treasures from bondi's garage sale trail

What better way to shop second-hand than wondering in the sunshine, through hundreds of little garage sales lining the streets of Bondi as part of the 2012 Garage Sale Trail!

It was a lovely sister's saturday - browsing, haggling & collecting a range of treasures from a vw kombi badge for $3, japanese noodle bowls for $1 and freebie of the day, Bernard the gnome.

Lunch at Jed's Food Store was delicious & the perfect recharge to continue bargaining into the afternoon.

I managed to tick a few things off my wishlist - teaspoons, blazer, vintage maps which i can frame as art and & a $2 leather travel wallet filled my leather desire for the day :) 

The Garage Sale Trail truely is a fantastic initiative which supports sustainability, community & creativity. Would love to host my own little community sale next year!

garage sale trail wishlist

Can't wait to get out there tomorrow and dig through all ($2.2m worth!) the unwanted treasures!

My 2012 garage sale trail wishlist:

1. leather boots

2. collection of mis-matched teaspoons (for a secret birthday project)

3. patchwork bedcover like this one

4. blazer or coat

5. piece of art

or i'd be super happy with any item from this pic :)

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rainbow surprise cake

The best thing about birthdays is cake!

My girlfriend Fi & I used this recipe from whisk kid for a joint birthday surprise ...

2 sticks (226 g) butter, room temp
2 1/3 cups(426 g) sugar
5 egg whites, room temp
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups(426 g) flour
4 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 1/2 c (355 ml) milk, warmed for 30 sec in microwave
Red, blue and yellow gel food colouring (mix together to make purple, green & orange) - liquid will not be vibrant enough

Preheat the oven to 180C . Oil and line how ever many 9 inch cake pans you have (we re-used two). Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt . Set aside . Cream the sugar and butter, then slowly add the egg whites . Add the vanilla and mix until fully incorporated . Then, alternating between wet and dry, add the milk and flour mixture in two parts . Divide the batter amongst 6 bowls - about 1 cup each . Whisk a fair amount of the appropriate food color into each bowl . Keep in mind that the color of the unbaked batter will be the color of the baked batter. Pour into the pans and bake for 15 minutes each . When you remove them from the oven, let them rest on the cooling rack, in the pan, for ten minutes . Then flip, cover, and stash them in the fridge to cool quickly .

Assembling the cake is a little tricky as the layers are quite thin . Make sure you have plenty of icing to go in between the layers and over the whole cake a few times so that it is prefectly white with no coloured crumb clues! Any icing would work - we used a buttercream icing for the layers and a royal icing for the outside.

The looks on their faces say it all!

>>> I have also read about people using cheap packet cake mixes and adding the gel colour. Check out this 30-layer masterpiece!

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