Things I like today

Bunting tutorial frrom Whip Up. If I have time I might make some for my stall next weekend!

Gorgeous art work by Darling Clementine



I'm currently the ginger beer my husband made before we went overseas. How good does this book look?

Congratulations Sayraphim!

pic from here

Thanks for entering the Polka Dot Rabbit winter warmer giveaway!

I'm a bit of a luddite with numbers, so I went to Random.org to use their random number generator. The winner is Number 4,the lovely Sayraphim !

thanks to everyone for entering xxx

Things i like today

Wonderful Helen Beard ceramics via Jars of Cute


Lovely apron tutorial by Living Creatively


Reminds me of my avatar! Another wonderful painting by lolbunnies

Yo-Yo Biscuits

recipe and picture from here

Ingredients

• * 125g unsalted butter
• * 1/2 cup caster sugar
• * 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten
• * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• * 1/4 cup custard powder
• * 3/4 cup plain flour
• * 1/2 cup self-raising flour
• * filling (see Step 3)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Line base of a baking tray with baking paper. In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add yolks and vanilla. Mix.

2. Sift together custard powder and flours and add to butter mixture. Combine well. Shape tablespoons of mixture into balls. Place on tray and lightly flatten with a fork. Bake 12 min, or until lightly browned. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Sandwich together biscuits with a small amount of filling. Dust with icing sugar, to serve.

3. To make filling, place 40g softened butter into a bowl. Add 1/2 cup icing sugar and 1 teaspoon orange zest and mix well, adding extra icing sugar, if needed

My creative space...

As usual I'm working on lots of different projects at once: embroidery, brooches, a new logo....It certainly keeps life interesting! Want to share your creative space? Join us here

I love Sausage Dogs!

So much I decided to dedicate a new Polka Dot Rabbit glove design to them!

Things I like today

I was charmed watching the news today to see that the baby elephant at the Sydney Taronga Zoo has been named Luk Chai. You can read more about his progress and see some adorable videos here

I'm thinking of perhaps embroidering a pair of gloves with elephants and today's "Things i like" is dedicated to Elephants!

Gorgeous retro fabric by NurseSarah81

Eames style elephant stools (they're meant for children but I would like one!).


Adorable softie by One Red Robin




From ffffound

Munich

We had a brief stopover (something like 8 hours) in Munich. After the heat of Shanghai, it was a shock to arrive at 7am to the freezing cold and pouring rain! We found out later that there'd actually been floods nearby. Thankfully we found one of those cheapie clothing retailers that was open ridiculously early and bought raincoats and umbrellas. Here's me in my fetching number....




Fortunately after some searching we found an old school Beer Haus! complete with ladies with big arm muscles holding steins of beer, an accordian band and lots of sausages!

It was alot of fun and i enjoy several glasses of German wine and some fabulous Bretzels. Followed by apple struedel of course!

I also had a great day checking out the scenery. There were so many florists in Germany, and all streets had floral displays, just lovely and so unlike drought ridden Melbourne.

Love the old art work on this department store....

We visited an old toy museum up a huge spiral staircase....

Retro barbies....there were loads of them!

Several cabinets of robots also.I would've loved a robot poster but of course, posters are always a pain to travel with.

How creepy are some of these dolls?!

We enjoyed Munich but were thankful to leave the rain and journey on for Berlin!