It was a bright and hot weekend here in the South Island. Here are some glimpses:
:: chocolate cake baked and eaten outside under the umbrella with help from next-door children
:: some new (old) books from Tom's grandmother, complete with the orginal Harrod's receipt, dated 1964
:: a cleaned and organised children's bedroom (I wonder how long it will stay that way?)
:: the kitchen window- cool inside, hot outside.
I will have the dress pattern ready to post here tomorrow. Happy new week!
Have to say that cake looks “absolutely delish”!!!!
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Chocolate cake-yum, yum!
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Your weekending sounds lovely, Melissa.
As always, I feel like my pace slows down when I visit here… For a few moments, I delight in your projects, I savor little bits and pieces of your life, and I become completely inspired. It’s simply lovely here. Congratulations on designing your own fabric – I think 2011 is going to be a fantastic year for you!
warmly,
-maria
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everything looks so wonderful
fresh
delicious
and
green
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Yep, that cake. Yummm.
Everything looks so warm over there. It’s cold, rainy, and overcast over here. Kinda neat to see another side of the world. 🙂
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We’re having a traditional Montana “January thaw.” Makes the winter more tolerable. Your cake looks so yummy!
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I am longing for your country! Here in Norway is it dark, cold and rainy now. My family spent December 2009 in your country and we LOVED our stay!
I like your blogg. Welcome to my “place”: http://marian-marihno.blogspot.com/
Marian
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What a lovely weekend!
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Delicious cake, tidy bedroom … that’s some kind of bliss going on right there …
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:gasp: Vita Sackville-West’s Garden Book – how beautiful!
The first snowdrops are out over here. Winter is almost gone in Germany 🙂
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Lovely post of domesticity. Congrats on winning Margie’s covered stone. So fun that you will receive this!
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Thank you for the sun …
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I love homemade chocolate cake and that one looks especially delicious. It’s too soon after the excesses of the holiday season for me to dare to make one.
I wish my fairy godmother would come and tidy my children’s rooms.
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that cake looks amazing!
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Beautiful looking cake! And I have that exact same edition of Gerald Manley Hopkins…lovely poems 🙂
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that cake looks so good. everything on your blog always looks so good – i always love your photos.
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tiny happy 
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