Flowers and cupcakes

It's Sunday afternoon and I've had a nice weekend.

Dad stayed Friday night and we had brunch with Alex and Zoe on Saturday morning in Wilston. That was really lovely and lazy and enjoyable.

I have been very tired all weekend and a bit emotional today. I am counting down the days till I see mum and even though I know it's close it just seems to be dragging. I have so much to show her and things that I want opinions on.

Today has been a very lazy day, the slow cooker is on and I have made a lot of art.
I bought some flowers today for $2.70 (I can't remember what they are called) and they looked lovely next to my banana and cinnamon cupcakes. The cupcakes are pretty freaking awesome too. Very light and fluffy for GF.

Lisa and Kiel are coming over for tea tonight so I'm looking forward to a nice end to the weekend before back at work tomorrow.

Snowing and snow ball fight....

The air smells like honey

Tom and I have been inside all day creating. He is learning how to make websites which is very exciting for me!


Late this afternoon I convinced him to go for a big bike ride and we meandered through a few different suburbs until we ended up at the river and looped back around. It was a gorgeous afternoon and the air smells so yummy at the moment.

Cold weather and its only 'fall'...not winter yet..

This morning I was watching the cute little kids at the school next door running along behind their teacher...they had beanies and gloves and big jackets on and they were dancing along as though they were on the beach. They all ran over to the swings and monkey bars and started having fun in the very very weak sun. It was freeeeeeeeeeezing out there...I have decided that Canadians are tough people..they have to be to survive in this country. Its not even winter yet and I'm wearing enough for a very cold day in Australia.

Snow flurries tomorrow nite!! woohoo...

I went out this afternoon - took my Dexter dvd (season 1) back and ducked into the thrift shop. Found this cute little vintage typewriter ribbon box. And inside were 6 boxes of old ink ribbons in their own boxes.

Minus something is forecast for tonite and then tomorrow nite our first snow...yay...I am quite excited..especially seeing as I will be out of here in 4 weeks' time so it won't have time to become a pain for me.

Today was spent packing my art things away. I filled 3 boxes and have a chest of drawers still half full of art supplies to use up before I leave and some fabrics to sew. I have a deep red velvet to make into small purses with zips and a washed out floral to sew into large bags to show off the design. I also spent time sanding back the 4 coats of paint on my 8x8'' wood panel. It is a collage in progress and I'm still pondering the final arrangement of found objects. I LOVE collage.

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

I went for a big bike ride this afternoon and took some quick photos.

I came flying down French St on my way home. There's nothing like it!

Flowers for Ash..stripey chrysanthemums

Nikki and Dan brought these over on thanksgiving...I was talking to Ash on the net and told her about them and she was interested...so here they are Ash!

Sugar Pie...and gluten free!

okay..the recipe: 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup maple syrup
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp table salt
Combine sugar, cream and syrup over medium heat and bring to a boil. Boil gently for 10 minutes, stirring often. Let cool in a bowl to room temp. whisk in eggs, lemon juice and salt. Put in (gf) pie shell and bake for about 30 minutes @ 375o. YUM YUM YUM...actually you have to play around with the baking times for gf pie shells and maybe bake the pie shell first...mine was sloppy on the bottom..

Feeding birds at Mud Lake

Don was feeding the chickadees...(real name of the birds) and I was trying to catch pics of them...got some of him making funny faces too..see the colours in the background?

Wildlife at Mud Lake...

The bird is actually a woody woodpecker..it is not a great photo but I wanted to put it on here anyway...the geese are resting up before their big flight south...and the squirrels are taking nuts away to hide.

Fall colour...gorgeous gorgeous!!!

Just along our street and in mud lake...the leaves really are that red....

My life in food

I uploaded the latest photos from my camera to see what I could show you of my life lately. The only things I have on there are art and food. Which is pretty apt actually.
I shall put the art photos up at trudyflorence so all you get is food.

Eggplant parmigiana - which was amazing.


And coke spiders!

Over at Nikki's place.

Some fairytale mushrooms growing over at Nikki's neighbour's place...they were quite large and very cute...a little village of them.

This is her front glass door with fall sticky decorations on it...very cute.