A bit more crafty today
Jan. 29th, 2023 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheart... even though I had to do my chores first. Namely: taking down the dried laundry, helping Mum to wash her hair, dismantling the Christmas tree, putting away the ornaments, making that beetroot salad I didn't get around to make yesterday and other such things.
But I did finish the front cover of the "Hello Kitty" booklet, and in a sudden bout of madness I started to cut out the bases of four other booklets. I've got five recipients, between the age of two and eight, either sisters or cousins of each other - it won't do for one of them to get a treat while the other one doesn't, right?
I decided to go into mass production mode - meaning that I won't complete one booklet and then go on to the other one. Instead, I'll do one phase at a time... or rather five times. That proved to be easier by other projects that required the same things to be done repeatedly.
Mum's 91st birthday party is looming on the horizon. Last night (literally, around midnight) I've made the fruit mix for Mary Berry's mincemeat streusel, using up a small jar of 20-year-old Rumtopf we were given by Austrian friends, back in the Stone Age when we were still able to leave the country. It is about two pounds of colourful mix of raisins, sultanas, dried currants, dried cranberries, dried apricots and mixed citrus peel. I think this will be a traybake with a powerful kick. *g*
But I did finish the front cover of the "Hello Kitty" booklet, and in a sudden bout of madness I started to cut out the bases of four other booklets. I've got five recipients, between the age of two and eight, either sisters or cousins of each other - it won't do for one of them to get a treat while the other one doesn't, right?
I decided to go into mass production mode - meaning that I won't complete one booklet and then go on to the other one. Instead, I'll do one phase at a time... or rather five times. That proved to be easier by other projects that required the same things to be done repeatedly.
Mum's 91st birthday party is looming on the horizon. Last night (literally, around midnight) I've made the fruit mix for Mary Berry's mincemeat streusel, using up a small jar of 20-year-old Rumtopf we were given by Austrian friends, back in the Stone Age when we were still able to leave the country. It is about two pounds of colourful mix of raisins, sultanas, dried currants, dried cranberries, dried apricots and mixed citrus peel. I think this will be a traybake with a powerful kick. *g*
