happy things

things that made me smile today:

the new frankie magazine

discovering frankie's brother, smith journal

hanging out with my friend madeleine

crafting

seeing snow on the hills

adding to my babysitter's club book collection

playing with new lego

thrifted kitsch shell owls

listening to ollie read to me

comfort food for dinner

colourful gerberas

what made you happy today?

holidays: week one

the past week...

 

ollie's new best friend, lightning mcqueen

 easter chocolate haul.  this is being rationed out VERY carefully!

 ollie's awesome spirograph!

we went to an awesome meccano and lego exhibition on easter sunday.  there were some amazing machines that had been built, areas where you could make your own meccano creations, and some gadgets that you could use yourself..  ollie managed to win himself a chocolate bar by operating an arcade-type claw grabbing machine (i'm sure there's a proper name for it!), and he made a pretty cool spirograph-type picture as well.  but by far, ollie's favourite was the trains.  they were pretty sweet!

ollie has been complaining lately about what i cook for dinner,so i decided to have a night off, and let ollie cook.  he drew the ingredients we needed, went to the store, and ollie made tea.

pineapple and marshmallow kebabs.  plural as in a total of two were made - one for me, one for him.  and to top it off, as he was making it,i heard from the kitchen "now mum, if you have anything to complain about, you can just go hungry." at least i can be safe in the knowledge that when ollie eventually goes to live on his own he will be able to make one meal!

have a lovely day

amy xx

nifty thrifty

 i've had a wee bit of luck this past week with my thrifty finds, all for $25.   

another basket to add to my collection, however this one is on loan to mum

 some amazing teacups

 vintage wool winder...that  works perfectly!

 a few kitchen bits and bobs

 pot plant watering can, pot holder and floral pillowcase

 all these books for $1

and now for some vintage baby clothes i do NOT need...

this suit is amazing! 

and still time for a hot chocolate and coffee with my boy.

xx amy

a wee catch up

mr. rainy thursday was spent at home with a slightly unwell yet surprisingly energetic ollie. we spent the (very long) day entertaining ourselves by doing puzzles, dancing to lady gaga (one of ollie's favourites at the moment) and me doing some knitting. do you like what i'm making? it's a manly style beanie i'm making for a friend. this is actually beanie number two, as beanie number one was a little fugly and is now gracing the head of a teddy bear as he is apparently travelling to disneyland, and it can get very cold on the plane in the sky (aaah i love 4 year old's imaginations).

ollie woke up slightly better friday morn, but i thought i'd still get him checked out. i always feel like an overprotective mum when i take ollie to the doctor, but so glad i did - full blown ear infection in one ear!! go mother's instinct!!

the immigrants

the drab doo-riffs

saturday night was child free for me so i went along to a very rainy and wet marchfest , an awesome festival that is a yearly event here in nelson to mark the end of the hop season. it's pretty much beer, food and good music. this year's line-up was again amazing with the immigrants , the drab doo-riffs, john cooper clarke, and alabama 3. check them out!
(sorry about the shoddy band pictures, but that's what happens when you're trying to dance in suctiony mud and take a picture all at the same time.)

i hope you had a lovely weekend too!

better late than never...

summer was rather shy this year where i live with colder than normal weather, more rain and definitely not many good picnic-ing days. so, after seeing the summery day outside, i banished the ridiculous notion that it was autumn, and set off to rabbit island for a picnic.

after a bit of lunch, i sat with my book on the beach while ollie played, dug holes and drove his dump truck around.




how did you spend your saturday?