Quickie photo update

Spiderwebs in the morning

All I can show you of one of the recent birthday parties. 

OMG, Master C just loved this Perth Royal Show slide!

The boys just LOVED the Dinosaur petting zoo at the Perth Royal Show.

?Ladybird Poppy from my garden.

The kids really enjoyed playing in the creek at the Helena Valley "Whim" Festival.

Ta-dah! I made the Snake cake as requested by my eldest for his birthday. I did an awesome job of it too! 

Updatish

A few posts back I mentioned that I had been to a chocolate therapy class. Well, I finally had some time to make some chocolates, yay.
So, here are my Chill Chocolates - the raw chocolate recipe with a dash of Cayenne added. I also made some Goji Berry chocolates and some Cacao Nib Chocolate..but they all looked the same on the outside so I didn't bother to take a pic.

 ^ Cayenne Chocolate

^ Chocolate Truffles - recipe at my cooking blog

Recently, I also got around to doing the edging on the Fairy Garden and planting some more flowers.

 And below we have a photo of one of the new visitors. We have 3 ducks that like to hang out around the Fairy Garden (who can blame them?!). They take turns in coming up, one set come up as a pair, and the fellow pictured here likes to come up by its lonesome. So, pretty much, there is at least one duck hanging around at any time. I ended up going and getting chook laying pellets to feed to them. It is the new ritual with the kids to go out and feed the ducks a few times a day.



Time Flies

WOW, was just having a look through old posts and I can't believe that it is nearly 2.5 years since I put all the fruit trees and veg in.
Here is a mini update/reminisce

From this

To this

From this

To this

Yes, I know I need to do a good weeding, lol.

Updatish

Okay, so I finally got around to uploading the latest photos. So this is a photo update :)

Above we have the first stage of the "Dragon Eggs" for the Egg Hunt. Water balloons covered in Papier mache - layer method.

Above we have the glue that I made to stick it all together

Above we have the eggs drying. We have yet to apply the papier mache sculpting layer (pulp papier mache method). Hopefully get around to doing that next week.

And here we have the first trial at making a KitKat Cake. I had to saw the KitKats in half as they were way too long (I bought the wrong ones). But all in all an easy exercise and a tasty endeavour. Will upload pic when I do the 'real' one for mums birthday.

My Place - Photo Update

The Loquat tree area
I ended up getting rid of the strawberries as they didn't cascade as I would of liked. I now have Oregano, French Tarragon, Sage, Basil and Chervil growing on the "wall"

Everything has grown quite a bit.
I got rid of the baskets in this area and ended up going with 2 pears and 2 apples (for espalier), intermixed I have comfrey, borage, bergamot, paprika and cucumbers.
Along here I ended up going Blueberries with spring onions planted amongst them and growing passionfruit as a backdrop.

What it used to look like can be found HERE and HERE