A Sunday hello.

Hello from a Sunday afternoon...

It's been another spectacular weekend...bright blue endless skies, warm sunny days. Even though I am a Winter girl, after last years Winter, I am desperately still trying to hang on too Summer.
Autumn though, is desperately trying to squeeze her way in...she seems to have come a little early this year. The leaves are already turning....I do love Autumn...so, so pretty.

I am in the throes of finalising TF's 40th birthday party. We are having a small, intimate dinner for a few friends and family this week. I am hoping it turns out to be really special.

I cannot wait for Masterchef South Africa too start. I am so glad they have chosen brand new people to host the show...not the usual suspects. 

As I sit here, I can barely lift my arms. In December last year, me and the BFF joined a personal trainer...and we are still going...can you believe it? I have been going three times a week, and I am feeling it badly this week....which is a good sign of course. I must admit, I am loving it...we have so much fun. Who would have thought!

Work is crazy busy, but good. 


I am busy eating one of those hard white Easter eggs. My second for the day, and who knows how many for the weekend...we cannot stop ourselves. Send help...someone...anyone...

Just like last year, the weeks seem to be flying by...and I so wish they would slow down a little...
But everything is good...very good.

Have a fabulous week everyone...

Instagram Friday.

1. Happy 4th Birthdayto our Adam boy...you make us smile everyday. 2. A Monday afternoon in the city.

3. After all these years, still my favourite...{the song and him}.

4. It's a perfect day for this...couch, tea, gossip girl catch up. 5. Fridge magnets. 6. A Friday sunrise.

A blue Friday.

When my sister announced that my nephew wanted a Smurf party for his 4th birthday...I quickly volunteered to make the cupcakes. But not just normal ones...with some blue icing...nope...I insisted on making actual blue cake cupcakes. My inspiration...this specific picture from Pinterest:

How hard could it be right?

So, on Friday night, armed with my three boxes of shop-bought cake mixture {enough for about 36 cupcakes}, blue colouring {from the fancy baking shop in Sandton City}, enough white butter icing to ice about 100 cupcakes...I had my camera on standby...because I was ready to blog about my awesome blue cupcakes. I started baking.

Everything started off well...I got my batter just right...the colour was perfect...

Until I had to bake them...so here's the thing:

1) You cannot tell, by looking at them if they are almost done...there is no golden colour. By the time I took them out they were a beautiful shade of grey!
2) I insisted on baking them without cupcake cups...because I wanted to show off the blue cake. And even after greasing the pans a million times...they stuck...I could only get the tops out.

So, at about 11h00 on Friday evening, and four separate batches later...all I had, was this...

...the night before the party...

I didn't have the heart to phone my Sister and stress her out So arrived at the party, bearing a measly nine blue cupcakes, that I managed to scrap out of the remaining batter...

Yip...so what was meant to be a post about how clever I was...and how I could be the next Martha Stewart {even if it was using box cake mixture}...this is was it...

Needless to say...we shall be ordering cupcakes next time around...

Down by the lake.

It was a beautiful Sunday...and the local sailing club was out on the lake, so we decided to pack the camera...

...and the dog...

...and spent some time, just soaking in the view....

I love that our little town is surrounded by these lakes...

Celebrating 4.

This morning, our littlest family member celebrated his 4th birthday party...and in his little world, there was only one to do it...a Smurf party. So we joined him, our family and what seemed like a few hundred of his little friends for a celebration...

A perfectly awesome party, for a perfectly awesome little guy...