Giveaway Winner!

Right. It's Saturday morning & I'm tired & cold & out of Vegemite (how does that happen.....?!). On the upside, it looks like it's going to be nice outside & I have a copious amount of coffee to get me through, BUT, Blogtoberfest is officially kicking my butt.

I can't wait for it to be over! Is that awful....?! Maybe it's just my mood this morning but I find myself longing for a day when I don't have to turn the computer on... yeah I could do that "post the day before your post posts post" thing, but *meh*, that seems like just as much of a pain....

Anywho, the whinging is just setting me up nicely for; There is no giveaway this week (or next week... while I'm piking...), for two reasons;

1. I haven't made anything (nor do I want to give you any of my stuff. I like stuff, especially my stuff.)

2. As great as I thought the BOTF concept was, it really didn't help... I find myself reading even more, if that's possible? I read festival posts anyway, as they come up in my reader, AND then go & read the links you've generously provided. I will not be doing that this week, in all honesty. It is going to be a struggle to just keep posting...

BUT. I have let my 100th post come & go without a second thought so I'm going to pick another number... like 125 or 150, to have a celebratory giveaway with lots of STUFF (which I KNOW you like, just as much as I do...), so do check back, sometime when blogtober is a fond yet distant memory.

Now, I've babbled on enough, me thinks. Without further ado, the new owner of her very own, laboriously pierced button bracelet is;

MoederKip! Hurrah! Do email me your address my dear, and I shall post you some buttony goodness. :)

Glasses... or no glasses....?

That IS the question.

I am supposed to wear these glasses everyday. As a compromise, I don't wear them at all, ever.

I found them while cleaning up (...it is never ending...).

I tried them on. They made my eyes hurt a bit. But I could see better, funnily enough.

I think they up the geek factor by at least 50%. I don't mind that, sometimes, geekery is all the rage don't you know, but in general... I don't love them. What do you think? (Ignore the 'just got out of bed' hair. I am going to shlub around the house today & it shall be staying that way until I 'just get out of bed' tomorrow.)

PS, Punky thinks they are HILARIOUS....

My Creative Space.

I wasn't going to post "My Creative Space" today, as apart from the start of the week I've not been creating all that much at all, the sun has finally come out & it has been so hard to force myself inside for any reason (hence why my last couple of posts could barely be called "posts", sitting in front of the computer seems the least inviting place of all...), even playing with buttons & fabric & bias binding... but surely my creative space can be a place that inspires, refreshes & renews? Surely it can be a place that makes me happy & gets my creative juices flowing?

I think it can be, so I am sharing it with you; "Outside".

We've been to the beach, to waterfalls (...where *bursts with pride* Le Punk climbed almost 200 stairs by herself.... going up...!!! It was incredibly cute & pretty amazing, since The Boy & I were struggling (I still have sore calves), & she made a tennis-worthy grunt with every step.....!), having bbqs, playing in the park & just generally stooging around outside in the sun.

Punky has been waking up crazy happy as opposed to regular happy & every body's mood has lifted to dizzying heights - you don't realise how much you miss the sun until it makes you feel like this!

....and, just because I am really not a rule breaker at heart, a picture of what I was playing with before the sun decided to shine upon us, buttons a plenty. I made the bracelet for my giveaway & decided I needed one for myself, but the needle/candle method I was using to put holes in the buttons for the jump rings came unstuck when several needles' points bent in weird & wonderful ways... is there a better way crafty peeps?! Do share!

Also on the button front, I was dismayed to find yesterday that one of my Oppies is now charging $5 for what used to be a $3 jar of buttons.... *sigh* I know it's only $2 more but I can't bring myself to pay that much for a (not all that big) jar of old buttons!

*Yawn*

...crazy busy & crazy tired... can't even be bothered finding a photo for "Wordless Wednesday".

Usual transmission will (hopefully) resume tomorrow.

I'm off to the beach.

So I'm cashing this in.

Choc Chip & Walnut Muffins.

Did you see these muffins we made Saturday...?

I only bring it up because I am munching on one right now & MAN. They're good. I mean, really.

Choc Chip & Walnut Muffins;

1 3/4 cups plain flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup extra light olive oil
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 180 & place paper patty cases in muffin tin (our batch made 18 smaller muffins, but that was with batter filled right to the top of the patty cases & several stray dollops of batter around the kitchen...).

Mix together sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla & olive oil in a large bowl until well combined. Add flour, baking powder & salt & again mix until combined.

Fold in chocolate chips & walnuts.

Spoon mixture into patty cases & bake for about 20 mins or until cooked.

Y. U. M.

My Place And Yours...

It remains to be seen what exactly I would do with my time if I didn't have to read many, many, many inspirational blog posts every day & find new memes to participate in.

Perhaps I could take over the world. But we'll never know, will we?

Pip has started her very own Meme over at Meet Me At Mikes, I urge you to check out her blog, if you haven't already, her lists of crafty tutes will come in handy to everyone.

The meme is titled, as is this post, My Place & Yours, and will have a different them each week so that participants can share little snippets of their homes.

This week's theme is 'On The Shelf'.

I went with a shelf in one of the neatest rooms in the house, because it's Sunday & I'm lazy; Punky's.

Her cute wooden doll house, which has lost a quarter of it's furniture to the depths of "under the bed", a few of her favourite books which, I kid you not, SHE keeps there to "read" instead of nap and a vintage nightlight that I found in Tassie an age ago.

PS Two days of two posts...?! I am surely headed for ruin!