On My Bedside Table.....

Alright, so here is the wrap up of the books on my bedside table at this very moment... But as promise dto Ladybreeze I will be adding a Terry Pratchett this week... I love broadening my written horizons! Maybe i'll add something festive too :) tis the season!

~Across the Wall – Garth Nix.
I cant provide much feed back on this one as I literrally started it today and havnt even gotten past the preface! Basically, it is a collection of short stories with a few of them relating to his Old Kingdom Trilogy which I started reading a couple years ago. Fingers crossed its a goodie!

~Poirot the French Collection – Agatha Christie.
I know, I know... But she's written so many books that I will have to have one on my bedside table for the rest of my life just to get through them all! Hahaha

~Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies for the Future- Mario Reading.
I've been reading this book in bits and pieces for a few years now. Mostly because im an ancient history buff more than wanting to know what the future holds. But hey, I love a good conspiracy theory!

On my lap right now: Delicious Magazine and i'm savaging it with a blade by cutting out my favourite recipes to stick on my fridge... K's Aunty Marie would slap me if she knew I was doing it!

In my DVD player: Hairspray

Love & kisses on both cheeks,

Sunny xxx

More Flight of the Conchords!

Okay - just one more! Its the hiphopopotamus vs. the Rhymenoceros. My favourite and in honur of Michael! (because their aint no party like his nannas tea party... hey... ho)




Enjoy!

Love & kisses on both cheeks,
Sunny xxx

Flight of the Conchords

OMG I have loved Flight of the Conchords for years now. Ever since i saw them at the comedy festival. They are simultaniously my favourite comedy act & band! I have so much love for them. I have a massive crush on Brett :) Their claim to fame is being New Zealands fourth most popular parody duo.... Classic.

Anyway - let me leave you with a taste of their extreme awesomeness. Enjoy!

Brett You've Got It Going On


Hahaha "that doesnt mean that i want to bum you!" so funny....

Im Not Crying


He's just making a lazagna - for one.

Business Time


Thats why their called business socks!

If Thats What Your In To


Most Beautiful Girl In The Room (Live on Letterman)


And Finally - Issues (think about it)


I hope they have made you laugh as hard as I have been laughing!

Love & Kisses on both cheeks,
Sunny xxx

On My Bedside Table.....

As those of you who know me are aware, I LOVE reading. I get fully engrossed in a book (or several) and cannot put it down till im done. So here is a list of the books currently on my bedside table:

~ The Complete Battles of Hasting Volume 1- Agatha Christie
What can i say? Im a sucker for Hercule Poirot! He would bethe first person on my list of "If you could pick anyone, who would you pick to have dinner with?" followed by his creator Agatha Christie - she is a pure genius born in an era of femal suppression.

~ The Clarkson Collection - Jeremy Clarkson
You may know Jeremy from Top Gear. K is car mad and watches it religiously. So when i saw his book at the airport (one of my many trips interstate!) I couldnt pass it up. It was riddiculously cheap, only AU$17.00 on sale. It is a collection of his three books which are in turn a collection of his work from his colum in The Sunday Times (UK).

On my lap right now: The most recent Donna Hay magazine.

Whats in my DVD player: The Vicar of Dibley -The Immaculate Collection

Love & Kisses on both cheeks,
Sunny xxx

My 21st!

Firstly, a big thankyou to all those who sent me birthday wishes! It was very touching :)

Secondly - pictures of K & I progressivly through the nigh (notice my makeup dissapearing!). It was held at Capitan Torres in Sydney. 60 People turned out to wish me a Happy 21st and 4 family members flew in from interstate to be there! It was loads of fun and as always, the food was delicious!



I totally tried to take this picture myself like 5 times but i think my hand was drunk, ergo Ziggy took it for me :)



And Suzie & Georgie were my party planners and helped me enourmously. The theme was Black & Red and you can see most people complied!



This last photo was after some black sambucca shots and at about 3am so my makeup is pretty much all gone & i got changed into some different clothes because a floor length dress is suprising difficult after a couple drinks!



And that concludes it! You can see the complete collection of pictures on my Facebook page!

Love & Kisses on both cheeks,
Sunny xxx

Hair Extensions - My Before & After!

This is me Pre-Entensions -


And this is me the day i got my hair extensions. The lamp in my bedroom makes it look really yellow so i have included another pic as well...



