And now, a Word from our Sponsors

This blog post is sponsored by Our Ingredient, Butter and my Postage Stamp Sized Garden. Although Butter can sometimes be Divisive (I know, who knew?), if used wisely, it can create what can only be described as Hardcore Comfort Food. So necessary during life's challenging times. Where would cakes and pastry and mashed potato and bechamel and bearnaise be without it? If you choose not to eat it, because I am Hardcore into Choice I respect your decision, but if you are a Committed Butter Hater, this is probably not the blog for you.
Meanwhile the FF Garden and its resident Old Testament Varmints (possums, snakes, rats, bats, scrub turkeys, grasshoppers, slugs, snails, a plague of locusts etc ) send their love

A lot of people start thinking about decorating their holiday tree in December. I'm not one of them.

I'm already thinking I'll need to decrease the pink ornaments and increase the blue ones (Baby FF being a boy and all). I found these feather butterflies today. I think they'll be the business tree wise.

I've got my girlfriends coming round tonight to watch the second to last Oprah. I know. I'm sad too. I googled the pink frock. It's L'Wren Scott. Andre's actioned an attractive Jackie circa 1961 hair flip I see.

I cannot wait to read this:

Today I did something I'd never done before. I went to Aldi half an hour before it opened and stood in line with about 30 other like minded bargain shoppers to get my mitts on a $39 tailored mattress base cover thingamy. Lucky I got there when I did-they sold out in minutes. I must say the Aldi shoppers were a very nice bunch.

I oranged it up accessory wise and wore these accoutrement's

with Opi's a Good Mandarin is Hard to Find

Sleep Sheep, I love your soothing Ocean and Rain sounds. And so does the baby. Please never ever run out of batteries or stop working.

Consume Your Butter Responsibly.

xxx

TV-tastic

My mother prefers Oprah's hair curly, but I kind of like it when she channels Jackie circa 1961 and makes her hairdresser Andre action a sort of hair flip. Anyway, I am hardcore suffering from Loss of Oprah Syndrome. I've grown up with that show and taped her every day for years. Back in the day on a VCR and these days with foxtel IQ. Without her I wouldn't know that my House should Rise Up to Greet Me (Peter the Declutterer), that I should be Getting Real (Dr Phil), that blueberries were key (Dr Oz), that I should Remember my Spirit (Marianne W), that I needed to exercise (Bob Greene), what Southern Cooking was (Art the chef) and that I should never ever in any circumstances let myself be taken to the second location if abducted (that episode is burned into my mind forever).
Can we just talk about the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? I watched the 1st episode the other night. Dear God in Heaven. It was interesting seeing Camille and Kelsey Grammer knowing that the whole thing'd end in Tears. I think I'll become addicted to their spoilt shenanigans.

Did you watch the Kennedys? I enjoyed it, but I think this was (to quote my friend R) because I had what could only be decribed as Low Expectations.

Kate's skinny isn't she? That Reiss dress sold out after this photo was published

Meanwhile, everyone's embracing leopard, look at our Editor in this month's Australian Vogue

and here's our Leader on the same page wheeling out her coat from the Emperor of Ethiopia

No one likes my gardening posts but I don't care, it's my blog.

It's freezing here so I chucked some onion and ginger and garlic and a lime and some coriander into a food processor and made myself a soothing chicken curry.

why anyone cooks this type'o'thing with chicken breast is beyond me. Chicken thighs are what you want.

This weather demands that you clock lots of Couch Time

I got a very snarky anonymous message from an irate reader who accused me of being over focused on cushions (who Me?) and ruining my "children's" arteries with an excess of butter. For the record, I don't have children, I have a child. And I don't know what planet you're on but on my plant (That would be Earth) newborn infants subsist on a diet of milk and don't consume solids. But thanks for caring.

I've taken a bunch of old cushions to the Salvation Army and set them free into the universe to bring joy and comfort to someone who needs some Decent Cushioning.

are you running your heaters 24/7? Me too. Blighty was shocked that I didn't have central heating. No one I know round these here parts does.

are you whipping out your crocheted rugs for extra warmth?

