I don’t know how it happened, but we’ve been taken over by stuff here on Wallace. There’s stuff everywhere. Frankly the stuff is suffocating. I’ve decided to take control of the stuff and embark on a 30 day get chucked challenge. What is the 30 day get chucked challenge Basically, you pick one thing toRead more
Tonight my heart is heavy. The executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are imminent. I have long been of the view that the death penalty is state sanctioned murder. It is archaic, abhorrent and cannot, in my view, ever be justified. As Dr Martin Luther King said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.Read more
Has your house been overtaken by Woolworths dominos? We have more dominos than I can count here on Wallace. I was starting to get a bit cross with the dominos being flung in the air like rain (according to the middle lad, more like hail really). I figured it was best to give the boysRead more
Meet my first Alice! The sewing part of the blogging world seems full of Tessuti Alice Tops (and dresses). Yet here we are, Summer is well and truly over and I’ve just made by first. There’s always next Summer. The Alice is a smock style top, lovely, floaty and super comfortable. The little cap sleeveRead more
It’s been a challenging week on Wallace. Mr Wallace needed to replace SEVEN floor boards in our dining room. We had some eager volunteers from Tasmania to help with the TWO DAY job. Let’s just say it didn’t go to plan. Each and every floor board was ripped up and the support beams removed. There wasRead more
When leaving Lauren’s house on Easter Sunday she commented that the biggest lad is such a good boy. To which I wryly replied ‘he has his moments’. Then someone observed, perhaps Lauren, ‘don’t we all’. That comment stuck with me. It really made me think about the expectations parents and other adults place on children.Read more
Even though Easter is over for another year, I thought I’d share these super easy Easter nest cupcakes with you. We had a lovely family lunch at my Sister’s house on Easter Sunday and I took along Easter nest cupcakes for dessert. I suspect these easy Easter nest cupcakes really need little explanation. But ifRead more
Every kid loves an Easter egg hunt. The bigger our boys get, the more they enjoy the thrill of the chase. Last year the middle guy’s approach to the Easter egg hunt was to locate an egg, plonk down and eat it. I expected fierce competition for the eggs this year but turns out the kidsRead more
The Wallace Folk have safely arrived in Tasmania for a family Easter. I took over the kitchen this afternoon to make easter bunny cupcakes for the little lads and their cousins. My biggest lad asked me why I was making ‘mouse cakes’ but everyone else I surveyed assured me they looked like easter bunnies! Here’sRead more