Birth Week

How lucky that I won that big and little apron from Nana Huchy for Anika and I! They are giving away a prize daily so if you are on instagram, follow them and repost. 

You know my friend I was telling you about, that one doing the sugar free nonsense? Well, it turns out it is not so nonsensical. She has also been doing an intense exercise program to rectify her stomach muscle separation (which was pretty bad after 3 pregnancies). And she has transformed! 

I wish I could show you her before and after pictures. She wasn't overweight or anything but now her whole middle is TIGHT. 

Anyway despite me feeding her sugar she gave me that candle up there in the picture. It's from her mums new shop on Main Street in Mornington. The grand opening is today!

Oh and that other picture, that's just me and the kids. Aren't they cute? 

Chococate-Cheesy Goodness

I'm having a wild play centre party tomorrow for the 7th anniversary of my 21st birthday and I told my friend, who is doing that 6 week sugar free nonsense, that I would make a sugar free cake.

Well, Mrs Mazz. I didn't physically put sugar in this so as far as I'm concerned it's totally definitely absolutely sugar free. Wink Wink! 

It's nothing groundbreaking or top secret, this is just Nigella's (oh Nigella...) famous Nutella Cheesecake and it will be worth every single calorie.

Oh, and I replaced the icing sugar with cacao. Mainly because I had no icing sugar,  but let's just pretend it was for the health benefits!

On the first day of Summer

A perfect day to start summer today. 

This will be a good summer for us, once the cafe settles and we have no day to day commitments. Imagine! I also can't wait to get a tree up later this week because we missed out on one last year (due to the move) and if it were not for our friend Mr Hecker who put these decorations up, you would never have even known we celebrate Christmas.

Happy Happy!

Onward & Upward

I've been keeping my mouth zipped shut on this for a couple of weeks.

But it's massive news that I can't help sharing now things are a bit more solid.

We've sold Big Bear! MAJOR HAPPY FACE! 

We will be out really soon. Like, within the next few weeks soon. 

What this means for us is TIME! Time to just sit back for a couple of months and do a big fat NOTHING! We be crazy people and we need a break. 

They've also bought the Big Bear name. What does this mean for me? Who am I, I'm losing my identity?! How can I have a blog called Lady Bear if I'm no longer a Bear. 

I'm not even a much of a Lady!

WIN: The Urban List Ultimate Day Out

We were nominated as someone's favourite Melbourne cafe on theurbanlist.com. 

Promise we didn't nominate ourselves ;-) ...until yesterday I didn't even know about the Urban List.

Anyway, by voting for your favourite Melbourne (or Sydney, or Brisbane) spot in each category you can win the ultimate day out for you and a friend. This is what the website says:

EAT at the cafe, DINE at the restaurant, DRINK at the bar, PARTY at the club, SHOP at the boutique and INDULGE yourselves at the places voted BEST in Melbourne... all on us!

Voting is open for 2 weeks, I can't seem to find an end date so just get onto it right now. You can vote as many times as you like for an endless amount of entries. 

Just click the link below, it's easy for both desktop and mobile users:

www.theurbanlist.com/melbourne/vote

For Sydney or Brisbane, change the link accordingly. 

If Big Bear tops the list in the cafe category in Melbourne we win a $3000 marketing package with The Urban List. So ahhhh yeh, PLEASE VOTE FOR US!! And tell me you voted so I can thank you a billion times :-) 

The Hobe

In our house there is only one person with a shoe addiction, and (heads up) it isn't me.

Sometimes I spot BB in shoes and I have no idea if they are new or old. These old things? I've had them for aaaages. Yeh right. You can't trick a trickster. 

One of his most affordable and in my opinion, comfy looking, has got to be his Hobes. He has 2 pairs that he has worn to death, sent off to the shoe-spa, and worn to death again.

They are affordable, designed here in Melbourne and made from a super lightweight goats leather. There are Hobes for men, women and kids.

Now it's my turn to buy Hobes and these are the ones I'm loving:

At only $159-$169 each I could definitely justify buying one of each. It's only fair.

Hobes website

Hobes facebook

Not Quite Paleo

I was so close to ordering pizza tonight. So close that I was already placing an order via Menu Log. 

I changed my mind at the 11th hour and made this colourful frittata with salmon, sweet potato, spinach and red onion. Paleo followers would love it:

Until I added feta. And served it with a bit of rice. White rice :-o ! 

She didn't even ask me what happened to the pizza.