Coconut Choc Chip Cookies

Coconut Choc Chip Cookies

1 Egg                                                              125ml Vegetable Oil

3 tbsp Self Raising flour                                25 g Desiccated Coconut

125 g White Chocolate Chips                        150g Brown Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla Essence                                     65 g Plain Flour

14 tsp Cinnamon                                            175 g Slivered Almonds

2 tbsp Caster Sugar or normal White Sugar

Grease baking sheet & line with non stick baking paper

In a bowl beat egg and sugars together until light and creamy

Stir in vanilla essence and oil

Sift flours and cinnamon then add the coconut, almonds and white chocolate chips and mix well with wooden spoon

Form large teaspoons full and bake in a pre heated oven 180C 12-13 minutes or until golden brown.

This recipe was shared with my by Maz from Southside Stampers in Canberra. They are my go to favourite cookie recipe.

(this was the recipe I "lost" and prompted me to save them on my blog).

Pictures to come later when I make this recipe again as I never thought to take photos when I have made them previously as I didnt think I would have to put it on my blog so I could find the recipe for myself LOL

Marshmallow Salad

I've decided to put my favourite tried and tested recipes on my blog

I have been looking for my recipe book that I keep with my favourite recipes in it and I can't find it

I know its somewhere but I need it NOW!! LOL

So the best place I cant lose anything is on my blog.

I had all my recipes kept on USB too but that is still to be found amongst the packing.

I know this salad is really nice

Marshmallow Salad

1 tin/cup crushed pineapple

1 tin/cup mandarins

1 cup shredded coconut

1 cup sour cream

Drain pineapple and mandarins.

Put all ingredients in bowl and mix together.

Chill to blend flavours.

Some people like it served as a dessert, but we prefer it as a salad at a BBQ. It is definitely a conversation piece

The next time we move I am keeping the USB and recipes out and not letting the removalists pack it for me LOL

Pictures to come later when I make this recipe again as I never thought to take photos when I have made them previously as I didnt think I would have to put it on my blog so I could find the recipe for myself LOL

WOYWW #262

So I finally visited the craft store near me, almost walking distance,

that I have avoided for the last 3 months since moving here.

The lady was very friendly and we chatted and I spent.

It was all her fault, she kept showing me stuff she had made or they had in their classes

and I fell in love with them all. Wouldn't you?

Well considering the last time I bought anything crafty was October last year

I think I have been a good girl.

This is what I got...some must haves...my Spellbinders dies that I dont think I own

well if I do someone special will be getting them (I don't think she reads my blog)

My favourite buy from this lot is the fuschia stamp from Judikins, I love Fuschia

plants and have always looked for this stamp and it was on sale for $10 wooooooohoooo

Well I landed in hospital on the weekend while hubby went camping with the family. Had a massive headache that was unlike any headache I'd experienced and scared the beegeebies out of me. Had every test under the sun and I looked like a pin cushion. They couldn't get any blood out of me and finally when they did it spilt everywhere and scared the heck out of me.

Hop on over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see more desk and gardens or working areas of crafters around the world

T stands for Tuesday

I landed in hospital on the weekend and this is what they gave me for breakfast after I had been starving. I dont eat marmalade and I dont like Equal sugar and the weetbix was bland on their own. So I skipped most of it and waited for a decent meal which I got when I got out of hospital and we went and had some soup at a cafe, was much more nourishing and to my taste

Remember my post with my new Tea Toy here, well curious as I am I wanted to see what those pods held and how they worked so I opened one up 

Hop on over to Bluebeard and Elizabeth's T for Tuesday Meme to see more tea stories

WOYWW #261

Nothing has changed in my craft room unpacking, I do however have 8 days off after today 

so I will get stuck into it and hopefully have it all unpacked, 

thats wishful thinking as I still have 70 boxes to unpack.

Meanwhile the other day I heard a noise outside my craftroom door 

and on inspection I saw this parcel delivered courtesy of the wonderful 

Eliza who plays in WOYWW

The gorgeous Eliza has contributed these gorgeous cards for my 

Cards for the Troops Charity collection

Thank you so much Eliza, you are one generous gorgeous person.

