Crafty Mermaid

I bought two healthy heart cook books a few weeks back and this was my first recipe from it - Yum! Pork with rosemary, apples and lentils. Hmmmm.... It doesn't quite look as nice as I thought it would when I served it up - need to work on my plating! :) (And yes, that is rosemary stalks in the middle of the pork - straight from the garden)

Button biscuits and a new tea cup... I really like this cup as it reminds me of tessellations and DNA structures. I think I paid a little too much for it (especially as BM recently broke the handle and its now superglued on) but I love it so its staying!

Its a beautiful sunny day here in Middle Earth and I managed to get bright photographs of my FINISHED picnic blanket - oh did I shout that? Terribly sorry and all that! I really love it and am so happy that I managed to stick with it over the six months it took to finish . I've been missing working on some crochet and can't seem to get into some unfinished cross stitch pieces I have lying around the place. My grandmother suggested at one point using the same colours I started with to finish this up but as I had gotten them in a kit for a scarf and was travelling through a number of continents with this blanket in tow (seriously, I think its seen more airports than the average Kiwi- the person, not the bird or fruit for that matter). But thankfully when I was thinking of how to finish it I found a colour very similar to my first and used that. So happy with it!

What could be better at the end of a rather tiring day...

My first Stitch and Bitch evening included plum pie, moose cake and a coal fired BBQ (they did mean to get charcoal, really). It was followed today by some of this ... ...on the train.

BM has a 'thing' about Whales. I blame it on the kiwi obsession with Whale Rider . So we are now the proud owners of a Whale chalkboard for the fridge and a whale scrubber for the sink ala Nood and the Dog's Breakfast .

I love the patterns and colours here.  Not rightly sure why :)  Wellington has some strange slightly hidden away places...