Cherysh Does: You have to Laugh...

Or you'll go mad?

I picked the wrong time of day to take these photos. The light was fading and I was interrupted (I kid you not) at least three times by kids hurting themselves. Things that aren't life threatening, but cannot be ignored - toddlers and preschoolers with grazes, bumps, bruises, pulling things off tables and onto heads etc; the things you need to wipe, clean and cuddle but can then dash back to what you really wanted to do.... Older siblings arguing and complaining about what was for dinner (like I cared)... Really! Don't these kids know I (try to) have a life too and it's not just about them? Hmm. Poor little sods! What a mother!

The point of this exercise is to show you (and for me to reflect and think about where to go next) a work in progress. This album is the one I made on our fabulous Cook Arty Weekend at NZ Scrapbook (with the amazingly talented friend Kathleen in June. Yes, it was a few months ago, and no, I am not finished yet. In all honesty, it will probably not be finished EVER, because I quite like looking at the 'bones' of it, and learning fro what can be produced in a hurry.

Please note: all of this work was done over a Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, and I haven't included pictures of everything I made. Mainly because of said interruptions and the resulting poorly focused shots, but also in no small amount due to my impatience to put these up!

Anyhoo- Such fun! (Miranda fans, anyone?)

I haven't completed the cover yet - you should not be surprised to hear that by now, so I'll just plunge straight into the pages. I've dealt with that and am ready to move on, join me when you're ready :)

How could we go retro kitchen without an Edmonds??

Detail with rub ons and Rock Candy

Detail with stamps and stencils

Got this box from Mum's pantry..... circa 1984???

Not happy with this page, too rushed. Meh, it is what it is!

Stamping, gesso, encaustic, modelling pastes.....

From and old Boy Scout recipe book - waaaaaaay back! Those caramel fingers were always in our bikkie tins. Don't remember them ever lasting very long though... God bless Mum!

Jubilee month... I loved the colours and thinking about cooking and baking always reminds me of Grandma, who was a royalist. Until Charles did the dirty. She was never the same after that.... So these few pages are a tribute to Grandma.

Found the 1977 Jubilee card in a library book - score!

God bless the ANZACs and all those who fought and continue to fight for our freedom!

Sorry about the bad focus :( But I liked this page. It is a recipe of one of my favourite Grandma recipes, Harmony Tarts..... mmmmmm.....

Peanut Brownies.... oddly, not in fact brownies at all, but biscuits/cookies.... 'Brownies' as we know them were unknown in New Zealand in the 1970s, when this Edmonds was published. That being said, Mum filled the tins and freezers every baking day, and these were always made - usually in quadruple amounts! Dad's favourite, they were always made fresh when he came home from sea :)

Where is my cooking fairy?

This was a transfer; I think we used modge podge?? I don't usually have much luck with transfers, but I liked this one.

Applied over died masking tape strips.

I love the woman who shared this recipe. And I love this recipe. Darn it! It is one that is simply impossible to only eat one piece of, so I have made it once and don't trust myself to do it again!