Mathilda's Markets This Sunday!!

Yippie Yeah – it’s finally here. This Sunday we will be showcasing our wares at Mathilda's Market. This is a fabulous niche market that offers unique, stylish and affordable baby & kids goods that are lovingly handmade or of limited production.

The retailers are hand pick to ensure an exciting product range. You will discover a vast variety of funky, unique and gorgeous clothing (for example organic cotton, vintage, 70's, etc) wooden letters, canvasses, soft & wooden toys, soft leather shoes, room decor, bags, paintings, fun & personalised accessories, vintage-inspired products, handcrafted jewellery, fairy & dress up costumes & accessories, hair accessories, linen, sleepwear and so much more! And all this for your little ones ... it's a kid's shopping heaven.

Most of the retailers do not have a shop front, so you know you'll find something special, not available anywhere else.

Please come and see our stand THIS SUNDAY at Mathilda’s Market from 9am to 1pm at the Brisbane City Hall, B/w Adelaide & Ann St, King George Square, Brisbane City. Entry is free and parking is available under the City hall (fee applies).

With well over 60 retailers and yummy food, this will be a fantastic day out for young & old. For a sneak preview, have a look at the website (www.mathildasmarket.com.au) and enjoy a browse through the photos of all participants. We look forward to seeing you there!

Yummy Dinner...

After being broken into and having my poor baby (computer) stolen i finally have a new one - unfortunately when i plugged my backup disk in i found out it is corrupt!! AAHHH...i have lost everything, all my kids photos, all our work info and all my wedding planning stuff for our wedding in September! A note to everyone to make double backups or use an internet backup service....i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy if i had one!

Anyway - i'm not here to whinge about it, i'm hear to share my dinner with you - I made it up and it is a winner!!

"Kate's dont know what you would call it Pouches..."

Ingredients:

Bacon - about 5 rashers
garlic
2tbs butter
2tbs plain flour
some broccoli
some carrots - i used my neighbours fresh ones and i think that made a huge difference!
Stock - about 200 - 300 ml
cornflour - just a bit
1/2 a thing of cream

Method:

Steam broccoli and carrots.
Fry garlic with bacon in butter until nearly crisp...add plain flour and stir for a minute. Add stock and cook for further minute or 2.
Mash the broccoli and carrots roughly and add to mixture....
Stir in the cream and if needed add some cornflour that has been mixed with water or stock and stir again until thickish (like a pie filling)...

Put the mixture in pastry triangles and fold up at the sides so that it kinda looks like a pouch - brush with egg water or butter and cook for about 25mins at 180deg c..

YUM!!

The mixture doesnt look that great but my kids who don't like pastry munched 3 bowls of it on its own each!

Cut one whole pastry sheet in half diagonally to make a triangle then put a blob of mix in the middle and pouch it up!

A pic of what i get to look at while i'm cooking!
(especially for you little diva - nasty ay ha ha)

mmmmm....

Our crazy weather

Crazy crazy weather has been going on here in QLD (and all over the world, what's going on Mother Nature?!)....these pics are around the corner from my home taken yesterday morning...

My 2 boys....the entrance to the surf club can't be seen for the foam!

Is it snowing? Nope just sea foam...

The poor surf club cleaners car got swept away while he was working!

Hard to beleive that these pics were taken yesterday and today there is not one cloud in the sky! The weather today is so beautiful - we even just got back from having ice cream at the beach!

We Love Little Pinwheel!

Our newest stockist "little pinwheel" is just so great and thats all there is too it, i love the simplicity of hayleys site, its so clean and crisp and the fact that her husband is a photographer is a big fat bonus cause it makes her site look even greater - if that was even possible!

Hayley and her husband photographed some of our clothes for their blog - check it out HERE
And of course you can purchase our clothes along with heaps of other funky brands HERE

Project Matryoshka

These are just so cute! I bought the fabric panel from HERE for $27 and whipped them up and stuffed them with organic cotton in under half an hour...I had all intention in putting them in my daughters room but now they sit beautifully in our bookshelf - my house is starting to look like a nursery with all the cute stuff that i buy "for my children's room" but can't bear to part with - even if it is only in the next room....

Here is another "child room buy" that has ended up in our lounge room....Amanda from My Munchkin Home is so friendly and has loads of wall decals that you will fall in love with!!!

choc chip cookies with chickpeas.....

YUMMMMMM...sounds odd but you have to try them, have a look at the amount of sugar and butter in them, no wonder they are delicious! Mr 4 screwed his nose up when we put the chick peas in the mixture but he has since then eaten 3 cookies (they have only been out of the oven 5mins) and i think he has forgotten about the chick peas altogether! You seriously wouldn't know they are in there - don't think it matters much that they are eating 4 or 5 chickpeas per cookie when there is that much sugar and butter in them though!! I used 3/4 the amount of sugar and butter and they are still yummy!

Lost in the big smoke....

Today i went to deliver some stock to our brisbane stockist Groovy Kids which i fell in love with instantly.....while there i got very lost and the fact that you can't really turn around anywhere if you miss the turn off led me to frustration so parked up and took the opportunity to do some touristy things.....went to the museum, then the science centre and then the big wheel of Brisbane....i love random unplanned days, they always seem to be the best!

Kate...xx