tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493655500905935352024-02-20T03:21:40.912+10:30Adventures of a Crafty TravellerAdventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-80516547309271668102015-01-06T22:21:00.001+10:302015-01-06T22:24:54.515+10:30Chocolate Espresso Mud Cake! Mmmm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, it has been a while. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heading back to blog land as I have a recipe I would like to share with you. I made it for my brother in law's surprise birthday party and had a few requests for the recipe, so I thought you might be interested as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will share the normal recipe which I have made many times and it has never failed me. I found it in an issue of Good Taste, I can't remember what year - maybe 2008 or 2009? I am playing with a version for the Thermomix which I will post later.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Elephant",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Chocolate espresso mud cake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">530g Caster
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">250g Dark
Chocolate, chopped or broken up<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">250g
unsalted butter, chopped<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">185 ml
freshly brewed strong espresso coffee<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">225g
self-raising flour<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">80g cocoa
powder<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">100g almond
meal (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">also nice with hazel meal</i>)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">125g sour
cream (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can use Greek yoghurt</i>)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 eggs <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2tsp vanilla
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melts and the mixture is smooth, transfer to a large bowl and cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gradually stir sour cream mixture & flour mixture into
the cooled chocolate mixture until just combined.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Crumbs should cling to cake skewer inserted in the centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cool in pan for 10 minutes then turn out to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that is it, I hope you enjoy the recipe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are lots of ways you can
serve this as a dessert cake or as a special event cake. Simply dust with Cocoa
Powder and serve with whipped cream or split cake and fill with ganache. Experiment
with filling flavours, add more espresso for a mocha flavour, kaluah or baileys would
add an adult aspect to the filling, or add hazelnut liquor to ganache when
using hazel meal in the cake or Nutella.</span><br />
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</span>Ice with a chocolate glaze, chocolate butter cream or if you are feeling
daring a fondant icing for very special occasions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decorate with chocolate
coated coffee beans or whatever takes your fancy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me-I love cooking and enjoy every other type of craft and art, but cake decorating makes me panic, so I go for simple. </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cake in the photo was iced outside at the hotel quickly in the high humidity you get after a big rain, just before the party as we had to travel 329.2 kms with the cake so I didn't want to ice it before we left and have the icing splat all over the car fridge and well you get the idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Play with it and share your ideas and photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have a great day</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rachael :-)</span><br />
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Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-45106720373194859322014-04-10T17:17:00.000+09:302014-04-10T20:25:14.247+09:30Butterflys and BirthdaysHi there,<br />
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It has been a little while, I hope everyone had a great March. We didn't get all the assignments finished, but we made a good dent in them. I have had a bit of a creative weekend, I also made a card today for a friends 40th and a card for an adult baptism we are having at Church on Sunday. I thought I might share these with you.<br />
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took pearlised blue A4 card stock and folded it in half (using a scorer
for a neat fold), I then raided my scraps and off cuts and found some
lime card and beige patterned card. I cut them to size and edged each
piece with Lapislazuli pigment ink from VersaColor. Next I used the
flower tag image and the birthday sentiment from the Apothecary Art set
by <a href="http://www3.stampinup.com/au/ena/4573_4695.asp" target="_blank">Stampin'up</a>
. I coloured it with my watercolour pencils and cut it out. Edged
with the same ink I used to stamp it (Lapislazuli), I then mounted it on
the leftover lime card and cut that out as well. I added a Tim Holtz
flourish in silver and a Tim Holtz sentiment, ribbon, flower and
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Inside I used more lime paper and a lighter mottled beige paper. I used
another Tim Holtz sentiment with the Lapizlazuli ink and a Tim Holtz
butterfly stamp with the silver ink that I stamped onto a darker blue scrap of card front and back. I have a Martha Stewart butterfly
