stills collection

 

1. Hello Sydney! This is a little rewind of a few snaps from last month in Sydney.

2. Sol and Pete, bright lights, big city, dinner at Darling Harbour.

3. Home schooling cafe style. Ampersand on Crown cafe/bookstore Surry Hills.

4. Fast forward to this week, River on Belongil Beach, Byron Bay.

5. Happy Sol at Belongil.

6. Off to Spaghetti Circus with Uncle Dave.

7. Amazing show. And chandelier.

8. Members of the Performance Troupe strutting their stuff.

stills: a weekly collection

(linking up with Em at The Beetleshack)

I'm cheating a little with this collection. Because I have been away from blogging for a couple of weeks I am rewinding to photos taken on Christmas Day. We spent a peaceful morning at my aunt's drinking tea and preparing food. Then headed to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's for lunch and into the evening, we were blessed with nourishing food, family and friends.

1. Beautiful table setting. Thankyou Davini and Scott xx
2. Handmade place cards by my creative niece who is 12 soon to turn 13
3. I love the colours of these roasted veggies
4. I was in charge of bringing a green vegetable dish that turned into green and gold zucchini with broad beans and herbed butter. The gold zucchini were grown by Robin + Pete at Transition Farm.
5. A peaceful welcome

stills on sunday

1. I hope you like salad because we're going to be eating a lot of that around here, the garden is a patchwork of big fat lettuces

2. a beautiful morning mess

3. my new camera and I still getting acquainted

4. boiled oranges waiting to be turned into...

5. flourless orange and poppyseed cake, in place of 1 cup of caster sugar I used 3/4 cup of coconut palm sugar and it was still a bit sweet, I think 1/2 a cup will do next time. Plus I iced it with the finest sheen of icing sugar mixed with lemon juice

6. this painting caught my eye in a local art show, intense but somehow still beautiful

7. greens from the garden + chillies + garlic + fresh abalone cooked in the wok = our kind of happy meal

8. River receiving first prize for his year level in the local historical writing competition, yes a proud parent moment. The stories were about Indigenous culture and traditional life was like for Aboriginal people.

9. Sol chasing River to get his hands on the prize

10. omg the prize! Can you believe it?! The chocs, plus $10. The other mums were chuckling "Of all the kids to win a box of chocolates". The chocolates were shared. Far and wide!

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stills: a weekly collection

1. "This is for you mummy" Love Sol. My heart melts every time.

2. Apparently I thought whipping up a patchwork quilt was a good idea. Filing this under 'ambitious'.

3. We've been treated to puppet shows this week. I never tire of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

4. Shirts fit to wear to a christening.

5. My handsome guys (well two of them).

6. It doesn't get prettier than fresh roses atop this christening cake and china teacups.

7. Oh Sol. Drawn to the hundreds and thousands, only to discover on first bite "it's too rich mummy."

Cute story - We went to a friend's baby's christening on Sunday. The priest walked around saying hello to everyone before the service. He said hello to my friend's four year old and when the priest walked away our little friend looked up at his mum and said, "Mum! I can't believe God just spoke to me!"

I'm a bit behind with this post as I've been looking after River who has his first ear infection - ouch! so I'll be playing catch up a bit this week. I hope you've had a happy monday x

(linking up with Ms Beetleshack Em)

stills collection

1. More roasted veggie salad love

2. Hippy plates

3. Real fast food

4. A Gertrude St find viva la mexico!

5. Inside amor y lacura

6. Beautiful kale from our garden

7. Beautiful Sol looking happy about chicken and salad in spelt wraps for dinner

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sunday stills - culture is life

This series of photos was taken on Friday night at Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove where Montalto owners John and Wendy Mitchell hosted dinner to raise funds for Culture is Life, the project that Pete is working on with Elders around Australia. Culture is Life is a solution focused campaign to end the unacceptably high rates of self-harm and youth suicide in Indigenous communities. Thank you to John and Wendy, Head Chef Barry Davis and your wonderful staff and to all those who attended for making the evening such a success. 100% of the proceeds from the evening were donated to the project. There is still much work to be done to keep culture and Indigenous young people alive and well, if you are able to contribute in some way head to Culture is Life and spread the word or make a donation of money or skills.

1. Beautiful attention to detail at every turn

2. Just the beginning...

3. My beautiful friends Mette and Toula (me in the middle!)

4. Two of my favorite local wholefood mamas, Cath and Bron

5. Impeccably presented and prepared food, many elements from the Montalto kitchen garden - entree: glazed jerusalem artichoke, bush tomato chutney, local asparagus, Main Ridge goats cheese foam

6. Before this main course of baby barramundi, smoked eggplant & tomato, coconut & lemon myrtle sauce and karkalla was served, the 95 diners filling the restaurant sat in captivated silence as Elder Uncle Max Harrison spoke from the heart about culture and life and keeping young people alive and well

7. Dessert was in a word - sublime! Peanut & wattle seed parfait, sesame tuile, bitter chocolate, merengue kisses

8. Me with two of my beautiful family - sister-in-law Davini and my man Peter McConchie. Blessed to be related to these two xx

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sunday stills

1. My favorite quick beans meal
2. Carrot hummus with cumin and parsley
3. Rocket flower
4. Tomato plant, thyme, and sage
5. Pansy power
6. I do love flowers
7. Recipe research

linking up with Beetleshack Em xo