Day in Newcastle

Yesterday supposed to be Gruffalo day... wasn't.

Yes, me and Dom went to Newcastle. Yes, we were in Hancock Museum where Gruffalo was expected.

Everybody's waiting...

Problem is... Dom is not a patient person.. so... he said 'Hello' to his friend T-Rex

then checked birds

then made a round through most of expositions and we left the museum.

We went on a walk, bought some strawberries from nice man on Northumberland Street and eat them :)

Dom decided he wants milk shake - we checked  Kaspa's. OMG - one regular shake is enough for team of three!!! We spend bit of time to drink it :)

I love this Mummy!!!

Our next stop - Discovery Museum :) We didn't know that they have Teddy Bear Tuesday, so we had extra fun looking for 10 mischievous Teddy Bears around whole building :) Thanks to that we checked all rooms and every single exposition there :)

Moving the bridge.

Dom in helicopter

People around the world

Wow, the Dragon!!!

Yes, we found all bears :) and the Lady reading bears tales :)

Then we made our way to Chinatown for late lunch and then catch bus home.

That was nice day even with this grey and drizzling weather :)

Egg hunt and other things

Last Friday we visited our old toddler's group in nearby community centre for Easter Egg hunt.

Aw.. that was really nice to see old friends and meet new :) Kids are growing up so fast!
Dawn who's running the group was happy to see Dom again and she said he's changed and is sooo grown up now :)

Boys with Dawn in community centre last year :)

Dom couldn't wait for egg hunting and he found most of the eggs before play starts :) so we had to hide all of them again :)

He found most of them later anyway and back home tired, but with big bag full of choco eggs and big choco bunny :)

Another egg on the tree :)

Dom and Bunny and Bear :) Easter cuddles?

We had some telli watching after back home and made Mr Maker 'square' doggy :)

Nice puppy :)

When Dom was catching a little nap, I made new earrings :)

Already sold :) I think I make new pair :)

Meeting friends

Dom's Easter holiday are passing so quick...

Time to catch up with things :)

Last week we met my friend Kasia and went together for little trip to nearby Country Park with kids.
Dom and Kasia's girls had brill time running wild, playing ball, climbing trees etc. All three of them don't bother the weather - grey & cold & drizzly in some point :) On the end of it all of them were partially covered with mud but we don't mind as long as they had good fun :) We had little picnic and we were checking 'art trail'.

Dom and owl

Is it a fairy Mum?

Look Mummy :) I'm on a tree :)

Let me down, I want to play with girls!

That was great day even with this miserable weather :)

Dom also had his fave dish last week - risotto with green peas :)

I know Italians are cooking this dish totally different way but here how I'm doing it :)

I'm chopping 1 medium onion or 2 shallots, 1 celery stalk, frying them on oil/olive 2-3 minutes, adding cup of long grain rice, mixing a bit, then adding bit by bit around 700 ml or more hot veggie or chicken stock ( can be from cube), when rice almost done ( around 15 minutes) I'm adding 2-3 handfuls of frozen peas and some black pepper and dried garlic for taste. I'm serving it decorated with grated cheese (eg Cheddar) and chopped parsley. 

Have a fun trying it :) 

Shopping

I'm a woman, so I'm a shopper, I like it or not :)

We all are making some shopping from time to time - clothes, food, books, games, gifts... lots of things :) and we all used online shopping at least once in our lives :)

Hand up if you never shop online!

I know online shopping taking away face to face chatting with seller, chance to try things before buying,but that how  it's works.

Shopping webs giving us a chance to find items we're looking for and we have problems with finding it, so more and more things we are buying this way.

If we like handmade stuff, we can check webs selling handmade items.

To be honest with you I like handmade pieces  and even if I'm crafter and can make stuff for myself I'm still buying pieces I like :)

My last buy - gorgeous earrings with dragons from Genevieve from https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CreationsGEBO.

