This weekend while JA is playing soccer I’ll be attending Heidi‘s 1st Birthday! She is such a little cutie, I can’t wait =) Sunday is going to be my “work” day. Apart from about a gazillion loads of washing that need doing, I’d really like to knock over a couple of the following: Do 2nd [...]
It’s been a little while since I posted anything from the garden, because to be honest I haven’t been doing all that much! Only a little bit here and there…Which I guess add up to quite a bit of difference when it’s so long between updates! Here’s the front when we moved in: And after [...]
The landscaping of my gardens are always a work in progress… We have such a large block, that there is just so much ground to take care of! I’ve broken it down into areas and am working on them one by one, but that means there are other areas that look horrible until I can [...]
I’ve been a busy little beaver recently! Lots going on, but nothing quite finished enough to dedicate a post to, so here’s the wrap up: Last weekend we went to the coast with my parents, which was really great, it was raining and miserable in Canberra but absolutely gorgeous at Jervis Bay. We went to [...]
We just got home from a great birthday dinner with my parents, JA’s parents (mom & stepdad), ChloĆ© & Scott and Miriam at Australian Pizza Kitchen in Civic. SO YUM. Very full now. JA and I both got half/half pizzas so we could share and have 4 different kinds of pizza each =) We had [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that if I wait until all my projects are totally finished before posting about them, you won’t see any of the landscaping or renovating I’m doing for the next 10 years… Nothing is ever finished! Especially as I’m doing everything in little stages, I’ve started on many areas that won’t [...]
Our front yard is rather large so to manage the landscaping of the whole yard I’ve broken it down into smaller areas that I plan to tackle one at a time. Unfortunately because of budget restraints I usually start a project then run out of money to buy everything I need, so a lot of [...]
A little while ago I posted about planting bulbs in my garden and watching them grow, and the other day I went out and took a few more snaps of the blooms, as they are really coming out now! Unfortunately the dogs have been getting in and stomping all over everything, so I had to [...]
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Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. I'm Mikaela, I am female, 25, married, and busy by choice. I love life and have too many ideas in my head, and wish there were more hours in the day (I'm sure old people always said that when I was growing up). I live in and love Canberra, Australia (2 hours to beach or snow, what more could you ask for?). For more about who I am and what I do, go to the about page =)

We had giant hamburgers for dinner. Bun, tomato sauce, mustard, cheese, hot chilli meat pattie, more cheese, pineapple, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, avocado, bun. YUM. Giant! I had two. See my last post about always eating too much.
Yesterday I was in Coles and saw this yummo looking Italian bread which inspired me to make Bruschetta as an entreĆ© to dinner last night. I forgot to get Olive Oil when I was there so had to improvise with peanut oil, but it wasn’t too bad. I buttered the bread (no oil, remember?), spread [...]
This is a recipe I sort of made up about 4 years ago. I think it’s probably based on something I had once and I just tried to remember the ingredients when putting it together. I’ve got it down to a fine art now, everyone loves this salad. It goes perfectly with snags and steak [...]
Before going to the coast last week I made 2 ribbon organiser boxes. One turned out really well, the other not so much. Here is the latter, made from an old tissue box. The reason I don’t like the end result is because the tissue box was too flimsy to begin with, the walls went [...]
As promised, here are Girds’ and Harley’s new doggie beds! The reason I decided to make these is because their current beds are lumpy, big oofy pillows, with blankets on top. They take up far too much room in our bedroom, aren’t very portable, and are hard to wash. These beds, however, are the opposite [...]
Yesterday and today were spent putting my house back together, so I haven’t had a chance to complete the DIY projects I wanted to do today to show here. Hopefully I can finish the doggie beds tonight as well as at least start on my ribbon organiser… We’ll see how I go, I still have [...]