Tuesday 29 March 2011

Cornbread

225g butter (I use Vitalite; a stable, dairy free margarine. don't use Pure and don't use oil.)
225g plain flour sifted
225g polenta grains  (fine works better imho)
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
125g caster sugar
2 large or 3 small eggs
475ml full fat milk (I used half fat, still works lol)


preheat oven to 180.c or gas 5

put the butter/fat into a 23cm square or round baking tin and put in the oven to melt
while butter melting put the flour polenta salt sugar and baking powder into a large bowl and make a well in the centre break in the eggs and add the milk and the melted butter/fat
mix well until all combined but will need to do this quickly or the butter/fat will harden
pour the mix back into the tin and bake for 30-40 mins until well risen and golden brown

the bread will sink a little after cooking
can be eaten hot or cold. I like it hot form the oven with a little more marge on the top. it's much like a corn scone.

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New Things... mwaaaaaa!

Ok, so this week I have been mostly ignoring the housework again and mending my brain through home made art therapy.
And also mending other's brains too lol. here are some margie-warna earrings...




one has a doob, the other a bowl of herb, a packet of rizlas and a lighter.
 
and here is a little, erm, thingummy. it has cherry blossom on a blue sky background. I'm not sure what to do with it yet.



finally, this week saw thw first (and second, and third) harvests of Purple Sprouting Brocolli form my garden. woot!

Sunday 20 March 2011

I've begun painting again


acrylic on canvas, mixed media.

Random post sunday!!!

Désolé pour ma français merdant!!! oui! les moules! fait au pays d'oc de l'angleterre (au cidre et à l'ail avec du thymes et un petit peut de fromage à la crème); il y a des moules Ecossaises. nomnomnom.


translation: yes! Mussels! cooked in the west country fashion with cider, garlic and a little cream cheese, here are Scottish Mussels. nomnomnom.

what follows is desturbing in the extreme. a 32 year old hair engineer wearing the hat and scarf of a small girl...

(I made the hat)

How do you wind wool from a skein to a ball without a spare pair of hands? use feets!


I am embracing my inner goth again.

The Handbag of Mental

My mum's birthday was coming up (yeah, I'm about a month behind in my posts... sorry) and Iwanted to give her something personal.









Filet Crochet in plain, white, cotton thread using a 3mm hook. it's about 30cms in width. pattern designed by me. it basically took about 3 x 2 hour karate lessons (husband and child do the karate, I sit on the sidelines getting bored lol) plus some evenings of TV watching.

it's lined with velvet, you can't really tell on the pictures (damned camera phone) but I have turned the velvet right side out so the fluffy side is beneath the filet and gives another dimesnsion of texture, and the smooth side is facing inwards.

Kelly's Birthday Frame

I had completely forgotten my friend's birthday; so with 24 hours notice and zero monetary outlay, I threw this together. Seriously.

1 unfinished pine frame from my stash of "stuff i need to get on with"
some rose coloured ink
sulky silk effect polyester thread in pink
sulky metallic thread (rainbow)
two card bradlets (hammered into the wood!)
1 broken earring
a load of modpodge.
fabric scraps
photoshop knowledge and a printer.

I started with the frame, painted it with ink, wrapped around the threads and hammered in the small bradlets and the earring. it only had a little stubby bit of metal left on the back of it, i dont think a full length stud earring would have worked with the hammering!
covered with copious amounts of modpodge glossy.





then i started on the picture while that was drying, i took a photo off my friend's facebook account and photoshopped the heck out of it to make it more arty. I then embroidered the little girl's name onto a scrap of gingham ribbon. then I modpodged some cotton voile onto backing card (made form a pizza menu Wink ) and left to dry.
I layered the voile/card, picture and name plate using card making glue dots.



all was assembled the morning of her birthday celebration....
she loved it!!

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