My little Dinosaur and her Fish dinner...

Ok, so you may have noticed, I've become a little obsessed with creating food pictures for my daughter!
And each week they're getting more elaborate...

Yesterdays design was an ocean scene, complete bubble blowing fish, seaweed, coral and sand...

Her facials tell it all, I don't even need to make my own comments about how it went down!


Today unfortunately my little dinosaur has awoken rather unwell and docile. One trip to the doctors and a script of antibiotics later, little Miss Muffit has crashed out on the couch, Master 10 months is in bed having a snooze (also sick, along with Daddy and I), and I am here at my dining table enjoying a cuppa coffee and admiring the stunning double daff's I bought from work on Saturday! They are about the only cheery thing about this household at the moment, too bad there isn't some sunshine to brighten things up in here further!

Poor little chookin pie :(

And as Murpheys law would have it, now that I've written about both kids being asleep and me enjoying a cuppa...Master 10 months has awoken!
That's my cue to get off the computer and carry on with the chaos. :-P

So for now, keep well, keep warm and stay beautiful! x

Flowerrrrs

So I've recently scored myself a part time florist job, and it's been SO nice to get back into it!

Being a stay at home Mum has its perks of course, for example; I am currently sitting here on my laptop, in trackies and a hoodie, its 10:56am, the heater is on, nice cuppa coffee in hand. The baby is asleep, and 4 year old is quietly munching on some morning tea. It's a cold gloomy winter's day outside and I know I don't have to go anywhere, I even managed to get washing on, dishes done, 4 year old's room tidied, the house vacuumed, and tonight's roast prepped ready to go in the oven a bit later!
Talk about a productive morning!

The downside, is I had to get up 4x last night (a regular night is 3x) to a teething, sick, croupy baby boy, there is a pile of (clean) washing a mile high sitting on my couch which I just cannot face folding right now, and I feel like drowning in a pool of coffee, or energy drink or just sleep for a week solid! *Dreams are free hey? :P *
As soon as Miss 4 has finished her morning tea, she'll be back to her hyperactive, cannot sit still, needs your 24/7 undivided attention, so this is a mere quiet moment in all the madness!
Don't get me wrong, I love my kiddos, but sometimes I get super jealous of hubby, getting to disappear for 8 hours a day and hangout with adults all day!

Sooo this new part time job has been blissful, one day a week I get to leave the madness behind, get 40 minutes of quiet time relaxing on the train ride into the city, get this view on the way in and the way home.

No matter the weather, I always find the seaside beautiful, the ever changing colours of the water, and the sky. Gloomy weather is equally as beautiful as a clear sunny day....only not quite as nice to be out in haha!

 

 

 

Best of all I get to spend the day playing with flowers and get paid for it!
I'm sure if it was full time, the novelty would ware off pretty quick, but for now, it's a bit like a paid holiday.

Some days when it's a glorious sunny morning...and if I've managed to get out of bed by the second snooze..haha...I catch an earlier train and head down to the waterfront with a coffee and just breathe in the peace and quiet. How many times can one person say bliss before it looses all meaning??? Well I'll say it one more time, BLISS!
It really does become the little things in life which are the most enjoyable...and now that I sound like a complete sunshine and rainbows, stop and smell the roses hippy, I'll move on...

So here is some yummy flowery stuff I've been up to, seeing as my blog is aptly named the Florist Mama, and I rarely post any floristry pics, thought I'd better catch up on that little aspect...

This next one, is accompanies a cute little anecdote. Guy comes in looking for a "cottagey, girly bouquet". He was planning on surprising a girl at the airport with a big romantic gesture, only it was at the airport as she was about to LEAVE the country...Possibly would have been a better idea to do the big romantic gesture as she arrived home...or better yet, before she decided to go overseas. But oh well, good luck to the guy, hoping it all went to plan! So nice to know there are still some romantic men out there!

and just a couple more :)

Righteo my lovelies, that's my floristry input for now, I have a roast for tonight's dinner I need to crack on with!
So for now, go buy some flowers, decorate your house, and stay beautiful!

Parrot for dessert...

Well the success of the Island fruit salad, sent me into creative food display overdrive, and I decided to amp things up a bit!
Saw a very similar design to this next one on Pinterest made with peaches, and decided to give it a whirl.
We don't have any peaches in my local supermarket here in NZ at the moment (or at least not that I could find?).
So nectarines it was...I spose you could use any round fruit, persimmons might be nice...though I'd avoid apples in case they go gross and brown while you're fiddling round with your placement...that would take the novelty of eating the fruit right away!
I just liked the idea of the variegated colours in the peaches or nectarines, kind of like the colours through a birds actual feathers...I'm sure you made that connection without my help though :-P

Pretty impressed at how this turned out and how easy it was to create.

All you need is:

- Some mad knife skills
-4 nectarines (that's 2 for the body, wings and beak, and 2 for back up in case you stuff things up, or eat too much of the trimmings haha)

- Mini marshmallows and raisins for the eyes
-Pretzel sticks
-Mint leaves, or any edible leaves you fancy.

Now go construct an awesome parrot and make fruit eating a novelty for your kiddos, my picture says it all! My daughter looooved this bird and ate every last bit.


Just a short post today, I have a sick wee bub at home with me and he is not letting me get a lot done, so off I go to sit on the floor and snuggle him while I *TRY* to get some washing folded...could use a nice strong coffee if anyone is offering???....please??? ;-)

Go get creative and stay beautiful! x