mooshpie: Archive

terrarium fun

I have been admiring terrariums for a while now… a terrarium is a miniture garden contained in any sized vessel you wish, from light bulbs, fish tanks to old victorian bottles. here is the first one we made. It contains little elm trees rescued from the gutter, sphagnum moss, soil, stones, a 1950s porcelain deer inherited from dan’s grandparents along with a miniature fir tree. i...

Jan 15th

it's been a while...

i’ve had my hands full somewhat over the past 8 months since the minimooshpie arrived so my drawing days are few and far between. however i get to use my creativity in other places like decorating minimooshpie’s bedroom. i’ve also been doing a few other crafty bits which i shall post about soon! so keep watching. here are a few sneaky peeks of her room. we both love it! ...

Jan 12th

the book i did some illustration proposals for has come out. The New Artisans- http://t.co/fdiWb7ax. Im mentioned in back of recommend blogs

Oct 17th

looking forward to getting a bit of drawing done next week something, dare i say it… christmassy!?! :-)

Oct 6th

hey brighton followers get yourself off to the Printwerks screen printing evening tonight for G & T (towels!) http://t.co/7U9f1dzX

Sep 28th

Sep 13th

my tasty weekend mooshpie blog post featuring damsons in all kinds of treaty ways! http://t.co/sHIck4D Yummy :-)

Sep 13th

Dam good weekend

I love this time of year, the summer sun has ripened all the early autumn fruits like crisp sweet discovery apples with blushing pink flesh and the bitter sweet tang of plums and their tiny cousin the damson. We had a super relaxing weekend buying a bag of little damsons for a £1 at our local “trendy” farmers market.Said damsons were soon bubbling away into a tasty compote, while I...

Sep 12th

stopped watching the scary film now me and the mini mooshpie are baking a cake instead, she has her own tiny spoon to help too!

Aug 26th

nostalgia

i find myself even more now being nostalgic for the places i have been. as mr maskingtape pointed out to me the other day (whilst we and the mini mooshpie were picking blackberries), that nostalgia means home sickness (nóstos, “returning home”, álgos, “pain” or “ache”)… i have been lucky enough to have been to some pretty special locations. Sometimes...

Aug 26th

Aug 9th

the science of jelly

Well it was mr dan’s birthday at the weekend and what better way to celebrate than making a good old fashioned raspberry jelly. I got a nice copper jelly mold at the local car boot a couple of weeks ago and thought this was a good excuse to try it out. So here are some super pictures of my jelly endeavour… stage 1, cutting jelly block into cubes and mixing with hot water stage 2...

Aug 8th

an afternoon of housey makeovers for me today… have a look at my doings here, http://t.co/6zukq4u more projects to come

Aug 2nd

making good

we got this old cutlery tray from dan’s grandparent’s when they moved to south africa. it was in the need of a little tlc, so i spent the afternoon removing the old gummed down paper, then sanded and bees waxed it. we also got some of their old silverware which i also treated to a bit of sprucing up before and after all pretty and waiting to be used for cakes and other tasty...

Aug 1st

something i have been working on and my obsession with sheds http://t.co/6NuODhp

Jul 22nd

Jul 21st

for the love of sheds

we moved to a nice new house recently and in the garden is a lovely shed. This shed became the beginning point of my obsession with sheds and all things shed like. It will become my studio where i can while away the hours making mooshpie goodies. here is the shed before and after its makeover all i need to do now is the inside, paint and prepare my workspace. ****************** here is...

Jul 21st

looking forward to starting my new birdie mobile project this week, got lots of nice fabric from my travels to use.

Apr 25th

living without an oven is hard. all i want to do is bake, what with all these bank holidays & such i can only dream http://flic.kr/p/9ArFBJ

Apr 22nd

Mar 9th

this is what i baked over the weekend http://flic.kr/p/9oPhsN Kurimu-pan a tasty little japanese custard filled bun! :-)

Mar 8th

RT @IsabelleOC: Look what just appeared under a pile of old bills in my kitchen! A mini-me from @mooshpie http://flic.kr/p/9kb1va

Mar 2nd

also happy friday to all my lovely followers old and new, here is a little bit of all the things i do http://flic.kr/p/63kZTi :-)

Feb 26th

Feb 24th

Feb 23rd

working on a new mini self! its fun pictures once they have been finished and given to the big people who they look like! :-)

Feb 17th

Happy Valentines everyone have a lovely day, here is a pic of some of the cakes i made at the weekend http://flic.kr/p/9i5yMB

Feb 14th

Feb 8th

mantou

I made Mantou over the weekend. If you don’t know what they are, well i shall tell you! They are a delicious steamed sweet bread from China. They also have them in Japan too. They can be both sweet- red bean paste, or savoury- various meat or vegetable stuffings, although i think the stuffed ones are called Baozi! So i guess i made Baozi. Here are some pictures… Here is the first...

Feb 8th

feeling tired now luckily i have a stand in who can work on my drawings for me - mini mooshpie http://flic.kr/p/9f8r5J

Feb 4th