Adventure, baby!

Christine Knight

Christine is the editor of Adventure, Baby! She loves cake, her tolerant husband and her busy preschooler.

Babycakes.com.au

This is my new favourite snack joint. Babycakes.com.au has opened up on 66 Erskine st, right near my work. I grabbed a dozen – which, by the way, isn’t enough to feed my hungry team. Next time I will get 24.



The super-cute menu. I loved the Madeira and hokey pokey flavours.

Wedding Bonanza

My dearest Shelby is getting married! I am so happy for her and so excited! We spent Sunday in full-wedding mode, flicking through bridal mags, looking things up on the internet and watching the best wedding movie of them all, Muriel’s Wedding. Shell and I have loved Muriel’s Wedding for many years, so it provided the perfect background for the pigging out (oh yes, there were lollies!) and wedding-overload.

Even though Shell has her ring, we ended up looking at jewellery sites anyway. I found a few pieces that I thought were just beautiful. I don’t want to look at the prices, I just want to appreciate the exquisite designs from Canturi and Tiffany.



I can’t believe how much cakes cost! I can’t find a pic of the amazing bird cage cake we saw, but we also checked out these. The first one is taken from a illustrator who designs amazing cards and more in the design below. Beautifully done.


This one was a bit of a surprise. A little saucy for a wedding perhaps?


I also introduced Shell to my fave website, Etsy, where they have an amazing wedding section where you can get the most amazing handmade things like invitations, stationary in general, cake toppers, jewellery, table decorations and more.

Newtown Saturday

I couldn’t believe Bev had never been to Newtown before. It’s my fave indie shopping Mecca, so met her for lunch, shopping and more food on a sunny Saturday.

Before shopping we needed to fuel up with some Thai that Newtown is famous for.



My fried rice and veges was amazing.

Bev’s beef thingy was enough for two. She said it was delicious. A shame I didn’t write down the name of the place!


After shopping, more snacks at Cafe C – my ice chocolate and Bev’s strawberry smoothie.

Churros and chocolate.


My shopping results – dress with little white hearts, books to read on the plane and warm peach cobbler-flavoured lip balm. It smells divine.

The Other Boleyn Girl

I love a good historical movie so grabbed Ro and Jules to see The Other Boleyn Girl with me tonight. I’ve just finished reading the book, which is excellent, but I’ve realised that I know way too much about the period to be able to fully enjoy movies that are not exceedingly historically accurate. 
That said, I still really enjoyed the movie. I don’t usually like Scarlett Johansson, but I thought she was good in this movie – not too much pouting required. I also thought Natalie Portman, as usual, was great. I was only disappointed that Eric Bana didn’t have a very well-developed role.
I also thought that the movie seemed like it had been put together in a rush. Editing is a fine art and great transitions and a strong musical score can really make all the difference.

Full Of Bliss

I had my first full beauty treatment today at Ayurve Spa on York St. I took my favourite clients for a bit of a treat – and was completely unprepared for the extreme bliss it brought!

I had a two-hour package that included a 30 min back massage, a facial and a paraffin wax foot treatment. I will most definitely be going back, particularly for the massage and facial.

Paddo, Bite Me & Szechwan Gardens

Bev, Lise and I spend an awesome day at Paddington markets, Bite Me and Szechwan Gardens. Thanks girls!
Who says she can’t eat a foot-long hot dog?


Mini Vege burgers.


In! In!


Topless burger.


Vroom vroom!

What? All gone?

The free ice-cream Bev received for eating the whole hot dog.


Cupcake hat?

Beret?

Shower cap as fashion item.

The cupcake looked amazing but didn’t taste as good. It was missing something I couldn’t quite identify.

Matching sunnies are cool. 


The boys joined us for dinner at Szechwan Gardens in St Leonards. 


The “eight precious vegetables” dish was mine – totally delicious.

My deep and meaningful fortune cookie message.

Fresh-as-a-daisy fried ice-cream.

Fried ice-cream porn shot.

Banana fritter.

My new earrings. The extreme close-up isn’t very flattering.

My pretty bag in “ballet pink” and awesome lipgloss. It’s non-sticky and moisturising, with a touch of colour. Bev bargained the bag lady down from $79 and $75 per bag to $140 for two. Way to go!

Shopping!

I can’t help myself 🙂
This little felt unicorn was bought from Etsy.com

These gumboots came from the Easter show. With Sydney weather the way it is I think I will be needing them.