Spring Break & a Tour of Holly's House!
Hello friends and welcome to NatashaInOz.com Thanks so much for dropping by and joining me for a tour of my sister Holly's home.
Say G'day Saturday Linky Party ~ A Few Pretty Things
Hello my dear friends and welcome to a very late Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party! I was in the middle of typing up this post late last night and then the whole suburb was blacked out! I had nothing saved so I have had to re-write the post this morning!
Oh well, as they say, better late than never!
I've been a very relaxed blogger this week as I have just had a wonderful week with my family at the beach. It has been very difficult to get back into the swing of things and I'm sure that Mr Attorney is going to have an even harder time going back to work on Monday morning!
The weather at Mooloolaba was sensational and we had a brilliant time relaxing at the beach every morning and afternoon.
Say G'day Saturday Linky Party ~ Autumn!
Hello my dear friends and welcome to Natasha In Oz and welcome to another Say G'day Saturday Linky Party!
This week has been another busy one for our family. The kids have been busy with assessment and school commitments. They have also been counting down to their two week Spring Break which starts at approximately 3:05 today!!! We are heading off to the beach for a couple of days and then we will be catching up with family and friends for the rest of the break.
We are also enjoying the gorgeous Spring weather Down Under! The days are getting longer and warmer and Mr Attorney has even been swimming in our pool! It's so strange to think that as we are warming up my friends "up north" are celebrating the arrival of autumn and are cooling down! Isn't the world an amazing place!
So, since I have already celebrated the arrival of Spring, I thought it would be nice to celebrate the arrival of Fall.
Today I will be sharing some seasonal pins from my sweet blogging friend Jessa Irene. Jessa Irene is listed on the Natasha In Oz Pinning Bloggers Master List and she is the lady behind the fabulous Holiday blog, A Holiday Haven.
Jessa Irene's site is full of great craft ideas, decorating posts and seasonal recipes. Last week she posted some gorgeous Fall pins and she also posted some excellent advice on preparing for the colder months and she even provided a check list! Jessa Irene really is a brilliant Pinning Blogger!
While you are looking at these gorgeous Fall pins, you might like to listen to Stacey Kent singing 'Tis Autumn. I just love listening to Stacey Kent and have been playing this song all week! She is so talented and her voice is beautiful but the thing I love about her most is that you can actually understand what she is singing!
Pumpkin Pie White Hot Chocolate from closetcooking.com
So, what have you been up to this week? this week? Maybe you have posted a song, created a new recipe, discovered a new idea or posted about your favourite crafts on your blog? I would love it if you could share your favourite post with me at this weekend's Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party!
If you would like to link up a post, old or new, just add the url of your particular blog post that you would like us to visit to the Linky tool below.
Feel free to grab the code for the Say G'Day Saturday button and add that to your post so that your readers might be able to find other bloggers who would like to also Say G'Day!
Thanks so much for joining in and linking up! Don't forget to come back later and visit some of the lovely bloggers who have linked up!
I just wanted to share some other "Pinteresting" news. If you haven't already heard, I have created a central list of Blogging Pinners so we can all find each other's Pinterest pages more easily. It is called....
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Natasha In Oz
This week has been another busy one for our family. The kids have been busy with assessment and school commitments. They have also been counting down to their two week Spring Break which starts at approximately 3:05 today!!! We are heading off to the beach for a couple of days and then we will be catching up with family and friends for the rest of the break.
We are also enjoying the gorgeous Spring weather Down Under! The days are getting longer and warmer and Mr Attorney has even been swimming in our pool! It's so strange to think that as we are warming up my friends "up north" are celebrating the arrival of autumn and are cooling down! Isn't the world an amazing place!
Via Pinterest
So, since I have already celebrated the arrival of Spring, I thought it would be nice to celebrate the arrival of Fall.
Jessa Irene's site is full of great craft ideas, decorating posts and seasonal recipes. Last week she posted some gorgeous Fall pins and she also posted some excellent advice on preparing for the colder months and she even provided a check list! Jessa Irene really is a brilliant Pinning Blogger!
While you are looking at these gorgeous Fall pins, you might like to listen to Stacey Kent singing 'Tis Autumn. I just love listening to Stacey Kent and have been playing this song all week! She is so talented and her voice is beautiful but the thing I love about her most is that you can actually understand what she is singing!
I hope you enjoy listening to Stacey Kent and looking at some of my favourite pins from Jessa Irene's Pinterest Boards.
