Sorry Chloe!

I've been a naughty girl... I stood Chloe up.

First of all I'd like to apologise to Chloe who I was meant to be making cake with today. Chloe, I'm sorry. The thing is I got carried away. I was searching online for facial cleansing recipes and found a few. So far so good. I then started looking through my old browser bookmarks and came across a recipe for making basic whipped body butter. I'd been meaning to make some for ages and just never got round to it.

So today I did. I did and it came out a lot nicer than I thought it would... have a look see.


I made it using coconut oil, olive oil and vanilla essence. It smells quite plain. Not too coconutty, not too olive-ey, doesn't even smell oily which is great. (Sorry about the picture quality. I'm currently using my phone to take pictures until I get a new digital camera... and the dip you can see in the cream was made by me checking to see whether the cream had set yet. Should have taken a picture first. Haha!) I accidentally spilt half of it on Mum and I put the rest in an old hair cream container. Perfect fit don't you think? Unfortunately, I don't have any more empty containers I can use. I'll probably make some more in a couple of weeks time when this one is empty and add some nice smelly stuff to it. I'm quite excited about using this! I'll let you know how it feels on my skin. :)

Apologies aside, I've had a good week. I started back at work after a week's annual leave. Started on a 10-week work experience placement. Did a bit more knitting, knotted a scarf for Steph as a birthday present and did a bit of baking with Chloe.

This week I'm planning to blog a little more, work a little more and bake some banana cupcakes (Yum!), sign up for an exercise class of some sort... and finally write my blog profile... LOL! I'm a tad ambitious I know.

I also need to start driving soon... everyone keeps reminding me about it, and everyone around me already drives, but that's another story. I'm off to eat. Mummy made pounded yam, okra and stew for dinner!!! Woohoo!

Finké :)

On your marks...

OK, so I saw Lily today! She is growing up so fast and is so gorgeous... (Bubba Gazelle thinks I'm biased but Chloe agrees).

Chloe and I spent a good half hour today just planning stuff that we want to make for Lily. I'm getting so excited but wondering where I'll find the time to do it all. We talked about sewing, knitting, felting, hand dying wool and lino printing. We even decided to create a little Lily logo to go with it all that we'll try and incorporate into all the stuff we'll make her. It'll probably be based on this type of Lily which is perfect because the colours we've decided to work around are yellow, beige and green.



We're also thinking of tying it in with our nickname for her, 'Lily Jam'... I'll post that as soon as we've designed that too... So exciting! I can't wait for us to get started on this kit but I mustn't get too carried away. Besides, I've still got to finish that cardigan first! Not even half way through the back yet. Back to the pins... think I'll do a few more rows before bed tonight. I think it's coming along quite nicely. Contented sighs all around if you please.

- Finké :)

My first post!!!

Ok, so I've been meaning to do this for ages.

Blog about stuff I make I mean.

I love making stuff and once I've given it away that's about it. Then I start on something new. I been watching loads of craft blogs (my favourites at the moment are AfricanKelli and Cut Out and Keep - although I guess Cut Out and Keep is a forum) and being really inspired and getting great ideas for stuff, but not actually keeping track of my own development.

For instance about 3 years ago, I could just about knit scarves without dropping too many stitches. and that was about it. Yesterday I started making this cute little cardigan (pattern taken from The second little sublime hand knit book).



The pattern is called Lily and I'm making it for a friend's daughter... and the lovely little girl's name is... wait for it... Lily! How perfect is that!?! I'm making the stripy version in pastel green, blue and yellow and can't wait to finish it. I'll post a picture of the back once I finish it so you can see how the pattern is coming out.

- Finké :)