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ANZAC Day

by on April 26, 2012 in Daily Life

Yesterday was ANZAC Day here in Australia, which meant it was a public holiday. To make the most of our day off work, we loaded Daisy into the car and set off to my mum’s place, where we spent the whole glorious day tinkering about in the garden, eating saltana cake and cuddling the kitties, puppies and bunnies. Daisy had a wonderful time playing with Mollie (who has doubled in size!) and we all enjoyed the gorgeous autumn sunshine.

It’s always nice going to my mama’s house. She lives in a tiny, quaint town and it’s so quiet and peaceful there. My mum has a lovely big garden and she always bakes cake when we visit. Somehow, while we are there time just slows down. We have no obligations, no time restrictions, no other place we have to be. We sip our tea, knit a few stitches and snuggle with the animals. We take a deep breath and we refresh.

We hope you are having a lovely week. Don’t forget to pause, eat some cake and take a breath. It’ll do you a world of good!

Katie x

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Reclaim: Paper Bags

by on April 23, 2012 in Craft, Reclaim

The Reclaim series is all about turning discarded old things into beautiful new things. It’s about making treasure from trash, reducing our waste and saving a little money along the way. Each episode features an everyday object and a variety of inspiring ways that object can be reclaimed.

Today, we are talking about paper bags!

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Have you got any other clever ideas for recycling paper bags? If so, please share!

Katie x

PS You can find previous episodes of the reclaim series here.

PPS I can’t find the source for that first image so if anyone can help me out, I’d really appreciate it!

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Anzac Biscuits

by on April 21, 2012 in Daily Life, Food

I love oats. Katie was shaking her head at me just this morning because I declared that porridge was one of my very favourite foods. It might sound strange (or boring) but it’s true! Naturally, as an oat lover, I’m slightly obsessed with Anzac bisuits.

There have been lots of Anzac biccies in the shops lately, all ready for Anzac Day on Wednesday, and seeing them got really me inspired to try making my own for the first time.

I don’t cook much and I never bake. Katie’s really good at it (although she’d say the opposite) but I find it really stressfull and have had limited success with many recipes in the past. Anzac biscuits were a great little project for me because they’re really quick, simple and difficult to mess up. They are also delicious. I used this recipe and they turned out perfectly. They’ve almost got me feeling confident enough to try baking more! Almost.

Have you baked anything yummy lately?

Reuben :)

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One Year

by on April 18, 2012 in Adventures, Daily Life

Two cats. One dog. One interstate move. One old house. Two birthdays. Four jobs. One neglected veggie garden. One million thrifted knick-knacks. Fifty trillion knitting stitches. Three gazillion photographs.

One girl. One boy. One blog. One year.

Today marks the first anniversary of our little corner of the internet. While in some ways it feels like we began sharing our pictures and stories here only yesterday, mostly it feels like blogging has always been part of our lives. It’s quite hard for us to imagine life without House of Humble now.

We are so grateful for all the good things this space has brought into our lives. Friendship, knowledge, memories, gratitude, clarity, community and so much more.  From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being a part of our world! We can’t wait to see what the next year brings and share the next chapter with you.

We hope you are all having a truly wonderful week!

With much love,

Katie and Reuben x

PS We hate to ask these kinds of favours but we have entered the Best Australia Blogs 2012 Competition… So maybe you could vote for us? If you want to! It only takes a few moments and we’d be terribly grateful!

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10 Good Things Right Now

by on April 14, 2012 in Daily Life, Good Things

Autumn afternoons in the park.

Listening to The Lion’s Roar by First Aid Kit (so good!)

Drinking mugs of tea and snacking on Easter eggs.

Re-reading The Witches and James and The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (The Twits and Matilda next!)

Chocolate milk.

Weather cool enough for cardigans and tights.

M Ward‘s new album, A Wasteland Companion.

Trivia nights with friends at the pub.

New fuzzy slippers.

Blueberry bagels with cream cheese.

What’s making you smile right now? We’d like to know!

Katie and Reuben x

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Cloth and Bespoke

by on April 12, 2012 in Adventures, Daily Life, Press

As if making an appearance in the local paper and Peppermint wasn’t exciting enough, now our little blog has popped up in not one, but two more lovely magazines!

Right now we are super duper chuffed to be featured in both Cloth Magazine and Bespoke Zine! House of Humble appeared in Cloth’s latest blog round up, and in issue 6 of Bespoke there is a gigantic interview with us, over five pages! We are so honoured to be included in both of these amazing publications. Honestly, it make us quite giddy with glee!

April 18 will mark our first blog birthday and we can’t quite believe how far this little online space has come in just one short year. If you could have told us last April that in a year’s time we’d be featured in magazines, we never would have believed you. Thank you so much Cloth and Bespoke, but most of all, thank you for reading, supporting us and helping us to make this blog the place it is. We are so grateful for our tiny corner of the internet and the wonderful community of people who visit us here.

We hope you are having a spiffy week! We are both sending lots of good, happy, nice thoughts your way!

Katie and Reuben x

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