happy days...

Last week was not the most fabulous week around here, several sick kids, coughs & puffers, medication & lists, it was stressful and worrying and I'm glad it's over. Thanks so much to all of you who sent me good wishes, I really appreciate your kind words & thoughts. Athough there is still a little bit of coughing & snuffling the kids are all so much better which is a relief.

So after a fairly crappy week it was great to have a fantastic, fun filled weekend! Driving through the beautiful autumny countryside to ballet on Saturday with three of my girls, singing along to girl songs was a great way to kick off the weekend. Well, I guess the kick off was really the night before at a local pub where I had a beer or two with some great mates & listened to a band led by a teacher from school. Fun!!

Other highlights of the weekend were playing footy with the kids at the Hepburn Oval & watching Rosie master the monkey bars.

What a stunning day, blue skies and green grass, so lovely to be outside enjoying some beautiful weather & time together.

Later on I went on a road trip to Melbourne with my ace mate Kate, in search of crafty dinner fun in Carlton. We made it to the Sew It Together dinner despite a few hiccups involving wrong turns & tangled wool, to have an amazing time with lots of fellow crafty bloggers. So wonderful to see the gorgeous Gypsy, Nic, Bianca, Abbe, Mary Jane, Julie, Liesl & many more. Driving home to Daylesford through the dark, dark night with mist swirling could have been spooky but chatting with Kate made the time fly & it wasn't long before I was tucked up in my bed wondering if it had all been a dream.

Today was an amazing day too. After the school fun run this morning I met up with Michelle & we took off for Lancefield, to the old Macedonia Hotel which is a hotel no longer & now sells antiques & collectables.

We weren't there just to look however...


..we were being filmed for a Tourism Victoria commercial! Look out for us sometime in the future, drinking coffee & checking out the antiques in this amazing old building. It was so much fun, and hilarious!

So I'm feeling very content now after my big weekend, sitting in bed here all snug and warm & thinking how lucky I am to have my gorgeous family & such beautiful & fun friends to hang out with. Happy days! Hope all is well in your world, see you soon sweeties xo

Melbourne and a Mystery...

Yesterday the girls & I met some lovely friends at the Melbourne Museum. While we waited for them (they were late, we were early) we entertained ourselves by checking out this cute delivery van, people watching and..

...a bit of tap dancing to pass the time. Then there was some posing...

and finally our friends arrived! Then it was inside for a good old sticky beak at some other fancy fashion girls, and as many other exhibits as we could fit in.

I love, love, love the room devoted to all things Melbourne. I could spend all day in there. They have a fabulous display of an old house which depicted life in early Melbourne. The outdoor dunny attracted alot of attention, I suppose for kids these days an outside toilet would seem pretty amazing!


Lucy loved catching up with Daisy Kate and it was lovely to see her sisters too, Poppy & Kitty Rose. Carm and I had a good old yack, it's always good to chat with her. She has been having her own anxiety issues recently so it was good and reassuring to share this with her. We always have a good old laugh too, she really cracks me up. We've been through alot together over the years and I always love to see her.



After the museum we headed up to Lygon St to visit the Poppy Shop. The girls picked out two little suitcases for their doll clothes & we spent quite a while just looking at all the beautiful things in this gorgeous shop.

We came here as kids and it's great to see it is still run by the same woman, Pat. So many wonderful treasures..

Today we are back at home and it's suddenly the end of the school holidays! How did that happen? I've really enjoyed the time with our kids and Mark, who goes back to work on Monday too.

This weekend we are celebrating the 7th birthday of our beautiful daughter, Sunday, so I'm super excited about that! And her birthday is ON Sunday so it's extra special.

Finally lovely friends I have a little mystery to solve. Today I received my gorgeous and amazing name tag and I don't know who sent it! I can recall seeing this fabulous nametag on someones blog...or did I? I've been trawling back through posts but can't find it. Please put me out of my misery and let me know who you are so I can thank you! It's divine, and big, so there will be no mistaking who I am at Sew It Together!

Hope you are all travelling along well, it's a funny old, crazy old life isn't it? Lots of love to you all xo