You love Glee, right?
There’s a Glee convention coming to Sydney and Melbourne in July! ATM only Mike Chang is confirmed, but more Glee stars are promised.
Considering sci-fi conventions in Australia can cost upwards of $150, the $95 day pass for the Glee convention is actually quite cheap.
Who wants to come with us?
Our fascination with Cadbury Creme Egg-themed goods has been covered here before at That’s Noice, but that’s no reason to avoid it this Easter!
How do you feel about a Cadbury Creme Egg muffin?
Or a deep-fried Cadbury Creme Egg?
And of course, there’s a plethora of possibilities for Cadbury Creme Egg cupcakes.
It’s not hard to tell that knitting, crocheting and other crafty hobbies are fasionable atm – all you have to do is check out all the Aussie bloggers, authors and now… knitting cafes!!
This is a relatively new avenue – turns out that there’s only a handful of cafes across the world dedicated to the knitting and crocheting niche – but there are TWO in Australia!
There’s Woolly Latte’s in Perth, WA (what a fab name) and A Coffee and A Yarn in Newtown, NSW.
Unfortunately, the Woolly Latte’s web site is pretty bare, but A Coffee and A Yarn has at least some information about the classes they offer (I’m eyeing off the beginner’s knitting and beginner’s crocheting course, closely followed by the Amigurumi course).
I’m still lamenting the end of Notebook: magazine and their craft classes, but I reckon these types of venues will hold their own and keep the craft trend alive.
While I was getting the goss on the state of knitting cafes, I came across this pick of a (name unknown) knitting cafe in LA… isn’t it stunning? Makes me want to give up housework and craft instead!
If the supermarkets are anything to go by, Easter’s just around the corner.
Check out these super cute cupcake toppers for Easter.
Visit each site for the download link and instructions
1: Bunny Cakes 2: Skip To My Lou 3: Paper Glitter 4: Holiday Crafts and Creations 5: My Grafico 6: Tip Junkie
There are a million-and-one options when it comes to wedding guest books these days. Photo-booths, video messages and those stunning books made especially for the occasion.
I wanted to keep things simple and not be bound by the number of pages in a book and bought this recipe box from Kikki-K for $40.
I took out the dividers (meat, fish, desserts, etc), popped in a few pens and stuck a sign on top.
And apart from the more traditional guest book messages (and non-traditional messages, because that’s why we have the friends we do), we got stacks of recipes too.
And even a recipe for a lasting, happy marriage too. Noice!
This is based loosely on Kristan‘s “recipe”.
Unwrap a mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Pipe icing onto it.
Add to an already iced cupcake using our Perfect Cupcake Recipe!
Looks noice, doesn’t it?
(Psst, it tastes good, too)
We here at Team That’s Noice are fans of piggies as pets, so I feel a bit wrong by mentioning bacon products… but American company J&D’s exists solely to create and sell bacon-flavoured goodies.
I originally discovered J&D’s a few months ago with their nommy Baconnaise (urg, bacon-flavoured mayo? No thanks…), and and rediscovered their deliciousness yesterday when someone tweeted about bacon soda.
Gross.
But maybe bacon-flavoured popcorn, lip balm or sunflower seeds might take your fancy? How about envelopes with bacon-flavouring on the lick sticky seal bit? Or the truly disgusting bacon-flavoured baby formula? Luckily, that one’s on back order.
BUT! You can order all this shit online and they’ll deliver worldwide! I’m seriously considering getting a gift pack for the people in my life who already have everything they need… hey, at least they’ll remember what I got them for their next birthday ;)
Okay, so maybe we don’t get to travel overseas. But if we ever did, we’d totes stay in the “Sweet Room” at the Maison Moschino hotel in Milan, Italy:
Zomg how cute is this room? They have a heap of themed rooms in the hotel (though I’m not keen on the “Luxurious Attic one?), and I think the “Sleeping on a Ballgown” is my second favourite…
Thankfully the Maison Mochino web site is also available in English, so you don’t have to hassle your Italian friends for translation!
Sorry you guys, you’re going to have to put up with me getting my Bridal on, even though it was so two weeks ago ;)
Having been a bridesmaid 4 times previously, I was well over fresh flowers for my own wedding bouquets. So I went silk, buying pre-prepared bouquets from Aussie Etsy seller Flowers by the Vase.
