Matching Pegs

Mum, can you please put a photo of my play-dough face on your website?

Sure!

Recipe for Homemade Playdough (or as Amelia called it when she was about 2 - Squish-Squish).

1 Cup Plain Flour

1 Cup Warm Water

2 Teaspoons Cream of Tartar

1 Teaspoon of Vegetable Oil

1/4 Cup Salt

Food Colouring

*Add a few drops of food colouring to the water, then mix all ingredients together in a large saucepan.

*Stir over a medium heat until the mixture changes from liquid to solid.

*Remove from the saucepan and knead until it is blended smooth

*Store in an airtight container in the fridge.

Have Fun.

Much of the last week has been very wet here in Melbourne - a sentence I was not sure I would ever type. The kids have been cooped up inside for the first week of the school holidays as the rain has been pretty steady - not intermittent as it usually is. The nights are colder, the pilot light on the heater has been lit and I used the electric blanket this past week.

There are quite a few dependable flowers in my garden that are still hanging in there, especially my beloved geraniums. These are Ivy Leafed Geraniums (above) that we have cascading out of 3 faux terracotta pots attached to the garage wall. The flowers are tiny, these are taken with the macro setting on the camera.

These Geraniums are going almost all year, and I have professed my love for them before.

This little guy was hiding out in the garden and I spotted him when I crouched down to take a different shot. He was pretty hard to focus on, but I have included this photo because we don’t see a lot of dragonflies here at our place.

Last, but not least, here is proof that autumn is here. This is our little Scarlet Oak that we planted a couple of years ago. You can see the tinge in the leaves as they start to change colour.