Savory Bread

I am on a roll baking of late. I got this recipe to make savory muffins from a friend, and eggless too, and I had to try this right away!!

The recipe is here. I used whole wheat flour and skipped the buillion powder. We had this on Sunday for breakfast. V and I had it with some curd and it was absolute yumm.

A friend who visited my dad bought a whole lot oranges. So, I decided to bake these orange-chocolate muffins.

The whole house smelt absolutely divine when this was being baked, so yummy citrus-y!! V could not wait till it cooled and had one while it was still warm. Her reaction was the best reward.

I am planning to invest in a cutter for cutting felt. The model of cutter I found on amazon is this

This is a fiskars one, Fiskars 9521 45mm Contour Rotary Cutter.

Are there other models which are more appropriate to use for cutting felt? The purpose is to be able to use felt to mount finished projects. I have seen others have cut out felt in wavy patterns. Should I also order different blades to be able to do that? Need your help please

On the stitchy end, here is where I am currently with August

I have replaced the red with orange. Will give the exact shade details in my next post. Am planning to frog out the red's in the flowers also and use orange instead. The cottages have given me a lot of confidence to play around and experiment. I would never have been able to go out of my comfort zone had it not been for you all. Thank you all dear friends, for your constant support :)

With this I wind up for the day. Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir

Adieu 2011 - Welcome 2012

I can't believe it's already time to say good bye to yet another year. Here's a quick re-cap of the year that was and my finishes.

Let me start with my resolutions for 2011 and what I managed to keep up:
1. A veggie a day
2. A fruit a day
3. A piece of choc a day (to whet my sweet tooth and not to deprive myself of anything) and last but defffinitely not the least
4. (atleast) a stitch per day

Not that many resolutions, are they? But they were tough to keep up all the same, trust me. Of course #3 was the easiest of the lot ;) I definitely managed 1 and 3. A fruit a day - well, I have to admit that I have not been very sincere in that. And also, a stitch a day did get affected thanks to a lot of other activities and work. But overall, I am happy with the number of finishes I have had over the year. Especially considering that I think this was the most fruitful year when it comes to crafting

And now, what are to be my resolutions for 2012?! Am I brave enough to include more to the list above? Of course, my dear friends. So, here I go:
I have decided to stick to the above for sure.
1. A veggie a day
2. A fruit a day
3. A piece of choc a day (to whet my sweet tooth and not to deprive myself of anything) and last but defffinitely not the least
4. I am going to change "A sticth a day" to "A craft a day"
5. A stretch of brisk walk a day (any time between 20 -30 minutes is a stretch)
6. A handful of nuts a day.

Ok, now for my favourite part. Stitchy finishes of 2011

This is very special as it was my first ornament finish

I was unable to take a picture after I catually finished the bookmark unfortunately. It came out very well

Again, my first ever tin finish

Last but not the least the quaker welcome, which welcomes people home now :)
And now, as we embark into an all new year, I take with me a new project by Janlynn

I can't claim great progress, but have tried to put in atleast half a row daily.

Also, this year I have joined the Cottages SAL being co-ordinated by Vonna over here
And during 2011, I have made such wonderful friends through the blogging world. Dearest friends, without all your support and encouragement I am sure I would not have managed to have even these finishes. I cannot thank you enough for the support.

If you are still around, friends Wish you all a very very Happy, prosperous and a splendid Year 2012. Let it be everything happy, crafty and stitchy.
Till we meet in an all new year.. Take care.. Be Happy.. Keep Stitching.. Au Revoir

More Stash!!!

Hello dear friends, hope you have all been very busy with.. well life and loads of stitching :) I definitely have been busy, but very little stitching. For some reason have been very tired of late. So kind of low on the crafty mojo. Anyway, am just taking it as things come, a day at a time.

I did do some baking. I looove cinnamon rolls. I just can't have enough of them (whenever I do get them). So, I did some browsing on various recipes and with my friend's help, found this recipe on Epicurious. Here's the outcome

I know, it does not look very "rolly", and it was not the dripping roll. It was much harder than it should be. But well, it did taste of cinnamon :)

I had some of the cinnamon "filling" left over from the rolls. I did not feel like venturing again into the rolls yet. So, decided to use them up in cookies.

They came out real yummm. I added some raisins to make it slightly chewy.

Now for my stitchy update. As I said, I did not do much stitching. This is all I could do in aaallll these days.

Am loving working on this. Just love the combination of the fabric and the thread. Am using 18 ct Aida and black anchor thread.

And now, for the best part.. S.T.A.S.H!!! Yes, I bought more stuff from ebay!!!

I always loved blue and white stuff and fell in love with the pattern right away. Got both along with the shipping for about 19USD :d

I have a vision of dedicating a wall in our apartment to cross stitch. Planning to call it the cross stitch wall or maybe crafty wall. Also, going to start stitching seasonal stuff and change displays around the house according to season. This is just a vision. The rate at which I stitch, I might take a life time doing all this. LOL!!

That's all the news from me for today. 
Till my next update..Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir

WIP

I finally managed to take a picture of my WIP - the peacock.
After seeing various blogs, I found everybody work on the picture from the top, using all colours at the same time. I have so far worked one colour at a time. Is there a reason why working all colours at a time is better? Or is it just preferences?
Would love to hear your comments