The hens have now started to lay a decent number of eggs and the sun has been shining, so it felt like a good day to make my first batch of ice cream. As I only use the yolks in ice cream, I whisked up the whites to make meringues. […]
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Aroma Dough and Felting Knitting
For Christmas, TF received a tub of Aroma Dough. If you haven’t come across this before, it contains six packages of coloured play dough which are scented with essential oils, such as lavender, eucalyptus and grapefruit. Each package has a themeĀ likeĀ “Sweet Dreams”, “Motion Magic” and “Snuffle Dough”. As […]
Read moreKnitted bag and Happy Mother's day to you all
I have been procrastinating about my knitted bag this week. I went to the local craft shop and they had no orange or yellow cotton, which I needed if I wanted to continue my rainbow theme. I came home thinking that maybe I should dye my cream cotton with onion […]
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Today, while I was hanging up the washing, the girls got excited and started shouting and calling me. Fearing a disaster, I dropped my washing and ran round to see what had happened. I won’t tell you what images were going through my mind, but it was not pretty and […]
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