Happy birthday Frills in the Hills!
I can hardly believe that two years ago I decided to google a blog template and came upon blogger. Since then my blog and I are like two peas in a pod. Frills allows me to express, create and connect. It also allows me to preserve memories, share my thoughts, learn more about myself and others. Thank goodness I googled that day.
So to celebrate this auspicious occasion, I'm giving the birthday presents to you, my loyal readers. If you've been with me since the beginning, joined me along the way or just stumbled upon Frills - thank you for your time, your feedback, your support. I really, truly mean that. I have made real-life life-long friendships through frills and I'm always meeting readers either on purpose or by wonderful accident... I hope to meet many more.
So without any further a-do - here is our first birthday present. You may remember when I posted these cookies and so many of you were DYING to know where to buy the cookie cutters. I won't lie - they aren't easy to get because you can't just go on the Williams Sonoma site and order unless you have a US credit card or live in the US - so I had a good friend pick me this set up and I've been hanging onto it for this very day.
It comes with a heart, a scalloped rectangle (reminds me of morning coffee biscuits!) and a star plus alphabet tiles and some pre-made phrases like Happy birthday/holidays/I love you.
I'm sending one reader one of these sets!!!
So enter by:
- Leaving a comment to tell me how you found Frills in the Hills and how long ago!
- Extra entry if you mention this giveaway on your facebook with linkage to our Facebook Page (i.e. @frills in the hills)
- Extra entry if you tweet about this giveaway and our 2nd birthday! 'I've entered @FrillyHills blog's 2nd birthday compettion #1 to win the message cookie cutters - very cool! http://bit.ly/e7QACG'
- One entry daily on twitter - once only comment here and on facebook
- Entry open to those with Australian postal addresses
- Entries close 13th January 2011 midnight AEST.
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93 lovely comments:
What a generous birthday present! They are gorgeous cutters.
I only recently stumbled across Frills via Kidspot and have been a liker for about two weeks. I only wish I'd found you sooner. However I'm enjoying the blogs, your memories and recipes. I feel like I know you and your family. I only wish you lived in 'The Hills' in Melbourne near me.
I've be following Frills in the Hills for about 12 months - and I so want those cookie cutters :O) I came over via another great blog's reading list. Thanks
I found Frills on Facebook and have been following for a few months. Love reading your recipes!
I found Frills through being pals with you Liss and your help with my own blog! At least 18months now! You inspire me 'the non-cooker' to cook!
Happy Birthday Frills!
Mez xx
oh those cookie cutters are awesome! i found your blog through retromomummy early last year :)
Happy birthday Liss! Er, Frills! Your lemon delish recipe is one of my all-time faves :)
Also, tweeted and Facebooked!
Liss, can I be really honest? I cannot remember when I started following you?! About a year ago? I think? Via Blog This?
But I do know that you and your blog are cool. And nice. And helpful. And inspiring. And I am so glad to have met you and your blog....
xx
I think I found you through a link on a forum, other members had commented about how much they loved your blog so I came along and have loved it ever since. I think I have been following for about 18 months.
Duly tweeted and Facebooked!!
x
Liss, two years of dedication and consistent effort has certainly paid off! You are a Superwoman and i truly appreciate getting a glimpse into your kitchen and your frilly world.
I think i started following you soon after you said "I need to put all my recipes in one spot!" and have had the pleasure of pottering about in your kitchen with you, kids and dogs underfoot!
Happy 2 years of blogging! I hope theres a lot more to come. Im going to make a batch of marshmallows in your honour today! Hooray!
Oh, Happy Birthday oh frilly one! I can't remember how i found your blog - but I know if was way-back-when. You've been inspiring and delighting me for ages. Love! {and love? Well that's no a strong enough word to describe how I feel about those Cookie Cutters! Need!!!} xx
I think I've been following for about 18 months now. I love your recipes, many a dinner crisis has been solved by a quick trip to the Hills!
Also, your gingerbread and shortbread recipes made me look like a complete domestic goddess at Christmas!
I think I started following your blog a couple of months ago and now its become a daily read (found you via retrommummy).
Happy 2nd Birthday!
