carina@home: June 2011

Where it belong ...

11:00 AM Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected.

Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.

~Unknown~

After opening some boxes in my hobby room the other week, I discovered an unfinished pillowcases that I started a year ago for our bedroom. (see our France holiday http://www.carina-at-home.com/2010_06_01_archive.html) - I never finished it, as our lives changed a lot after the holiday when we decided to move to SA and now I'm slowing starting to take each room and finish it. In between my job, being a mum, renovating the rooms and other hobbies, I'll hopefully get these unfinished projects finished. One down, a few more to go!

Have a good week.

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The result

7:09 AM Friday, June 17, 2011

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~Elbert Hubbard~

Been asked by a lovely friend to make an IPAD cake for a very special 40^th birthday. The same evening I browsed to see what the icons looked like, as I don’t own an IPAD, and immediately I had an idea.

Wanted to make a Guinness Chocolate cake, but was afraid that this will just be to moist a cake, so made a black magic cake instead.

All came together beautifully and

the end result .... just LOVED it!

I will share the recipe shortly.

Have a good weekend.

~Cx~

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:: Stripes ::

11:24 AM Thursday, June 2, 2011

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
~Dale Carnegie~