Candlewicking

This bedspread is made of candelwicking. The blocks are 40x40cm, the same heart pattern was used thu out the beadspread, I used batting as padding while doing the candlewicking, I used cotton lace on the strips to join the blocks. To complete the bedspread I used a night frill as lining.

 

VINTAGE PAPER DOLLS. My favorite past time as a kid, making my own paper dolls from magazines.

 

Microwave chocolate mug cake in five minutes

4 tbs flour
1/4 tsp backing powder
4 tbs sugar
2 tbs cocoa
1 egg
3 tbs milk
3 tbs oil
3 tbs chocolate chips (optional)
Small dash vanilla
1 large mug

Add dry ingredient's into mug, mix well. Add egg mix thoroughly. Pour milk, oil, mix well, add chocolate chips and vanilla, mix well. Put mug in microwave, cook 3min at 1000 watts.
Serve with cream, enjoy.

Filhoses de Abobora/Pumpkin Fritters

Ingredientes:

abobora cozida e passada pela varinha magica
farinha
ovos
agua ardente
raspa de lima
pinhoes

Janta-se tudo numa tigela, a farinha e consoante a quantidade de abobora ate atingir uma massa que seja maniavel.
Os ovos costumam ser dois ou tres.
Depois de bem batida, deixar a descansar em lugar quente ate levedar.
Fritar em oleo bem quente, pequenas colheradas.
Escorrer e passar numa mistura de açucar e cenela.

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fish pond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked…As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. —Julia Cameron

 

PADDED PATCHWORK

Instead of plain patchwork, I made this bedspread padded patchwork. I cut two squares, one slightly bigger than the other, the bottom  square being the smaller. I pinned the corners, pinned a pleat on the sides, sewed all three sides by machine, filled the square with poly fill, then sewed the open side with machine. I put the blocks together by pinning them together to a design then sewed with machine.

Some of my Crosstitch Projects