Getting Ready for Father's Day.

The air is sweet, and it's warming up which means only one thing, Spring is on it's way and that means Fathers Day!

Recently I was invited to go and experience shopping at the fantastic Uni Hill Factory Outlet in Bundoora.

Wow what an amazing set of outlets, home to the biggest Nike outlet in Melbourne, one of the things I immediately loved about Uni Hill Factory Outlets in comparison to other factory outlet places I have been to,was that it was so easy to park! I hate driving into the city and more than that I hate paying for parking, that's right folks, free undercover parking!!!

Anyway, eight fellow bloggers and myself met with the gorgeous girls from 360 Immerse for a lovely morning of Fathers Day crafting. Oh yes I said crafting, Uni Hill also has a Kaiser Craft outlet and you know what that means, paper, embellishments and MDF shapes at AWESOME prices (I may have gone straight there after and spent a small fortune, shh don't tell!)

First up we had a speaker from Cosmetics Fragrance Direct discussing new men's fragrance releases, my favorite had to be Versace's Eros, it had kind of a minty smell. You can read more here.

We made tool boxes, the pressure was on as the only craft blogger, sadly I didn't finish but I plan on having it done by Fathers Day! You can get the tutorial over at the Kaisercraft  Website here. The crafting workshop was held by Melissa Kennedy who is the creative designer for Kaisercraft so of course she was like a rock star for me. If you're into paper crafts check her blog here.

Then we got to run around the stores with the challenge of putting together gift packs for different types of ads, it truly was a lot of fun, hey when else can you run into stores and just grab whatever you want...of course all items were returned later.

I visited all the sports places, including Nike, Adidas and Puma and there were still about 7 other sports places, I never got to, seriously this is a shoppers dream! Julian LOVES his caps, they have an outlet called CAPZ and that's all it is, pure Fathers Day heaven.

At the end of the day if you're not shopping for Dad, there are so many places to visit, I bet you don't get to every place. So if you're in Melbourne head over to Uni Hill Factory Outlets, you won't be disappointed. See here for trading and address details

Thanks for reading,

Mel xo

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Cake Pops

Have you ever tried to make something that seems to be everywhere and just completely fail?

I have many a time, but my greatest failure in the kitchen would have to be cake pops. Prior to my blogging life I decided these little balls of goodness must be the easiest thing in the world to make because everyone was doing them and raving. Elizabeth and I set out to make some...OMG what a nightmare, the failure was so bad it was hilarious I mean they were tasty but they were falling off lopsided and just terrible! 

 

Well that was before I got Kambrook's Little Chef Cake Pop maker. I think I mentioned a while back that I went to a blogging event, oh so much fun! Kambrook gave all the guests a choice between a few different product and I immediately said, "cake pop maker please."

This is the Little Chef's Cake Pop Maker.

Promptly got it home read the instructions and decided nothing could be that easy! Two months later finally worked up the courage to give them a whirl and far out, so easy. It comes with recipes to make the pops which I followed and the instruction guide was just so accurate.

The house smelled so good, Madeleine was eating them quicker than I could make them so I actually whipped up two batches. Jule's took some to work and the guys were thrilled.

So fun and what I like most about cake pops, is the fact it is much easier to watch portion control, well except for Madeleine.

 

DIY Delight or Disaster? Oh so fun, I loved making, decorating and eating them. Compared to the ones I tried without the maker, AMAZING!!!! Delight.

Also you can checkout the Kambrook range here, they also have giveaways and plenty of delicious recipes or follow them on facebook here.

Thanks for reading,

Mel xo

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Dangle Beaded Earrings

Lately I have been looking really hard at costume jewelry sold in stores, Seeing how they're made and I discovered they're not actually that difficult to make. I have a love a dangly earrings and decided to give it a whirl with some beads I had. 

I'm pretty pleased with the results, these have a lot more detail to them than anything I have done before and they're so pretty!

DIY Delight or Disaster? Oh a delight for sure, I think I am also a little in love with seed beads! Just as well, I spent so much time lifting up jewelry and turning it around in my hands while I was in the store, I'm pretty sure they thought I was trying to steal them.

Thanks for reading,

Mel xo

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