Friendship Bread

Well, I read the novel so I just had to make the starter and bake me up a few loaves of Friendship bread. A few years ago, someone had given me the starter and I remembered that the bread was delicious. Then, I discovered this book at the Public Library and my interest was renewed.

I kept it alive for 3 splits and sent it off to 6 friends and then sadly, I had to let it go. After a month of baking loaves every 10 days, it wasn't doing any wonders for my waistline and my friends were starting to run the other way when they saw me coming (just kidding). I DID stick a baggie of the starter in the freezer so if I feel the inclination, I can always start it up again. I never got a chance to bake up the 1000's of variations that you can make from the starter (there is a website that lists them all) since I really loved the original, cinnamon recipe. So delicious and with a light yeasty flavour.
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Delightful Inspiration - From the Heart

I participate in a monthly challenge over at Delightful Inspiration and if you play along every month, you get a free stamp. May's Stamp of the Month was the "For You" mouse. I tried a few different colour combos and settled on this one which I think turned out great!
I have yet to add a sentiment (never know where to put them on the front) but I'll come up with something cuz the little rodent looks so cute handing over his/her flower.

Stitch Away!

Stitch away was the challenge this week at Sassy Cheryl's Digi Challenge Blog. I think this is the first time I have ever stitched on a card. By the time, I figure out a background and colour the image, I'm usually ready to have the card completed. I used the image; You Are My Sunshine and it turned out as cute as can be. I stitched around the sun, glossied up his eyes and her shoes and my card was ready to go.

Here's a close-up of Mr. Sun....

And my new sentiment circles from Your Next Stamp, a local company in Southern Ontario. I just picked them up yesterday, you can never have too many circle sentiments.

It was also a departure for me to put my image on an angle, I usually line everything up so I feel like I'm trying some new things. I hope you like it.

Sympathy Card

Unfortunately, this is a card that we need to have a few of on hand and while perusing the Net looking for ideas, I realized most people like myself do not gravitate towards making this time of card. I guess we all like to work with cute stamps and colourful, charming paper.

I like the simple design of this card. I embossed the flower with mini dots and used a rub-on sentiment and a Memory Box flourish and flower. I thought it turned out to be very tasteful.

Maya is SIX!

Where did this cute little puppy go? Miss Maya Papaya is 6 years old today. My how time flies.

13 in 13 April Update

Well, it's getting a little later in the month each time I do my update. Soon, I'll be a month behind if I don't catch up. It's been a busy month. The nicer weather is here, seems like there is lots to do and see. So how did I do? The goals seem to cycle up and down, one picks up and another drops off. I haven't been reading at all, what happened there? But I'm still chipping away at the afghan, working on my challenges, taking Lindor to Rally Classes.

I managed to use the Cricut TWICE! Once for the Mother's Day gift tags for the caramel corn and for this card. I think I used Base Camp to cut out the numbers.

I don't know why I settled on 29, cuz I don't know anyone in that ballpark but I thought it would be a good age to be stuck on. The card is a departure for me from my usual image colouring. Love the plaids and the coordinating papers.

I went to a couple live performances. Does baseball count? I saw the Toronto Blue Jays (they won), haven't been there in years. It was a fun night. Also saw David Wilcox, a kinda famous, Canadian Blues musician. SO there you go!

I made a few new recipes but I didn't use a cookbook. I hope to start my Heritage album this summer. Still working on the WIFI and other goals.

That's the update!

Lace and Handmade Flowers

This week's challenge at Sassy Cheryl's was #166 Lace and Handmade Flowers. I barely got it done in time for the deadline. We finally have some nice weather so there is lots to do outside.

 It is the holiday Monday here in Ontario and I didn't have any lace so I had to make do with my very useful Martha Stewart corner punches and coordinating borders. I used white to try and  make it look more lacey so it didn't stand out quite so well as I had hoped but I was happy to get it done and I love this little girl with her bathing cap. Somehow, bathing caps never looked quite so cute when WE had to wear them.