Gosh I can't remember exactly how long ago it was I found your blog. I think about a year ago? Via Home Grown Mama's blog.
The running joke in our house has always been "My wife can't cook".
Now hubby tells everyone her cooking is awful except her brownies, muffins, fried rice, salmon pasta bake etc.
Thanks Liss I know my final results will never look the same as yours, however everything always tastes fantastic.
So I can live with that!
I've been along for the ride since the beginning... and have spread the word far and wide. I was so pleased when you finally gave into comments about "would you just bloody join Facebook so more people can find you?" and actually did it. *lol*
I neeeeeeeeeeed those cookie cutters, really I do! About to FB and tweet so you know I mean it - I'm such a slack tweeter/twitterer/twit(oops). *lol*
I am not sure when I started following you, but I love your blog and can always find something I can cook with the girls here. Happy 2nd birthday
Happy 2nd Birthday, I have been following the Thrills for about a year now ever since you sent me a friend request on Facebook! I really enjoy your recipes especially the fish pie which was a winner, yesterday we made the cherry vanilla cake which was eaten up still warm in no time and I made the and also the salt and pepper squid last night, yum yum! I would love love love those cookie cutters they are gorgeous!!
Looking forward to The Thrills 2011!
Great work
Francine
Happy Birthday - how exciting! I found your blog through Aussie Mummy Bloggers if I remember correctly. Keep up the awesome posts and look forward to meeting up with you in 2011! Naomi x
I started following Frills about 8 or 10 months ago (maybe) I found you on twitter first and then facebook after that.
Happy 2nd Birthday!
I have been reading Frills for about a year now I think. I can't remember exactly but I found you when I was googling a recipe one day. I can't remember which recipe though. It was so long ago.
Goodness, how long have I been following you? I honestly don't remember! I have loved reading about the Frills, your recipes etc. Congrats again, looking forward to what the next 2 years will bring!
I've been reading Frills for about a year, I think it was by way of retromummy! Happy 2nd Birthday :)
Happy birthday. I found you on Fat Mum Slim a long time ago and you've inspired me to be a better cook and fall in love with my kitchen.
Hearts to you.
Love B
Happy birthday! I've been following your blog for maybe 6 months now. I'm pretty sure I found you through Retromummy's blog list. I have made quite a few of your recipes and they have never failed me. Especially the slowcooker ones.
Hi Liss
Happy Birthday!!
I have been following you for a while now, i think about a year. i found you through Corrie from retromummy. i love all your recipes and make your cheese and bacon rolls weekly.
I've been following from the start because I am your stalker lol! Seriously though, my heart sings for your success, what an awesome blog and community you have built up here.
And you KNOW you should give those cookie cutters to me...even though I don't tweet and can't figure out how to link to Frills on Facebook on my phone...
Sincerely, SL (stalker liss hehe)
Happy birthday to you! I only recently discovered your blog via Corrie from retromummy - I would love a chance to win this cookie cutter set, it is simply adorable, thank you! I have so many of your recipes on my to-do list as well.
xx Natalie
Oh my I have been eyeing these off since you got them Liss! I knew you before Frills and watched the birth and expolosion in popularity of this fabulous blog. I am so proud and happy for you, you have come such a long way and your blog is wonderful and a first stop for recipe ideas to either make with the girls or make for the girls. Happy Blog Birthday Liss may your third year be even bigger than your last 2 put together
Happy 2nd Birthday Frills Blog! Congrats Liss and I too have been here from the start. I have cooked so many of your recipes it was be impossible to list them all but I love the other things you blog about too. I loved these cookie cutters when you first showed us but was so disappointed you cannot get them in Aus. Thanks heaps for the chance of actually getting them :)
Hello Liss and happy birthday to you, plus a big well done to you and the girls and hubby. I found Frills In The Hills around halfway through the year when having one of my: "Why am I so useless in the kitchen moments?" Baking I love but the rest of it, useless!
And even my kids get fed up of fish fingers!
Have found your site inspirational, for the kitchen and for the garden as well, and it's fun and so warm-hearted.
Keep it up - we need you!
happy bloggy birthday Liss!!
I definitely agree that you & your blog are like two peas in a pod, it's like I know you & your gorgeous family without even meeting you.