border punch (I got this for my wedding invites) I used to cut out the top of the lime paper, and another Martha
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I found the picture on pintrest, I had never made an easel card before and had a bit of time. I clicked on the pin and followed the instuctions. They were easy to follow and also included a free template. I don't have a printer at the moment, so I drew the butterflies by hand. I think it turned out as nice as theirs.</div>
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I added bible verses around the edges, a Tim Holtz flourish stamp in silver ink on the big butterfly and pearls. The papers were from my stash (given to me by my Mum in law!). I love this card so much, I am now going to have to make one for myself :-)<br />
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Bible verses:<br />
<i>Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation; what is old has passed away, a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17</i><br />
<i>"See I am making all things new!" Revelation 21:5</i><br />
<i>We do not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly we are being renewed day by day! For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. 2 Corinthians 4: 16 - 18 </i><br />
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I hope you have a great week<br />
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Thanks for stopping by.Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-63132001286868570552014-03-04T18:30:00.000+10:302014-03-04T18:30:04.772+10:30Please excuse me Hi to you all out in blog land,<br />
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I am just letting you know I am taking a break this month as I have a heap of things to sort out. Biggest one at the moment is study... My hubby and I took on a certificate in Youth Work last year and this year have started a Certificate in Ministry as well as a traineeship. With children, work, pets and a house to look after as well something had to give. I look forward to being back with you, hopefully in April. I will let you know how we went with the Youth Work certificate! <br />
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Rachael :-) Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-15126266632238843652014-02-24T10:30:00.000+10:302014-02-24T23:22:26.844+10:30Colour Me HappyHi to you all out there in Blog land!<br />
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I hope you have all had a great week. Mine has been pretty great. You know when you start saying yes to things an all of a sudden you have no time to do anything, and you start getting panicky and find it hard to breath... Well that was the start of my week, but thanks to God and amazing friends, it all came together and I am at least organised with the Church music for all of March!<br />
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My husband and I are Youth Group leaders and we did the Winter Olympics (in a Roxby summer too!) It was such a blast and the youth joined in the crazyness of Winter Olympic charades and snowball competitions (marshmallows), Snowball competitions escalated into a full on snowball fight at the end... MAN marshmallows can hurt! They did settle down in the middle of the night for discussion. I loved every bit of it!<br />
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I did even get a project done (on Sunday night)! And not a card this week! I love my water colour pencils but the box was a bit daggy, so I jazzed it up a bit.<br />
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I was quite excited once I had made my mind up not to do a card! I can use this and my craft supplies will start to look a bit groovy.<br />
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I took some purple cardstock out of the DCWV Jewel Colored Cardstock Stack, cut it down to fit the pencil box, measured and scored the fold lines (with a freebee scoring board and tool from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine) and then stuck it to the box with tape. I cut out the DP from DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies stack using a template from another magazine (had them for a while now, I can't remember which one), inked around that using Tim Holtz distress ink in Pickled Raspberry and stuck it on the box. After colouring in <a href="http://kennykdownloads.contentshelf.com/product?product=I1301140000006D6" target="_blank">Color Me Janette </a>using the water colour pencils from the box, I cut her out by hand, then stuck her to more purple card and cut that out too. The blossoms were from my stash and I made the sentiment in word, cut it out and inked around it with the same ink. I think that is it!<br />
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I have had a lovely (and bussy) weekend and Friday as is has been WET in Roxby! After three or four weeks over 40c we had a beautiful overcast day on Saturday, the rain stopped for the market and then every now and then gave us a little light mist after every one packed up and went home.<br />
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Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-82446133099205533222014-02-10T10:38:00.000+10:302014-02-10T11:50:01.085+10:30Hi there,<br />
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Time for yet again another design team post. Is it just me or do the weeks seem to be speeding up?!<br />
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I think the time I spent with Mum last week helped get my creativity flowing again and I am pleased with how my card turned out this week.<br />
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The image is from our sponsor of the week <a href="http://www.scrappersdelights.com/store/" target="_blank">Scrapper's Delights</a> and is called <a href="http://scrappersdelights.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=89_108&products_id=637" target="_blank">Winter Elf</a>.<br />
