before i head into a busy summer … July 23, 2009

… some pictures.

A strawberry cake I made for a young person’s birthday. I’d completely forgotten I’d taken this photo!

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the bedding set I made (well I made the duvet cover) I’ve started on a quilt to go over the top, which is one of the reasons it’s so plain. The other is that hubby and I couldn’t agree on a design!

 

 

 

 

 

This was my attempt at beef wellington last weekend. Glad I tried it, but hubby didn’t like it, so I won’t be making it again.

 

 

 

 

And finally, the slidy puzzle! We’ve made it double sided, so they can start with the numbers, and then once they’ve rearranged them, they can turn them over and arrange the simpsons picture! It doesn’t work exactly like the child’s toy version as you can easily cheat and lift the squares up and move them rather than just slide them! We hope the kids at camp like it. After it being in our lounge for over a week (for different stages of painting etc) I am quite sad that it is packed away in a box. I can’t wait to see it being used, and hope to bring it back safely to use again.

I’ll try and post over the next four weeks, but with two of them being spent with young people/children, I’m not promising anything!

this weekend and the last July 18, 2009

Cooked : meringues, a chocolate cake and a cherry clafoutis (though strictly speaking that was thursday)

Made : duvet cover finished (and on bed), a slidy game for camp (only one last task to finish it), 2 t-shirts mended

Other activities : preparing for camp, sleeping and reading. I’m trying to get in all the rest I can before a work’s residential and then a kids summer camp! It would be nice to have something interesting to show you, but hey, sometimes a girl just has to rest and do nothing!

jam making July 5, 2009

This weekend, hubby and I finally found time to go fruit picking together. The plan was to pick fruit and make jam with it that would serve as Christmas presents. Unfortunately, my jam making skills just seem to decline from year to year, and we have 7 jars of blackcurrant jelly (as hubby named it) and 6 jars of strawberry sauce! Thankfully you can’t tell what a disaster they were from the pictures! We may have to re-think our christmas gifts this year!