Standard uniform..

Hey guys!



I made what I thought would be an outfit from someone going to war. So, I made a little waistcoat type thing:

 I traced the pattern of the coat from the coat the actual guy came with.....

At first I tried to sew it with a machine, but it was just to small! So I reverted to hand stitching instead....!!

This is the little army cap thingy I made......
It can substitute for a war beret, or a hard helmet.
I like how the orange goes with the beigey colour, I think it goes quite well.

The outfit together. I paired it with his corduroy trousers and his beige shirt.
These were the clothes he came in.

                                                         Special effects!!!!!

  More war inspired things will be coming soon....

Lucy :)

New theme + cooking!

Hey guys,

So the Easter theme is now officially over, even though Easter is on Sunday, now our new theme is.....

WW1!

We have this theme because of the ANZACS, who fought at Gallipoli in 1916.  ANZAC stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. Our ANZAC day is coming up on the 25th of April, the day the soldiers landed in Gallipoli.

ANYWAY, enough history for now......

Oh, now we have some yummy cooking from Grandma Tailbury!

This is a real recipe, which comes from a really nice cookbook, and, of personal experience, these taste REALLY good..... Right now I'm craving one. Yummmmm.
These cookies were made in the war, Mrs Tailbury tells me. The wives sent them to the soldiers.
Well, that explains it.

Here we go!


ANZAC BISCUITS:

You will need:

1 cup of flour
1 cup of thread coconut
2/3 cup of tightly packed brown sugar
1 cup jumbo rolled oats
125g unsalted butter
2 TBSP golden syrup
1/2 TSP baking soda
2 TBSP boiling water

1. Preheat ove to 160 degrees Celsius. Line two baking trays with parchment paper.

2. Place flour, coconut, sugar and oats into a mixing bowl and stir to combine. I'm sorry for the random quality failure in this pic.....

3. Melt butter and golden syrup in a saucepan over a medium heat. While this is melting, place baking soda in a bowl, add boiling water, and stir. As it fluffs up, stir into butter mixture.

4. Quickly pour butter mixture over the dry ingredients while still fluffy. Stir to combine.

My apologies for Mrs Tailburys lack of oven gloves.
Please wear the mitts or gloves, because I don't want anyone to burn themselves.

5. Using a TBSP, roll spoonfuls of mixture into balls and place 3CM apart on prepared trays, flattening them slightly. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the biscuits are golden.

Now she has the oven gloves!!!

Its so cute!!!












Now, you can enjoy your cookies with your grandchildren!!!

Yummy!!

I hope you've enjoyed this recipe as much as I had taking these cute photos.











Happy Anzac day,



Lucy :)

Hmmm, Easter?

Hey guys,

Soooo, this weeks or ten days theme was EASTER as its coming up quite quickly, so, I would like to show you some of my things.......


Now, I'm not really sure what happened in-between making this. Lets just call it, hmmmm, I don't know, how about an EPIC FAIL!

 This is what my masterpiece looks like. Its kinda like a onsie/dressing gown/ jumper,
with a hood and demented bunny ears.

 Don't worry people, I know that its hideous. It looks like a bunny on steroids. The jumper itself was made from a soft white fabric, and the hood, well, thats another story. I would try to explain, but I would be typing for a while... Anyway, I sewed that on to the jacket, which actually is massive on my figure, then I hot-glued on some bunny ears, which is just some of the white fabric with some pink felt glued on.


Oh, and be careful, when I was sewing this, I lost track of one of my needles, and I ended up walking upon it. It hurts, and I don't want this to happen to anyone. So please please please, be very careful with those needles!


And heres one more thing that I made.... ( Which I personally think is way better than that, um, thing)

I made an easter basket from clay, which I think is really cute and quite detailed, on the sides and handle. I used two different shades of brown for this, and think it turned out really nicely.
(Apart from the fact that the handle came off once I baked it so I just glued that back on..)

 Here is the basket in close up........

I also filled the inside with cute little eggs.

Oi! Now where do you think your going with those eggs????!!!!!