mooshpie

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 adding fruit to molds in readiness for the liquid jelly

stage 3 in the fridge setting

and the end result…

as you can see it didn’t quite work out :-(

i think it was a combination of not enough gelatin, too much fruit, too much liquid and not enough setting time ( needing more than 24 hours as it’s a rather large mold)

Still it did taste rather good and well looks aren’t everything! heheh

I will try it again, maybe even try it with a cake batter in like a bundt cake ….

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

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 treats!

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

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.

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here is a lovely pen and ink drawing i did with some lovely sheds

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

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