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Birthday week in August! Four family members birthdays in one week, such a busy time… filled with cake, so it’s a good busy.

If anyone has been following on instagram you’d know it’s been a sad week as well. So cakey goodness and kiddy joy in birthdays are welcome at this time.

Onto the Watermelon Cake! This recipe was sent to me by a friend. It’s a cake made famous by Black Star Pastryin…

Beschico – Epping

Beschico has been a frequent late night haunt for us, it’s an awesome place to get Korean fried chicken. The restaurant is situated across from Epping station, it has a large dining area comprised of booths on the side, sofas near the front of the restaurant and a regular table dining area in the middle. Beschico is open until midnight on most nights much later than KFC and a tastier choice.

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Past couple of weeks have been busy, difficult and sad. First of all work has been super duper busy. Which is a good thing for us I suppose but it leaves no time for crafting or blogging. More time for eating though! So more restaurant outing posts to come! Out of necessity we’ve found some gems.

Difficult and sad because our grandpa was sick and unfortunately passed away.  He was getting better…

Yarrrn! http://wp.me/s49lsP-yarrrn

Work has been really flat out for the last couple weeks and after work we’ve been catching up with friends so I haven’t had a much time for hobbies lately.

We even worked through the last weekend :( but on the up side, work has been really close to a spotliiiiiiiiggght! There have been sales on too!

I think I may have gone a tiny bit overboard but oh how I love yarn!

My yarn haul!!

Quite a haul!…

As part of our sweets making day I put up a picture of the fantastic macarons my friend taught me to make. We made purple/ lilac colored ones half choc peppermint and half choc passionfruit flavoured.

Mini peppermint macaron

  For the shells we need:

140g egg whites (room temperature 180g caster sugar (split into 2 seperate bowls) 160g icing sugar 160g almond meal Food coloring Essence (Optional)  

Durian Macarons / Icecream sandwich

Durian, the stinky fruit =). Some people love it, some people hate it. Luckily for me a a majority of my friends love durian.

Whenever I think of how smelly durian is I always think back to when I visited Singapore. They had signs up in the train stations and in some taxis “No durian”, makes me laugh thinking about it.

A while back a saw some absolutely indulgent photos of macaron ice cream…

Its been so cold in Sydney this past week. I think there was some sunshine in between but you can never tell when you’re sick and trying to sleep. There’s a nasty bug going around and surprise surprise it paid me a visit too. On the upside, when I was up I got to crochet and watch T.V. while my lovely hubby made me sick people food, aka minestrone and chicken corn soup, my favourites!

I was…

Crochet Rose and Bow patterns

Another set of baby gifts, this time for 2 little girls. We were having a ladies catch up lunch and its been so long since we all caught up there have been 2 new additions to our little group. Since they were both girls I decided to make little hair accessories. I’d only seen a picture of one of the cute bubbas and she has heaps of hair! I didn’t realise the other one is pretty much still bold.…

I can’t remember how long I’ve wanted a kitchenaid. It’s been a long time! I love using my sisters one and it’ll be fantastic next time I make macarons or I’ve been meaning to make a Japanese cheesecake which would be great!

Very excited to unbox my new toy

I’ve chosen almond creme. It was a toss up between this colour or the ice blue but the sales guy told me that the ice blue colour was…

Momofuku Seiōbo at the Star: Pyrmont

June is birthday month in my family, 4 birthdays including K and my dads. Birthdays are the best times to try out somewhere new and special. This year I organised for us to go to Momofuku Seiōbo in The Star.

Momofuku Seiōbo was awarded 3 hats in 2014 by the SMH good food guide and won best restaurant of the year (2012 & 2014).

There’s so much hoo-ha over the online reservation process (you can…

Yay!! It’s such an honour and surprise to be nominated for the very inspiring blogger award. 

A big thank you to machine gun mamma for nominating me! I started this blog as a way for me to keep a record and share all the crafty things I get up to. I’m so happy and encouraged knowing that I have been inspiring to someone else in the blogosphere. 

Here are the rules for this award.

1. Thank and…

My friend Odes very happy to receive her new shaker bunny.

If you would like to make this funny bunny see my free pattern here

Enjoy! Penny

Monsieur googly eyes! He is still sitting at home waiting to go to his new home =)

When Odes first showed me a picture of this bulgy eyed bunny, I thought it was very odd looking and frankly just weird but seeing him sitting on my couch the last week, I’ve reconsidered. He’s growing on me =). I still prefer the conventional cutesy amigurumi but I don’t find him as odd anymore.

Since I was only…

Monsieur googly eyes, an egg shaped bunny. My friend Odes, requested very excitedly for me to make this odd looking bunny. She absolutely fell in love with his bulgy eyes so I obliged.

Here he is with a handle bar moustache. 

Shocked kind of wispy moustache.

Some conventional cutesy bunny features like the fluffly tail and leaf shape bunny ears.

The googly eyes makes me want to make the…

Despicable Me Minion Craze

There was a bit of a minion craze last year after the hype of the despicable me 2 movie ( which I have watched way to many times now! I’d still watch it again :)). Some of our friends renamed it the minion movie which I suppose going by the minion craze that followed was pretty fair.

Even though I had already made myself the large minion (blog post here) there are never enough minions right?

So…

A few weeks after I started crocheting I embarked on probably one of the biggest projects I’ve taken on so far. I saw a free pattern for a large minion posted on all about ami , a very inspiring crochet blog.

All about ami does a step by step photo blog here and the above link is to her full detailed pattern.

Even with the photo blog warning I did not know what I was in for! This little guy had…