The Red Wren

Chimichangas

My husband is rather partial to the chimichanga. I’d pinned a recipe on Pinterest a while back and thought it was time to give it a go as part of my ‘Stop Pinning, Start Doing’ feature that I’m undertaking on The Red Wren. The recipe calls for ground beef (‘mince’ to us here in Australia), I didn’t have mince so I put my Kitchen Aid grinder attachment to work and made my own. It was a slow process but it did produce a nice mince without the worm like quality of supermarket mince. The recipe ...

Sewing and Craft

{My Creative Space} Hexagons

Every now and then I remember that I like to take part in weekly posts and see what other bloggers are up to. This week I remembered ‘Our Creative Spaces’. I’ll try and remember it more often! This week I’m making hexagons and pentagons for two projects. I hope to have the projects finished ...

Our Home, Sewing and Craft

Doily Garland

This should have taken a lot less time than it did. I cut my doilies badly, I used to thin bias tape, I didn’t use the walking foot… but we got there in the end and I now have a cute string of doilies to hang over the shelf. The back room is slowly being redecorated. Before Christmas I replaced ...

Sewing and Craft

Baby Jogger City Elite Pram Liner

I bought some lovely fabric from Spotlight a few months ago with the intent to make Elijah a quilt. It sat in a pile with all the other material that was intended for quilts until I realised it would make a much nicer pram liner than a quilt. I have a Baby Jogger City Elite. When we purchased ...

Sewing and Craft

Stop pinning, start doing.

I spend a lot of time pinning lots of pretty, tasty, clever, and interesting things to Pinterest. What I’m not so good at is coming back to said pins and using them. I’ve seen posts all over the place about ‘stop pinning, start doing’ and thought I might jump on that bandwagon. Of course I have ...

Sewing and Craft

Kite embroidery

While I like to pretend that I blog without obligation the reality is that I feel terribly neglectful when I haven’t posted in a while, the neglectful feeling leads to guilt, which then leads to despair and I become overwhelmed and no longer know where to start. Silly isn’t it? Perhaps you ...

Food & Recipes

Belated Christmas – Tables

A major part of Christmas when you aren’t of religious inclination is food and decorating. You can see my decorations over at The Red Wren and below are some photos of tables and food from various functions. From top-left: My table set for our annual parent’s dinner. My table set for our annual ...

Sewing and Craft

Belated Christmas – Part Four

Last Christmas post! Just a few images from my Instagram.

Food & Recipes

Belated Christmas – a cookie swap

I have a couple of things from Christmas to show you before we move on to the New Year. Over a month ago I attended a cookie swap hosted by Siobhan. The idea is that everyone brings cookies along and you swap! I made spiced ice box cookies in two flavours; cranberry and citrus, and hazelnut and ...