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I hope you have had a great week. Mine has been busy and we ended it with a trip down to Adelaide. While here I got to spend some time with my Mum (in Law) Shirley and had some help and encouragement with my next card for the design team. I even got to play with her Copics!!!<br />
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She is exquisite. I came up with so many ideas and one I really wanted
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This lovely tag is by Wendy at <a href="http://www.wendyscardcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/tim-holtz-again.html" target="_blank">Wendy's Card Craft</a>. I love the colours and the Tim Holtz stamps. Check out her blog!</div>
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Today's card was inspired by a trip we took to visit my sister in law Michelle (before she was my sister in law!). While we were in Cairns, we took a trip out to Green Island and went snorkeling. I took a million photos (well almost!) and we had a magical Day. Our oldest, Taylor, was the first to spot a sea turtle! I think the Beach boy image looks a lot like him, so this is my ode to our family adventure a few years ago.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have recycled Christmas cards on this card, printing the digi image on the blank side of one and cutting out the silver star from another! The black card is just standard card stock I picked up from the newsagent and double sided tape and glitter for the stripes. Scrapbooking paper from my stash for the yellow star. The image is coloured with water colour pencils and I "Smooched" his glasses with silver firefox.</span><br />
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Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-75674747396344539472014-01-13T10:30:00.000+10:302014-01-13T11:11:21.510+10:30What a week!<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow, what a week! I have been trying to keep on top of my hope for the year... to "get my stuff sorted". I finally got the dining table back to being a dining table (might not stay that way for long, but for the sake of marital bliss I need to find a way of packing up easily and quickly); AND I even got the bedroom sorted!!! Thanks to pintrest I even sorted the dresser draws and found a bit more room in them (Shopping anyone?). I am even managing to keep the lounge and kitchen tidy whilst working a bit more. On top of all that I even made home made dog food, gourmet happy dogs now. Yay, for the Thermomix! I really don't know how I am finding the time to do all this, but I am and I am enjoying it too. Which gets me to the icing on the cake...</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Again I used water colour pencils to colour her in. The scrap booking paper and card is from my stash and the little butterfly is a Stampin' Up punch that I painted with more water colour. </span></i><br />
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This card I made at a workshop in Andamooka, we were given a layout
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Here are photos of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamooka,_South_Australia">Andamooka</a>, again only taken on my phone. The blog is called a Adventures of a Crafty Traveler after all! I should include more of my Traveling. Andamooka is a half hour drive from my home, but completely different from anywhere. </div>
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All the piles of dirt are from the opal mines, some you can noodle through and hopefully find your own piece of Andamooka to take with you! </div>
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The above three cards are the Tim Holtz inspired cards using his stamps and distress inks. I actually love the clashing colours and messiness! </div>
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This card I made for a friend who is army soldier mad! And yes, he is all grown up. I took a few of our boys army soldiers and sketched them. I then cut them out and mounted them on army soldier green card. I had a light brown embossed card in my stash and got out the chalks and tried to make it look like army camouflage. Inside I had made a dog tag out of silver card and added his details. </div>
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I often try to think about making cards for guys, then get distracted and make something girly. Going through these photos, I realize I had heaps of fun making the guy ones too.</div>
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Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-61457493854288071942014-01-07T00:09:00.000+10:302014-01-07T00:09:42.272+10:30I hope this is a sign of things to comeHi there,<br />
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Today I finished an assignment! Another first for the year. It looks like my plan of getting things sorted this year might actually work. Although if you were to see my dining table at the moment, you may have your doubts. It is covered in stamping and card making bits and a heap of school work for me and my wonderful husband. <br />
