03 July 2010
By callatya
I'm cooking. Sleep has been coming at the strangest hours these past few weeks, and due to the wonderfully lucid waking ones I have not fought it. This explains why I'm up at this silly hour. Still up. Tomorrow I need to go and mingle with a bunch of crafters and, since last meet up I arrived late and completely forgot to bring a plate, I thought I'd make an effort to right my wrong.
The house smells like sugar, peanuts, and fruit. The windows are frosted up and there are little rivulets of water pooling on the sills. It is marvellous!
I've knocked over two batches already, one lot of mixed jam drops and one delicious recipe I found on Bakerella. I modified it a little because I just cannot deal with dipping things in chocolate or waiting for the dough to harden, but it was still incredibly simple!
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup castor sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup choc chips
1/3 cup plain flour
The method is simple. Mix, scoop, drop, bake @ 175 for 20 minutes. Boom boom. Done! I can't wait to see how quickly they vanish.
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02 July 2010
By callatya
Somehow I'd convinced myself that this site could wait. Another week, another month, until I was really truly ready to get stuck into it. I have plenty of other things on my plate and who still reads this tatty old thing anyway?
Well, apparently two people. Both of them chose last week to give me a good old butt-kicking and told me in no uncertain terms that I was to start writing again. Not next week, not next month, but rightnowthankyouverymuch.
Who am I to argue?
A small trailerload of pharmacy-related comment garble has been evicted from the database. Every little button and dropdown box has been checked, rechecked, and set to awesome. I've even given the old girl a new frock. Scruffy. A bit of a leap from the red Barron, but I really think it brings out her eyes. Yes. This blog is a girl. Be honest, deep down you always knew.
So, nothing for it. Time to start blogging again.
22 September 2009
By callatya
I admit it. I love beautiful things.
Most people will try and deny it, but I'm all for embracing my desire for all things to be perfectly pretty. After a trip to the local boutique stationery place, I was even more for embracing it. I was also for spending a small fortune on printed papergoods, fancy notepads and that snazzy tote bag they had in the window. Of course, beauty does not come cheap and I just couldn't justify spending the price of a small car on a few very attractive pens.
Still, the lady wants what she wants...
...and so the lady creates it from stuff she finds about the house.
Not bad for some old food containers and a bit of wrapping paper, hey?
16 September 2009
By callatya
It is always the small things in life that make make your soul glow. :) This week I watched a bunch of shrivelled, furry green buds - remarkably reminiscent of canine testicles - hatch from their little cocoons and stretch into bright, cheery blooms.
I've never patted flowers before, but these copped a bit of a scratch behind the ears. I couldn't help it. They were furry and adorable. Ugly, yet interesting. I could almost imagine them cooing and stretching their little stems up for more.
I rather like the little guys. :)
19 August 2009
By callatya
In our bedroom, there is a wall. It is a beautiful earthy rich red ochre and is quite a strong feature in the room. Unfortunately most bedroom soft furnishings don't expect a colour like that. 9 times out of 10 quilt covers have touches of pinks or vibrant pure reds that clash terribly. The sad thing for me is that they are usually really attractive fabrics and designs in and of themselves, they just don't go with the room. It is almost enough to make me want to break out the paint rollers and crack a pot of pink.
But no more! Today I picked up two really funky earth tone quilt cover sets - not a splodge or swoosh of pink to be seen! Both were from Pillow Talk and both were very much on sale, which is almost necessary when you need king bed size!
The first is Orion:
The next is Arcane Tangerine:
Aren't they just totally awesome duuuude? They are due for their first wash tomorrow, and then one or the other is going straight on the bed. Wheeee! Put away those paint rollers, the ochre wall is staying! No more pink quilt covers for us!
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19 August 2009
By callatya
Gosford is lovely this time of year. It is even more lovely if you get to see more than the outer suburbs. Today I rolled out of bed, into Dad's ute and was driven up the coast to pick up my new outdoor setting. Well, new to me.
It isn't as large as I'd expected, but to be honest this size is probably far more practical for our yard anyway. Besides, if it turns out we use it we can always upgrade. If we don't use it quite so often, we can just fold it down and hand it up in the garage. Easy peasy. Hopefully this new little setting and the outdoor umbrella I picked up earlier in the week will mean many a summer meal being enjoyed outdoors. I'm still on the lookout for a heavy umbrella stand and some big citronella candles to ward off the buzzing insects but, other than that, we are all set!
Dad and I did manage to crowbar in some fish and chip time at Montis Ashore before beating the peak hour traffic home. There is something very soothing about ripping open the paper around your food and chowing down on freshly fried seafood with the smell of the sea filling your head. The perfect end to the trip :-)
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