Onion Marmalade and Preserved Peppers! There is another batch of Sloe Gin coming and some HedgeBerry Cordial too....
*sigh* i lurve the Autumn.
MrsB - Cooking Blog revival?
What cha allll been making?
Just call me Nigella....
RRrrraaaaa Red & Aqua!!
Ha! I couldn't wait to show this off.
So very satisfying when i get a chance to play with this beautiful buttons myself.
I love this fresh colour scheme...
Giant 10inch Christmas Wreath
(i am doing even more colourways, yipppeee)
Then there is this DIVINE *new* Christmas fabric range.
Can you imagine how i nearly totally fainted when i saw these in the fabric store?
sooo cute. I love Caribous / Reindeer... you know this about me!
Mini Bunting - for windows or shelving - works both sides...
With a dotty red and white bias trim.
I am loving and in-love with these.
I have made more things with this fabric... and i'll show eventually but my head is filled with stockings and Advent Calenders and all the stuff i just must find the time to make.
I showed you these spotty bias trims a while back and i have been adding them to some new Bunting lines.
They really lift the colours of the fabrics and make them much brighter.
Last weekend was a big sewing weekend for me - if only i could find more weekends like that!
x x x
oooh, *squeal* clever me....
Ok, so not massively 'clever' but just 'bigger'
I have been making smaller button wreaths for some time, and they have gradually been getting bigger and bigger! This Whopper is 10inches across / 25cm
Any bigger and the weight of it would just drag the shape of the circle downwards.
He is sold *proud*
but i have been making another in these traditional colours - then a big wreath in Aqua and Red Buttons - and also just started a Gingerbread Wreath with multi-colured buttons.
I get addicted to making things like this.
There is no great 'design' to them but the time and labour of love is obviously in the buttons and their colourways and how they sit next to one another.
I shall be sick of sewing these in 2 weeks time! but for now, it is fun.
They are a real statement piece for a Christmas Home and you know, we love our Christmas Decos.
And, just so you know, there are a few sheets of white glitter felt in the Fuzzyfish shop.
I have bought a few stacks to make Hallowe'en ghosties with "mwahahahaaaaa"
they are going to look ace when the kiddies start on them!
And these are mini flowers / snowflakes. I ordered the wrong size so there will be a few metres listed in the Etsy BigFish shop and some i will save for my Kids Craft Workshops.
Feeling the Autumn air this week - glorious!
Plum Cake... Amazon... self delusion...
Egad, my i-phone is a bad bad thing.
I took a photo of these 2 books whilst on holiday and browsing a Book Shop.
Then, on an evening lying in my bed, i found these photos and had placed my order on Amazon before you could say: "stop it you crazed bedded down i-phone shopping NutJob"
But by Golly they are Jolly!!
And then there is this self-delusional element that makes us feel....
that when they arrive in the post - they have somehow been GIFTED to us by Amazon themselves.
We conveniently forget that we did, in fact, pay for these books.
Sigh - pretty pages.
The DK Preserves Book is especially great and i am just putting in my shopping order (online of course) to make up some Kilner Jars of Potted Peppers, some Elderberry Cordial and Fig Jam.
I usually shop online but i am especially shopping online forever more as i bought a new car last week and have a morbid mistrust of OTHER DRIVERS in any Car Park!!
In the meanwhile - Plum Tray Bake Cake!
Made from the Plums down at my Brother's house.
Just scrumptious...!
Now Lord, would it be too much to ask, to send me a big burly man with a love of sport and the healthy appetite that might appreciate Sweet Honey Plum cake?
Yes, his amazing sporty physique would be a bonus, But truly he would be doing me a great service (!) if he were to come and help me eat cake and the such.
Here's hoping.
Bon Plums x
Wool Threads... interesting...
Sooooo..... Wool Threads then....
I've got myself this box to play with and i am quite excited.
If they are awesome and i love them, i am going to buy lots and maybe stock them in my shops.
These are Wool Threads on the reel and, get this,.... you can use them on the sewing machine aswell as for hand sewing. This is why i am quite excited.
I am going to do some KirstyFish style testing to see what they do in my machine and by hand.
I am going to test them on Acrylic Felt and Wool Felt.
There are a GAZIILION colours to choose from so i shall have a happy time with those colour charts.
If you sew with FELT - these might interest you too....
Watch this space, because if i am to stock them - you know i'll be telling you all about it right here.
*new Colour*
Can you believe there is a set of coloured buttons i wasn't selling?
I know, trust me - these are new.
I have long wanted a softer purple - a lilac haze to soften the pallette.
And here it is Liberty Lilac.
Soft and sweet - not at all like my good self.
Anyway, listen. Kids are back to school. I have a million trillion jobs to do.
I am off to ZUMBA tonight - not really my thing, but i am going to support my friend who has started running the classes. I did a hard hour at the gym this morning and i am going Kayaking tomorrow!
You know i'm busy when i start avoiding Jobs by over exercising.
I Salute you Ladies!
Long Live The Crafter Revolution
Something's Missing....
Fresh, Fun, Holiday Faces :)
Giving it allll to the camera
And the Boy is working his camera smile too !
(he was such a Good Boy on our Holidays...)
So much in my life is fantastic and wonderful right now **Go Me**
But, like those moments when you just 'NEED' a piece of chocolate,
There is something missing...
You know me, i need a new challenge - an adrenalin pump....
I feel the need to sign up to a Marathon, or swim the Channel...
HHhhmmmmm...
Get yourself a FREE Graze Box - if you want to....
Foodie Talk!
So... this code below can be used at GRAZE and you can get yourself a free box of healthy snacks delivered straight to your letterbox, and then into your mouth.
You have to JOIN the scheme to claim it but you can cancel anytime you like.
If you enjoy the box you can then get your own code to share with your family and friends...
free box code: DP78Q8D
I haven't had my GRAZE box yet but it really appeals to me as i love to eat well and eat healthy (ish)
Before i went away, the SmallFish and I had a bit of a mega Cook-a-thon
We have begun stage.1. of making Apple & Damson Gin - i know, yum!
Apparantly Apple Gin was once a typical and well-loved English Tipple, sadly no longer made :(
So, having a plethora of Damsons and Apples (from my Brother's Orchard), i have happily begun to revive the best of British 'windfall' Gin....
It will be decanted and bottled for Christmas :)
Then, the weeFish demanded Lemon Curd.
Oh lordy, she is sooooo right. This stuff is heaven sent....
slathered over the morning pancakes.
And we juiced a load of Apples with a handful of Blackberries - DIVINE!
We froze Blackberries for a future project...
We made Hedgerow Jam, or rather Jelly, as i hate the bits.... (plenty of red fruits and lemon juice)
We made Blondie Cakes
We made a mess...!!
I also ended up making a WASP catcher as we had a bit of an infestation during the process.
mmm, sweetness.
SO, to conclude:
September i am having a COLD TURKEY month - sort of a detox.
Water aplenty - no alcohol (only 4 weeks!) Cooking - Plenty of Protein
masses of running and some swimming and weights
AND a trial of these GRAZE boxes to see if they can stop me craving chocolate at nightime and biscuits after my runs... keep my natural blood sugars level.
I like a bit of healthy living.
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