NATURE'S HELICOPTER

Just wanted to share this pic with you. My dearly beloved has taken a liking to MY camera and took a pic of a Dragonfly this morning. It's hard for me to admit that he actually took the pic..

BEST BANANA CAKE

I made this Banana Cake for morning tea on Sunday - best Banana Cake EVER. Just thought I'd share the recipe.

BEST BANANA CAKE

Ingredients:

1 cup mashed Bananas

125 g butter

3/4 cup dark brown sugar (firmly packed)

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups SR flour

1 teas bicarbonate soda

3/4 cup sour cream

1 tablespoon milk

Method:

Grease a pan

Cream butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy, beat in eggs and then beat until combined.

Transfer mixture into a large bowl, stir in the banana. Stir in half the sifted dry ingredients with half the combined sour cream, then stir in remaining dry ingredients and sour cream, until smooth. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake in moderate oven about 1 hour, stand 5 minutes before turning out on to wire rack.

When cool, dust with Icing Sugar.

Daisy Throw

I had no idea it was so long ago that I blogged. Lots of things have happened since then - like the loss of one of our cherished friends.

I've just made this video and will try to upload it on here for you. If I can get this to work I promise lots more. There are so many ideas I have running around in my head, that all need to be put on paper and in pictures, so that you too can enjoy using The Butterfly Loom. Use any yarn of your choice. Sock yarn looks lovely. These daisies are so quick and easy to do, and look lovely all joined together as a Throw. Have fun.

TAKE TIME TO SMELL THE ROSES

The gentleness of the petals, the intense colour, the fragrance that wafts from the flowers - they are a few of the reasons I love my garden.

STRAWBERRY PARFAIT THROW

Create this beautiful Strawberry Parfait Throw in your favourite colours.

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE THROW

Here are the instructions for creating this beautiful Throw and Cushion cover. It can be made in any yarn of your choice. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

RAINY DAY

It's a very rainy day here today on the Gold Coast. A great day to touch and feel and caress yarn! All was quiet, and suddenly a Lion cub pounced in making the biggest growls you have ever heard.
Grey skies seem to make the grass and shrubs appear a little greener
and the flowers a little brighter
and the buds almost ready to spring open. This is such a pretty bush, has beautiful waxy flowers, and when they open I'll post a picture.

Spotlight has a new Get Creative Magazine just released. There are 2 beautiful Throws and a Cushion cover in the Magazine created on The Butterfly Loom. Tomorrow I will post pictures and the patterns for you.

I'm off to find some pretty yarn amongst my stash to send my great niece Caitlin,so she can make herself a Scarf. I'm hoping she will send me a picture of it when it is finished so I can post her creation.