work in progress
I am playing around with oil paints and Anne has started a watercolour hare
jeudi le 10 juillet
Patchwork, painted boxes, rag rugging and painting – lots going on today
jeudi le 26 juin
A bit sparse this week but some lovely paintings
I forgot John’s fish
linocut workshop
We all enjoyed a day of linocut printing with tutor Emma Whigham
by popular demand
Yummy Scrummy Carrot Cake (from the BBC Good Food cakes and bakes book)
175g light muscovado sugar
175 ml sunflower oil
3 large eggs
140g grated carrot (about 3 mediums carrots)
100g raisins
grated zest of 1 large orange
175g self-raising flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2tsp ground cinnamon
Frosting: icing sugar & juice from the orange
Preheat oven to 180 degC. Oil and line a square cake tin (18cm loose bottom).
Tip sugar into large bowl, pour in the oil and add the eggs. Lightly mix, then stir in the grated carrot, raisins and orange rind. Mix the flour, soda and spice, then sift into the bowl. Lightly mix.
pour into prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until firm and springy. Cool in tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and peel off the paper.
When cool, beat the icing sugar with the orange juice and drizzle over the cake.
Enjoy !
tassels, pots and some art
On Tuesday morning we made tassels – got a bit tangled but it will all come good in the end. Lilian had made some papier maché bowls and decoupaged around the edge with pressed flowers. Thursday morning we did a bit of ink painting. In the afternoon we painted and did a bit of patchwork. Lots going on.
jeudi le 12 juin
Very hot here today but the barn was lovely and cool and some cool paintings were being done too
jeudi le 5 juin
some lovely water colours were painted this week
mardi crafts/art
There was a melange of different activities this morning, découpage, painting and papier maché