Halloween tablescape idea from midwestliving.com
Elegant Halloween Tablescape idea from curbly.com
Candle ideas from laurenconrad.com
Mini Pumpkin Cakes from southernliving.com
Pumpkin in a stocking from bhg.com
Halloween Entrance from midwestliving.com
Fall decorating ideas from countryliving.com
Pumpkin Pie White Hot Chocolate from closetcooking.com
Carrot, Apple, & Ginger Soup from joythebaker.com
Gift Wrapping idea from carolynshomework.blogspot.com
So, what have you been up to this week? this week? Maybe you have posted a song, created a new recipe, discovered a new idea or posted about your favourite crafts on your blog? I would love it if you could share your favourite post with me at this weekend's Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party!
If you would like to link up a post, old or new, just add the url of your particular blog post that you would like us to visit to the Linky tool below.
Feel free to grab the code for the Say G'Day Saturday button and add that to your post so that your readers might be able to find other bloggers who would like to also Say G'Day!
Thanks so much for joining in and linking up! Don't forget to come back later and visit some of the lovely bloggers who have linked up!
I just wanted to share some other "Pinteresting" news. If you haven't already heard, I have created a central list of Blogging Pinners so we can all find each other's Pinterest pages more easily. It is called....
The Pinning Bloggers Master List.
Thank you so very much for stopping by and spending time with me in my little corner of the world today. As always, your visit means so much to me.
Best wishes for a beautiful weekend,
Please join me each weekend for the Say G'day Saturday Linky Party!
Copy Cat Cooking ~ Boursin stuffed chicken
Hello my dear friends! Thanks so much for dropping by and visiting today.
Since it Spring I have been doing lost of Spring cleaning at our place and the main things I am trying to rid of are old magazines. I love reading magazines and since I subscribe to quite a few I have quite a large collection that are getting old and need to be tossed. It pains me to do this but I just can't keep hoarding them any more!
While I was clearing I ripped out a few pages of inspirational images and I also found some great recipes that I hadn't yet tried. One recipe that caught my eye was this one for stuffed chicken breasts from the May 2010 issue of Good Housekeeping UK.
I knew this would be a good recipe to try because it contains two of my favourite ingredients, Boursin cheese and smoked pork!
The recipe is still available on line and can be found here. It looked so delicious I knew I had to make it. I also knew it would be perfect for Debbie's Magazine Copy Cat Challenge!
Ingredients:
75 gram(s) Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs Cheese
30 mls finely chopped curly parsley, plus extra to garnish
Finely grated zest of ½ lemon
4 chicken breasts, skin removed
4 slice(s) parma ham (I used Pancetta)
100 ml (3½fl oz) each dry white wine and chicken stock
2 sprig(s) thyme, leaves removed
Method:
Preheat oven to 200°C/ 390°F (180°C fan) mark 6. In a bowl, mix together the Boursin, parsley and lemon zest. Make a horizontal cut in each chicken breast, then stuff each with a quarter of the cheese mix. Wrap a ham slice horizontally around each breast, covering the cheese, then put seam-side down in an ovenproof dish.
Pour over the wine and stock, drop in the thyme, then season well with black pepper. Bake for 25-30min until the chicken is cooked through. Sprinkle with parsley.
I served our meal chicken with a salad and French fries but it also suggested that the chicken be served with with vegetables and crushed new potatoes to soak up the cooking juices.
I am quite sure you will love this dish as much as we did. It was so easy to make but it tasted like I had spent hours making it! This is a Wow recipe for sure!
I'd better go while I'm on a roll and go and throw away some more magazines...Maybe I will find another great recipe to share at Debbie's next party? Thanks for the great idea Debbie! Thanks also to Kim for having me at her weekly Wow Me Wednesday Party and to Michele for hosting Primp your Stuff Wednesday and to Beverly who is hosting Think Pink Sundays.
Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you will be back soon to visit me in my little corner of the world Down Under!
Best wishes,
Since it Spring I have been doing lost of Spring cleaning at our place and the main things I am trying to rid of are old magazines. I love reading magazines and since I subscribe to quite a few I have quite a large collection that are getting old and need to be tossed. It pains me to do this but I just can't keep hoarding them any more!
My sweet daughter Maddy is helping me clear out the old magazines...
While I was clearing I ripped out a few pages of inspirational images and I also found some great recipes that I hadn't yet tried. One recipe that caught my eye was this one for stuffed chicken breasts from the May 2010 issue of Good Housekeeping UK.
