adventure: bento lunch from last week
ingredients:
left hand container: red lentil and vegetable korma
right hand container: red panda egg with tomato ears and smile and olive eyes on a bed of lettuce with a tomato and olive kebab.
inspiration: red pandas like these
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adventure: bento for wednesday lunchtime
ingredients:
left hand container - vegetable chilli and couscous
right hand container - cherry tomatoes and sundried tomato (in cup), chunk of cheese, baby spinach, boiled egg with peppercorn eyes
inspiration: this is what got me really excited about bento www.lunchinabox.net they always look so tasty! Here’s a close-up of the egg man, just for fun…
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adventure(s): cupcake mountain, mini bunting card, nautical apron and nautical wrapping!
ingredients: too many!
inspiration: little sister’s 21st birthday tea! The cupcake mountain was the second cake i made, as the first was a disaster. It is made from 12 cupcakes, stuck together with chocolate icing and covered with more of the same, with the leftover chocolate stuck in wherever there was a space. When we sang happy birthday the flag burnt down - very dramatic! The bunting on the card is really tiny, only about 1.5cm across. The tape stuck accross the bottom is from accessorize - i am addicted to mini tape. The apron i bought from a charity shop for 70p and i embellished it with an anchor with a baby blue rick rack chain, navy blue polka dot ribbon and gold nautical buttons, also from the charity shop. I wrapped it up in the instructions from a vintage pattern, more of the ribbon and another nautical button. Phew!
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adventure: snow bunny
ingredients: linen napkin, white felt, embroidery thread, silver ribbon, bronze beads, silver card
inspiration: another one from ‘Softies’ this lovely but slightly scary bunny was a design by Tamar Mogendorff. It was a 25th wedding anniversary present for my parents. Making it resulted in a terrifying nightmare about a killer bunny! My favourite part is the embroidered face, the lines around the eyes really bring it to life.
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adventure: lavender bags for ladies
ingredients: felt, rick rack, embroidery thread, gingham, stuffing, lavender
inspiration: i made these for a friend who loves everything black and white. The dress and the little dog are from the book Softies and the handbag i made up myself.
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adventure: felt eggy people and easter bunting
ingredients: felt in various colours, rick rack, duck trim, wooden egg cups, lots of fabric glue, embroidery thread, stuffing, fabric scraps, calico, string, mini pegs
inspiration: springtime, even though it snowed yesterday! The eggy people are easter gifts for my family - i just wanted an excuse to buy the wooden egg cups which were only £2 for 4 in Woolies! Meeper and I made the Easter bunting from scraps of fabric and felt. I am now really excited about bunting and have all sorts of plans including mini bunting! Happy Easter!
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adventure: mushroom and chestnut buns and parcels of snake beans with spiced peanuts
ingredients: flour, baking powder, peanut oil, sugar, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, chestnuts, soy sauce, spring onions, coriander, green beans, roasted peanuts, lime juice, red onion
inspiration: this is another recipe from Steam it. It was fairly time consuming because of all the preparation needed but the end result was worth it!
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adventure: sticky fig and hazelnut puddings
ingredients: toasted hazelnuts, orange juice, dried figs, ginger, cinnamon, orange zest, bicarb, butter, soft brown sugar, self raising flour, honey, marscapone to serve
inspiration: the recipe is from a book called Steam it which i got out of the library. They are assembled by putting a blob of honey (the recipe called for maple syrup but i didn’t have any) and a piece of dried fig into a ramekin and then adding the pudding mixture. I don’t have ramekins but i do have silicone cupcake cases, so i divided the mixture between 12 of these instead of 6 ramekins. I wasn’t sure how different a steamed pudding would taste from a baked one but it makes a really moist and sticky texture that you don’t necessarily get with baking. They were absolutely delicious, but they were very rich and one is enough even though they look small!
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adventure: envelope back cushion cover
ingredients: calico, white thread, cushion
inspiration: when this chair gets sat on, it gets sat on for a long time and thus, the minimalist cushion was born to soften the experience. It’s made from scraps of calico from a leftover project and i think it wins the award for most used craft!
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adventure: paper doll dress
ingredients: lilac and cream felt, scraps of vintage pillowcase, embroidery floss, buttons, rickrack, miniature pegs, string, card
inspiration: the pattern for the dress is by Alicia Paulson in the book Softies: 25 instructions for plush pals and i made it for mummer for mother’s day. I designed the washing line scene for it to hang on. I sewed a pinked rectangle of felt onto some cardboard using my machine, added buttons and made holes for the string washing line. Luckily i had just the right pegs for the job!
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