Make your own mini christmas crackers

Today I am going to show you how to make a mini Christmas cracker. They are very easy and quick to do.

All you need are these few things.

-Double sided tape – scissors – two short lengths of ribbon – a  cracker snap – a few sweets/chocolate – a small rectangle of Christmas wrapping paper  – a piece of cardboard roll.

Cut up a small cardboard roll like this and use the big piece.

Put a small piece of double sided tape in the roll and stick your cracker snapper in it. Like this.

Put a piece of tape on the outside of the roll and wrap your wrapping paper around the tube.

Make sure the wrapping paper is sticking out at either side of the tube.

Squeeze one side of the wrapping paper and tie the piece of ribbon around it.

Cut the cracker snap so you cant see it. But not too short or when you pull the cracker it wont snap.

  You can now stuff your sweets/chocolate at the other side of the cracker.

 

 Tie the other side up and now you have the finished mini cracker.

xxx thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy making them xxx

Decoupage

Today I have decoupaged these two foam figures. One is an angel and the other is a gingerbread man. I covered them in some christmas wrapping paper and when we get our christmas tree I will hang them up on it.I have also finished Decoupaging a small wooden christmas tree.

I have wrapped some Christmasy fairy lights around it

I do think that it looks better in real life than these photos.

Hopefully it’ll look nice when we get our xmas tree and get the rest of our christmasy decorations out.

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Friut pizza’s

A few days ago I tried out a pizza with beetroot, apple and cheddar cheese. I followed Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s recipe but halved the pizza dough so it made 1 large pizza. I didn’t actually think i would like apple and beetroot together but it surprised me and I did enjoy it. The link for the recipe is here-

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/beetroot-apple-and-cheddar-pizza/

Above is a picture of the pizza I made.

After trying the beetroot and apple recipe I wanted to try Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s other fruit pizza recipe which is pear, spinach and blue cheese. Although I swapped the blue cheese for Lancashire crumbly. I also thought this one was really tasty.  I didn’t get a picture of this one but here is the link –

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/pear-spinach-and-blue-cheese-pizza/

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Mini Chirstmas hats

Today me and my mum had a go at making hats to hang on our Christmas tree. Mine is the claret and blue one. They are very easy and quick to make and are only about 6cm! They look really cute 🙂 Were going to try make some with mohair to give them a sparkly fluffy effect.

Landscape painting.

Today I have been painting! I found an idea for this in an art book and thought it looked really pretty.

I actually really like the one I have done. I used different acrylic paints and then used a black pen for the detail and defining.

This is in more detail.

Thanks for looking 🙂

Pumpkins, shortbread and a cafetiere cosy…

This week I have Made some cherry shortbread. I used a Mary Berry recipe from her book “Fast cakes”.

I was actually quite impressed with my shortbread, as I have never made any before.

We have had a pumpkin from our allotment this week!

We made some African stew with it. Its one of my favorites, so I am making another batch today to use some of the left over pumpkin up. I was also thinking of making some Pumpkin hummus too. We have probably got another 10 pumpkins still at the allotment!

I also haven’t posted about what I made my Dad for his birthday. I was actually really proud of making this cafetiere cosy.

I found my inspiration on pinterest,—

 Hope you have had a good week 🙂

Allotment

We went down to our allotment again today.

Our courgette plants are not producing any more courgettes now, so we put the plants in our compost

 This kale is the first we have ever grown.

We didnt actually grow this garlic our allotment neighbor gave them to us.

We have been potting up our strawberry runners.

I found this frog peeking at me in our pond 🙂

We also saw this Chafer grub, while digging potatoes. Chafer grubs eat your grass roots.

Thanks for looking 🙂

Homemade Meringues

Today I made some Meringues as I needed to use up some egg whites.

Here is a photo-

We had some with Raspberry from our allotment, ice cream and some raspberry sauce!

This was really yummy 🙂

A day at the Allotment

Today we went down to our allotment, we haven’t been down for more than a week so it was interesting to see what had grown and what was ready to pick…

This pumpkin had snapped off its stem but we left it out in the sun and it is now ready to use!

We have got some more pumpkins still on the plant but they need a bit more sunshine.

We dug up a bowl of potatoes. These look really nice and are quite big.

These Beetroots are also really big.

We also collected some runner beans (fudge, our dog, loves eating these:)

We didnt pick any leeks yet, but they are doing really well.

Our cucumbers are still coming, we have had loads of these this year.

Here are some sun burst squash (I have made a African stew with this squash before, which is delicious)

We have also had masses of courgettes this year and there are still flowers on the plants!

These are our first plums!

Our apples are doing well, but they are not quite ready yet (the pips are still white).

We have picked all our onions and we just leave them in our shed to dry to out.

This year we have done extremely well with carrots (usually we get carrot fly)

Our sweetcorn are doing okay, but are not ready yet.

This is our first pick of Swede, they look great!

These cabbages look really nice!

We pulled out a parsnip, to see if they were ready and they are slightly too small.

We got loads of Raspberry’s and one blackberry (we are making a trifle with some of these)!

 We also got a few blueberry’s.

We also had some odd shaped veg…

We also had lots of lovely flowers.

and here is a last photo of fudge

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Flower arranging

Today me and my mum have been having a go at Flower arranging!

We have never tried this before but it was fun and I would definitely do it again.

We used flowers and greenery from our garden, which included orange Crocosmos, Purple Buddleia, Sweet peas, Lavender, Ivy, Fern and Common toadflax.

This one is my Mums-

and this one is mine-

Thanks for looking 🙂