Getting ready for market day!

We have been busy getting ready for Geraldton’s Patchwork Clubs Annual Craft Fair which will be held on Sunday, October 5th at the Netball Stadium from 10 am to 4 pm.    This is Geraldton’s largest craft fair and happens to fall the day after our cousins wedding, so it is extra busy getting prepared for extra house guests and family get togethers as well.

We have some great new styles in the taggy giraffe as well as some other brand new taggy toys!

Stacks of bibs and gift packs…

and plenty of gorgeous magnets.

If you are in or around Geraldton on the weekend make sure you call in, there are over 40 stallholders and lots of great crafts on display!  Hope to see you there!

The Photographer in the Family

If you live in Geraldton you might have noticed the Centro Stirlings Smile photo competition in the shopping centre and this entry from our sister Marnie of Sabre falling over a ball.

And it was the winner!!!!!  Whoo hoo now Marnie has a great present she can give us for Christmas!

Playing Dress Up

Currently I am babysitting all the Ollie Rose stock and I must say it is extremely hard to resist wanting to nab all of my favourites. Every time I see a new outfit that Kobie has created I am amazed at how gorgeous it looks and I want one as well. Quite often I only ever see them in photographs until we get together. The photos never do the clothes justice of how well made and beautiful they are.

This little outfit did make it’s way into Ari’s wardrobe and today whilst out we had so many comments on how cute he looked in it. It was nice to have comments other than how chubby his cheeks are

Jemma

Gorgeous Boys

There are some pretty cute little boys out there wearing some Ollie Rose outfits and we just had to share these of our customer Carolines two boys.   Such beautiful photos and children.

 

 

6 faces

Taking pictures of Sabre is proving to be difficult lately. She has learnt that the camera means she needs to pose. So she has taken to doing some very silly faces whenever it is pulled out making getting a nice shot very difficult!

The Tounge face…

The “I am not happy about getting my picture taken” face…

The “now I am angry” face…

The hand under the chin pose…

And finally a nice pleasant face…

The last face to show is a cute Napoleon Bear on his way to his new home. When wrapping him in the tissue for his journey it just seemed so wrong to cover his cute face what with his little eyes that staring back at me. So I just wrapped him like a baby instead. Then I proceeded to pop  him head first into the Aussie Post bag which sorta defeated the purpose! LOL.

Kobie

Time for a Share

We have received a few more pictures lately from our lovely customers so would like to take the opportunity to show you some of the very cute kids that out there wearing Ollie Rose.

The Great Cloth Hunt

This month Ollie Rose is a sponsor in Diaper Decisison Great Cloth Hunt.  If you have never heard of it before, it is an icon treasure hunt through a range of WAHM sites where you can win some great prizes.  So if you have noticed any strange things on our site, they are our secret clues.  And below is they pesky icon hunters must find.

If you are a hunter, don’t get excited, the one above is not the one you are searching for – sorry for the tease!

One of the great things about the hunt is that when singing up you will also get a discount code to use at many of the stores including Ollie Rose.  So why not take advantage and get our discount code for 10% off our entire store. 

Happy Hunting!

I heart cupcakes

mmmmmmmmmmmm

I am definately a sweet tooth sorta gal. And cupcakes are my favourite type of sweet.

Today we were having a morning tea play date with the lovely Chonnie and her cute little girl Lailah. Now I am really not much of a baker at all but I thought I had better put an effort in as I had promised Sabre we would do cooking today as a way to get her into bed last night.

Foolproof recipe for cupcakes for baking fools like me:

2 cups SR Flour

1/4 teaspn salt

3/4 cup cator sugar

125 gms softened butter

2 eggs

3/4 cup of milk

1tablespoon of vanilla esscence

 Sift flour, salt and sugar into bowl, add butter, eggs, milk and vanilla.  Beat slowly for 1 min then increase speed for further 2 mins.  The mixture is quite stiff, put into patty pans and bake in hot oven (200 degrees approx) for 12 minutes.

 

The helpful little cook and beater licker!

The result:

Of course nearly as yummy as the real thing are Ollie Rose cupcake tees.

The one above is available in store here, or you can have one custom made. How cute will a cupcake on a onesie be for a gift for new little girls!?

Kobie

Moonlight Camping

Well it has been nearly 3 weeks since our camping trip. I was always meaning to blog about it but it has taken me this long to get around to it. Maybe because I am still in shock and trying to put it out of my memory..?

Well I am being over melodramatic somewhat…..but it was a complete disaster!

Dan and I LOVE camping and enjoyed it  a lot before Sabre. Of course pre-child we boasted how kids don’t stop you doing those things you just have to get out there and do it and all that sorta thing people without kids sprout. As a child I remember camping a lot and loved it.