I knew this would be a good recipe to try because it contains two of my favourite ingredients, Boursin cheese and smoked pork!
The recipe is still available on line and can be found here. It looked so delicious I knew I had to make it. I also knew it would be perfect for Debbie's Magazine Copy Cat Challenge!
Ingredients:
75 gram(s) Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs Cheese
30 mls finely chopped curly parsley, plus extra to garnish
Finely grated zest of ½ lemon
4 chicken breasts, skin removed
4 slice(s) parma ham (I used Pancetta)
100 ml (3½fl oz) each dry white wine and chicken stock
2 sprig(s) thyme, leaves removed
Method:
Preheat oven to 200°C/ 390°F (180°C fan) mark 6. In a bowl, mix together the Boursin, parsley and lemon zest. Make a horizontal cut in each chicken breast, then stuff each with a quarter of the cheese mix. Wrap a ham slice horizontally around each breast, covering the cheese, then put seam-side down in an ovenproof dish.
Pour over the wine and stock, drop in the thyme, then season well with black pepper. Bake for 25-30min until the chicken is cooked through. Sprinkle with parsley.
I served our meal chicken with a salad and French fries but it also suggested that the chicken be served with with vegetables and crushed new potatoes to soak up the cooking juices.
I am quite sure you will love this dish as much as we did. It was so easy to make but it tasted like I had spent hours making it! This is a Wow recipe for sure!
I'd better go while I'm on a roll and go and throw away some more magazines...Maybe I will find another great recipe to share at Debbie's next party? Thanks for the great idea Debbie! Thanks also to Kim for having me at her weekly Wow Me Wednesday Party and to Michele for hosting Primp your Stuff Wednesday and to Beverly who is hosting Think Pink Sundays.
Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you will be back soon to visit me in my little corner of the world Down Under!
Best wishes,
Say G'Day Saturday ~ Rugby and Father's Day!
G'Day dear friends and welcome to another Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party!
I'm glad you visited because I have some pictures to share from a special Father's Day party we had at our place on the weekend.
I don't know why Father's Day is celebrated in September over here but it sure is a great time of year to have a family gathering!
I don't know why Father's Day is celebrated in September over here but it sure is a great time of year to have a family gathering!
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Thanks for joining in and I hope to see you back here on Saturday for this week's Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party or on Sunday for this week's #SundaySong Link up!
Best wishes and Happy Pinning!
Natasha In Oz
Say G'Day Saturday ~ Finally it's Spring!
Hello dear friends! Welcome to this week's Say G'day Saturday Linky Party!
Spring is my favourite season because it is all about
rebirth, renewal and hope.
Source: smilelikeyoumeanit.net
This is going to be my next craft project-isn't it divine!
Source: ragwreath.artfire.com
The sun is out, warm and bright, breaking the ice and bringing light to dark cold days.
Petal Talk
Country Living
House to Home
Country Days
Angel Eden
Flowerona
Martha Stewart
Country Days
Country Living
House to Home
Country Days
Angel Eden
Flowerona
Martha Stewart
Country Days
It is during Spring that we are greeted with the optimism and beauty at the dawn of each new day.
Source: countryliving.com
Spring Pasta with Peas and Asparagus
Source: tastespotting.com
This week's #TuesdayTune is all about the promise of Spring! I hope you enjoy the official video for Michael Bublé's "You Make Me Feel So Young", filmed live at London's Air Studios.
What have you been pinning to your Pinterest boards this week? Have you posted any songs on your blog lately? I would love it if you could share your favourite post at this week's Say G'Day Party! If you would like to link up a post, old or new, ust add the url of your particular blog post that you would like us to visit to the Linky tool below.
Feel free to grab the code for the Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party button and add that to your post so that your readers might be able to join in too!
By the way, if you would like an invitation to join Pinterest please let me know! Just email me and I will send you an invite so you can join in with all the pinning fun!
Now, before I go I have to thank everyone who entered my recent Scrapbooking give away. I wish everyone could have won something but there can only be one winner and that lucky person is Joy, a wonderful blogger who loves Christmas as much as I do! If you haven't visited her Christmas Blog, Christmas Spirit All year Long already then please go and say hi!
Congratulations Joy! I hope you enjoy your prize.
I hope that the joy and happiness of spring is with all of my Down Under friends and that the lovely memories of summer carry through into the following months for my dear Northern Hemisphere friends who are heading into Fall.Thank you so very much for stopping by and spending time with me today. As always, your visit means so much to me.
Best wishes for a beautiful weekend,
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