We cooked pizza on the BBQ last week – SO impressed! Almost wood-fire pizzaish and quick and delicious…
BBQ PIZZA Roll out pizza dough to dinner plate size (I like to use my breadmaker to make pizza dough – this is a great recipe too) Oil BBQ grill and set heat to medium/high. Place pizza dough on grill, close hood and leave for 5 minutes.
When base is browned on the bottom and puffy, remove from BBQ and add pizza toppings to grilled side of dough. Return pizza to BBQ, this time with un-grilled side facing the BBQ grill.
Cook for another 5-7 minutes or until base is grilled and toppings are melted and hot. If you are using toppings that need cooking time (e.g. raw chicken) it is a good idea to cook chicken before putting on the pizza. Because cooking time is fast for these BBQ pizzas, the chicken won’t cook through.
I’m happy to report that Tommy’s cot is done. And I really love how it unexpectedly turned out. So, here are the before photos (and yes, he sometimes sleeps with Lil’s pink blanket!):
This cot has slept all three of our children, it was given to us by our friends when I was pregnant with Oscar. (Before it slept their son, it was used for many more babies!) It was great and we loved it, but 5 years later it was looking very tired with chipped paint, dirty marks and a ripped fabric panel from our last house move.
Originally I was going to paint it white again, then when I was at the paint shop I visioned a fire truck red cot and thought it would look really cool. My vision must have been a bit warped because when I was about half way through painting, we looked at it and went “yuck!!” I had the fabric panels all ready and covered in my favourite Alexander Henry, 2D Zoo print and when we put them against the red cot it was double yuck. So, it sat half-done until the next weekend and poor Tommy slept in it for the week! I thought about painting it white again, but knew it was going to take a lot of effort to cover up the red – then Jaron suggested using the charcoal exterior house paint we had in the shed from painting our front fence and letter box.
And ta-da!!! It worked. No more yuck. Shows off the fabric perfectly and is a lot more classic looking than the crazy red! Because I used an exterior house paint, I put a couple of coats of water-based clear gloss over the top to seal it, make it easily wipe able and kid-safe.
I covered a canvas in fabric too, but it is looks little out of place on the wall – maybe a bit small? I need my wall decorating extraordinaire sister to come and give me some advice!!
The room is far from finished but at least I have a theme to work with now. Next project to tackle will be to paint the chest of drawers in the room charcoal – thinking about painting a couple of random drawers blue and/or green?? I’m sure I’ll get to the stage where the house is finally decorated and then we will decide it is time to sell and build again!!
And this is about 1 year late, but I realised I haven’t shared the quilt my Mum made for Tommy when he was a baby. This is her tradition, to make each grandchild a cot-sized quilt and I love Tommy’s.
And thanks to everyone who entered, for your kind words and excitement – I’d love to see any Big (or Little) Uptown Girl jackets that you make, so feel free to email them to me or include them in the Make It Perfect Flickr Group!
About a month ago I got an iphone. It is such a snazzy, convenient little thing, I love that it can perform like a little computer – meaning I can reply to emails wherever I am and don’t have to sit at the big screen for so long.
The problem is, though, that I couldn’t find a cover that I liked. I didn’t want some plain old plasticy case for it and decided that I would have to make myself one. But you know what those thoughts are like…thinking about making one and actually getting around to doing it are two different matters! It meant that for the first 2 weeks of owning my phone I didn’t take it anywhere with me…it sat on the kitchen bench 24/7 because I was scared of scratching it in my bag!!
My lovely friend, Janelle must have read my mind – a few days later we were emailing back and forth about a few things and she suggested that we do a little swap: a set of my Citrus pOp hairpins for a CUSTOM-MADE iphone pouch. I didn’t waste any time agreeing 🙂 And I definitely think I got the best part of the bargain – she even let me choose my own fabric!
And here it is…
It is absolutely perfect and now my iphone travels everywhere with me. Thanks Janelle!!
P.S. If you want to make an iphone pouch for yourself, Janelle shares the pattern in her new book, Pieces of Me.
P.P.S. Nah, my photography skills haven’t improved dramatically all of a sudden – these photos were taken by Janelle 🙂
