Canberra

This is 9am on a weekday, peek hour in Canberra on the first day we arrived here nearly 2 years ago, we thought everyone had left town, this was in the Kingston district.

View from our back yard............cloudy day

Magpie visits us sometimes, Michael caught this one on camera

View from our back yard...........houses up on the hill

View from our front yard...........one night in February 2009 this is what we got

View from our back yard...........love this cloud formation at sunset

View from our back yard over the fence...........cockatoos, they are very destructive and pic your roof and window panes off and wild

Lemon Coconut Slice

With Icing

Just out of the oven

My wonderful friend and Stampin' Up! recruit 

Ellen Clarke

made this lovely slice that is sooo easy  

even I can do it and I am not baker by any stretch of the imagination.

So here goes, please try it, you will love it

Lemon Coconut Slice

 125g butter

 3/4 cup sugar

 1 cup SR flour

pinch salt

 1 cup coconut dessicated

 2 well beaten eggs

 1/2 cup milk

Melt butter and stir in sugar, add flour, salt, 

coconut and then eggs and milk.

Pour into greased tray and bake at 180 degrees C 20-25mins, 

pour lemon icing while warm and sprinkle with coconut

Lemon Icing

1 cup icing sugar

1 tsp butter

1 tbsp boiling water

1 tsp lemon juice

Mix together

Bon Apetite!

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Blog tour has started

If you'd like to see lots of card ideas and 3D items using Stampin'  Up 

products, go on over to my other blog 

where you will get links to 3 tours that started today. 

There are over 60 blogs to blurf through.

Return on Monday May 18th, 

my blog will contain blog candy that you can win

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Stampin' UP Convention and card ideas

Run on over to my other blog  and see updates and card ideas galore of a Stampin' Up convention I just attended the last two days that was held in Canberra Australia for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators

...Enjoy!!!