Country Happens

Over the past few weeks I have made a number of visits to the family farm up near Toowoomba. Every day has been wet. That doesn't mean rain, it means wet. It can take up to two weeks for the ground to dry out enough that you don't require four wheel drive to get out of the property. But we had fun anyway, and the children had the best time. Alas, they are sick now. Oops bad mummy, bad mummy!

Anyway, I thought I would give you a bit of what I have been up to in pictures because a few readers have been complaining about too many words lately. I agree.

Beautiful old home in Marburg

I considered these blue milk glass lanterns I found in the Antique shop just need the railway.

There was heaps of blue milk glass there.

We stopped into the first Cupcake shop in Toowoomba.

The Perfect Dozen Cupcakery. 

Hopefully next time I will get to meet Tamara, she was busy baking on the day we visited.

The cupcakes were delicious, the best store bought cupcake I have EVER had. (Go the passion fruit)

Me "Damit! I forgot the onions."

Mum "That's ok, we can go out to the paddock and pick some"

Simple Things Small Joys Shoppe

Will do another post about this delightful little place

Child 1 "Wow, look at this ship!"

Child 2 "It must take months and months to put this together"

Shop keeper "Nar mate, we get them built in Taiwan, it only takes them buggers three days"

Right.

I spy with my little eye some Jessie Steele Aprons from The Cupcake Courier!

An amazingly restored wood stove complete with water heater on the left hand side!

At Marburg Antiques.

Farm fresh eggs for breakfast - none of THIS stuff happening on this farm.

I think Ruby and Belle was looking for one of these? There are loads in Marburg.

And home we go, through this. We made it, thanks to the Digella-Mobile.

Off to the Farm

Off to talk all things farm house, wine and food with my mum and cousins this afternoon. Between us we have seven homes to decorate and / or design. Yeah, sounds glamorous right? That's a lot of toilets to clean and besides my mother we don't have cleaners. Why? Because we cant trust anyone else to do as good a job as us. My box of design books are packed along with wine.

We are having duck curry for dinner which will simmer while the children play in the mud. FANTASTIC!

Will action a chocolate cake, a maderia cake and some of these: