fun. It can be sitting out on the garden path filling a bag with bark bits and chatting with the cat, then bringing it into me all excited. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The word forming and sentences are yet to come but at this point in time I am enjoying having a bubbly toddling little girl to hang out with daily.</span></div>
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Bex Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699268809074367042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342466635206391551.post-36557552868090690372012-11-15T18:24:00.001-08:002012-11-15T18:24:11.597-08:00a christmas elf...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this pretty cute christmas elf in my garden today, she was so adorable I had to keep her.</span></div>
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my daughter is so obliging to me dressing her up for such christmas photo's </div>
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I will make the most of this while she is still a willing participate</div>
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yay...sparkly baubles to play with.</div>
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then Mr.Austin wanted to join the fun...no chance of getting a Santa Hat on him though.</div>
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Best of all I love her raucous laugh when </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just a pre-christmas treat, and now I will be starting to decorate my house and put on that christmas music to get into the festive season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love Christmas!!!</span></div>
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