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????!!!!!

New Things!!!

Hi guys,

I am super duper sorry I couldn't post last week, mainly because I went down to the South Island with my family and I was kinda busy, BUT I did have time to make some stuff before we left. Because the last 10 days were freestyle and we could do anything, I made a bedcover and two sweet pies. I know not much, but, BUSY.

The duvet fits the mattress that comes with the 'Children's Bedroom Set'

Heres a pic:

Willow Cottontail getting ready for bed with her new bedding

Here is the bed by itself. The fabric is soft and really nice.

Its so cute with little flowers and leaves!

Its really easy to make duvets. I just traced the duvet from the set onto two pieces of fabric. I then turned them good side to good side, good side being on the inside, and sewed around 3 of the edges. Then, I flipped it right side out and sewed the top edge closed. 

Its the same technique with the pillow, except I just used a random pattern and stuffed it up with pillow fluff.

The pies are made in Heinekin bottle caps, so they aren't
that big, and are 3 cm wide.

Here we have Sorrel Cottontail taking the pie out of the oven.

 The pies that I have are blueberry and strawberry/raspberry. They are made out of clay and a bottle cap. Hopefully, I will post a tutorial soon......

This next weeks theme is Easter. 

Any suggestions???

Also, I'm not sure if you've noticed,  but it was my birthday recently and from my family, I received the Cottontail rabbits!!! I absolutely fell in love with them as soon as I saw them! The family includes father Aaron, mother Sorrel, daughter Willow and son Gromwell!

They are so cute!!!! 

Look at the camera, Gromwell!!!!!

Good Bye!!!!

A cute thanksgiving story

Heres a little story for you guys for our theme that will be ending soon, Winter/Autumn...
Lucy :)

 "Okay, first thing: Dressing" muttered Daisy Buttercup to herself as she tied on her apron to protect her dress.
She was making a homemade Thanksgiving dinner for her family- a big task.









She poured in the stock for the dressing and left it
to sit. ' Okay,' she thought. Now for the carrots.
She got out the knife and the carrots and put
them on the chopping board, and in that instant,
her husband, Hornbull Buttercup strolled into the room.








  "Hey honey" he said.
"Hello dear," Daisy replied, giving him a peck on the cheek, "Right now I am doing something very time consuming and I am quite busy, so if you want to help, well, GET GOING!!!"

" Okay then, I will do the carrots." The husband replied.





When she knew she didn't have to do the
carrots, she started to get to work on the biggest
of all. The Turkey. It took her and hour or so, and once she put it in the oven, which, by the way,
took about 10 minutes to actually get it in because it was so big, she turned around to check how the carrots were going. It took one look for her to repulse. They were crooked, bent, uneven,
basically everything a women couldn't dream for. "Honestly Hornbull" cried Daisy, "I thought you could do this kind of thing but maybe not! If you want to be useful, take the twins for a walk!" She continued, the turned to re-do the carrots.                                                                              

Once she got through all that drama, hustling Hornbull out of the house, she went upstairs to make the kids beds. Obviously, they were in a state of despair. But once she saw the beds, she thought of all the stress she'd been through, and that a little nap wouldn't harm her. I mean, she was only going to sleep for half an hour. It couldn't be that bad.....

She woke up to the sound of Paddock yelling:
"Muuuuuuuuum!!! Whats that burning smell??
Muuuuuum?"

Daisy remembered the dinner; then jumped out of bed and the burning smell hit her nose. "The turkey! The turkey!" She cried.
She checked the oven, and, to her dismay, it was, officially, burnt. "What am I going to do???" she asked herself. " What am I going to do?"

                                                                           


                                                                                    Just then, the door creaked open and Hornbull and the twins arrived.
"Hornbull! " Daisy sobbed into his dungarees, " What should I do? I've gone and burnt the dinner and I'm a complete and utter failure!!" She despaired.
" Don't worry honey, I've got it all sorted out." Her husband reassured.


About half an hour later they heard the doorbell do its usual 'Ding ding'
"I wonder who that could be" Paddock wondered aloud.

But guess who it was? Bertie Honeybear, Owner
of the Pizza shop, swooping in to save the day,
or, in this case, the dinner.
"One margarita pizza to go" He called.
"Oh my gosh" Daisy stuttered, " Hornbull your amazing!!!"

And listen to what Daisy said once they finished the meal:
" To be perfectly honest, I think I like this better than Turkey!!"

Food, P.Js and more pumpkins!

Hey guys,

Here are some more of my creations!

First we have the Thanksgiving food:

So, first, we have the turkey...

Then the salad.

And the yummy pumpkin pie!!!

The potatoes

I made the potatoes and the turkey out of salt dough, which you can use as a substitute to clay, which I used to make the salad and pie. Salt dough is such an easy recipe, you need one tablespoon of salt, two tablespoons of flour, and one tablespoon of water. Mix until it feels like play-doh, then you can form it into whatever you would like. Then, to cook, bake for 45 minutes at about 135 Celsius. Then you can paint it to whatever colour you would like.

Now for the P.Js:

Iona Dale getting ready for bed in her new P.Js

They are made of a soft purple fabric that has cute white butterflies. The pyjama structure is kinda like a onesie, but with straps. Pants with straps.

















Then we have the pumpkin hat, which, as expected, goes with the pumpkin dress, which
I posted about in an earlier post.

 On with the dress

Here it is:

It is cardboard covered with felt, then
I glued a little fuzzy ball on top for the
pumpkin!

Hope you liked it! Lucy

Just a quick one

Hey guys,
Here is a competition which you can enter,  to win a cute little table set for your sylvanians!  Here is the description. And you can visit her blog here.

All in all a lovely and very cute set. Though it is plastic and not porcelain, 

it doesn't feel or look plasticky.

To enter, just:

1) Be a follower of this blog (if not a follower become one).

2) Leave a positive comment on this blog post.

3) Not necessary, but very much appreciated: Please share this giveaway.

This giveaway will end Sunday, 16 March 2014, and the winner will be 

announced on Monday, 17 March 2014. 

Thank you and good luck!

Keep in mind this is on her blog, Sugar bush valley.   Lucy!!!