Sarah's Birthday

Last night our friends, Sarah and Dave, came round for a meal and Birthday treats.

For her Birthday I made her a set of jewellery.



Made her cupcakes instead of a cake, because I suck at cakes.


I bought her a cute cupcake box so she could take her Birthday cakes home with her




I also bought some individual cupcake bags (pink ones) to put some more in for her babysitters (also know as Mum and Dad to Sarah)

After dinner I gave Sarah her present.




T'was a good night :)

Gina's Birthday jewellery set

From April 2009

I made Gina a set of jewellery to give as a gift from Rheya

Easter cupcakes

From April 2009

Some Easter buns I made with my daughter Rheya.

Morrie's crops

From April 2009

I made these for a friend's little boy (Morrie), they're made from BLL yarn



They weren't 100% finished when I took the picture. I couldn't find my sewing needle.

and, with Evelyn's permission, I stole a couple of pics of Morrie modelling them :)

Card making fun

From April 2009

Today, Rheya and I had a crafty day.

I made some cards for a couple of friends' kids and Rheya did some painting, followed by cutting shapes out of playdough.

This card is for Zoe (my friend Helen's little girl) who will be 1 on 13th April.


and this card is for Erin (Hazel's little girl) who will be 2 soon (Rheya's going to her Birthday party on Saturday)

More jewellery

From March 2009

I made these for my friend Evelyn.

Embarking on Jewellery making

From March 2009

I'm so pleased with my first attempt at jewellery making, and they were so quick to make. I can see lots of people getting jewellery for Christmas :oP



and happy ole me, wearing them


and the bracelet


and the earrings


after working so so hard on the jewellery :oP I made myself some lunch

I threw a few of my favourite, but healthy things into a wok (ok it's a frying pan) and tossed them about with some spices (recipe to follow)


2 packets of smart price noodles (1 if you're not greedy like me)
some mushrooms (as many as you like, chopped)
Grated Carrot (again, just add as much as you like)
Fry Light (instead of oil)
Soy Sauce (to taste)
Hot Chilli Powder
and I added some S & B on top (see pictures) if you can't get hold of it, then dried chilli flakes will do.

Add the mushroom and grated carrot to the frying pan (using the fry light as oil) fry until half cooked, add some soy sauce and hot chilli powder (and dried chilli flakes if your taste buds are dead like mine) fry until soft....whilst doing all that have the noodles boiling with just one of the flavour sachets (2 syns). When the noodles are cooked, drain them (which will actually lower the amount of syns you're eating but I don't know by how much so keep it at 2 syns) and add to the mushroom etc. Add more soy sauce (again to taste) and hot chilli powder if you want, then serve. I sprinkled some S & B on top for an extra kick.