Silver pendant

This was the first piece of jewellery I started when I started the 10 week silver jewellery course with Making Space. It was however the last to be finished. It's simple but I like that about it, it will go with everything.

Friendship cake

 I was given a yeasty smelling pale yellow liquid in a margarine tube by a work colleague and an A4 sheet of paper with instructions. To make this .....

It took forever to make, I think my oven has forgotten how to cook things, I eventually took the cake out and turned it upside down and it went back in the oven in the hope that it might cook. It kinda worked. It was a tasty cake unfortunate about the cooking. It was lovely warm with ginger yogurt.

Beeswax candles

These are my Beeswax candles. My Mum was kind enough to show me how to make these (and to give me the wax sheets and wicks - she's the best Mum). I was impressed with how these turned out and how easy the wax was to mold with only the heat from my hands, though my hands must be good at the heat thing as it is an essential when felting!

These were given to my friend for Christmas, so I hope they behaved appropriately. I am hoping to have time to play with more beeswax sheets, the contemplations over shapes and sizes alone are fun! but what will they be like in real life?

Leaf earrings

These turned out nothing like my designs, but I decided that mistakes can have amazing results. They were supposed to be small and delicate, but I squished then when rolling the veins on. So they are now big earrings. What do you think?

Happy Birthday Adam

This is a slightly late post. But Happy Birthday.

Cheese Croissants

This is what I did with the other half of my Croissant pastry. It's another recipe from Nigella Lawson's book How to be a Domestic Goddess.  My expectations of cheese croissants is that they will be savory. These were not, I don't know if it was my taste buds expecting a certain taste but they just did not do it for me. I wont be making these again.

Ok, that's very negative, they were nice as sweet croissants but the Almond one were so much nicer.