Yarn Bombing world.

Yarn bombing is hitting our town in all the colours . Last year my good friend got involve with the local village manager and some amazing ladies. They decided to make our town bright and colourful in the winter months.

 It was noticed that people were doing it Europe and brought it to our town .So this group from all ages meet up once a month ,then weekly as the winter was getting closer. It was a big hit last year 2013 ,so the group started it again.  This year my friend had the task of doing a couch and lamp shade. With just a little help from me of course. 

 

Where this sits, outside the local Lotto shop on the main road , The messages that we are getting from this delightful lamp and couch is amazing. My friend should be very proud of this . We should have made heaps of the lamp as we could have sold it 50 times over. HeHe

Well done to all the great knitters and don't forget the crochetors of Greerton Tauranga.

Tabbouleh Salad

This salad is one of my favourite. I love this in the Turkish to go meals. I had gone around to my mums place and she just purchased two lovely cook book from the Hairy Bikers I went home and made this. It was a very easy recipe .

1 tsp flaked sea salt

200g bulgur wheat

1/2 medium red onion, finely sliced

200g cherry tomatoes, halved

25g bunched of fresh mint, leaves  roughly chopped

40g bunch of flat leaf parsley, leaves roughly chopped

2 garlic cloves crushed

2 tblsp of leamon juice

freshly ground pepper

I used buck wheat and placed one cup of this in the rice cooker and water just covering the wheat. This cook the same as the rice did. I set it aside to cool. I then place the rest of the ingredients. Add the cooled bulgur wheat to this and mix all together.

if you enjoy this as much as I did then you won't to share it .

Rhubarb Crumble Cake

I was given a taste of a home baked cake. I had to have the recipe.. I am a person that doesn't have a sweet tooth and trying to find the right cake, desert and slices, is hard to find with  just the right amount of sweetness. This cake is a little of both, sweet but not too sweet. I love rhubarb and I love red Doris plums. both are sour but with a bit of a  sweet cake underneath and  with a little of my Hubbys homemade Ice-cream it hit the right spots for me. 





Prep Time 15 mins 
Cook Time : 50-60 mins
Serves 8-10 


CAKE MIX : 

140 grams soften butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence

3/4 cup of plain yoghut
3/4 cups plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 stalks of rhubarb thinly slices or 190 grams of mix's berry's or your choice of fruit. 
1 tin of Black Doris Plums 

First Time I made this, it was Apple and Plums 


TOPPING: 

1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup silvered almonds or chopped walnuts
4 Tbsp flour
1 tsp cinnamon
60 grams of melted butter

Preheat oven to 180 c . Grease a 25 cm round spring form tin and line the base with baking paper. 

Beat butter and sugar together until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well. Beat in yoghurt then add dry ingredients and stir gently to just combine. (mixture will be a thick consistency). Spread in grease tin and sprinkle rhubarb and plums. Then add topping mixture on top. 

Bake until golden brown and skewer comes out clean for 50-60 


Serve this with some Vanilla Ice Cream or custard. 

This cake is nice warm or cold . But I prefer it Warm . 


Please have a go at this and you will be impressed. Another desert added to my list of yummies .

Gerry the Giraffe

This was a great pattern which I found in the handmade magazine. 

I love doing this one and was so easy to follow.

I was doing this for a lady at work for her gran baby that's due in April.

Don't you just love this little guy the best thing about this is that you can make it in  any colour for any child .

This guy is ready for loving and just makes me smile. :) 

Colorful and Fun

Phew, am I gald that this week is ended. You know sometimes you get those moments when everything seems to just get on top of you and everything seems to all happen at once. Appointments to keep and make, visitors arriving for a few days  then the weekend hits you and you have all the cleaning up and washing . But with all this happening this week I have finally finished my lap blankets to go with my beautiful and colourful cushions. 

But now I can take a deep breath and relax into the weekend . I 've enjoyed working on this but I am glad this is over. 

I will confess this has taken me well over 5 weeks to complete because of how time consuming each little square took and to top it off I have a sore right shoulder which has caused me alot of pain and discomfort . I am having a ultrasound this coming week to see if anything  inside is wrong , but I have a feeling they won't find anything and will put it down to overuse syndrome. RSI or Neurological which won't surprise me at all. 

Straight lines and all in a box . Granny square cushion

Bright and Beautiful Colors 

It all about colour for me lately and found some fun ways to us bright colours. These have brigthen up my couch . I will be making a blanket to go with these cushions. 

Beautiful and bright cushion

Bright and beautiful colours. This just brighten's up your day. This is my first blog for 2014 and just to start off with a bang of brightness. I ordered a few months ago some wool from England and received a bag of bright colours. Went to visit my good friend and she was doing  some cushion covers to put in her kids play room. She quickly showed me the pattern and off I went ,a few days later ta dar finished pillow cover and wow it has brightened up my grape couch . So next on the a gender is a bright coloured Granny square cushion cover. 

This pattern was so easy I didnt even need to write it down. 

you start it with a magic ring of 8 sc  slip sitch to join. Next round sc twice in each to make 16sc slip sitch to join. Next round sc twice in each to make 32 sc then slip sitch and end . This makes your circle. 

Join with the main color your choice  . ch 2 in same space dc, ch 2,dc, half dc, next space half dc, next space sc in the next 4 space , (half dc in next space, half dc , dc , ch 2 dc, half dc  in next space,) make your corner. follow this all around ending with a half dc then slip sitch 2 time ending in the ch 2 space. 

Next round ch 2 this make your first dc, dc, ch 2 dc, dc, (corner) . dc in each to make nine dc  this should meet you up into the next corner and repeat to end. slip sitch to end and cut off. 

This should make your poke a dot square. 

now this is in my memory banks so if it doesn't work let me know.