Sometimes creativity is a force to be reckoned with. H helped her self to a buch of flowers from the garden and told me we were about to hammer some flowers like they did on Sticky TV. I can only be thankful that the hammers are kept well out of reach or she wouldn't have waited for help.
To make you own flower stamps, you will need:
Coloured, flatish flowers (pansies worked well)
Baking paper
White fabric
Chopping board
Hammer
To celebrate the end of the end of the festive season, we made galette des rois. While the galette baked, we broke down the Christmas tree and boxed up decorations. We celebrated a few days early this year to avoid a clash with first day back to work blues. Great food and company made a fantastic end to our Christmas celebrations.
Unlike last year, we had a tiny ceramic charm to bake into the pie. If you look carefully, you can see her standing on a dollar coin for scale.
Ready to bake.
Fresh from the oven.
Fast disappearing.
The recipe was from Nigella Lawson's "How to be a Domestic Goddess" with the filling quantities halved. We even managed to track down some orange blossom flower water. It added the most divine hint of citrus to the filling. Definitely worth the hunt.
For a brief moment there was a fantail on my couch. I meet up with friends every Monday to sew. They keep me sane. Every year we have a Christmas swap and this year it was cushions. This little chap only just made it to the party. I was stitching until the minute I left the house.
He's now sitting on the couch at this lovely friend's place.