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I just wanted to share a card I made for a friend's farewell. Living in a mining town, there are a lot of farewells that occur this time of year. This particular friend is one of the older members of our town (with an average age of 35, it's not that hard!) and has been here for 25 years so is also a longer serving member of our town and community. She has been there for me and many others through our tears and shared in our joy and celebrations. She is a loving, fun, inspiring woman and has lead the Women's Bible study group, probably for as long as she has been here, encouraging many others in their ministry. I will miss her hugs and her smiles and advice... but there will be visits!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Post Card, Swallowtail butterfly and sentiment are all from the Stampin' Up range of stamps, as is the purple card stock and the lilac ink, the scrap-booking papers were from my stash, also used an archival black pigment ink and glossy accents. </span><br />
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Well, its just hit midnight here so it is way past my bed time.<br />
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Night all :-)<br />
<br />Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-51510759013207091712014-01-06T01:18:00.000+10:302014-01-06T01:18:05.598+10:30First Official Design Team Post!<br />
As a member of the Design team for Make It Monday I have had the joy of making a new card, playing with a digi image and looking through the entries for the very first linky party of the year. <br />
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The image from our sponsor that I got to play with was <a href="http://www.etsy.com/au/listing/168625898/new-year-resolutions-digital-stamp?ref=shop_home_active">New Year Resolutions</a>.<br />
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I think she is very cute! Coloured with water colour pencils and used card stock from my stash as well as fine glitter and glue. <br />
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The sponsor this week is <a href="http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/TimeforTeaDesigns?ref=l2-shopheader-name">Time for Tea Designs</a><br />
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Designs is the home of my digital creative world! My name is Jo Davies
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UK :) T4T is a part time venture that I do around my full time
'proper' job. My dream is to one day make this my only job as it brings
me so much happiness seeing other peoples creations with my designs. I
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/TimeforTeaDesigns?ref=l2-shopheader-name">Time for Tea Designs</a> are giving away a prize of 3 images of the winners choice. Thanks guys!<br />
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Now, I am also supposed to comment on a card from the <a href="http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com.au/">Make It Monday</a> linky party. Well it was very hard to pick a favorite but I did narrow it down<br />
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<a href="http://busybusyhoneybee.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/this-is-the-day/#comment-24174"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,serif;">Karen C - Home of the Busy Honey Bee</span></span></a><br />
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I love the use of colour, sparkle and images, as well as a great verse to start the year off with!<br />
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So that is it from me.<br />
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Night night and hope you have a great and crafty year ahead!<br />
<br />Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-40143138655135923002014-01-05T16:35:00.000+10:302014-01-05T16:35:29.415+10:30A new year, a new challangeHi there and happy new year!<br />
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Long time, no posts. Nothing new about that! (Sorry) This year though, I have accepted a new challenge that came in the form of an opportunity to be involved in the Make it Monday design team on my sister's blog "Pink Paper Paradise" <br />
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I now have to get organised, get my time sorted and start posting once a week.... Can I do it? I hope so. My first card is using the Digi stamp "New years resolutions" from "Time for Tea Designs". I have never used a digi stamp before and found it to be easy and a big plus is that you can make it any size you want. I thought the New years resolutions image would be a perfect start for this new adventure. So here is my card, hope you like it.<br />
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A fairly simple start, the image is coloured using water colour pencils and the dress has been cut out and laid over a piece of scrap-booking paper, then embellished with glue and glitter to try and look like fire works. <br />
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Till next time :)<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/au/listing/168625898/new-year-resolutions-digital-stamp?ref=shop_home_active">New Years Resolutions</a><br />
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<a href="http://michelle-pinkpaperparadise.blogspot.com/">Pink Paper Paradise</a><br />
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<br />Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-57663828998976775792013-10-22T22:32:00.000+10:302013-10-22T22:36:23.859+10:30Oh dear, it has been a very long time between posts. August 2011 was the last one. I can't believe it was that long ago. <br />
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Since then I have gotten engaged, married, bought a shack, baked, crafted, worked more, worked less and now work more again. Hiked a little of the Flinders Rangers (South Australia), taken the new family twice to Tasmania to visit their new extended family, been a bridesmaid for my beautiful friend Gail and had the most amazing time on Brunie Island for her hens weekend, lost my loving and very faithful companion Borrie Dog to old age, mourned his loss, started a youth work course, started work on the shack, started knitting a jumper for my hubby (have only knitted a scarf and a beanie with much supervision and help), baked more and more, had friends move away and now have a cat and an addiction to Pintrest. <br />