Genevieve is from Quebec, Canada and she's very crafty person. In her shop offer you can find earrings, rings and necklaces - beautiful pieces!

Here my new earrings from her shop - received by post today (very fast delivery).

Just love them :) 

If you like handmade items check:

https://www.etsy.com/

or

https://folksy.com/

You can find handmade also on Ebay and Amazon :)

Pirates, jewellery...

Passing week was full of work, fun and thinking...

Cooking plans changed a bit cause my partner catch cold and requested cream-soup one more time in this week :) No extra costs, cause had everything needed at home :)

I was thinking what we could eat during our next week (including Easter) plus where to take Dom for him to have some fun during his Easter holiday. Cooking plans already in place :) Some of activities for Dom planned too - we are going for Easter Egg hunt to our fave community centre and next week we will go to Hancock Museum to meet Gruffalo :) If weather will be good we'll play in the garden, have a walk to the park, port or beach :)

Yesterday we took Dom to Tynemouth to see Pirate Maze... and we had great time :)

Jack Sparrow :)

Daddy, is it safe to sleep with gun? 

This rum is mine!!!

Hmmm... Hope his not cold...

Dom had lots of fun walking pirates plank with Daddy and looking for stamps for his treasure map. He found them all and received a Treasure - choco coins :)

During the week I found a bit of time to play with beads. Made some new pieces for my shop and something for myself. Also back to my old project and even tried something new.

New bracelets for girls - early teens - already in my etsy shop offer :)

Something for me - deep purple with a hint of silver :)

First time with asymmetrical jewellery...

Back to old :) Very long and gipsy earrings. I think sari silk looks better on this project then ribbon I used previously, but this is just my opinion :)

And this is all for today for me to write... Hope my grammar not killing, never was good with it :)

Cooking, saving, tasting?

Last weekend we agreed with my man that we need to do something to keep our dinners tasty and variable with not spending fortune on them and have a chance to delicately push Dom to eating more.

So... we sat and planned our dinners for whole week ahead. We bought most of ingredients during weekend with just few left till they'll be needed.

I have to say - we are sticking with our plan so far and to be honest with you I'm not buying more then bread, fresh fruits and juice in my current day-to -day shopping.

Till today we had:
* meat goulash with mashed potatoes & sliced cornichons
*veggie cream soup with cheesy&garlicky toasties
*lecso (my version of traditional Hungarian stew )
*lemon&garlic chicken with herby rice ( new recipe )
*Pea, ricotta & ham pasties

After tasting we decided that our l&g chicken need some little changes - less lemon juice and maybe more garlic.

Still in plan we have:
*jacket potatoes with cottage cheese with spring onions
* mixed bean patties with big colourful salad.

Dom is rather picky so far... He didn't touch goulash or lecso, ate cheesy toasties, handmade buns (added as extra to lecso :), lots of boiled rice ( tried chicken, but wasn't impressed), ate biscuits made from pasties dough ( he cut them out with cookie cutters) with extra ham on his plate.

Hope he'll be less fussy some time soon, cause he's starting full time school in September and will be eating dinners there. Fingers crossed for that :)

Around the UK part 2 :)

We really like our trips around the UK. So many places to see :)

At the moment we are not travelling too far cause Dom going crazy if we are too long in the bus... hmmm maybe train will change that :)

We still remember our trip to Lake District - middle of October 2006 - amazing weather, like in mid of Summer - around 20 degrees...

From the bus

another view from the bus

Windermere Lake :)

We were in Chester - nice place even when raining :)

Beautiful monument  - you can find it in Chester Cathedral

In the front of Cathedral.

Hopefully some day soon we will show Beamish to our boy - amazing place - time just stopped there.

Just like in movies...

Trains - something for Dom :)

He will love it - I'm sure :) We did :)

We took so many photos when travelling, we still taking a lot, and we have many more trips to make and so many thing and places to show to our boy. We hope he will like travelling as much as we do.