Where Would You Rather Be?

At your machine quilting circles 1.5" apart, going round and round and round?

Or eating an ice lolly and discovering that the totally crap playground tucked behind the houses around the corner has just been transformed into something rather good?

I think you can guess what I went for.

And who went with me.

Susan

Basting

I can say no more.

Susan

The Missing Whimsy

A little while ago I did bee blocks for Rhonda in the Modern Stitching Bee. I haven't posted them yet. For two reasons. One - we all know I am totally crap at posting stuff. No excuses, just a fact. But much more importantly was point number two, which was I always knew that one of the blocks was not good enough.

It was the block on the right I wasn't happy with. The centre was supposed to reflect us, which Pips and a HR gnome do with me but at the time I just could not think what else to add. For some reason today how to enhance it was no longer a mystery. It needed some whimsy, so whimsy I added. In the form of flowers, grass, birds and bunting. I do hope Rhonda likes it now. (Not that she ever said she didn't like it before. That was me who didn't like it.)

Since I had my hand stitching head on, I finished another hoop for the retreat Sample Swap too. Two down. Feeling good about this.

Susan

Tomorrow...

... I will clean (maybe).

Today, I went and watched the horse trials with the girls.

Tomorrow, I will read a huge backlog of blogs and reply to 3 million and one emails.

Today, I lay on the trampoline with the girls and watched the clouds. (Really, I did.)

Tomorrow, the girls will be back in school. I will sew again. Get back into routine again.

Today, we bbq'd our dinner. Ate summery foods.

Tomorrow will come soon enough. Today was sunny, and relaxed, and fun. I did do some grown up stuff but, really, the important stuff is all listed here.

Susan

Pudding Anyone

Here in the UK dessert is often known as pudding. Which the Canadian in me finds sort of funny because when I was growing up pudding generally meant Jello Instant Chocolate pudding - which I do not think I have ever seen over here. 

Either way, dessert or pudding, I had four extra egg yolks in my fridge and was loath to throw them out as usually ends up happening so I purposefully went looking for a recipe yesterday in which I could use them. I landed upon this one and pinned it, then I made it. 

Easy peasy, no cooking, five minute dessert. Really - you hate cooking? - try making this.

It got the seal of approval here in our house last night. So I am passing the recipe on to you. Here is what it looked like when I had made it.

First up, limes are limes in the UK. You don't get different kinds of limes and you certainly don't get Key Lime limes. I used four lovely juicy bog standard limes to get the half cup of juice required in this recipe. Next up, you don't tend to get Graham Crackers either. I made the pie crust with Gingernut biscuits and melted butter and it worked a treat. Thirdly, I bought a tin of condensed milk and used it. It was not the exact dimensions that were stated in the recipe. It did not seem to spoil anything at all. 

The pie is super creamy and tangy. We cut into it last night even though it had only been chilling for about six hours. The recipe does recommend over night and I would say that the pie looks slightly firmer now, but as it was so good last night I wouldn't say that not chilling it so long is a game breaker. 

Make your crust, press it in the tin. Whisk the other ingredients together and pour them in the crust. Stick it in the fridge. Try and stop anyone else in the house from sticking their finger in the pie before it is time to eat it. (Good luck with that!)

Enjoy!

Susan