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Yes, there was a lot of DIY in the wedding planning. I will post some of it later. We had an amazing honeymoon on Fraser Island QLD in a resort and then in Tassy in a camper van! The best of both worlds.<br />
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The shack is a HUGE DIY project and the walk on the beach at the end of the day makes it all worth while.<br />
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Enjoying a walk in the beach with Borrie after some hard work</div>
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Bunting for Easter and a friend's baby shower</div>
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Origami dresses</div>
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Paper feather quills on the Jumper I am knitting for my hubby.</div>
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I love the dead trees with their silver to black twisted branches that contrast with the clear blue sky perfectly. <br />
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I can not wait to go camping and be surrounded completely by our wonderful native bush land, but today I am happy to walk and breath in my warm desert air.<br />
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Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-69658518936895886552011-08-24T22:49:00.000+09:302011-08-24T22:49:15.084+09:30More, and so soon!Tonight I had the joy of crafting with a friend! It is amazing how motivated you can be with a like minded friend. I have been playing with more cut outs sent up by Shirley - thank you very much, as you can see I love the butterflies...what girl wouldn't :-)<br />
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Well after a long time of no crafting, I have now broken the drought with my first project out of my new craft room. It is so cute and I am so happy with the result. </div>
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My little ice cream cone pin cushion, topped with blueberry ice cream and sprinkles.</div>
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The recipe comes from Quilts and more magazine, Summer 2011 issue. I had to make it, it contains some of my favourite things, Ice cream, purple and sewing. </div>
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Yay! after all that time my sewing machine still works! and I even remember how to use it.</div>
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This is the card that I made at Girls Just Want To Have Fun at Andamooka last night. Learnt a few new techniques, playing with distress inks, layering (and eating chocolate biscuites). I love the stamps I used - I don't know the brands, but will find out. It is funny how things that look so complicated are not out of reach to the average crafter when it is broken down step by step.</div>
Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-75384651939065218472011-06-18T12:08:00.000+09:302011-06-18T12:08:54.537+09:30A week of colds and cookingOver the last week, well few weeks, my family has been trying to fight off colds and flues. I thought I was doing pretty well in avoiding it whilst nursing everyone back to health (or trying to), but this week it hit me as well. Now I have learnt that Mum's don't get to rest that much when they are sick, especially when the other members of the family are sick also, so to make my self feel a bit better I purchased a Donna Hay magazine (issue 57), just to read through on the couch. That done I and needing nourishment and something to take my mind off feeling lousy I bought some ingredients and set about recreating some of her recipes. Looking at the picture of the beef, Guinness and mushroom pie (p139) made my mouth water and brought back memories of sitting in an Irish pub in Tassy in the winter next to the wood fire with great friends, that is what I started with. It took longer to make than I was expecting - part of that is due to not feeling crash hot. I got the filling made and ended up having some of it on toast for tea mixed with Beerenberg Worcestershire Chutney. Unfortunately due to being sick I couldn't taste anything! The next night I still didn't get around to making the pastry, but had ready made puff pastry in the freezer. I assembled the pie using that and was very happy with the result. I could even taste it :-) <br />
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Also sick of buying food magazines and thinking that would be nice and never making it, I decided to try a few more recipes out. The roasted tomato and thyme soup (p50) was just the thing to make us all better, or at least give us a shove in the right direction and now I have lemon shortbread (p89) in the oven and am going to make the beetroot and horseradish soup (p50) for tea.<br />
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The short bread is smelling wonderful. Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-13480684591274795302011-06-05T19:23:00.000+09:302014-01-11T20:25:34.347+10:30feeling crafty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, after a long period of no posts, I have finaly had motivation to resume again. I am trying to start up a little craft group in Roxby to give me and other like minded the oomph to get back into our crafting passions. After finally deciding on a night that seemed to suit most that I have asked I have been flicking through magazines and playing with a scrap pack that my partner's mum made up for me. So far I have come up with 4 cards. They are fairly simple but I feel excited again and now am over flowing with ideas for lots of other projects. Hope you like them.<br />