These are the “Sweetie Pie” Bridesmaid (~US$50) and Bridal (~US$70) bouquets but there are heaps of options available and the girls take custom orders too.
Silk flowers are great for us lazy Brides (armchair shopping, plus one less thing to get delivered to your house on The Big Day) AND you can gift the bridemaid’s bouquet as part of your thank you gift to her (bonus points!).
I was really chuffed with the speedy service I got from Flowers by the Vase and they even threw in some freebie boutonnieres (that’s “button holes” for the rest of us).
Psst, if you ask noicely, Jarod might do a post on how to get your cats involved in your wedding ceremony ;)
This thing is so awesome, we’ve even bought a second one.
I know you’re thinking that we’re nut jobs. But we’ve decided we don’t care. Our floors are the cleanest they’ve been since the day we moved in!
This all started last month when we got to trial a Samsung version for a couple of days. Except it cost $1k and well, we weren’t going to pay THAT much. The Roomba iRobot (though in newer models than ours) goes for $599-$799 here in Australia, but we bought a refurb from the US that ended up costing just $350 including delivery and for a converter for the Aussie power point (which we got from Jaycar).
This machine has quite honestly changed our lives. Suddenly vacuuming isn’t always in the “shoulda-woulda-coulda” category. We have them programmed to operate at particular times during the day and it’s so nice to come home from a day in the office to find the floors clean.
Granted, it can’t get into every nook and cranny (and can’t do stairs or the couch), but we still get our barrel vacuum cleaner out for those jobs.
And best of all? Suddenly vacuuming has taken a male-orientated lead in the house. Because it’s a techy gadget, Dan knows how to program it, clean it, understand what it’s varying error codes are (5 = halp! I think I’ve sucked up a cat toy!).
Oh, and there’s a version that can mop the floors, too.
We love ours so much, we’ve even named them: Rosie (named after the cleaning robot from The Jetsons) and R2 (i.e. Roomba2, or Rosie2, and a nod to R2D2). Next, I want to personalise them with stickers or something.
Check out these videos I got of Rosie and R2 in action:
Here, I popped R2 on the dining table so you could get a decent look (warning: it’s over 5 minutes long) and see how it doesn’t fall of the edge:
And here’s what it collects within a couple of rounds of cleaning:
The dust catcher is the clincher for me:
Oh! And the best part is watching it go home to charge, it sounds so happy when it gets there:
Now all we have to do is teach the kittehs to ride them:
Maybe I missed something crucial when I had my cats desexed. I never considered that maybe my boys wanted to keep their “man”-hood and get these.
I can’t string a sentence together about these, so here’s the first paragraph from the Neuticles web site:
Patented Neuticles are testicular implants for pets. Neuticles are available for canines, felines, equine, bulls or any pet which is neutered. Neuticles should be implanted when the pet is neutered – but can be implanted years afterwards in most cases.
On their web site they have a series of videos showing how the procedure takes place.
Seriously.
The, ahem, balls themselves just look like jelly beans. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting them to look like – but it wasn’t jelly beans, that’s for sure.
Shame that these “nesting” dolls by Ginger Williams aren’t for sale:
Apart from the Golden Girls She’s also re-created the Sex & The City girls, Kiss, Saved By The Bell (hell, yes!) and even The Beatles.
I suppose creating a set in the image of Twilight or True Blood would be in order?
Oh, but it’s a Gentleman’s Willy Care Kit.
I guess it’s the gift for the man who has everything?
Except an unmanicured man garden?
The Willy Care Kit Contains:
- Styling Shears
- Sprucing Mirror
- Fluffing Brush
- Evening Wear Silver Jewellery
- All intimate essentials are inside a stylish and handy leather look case
I don’t know if I have the ability to string a sentence about this thing:
It’s called a Daddle.
Amazon says:
Now Dad can give the ultimate horseback rides. Ideal for ages 2-6 (and above depending on how strong dad wants to prove he is.) The Daddle Saddle is a soft stuffed model of the real thing Comes complete with stirrups.
Well, if it’s got stirrups, then I’m totes buying it! It’s US$31.95 plus shipping.
