weezl and friends Phase 4 - recipe testing christmas treats!

Allegra

Good luck, Hayles ! Don't get stressed about it all and enjoy yourself - I'm sure you'll do just fine !

artybear

Have a great day hayles

I havent been able to test the full Christmas day meal yet :-( due to life getting in the way (grrr at life lol) however have done most of the other meals and they have become staples.

Having an asda order delivered later and going to batch cook for the week. Also have been looking at lots of crafty blogs and decided that I want to be a crafty kind of person so does anyone know some good shops/websites where I can start building up a collection of things? My first mission is to make a birthday card for my mum.

Hope everyones wellxxxxxxxxxxx

domesticgoddess789

artybear wrote: »

Have a great day hayles

I havent been able to test the full Christmas day meal yet :-( due to life getting in the way (grrr at life lol) however have done most of the other meals and they have become staples.

Having an asda order delivered later and going to batch cook for the week. Also have been looking at lots of crafty blogs and decided that I want to be a crafty kind of person so does anyone know some good shops/websites where I can start building up a collection of things? My first mission is to make a birthday card for my mum.

Hope everyones wellxxxxxxxxxxx

I make cards Arty I tend to pick bits up cheaply from places like Wilko and The Works as crafty shops can cost a fortune. I also save old cards and cut bits and pieces off them to reuse. I also save any ribbons and pop them in my stash too I made all of my Christmas cards last year but doubt I will have time this year, which is a shame

P.S Thank you for the goodluck wishes for cooking the Christmas meal today.. feel I might need them ha! Have just decorated the dining room all festively with candles and fairy lights and am feeling all excited now

Lesley_Gaye

I do cards too sometimes arty. I use card from a printing shop, like Kwik Print, as it is much cheaper than craft shops

a DTP pkg is extremely useful for this kind of thing. I sometimes print a picture of the recipient on the A5 envelope, and 3D birthday greetings. They do all kinds of fancy font 3D type manipulation, and all the other things they do would be a maze of delights for someone arty like you. I have used Pageplus for many years, but there are lots of others

Like hayley, I use old cards, esp for Christmas, and I do an inner page that I paste in, using ord A4 paper that I have fancy printing on, you know, so you have 4 pages altogether once it's folded over, makes it feel more special

warning - it can get quite addictive!

Allegra

pinkhayley789 wrote: »

I make cards Arty I tend to pick bits up cheaply from places like Wilko and The Works as crafty shops can cost a fortune. I also save old cards and cut bits and pieces off them to reuse. I also save any ribbons and pop them in my stash too

I do the same ! We do go to Hobbycraft occasionally (when DD needs something for DT), and will pick up whatever happens to be on offer - but it would be way too expensive to get everything from there, no matter how nice it is !

Other things I use in card making are sweetie wrappers, cut up wrapping paper, photos and cut-out magazine photos (DD likes to do her cards with cut out photos of kittens and puppies and the like), as well as any scrap bits of fabric (charity shops are good for this), pressed flowers and autumnal leaves, beads and sequins and buttons from broken costume jewelery and old clothes..... There is no limit, really. I have an old biscuit tin that anything broken but pretty, shiny and glittery goes into - and have found that free magazines such as Asda and the free recipe cards from Waitrose are great to cut up for photographs of food - good to go with any foodie present

domesticgoddess789

Allegra wrote: »

I do the same ! We do go to Hobbycraft occasionally (when DD needs something for DT), and will pick up whatever happens to be on offer - but it would be way too expensive to get everything from there, no matter how nice it is !

Other things I use in card making are sweetie wrappers, cut up wrapping paper, photos and cut-out magazine photos (DD likes to do her cards with cut out photos of kittens and puppies and the like), as well as any scrap bits of fabric (charity shops are good for this), pressed flowers and autumnal leaves, beads and sequins and buttons from broken costume jewelery and old clothes..... There is no limit, really. I have an old biscuit tin that anything broken but pretty, shiny and glittery goes into - and have found that free magazines such as Asda and the free recipe cards from Waitrose are great to cut up for photographs of food - good to go with any foodie present

I love Hobbycraft but it's so expensive I tend to go there occasionally for inspiration. Pound shops are good too Arty, especially for scissors etc.

aless02

I've only made cream cheese frosting a handful of times, but it's pretty basic. I usually just grab whatever comes first on Google, so take your pick! Is definitely a very yum addition, though.

Lesley, that pudding sounds FANTASTIC. I'm not sure if I will ever make it or just sit and drool at the recipe . (for fear I would eat the whole thing in 1 go!)

queen_of_string

Rt ebay is fab for card supplies too, is one way of getting those cut outs they do without shelling out for the stampers.

It is addictive once you start reading the threads and having a little go.

You might find you're friends are interested too ( most people have an inner crafter, sometimes well hidden!). I used to enjoy having a couple of people round before xmas and having a couple of bottles of wine whilst introducing them to card making. Almost everyone likes a hand made card and I never found a friend who didn't enjoy making them .

We did biscuits one year, and truffles another, but that's a whole lot messier :rotfl:.

shanks77

Good luck Hayley but doesnt sound like you need much as you seem very organised. We had the pork the other week and it was delicious. In fact we tried out all the eve meals but not the lunches as ex wasnt around and he doesnt like things like hummous (more for me then:j) but he enjoys the soup and is wanting me to make the onion soup which i will try and do this week. Going away to Edinburgh overnight on Tues so will maybe make it on Thurs along with the brownies that i keep hearing so much about yum yum.

Lesley_Gaye

aless02 wrote: »

Lesley, that pudding sounds FANTASTIC. I'm not sure if I will ever make it or just sit and drool at the recipe . (for fear I would eat the whole thing in 1 go!)

tis a risk, it calls very loudly to me from the fridge if there is any left over