Month: December 2015

2015 in review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

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A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,100 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 35 trips to carry that many people.

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DEWEEDED AND PLANTED SOME BULBS

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I got given these yesterday when i went round the corner for a mug of tea

 

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then this morning before the rain came i weeded and planted them

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and the last one of border

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can not r ember the name of them but their are pink in color

have a blessed day

AFTER DELETING SOME OF MY PHOTOS

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 Cake is my normal sponge 8 oz of every thing

butter

sugar

flour ether plain or self raising  flour

8 eggs

few drops of villa extract  place in bowl

apart from eggs microwave for 30 seconds to soften butter and helps the sugar combine better and flour then add the eggs into the mixture once out of microwave

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this is just a plain flapjack recipe you will need  and this makes 12 small one using cake pan below or you could make a big one if if you like

125g/5oz of butter

125g/5oz dermerara sugar

5 tables spoons of golden syrup

225g/9oz of oats

method on stove first  over low heat in a saucepan please and put your oven to heat up at medium heat  them once all wet mixture is combined  place into your oats which are in a bowl or jug waiting for the wet mixture  spoon or spread into you tray or patty pan bake for 15 -20 minutes

as tempting as it is please leave to cool completely or else they will crumble on you

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Stared my next art project

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I have a medium size canvass and I have painted it with gesso and have put 2 photos on upside down now I have to leave to dry have not taken photo as yet but will soon so you can see the before and after of what happens when I gently rub the paper of the canvas .

still having some problems uploading  never mind

so I will update this post when I do the next part of the project have a blessed evening

UPDATE ON OIL PAINTAING

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Still trying to upload the finished painting

I will re do the white once the first coat has finished drying  and possibly the green  but enjoyed doing it but might use acrylics or watercolour  ganache then I can do it at the art class on a Monday you just can not takes oils as you use linseed and white sprite

have a blessed day