I love handmade stuff. Look at what my friend-from-school made for my baby:

I know. So cute. Before I had a child a lot of people said to me "FF, You'll realise how meaningless your life was before you had a child". Speak for yourself. My life had tonnes of meaning prior to motherhood thank you very much. But there are lots of really good things about having a baby. You get to look at things like this, which make you very very very Happy indeed:

So lucky.

I'm off to say Vale to Oprah now.

xxxx

Zsa Zsa is on her Last Legs

I don't know about the rest of you but I am worried sick about Old Zsa Zsa Gabor. She's slipped into a coma and apparently is fading fast.
First Liz Taylor now Zsa Zsa -who's next? Interestingly they both married into the Hilton clan. My own Hungarian tells me that Zsa Zsa is not a real Hungarian name and is just a made up nick name. She was certainly gorgeous. Look:

Meanwhile I've been thinking about baking one of these

and trying to remember exactly what ingredients I used to whip up this Carbolicious-forgive-me-Dr-Atkins-I'm-eatin-pasta-arrangement. There may have been smoked salmon. There was probably cream.

And can I just say that since I now wear Play Clothes day in Day Out that I really miss my Coalface outfits? Never mind though, I'll be back there with Work Guns Blazing in no time at all (Not literally though. Naturally I'd never take a weapon to the Coalface. In case you had no sense of humour and read this blog super seriously and didn't realise is was in fact a Turn Of Phrase)

And can I just ask something? Why does everything taste better swathed in bechamel? Is it the butter? Is it the cheese? is it a delicious combination of the two?

Are you wondering what Maria Shriver's up to and when the last episode of Oprah will air in Australia? Me too. Poor Maria. It seems she's been a victim of the Double Double Cross (which is like a normal Double Cross but so much more confusing and worse). I'll always remember the episode of Oprah where she said she was her own woman and hadn't been bred to look the other way when it came to philandering.

Oprah. Dinner. Rain.

My girlfriends came for dinner tonight. We had baked lemon chicken with potato and a sort of Moroccan chick pea roast vegetable warm salad thing. It was so stifling hot. And now it is raining and storming.

Wore this Malene Birger frock today. It's sort of 1920s and floaty and summery. I hope I still want to wear it post pregnancy because I do really love it.

carried this gold Bally bag

Meanwhile Ole Oprah's Australian episode aired tonight. Here she is tripping the Light Fantastic on Whitehaven Beach.

Ole Mr FF and I love a resort holiday which is handy as about 75% of our clothes could fall within the categeory of what can only be described as Resort Wear. We went to Hamilton Island back in December 2005. I love it that we both embraced Orange even back then! And we matched our outfits as is our habit. I no longer have that dress but I luffed it 11/10 at the time. It was Custo Barcelona and I felt fantastic in it.

Qualia hadn't been built then and we stayed at the Beach Resort. They had a lovely infinity pool. We had dinner every night along the front on the sand. I remember it was an 8 course degustation arrangement.... The whole thing was very Glamorous. I still own that Fendi baguette.

We went to Whitehaven Beach too! Just like Oprah. But without a tv crew. Or a bunch of American audience members. Here's the proof:

It was beautiful.

Meanwhile the search to replace MAC's Moxie, sadly discontinued goes on. I got this Rimmel lipstick called Shocking Pink which might do the trick.

Someone asked me if I used lip liner. Damn Straight I do. I line my lips then apply lipstick and I reapply a lot during the day. I don't wear lipgloss because my hair always flies around and sticks onto it. My favourite pink lipliner is Rimmel's Indian Summer.

I am in love with my new doona cover. It's from our friends at Target. So soothing and crisp in this Heat.

Is this Torrential rain a good or a bad thing? It's good for washing filthy mud off stuff but could it cause more flooding? I missed Fashion Police but I taped it -will definitely watch Joan tomorrow.

Nothing else to report x