4 + 20 =?

My birthday!!
Yippee!!
I'm off to Adelaide for the weekend!!
Thank you to all of the beautiful people in my life!
Friends I love you!!
xoxx
brooke

Udder good day

It really was the best way to end a day of work!
You have done such a beautiful job Fliss!!
Check out Udder goodness here.

Just some flowers

I love flowers!
I have found myself buying bunch after bunch in the last couple of weeks.
xoxx
brooke and moca

Mr Electron

Look at this Lad.

Angela, the ever clever pretty lady from sew your own, has come up with the perfect sewing project for young boys!
Moca and I welcome...Mr Electron!!

Super fast, super cute, super smart and with Lightening bolts!!
I think that young boys will be nagging mums for the sewing machine!

Angela will be at Magnolia Square, a square I have never visited, with Allison from Lark over the next couple of days!
Hopefully I can fly by to meet Mr Electron himself! I wonder if he'll give me his autograph!
xoxx
brooke and moca

Oh Moca

Keeping warm on a fresh Autumn morning.

Softie for Mirabel

Last night me and the heater had a crack at making a One Red Robin Ruby Doll. 

Jhoanna she was so much fun to make. thank you!!

It was my first time making a doll where the legs and arms all get tucked in.

She is a little wonky in some places, but it all adds to the charm.

I did manage to add a sausage dog brooch for Miss Ruby too. Moca was extra happy!!

If you haven't heard about the Mirabel Softie Appeal or want to get involved click on those links to find out more!

This is number one for me. 

xoxx

brooke and moca

Trip to the Country

1. IMGP4029, 2. Cards, 3. Sausage Dog Vase, 4. it's a biscuit tin, 5. Gen gen and me, 6. op shopping loot, 7. Mill Market Daylesford, 8. Mill Market, 9. Liitle Guys, 10. Fabric, 11. Deer toast cart, 12. Ballarat the home of Mars, 13. Biscuit tin, 14. shoes and belt, 15. Pillowcase, 16. Leather Owl and Holly Hobbie, 17. Fabric, 18. Antiques and Collectables, 19. Mill Market, 20. IMGP3987, 21. Birthday Dress

Sunday Supper

Cameralised Bananas with Pauls Custard!

This is good and warming and tummy happy stuff.

All you need is:

Bananas
Brown Sugar
Cinnamon
Butter
Oven
Fry Pan

Pre heat oven at 180 degrees.
In an oven proof dish place bananas, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon.
Place in oven cook for 10mins or until the butter and sugar have formed a syrup.
Remove from the oven and transfer the bananas into a frying pan.
Cook until the syrup and bananas are golden and toffee like.
This is the easy good and dangerous bit.
Go to the fridge, get the Paul Custard (only 6grams of fat for every 100g - good bit) and scoop as much as you like into a bowl.
Top with bananas and that is my Cameralised Banana with Pauls Custard, Sunday Supper!!

xoxx
brooke and moca

Sunday Supper

This is my take on:

 Meet me at Mikes Sunday Supper 

Water Bottle Cover.

1. I found some fabrics that i liked

2. I got some paper and traced around the bottom of the bottle to get the size for the base.

3. More paper!  I laid the bottle down and marked the bottom and the top of the bottle on the paper. I picked a spot on the bottle then rolled it until the spot reached the other side of the paper. This makes for the body.

4. Used some fabric that was kindly given to me and cut out the pattern.

5. Sew them all together. Add a touch of gingham to hold the bottle in and make a bow. I just like gingham and bows really!

6. You have a really CUTE water bottle cover!!

I like it when you set out to do something and it works!!

20min craft projects are even better!!!

I also love that it's Brown Owls tonight!!!

xoxx

brooke and moca

This is...what reminds me of my mum

1. Hydrangers, 2. Mother Duck and her ducklings, 3. swissland gnome home, 4. Winter Beach, 5. Little Hearts, 6.Hair Crimper - $10 obo, 7. red buggy, 8. Days of our Lives (9/4/06), 9. Hair Dryer, Water Street, 10. Hair Drier...!, 11. Hera & Dana - BFF, 12. Set of Three Bangles

Thank you for everything that you have done for me since the day I was born!!

I love you heaps!!

You can find more this is with three buttons!

xoxx

brooke and moca

Past week

1. Look at Yourself, 2. Lost and Found, 3. Enna Post, 4. Mondays Flowers, 5. take what you like, take what you love, 6. Honey Bees, 7. Yellow Walls, 8. green and red shoes, 9. Butterflies, 10. Brownie Annual, 11. on my shelf, 12. Take a Look at your Self, 13. Street Art, 14. Roach House, 15. Magpie - Lark, 16. bees, 17. more butterflies, 18. Little Lon, 19. bike, 20. Yellow Butterflies, 21. pip and the leaf bug, 22. Op Shopping, 23. Moca and Me, 24. my bag  

xoxx

brooke and moca

Animals - Boys - Girls

She is a Favourite.
I would happily own every one of these prints!
You can find more of Lotte Klaver work here
xoxx
brooke and moca

This is

These are my favourite shoes at the moment.
I'm not much of a shoe girl. I'll find one pair, wear them out, then buy another and do exactly the same thing all over again.
You can find more shoes via links over at Three Buttons.

Here is me pre 1985!
Pixie Photos!!
Gotta love them.
I miss flashback fridays!

xoxx
brooke and moca

Inksoffjohn - Inksoffjohn - Inksoffjohn

Friday was Johns day.
We are so happy for you John!
I always love the part when the designers come out!
While i'm blowing Johns horn, his Dresses and other such things feature in Young Husbands film clip too!!



For pictures from his latest show head to Getty Images.
If i posted any, I would have a law suit on my hands.
xoxx
brooke and moca

Shhhhhhhh Shhhhhh

Makes me Happy!!

To help on a rainy day.
xoxx
brooke
Thank you for your help Angela!!

A week of Vintage Australia - Day Three

Hop Little Kangaroo
By Patricia Scarry
Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky

Skippy to the Rescue
Written by Victor Barnes
Illustrated by Walter Stackpool

Little Binjy
Written by Victor Barnes
Illustrated by Hal English

I can't upload my own pictures, due to some little Sausage dog kicking my computer onto the ground and making the Card reader smash into 6 bits. The computer is a ok. Macs are really strong. It's the second time it's happened in it's life and it just keeps of working!! Lucky it has insurance, just incase!

This is my day three of my , Week of Vintage Australia hosted by Gemma over at Meet me at Mikes!!

These are my Australian Golden Books.
I love the illustrations in Little Binjy and just discovered that I have two copies!!
I remember watching the adventures of Skippy on Saturday afternoons.
Hop Little Kangaroo, is a sweet little story. I especially like that Kangaroos can make Sweet Berry Pie. But most of all when mother Kangaroo tells her little one " you can do anything, if you try".

Thanks to the internet for the photos.

xoxx
brooke and moca