my creative space 'garden craft'

Greetings all,
Seeing my studio is sweltering in unairconditioned heat, i haven't been sewing as much i should be with a huge Handmade market looming 2 weeks away . . . but it's still school holidays, i have extra children over & the garden is always an ace place to entertain children. 

 I selected my supplies from the hardware store, swung the pick into the ground & put up a mini wooden fence for my mini pumpkin patch.

 Several bags of potting mix & special vegetable boost enhanced fancy top soil later . . . my willing helpers transplanted the 8 germinated pumpkin seeds into position.

 With carrots down the centre as an experiment, water, then the magic touch of sugar cane mulch.

 It was so hot i had that eye-stinging-sweat-dripping-off-my-face thing going on, at 9.30a.m. & when we checked on our cool new pumpkin patch, the pumpkin leaves were frying in the sun, so it lost all street cred & i put a beach umbrella over it.  There were also German Shepherd paw skid marks across the carrots, he is SO serious chasing butterflies, he clearly forgot the mini wooden fence was meant to keep large dogs out??!! 

 The lettuce continues to grow like crazy, loving my fresh herb salads at lunch.

 Don't you wish you were the mother of these girls??  Or the cleaner of their shower??  Or the washer of their fluffy towels??  Mud pies, they made them for HOURS!!

 Freshly squeezed orange juice for the masses of children.  I'm practising my mother-of-the-year wave as i pick orange pith out of my teeth.

 Easiest way to feed a group of hungry children after running around the garden all morning . . . a platter of simple sandwiches & where would a mother be without a stack of IKEA plates & cups??  Then i made up some cookie dough & broke it up into vanilla icecream for poor man's Cold Rock/ Ben&Jerry's icecream.  When one mummy collected her son, it was at icecream serving time so i fed her boys in the car too, i was very popular in the driveway!!

 They decorated the fish bowls & we swapped the fish around, yes i had unpaid child labour doing the dirty work all day.

 I can seriously imagine these two girls on Survivor, they look like they'd fit right in & yes i know they need back to school hair cuts!!  I actually had a dream once they were on a Survivor series & they were twins, but pretended to not know each other (extra sneaky) & set up alliances which were so clever . . . they ended up being runner up & winner, splitting the cash!!  Hmmm, evil twins, brilliant!!  Oh, to be the mother of reality show children, so NOT brilliant.

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we all scream for ice cream

Greetings all,

Oh delicious, One Green Bean asked us if we might like to taste Ben & Jerry's latest ice cream flavours.  Who wouldn't??  Our children only get dessert a couple of times a month, so when they do, we don't mind making it special.  They had never had the pleasure of Ben & Jerry's icecream before so this was exciting. 
After much family discussion we settled on 4 flavours to try & had them delivered while visiting my in-laws in Sydney.  So after dinner we cracked the lids . . .

 & we weren't disappointed . . .

 all that chunky goodness right to the top!!

 Look at the 'phish' in the Phish Food. 

Now for the judging, the children took it very seriously!!  Can you tell that i'm a scientist & it runs in the family??  The leader/ bossy/ eldest used Grandpa's black board to tabulate the results . . .

 Half Baked was the winner - it is quite literally filled with chunks of uncooked cookie dough, i know, if you love eating cookie dough while you make cookies, THIS is the icecream for you!!  It was followed closely by Phish Food.  Two of our children really don't like ice cream or sugary things at all, so this was a big step & their results were very honest.

As for we adults . . . the Phish Food was the winner, oh boy, it's like the amazing smooth meringue gelato we had in Italy in July, bursts of different flavour sensations & gooey marshmellow, mmmmmm.

Check out this happy camper, pretty pleased with himself.  A day off school to trip to Sydney & 4 flavours of ice cream for dessert, what a way to start wrapping up the school year!!
So yes, a promotional post but yummo, we'll be buying more. 
Community announcement: no diabetic grandparents were left with a sugar high after this taste testing experiment!!Now, shhhh, my husband put the Phish Food aside to have a little more after the children went to bed.  Love Posie