Author: Renae

Living life as a wife, a stay at home mama of 3 kids under 5, a marriage celebrant, a craft and sewing amateur, a cooked breakfast lover, coffee enthusiast, extroverted socialite, and most recently, someone who is trying to keep a tidy house. It's tough I tell you!

Moving moving moving

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It’s going well! Slowly, but well. All the new stuff is in the new place, and now the unpacking begins! I am committing to taking a box of “stuff” down to Vinnies each week at the new place, to try and de-clutter. Maybe it’ll be each month. Hmmm… Might have to think that through a bit more.

Anyway, we are all going well and I’ll be back in blogging land as soon as we work out which provider to go with up there. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep my NaBloPoMoMoMo commitment!!

NaBloPoMo

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Yes it’s that time again! Time for another NaBloPoMo! The idea is, that you blog every day, but I’m cheating a bit as I won’t have internet access much over the next few weeks, so I’m going to schedule some posts to pop up every day! And for all you Chance fans out there, it’s going to be a happy month for you, as I recently uploaded all my photos from my phone (all 204 of them!) and that’s what I’m going to be sharing with you! Not all 204 of them, just one a day. Or maybe two. And I’m sure you can guess the subject matter of most of the photos on my phone! This NaBloPoMo is going to be called NaBloPoMoMoMo! National Blog Posting Month Moving Month! And just to help you out the photos will be published in chronological order. And here’s number 1!

Chance: 2 weeks old
Hubs: 1532.5 weeks old (or thereabouts!)

I am going to try very hard to schedule/post each day, but if I miss a day here and there, will you forgive me?? The packing is going really well, and with Mum and Dad having just arrived last night, we will be getting a lot done in the next few days, including our garage sale tomorrow. Can’t wait!!

Autumn in Wang

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I took these photos over the last few months and have only just gotten around to sharing them with you. I love love LOVE Autumn in Victoria.

The only downside to Autumn, is that it’s closely followed by Winter. And Winter in Mt Beauty?? Well, it’s going to be interesting…

Hubs’ birthday cake (one of them anyway!)

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I don’t have a lot of spare time at the moment, so I’ll just give you a quick run-down on the cake. I wanted to do another layer cake, but didn’t want to have to spend the whole day making it, so I made 2 cakes – one vanilla cake (double the recipe) and a chocolate cake (a Green’s Choc Mud Cake with an extra block of chocolate thrown in for good measure.)

I then divided the vanilla cake up into 4 equal (ish) amounts and coloured them. And then I put big blobs of the cake mixture into the cake pan. (I used a brownie tray for this cake.)

I then attempted to smooth the top down. Rainbow Paddlepop anyone??
Once it was baked and cooled, I put it in the fridge overnight for 2 reasons. 1. I was tired and wanted to go to bed. 2. Cakes are much easier to work with (icing etc) when they are cold. So the next day I got it out of the fridge and cut it into 2 layers. The colours were lovely!

Next time I must remember to give the tray a good bash before baking the cake, to get rid of the air bubbles! I then trimmed all three cakes/layers so they had square corners and straight edges. Then I iced in between each layer with the vanilla bean icing from the vanilla cake recipe.
I then iced the outside with the same yellow frosting.
I knew I wanted to put the ganache on top again, but wasn’t sure how. I looked outside at the crappy weather and then it hit me: Drizzle!! HA HA HA!!!
I was very happy with the overall effect. And the taste? Well I’ll let you make one for yourself and you can decide. But here’s a hint…
Yum yum yum yum yum yum!!!