Not much anyway. At least I decided to sleep a little longer today than originally planned. That means getting up at 8am instead of 6:50. Grocery shopping could wait. Of course, when I got from Aldi to Lidl and reached the cash desk in the latter, I discovered that the mincemeat I snagged from the shelf wasn't the mincemeat for the reduced price, ( Read more... )

I've found this recipe on YouTube last night; Topfenknödel was immediately removed from the menu in exchange of give this a try:

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Isn't it pretty? And, as hard as it is to believe, I've managed to make a traybake just as nice looking (not to mention extremely fluffy and yummy, especially with a teaspoon of apricot jam):


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Not that that would be such a feat, since all I had to add was the flea, everything else was done already, but still:


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Okay, first things first. I only did very minimal craft work today, but that little meant having finished the current phase of two different projects.

The cover of the textile book with the finger puppet animals:


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Not that much, to be perfectly honest. Some minor crafting in the morning, then an extended food run around noon (when most people are either cooking or already eating - a good method, except when it's very warm, which it was today), no cooking because I was flattened from hauling home all that stuff (including 12 bottles of ginger ale that was on ( Read more... )

Somehow I didn't get a lot done today, despite the fact that I got up in time. I worked a bit on the red helicopter page, finishing the helicopter itself (save for a tiny detail) and putting together the background design. Unfortunately, the helicopter looks as if it had a toothache (getting a smile right on felt isn't easy), and some other details ( Read more... )

Today was the day when I tentatively hoped that I might actually do some writing, as I didn't have to leave the house. Well, it didn't happen ( Read more... )

I've worked on the central motif of the birthday cake page today. It proved a lot more fussy than expected, as the felt I chose for the cake body was fairly soft (though also on the slightly thicker side; I chose it for the colour concept), and so it had to be stabilized by several stitched lines to keep the zipper I embedded functional. Then I had ( Read more... )

That I did today. Had to go to the small Savoy Park shopping centre I dropped in to several shops like Kik, Pepco and Tedi, to look for craft supplies. I bought some sparkly pom-poms at Kik, with heart and star felt stickers, and at Pepco I found lovely hard felt sheets - even patterned ones, which is a rarity! I might go back tomorrow and buy some ( Read more... )

We expected the chiropodist lady today, so I got up an hour earlier to make my food run. Spent a lot of money on surprisingly little stuff, but that's the way of things since Covid had pushed food prices into high heavens ( Read more... )