Now when S was little we did take her and it was very easy, feed, sleep, fresh air…bliss. Now toddlerhood is completely different. We took her when she was 18m old and that didn’t got too well, she was great in the day, it was warm so we did lots of swimming, the night wasn’t the best as she hardly slept in the tent that night and she is usually a fantastic sleeper so we didn’t really enjoy that trip as much the next day.

This time we headed to the lovely Nanga Bay. It is the type of camping without camping as such. Reminds us of El Questro Township type of thing where you can buy supplies if you need to and there are a few luxuries like a restaurant, toilets, showers etc. We thought this would be the best idea so we could take minimal supplies as we would be able to eat in the restaurant one of the two nights. It always amazes me how much gear  you need to take when camping. Sure some of it is overkill but it is nice to be organised and have things to make it that little bit more comfortable.

We picked a powered site. Now that felt a little funny, all the vannies (caravaners) in the sites around us gave puzzled looks as we put our tent up in the middle of van city. Generally the tenties have one area and the vans the large powered sites. The site was one of the better ones along side a path that lead over the dune to the beach, around the corner from the toilet block and shaded by the adjoining cabin accomodation which is why we chose it.

At long last we have the tent assembly down pat so that didnt take us too long. Then it was time for a sunset beer on our lovely campsite. All was going well.

That night the moon was bright. And I mean bright. It was a full moon and in the still of the surrounding bushland it was as if we were camping under a fluorescent light. Sabre and I shared the blow up double mattress and Dan had his swag. And down hill it went. Sabre stayed up until around 8.30 when we all retired for the evening..as you do when you camp…early nights, early mornings.

However little Miss Restless fidgets and wiggles AAAALLLLL night. And when you are on an airbed this is not good. With every fidget she would sit up and whisper…”What’s that noise mummy” to every flap of the tent, slam of a caravan door, gust of wind, ants sneeze…..

Then the mattress proceeded to go flat on us.

Then Sabre would get up and walk around the tent at who knows what hour of the night and ask to go out to the beach. Then roll all over me trying to cuddle and talk.

Day break comes and even though I am so tired I cant wait to get out of the flat bed and remove Sabre from my head.
Breakfast …disaster. Forgot the vegemite. In our house that is a disaster. Tried cooking crumpets on just the little gas butane burner…took about 20 minutes to brown one but got there in the end. My only saviour was cups of tea.

Now the best thing about our powered site was that we could bring the kettle! I couldn’t stop grinning at the site of the electric stainless steel kettle amongst the dust and bushes that was our camp kitchen. Was quite a sight.

But with gorgeous weather the next day I managed to get over my tiredness by spending a very relaxing day on the beach and around the park. There is a small heated pool as well as the big pool (which was much too cold) and a little but run down playground.

Unfortunately there were no other kids in sight so Sabre soon became a bit bored with our company and began to whine. We kept encouraging her to go off and explore but I think her tiredness held her back and made her a bit clingy. She also didn’t want to eat any of the food we took along so complained about that all day too. Sigh. It is all getting a bit too hard. An icecream in the afternoon was a temporay fix.

It was lovely laying by the seaside all day but I must say I do find it hard to have idle hands these days. I did take along a little bit of sewing…just a teeny bit I swear…a handful of Taggy Giraffe’s that needed hand stitching. That is a pile of them stuffed in the camp chairs cup holder. It was quite lovely sitting in the warm sunshine stitching away.

The second night we ate at the cafe and by this time Sabre was a bit of a mess, nearly falling asleep before we had eaten and asking to go home and saying “I not like camping”. A few hot chips later and she had perked up a little and kept the mostly grey haired tourists entertained by dancing and talking to them.

Back to the tent for another night under the moonlight. Did i mention it was bright? Sabre went to bed well and  things started off good for the first few hours, but again down went the mattress, fidget fiddle, sigh, “whats that noise”, cough, get up , lay down, turn over, turn the other way….morning couldn’t come soon enough.

Now by this time we were all well and truly tired and grumpy. Sabre was over it completely and complaining to go home. For someone who normally sleeps around 14 hours a day she was now running on about 5 hours and not doing well.
We packed the tent up in record time and were back on the road home by 8.30am! The half hour journey home was in silence. Sabre had fallen asleep in the car and Dan and I were so tired we couldn’t talk. We also hated to admit defeat and that our camping lives may have come to a drastic end as we vowed NEVER to take her camping again!

Now here we are coming up to 3 weeks later and a bit like childbirth the pain has numbed. We now say we will do it again, just next time NOT on a full moon and with another family …any takers?…

Kobie