Yellow dresser

I've been looking for a cross between a dresser and a sideboard for ages and here it is. It came from a kitchen in a little terraced house, and is a very bright yellow. I might paint it a less bright yellow or maybe a blue. It houses all my teacups and bowls.

wibble wobble

I got these lovely jelly moulds for my birthday, and I've been working out the best way to turn the jelly out without it ending up as a puddle on the floor.
1. Use double the consistency recommended on the packet ie. 2 packets of jelly to 1 pint water.
2. Rinse out the mould, shake out the water and pour jelly mixture in, and set in the fridge.
3. When it has set, put jelly upside down into a bowl with half boiling and half cold water. make sure water comes up to the top of the jelly mould so the bottom of the jelly will release.
4. Leave for 1 minute. Place plate over top and shake out. If it won't come out , put in water for another minute. Repeat. Mine took 3 mins to come out, but if you leave it too long it just melts and runs everywhere.
If this does happen, and you are quick, you can pour it back into the mould, re-set in the fridge and try again.

Mmm they look so good

Party

There was a third birthday party in this house last week! I had a lot of fun making cakes. One of the mummies said what camp puddings! And I took that as a compliment!
I made the rabbit jelly in a glass mould and had to slightly melt it in hot water and then turn out onto a plate. It was all very stressful, and on my second attempt managed to turned out a skinned rabbit with no features. Even Etienne didn't recognise it, but I put him in a strawberry patch and I think he is happy.

spring

Spring is here, but only inside my house

shot glasses

I have been having a BIG tidy up. It has taken about 5 days to do, and I'm still not finished, and I'm wondering whether it was really worth spending 5 days of my time doing this. However I have found some treasures when clearing the attic. The best one is the collection of shot glasses. I lovingly took them out of the box to photograph, and now I'm not sure what to do with them, so I've put them back!

christmas

Some ceramic bunting I made for this years tree.

ikea again

I went to ikea to find a shelving system that we could cut up and fit into a wall in our new extension. We can across a great blog http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ different people have sent in ideas of how to hack up ikea products and make them into something else. I bought a 30p bag just in case i ever manage to make a nappy bag/changing mat...( my personal favourite)

We didn't find anything so Ben with have to make it all, and worse, sand/paint it.

I also managed to find my apron material

and find a little bit of space for this!

new studio

I moved into my new studio last month. Here's what it looked like when I was moving all my bits in, I plan to put in fitted cupboards and worktops.