New Blog!

Just a quick few words to let you know that The Life She Made now has its own domain and you can find the all new, bigger, brighter and better version at http://www.thelifeshemade.com. Please update your bookmarks! See you over there!  Kristy xx

Just thought I’d let you know…

The blog will be offline for a few days whilst my amazing team make some much needed improvements. Stay tuned later this week for the great unveiling!   Kristy xx

The Funk

Lately I’ve been feeling kind of funky and not in the bohemian, cool sense. I’ve been stuck in a rut, hitting the wall, just bored so to speak. As a creative person, I’m always looking to be inspired, but for a while there I was coming up with zip, nada, nothing. I’m putting it down […]

My new personal culinary discovery: tri-tip steak.

Have you heard of tri-tip steak? My only previous encounter with this cut of beef was at one of those Brazilian barbecue restaurants. The waiter came around offering “tri-tip”, so unfamiliar was I that I had to ask him to repeat it several times. I thought it might have been his thick south american accent, […]

Book Review: Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

I, like many others it seems, received a copy of Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals for Christmas.   I had watched the television shows with recipes from the book so was quite excited to delve in and find out what it was about. I already have the previous 30 Minute Meals title that I enjoyed reading but never […]

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 39,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

What’s my scene?

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit lost. I don’t really know where I fit in within society. It’s coming up to two years since we moved to a new area and whilst I’ve met many lovely women through school, preschool and sports, I don’t feel like I’ve really ‘clicked’ with anyone in particular. Sometimes I […]

Social Media Bubble

When I wake up in the morning, I make the kids’ breakfast, my husband makes me a cup of coffee and I take said coffee to the office and check Facebook, emails and Google Reader to see what new blogs have been updated. By the time I’ve finished my coffee, I’ve pretty much caught up […]

Kakaro Hot Dog

I get really excited when I see a really interesting and different food outlet open up, especially if its easily accessible by my kids and I. I stumbled across Kakaro Hot Dog at the food court at Westfield Chatswood. It’s in a more quiet, out if the way part away from the likes of McDonalds, […]

Blogging about blogging: Content

Firstly let me begin by saying I have a recipe brewing for the blog, I’ve just got to make it happen and currently my life seems to be one birthday party after another. What the heck was happening 9 months ago that virtually everyone I know has a birthday in September-October-November? Last night as I […]