Pink Love...

Mia Bella gardens is in love with pink...

Bright pink petunias...

Pink dahlias...

with funky contrasting yellow centres.

Shocking pink...

Shade loving fushias...

with soft pink outer petals and stamens.

The visiting bees are in love with pink too...

deliriously in love with the scent...

of bright pink scented stock flowers.

Pink love is in the garden...

and a flamingo too!

Poppy Pretties...

 At Mia Bella Gardens there is a field of poppies...

 Well, that's not quite true...
it's actually a garden bed
of pretty poppies.

Last year I went seed scattering mad,

and now early in the summer season,

the garden is a mass of prettiness.

 Poppy bud beauty...

After the drabness of the winter,

 isn't the minty green of the buds and leaves luscious?

 You have to wonder how so much flower is packed into that small bud!

Poppy pretties...

Nature spoils us with their beauty...

Nature spoils me,
Because this is the vista outside my lounge room window.

Cupcake making for kids!

It was with much fun we had the pleasure of 'testing' a cupcake kit for kids

for our local Whitcoulls  bookstore !
First we make a batch of vanilla cupcakes
and let them cool before icing them.

 The kit had the smallest rolling pin you've ever seen in it...

cute little cutters, and fondant in pink, yellow, white and blue.

This kit is quite educational too...
with fondant in primary colours mixed to make new colours,

Yellow + blue = green...
So that's a bit of science isn't it?

 The fondant passed the taste test...

Kids would love the different flavours...

 pink strawberry was the best!

 The little cupcake stand was a trick to get the cupcakes on...

But this was the end result.

Cupcake making with fondant icing...

Now there's an idea to keep the children entertained 
during the weekend,
or holidays!