After about a decade and a half, I finally found a reason to try my hand at making Easter eggs again. I decided to pull out my old Easter Egg moulds and dust them off. Well maybe not dust, but chocolate them off. Making chocolate bunnies and other animals is a slow business, but a The full story here…
Category: Crafts
Elderberry Wine Recipe
This time I have tried to be a bit more scientific about it. Note to self, please upload some pictures. Thank you Countryfile for the recipe. Here is my take on it. It takes a few hours – lots of messing around – don’t try and rush it.
Fruit Bowl From Newspaper
Here’s an idea to use up an old newspaper. Make it into a fruit bowl. It took a while, but was surprisingly easy really. Thanks Ikchha for the YouTube instructions. Link below.
Elderflower Champagne – Year 2
For the first batch, I got in nice and early. The flowers are lovely and young. Actually picked at 6am, but it was a dry day, and they were lovely.
Bath Salts – First Attempt
Pick a nice warm day for pottering in the garden. It will be even better if you can find a friend to sit and chat with.
Making a Trellis
We have a willow tree which suggests we should be making weaving projects. A few previous attempts proved this is not an easy task. You need to start simple. Trellis is about as simple as you can get.