Washed out the water table for the first post nap splash-a-bout of the season. Craved salad for lunch followed by strawberries drizzled in sweet balsamic. Crunched mint leaves and jasmine between my fingers and inhaled deeply, the scent of summer drifting by on the hot wind.
All posts for the month August, 2012
The Best of The Best – you are the Top Guns.
Spring cleaning my sewing / craft table in readiness for the Christmas gift making rush, I couldn’t help but notice that I have amassed a pretty impressive cupboard of supplies. Crafting away for a year or two and slowly building up bits and pieces as we go, one can start a project at night and […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 20, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1427
When Bad Cake Happens to Good People or Why I Need a Kenwood
Lady Moss would just like to thank all of the overachieving mothers out there. It is no longer acceptable to whip up a Women’s Weekly cake batter the night before, slap on some buttercream and present it with the lights off, candles hiding the mistakes five minutes before everyone leaves. Now it sits basking in […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 16, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1421
Money for Jam
Can one really justify spending four times as much on French jam simply because it comes in the most fabulous etched jar with a faux gingham lid and hand written label? We think yes. Tastes pretty fabulous too just quietly.
Posted by Lady Moss on August 13, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1412
False Spring
This week brought with it the promise of spring just around the corner. A blink and you’ll miss it, three days of 24 degree weather, sunshine and long afternoons outside feeding the mint garden in readiness for cocktail season. As we opened up the doors and windows, The Littles leapt around like excited bunnies as […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 11, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1400
This and that
Not being the sportiest of people, I know, shocking but there it is. Lady Moss has found herself crafting more and more at night, rather than wasting time trying to find something decent to watch on the idiot box (my dads term for the telly, which has always seemed perfectly apt to me). We are […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 7, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1392
Coming soon!
One of the most loving, genuine and all round wonderful men in my life, the darling Graeme Webb of GWD is designing a super special masthead for Rainbow Lane that’s just for me. The Lady of the house. Keep your eyes to this space because if it’s anything like his apartment it’s going to be […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 5, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1389
Baby Monet
The King has started Kindy one day a week since I’ve been working for Mossy. A little piece of my heart gets left behind each time I leave him and it doesn’t get easier. I know he doesn’t understand why all of a sudden our precious one on one time together has been shortened and […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 3, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1360
Chocolate, churros and ice-cream oh my!
When The King’s kindy teacher told me how much they love their little gentle, sharing boy I admit I was pleasantly surprised. Gentle, I knew but sharing? My main man is one little kid who doesn’t like to share anything, especially his mama. And so when the Aroma Festival in The Rocks rolled around again […]
Posted by Lady Moss on August 2, 2012
http://www.rainbowlane.com.au/?p=1378