This end of the room is TIDY! We spent a bit of time on Friday, liberated from Rata by Aunty Alex “Aunt-Ix”, rearranging my sewing room. I say “we”, but really Louis helped me for all of fifteen minutes, and sacrificing a trip to the great metropolis of Levin to see my friend Cat seemed unfair [...]
Archive for April, 2011
A Good Friday Rearrangement
Posted in Sewing on April 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Alison, you light my bread maker
Posted in Yums on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
These past two weeks, also known as “The School Holidays” I have been reacquainted with my bread maker. And the little recipe book that lives permanently jammed between the bread maker and the wall: Alison Holst’s Bread Book. Ask anyone in New Zealand who Alison Holst is and they’ll be able to tell you at [...]
Hot Cross Buns, this part now makes sense
Posted in Yums on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I said the other day that Alexa Johnston’s instructions in Ladies, A Plate didn’t work for me, the bit where you cut a cross into the bun and then pipe in the white cross. Well, Gesine of Confections of a Master Baker kind of does the same thing. But before the individual buns rise, like this: [...]
Me-Made-June is a’happenin’!
Posted in Me-Made...'11, Sewing on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hurrah! A chance to redeem my first and failed effort and document my outfits for a whole month this time: Zoe of So, Zo… has announced she will be leading the force that is Me-Made through the month of June, which means I should turn off the computer and turn on the sewing machine. Me-Made [...]
Craft Fairs: a grumpy grrface
Posted in Books, Misc on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
(Actually that’s not a grumpy face, but it hadn’t started at that stage. The fair I mean…) Having sat (stood, actually) through five hours of Craft 2.0, I have come to a conclusion I suspect I knew beforehand, given my dread: I dislike craft fairs. Perhaps bullet points will be my friend here: 1. For [...]
Crot Boss Huns, ’11
Posted in Yums on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This years’ batch of Crot Boss Huns was a raging success. I wish I could make them more than once a year, but I always feel silly having them on any day other than Good Friday. Which is silly in itself given I have absolutely no religious affiliations whatsoever and that it was only a [...]
New books
Posted in Books on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a long-winded draft the other night debating whether or not I wanted to keep making books. Now they’re finished, I think I’ll save that debate for another time. I’m really quite pleased with them. I’d been having trouble getting motivated to make them, so on Sunday Louis and I sat at the kitchen [...]
Beans!
Posted in Growing on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What a stroke of luck that I have grown beans that match the kitchen table!
