Michele's New Purchase......

Good Morning Ladies,

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday, Sue came over and after having some yummy cakes...(Sue's was a delicious Meringue piled high with whipped cream and strawberries, I had the most amazing lemon tart, the pastry is so short it is in fact like shortbread, just that on it's own would be amazing as it melts away in your mouth, the lemon mousse is so tart that it makes your mouth water and the finishing touch/crowning glory is fresh raspberries, very neatly arranged and dusted with icing sugar) just talking about it makes my mouth water!

After that we went straight into craft room and I shared some youTube video's of flower making tutorials with Sue and I was playing with Foamiran making some flowers, I have bought a cheap travel iron to heat the foam on and the method I was using worked really well.

As is always the case the time just flew and mid conversation the doorbell rang and Sue answered it to find Paul stood there, unbelievably it was 5.50pm!! 

The day before was the same too, Lucy was a bit bored in the afternoon as Sophie had gone to Lewis's, I was about to go into the Craft Room for a couple of hours but felt a little guilty seeing her sat on her own, so I sat and watched a couple of things on TV with her, we then decided to go and do some baking, which we haven't done together for ages (well apart from making Becca's Birthday cake), I asked her what she wanted to make, we decided on Sugar Cookies (an American Recipe) they are a bit like shortbread biscuits but are slightly softer in texture, you don't let them colour at all in the oven, we did leave them a little longer than the 8 minutes they were meant to have and they turned out fine, we had a few slightly golden ones but they were just more crisp and crunchy and melted in your mouth so it didn't matter, they were actually quite sweet so we decided to only frost half of the batch, the frosting was very odd, you used 125g of Icing sugar, mixed with 2 teaspoons of milk which you combined and then added 2 teaspoons of Golden Syrup!! it was really sweet but id does work, I think that the Golden Syrup is a replacement for Corn Syrup that Americans tend to use a lot of in their baking.

We also made a Coffee and Walnut Cake, which was delicious, there was once a time when only Paul and I would eat Coffee and Walnut cake, so it was a good one to make that would last longer than one day, however as the girls have gotten older their tastes have matured too, they love making all sorts of different coffee's and drink it most days, so as you can imagine they adored the cake and almost half has gone already and Paul and I haven't had any yet!! I think I am going to have to find a hiding place!

Michele treated herself to another Ella's Design Digital Download on Sunday and not too long after I received these two absolutely stunning cards that Michele had made with her new purchase.

I love them Michele, the flowers look so realistic, the colours are so pretty too, the other thing that I really love about these Ella's Design Digi Downloads is that you get such a gorgeous range of backing papers that you always have on hand to use, they perfectly matched in colour with a lovely range of complimentary colours too, so no spending hours rummaging through all of your different paper stash piles to find something that will work.

I think that once we have a new printer I might treat myself to one of Ella's Digi's to have a play with.

Thank you so much Michele for sharing your new purchase with us, I can't wait to see what else you make with it. xxx

Ladies I am sure Michele will leave a link for any of you that are interested in treating yourselves too.

I hope that you all have a lovely day ladies, 

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra

xxxxxx