Good Morning friends,  It's finally here! ‘Chocolate on Thursdays’ is a NEW and exciting book written by me (Collette, Best Selling Cookbook Author) and my dear friend and World known Chocolatier, Giovanni Zito (John). This has been the perfect collaboration of two...

Good Afternoon friends, I hope this finds you well!  Over the past few weeks I have offered a half price discount on most of my Cookbooks, one week at a time. However, I have been receiving numerous messages requesting that they be discounted at the same time, which I...

Good Afternoon friends, I hope this finds you well. I can not believe that it is half way through January already .... which means .... it is time to start getting ready for 'BACK TO SCHOOL' To help you get ready and organised for the year ahead with your lunchboxes,...

In so many ways it feels like yesterday that I was waiting anxiously for my first child to be born. After 18 long hours of labour, a little girl entered the World and stole our hearts. We were not to know the greater plan at that stage, which was the fact she was...

Good Afternoon friends, I hope this finds you well. Our eldest daughter turned 18 in June and despite 'Covid-19' altering her birthday plans drastically, we were so grateful to still be able to throw her a gathering, on a smaller scale, sticking to all 'rules' of...

Good Morning friends, I hope this finds you all well, keeping warm and coping OK if you are in places around Australia that still have big restrictions with Covid-19. Sorry for the delay with sharing Miss 16's grocery week update, school holidays have me juggling as...

Good Afternoon! I hope this finds you well! If you haven't caught up on my previous blog, this might not make sense so be sure to check it out HERE!  Miss 18 (who was Miss 17, 6 weeks ago when we actually did this!) was kind enough to answer some questions I asked...

As usual I found myself chatting ‘life’ with my kids. We were in the height of the Corona life and all four children were crisis-home-schooling. My eldest was 2 months off turning 18 (she turned 18 last week!), she is rather independent and has always been ‘grown up’...

Good Morning friends and Happy Monday! I hope this finds you all well and coping with all that is going on with COVID-19, isolation, restrictions, extra stresses and crisis-schooling.  At the end of Term 1 I 'crisis-schooled' for just a few days, it was pretty...

Life is really strange at the moment. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that. A few years ago when I was really unwell with my mental illness (Bipolar), one of the first things I gave up was grocery shopping. On good days I could just get dressed and just manage...