Good Monday Morning Ladies,
Let's all keep our fingers crossed that today can be the start of the weather getting warmer, yesterday afternoon we popped to the garden centre and it was only 2°, I know its February but my body is ready for some warmer weather, even if it's only just in double digits!! 🤣
Sourdough 'Do-Lene' update: we now have a daily jar of 'Discard' which is the bit that you take out of the main Sourdough starter to make room for the flour you feed it with each day. So Siph decided yesterday that she wanted to make Sourdough Cookies with some of the discard, we added browned butter, sugar, eggs and chocolate chips, my girls are not tidy bakers, my kitchen looked like a bomb site, anyway I was excited to try one of these cookies, but oh no, with all things Sourdough there is a wait involved, the cookie dough had to go in the fridge for 24hrs 😌🙄!!
While I was chatting to Sonia later yesterday I said it reminded me of Friendship Cake, did any of you take part in them years ago, you share a part of your cake batter with a friend then feed it and use some to make a cake and pass some on etc it made a lovely fruit cake.
Today I am sharing the first of my latest pair of Thrinchies, the colour theme of this pair is Cracked Pistachio, Twisted Citron & Salty Ocean. The background started with me adding bits of each of the inks to a tag stencil, spritzed with water and then smooshed down onto my Thrinchie, I dried the ink the spritzed with water to add some interest and dried again. I then cut a paper mask to go around the tag outline, so that I could stamp without the thickness of a stencil making it impossible to ink up to the edge. I then took a fern stamp and used all three inks to add interest to the sides of the tag, I then added some background stamping in Salty Ocean. The main reason for this Thrinchie is that darling little cat stamp, I added him and then stamped the tag and added the 'C' for Cat. I tried to add shading to make the tag look 3D but I'm rubbish at getting that right ! But I try 🤣 I coloured and fussy cut a flower to add to the tag, then came the obligatory white splatters. I added a black mat, ready to add to a journal. Now onto it's pair, which I will share with you tomorrow. Hopefully while eating one of those Chocolate chip cookies 🍪 😋 😉
I hope you all have a great start to the week,
Love & hugs
Sandra xxx
A lovely Thrinchie I love these colours and a stencil to create that background I’m looking forward to seeing its partner
ReplyDeleteI really couldn’t be bothered with all of that waiting around for the dough to “mature” I have never heard of Friendship cake
Off to Craftea in a mo
PS I picked up my new glasses yesterday, have any of you thought “I’m not sure about these I don’t know if I like them” I suppose I’ll get used to them I certainly can’t afford to replace them
Take care everyone xx
Hi everyone
ReplyDeleteA lovely thrinchie , lovely colours and a cute little cat.
I agree with the others that with the time for sourdough bread to be finished I be running to the shop and got one instead 🤭😉 alright, alright a slow walk 😄
We went to IKEA this morning for breakfast and then I took some of my crystal work in for framing. We did find a framer not far from home in the end and with the price right 👍
Have started clearing out the lounge this afternoon for the decorator to come next Monday. Know it's early but I do it slowly. I have quite a lot of little ornaments that I have collected over years and glass 🍷 now idea why we have so many because we are not very big drinkers 🙄 also bought a new trolley for the craft room for the one I have is not very sturdy and I think because of the carpet the wheels are not working.
Hope you all had a nice day in the sunshine today. Hugs to you all, Maria xx
Hi everyone
ReplyDeleteLove your Thrinchie 😊
I made a birthday card today for marks mum, and started a memory album page. Quite a productive day for me ☺️
Working tomorrow and the rest of the week so not sure if I’ll be able to do any more crafting this week!
Hope you all had a good day - lovely to see the sun but still very cold.
Sending hugs to you all xx
I remember making the friendship cake and passing on a starter to friends a very long time ago. I had forgotten about this cake, it always worked out successfully.
ReplyDeleteLove today’s card the colours are beautiful.
Karen hope your new glasses are going to be alright, when i got my last pair it took ages for my eyes to settle into them.
The weather has been lovely and sunny here today but it’s still really cold.
Love and hugs to you all, Brenda xxx