Christmas in July

Home made Pumpkin Pie

We just celebrated Christmas in July, it's always great to cook a beautiful dinning and set the table and sit with the family so on the 25th July we had our Christmas in July dinner.  So I will share some photos with you.  the beautiful table set our roast we had turkey and lamb this year and pumpkin pie for dessert made by my wonderful husband! He is a wonderful cook

table with all the food just waiting for us to sit down. Also a large pitcher of Ice Tea

have a beautiful day Lisa

Well it's time to party again - Where Bloggers Create

It's time for the second Where Bloggers Create Party hosted by Karen of My Desert Cottage blog. I can't wait to check out all the other wonderful artists.

I hope you enjoy my little studio it's small and I share the space with my family well I think I do take over sometimes! You know what it can get like with crafting and all!  A lot of my photos this year are close up's of where I create the above photo is a little dress I am working on it's not finished yet, but looks good sitting on the photo frame on my desk. 

This is my desk that I work at everyday, I create raggedy annie cloth dolls and patterns. It's a beautiful french farmhouse style dinning table that I use, it's really hard to get a good photo of it in the studio.

Here are some of my Raggedy's just waiting to find new homes

Here is a collection of my favourite things!

This beautiful old cabinet stores all my dolls books patterns and a small amount of fabric I have lots and lots of fabric to much to show!

These are canvases that I have just finished working on.  I really love the way they turned out.

the blocks you see in the above photo have been handmade by me! they are something new that I have been working on to put in my photo's with my raggedys Annie dolls

I was hoping to have my curtins hung! to show some better photos I am still waiting for them hopefully latter today and if they are done I will add some more photos

Well the curtins have been hung and I love them

these two little girls are Raggedy Old Annies Dolls!

this is a better look at my desk.  I was really hoping to have more of the back room completed! I just have not had the time, I am always to busy working in the studio with my dolls bears and patterns and I alway make a mess while doing this.

I hope you enjoyed looking around my little studio.

Have a beautiful day Lisa

Website Update

Well it's been a while since I updated Inn Country Website as I have been so busy with Olive Grove Prims Website, I have a lot of sewing sitting on my desk just waiting to be finished,  I have been busy working on some custom order for clients.  I am hoping in the next couple of weeks to update the website with lots of new items.  So check back soon!

Have a beautiful Evening Lisa

Cooking and Creating

Good Morning,

This week I have found a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies I wanted to share the recipe with you I really love these.

100 grams chocolate chips
100 grams butter (sofened)
75 grams light brown sugar
1 egg
100 grams Flour
50 grams Almond meal

mixed butter and sugar together by hand add egg flour and almond meal and mix together them add chocolate chip pop straight onto a baking tray that have been covered with non stick baking
paper and cook for 10 minutes on 180 deg

The kids really love this one and they said they would not like them with the almond meal!!

Well this past week I have been busy creating and being a mum it seems like I have run around after all my kids all week.  In my spare time I have been making some vintage style pin badges, I am so happy with the end result I will be listing some on my Inn Country website you can also find them here I will leave you with some photos of them.

Have a beautiful day Lisa

picking the morning Fruit & collecting the eggs

Well today is a very cold day yesterday was the start of winter here in Australia, So to warm up this morning I thought I would do some cooking, but first I need to feed the chickens and collect the eggs, while collecting the eggs I noticed my mandarins where ready for picking this is the first crop as the tree is only a couple of years old, they are very large not to many on the tree this year I have picked about 20 and there is about another 10 that I will pick in a couple of days.

I also picked some more oranges so after coming inside I put the basket on the bench and noticed how lovely they looking sitting in the basket and how wonderful it is to grow and pick our own fruit.  So I am going to pop off now and do some more baking for the week.

Have a beautiful Tuesday Lisa

these are the blueberry muffins I made the other day.

Monday Again ! I have been Baking & Crafting

Well I can't beleive it's Monday again I had a couple of jobs to do today then some baking for the week for the kidies but I didn't get to the housework! It will have to wait till tomorrow.

This is what kept me busy on the weekend

If you pop over here you can see more of these wooden blocks I have been making I think I will be making them for the rest of this week when I have spare time! I don't seem to have much of that lately.

I hope you all had a beautiful weekend Lisa

A very Busy Monday

It's Monday here in Australia and only a couple more weeks till winter.

We got a lot done on the weekend

Firstly it was my son's 14th birthday and we had a fantastic family day together

after opening birthday presents we went out for breakfast

but first we had to stop for a surprise birthday gift from us a new bike!

He got a limit and could pick out which one he liked the most.

Then after breakfast we all went out shopping and had lots of fun together he had a couple of gift vouchers to use. so he bought some new x- box games and some new cloths.

if you would like the recipe for the homemade lemonade just click here

Then in the afternoon my husband decided to pick the rest of the lemons from our tree and gave it a good prune! which we do every couple of years.  So after pruning the tree and lots of lemons he came in to make some home made lemonade! which we all love 

This is the lemon tree now! It looks really sad

we are still waiting on the fruit from our mandarin tree.

the orange tree is still about half full of fruit we got to pick some yesterday and the juice was just beautiful so sweet.  We have had our house for 7 years now and I think this orange tree is a lot older than that we do nothing to it and each and every year it fruit and lots of fruit and always sweet juice. We do love our oranges

this is the size of the oranges and the lemons are on the left

this is half the fruit my husband picked yesterday

He also had time to cut down the banana trees that had fruit on them

he also left a mess in the garden that will have to be finished next weekend

this is what is left of the banana trees we still have a couple that are growing! so we will have lots of bananas again next year.

these are half the bananas that are in our little shed that need  ripening  up

now I must leave you all so I can get the house work done before the kiddies come home from school!

Have a beautiful Monday Lisa