Garterbelts & Gasoline

Not last weekend but the weekend before Mum, Dad, Corey and I ventured up Mount Tamborine for the Garterbelts & Gasoline festival.  This was my first time visiting this festival and it was loads of fun.  There was everything a a rockabilly/vintage festival should have cars, markets, music and gorgeous vintage fashions.  Here are some photos I took of the day.

I didn't get any photos of my outfit because I wasn't feeling particularly vintage.  I have just grown out of my last 50s dress so I was a bit bummed out.  I did however still spend some time on my hair and makeup.  I used this tutorial for my hair.  I also got to pop into my favourite vintage store, Kitty's Vintage Kitsch, for a little visit and catch up with Celia.  It was lovely to visit again and I am hoping to pop up again once we find out the gender of the baby and see if I can find any vintage treasures to use in Squishy's room.  We have been having some fun weekend adventures lately which I am really enjoying.  I can't wait till the end of the year when we can start taking some family adventures with Squishy.

Happy Mother's Day

I just wanted to say a quick Happy Mother's Day to the most awesomest mummy in the whole entire world! I hope you have a super duper fantastic day. You are the bestest mum that I could ever hope for. If I am even half as good a mum as you are Squishy is going to be one lucky kid.  Love you xoxoxoxox

Recipes from Bloggers

  

Last weekend I did a little bit of cooking and decided to test out a couple of recipes I had seen shared by some fellow bloggers.  Firstly I have been wanting to try out Broccoli & Cheese Soup for a while and in my search stumbled across this recipe by The Veggie Mama.  I whipped up a pot on Saturday while Corey was sick on the lounge.  I woke him up to have a bowl and he ate it up pretty quickly. It was delicious! I will definitely be saving this recipe into the winter recipe list.

After the soup I thought it might be nice to bake something sweet to take to Garterbelts & Gasoline.  We pack a picnic whenever we go to a festival so we can camp out in front of the stage and have lunch and listen to music.  I had a few spare oranges so I decided to whip up this Orange Butter Cake I saved a while ago from Melbourne Epicure.  Cathy is an absolute goddess when it comes to cakes and this one is no different.  It is so quick and easy to whip up and produces a delicious moist butter cake.

Have you found any good recipes on the blogs you read lately?  I am having the biggest urge to try out new recipes lately and have been cooking up a storm!

The Good, The Bad & The Bump(y)

The Good

• Long weekends
• Spending the day up Mount Tamborine with the family at Garterbelts & Gasoline (post to come)
• Visiting my favourite vintage shop even though I couldn't buy any of the gorgeous dresses
• Having a constant urge to bake
• Bacon - I never was a big bacon person before but I crave it now like its going out of fashion

The Bad

• House inspections
• A full day spent cleaning for said house inspection
• The funny noise my car is making - still trying to figure out what it is!

The Bump

I think this week I have definitely popped out a bit.  I feel like I actually look pregnant now and not just chubby. I had my first person ask me if I was pregnant the other day which was exciting.  Afterwards I thought lucky I was pregnant though otherwise that person would have felt very embarrassed.  Only 2 more weeks until we can find out what we are having.  I am so excited! Counting the days.  What do you guys think I am having?

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April Reading List

This month was a good reading month for me.  I managed 7 books!  I think this is my best month of reading since the start of last year.

I finished up the Shopaholic series with Shopaholic & Baby.  This was a fun read being pregnant and able to relate to a lot of the stuff that was going on in the book.  Especially the overwhelming feeling of all the things you have to buy.  One of the items on my 101 in 1001 list is to reread the Harry Potter series.  I finished up Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince and now I only have 1 more book till I can cross that item of my 101 list.  The last 5 books I read are the first 5 books in the Pretty Little Liars series.  These books are so quick to read and they really suck you in.  They are about a group of teenage girls whose best friend goes missing in year 7.  In the first book they start receiving text messages revealing their closest secrets from someone who they believe is their missing friend.  It is part mystery part suspense and they having totally sucked me in.

Homemade Dulce De Leche

Last months Donna Hay magazine had a section that was all about caramel.  Caramel is my favourite!  Growing up allergic to chocolate caramel was always my go to flavour choice.  There are so many things in this magazine that I want to make but I decided to start with a quick simple one.  Homemade Dulce De Leche.  Yum!!!

Homemade Dulce De Leche by Donna Hay

2 x 395g tins of condensed milk

Preheat oven to 220*C.  Place condensed milk in an ovenproof baking dish and cover tightly with aluminum foil.  Place the baking dish in a larger deep sided baking tray and fill with boiling water until it reaches 2/3 of the way up the sides of the dish.  Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes-1 hour and 45 minutes or until caramel in colour.  Spoon the caramel into a bowl and whisk until smooth. Spoon int sterilized glass jars and keep in the fridge for up to 1 month.  This recipe makes 2 cups.

I obviously skipped the jarring and storing in the fridge and decided to pop it all straight into some shortcrust pastry to make a delicious caramel tart.  I think I might be making another batch of this though to swirl through some vanilla ice-cream.  Delicious!!!

M Date - Movies

Last weekend Corey and I had our M Date (yes, we are doing these way out of order).  We decided to go to Gold Class to see The Hunger Games.  I had been wanting to see this since it came out but hadn't been feeling quite up to it.  I am so glad we finally go to watch it.  I was so impressed with this movie. I think they recreated the world of the books so well.  The contrast between the districts and the capitol was done perfectly.  The capitol characters costumes were phenomenal. The colour, the eccentricity, I was very impressed!

And I must say Rue was the cutest little thing I have ever seen! I think she was my favourite character even though she only had a small part.  Have you guys seen The Hunger Games?  What did you think?