Zoo trip

Today we took a family trip to the Franklin Zoo.

Its a little zoo, but great for pre-schoolers. As you might know, I try to support local business and this is our local zoo and best of all you can feed some of the animals :)

Boodles on the dog. Each time we go I get a photo of my babies on the dog.

Mr Divine feeding the birds.

Lulu feeding the zebra.

Peanut on the dog (which he tries to drive like a car).

Here's me sitting on the stone dog.

My oldest Button feeding the birds.

Winter Garden

We ordered in some good organic mix to grow our winter veges in. Our summer crops were abysmal (not helped by one pig eating his way through the summer crops that did grow).

Don't you just love having two willing helpers?

Still a big pile of lovely, steaming planting mix to fill the other garden beds tomorrow.

Im even going to try to grow my veges from seed this season. It will be an interesting adventure.

Crafting for craft show

Funky button hair clips and fake liquorish allsort hair ties.

They all look good enough to eat.

Lets hope they're a hit.

My first craft show

Dee of sew-funky (see below) and myself shared a table at the local craft market.

Dee was really organised and had a great range of cards, dishcloths, softies, xmas decorations and so much more.

Me, not quite so. I did make some owl softies and...

some shaker style beaded felt decorations.

I also made peg angels and elves but the photos weren't so great.

It was such fun and even though I didn't sell much it was enough for a few cups of tea and some morning tea goodies.

Favourite thing Friday

I love going to the FRANKLIN ZOO. Its a little privately owned zoo that you can get around in an hour, making it is an excellent size for preschoolers. It was a lovely morning with our 2 youngest and Lulu loved feeding the Zebra. My husband was naughty and petted the little monkies. He got caught by the keeper and told off (heh).

Happy birthday to you.

Peanut turned 2 today.

I tried to make him a Plex cake that would look like this.
My husband said that it was ambitious, but I said "I have made a rainbow fish cake, a tinky winky etc etc, and this one looks easy."

Well, sometimes the simplest things end up being the hardest.

My husband came home from work and said "I guess it was harder than you thought it would be." Cheeky bugger.

Miss Boodles (6) said " It would be a good try for someone of my age."

Even the children didn't know what it was meant to be. How sad.

Peanut opening up his Sesame Street garage.

Peanut enjoying his Plex. This is what the cake modelled on.

Happy birthday my beautiful boy. xxx

Favourite thing Friday (on Saturday)

I got piggies today.

Pigs are my favourite animal and I have always wanted a pet one since reading Charlotte's Web as a young girl.

The big pig is Maude and she is going in our freezer.

Think chops, roasts and bacon.

But little Dudley Pigglesworth Snortimer is my not to be eaten pet.

He is just 8 weeks old and oh so cute.

Thanks Shirley and Graham for raising such cute pigs.