cushions

 

 

These two upcycled teatowels are at the post office on their way to their new homes!  The top one is a lovely bright Adelaide toweling tea towel found at the op shop today, and it's on its way to Shazzabeth as part of a DUST etsy craft swap.  The herb cushion, a lovely tea towel from my aunts collection, is making it's way to ZippyZippy.  Thanks, and enjoy!

buttery goodness

yum, I made this butter cake from my Edmonds book last weekend for afternoon tea with family and gave it a crumbly cinnamon topping from the PWMU cook book.  Its an easy 'throw everything into the old sunbeam mixmaster' recipe.  It turned out well in spite of some ingredient deviations, it was very light, a bit crumbly, but still delicious!
Here's the recipe . .


150g of softened butter - i used mostly salt free butter as i had run out of normal butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
3/4 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of plain flour - i accidently used self raising flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
3/4 cup of milk approximately

Cream butter, vanilla and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Sift flour and baking powder together.  Fold into creamed mixture.  Add sufficient milk to give a soft dropping consistency.  Spoon mixture into a greased and lined deep 20cm round cake tin (I love using my spring cake tin - so easy to get cakes out of) .  Bake at 180C for 35 to 40 minutes or until the cake springs back when lightly touched.  Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

You can ice this cake with any type of icing or just dust with icing sugar.  I used this yummy cinnamon topping.

2 tablespoons of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of melted butter
1/4 cup plain flour
1/4 cup coconut (or biscuit crumbs)
1 teaspoon of cinnamon

Combine butter and sugar and mix with other ingredients.  Sprinkle over the top of a butter cake before placing in the oven.  This topping may be used on stewed fruit, such as stewed pears or apple puree to make a Fruit Crumble.  Yum!

  
Enjoy!

to market

 

  

Today I have been making more cushions from some great old tea towels, some from my aunts collection and some from the op shop.  I love the crocodile one, its for the NT and is in such great colours.  These are to fill up my table at the Borders bookstore market tomorrow night.  Yes, thats right, they are having four crafters sell their wares in the Carlton bookstore - 'Where Craft Meets 3041' Monday 6pm-9pm ish.  I feel a little in awe as the other people are CurlyPops, Finki and Anna Boyd-Dunlop - very talented crafty peeps!

 

I have also been lucky to get this lovely Lemonade Stand award from the creative Loopi for you.  Thank you x  So I am passing it on!

The Lemonade Award is given to bloggers who show great attitude and gratitude.
The rules for accepting this award: 

:: Put the Lemonade Stand logo on your blog or within your post.  

:: Nominate at least 10 blogs with great attitude or gratitude. 

:: Link the nominees within your post. 

:: Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.  

:: Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

So here are my nominees for the Lemonade Stand Award in no particular order.  Please visit them and enjoy!

twirling betty 

girl ferment               

emma rose art 

finki 

sissy sparrows 

zippy zippy 

lillipilli lane 

little wise owl 

edward and lilly 

michelle's art & photography

goodies

 

 

I just wanted to share with you some of the lovely packaging from a couple of the goodies I received before xmas.  I got this brilliant 'mais oui' hairclip from twirling betty but made as a brooch, and some personalised coasters beautifully wrapped in their own cloth bag from the princess and the monkey, both from madeit. My brother loved the coasters, one for each letter of his family. 

And here is a couple of pics from our Christmas Day - lunch in the garden in the sun and then some windy beach time!

 

 

A new year

Happy New Year everyone!  I had a lovely relaxing time over Christmas and New Years spending time with family.  Back to the day job today, which was a struggle. Good news is my vintage fabric blue scarf was included in this lovely treasury by Taylor's Eclectic.  Thank you! Lets hope it makes the front page.