And voila.... this is me at my 21st a few weeks ago (about 1 months after having them done)



Love and kisses on both cheeks,
Sunny xxx

Maya's Hair Extensions!

So, Maya used to have long locks, then progressed to a Posh style and then after a couple months went - what the hell, I'll just cut it all short. While Maya can rock every look and looked wicked cute with short hair it wasn't long till she was wanting her long hair back.

I cut my hair short about 2 years ago now (wow, its already been 2 years!) and i have been looking into hair extensions for a while. So it wasn't long before we found a place we liked and went - what the hell, lets just do it! The following is a peek into Maya's extension experience!



This is Maya's before shot! You can see it is quite short at the back and on the top, so it was lucky we got such a good stylist because you can barely tell afterwards!



The first few strands of hair! We both opted for human hair... barbie hair just isn't the look we were going for!



A close up of the micro-bead system... you could barely tell they were in there.



With most of the hair on!



And Voila!!! The finished product! Doesn't it look wicked natural!! If you would like some more info on the place we got it done, the cost or the experience please comment or email me and i will help you as much as i can!

Love and kisses on both cheeks,
Sunny xxx

A Heartfelt Apology

Let me start by giving my sincere apologies. I know I have been absent for quite a period of time but i swear, i have a reason! (or several.....) It was mostly due to not having a suitable Internet connection, then party due to thinking we had to move house - which is still up in the air - and finally due to being so immensely busy lately! I give you my word i will start putting much more effort into it! especially with Christmas coming up & K visiting family in India & Dubai over Xmas & New Years (so i will have LOADS of free time!).... Needless to say i will be bringing you updates of all my holiday season mischief!

Anyway - there is plenty to look forward to! I will post pictures of Maya's & My Hair Extensions(yay!!), Pictures of my 21st and all my shenanigans in the last few months!

Also, you can see some of my Cupcakery at my sweet toothed blog - Sugar by Sunny.

Love and kisses on both cheeks,

Sunny xxx

Tim Tam Cheesecake - For K's 23rd!

Wednesday the 11th of June was my gorgeous, wonderful, lovable partners birthday so we spent the week sick with chest infections in Melbourne - isn't that what everyone does? hahaha.

Luckily i freighted his birthday cheesecake all the way down before we were sick so it wasn't contaminated with my evil sick germs.

Either way, the cheesecake turned out great! I can thank Kel from Sweet Treats for the pic and the recipe as i was in no condition to take photos :) Although it looked almost exactly the same so that shows what a great recipe it is!

For all those Tim Tam lovers and cheesecake lovers find below Kel's recipe from her blog. it was delicious!

Base Ingredients:
1 250g packet Chocolate Ripple biscuits (these are a plain chocolate cookie, for those international visitors!) - I couldn't find these elusive chocolate ripple biscuits so i used half scallywags (my fave) and half butterscotch snaps. worked really well!
130g butter,melted
50g milk or dark chocolate,melted

Filling:
3 tsp gelatin powder
1/4 cup of water
2 x 250g packets Philly cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 x pkt Tim Tam biscuits ,chopped (OK, so maybe you international people may have trouble finding Tim Tams...but seriously, these are the best bickies EVER)
1 x 300ml carton thickened cream, whipped

Method:
Process chocolate biscuits until finely crushed. Add butter and process until just combined. Press biscuit mixture evenly over base of a 20 cm spring-form tin. Cover and refrigerate while preparing filling.
Sprinkle gelatin over the water in a small heatproof jug.Stand jug in a small pan of simmering water and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Leave aside to cool slightly. Beat cream cheese & sugar with electric mixer until smooth. Stir in gelatin mixture, then chopped Tim Tams. Fold in whipped cream. Pour filling into prepared tin. Drizzle choc in parallel lines (about 1cm apart) across cheesecake. Pull a skewer backwards & forwards through choc to create a lovely pattern on the top of the cheesecake. Refrigerate cheesecake for about three hours or until set.

Love and kisses on both cheeks,

Sunny xxx

I heart CIA Network

I really like thi slady and i think she's onto something with those flowers.... my nanna will love them for her b'day.

Hmmm cookies. I love anything i can just shove in the freezer and forget about! hahaha Now - lets jump to some savoury...

This recipe was first given to me by my friend Scott from work who is the typical aussie bloke. This was the only recipe he could always guarentee would work :)

And of course, everyone loves soem tempura :) especially tempura broccolli... yummers!

Love and kisses on both cheeks,

Sunny xxx