Happy Holidays!
Hello sweet friends. Long time no see! It feels very strange to be sitting here writing this blog post after such a long blogging break but after a busy year I finally feel like I am ready to slowly get back to my bloggy home. I have missed you so much and have appreciated the messages, emails and comments.
Muffins made with Eggnog ~ The Perfect Christmas Treat!
Christmas has come early for our family! First, I finally ditched my very old and out-dated iphone and got myself a brand new one!
Second, I bought quite a few cartons of my favourite Christmas drink.... Eggnog!
I love this stuff and I especially love baking with it to make Christmas Eggnog Muffins!
Christmas Eggnog Muffins
Ingredients:
1/2 cup/ 115 grams butter (softened)
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 t. vanilla
2 t. baking powder
1 t. nutmeg (ground)
1/4 t. salt
2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup eggnog
Topping:
1 T. sugar and 1/4 t. nutmeg
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease muffin tin (regular or mini).
I used these festive cupcake liners. Aren't they fun!
Beat butter until creamy. Add sugar and beat until fluffy and pale yellow. Add egg one at a time and mix. Beat in extracts, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Fold in 1/2 flour and 1/2 egg nog. Add remaining flour and egg nog. Scoop into cups and sprinkle topping over batter. Bake for 25 minutes or until bottoms turn golden-brown.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Best wishes until next time,
Natasha In Oz
I LOVE CHRISTMAS!
Second, I bought quite a few cartons of my favourite Christmas drink.... Eggnog!
Christmas Eggnog Muffins
Ingredients:
1/2 cup/ 115 grams butter (softened)
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 t. vanilla
2 t. baking powder
1 t. nutmeg (ground)
1/4 t. salt
2 1/2 cup flour
1 cup eggnog
Topping:
1 T. sugar and 1/4 t. nutmeg
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease muffin tin (regular or mini).
I used these festive cupcake liners. Aren't they fun!
Beat butter until creamy. Add sugar and beat until fluffy and pale yellow. Add egg one at a time and mix. Beat in extracts, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. Fold in 1/2 flour and 1/2 egg nog. Add remaining flour and egg nog. Scoop into cups and sprinkle topping over batter. Bake for 25 minutes or until bottoms turn golden-brown.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Best wishes until next time,
Words of Wisdom from Einstein ~ “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
It's been a crazy week here...I feel like I haven't stopped moving!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party {74} ~ Link up Your Latest & Greatest!
G'day sweet friends and welcome to this week's Say G'day Saturday Linky party!
Well, the school holidays are finally coming to an end and we will be back at school Monday morning. I don't know how I'm going to cope with my alarm going off at 5:30 after three weeks of sleeping in!
Image via Death to Stock.
I've also had fun looking at many of the links from last week's Say G'Day Linky Party. Here a few that you might not have seen.
Well, the school holidays are finally coming to an end and we will be back at school Monday morning. I don't know how I'm going to cope with my alarm going off at 5:30 after three weeks of sleeping in!
Speaking about Paris, I'm also getting ready for a French dinner tonight to celebrate Bastille Day. We will be eating delicious French cheeses and Steak Frites and we will be drinking French wines.
I've also had fun looking at many of the links from last week's Say G'Day Linky Party. Here a few that you might not have seen.
As always just click the picture to be taken straight to the post and
please be a kind blogger and pin from the original source!
Tuesday Tune & Words of Wisdom ~ Gardening Ideas: Which Path Would you Take?
Welcome sweet friend! Thank you so much for stopping by to say g'day today. I'm so glad you are here!
“There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice. ”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Thanks so much for visiting today. Please click the button below to see where I am linking up this week!
Please say G'day if you have a minute and be sure to join in with this week's Say G'day Linky party if you haven't already.
Best wishes,
Today I am sharing my favourite song of the week as I usually do each Tuesday for my Tuesday Tune post but I'm also adding my favourite quote of the week. I know that many of us use quotes as inspiration so I thought I might share some words of wisdom that I love on Tuesdays as well.
Today I am thinking about choices: past, present and future.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
“You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy.” Stephanie Marston - Author, Motivational Speaker
Butchart Gardens in Brentwood Bay (near Victoria) on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
“There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice. ”
Angeles Arrien Anthropologist
“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.”
Judith M. Knowlton - Author
“Each day when I awake I know I have one more day to make a difference in someone's life.”
James Mann
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919);
26th U.S. President
I hope you enjoyed today's Tuesday Tune and Words of Wisdom!
Thanks so much for visiting today. Please click the button below to see where I am linking up this week!
Please say G'day if you have a minute and be sure to join in with this week's Say G'day Linky party if you haven't already.
Best wishes,
Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party {73} ~ Link up Your Latest & Greatest!
G'day sweet friends and welcome to very late Say G'day Saturday Linky party!
It is the last week of the school holidays and I have been having such a great time relaxing, spending time with my family, going to the beach and basically doing very little! Here are a few of the pictures that I shared on Instagram of my week at my most favourite beach in the world, Mooloolaba!
When we arrived at the beach I had a terrible cold and the weather was dreary but I didn't care because I was at the beach!
