jeudi le 29 mai
I’m going through my ‘cow’ period. I was using acrylic like water colour on water colour paper. Andy was back and had been very prolific whilst in the UK, selling quite a few of his pictures, here’s one of his landscapes
mardi crafts
Here are the two bowls that were done using the paper strip method. It makes a much smoother bowl but apparently was much more time consuming. I think they are great. This is what the table looks like on a Tuesday morning
faire du vernis (French polishing)
This morning we had Richard show us how to do French polishing from scratch and also how to get out those cup marks on wooden tables. Nobody brought any of their furniture to use so I went and found some things from the house – and what a great result. Thanks everyone.
jeudi le 22 mai
A very animated afternoon with lots of different things being created. Painting, patchwork, crocheting and rug making
more rugs
Gill brought in her rug that had been started last year and not quite finished but she had been making this new shaggy using a cellular blanket as a backing – another ‘must try’
spinning day
Fran Evans came to visit us today to show us how to spin wool. We learnt how to wash the fleece, card it and spin on a spindle and then ply it into a usable yarn. I must admit that not much yarn was spun at the end of the day as we all found it a bit tricky but I think quite a few of us are enthused enough to carry on and get better at it. Some of us had a go on a spinning wheel. Fran made it look so easy.
works in progress
Eric was painting another one of his lovely abstract (but you can see what it is) pictures – impressionism of course. I just had to do another cow and Anne was trying out some water based pencils. Lots of rag rugging and patchwork was being done also.
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mardi crafts
Two bowls were started this week using the method of layering newspaper instead of using pulp. I decided to paint the lady’s head as the bronze effect didn’t work.
Anzac biscuits
This week I made some biscuits from the BBC Good Food Cakes and Bakes cookbook as follows:
Heat oven to 180 degC
85g porridge oats
85g desiccated coconut
100g plain flour
100g caster sugar
100g butter, melted
1 tsp golden syrup
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
Mix all the dry ingredients together except the bicarbonate of soda. Melt the butter and add the syrup. Mix the bicarb of soda with two tablespoons of boiling water and add to the butter mix.
Pour into the dry ingredients and mix well. Put dessertspoonfuls of the mixture onto baking sheets and bake for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.