Flat Susan has not turned up yet, hopefully some day soon, 

I can't wait to show her around my new city.

EDITED: It's 12hours since this post went up and Flat Susan arrived sometime during the day but I was at work, so when hubby came home he delivered her to me.

Joining Julia's Stamping Ground to visit more desks from around the world

WOYWW #260

   

 

Fifth Anniversary of this craft desk phenomenon.
I loved all the badges and couldn't make a decision so I got them all LOL

I first started way back in September 28, 2011 and continued for 90 entries
on another blog of mine as this one hadn't started yet.

My desk/craft room still hasn't changed since last weeks update but I have a good excuse.

We went camping, rustic style as one of my friends commented on my facebook page.

My brother and his family invited us and it was the first time I had camped rustically LOL

I enjoyed it thoroughly even the visiting cows who eyed us warily as to why these strange looking creatures have invaded their home.

Unbeknownst to me my brother took this photo of me cooking, I love this silhouette photo of Michael and I. Next weekend we go camping again as it's the Queen's birthday holiday weekend.

Yes we celebrate the Queen's birthday here and get a holiday for it.

I am hoping that Flat Susan will be here in time for us to take her on a camping trip, I believe this will be her first camping trip.  Flat Susan is run by Neet of Hickorydorums  

one of our WOYWW deskers.
So unfortunately I dont have ATC to swap as I have nothing to make them with at the moment, definitely will take part next year though.

Run on over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see all the anniversary desks

WOYWW #258

Well I have been missing in action for quite a while now but I have a good reason for it.

My last desk was 10 weeks ago wow how time has flown.

We've successfully moved with a few hiccups but it's all good now and this is the state of my craft room which I should add is twice the size of my last one which was 2 meters x 3 meters (8x12 feet)

This one is now 8 meters by 11 meters (26 x 36 feet).

When I first saw it I said to hubby "this room is too big", he rolled his eyes as he knows well how big is never too big for crafting.

 Another view

 Michael can also have a desk in the corner, what a mess!! Paper shelves still waiting to be filled

 My corner desk with computer and my brother gave me his tv so I can watch downstairs when Michael goes to bed upstairs. or just watch tv while I am crafting

 To the far right  is a room that has shelves and no windows which I will use to store my jam, perfect room. We shall also grow mushrooms in there too. The room with the door open is the toilet and bathroom.

 As you can see it is an ironing room too, I don't mind as its so big and I haven't totally unpacked yet, I counted 70 boxes still left to unpack

 This corner was used as a kitchen by the previous tenants, it is also the laundry too

Looking from the laundry side towards the back of the room, my desk is at the far right corner under the window. Michaels desk is to the left corner or the middle of the picture under the light to the left. The unpacking is slow going because I had to start work a week after we moved in. So I am unpacking a little bit at a time whenever I get a spare moment.

Linking up with Julia's Stamping Ground to see more crafty desks

T Stands for Tuesday

Yes I have been missing in action and the reason why is explained in tomorrow's WOYWW post.

Here is my post for Elizabeth's T for Tuesday meme

We have an egg farm near us and I love going there to get fresh eggs, they also stock milk in the 1 litre bottles which I love as they have handles, but today they didnt have my favourite bottle. However I did find this glass bottle with real milk, un homogenised which will only last till 16 May but hey hubby has never had real fresh milk in Australia so  I really got it for him. I use tea in my milk so I didnt miss out.

Then I bought myself a mothers day gift. I had always wanted a tea pod maker like the coffee ones but have never seen any tea pods and the machine was $119 which was too much for me. Today it was on sale for $49 and it was for Breast Cancer fundraising so I got this one , that's what the pink ribbon no the side is for. I also found the pod caddy that turns so had to get that. I will have to get some coffee pods when my craft room is ready for my coffee friends. I will report next week how it is.

Linking up with Bluebeard and Elizabeth's T for Tuesday Meme