Hail, rain or shine ok, maybe not hail we will be at the Jan Powers Farmer Market this Saturday at the Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm! Come on down! K x

©Kara Rosenlund That’s right… I have been searching high and low to bring you some new exciting old wares  for your home….. especially the kitchen…ah, my happy place… expect copper cookware, old glass bottles galore. beautiful wooden objects made by hand, both large and small…. and the unexpected thrown in too… Too excited for words… […]

©Kara Rosenlund This recipe is super easy and uses store bought shortcrust pasty, see super easy; the perfect autumn weekend afternoon indulgence… plus it looks like you went to so much more effort than what you really did – love that! K x 125g caster sugar 500g pears, i used brown pears, peeled and sliced […]

©Kara Rosenlund Weekend in Pictures… and what a wet, dark and gloomy weekend it was… I really can’t believe how much rain we have had recently… Timothy O and I hit the road in the rain to collect Frankie the caravan who was having some repairs done… I have the most amazing caravan repair man, […]

©Kara Rosenlund Frankie Does Sydney….That’s right! I’m hitting the road with Frankie the caravan, packing up all of our wares and embarking on an old school road trip down the east coast of Australia! Yup, windows down, music up and golden sunshine on the horizon. First stop will be Megan Morton’s The School for a two […]

©Kara Rosenlund You may of noticed it’s been a little quiet around here on the blog over the last couple of days and there was no ‘Weekend in Pictures’ this week… I did shoot it, however I didn’t feel like uploading it…. one of our little chickens Cecelia passed away unexpectedly and it was all […]

©Kara Rosenlund We won’t be appearing tomorrow at the Jan Powers Farmers Market… Frankie the caravan is at a spa retreat the workshop getting some much needed rejuvenation  repairs to her cute little rusty body … she is almost 60 years old, so she needs to be spoilt. Sorry for any inconvenience, we will be at […]

©Kara Rosenlund Sometimes when recipes call for one large serving size I like to make it smaller and make individual portions, for example when I make sand crab lasagne I like to make the lasagne into little individual ramekins … the same goes for when the recipe calls for individual portions. sometimes I like to make […]

©Kara Rosenlund It was a wet weekend here in Brisbane…. the light was darker and the air was a touch cooler….We had hoped to do some exterior painting of the house though the weather took care of those plans…. instead Timothy O and I headed off early Saturday morning to an old little town we […]

©Kara Rosenlund I really like to mix it up with recipes and ingredients to suit me. To be honest I’ll do just about anything to get out of a walk up to the busy shops to pick up a single ingredient that the recipe calls for…. This french recipe is traditionally made with cherries, however […]

Isn’t the internet a funny thing… more so blogs…. Sometimes I feel like I know the bloggers I follow…. even though I have never met them in real life… I feel so connected to them personally through reading about their lives and what they share. One such person is Pia Jane Bijkerk. In my head she is […]

All Images ©Kara Rosenlund How was your weekend? Mine felt like it was over in a flash! This is probably because it was a market weekend and they always seem to go by so fast. The above shot is of new pieces being unpacked onto the tables…  I actually do all of our displays at […]