Easy Orange Cake Recipe (from our Starter Issue)C

Hello lovelies!

This simple Orange Cake recipe featured in our very first publication, the Hundreds and Thousands Starter Issue, on one of our "Pop on an Apron" pages. Since both our Starter Issue and Issue One have completely sold out we thought we'd share this yummy recipe here with you.

Easy Orange Cake

150 g melted butter/marge
3 extra large eggs
150 ml milk
50 ml orange juice
grated orange rind (1 orange)
500 ml SR flour
pinch salt
250 ml caster sugar

1. Beat butter, eggs, milk, orange juice, rind well
2. Sift dry ingredients 
3. add dry ingredients to butter mixture
4. blend well together
5. Pour into two 20cm cake tins that have been well greased
6. Bake at 180 C for about 30 minutes
7. Ice when cool

From what we can tell, its been quite popular amongst our readers, so enjoy! And huge thanks and happy Mother's Day to Jacky (Taz's mum) for the recipe!!

Taz and Mezz x

Markets, Festivals, Zines, Websites and more!!

Hello, hello!!

We thought we'd say g'day and let you know what we've been up to since putting Hundreds and Thousands Mag Issue One out into the big wide world!! 

We continue to post mags each week to all the lovely people who are ordering them from our online store. Not only are we posting zines all over Australia, but to many places all over the world! Our handmade little magazine is now heading off to places such as New Zealand, USA, UK, Netherlands and more!! 

Taz has been super busy. She had her first market stall (along with one of our fab sponsors Lola and Joy) a few weeks ago at the brand new Abbotsford Market in Melbourne. She sold lots of her Butter and Buntings makes (her handmade label) and copies of Hundreds and Thousands!! Her stall was super pretty, don't you think??

Mezz has been busy with all sorts of bits and bobs, including recording her EP. She also had the opportunity to perform at the gorgeous Yackandandah Folk Festival in March. Yackandandah is a stunning town in country Victoria (with the worlds longest bunting!!) and their annual Festival is fantastic, featuring many local and International acts! (For Mezz's music website head to www.mezzcoleman.com) 

Taz came along too, and one of the highlights was meeting Claire (aka Sweet Birdy Love) who is a local to Yackandandah and one of our favourite craft bloggers! We passed on a copy of Hundreds and Thousands of course! 

Both Taz and Mezz were chuffed to be featured on the inspiring Bespoke Zine website over the last few weeks. Both articles were about our creative spaces. Click here for Taz's article and here for Mezz's. 

We have noticed that a huge amount of our readers seem to have found us via our personal Instagram profiles, so with that in mind we finally got our act together and have set up a Hundreds and Thousands profile on Intstagram! It's been loads of fun, (because Instagram is loads of fun,) and we are meeting new creative folk each day! Find us @hundredsandthousandsmag

And lastly, we are starting to put our NEXT ISSUE together!! This is super exciting! If you would like to be involved in anyway, we recommend contacting us via email VERY SOON, as it's all happening rather quickly! hundredsandthousandsmag@gmail.com 

Anyway, loads of love...and please pop on over to our online store and order a copy of Issue One if you haven't yet done so! It's cute, promise!!

Mezz ands Taz xx

Order your copy of Issue One today!!!!!

To order your copy, head on over to our online shop www.hundredsandthousands.storenvy.com

Hooray for handmade zines!!

Mezz and Taz xx

Stockists

We have some very lovely people who are stocking our magazine, so if you would rather a visit to a store, here is where you can buy our magazine....

Roundabout Cafe
220 Yarra St
Warrandyte

Unwind Craft Café
48 Wingara Avenue, Keilor East Vic 3033
Hours: Tuesday to Friday 9am to 4:30pm;
Saturdays 10am to 3pm

teapot template (Issue One)

Teapot template. 

New Logo!

Congratulations to Sarah Opie who has designed our new logo for Hundreds and Thousands! We have had some fantastic entries, click here and here to see them all. Thankyou to the fabulous peeple who entered our little comp. We decided that Sarah's logo was simple, pretty, and just what we were looking for. We are so excited to be sharing it with you ONLY DAYS before the next copy of Hundreds and Thousands becomes available! Sarah will be receiving a free copy of each mag we make this year, and a very cute party pack put together by Big Girls Sweet. (We have another one that we are planning to give away later in the year too!)

Next Issue off to the Printers!!

Hi lovelies!!

Just a quick post to let you know that the next issue of "Hundreds and Thousands" mag will be heading off to the printers next week. We are very excited to share our next installment of handmade goodness with you all.

Our next issue will be called "Issue One". That's weird, why would you call your second issue Issue One?

you ask...Well,  we always saw the Starter Issue as a bit of a stand alone experiment, but now that we know it actually works, we are happy to put a number on it! We are now confident that there will be an Issue One, an Issue Two...and more!!

Thanks to some very wonderful sponsors (who we will tell you all about very soon) we have raised enough funds to add some extra pages and articles to the next issue....

...it features our favourite recipes, thrifty makes, a very cool Nana, some sweet music, gardening tips,

some great people doing great things, a trip around a neighbourhood and more!

Magazines will still cost $7 (plus postage and handling) 

Our Starter Issue TOTALLY SOLD OUT and it's thanks to you, our readers and supporters. To those who purchased a copy, thankyou! To those who not only purchased a copy, but then shared with friends, blogged and Instagrammed about it...thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! You have spread the word and turned this into something that neither of us ever imagined.

So stay tuned, because Issue One is on its way shortly!!

Toodles, 

Mezz and taz x

PS-the pretty pics in this post feature in the coming issue

PPS-Don't forget to mention us online with the hashtag #hundredsandthousandsmag to help spread the word!!