And the Christmas workshop is at it...

Today, after a friend's husband located and purchased the most needed candy canes, 40 Snowman Soup packets have been completed.  They are ready to distribute at our Shake Christmas party, Wednesday, December 12th.

 Now back to our 2013 birthday and anniversary cards!  Christmas cards you ask? Already done and delivered to my elfin daughter, Erin, for mailing!  What a blessing she is!

It is someone's birthday!

Today, 2nd November, is a very special day.  Our precious 4th granddaughter, Bailey June, turns 2!  Happy Birthday little one!  Love, Nana & PopPop

Here you see Bailey with her family as big sister gets ready for a costume party on the 31st!  Can't wait to see her in person for New Years!

This weekend is also when we will celebrate Guy Faulk's Day or better known here as Bonfire Night.  Here's a great Autumnal recipe to celebrate with!  To my American friends, this is a bar cookie recipe and not a pancake recipe!  Enjoy!

Sorry no photo is available for this recipe!

Cinder Toffee Apple Flapjacks (English recipe)

Ingredients:

200g (7oz) caster sugar

4 tbsp golden syrup        
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
165g (5½oz) rolled oats
1 large eating apple, grated
85g (3oz) chopped nuts
55g (2oz) butter

Method:

1. Place the sugar and golden syrup into a saucepan.
2. Simmer over a low heat until the sugar and syrup are melted together, and look the colour of maple syrup.
3. Remove the mixture from heat and add the bicarbonate of soda to the syrup mix.
4. As it begins to foam, stir in the butter, oats, nuts and apple until they are covered.
5. Meanwhile, line a 20cm square tin with greaseproof paper.
6. Pour in your cinder toffee apple flapjack mixture.
7. Bake in the oven at 160ºC for 35 minutes.
8. Remove from the oven, allowing time for it to cool slightly and then slice into fingers.

 

On to crafting today!  Created some great cards last night while crafting with my friend Anna.  

I am definitely one who is seduced by the covers of magazines.  These cards are due to one of those lovely covers.  This is not my usual designs with stamping and layering but I think they are beautiful.  Vintage all the way!

And Autumnal colors.  The first one needs a sentiment and then it is ready to go.  Many more to make from the magazine and all the beautiful papers inside but you get the idea.

And to get a very big project completed, this morning/afternoon I am working on my Christmas gifts for our Shake kids and the leaders!  Snowman Soup is in order as it is getting colder each day as we change the clocks back one hour to end British Summer!  So glad the calendar knows when it begins and ends as the weather still remains very confused on what Summer is really like.  Oh well, perhaps next year!

Happy Saturday everyone!

I am in Estonia!  I am here with NLI's Women's Development team serving the ladies of EKNK Tallinn and.  abroad.  We had a great day of touring the city.  The ladies showed me everything.  What a beautiful city!  And no that isn't a postcard!  This is the skyline from the top of the city wall view to the water.

New Beginnings

After days and days of cold and flu, I declare this day a day of healing!  I have been nursing a big pot of homemade chicken soup

 

                                                                                                                                   have been resting and knitting away as I

have been busting the stash,

            making 3 of 7 mug hugs for the girls I           am going on a craft retreat with...

           

                      

                      and getting started on gifts for our 

                      granddaughters!  One Pumpkin hat 

                      almost finished, just needs leaves and

                      vine.

And all the while enjoying some beautiful daffodils brought to me by a friend!  Happy Sunday!

All the Animals are Finished!

If you have been following along, I have been making quite a few animals the last few weeks.  These animals will eventually be a shower gift to an expecting Mum here in Bedworth.  Before that, they will be part of the shower decorations in the form of a bunting.  Claire loves buntings so why not make one for the nursery.  As this is their 4th child, this one is going to remain a surprise so many colors have been used to create this bunting.  I have knitted up a pink elephant, a pink pig, a yellow duck, a yellow lion cub, a white with blue stripes giraffe and a purplish burro.  Here is my lion cub and duck to finish off the collection...

 

Next are some tea cup cozies for my table mates at our Women of Worth Breakfast on Saturday.  Wish me luck as I need to complete 8 of these this week.  And then 6 more for our Crafternoon Craft Retreat on 30th March.  Happy Knitting!

Happy March and what a March it is going to be!

Lots of things on this month on the ministry and craft front as well. But hey before I move on to a new month, let's show you the rest of the menagerie I have knitted up for the baby shower I am helping to put on for a fellow Children's worker friend of mine.

                                                      A Striped Giraffe

                                             A Pink Pig-the tail even twisted!

                                                  And a Baby Burro!

The last two animals are a Baby Lion Cub and a Duck!  Should have them put soon!

And a fine happy birthday to our niece Leah Triller, 15 years old today!  Watch for this little lady and her team from Glenmont, NY- they are running in style and are competing in the Nationals next week.  So proud of our Lightening Leah!!!

Until next time...Happy Crafting!