Squeezing Stuff in!!

Hi All
Hasn't this first month of 2008 gone by so fast!!!
We've been keeping busy with lots of craft and cooking. Our two favourite things to do. This is a "Sour Cream Choc Cake." I got the recipe from a book called "CRAVE a passion for chocolate"by Maureen McKeon. It has lots of pics, mmmmm. This book is one I will be putting on my xmas wish list, which is growing all the time.

This week we discoved a great way of drying the baby beanies I've made.

It's a small dessert bowl on top of a glass. It is a great way to help keep its shape.
A while ago Little Ma spun some Camel down and Tussah Silk. So while the Aussie Open was on this year I made a capelet and Little Ma made a shawl from it. Both of us wanted to try a stitch called 'Solomon's knot." We both started to crochet freestyle.



On the Capelet we chose a button that was made out of coconut. We both fell in love with it as soon as we saw it.
Until next time MnM :)


Hi I was just feeling crappy 'cos the Angel was getting on my nerves ( Instructions are yuk and the fiddly stuff makes me feel like I'm getting no-where) the Ice Queen cowl needs concentration which I've been lacking in the hot weather( air con is not working and the fan is just not enough . Why did I get rid of the pool - silly, silly me ) and I needed something interesting yet easy. My crocheted vest is boring me as well - possibly cos' it's the third time the bodice down has been worked. So I've started a kid's jumper with a round fair Isle Pattern around the shoulders. I feel so much better even doing the rib. Guess I just needed to knit SOMETHING!! I'm using some beautiful soft handspun wool from a lady (Irene Paine) who has passed away. I know her daughter-in-law, Beverley Paine, who passed on the wool to me. I wish I could have met her and told her how lovely her spinning was and how much I am appreciating knitting with it.
I'm going to go and knit some more . i think I'm ready to do the stocking stitch part - I can't believe I'm so excited to start that part. LOL


Oh , and what I'm grateful for today is being able to borrow books from the library. Less clutter at home and cheaper! Always a plus. I can check out books and decide if I really really need to have that one at home.
Huggs Little Ma

The missing pool

Hiya- It's finally all working - I am wonder geek, hear me reload ! Okay, not all true and I did have help but I managed to get my mac working. I'll whisper that in case it hears and goes all technical on me again. ( But I'm having a quiet woohoo)
Now for some things we've been up to besides learning about the reproduction of bacterium and the Kingdom of Monera.
No matter how messy the garden there's always something lovely. The gerbera has survived for a few years now and right next to it is a'Cherry Pie' Lantana type of bush ( can't remember what its name was and I know Lantana is a weed in the bush) . We thought we could smell a bakery from the car but it was this little plant we'd bought. Smells gorgeous. So far it's been hardy and lives well with the other plants.

We finally had the pool removed . Now it just has to be cleared of that horribly invasive ivy plant. Fluffy the 12 year old chook and her mate Other Chook are helping. Can't wait for our new chookies. They haven't hatched yet - maybe they haven't even been laid but we're hoping for some black and red ones. Can't get speckled ones atm - nuts. The dogs would love to help but the black likes to pick them up by the tail and put them away and Violetta (hasn't she grown) is suppose to act like a lady but instead tried to eat Fluffy and wondered why Other Chook was pecking her! So she's banned atm.



We bought some moulds from Kerry at

Chocart

and this bunny was our favourite. Getting chocolate making stuff was impossible down our way but we found Kerry's site on the internet and after a few emails trying to work out what we needed , she sent us all the stuff -very easy. Beats hairing around town. We did heaps more , including making fondant . That was good till I tried to actually use it and then it just stuck to my hands . Obviously did something wrong.
Shucks will have to make more chocolate. We will be buying better choc buttons , the ones we got locally weren't that nice. Tasted like cheap easter eggs - yuk.
I better go and get rid of the evidence .
cheers and hugs Little Ma and MnM