Rhubarb custard cake

This is a recipe from the BBC Good Food website, link here.

It is very delicious, moist and tasty. I've just eaten a slice cold but it would be lovely served hot with custard as a dessert.

You might think my blog's been quiet lately, that's because I've started a new crafty blog over at http://shazronnie.wordpress.com/ if you'd like to take a look xxx

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - lilac loveliness

Here's a little card I'd like to enter into Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

I chose a load of bits of lilac paper from my scrap box and dusted off my heat embossing gear to make the stamped image in the middle.

Here is the sketch I was following...

... and I think I did a better job this week :)

Happy Bodging :)

Do you like my crochet stripe pillowcase?

I'm rather taken with it.

It's much better than a crochet stripe blanket, which was started in Septemeber 2010 and would probably never get finished.

So, I crocheted the sides together, wrapped it around a pillow and tied the back with ribbon.

And if anyone asks, it was always going to be a pillow, right?

Wedding card - sweet sketch wednesday

So, I thought I'd have a go at a blog challenge!

Sweet sketch Wednesday involves making a card following a layout. This week the layout is this...

Well, this was actually quite hard for me - I usually just make things up as I go along!

Consequently I haven't followed the sketch too accurately; mine has a few less layers for a start (sorry!)

But I'm pretty pleased with the result for a first try!

The image is a digi stamp from digi stamp boutique and I've used the promarkers to colour it in.

The greeting is handwritten, and I've embellished with some lovely lilac ribbon.

Yoyos - why have I never made these before??

I decided to join in with Jubilee fever and made some little hairclips - just a little fabric yoyo, a button and some ribbon.

Yoyos are so cute and they take about 1 minute to make! Just cut a circle of fabric, make a quick hem all around with running stitch and pull the thread gather it into a little puff!

So I made myself a little brooch, this time with two yoyos and a heart button.

Apparently in the 1950's it was very fashionable to sew hundreds of yoyos together and make a bedspread.

I think I'll just stick to hairclips and brooches though!

40th Birthday cards - a sign that your friends are getting old!!

I made this card for my ready and available stash, using some pretty paper and the cricut machine.

Then a friend asked me to make a personalised version...

And then another friend wanted the first card, but the recipient had seen it on my facebook page, so I ended up making my 3rd 40th card in one day!

I really like this one, the bright colours and the 3d effect of the flowers.

(And just in case anyone is wondering - I'm only 38!!)

Dinosaurs - regular green ones and the lesser spotted pink!

I'm getting better with my pens - this is a digi-stamp called Eric dino from digi-stamp boutique. I've coloured him in green, with purply  (probably no such word as purply) brown spots.

And here he is in a more lime green incarnation.

This must be Erica - I think she looks cute in pink and purple - who says dinosaurs can't be girly??