Lariath- Live a Little.

Recipe  Here I've made these a few times now, they are not the easiest cookies to make and they took me a long time. The first ones I made the cookies were massive! The end burger was too big to eat in one go. For these I used sesame seeds on top I quite like the look of using seeds rather than royal Iicing dots. The next time I made them a little smaller, these were a lot better. I eventually figured out how to make fondant cheese by hand. It took me ages but the burgers look so much better with the cheese than without. I did cheat and buy royal icing for the 'sauce' as I didn't have anything thin enough to apply the royal icing with. In the end everyone who received my burger cookies loved them so the effort was worth it. Enjoy this post?

I taught some friends to knit a while back (whilst camping believe it or not) and one of them now loves to knit and wants to give crochet a go. My other friend hasn't really taken to knitting so is wanting to try crocheting instead. With this in mind as a gift I bought them some crochet hooks and decided to make them a case for the hooks to go in. I'm planning on showing them how to crochet soon. I was a little nervous about making this case because it looked complicated to me, however once I got started the pattern was a lot easier than I expected. It did take a while for me to complete but I was very pleased with the finished product. I used their favourite colours for the case; orange and blue. I love the brightness of the orange on the inside. Click Here  for the pattern I used, this pattern uses the same colour for the inside and outside of the case whereas I used two different colours and used a black border to separate the two. I also followed This Blog ...

I'm always trying to come up with toys to keep Tim busy. This is one of my favourite DIY toys as it keeps him busy, is very amusing to watch and it is very quick, easy and cheap to make. Equipment: Toilet roll Pet safe natural string Scissors (anything to poke a hole a pencil would do) Whole peanut still in its shell Method : Poke a hole into the centre of the toilet roll tube (I use toilet rolls that are slightly too small for Tim so that he has to work harder to get to the nut...it also encourages chewing). Tie the whole peanut onto the end of the string. Thread the string through the hole so that the peanut is in the centre of the toilet roll. Hang the toilet roll in the cage and enjoy the show. Enjoy this post?

I saw some bear rug coasters on the Internet and couldn't resist trying to make a crochet version. I made up the pattern as I want along, just making a circle for the body adding some arms, legs and a tail then sewing the head on. For the head I used the same head as for the Crochet Bear  that I made last year. The only issue I had with these was that the arms and legs did not lie flat which really annoyed me. A search the interweb showed me how to make yarn projects lie flat through a process called Killing . Killing sounds very dramatic but it's quite easy to do however done wrong and you will literally "kill" your project. I was a bit skeptical of the method but gave it a try anyway. Really, I should have tried the method on a swatch of crochet first but I was running out of time. Another worry was that the coasters would curl up again after time or after being folded for a period of time. I pinned the arms and legs down so that they were lying fla...

A group of friends and I meet up every two weeks for a catch up and board game night. Every year we have a Christmas night and have a Secret Santa and mini buffet. This year I decided to make some cakes. They are vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing, the recipe I used can be found  Here . I have used this recipe many times now and always get compliments, it hasn't failed me yet! I decided to do green buttercream icing to try to make the cupcakes look a bit like trees...not sure they do but i tried. I didn't have any green food colouring so I added some yellow to the buttercream and then added blue gradually to get the colour I wanted. (This took me ages as I didn't want to add too much blue and cause the colour to go awfully wrong). Eventually when I got a colour that I liked I piped the icing onto the cake. Now, I don't actually own a piping kit for icing so I had to DIY this by using This Method  it works and it's useful if you have no other means of ...

To help get into the Christmas mood I made these Cute Mini Christmas Snowmen: For these snowmen I used this very easy to follow Pattern . I had no safety eyes so I used black yarn for the buttons and eyes and I used a small orange bead for the nose. I think the one on the left looks slightly evil with his horizontal eyes and top hat... I also added tassels to the scarves and made a mini bobble hat for one of them as I am now obsessed with mini bobble hats!  I followed  This Pattern  for the mini hat.  Enjoy this post?

My posting is slacking a bit at the minute but I am ridiculously busy with work, making gifts for Christmas and being sociable...Christmas is a busy time! But I have recently made quite a few things so I've got quite a few posts to come.  Here is my latest project, Mini Santa Minion: For the minion I followed this  Minion pattern . The pattern asks for blue yarn however I didn't have any blue yarn left so I decided, as it's Christmas, I'd make a Santa Minion.  I followed the pattern as linked above but instead of blue yarn I used red yarn and made a little Santa hat. The Minion pattern was very easy to follow and didn't take very long to make. The pattern says to use felt for the eye however I decided to crochet the whole eye and I added a mouth as I did for my Crochet Minion Mug Cosy . For the hat I followed this  Mini Santa Hat pattern  but made it slightly bigger so that it would fit the minion nicely. The pompom on the top i...