I have been following you I guess since the beginning when I found you on blog this.
many hugs to you & many more bloggy bdays ♥
I found your blog thanks to a link on someone elses blog. Addicted ever since.
Off to tweet now
@mummanicky
Snobnicky.blogspot.com
I came to your post from Lorraine's (Not Quite Nigella) post about Farm Trails. What a great idea and now we go on our own farm trails to the butcher and riverside produce too! Thanks.
Great comp Liss and these are an item that anyone in their right mind would covet! I wish they were easier to get! :o
Happy Birthday Liss and congrats on how far you have come with your blog in just two short years. Not only am I very proud of you, but I am also lucky enough to have tasted many of the goodies on here too!
I still need to take up your Caesar challenge too! lol
So in answer to your question - I dare say I have been here since the beginning! Loving those cookie cutters!
Happy birthday frills, can't believe 2 years have gone past already and that I've been with you from the start.
Congratulations on your 2nd Blogaversary!!! Im not entirely sure how long I have been reading your blog for but it has been around 12-18 months I think and I found you via twitter.
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I can't remember how I found you as it was while ago, it may been a link from another blog.
These are totally gorgeous! If I am not lucky enough I will have to get my family in the states to get me some!
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are friends allowed to enter 'cos I really want a set of them!!!!!!!!!!! so glad you're a great blogger and hope you'll have lots more years blogging!
off to tell my fb buddies now
corrie:)
Congratulations on having such a gorgeous blog and Happy 2nd Birthday! I've been following along for awhile now after finding you in blogland and have been eyeing off these cutters for ages... fingers crossed!!
Happy 2nd Birthday! I found you through RetroMummy not too long ago.
Those cookie cutters are delightful!
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Hi Liss
Congrats on 2 years!
I came across you when you started posting recipes and I though.. hmmm yummy!
Gorgeous website that i love flicking thru whilst drinking my morning coffee....found you whilst researching hints on bringing the kids into the kitchen to help. Happy Blog Birthday!
Wow I found you from another blog, I can't remember which one but it was right around the time you did the Ikea challenge in 2010.
I love reading your blog, always fun and full of information.
Thank you for the chance to win.
Happy birthday frills, and congrats to you for two great years of blogging Liss.
I love them! Very generous of you to be giving a present on your birthday!
I found you via Corrie at retromummy and I'll definitely be coming back! Happy 2nd birthday :)
Heading to FB now....don't have twitter!
I found you via corrie at retromummy......i think what got me hooked to your blog, was your food pics...i feel like in the kitchen with you whizzing up a treat. Thank you for such an inspiring blog...
I found you via corrie at retromummy to day.
The cookie cutters look amazing.
thanks for the opportunity to enter and congrats on 2 years. Thanks for all your inspiration and lovely blog to read. I found because of the lovely RetroMummy mentioning you on her blog and it was earlier last year 2010. Best wishes. Off to FB now.
So love those cookies they look amazing and the the rectangle reminds me of morning cofee biscuits, Love them too. I found your blog through Corrie at retromummy sometime last year, not sure exactly when.
Thanks for your great blog! I have enjoyed reading and trying out your recipes! I found you through the lovely retromummy about 5 months ago! I love the cookie cutters! Very special indeed!
Such a lovely giveaway. Congratulations on turning 2! I have only been in blogland since Dec 2010, yes, one month! And, you were one of the first 5 blogs I follow via the maze of blog surfing but I am pretty sure it was via retromummy! You're on my facebook but I don't tweet (fb n blogger is the most I can handle right now!) xxx Fi.
Boy there sure are a few comments today! I was scrolling forever! But then again, those cookie cutters do look fabulous. I honestly can't remember when I started to follow you, but it's been a while! Happy second birthday. You write a super blog and I always enjoy trying the recipes you post.
Oooh these cookie cutters look well worth the effort you went through to get them! So cute.
I've racked my brain but still cannot work out how I first found you! But it was probably pretty early on...I'm guessing.
Such gorgeous cutters and would be put to great use here I can tell you! I have been sporadically reading for a few months - not as often as I would have liked to be honest.
I have just put a comment on my FB page too!
