Finally it's Autumn in Melbourne, it's quite possibly our favourite season and the ladies are rejoicing in the cool mornings, warm afternoons and long fiery sunsets... it's also the perfect weather for cardigans and time to get the knitting out which of course endears it to us even more. With thoughts of golden leaves and crunchy footpaths in mind Beck was thrilled to find this set of autumnal themed and hand painted dinner plates, made in japan no less. She was so excited she even got the mixing bowl and sifter out and whipped up a suitably seasonal batch of chocolate banana muffins - and Beck, unlike Ramona is really no baker.
unfortunately there were only five of these beauties, so here's a hot tip: if anyone is hanging onto one of these or sees one out in their local op-shop or school fete, and by the way get ready people it's the season for fetes, please snaffle it up - she's willing to pay to get a full set of six.Oh and that Muffin recipe:
3 cups sifted plain flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 packed cup brown sugar
250 grams 70% cocoa dark chocolate (the best you can get)
2 mashed ripe bananas
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup regular or soy milk
125g melted unsalted butter
Mix dry ingredients together, mix wet ingredients together then make a well in the centre and pour wet into dry. Mix together gently with a spoon - but do NOT over mix it, the mixture should be a bit lumpy. Fill muffin tray and pop the lot into a pre-heated moderate oven for 20 minutes. Makes about 12 muffins.
AND if anyone can tell us the difference between a muffin and cupcake we'd love to know, because from where we stand they seem mightily like the same thing.
Keeping with this weeks craft of the day theme we thought these vintage 'lightning' zippers were perfect. To be honest they're not exactly a 'new' craft find, in fact they've been hanging around hml headquarters for months, let's just say we weren't prepared to risk putting them into a pair of trousers that we might actually wear outside, even if they do have a "most reliable locking slider". Now, however, thanks to the magic (or madness) of Martha we know just what to do with them: turn them into crazy old lady brooches to scare off the youngsters at terminally hip fashion festival events next week. Brilliant.
Oh and the title of today's post refers to one of our favourite fashion films of all times starring the best head of hair in fashion today (well ok apart from Karl's ponytail) 
