Anything Can Happen Friday!

2012 marks 60 years that Queen Elizabeth has been on the throne!! I don't mind the queen she seems like a lovely old lady and though Prince Phillip has the tendency to be a little ahem inappropriate they look like they are still madly in love after all these years.

And well of course you know how I love to celebrate ;)

But as I am supposed to be studying this week and not celebrating :( I asked the lovely Nikki of Paper Gravy if she would mind terribly if I used some pictures of the great jubilee bunting she has for sale in her Etsy store.....

Isn't it awesome?? Printable straight from her Etsy store to you for the low low price of $US4, so why not grab some and hold yourself a Jubilee party this weekend!!

And if that didn't make you want to drink tea and celebrate the queen here are a few more links to get you in the jubilee mood:
- first port of call the official site here
- grab yourself one of these awesome tea cosies by Ulster Weavers on Not On The High Street
- I found these great totes from Rockett St George
- Culture Label have a limited edition tea towel set in stock
- in the archives at Amy Atlas I found this London Inspired Dessert Feature
- the Biscuiteers have an entire jubilee range which looks awesome AND tasty
- this little graphic is making the rounds of Pinterest
- The Prince of Wales is even getting a wee bit excited bringing out his own range of memorabilia, despite all the shenanigans in the media I happen to think the Union Flag Baby shoes are pretty damn cute

What ever your stance on royals it's always a good excuse for a tea party ;)

Thursday.

It's just a wee bit chilly down under lately so we have been doing a lot of baking, Joel bought a bag of apples a few weeks ago but was a bit slack when it came to eating them so I decided to make some apple crumble....

When we were kids Mum used to make it all the time, except she ever so politely called it 'Apple Scab'. If you haven't made it before it's pretty simple - peel and chop some apples and then chuck them in a saucepan with a bit of cinnamon/nutmeg and a spoonful of water, when they have cooked down all mushy and stuff (well as mushy as you wish really) put them in a baking dish. Then combine some oats, brown sugar, flour and butter and sprinkle on top of the apple mixture and bake - SO SIMPLE

and SO TASTY!!

Wednesday.

I am hacking away slowly at the last of my two assignments for the semester - surprisingly they are not as bad as I first thought and I am actually finding my futures assignment a little bit - dare I say it - interesting!

But that doesn't mean I haven't found time to peruse all my favourite blogs and foster maybe a new little idea in my head; here are some ways I have been found procrastinating....
- entering and hoping that maybe just maybe I will win this competition on the Design Files blog
- reading this article on Design Sponge and wondering whether I should start seeking some guest post opportunities...
- discovering new blogs like this one here and also this one, this one is also pretty rad
- contemplating a new brand name - any ideas? thinking about celebrations/parties/events type of name
- and finally playing with my paints to create these little thank-you cards below

On the Table

So last week my husband came home from work with a really sad look on his face, he totally loves his new job and I mean LOVES so I wasn't quite sure what the problem could be. He muttered something, sad look still on his face. 'Can you make me some biscuits?' simple enough request right? so why so sad? 'Because all the other guys at work have awesome biscuits and cakes that their wives make and all I have is a ham sandwich'

I LAUGHED OUT LOUD

So in order to help my cute as hell hubby fit in at work I agreed to make him some biscuits, but not just any biscuits some awesome double choc chip biscuits. Like these...

 I found the recipe via Tastespotting on Cooking with the Big Dogs which she found on the Gourmet: Day to Day blog. Instead of making the 11-12 huge/giant cookies we just went with 24 regular sized ones. I made them on Sunday and we still have about 6 left stored in an airtight container still tasting pretty darn good.

We accidently grabbed a bag of milk and bag of dark chocolate chips so I just used a mixture of both. No Subway cookie but I would definitely recommend them.

You can probably tell from the photos but they were definitely a late night snack... next he has requested Double Choc Muffins but I think I might also sneak in some of these (minus the chilli) they will surely blow all the competition out of the water.

Also on the note of packed lunches I recently found the blog This Lunch Rox! and it really does rock

Monday.

This week is the last week of uni before exams, I am drawing ever closer to that elusive point called graduation but still no job prospects on the horizon I can't help but feel down at the moment but hopefully things will start looking up and up and UP!

So this week my posting might seem a little all over the place... mainly because I HAVE to focus all my energies on assignments due at the end of the week and the coming exams and thus I will have for you what I am going to call 'lazy blogs' things I have done/been doing that are simple and most importantly have already been photographed/documented etc.

 What is this? I hear you ask well after re-organising my sideboard which plays host to all my creative paraphernalia (we have no space so if it can't fit here, there is no where else to go!!)

It formerly had my uni stuff on the top along with my roll of brown paper and other stuff but I found it just looked way too messy all the time so ta-dah!

So much cleaner looking right? One day I will get round to taking photos of the whole flat but right now things are still a little all over the place - I want to get some of those space bag things to give us some more room in the cupboard and of course there is still the matter of Joel's boxes of 'stuff''

In the meantime don't my books look pretty? These ones are either my absolute faves or hollowed out books ready to be something else.....