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Winter

Comfort food

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I’ve been looking though some of my blog posts and am surprised how many recipes I’ve posted! 


We’re in for a cold snap this week so it’s the perfect time for some hot comfort food.


Here is a list for you to check out from my kitchen:


*Home made sausage rolls


*Silverbeet and ricotta pie


*Everyday bread


*Cheese and bacon scrolls


*Apple cinnamon porridge


*Coconut rice pudding


*Rhubarb and custard crumble


*Roasted pumpkin soup


*Homemade potato chips


*Pork and pepper casserole (not my recipe, but very awesome!)


*Home made pasta


*Cornflake slice


Hope you’re keeping warm!

Been sewing a little..

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The cooler weather brings not only the urge to sew but the necessity as little girls become less little and need new, warm clothes.
This pattern is called Burda kids t-shirt, which seems rather drab to me – it’s more of a crossover top. The fabric is a stripy Japanese knit from Spotlight which I was keen to test out. I found it a little slippery under the machine, not too bad, but I prefer the Euro and Australian knits I usually buy. Yes, they’re more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Gem loves the top šŸ™‚

Funky pants – pattern and beautiful velour fabric both from Crafty Mamas.
The pants were too long, so I cut them off, hemmed them and made a matching headband from the excess.

I have plans for more leggings and long sleeved tops, of, and guess what?! I finished another cardigan, it just has to blocked and buttoned now šŸ™‚

This has been a bit of a staple breakfast here of late – porridge with maple syrup and double cream. Yum!
Now I’m off to bake my bread and make a large pot of minestrone for dinner. Who says cold weather is dull?!

Gifts

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These gifts are all finished and ready to send tomorrow. A cute tote and a tea towel.

Some beaded jewellery and assorted hair clips. I love giving hand made gifts.

Husband has made a solitary journey to Mass this morning as 3 of the 4 children are sick, the baby is not one of them, thank God. There are a lot of sick people around at the moment, mid winter in a cool region.

We had the little one’s baptism yesterday. It was a simple affair (just how we like it!) with only a few people and a very old and wonderful priest.

Have a lovely and relaxing Sunday.

A fine Winter’s morn’

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” Its a little chilly but perfect for a stroll and a scratch, wouldn’t you agree Henrietta?”

“Oh, indeed, how right you are Miss Feathers, particularly now there is so much worthy greenery about and that dreadful moulting business is over. I almost felt I could never show my feathers in public again!”
“Miss Brown, I do wish the paparazzi would cease following us about, all that hovering and clicking makes me self conscious!”
Thought for the day:
“A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance”.
(Proverbs 15:13)