Saturday 9 March 2013

Time Out

I've had a blogging break for personal reasons and considered giving up my blog but have decided to carry on so here I am again.

I haven't been idle during my break, there has been some experimenting in the kitchen. My first ever gluten-free cake, a ginger cake. The kitchen smelt lovely whilst it was cooking so I was hopeful and I could see through the oven door that it had risen. It came out looking perfect, tasted lovely and was liked by everyone who had a piece.





On Thursday afternoon I looked after Ellie for a little while so I took her into the office to see Grandad. I think she was trying for employee of the month.

Her drawing skills were good. 



However her skills at eating do-nuts were excellent.



See no problem.



Freddie with mummy.



Yesterday after my early evening walk I made mushroom soup. It's one of my favourites and of course it was gluten free. The only disappointment was the gluten free bread roll, I'm glad I don't eat a lot of bread.



Wednesday was the monthly meeting of Spectrum and just for once I had been a good girl and done my homework. I'm glad Gina made me stick with my original design as I'm much happier with it now. If you remember my theme is Circles, which I have taken literally in this instance. The colours are representative of the hydrangeas in my garden. Or should I say that used to be in my garden I think I might have killed them off, time will tell.

This is just a working sample I've abandoned my sketchbook temporarily but I will have to go back to it. I painted some pages from my sketchbook (knew it would come in useful sometime)  cut out lots of circles using a punch and stitched them together using invisible thread. I was really pleased that the invisible thread worked in the bobbin it needed a little coaxing but I got there.



Then I strung them onto these frames with some help from Neil. It took almost two hours just to do the small one. I intend for the finished project to be hung in circles. So now I have lots more sampling to do starting with fabric for the circles, although I might not use fabric I spied a bag of Quality Street wrappers this morning and thought they might work.



Oh and yesterday evening I made a Mars Bar and Rice Krispie cake for the stitching ladies at the shop today.



3 comments:

pam said...

I am glad you are still blogging - you always tell me not to give up! The ginger cake was lovely and the soup looks really yummy. I liked your circles and look forward to seeing the rest of your project.

Gina said...

Your circles project looks far better in real life than in the photos... it's lovely. And for someone who hates cooking you make a pretty good job of turning out some impressive looking food!

Julie said...

I like your circles project too, I shall look forward to seeing it progress. I'm a bit lacksadaisical with blogging lately too but figure I'll just blog when I feel like it. It is a good way to remind yourself of what happened when. Your grandbabies look very happy. I had some gluten free bread once at a B&B, it was awful! So dry!