I had a go at making some lip balm last week with my friend, we did some experimenting with texture and flavours. This week we are going to make enough to fill a few tins (these each have a teeny bit inside), just got to decide on flavour combos! Fun Fun.
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Have a wonderful weekend!
This week I have been liking these things.
Choosing a new book to read. I have finished ‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng and I really liked it and read it in record time – 2 weeks is a very fast read for me. Nothing like the pressure of getting it back to the library with no renewal option! So, now I have ‘The Memory Garden’ by Mary Rickert and ‘Station Eleven’ by Emily St John Mandel to choose between and I am pretty sure there is no renewal on these either, so I had better get started.
Making mince pies with my home made mincemeat using Jamie Oliver’s recipe. I love mince pies and I only have one pan which makes six at a time. This is probably for the best, if I made more, I am sure they would disappear just as fast!
Planning and making some new jewelry for Christmassy gifts.
Helping to organise the 4th grade ‘Winter Holiday’ party during which we shall be making cards for classmates, decorating cookies and helping the Endangered Wolf Centre here in St Louis, by collecting supplies they need.
Remembering that it is the last day of school until the new year next Friday! Lots of Christmas movies and baking to be watched and baked. Yay!
Reviewing, I like to make a little review of the year and look forward to the next. Do you? Here are a couple of lovely ways to do this. Some pertinent questions about 2014 and looking forward from Meet me at Mikes and a whole work book which you can print from the ever fabulous Susannah Conway. I must admit that I printed the workbook from Susannah last year and when I found it, I had not even filled it in. Good intentions and all… This year I have it printed and will complete it!
Happy Weekend!
Can you believe we are at week 50 of 2014. I hope it has been a wonderful year for you. I am so pleased I found ‘Through The Lens Thursday’ at the beginning of the year and stuck with it. I now have almost a year of weekly photos taken on my DSLR.
Thanks of course to our fearless leaders, Alison and Greta of Writing Wishing and GFunkified blogs.
This week’s prompt is ‘Pair’ so I couldn’t resist these little baby socks which I had saved in my drawer.
I must admit I struggled with the numbers on my camera today to get the best result in a low light, grey sky environment. So, we come to the question, is it cheating when you have a less than ideal picture to throw it into Snapseed or Photoshop or Lightroom and mess with it?
I certainly messed with this one! I accidently turned the brightness right up and I liked it. This photo was edited in Snapseed.
Next week is #51 and the prompt is ‘Loud’.
During December I am taking part in Susannah Conway’s ‘December Reflections‘ photo a day project, so I thought I would use them here as my weekly photos for the month.
1. Drink.
2. Lights.
3. The Best Day of 2014.
4. Red
5. Leaves.
6. T is for.. (tenth birthday)
7. Best Book of 2014 (the diary I keep for the boys).
It is not too late to join in and take a few photos to round off the year!
Have a lovely week x
I pulled a polar bear off the kid’s tree (they have a 2ft one in their bedroom!) and took a close-up of him.
Isn’t he cute!
Next week’s ‘Through The Lens Thursday’ is ‘Pair’. I can’t believe that the year is nearly over and so is this project, I hope Greta and Alison (TTLT originators) have something else up their sleeves! No pressure…..
I read about Softies for Mirabel a few months ago and decided that I wanted to make a toy to mail over to Australia to help out. The problem was that I couldn’t decide what to make. A doll? An animal? No, let’s make a mug of tea was my first thought. This soon evolved in my crafty brain into a cup and saucer set.
How do I make a teacup and saucer I thought. I planted the idea in my head and let it grow a little bit, made a couple of sketches on random pieces of paper and got started. I am a very ‘trial and error’ soft toy maker, no pattern, just an idea, a pair of scissors and a sewing machine!
The cup had to be fastened to the saucer so they didn’t lose each other, so I made a fabric ribbon and attached it to the cup and the saucer leaving it long enough for tea time play.
The handle on the cup took me an age to turn and stuff, but my trusty knitting needles saved the day and I managed to employ a little bit of patience too which was the main tool I needed!
The ‘tea’ is felt fabric and is a little weak in colour for my tea taste, but it was either that or dark brown, so I decided on weak tea!
I am very pleased with my impromptu tea cup and saucer and I hope whoever ends up with it has a lovely time playing with it!
Are you a crafty kind of person? Do you like to whip up the odd softie whenever the mood takes you?! Making stuffed ghosts, monsters and plant pots (yes there was a flower in it) is a summer holiday pastime in our house!
Last week was snowy and sunny and cold and warm. Just as you would expect here in St Louis!
It was my birthday and we went for a hike at Rockwoods Reservation which was lovely in the snow. We liked it so much that we went again to walk a different trail at the weekend when it was nice and warm.
1. A new bracelet added to my Etsy shop. I am have a promotion all this week – 25% off with the code ‘ICY25’, pop over and see if there is anything you fancy!
2. Steps in the snow.
3. Swamp in the snow.
4. Grasses at Rockwoods Reservation.
5. Some impressive lichen.
6. Reflections spotted while we were fossil hunting in the creek.
I hope you had a good week and are looking forward to the week ahead. We have a 10th birthday in our house this week, so I need to think of cake ideas!
1. Something Blue. I spotted this lovely painting in an antique mall. I think she is super pretty.
2. I saw this!
3. Weather. Great weather for drying a washed hedgehog!
4. Can’t Live Without.
5. 8 o’clock. A new park from the top of the hill taken on a rare morning run!
6. Made me Smile today. Crunchy leaves!
7. On the Floor. A frosty leaf.
8. A Place. The boy’s ‘base’ in the back garden.
9. Heck yes!
10. I do this every day. Try to eat some good stuff!
11. A set. Vintage mugs.
12. Normal. A bunch of flowers given to me by my friend’s kids, a lovely normal.
13. Letters. Hand painted snail mail.
14. For me. I made a necklace, for me.
15. Hot + Cold. Chilly fox in a hot store.
16. After. A snowfall.
17. Cooking.
18. I love this. Making new jewels for my Etsy store.
19. Whole. A whole bowl of beads to make necklaces with!
20. Bright.
21. Shoes.
22. A Favourite Thing. A new scarf, always a favourite thing.
23. I made this. Christmas cake.
24. I need to do this. Decide which book to read. I am reading ‘Everything I never told you’ and it is good so far.
25. Time.
26. Wall. A lime kiln in the snow at Rockwoods Reservation, MO.
27. I’m Thankful for This. Flowers for my birthday.
28. Black.
29. So, this happened.. I took some photos with my vintage Minolta 35mm camera, I wonder if any of the photos will turn out!?
30. I bought this. New lip balm for me and an Advent calendar surprise.
Another month of Fat Mum Slim photo a day all done! I think my favourites are 9, 21, 26 and 29.
Do you do any photo or other kinds of challenges? I think for December I am going to take all the photos in black and white and see how they all look by the end of the month.
That was the last post as part of National Blog Post Month and I wrote a post a day through November! I am pleased I did it and I found lots of new blogs along the way too.
Today we found some fossils, lots of crinoids (only the stems but still super cool) and shells, the sun was out and the water was clear!
#sixwordSaturday on Instagram with @catseatdogsmakes.
Happy Weekend x
The snow is almost all gone and the sun is out today, chilly but blue skies. I’ll take it!
We are almost at the end of National Blog Post Month and I have not missed a day, so proud!
Today I had a little swing on the tyre at the end of the garden and thought I would share a little wintery outfit with you.
Boots-DSW, Jeans-Goodwill, Jacket-Eye Candy Boutique
Clare Davis Etheridge 