My Place and Yours- My Secret Weapon

This week mybricole wanted to know our secret weapon, and this was a very easy call for me.
You see, i bake. A lot. For friends and family, for myself, even just for the love. And up until relatively recently i'd been using one of those hand-held beaters, which was ok, but then this happened:

Isn't she a beauty? She was a suprise from my mum and my boyfriend. It wasn't my brithday, it wasn't christmas, they just knew how much i would love it. I think 'just because' presents are so lovely, i feel absolutely spoiled :-)

We cook together a lot, so far we've made cakes and biscuits, tarts, ravioli, pavlova, and the most incredible sponge cake. But what i would really like to tackle next is bread. I love dense, chewy sourdoughs. And fruit loaf really floats my boat too. Is homemade sourdough starter YOUR secret weapon? I'd love to hear your recipes :-)

Let's pop over and see pip to check out other people's secret weapons.

Yarn Bombing

Wandering round my neighbourhood yesterday, i discovered some lovely knitted graffiti.

What a great idea! It's amazing to think that somebody has invested so much time and effort to brighten up the day for passers-by. How generous!

I think the tree-cosy above would have to be my favourite. I love the colours, and just check out those ruffles! Cuuute!


If i could knit like this i'd be yarn bombing all over the place, then wandering past to see people's reactions :-) Have you ever been a gurilla knitter??? I want to hear some stories.

It's nice when such a small thing can make your day, thankyou mystery yarn bomber!

Melbourne Cup hat for a seven year old

This is for a very sweet little friend of mine, who has a Melbourne Cup hat parade at school tomorrow.
I hope she likes it!
Now to organise something equally over the top for myself...