It is the last week of the school holidays and I have been having such a great time relaxing, spending time with my family, going to the beach and basically doing very little! Here are a few of the pictures that I shared on Instagram of my week at my most favourite beach in the world, Mooloolaba!
When we arrived at the beach I had a terrible cold and the weather was dreary but I didn't care because I was at the beach!
Say G'Day Saturday Linky Party {72} ~ Link up Your Latest & Greatest!
G'day sweet friends and welcome to another Say G'day Saturday Linky party!
Well, I am now officially on school holidays but am in the middle of fighting a terrible cold! I can't believe I am spending the first week of my vacation sniffling, sneezing and coughing. At least I have had time to relax and unwind and not worry about getting myself ready for work and the kids ready for school.
I must apologize again for forgetting last week's linky party. We had a busy weekend and I was enjoying spending quality time with my family so much that I forgot to get the party post up. Thank you SO much to everyone who joined in with the previous link up and for sharing so many wonderful ideas, projects, recipes, tips and tutorials. In case you missed a few of the fabulous links here are 10 ideas that caught my eye.
I must apologize again for forgetting last week's linky party. We had a busy weekend and I was enjoying spending quality time with my family so much that I forgot to get the party post up. Thank you SO much to everyone who joined in with the previous link up and for sharing so many wonderful ideas, projects, recipes, tips and tutorials. In case you missed a few of the fabulous links here are 10 ideas that caught my eye.
As always just click the picture to be taken straight to the post and
please be a kind blogger and pin from the original source!
School Holiday Fun!
I am posting this from my iPhone using the Blogger app as I have just realised that I forgot to set up the post for the Say G'day Linky Party! It is the first weekend of the school holidays and I have been having fun with my family. We also bought Madeleine a new computer so we've been transferring files all weekend and I haven't had much access to my laptop.
Here are a few of thing fun things I've been up to this weekend.
Did you see the Super Moon?
I promise I will be more organised next weekend!
Best wishes,
I've been playing on Instagram ~ My 1st #Instavideo
Hello from Oz sweet friends!
See, I told you it wasincredibly amazing mind-numbingly boring! Aren't you glad you popped by to Say G'day today!
Best wishes,
Just a quick post today to share my first video on Instagram. It will probably be the most boring thing you will watch all day but hey, at least I tried!
Big Al helped me with this amazing boring clip about getting ready for breakfast.
Without any further ado, here is Breakfast on Instavideo!
See, I told you it was
Perhaps you might be more interested in my last post on ways to accessorize for all seasons with scarves? Just click the picture to check it out.
Please be sure to come back on Saturday to see the top 10 posts from last week's Say G'Day Saturday link up and, of course, to join in with this weekend's
Best wishes,
Accessorizing with Scarves, Words of Wisdom from Michael Kors & a Video!
Welcome sweet friend and thank you for stopping by to Say G'day!
Today's Tuesday Tune post is a little different to the usual post because I am not actually featuring a particular song, but some music that accompanies a brilliant video called 25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes!
I have scarves on my mind at the moment because here in Brisbane, it is winter and in winter it doesn't really get very cold so we don't tend to wear big heavy coats and lots of heavy layers. Instead, we tend to wear essentials like long pants or jeans and accessorize with boots, jackets, ponchos and lots of scarves!
My favourite accessory every winter is a scarf or a poncho because they always fit, they can be as expensive or inexpensive as your budget allows and they come in so many different patterns, shapes and colours.
Scarves aren't only worn in Winter, though, no sirree, they can be worn in Summer too!
25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes!
Best wishes always,
Natasha In Oz
Today's Tuesday Tune post is a little different to the usual post because I am not actually featuring a particular song, but some music that accompanies a brilliant video called 25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes!
I have scarves on my mind at the moment because here in Brisbane, it is winter and in winter it doesn't really get very cold so we don't tend to wear big heavy coats and lots of heavy layers. Instead, we tend to wear essentials like long pants or jeans and accessorize with boots, jackets, ponchos and lots of scarves!
Me in my grey Winter scarf on a sunny Winter's morning!
My favourite accessory every winter is a scarf or a poncho because they always fit, they can be as expensive or inexpensive as your budget allows and they come in so many different patterns, shapes and colours.
Scarves aren't only worn in Winter, though, no sirree, they can be worn in Summer too!
Scarf and Maxi via elfsacks.com/
Here are some of my favourite scarves and accessorizing ideas for all seasons!
Sarah Jessica Parker wears the same scarf 3 different ways via www.fashionablycheap.com
Iconic! Via online.wsj.com
Kate Spade scarf via Bloomingdales.com
I can't forget to include pictures of our very own fashion icon, Asher Keddie, AKA Nina Proudman from Offspring.
Vintage Louis Vuitton scarf via www.1stdibs.com
Wendy Nguyen www.wendyslookbook.com
25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes!
Scarves look stylish and gorgeous no matter where, when or how they're worn!
Thanks so much for visiting today. Please click the button below to see where I am linking up this week!
Best wishes always,
Please join me each weekend for the Say G'day Saturday Linky Party!
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