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Exciting weekend

Hello All,
I'm so glad the snow has at long last gone. We have a really big snowfall on Wednesday and I get sent home form work as they were starting to cancel the trains. Bit annoyed as I'd struggled to get in and really had to drag myself out of bed.
Well, as you can see from the photos I've been cooking again. I'm trying to reduce what we throw away and so I had to find a couple of recipes to use up some left over cranberries and some bananas that were a little over ripe. So the result is a fruity tea bread and a banana and walnut loaf. The fruit looks very moist. I've been very good, cut them in half and put them in the freezer - so at the next quilting meeting I host I can offer some very nice home baked cakes.
And the next exciting thing I've been up to is to re-join one of Bren's classes at the Bramble Patch. It was great to be back there doing this class. She is so good at setting challenges and getting you to use your brain. I hope you like the display below of the small collages we made in the afternoon. The idea was to reflect and represent the photos we'd brought in. So now I've got a nice list of things to do for homework - one of which is stocktaking the books I have related to arts and crafts.... oh that could take some time.
Take care.
'The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity'
Dorothy Parker

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Leanne Hurren said…
Ooh those cakes look yummy! So jealous of u going to bren's class again. Let me know dates and will meet u for lunch one day
22 January 2010 at 07:52
Maria said…
Hi! That homemade bread looks delicious!
Your blog is great! If you don't mind I'll add you to my list of blogs.
24 January 2010 at 20:32
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