Hi team, well as we are so aware the silly season is sneaking up quicker and quicker. I have completed one swap gift and am working on my SSCS gift, almost completed and ready to post. I can’t believe how the time crept up on me, I had prepared everything, knowing exactly what I was making and thought I had heaps of time then all of a sudden its only 5 days till posting. Needless to say I have had a lovely weekend stitching.
Since I can’t show you a photo of what I have been stitching I thought I would show you my gardening angel.
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I made her when I went to my first Symposium and did a class with Jean Wells Keenan from the Stitching Post. It was a brilliant class and what an amazing lady.
Well I went to Borders Bookshop on Friday as they had 30% off their non-fiction books. I said to DH “Come on, I can get Julia Child’s Book so much cheaper.” Anyway we arrived at the store and I found a couple of magazines I wanted to send away to a friend, and off I went on a mission down to the cooking shelves.
There sitting predominately in view was “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” by Julia Childs etc BUT sitting on the shelf above it was a book called “The Thrifty Kitchen”. Mmmm I thought to myself, that looks a very nice book, so as one would expect I picked up both of the books, rounded DH up and said , “Come on, buy your wife a coffee so she can decide between these two books.”. He shook his head thinking here we go again.
So finally the decision was made , I bought “The Thrifty Kitchen” and decided Julia could stay on the Christmas wish list.
The decision was swayed a) because of the price, it was more expensive than Julia, so I felt it was sensible to get it whilst 30% off and b) having looked through every page there was very little that I would actually have to go out and buy in the way of ingredients. This fact was the decider. The recipes are lovely and the only things I bought in the groceries to cover myself were some curry pastes and some other spices.
Last night I made “Slightly Spicy Salmon Cakes” for dinner and they were yummy. DH is having the leftovers tonight. But they were so easy.
Well we had our bimonthly breakfast out this morning with the friends who I went to Intermediate School with- yes I was 11years old when I meet these friends and now 38years later, we still get together but with our spouses. Its fabulous and we are all such good friends.
So today we went to a lovely garden centre which has a cafe attached. Normal meals all round, eggs Benedict and bacon but DH shocked the socks off me and had Chocolate Chip pancakes with raspberry coulis and vanilla ice cream. Yes this was at 9am this morning he was eating ice cream!! Sometimes he can be a naughty, naughty boy. But whilst we were having our coffee’s and waiting for our meals we had a look around us and WOW, this place had some wonderful kitchen bits and bobs. I came home with these…..
….aren’t they gorgeous. My little red “Top Cat” rubbish tin (do you remember that programme, Top Cat and Officer Dibble?) and my little red scrubber which you fill the handle with detergent and push the button on the top to release it when scrubbing those nasty pots etc. I did actually have a plastic bin on the bench for my organic wastes but this one is soooooooo much nicer, the other one is a gone-burger! So as I said to Melanie, this is the beginning of me bringing in red to my kitchen. I’m wanting red and white spots but this is a beginning and will blend easily. (lol) .
Its been a beautiful weekend weather wise here and we had a holiday on Friday for the Canterbury Anniversary Day. DH pottered in the garden when we came home after brekky today and bought in our first lot of radishes and spring onions from the garden. Yummy, every time I have walked by the kitchen another radish has lost its life. I have been out cutting more roses for around the house, I so love it when my roses start to flourish.
So my very dear friends, I hope that you have all had / are having a lovely weekend where ever you are- a shame that tomorrow’s Monday isn’t it?
Hugs in Stitching, Deb xx