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YUM!!!!! Crusty on the outside and soft in the middle. The kitchenaid did all the hard kneading, I did the second kneading after the prove, so I still feel like I made it :-) Sonny was very impressed when he came home to the smell of warm bread.Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-60257222131979395182011-02-12T18:45:00.000+10:302011-02-12T18:50:16.891+10:30Very slack, but now I'm back<span style="background-color: white;">Hi to all out there in Blog land and sorry to my family who have been encouraging me to update my blog. I have been very slack in this regard, but we will see how I go now. Today has been a wonderful day!! A lovely morning with a good friend and a nose through the Andamooka op shop. A great drive out there seeing all the hard red gibber plains looking fluffy and green; the usual undulations and holes appear flattened and filled with shimmering water; birds soaring and swooping with the air currents, looking like they were have the time of their life. When we got to the Andamooka boutique there were very exciting finds out there, designer dress with price tag still attached & my size, many great buys for the boys and others for me, my friend picked up some excellent clothes too, most of them new or near enough to it. We travelled back to Roxby with the back seat loaded up with our amazing cache of wonder and went to have brunch down the street. Coming back home we did a show and tell over coffee and then went our separate ways, my friend to the V8 super cars with her hubby (on the TV - not in Roxby) and me to my kitchen. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"> This afternoon I have been playing with my new toy... A kitchenaid mixer!!!! and it's purple! Well boysenberry, but as close as kitchen aid gets to purple. I have made bread and now have coffee & walnut biscotti in the oven. The house smells wonderful and I am finding it hard to wait for Sonny to come home before trying the bread. Mmmm, hot crusty bread, strait from the oven.... resistance is fading.....</span>Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-427858249590593642010-10-05T20:33:00.000+10:302014-01-11T20:24:08.537+10:30A holiday almost completeHere we are at the end of our first holiday as a new family. We have had some amazing adventures, seen whales at play whilst standing in the pouring rain - almost killing my camera, held a massive python at Australia Zoo, the boys loved seeing Bindi perform and the jumping castle. We have looped the loop a number of times on the lethal weapon ride and trekked large distances both in the wilderness and in the cities. We have camped, cabined and hotelled; and I was a little disappointed when I had the best tropical fruit, not in the tropics but in Adelaide - not tropical fruit season yet. <br />
We have had highs and lows, and have come out with a great relationship. Tay has learnt almost all his times tables and has found he has a love of photography. Seb walked every step of our 14 km walk and Sonny has put in some massive days of solid driving. We have met family and formed great friendships. <br />
Home in two days. Will then have time to remember what we have accomplished.Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349365550090593535.post-7155804395911263272010-09-13T22:22:00.000+09:302014-01-11T20:23:48.297+10:30A day in Green Island - Paradise<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Up early this morning to head into Cairns, worried about the heavy clouds that seemed to hover low, with cries from the back seat of 'where are we going', 'I think you have gone in the wrong direction', 'we will miss the boat' and 'I think we have gone too far'. No matter how much reassurance that we left early enough to have time to check in and look around, that we have a GPS to tell us where to go, and we were in the car park and we still had an hour and a half before we could get on the boat. Once we picked up the ticket the boys wanted to sit on the jetty and wait for the boat, even though it was still an hour away. I think we will be getting the boys a watch so they can get to grips with time. <br />
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On the boat they were very excited, one running all over the boat, loving the splash of the spray from the stern, the younger hugging close to Dad, happy about the free biscuits. As we got to the Island the clouds stayed behind, revealing the blue green water one would expect from the Barrier Reef. <br />
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Glass bottom boat once we departed from the Catamaran ....... We saw a sea turtle!!!!!!!! I think I was as excited as the boys. We also saw lots of other bright coloured fish and many different types of coral. The guide was thrilled with the rapid fire questions from our littlest.<br />
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Once on shore it was strait to the dive shop for snorkels, the boys could not wait to get in the water. With the young ones we snorkeled between the flags, so not over the reef, but we did see bright fish and some that were very curious of us, would dart away when we tried to get close to them but would come strait back to us when we moved away from them. This was my first time snorkeling and once I got used to breathing through my snorkel, I stopped swallowing as much sea water and spent longer with my head under water. <br />
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Tummies growling, we headed back for lunch and then a walk around the island. Too soon it was time to leave, taking many happy memories with us.Adventures of a Crafty Travellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085972392469445780noreply@blogger.com1