Love it! And here's hoping I'd win! Am a new follower too.
Beautiful cutters, and an awesome blog.... happy birthday!! I found you sometime in the first half of 2010, either via retromummy or maybe via googling for a great recipe. A couple of your recipes that I make all the time are your better version of kfc, about which all my guests rave, and the slow cooker pea and ham soup. I also check your blog first now when I'm looking for a recipe, before googling!
Best wishes for many more birthdays, and I hope I win!!
Naomi
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Oh my goodness these are the most beautiful cookie cutters I've ever seen, I'm drooling here!! I hope I win so I can make some cute cookies for my vegan food blog (veganchickie.com)
I heard about your blog TODAY through a friend of mine who blogged about your competitions.. http://hesperasgarden.com/
Happy birthday!
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Congratulations! I started reading your blog mid 2010 after seeing Corrie mention one of your recipes on Retromummy. Love your yummy ideas!
Happy happy birthday!
It was sometime last year that I discovered you via fatmumslim and after a few visits I quickly added you to my daily reads.
You have save me on many undesisive dinner days
Loving these cookie cutters
Xoxo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
After following your a link in your sig on a forum, i found a world of wonderful recipes that i have been using for the past 12 months.
Baguettes, Quiches, Pavlovas, slices, muffins, curries, breads, pastas and rices, i always find what i am looking for here!!
Looking forward to more wonderful recipes!
I'm not sure exactly how long ago it was, am thinking maybe around Easter 2010??? I found you from the list on the sidebar of someone elses blog...can't remember who's it was though sorry!
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Happy blogoversary! :) I think I have been reading Frills in the Hills for the better part of a year, since not long after I started my own blog, and I believe I found it via a link on another foodie blog.
I tweeted about the giveaway: http://twitter.com/NTFancy/status/23958458604724224
And I shared it on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/Kate1485/posts/137167526343086
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I {heart} those cookie cutters! I've seen them somewhere before *awesome*
Oh what gorgeous cutters!! LOVE them!
I've been coming here for probably about 8 months or so, have tried quite a few of your recipes, love reading your posts!!
Happy birthday!
I found you through Twitter about three months ago <3
I was told to check you out by my friend Meagan about 3 months ago.
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I found it via ChocolateSuze's blog (which I love!). Love your's too as well!
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Hey,
I found you through one of my very good friends, and love to read your blog :) I've been following for about 6 months and look forward to all of your new posts!
Thanking you
Cath
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I've been stalking on twitter and FB the last few months and slowly getting into reading, keep up the good work :)
Happy Birthday! I have been visiting Frills In The Hills for over 12 months. I stumbled upon it when googling a recipe (not sure which one) and have been a regular visitor ever since.
I just adore these cutters Liss and wondered where you had got your letter stamps--I had pictured you re-using old type-writer keys or something similar ;)
I have been following Frills for between 6 and 12 months, not sure how I found you but it was invariably via the net as this is how I usually make my discoveries!
Happy Birthday!!
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Congratulations!!!
I am a fairly silent follower and only really looked into a blog for the first time last year. You should feel priviledged that you are one of only 2 blogs that I read. I love your recipes, trying, succeeding and the occassional fail (cooks fault, not recipe :P ) but I still keep going as I love exploring flood and you encourage me!
Thanks Liss
Eeek!!
Oh dear, I should learn to preview first. I have the disaster on my brain. Flood should be Food.
LOL
J
xx
Happy birthday to YOU!!!!! Congratulations Liss, a top effort to still be going strong. I've been trawling your blog since day one and a lot of the recipes I try are from your blog.
I love the blog, well done on a great job! I have been following for most of last year and always get great ideas from you,
Thanks
Sally
Smatthews22@hotmail.com
Happy 2nd Birthday to Fills in the Hills. I have been following you on facebook for about the last six months, was after a recipe to try something new for my family and this site suited me.
Hip Hip Hooray.
I can not remember exactly when I found you, would have been some time after July this year as that is when I bought my own computer.
I love cooking and I'm always in the kitchen with my boys so when I first started on facebook I asked my friends for the best pages and blogs for recipes and your came up. I just love Frills in the Hills
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