A Collection of Thoughts

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Orders Digi Health update..

Anyone who has been watching their mailbox over the last few days still waiting on a last minute orders - all the final ones are going tomorrow so you can start stalking from Monday.

Thank you for all the Mothers Day ribbon emails - our NZ ones have finally reached their destination based on my inbox over the last two days...

While I keep saying Ill never go to digi I do like to play with it - I like the ease of journaling or for just getting down a favorite picture or memory quickly.

Here is my latest offering. eek just realised its Miss Talia again - Sof is definitely next on the list

Credits -Emily Power papers colours have been edited and Jen Caputo template also edited and Emily Powers date rub on from her page a day kit.

Still battling a bit healthwise  my work load is still reduced I was supposed to return to a full load next week but the half days have been extended for another two weeks. Lucky I'm not a footballer - clearly my head doesn't like to be knocked around.

Hope you have been enjoying the sneak peeks each day :)
Tamar.

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Bling on Bling

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

-- Golda Meir

 

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Beautiful  Butterflies

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

ANTM Week 5

Time is zooming - lets hope last weeks lecture will settle the model house down. We have a list of favorites - there were tears when Belinda got voted off last week so we had a chat about who everyone cant win as long as they participate ...

On the menu - you may want to stop if you want gourmet or low fat  - it is top model night after all

Macaroni Cheese

Bostock  Style ( read here the easy version)- One of the girls favorites!

Macaroni Pasta
Carbonara Pasta Sauce
2 carrots grated
Diced bacon - 250gms
Tasty cheese
Dijon Mustard - 2 teaspoons
Tin of corn
Onions ( diced- optional)

Cook the pasta in boiling water - heat the oven - fry the diced bacon up- you can add onions here too if you like

Mix the mustard in with the carbonara sauce

Pour the cooked pasta corn grated carrot bacon/onion into a big casserole dish and mix

Pour the pasta sauce over the top  and mix through

Sprinkle a generous amount of grated cheese on top

Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.

Then for zert.....

Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding

A family favorite - well mine anyhow and really simple - don't be scared give it a go -It works really .

Ingredients
 

Pudding      
1 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour   
1 heaped tablespoon Cocoa   
1 egg   
2 tablespoons butter   
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup milk
Sauce   
2 tablespoons Cocoa   
1/2 cup sugar Sugar
1 1/4 cups boiling water

Sifting etc is a time thief as far as I am concerned but this works better if  you do so get the sifter out!

Sift flour and cocoa together and mix in sugar. Then add the  egg,  butter and milk to dry ingredients. I put mine in the mixer and give it a good mix

Pour into a casserole dish.

To make the sauce  - mix the sauce ingredients until sugar is dissolved.

Pour carefully  over pudding mix

Bake for 40 minutes or until a metal skewer comes out clean. Serve hot with ice cream and cream

Id show you a finished photo but Its still cooking and when its finished Ill be eating it :)

Enjoy your night

Tamar xo

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Introducing -

Something Old Something New

The sneak peaks for our June collection start here - each day until the 1st when our full collection is revealed.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

-- Ziggy

 

Tarisota Talk - May

Our latest edition of Tarisota Talk is now on the website -

http://www.tarisota.com.au/newsletters/200805-TarisotaTalk.pdf
Enjoy!
Tamar

10 Minute Pasta

So here is my go to recipe when all else fails - like I haven't shopped or I'm too tired to cook or think

The girls eat it minus the olives..

wholemeal pasta - cooked ( penne)
a tub of cherry tomatoes halved
tin of tuna - WITH oil not the springwater sort
a block of feta cheese
black olives
a good squeeze of a lemon
a splash of balsamic vinegar
cracked black pepper

Mix it all into a bowl and serve with salad and crusty bread or a herb bread-  or just have the pasta
really good for leftovers the  next day too for lunch.

Talk time went fine - apparently my daughters can talk underwater LOL
and Drs not so fine but more tests coming - I think we will well and truly hit our Medicare threshold this year.

Project Runway tonight  - YAY

Enjoy your evening
PS try the pasta  - its good :)

Tamar

Sunday

still working on those exciting titles - clearly... No photos to share today -and no recipes... but just wanted to update you on Tari Talk18 pages and image overload - Love my new format only takes about 6 hours to put together now compared to what it did take! but its not being loaded till Tuesday - so you'll have to hang in there for your fix for a little longer.- sneak peaks also start Tuesday for June ! Did I really say June?

On the home front ..

Sunday night in our house is marked by what are you doing for Talk time tomorrow? - x two I'm sure i have mentioned this before cause it drives me crazy.. We start talking about it from Saturday afternoon and it carries on all weekend.
Tonight we failed - I'm thinking of sending a note - Talk time canceled this week for the Bostock girls.- or in the very least a card saying I'm sorry we really tried.

Child 1- Talia has a pie ce of paper with two dinosaur words on teri something and angla something - no idea Richard was in charge of that and I don't know dinosaurs - she was going to draw pictures  but got side tracked with sticking Island Girl stickers on some envelopes for invitations for an imaginary party. I told her to take those instead - she said no she wanted to do a dinosaur thing..

Child 2 - Sofia - She's taking her new coloring book - I asked her what she was going to say about her coloring book - she said umm nothing Mumma its just a coloring in book you know.
Yep I do know

I tell ya Prep teachers - can you just imagine the things they hear each day? They so need to be paid more.So talk time tomorrow in the girls class could be rather dodgy.

Hope you had a lovely weekend - thanks for visiting.
Tamar

Saturday

Very inventive post titles aren't they?

Richard is off at the corporate games tonight... playing 4 games of soccer from 3.30pm this afternoon  on - Good luck - have fun- Thats all I can say - and don't forget to stop for coffee for me on the way home plllllleaaase. The girls and I are eating meatballs for dinner and doing craft till very late - according to them.

Last nights videos were dodgy - I watched Elizabeth today -That was good the other two not so. The only good thing about dodgy vidoes is that it doesn't really interrupt your crafting.

I've just about finished my first project from  June - Here is a sneak peek - don't tell anyone though cause we never show sneaks of projects  :0

Yes that is fabric - isn't it beautiful.
Thanks for visiting

Tamar

Late breaking news lost the first game and the team have been disqualified on a technicality - he's not happy - I better go make chocolate cake.