I've discovered FLY Lady!!

On my quest for finding a way to better organise my days, prioritise and clean the house I've come across the FLY lady website and can I say I wish I'd found FLY lady earlier!!

Starting off with baby steps, decluttering and then progressing into the FLY lady's "zone" cleaning the FLY lady claims to help get our homes & lives organized.

(For those who are wondering FLY stands for Finally Loving Yourself.)

There's a whole online community cleaning in the same zones & developing the same good habits at the same time- and you can jump right in at whatever point they're at! Sounds good to me...

I've signed up for the daily Flymail to prompt me to follow the program.

I've also started making my control journal which according to FLYlady "is your own personal manual for listing and keeping track of your routines"

I had already begun a Home organizer which now I'm adapting into my control journal. I got the original basis for my home organizer from the Executive Homemaker where you can download the Executive Homemaker binder, chore charts and more- check the site out here: http://www.executivehomemaker.com/category/ehbinder/

and of course FLY lady: http://www.flylady.net/

Happy cleaning, I'll let you know how I go.

Eat Drink Chic- One of my favourite blogs

I'd like to share with you some of my favourite blogs.

When I'm having a party, it's the lead up, organising, making invitations & decorating that I get most joy out of add my love of free printables and you get my love of Eat Drink Chic!


Eat Drink Chic.
Stylish ideas and D.I.Y for parties, entertaining, weddings, home décor, gifts, food and fashion.
created by amy moss.
a graphic designer residing in melbourne, australia.
(this info taken from the blog)

The blog is full of fantastic stuff and I'm thinking I may have to throw myself a party just to use some of the adorable free stuff!

If you know of or have a great website or blog on party decor & free printables I'd love to know about it & maybe even feature you- send me an email:

thismumsworld@gmail.com

Easter Bunny Cupcake Mountains

So as a last minute Easter idea I decided I'd make some cupcakes. Bear in mind I'm very much a newby at baking & these are the first cupcakes I've made from scratch in years!

I made bright green ones as I'm wanting to practice making Dorothy the Dinosaur cupcakes for by baby boys 1st birthday, but I didn't want to make 12 Dorothy's at Easter. So I made a quick change to an Easter theme & took them to my parents house as a gift (can you believe that my hubby doesn't like cake?!)

So please excuse the mess as I'm not a cake decorator and I wipped them up in a hurry while baby napped! :)

Here's the recipe I used:
2 Cups SR Flour

3/4 Cup Caster Sugar

3/4 Cup Milk
125g Butter, melted & cooled

2 Eggs, beaten

1 Tb Vanilla Essence

1/2 cup choc chips

Mix flour & caster sugar in a bowl. Form a well in the middle & add wet ingrdients & stir gently. Then I added choc chips (were'nt in original recipe & I think they could've done with more!)

Cook in greased muffin trays (or patty pans) in 200c oven for 12-15 mins (took me the latter)

Icing was just 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, + around 2 tb milk until reached correct consistancy then added food colouring oh and some vanilla essence.

Ice when cool & add choc sprinkles for rabbit poos.

I used easter bunny template from http://www.docstoc.com/search/printable-puppet-template/ for my toppers, but your could choose your own bunny designs. Cut out bunny & tape to a tooth pick. Insert tooth pic & ur done.

These weren't the nicest cupcakes ever (they were ok I think I was just over looking at green!) if you have a great & easy vanilla cupcake recipe I'd love to see it.

Also I'm gonna go more adventurous/tasty with icing next time!

If you make a version of my bunny mountain cupcakes please send me an email/ link so I can check out your handy work & link it to my blog! I'm sure you will all make prettier ones!!

Enjoy your Easter, stay safe & God bless. kt

Hello world

This is my very first blog post ever so I shall introduce myself.
I'm a 25 year old wife of 3.5years, Stay-at-home Mother of an almost 1y.o. I'm a wannabe environmentalist (I try)
I love travelling, walking, hanging out with my family & dog, craft, food, movies, my TV shows (on DVD), stationary, paper, my Christian walk, beautiful things & designs (obviously not in that order!)

I'm still learning how to organize my day/life with a bub & getting most out of life.
So I though I'd share my journey with you all.
I'm aspiring to be that woman who can balance it all (although this probably doesn't exist)I'm trying to cook more- I'm one of those lucky ones who has a fantastic husband who cooks. He's taught me some things but I need to learn more. I'm also trying to bake more, which I've always wanted to do (that and actually wear some of my nail polish one day :) you know all of those 'when I get organised this is the type of person I'll be' things- or is that just me?? )
My biggest goal though is to completely organise my home as I'm a hoarder & a messy person -so thats gonna change!

So enough blabbing- feel free to drop me an email @
thismumsworld@gmail.com if you want to share something from your world
I'll try and add something interesting on here one of these days!!

kt