A cravat for Matt Preston!

Also this week, my daughter Alex and I decided we’d enter the Handee Ultra competition for Masterchef to make Matt Preston a paper Cravat!  The prizes are pretty big….$500 weekly plus a chance of winning $10,000!  Wouldn’t that be lovely!  We had lots of fun making them though hehe

Here’s some pics of hubby all dolled up wearing my lovely decorated paper cravat!

Love a man in a suit! lol

This is the folded end of the cravat.  Alexandras is above She has embellished hers with beads, a folded flower, and some ribbon…very clever girl!

My Cravat all sketched up before adding ink and glitter

It was a bit of fun Who knows we might even win something!  Watch this space! lol

Baked things :)

I’ve done some baking this week…I’ve never ever really been a baking person so this is a big deal in my home hehe  I made this lovely shortbread from the Julie Goodwin cookbook (last year’s masterchef) and it turned out so lovely I had to take pics!

These are shortbreads with passionfruit butter spread inside made from icing sugar, butter and passionfruit. Apparently they were so yummy, I was asked for an encore performance today which I have obliged with lol

A ballerina teddy for Isabelle :) …Another diversion lol

I made this little Teddy bear from the Debbie Bliss book I have of teddy patterns.  Comes highly recommended by the way.  The only drawback I do find is that the ‘making up’ instructions are a bit vague.  I’ve changed the ‘making up’ of this one slightly too.  Just because when I stuffed it, the body looked right the opposite way to what the pattern said so I made it that way.  Similarly with the head. 

This Teddy bear will be going to live with my niece Isabelle   Have fun riding in that new pram ballerina teddy!  Happy birthday Isabelle xx

Something else…not knitting…..a new painting….

Something I’ve been working on for a while that is not knitted….

I have been decorating this plaster cast of a friend of mine’s pregnant belly for ages now.  I think today it’s finally finished   I still have to get some spray adhesive or gloss to keep these beads on.