Rocky Road Recipe

Hello there, 

here is Marcia’s Rocky Road recipe for all to enjoy – no glace cherries! 

INGREDIENTS

 

1. 1 bag of Clinkers
2. 1/2 cup of small marshmallows
3. 1/4 cup of diced gummy bears
4. 1 bag of milk choc melts

 

METHOD:

Cut clinkers and gummy bears in halves. Heat/melt choc melts. Add all ingredients to melted chocolate and mix. Pour into a lined or greased lamington tray. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes, then cut into pieces and wa la – hello Rocky Road

You can also throw in nuts, raspberry lollies, redfrogs – the dreaded glace cherries if you are that way inclined, whatever you want.

Enjoy,

Marcia

Line up

Tomorrow is my half day of sewing.  Only Half a day! And so many little boot scooters lined up for their final pin and tuck before marketing. It’s all too exciting. And the morning will be over all too soon, before I have to pack for a week of camping, make a tricycle birthday cake for my two year old, cook for the birthday party, get all the washing done and dry before going away and no doubt wipe runny noses in the midst of it all. BUT…. HALF A DAY SEWING first! What a luxury.

Stitch and Bitch Revival

Years ago some friends and I were standing around admiring our new German friends outfit at a wedding. She casually said she’d made it! We were all in raptures over her handiwork (it was really impressive) and we were all raving on how we wished we could do something like that. Being the lovely sort that she is Lisa suggested we come over to her place for a Stitch and Bitch… and oh what lovely afternoons of working out how to make stuff happened at Lisa’s place. Just delightful.

When Lisa went travelling again, Stitch and Bitch lost its uber creative guru and all seemed lost, we ground to a halt…. but alas the revival has begun. Last Sunday Stitch and Bitch got going again. Curtains, pumpkin soup, skirts, knitting, bags, mending…. (scuse the photo I can’t seem to get the right way round!) it was a delight..

Jolly relaxing gathering and the Rocky Road was fabulous – no glace cherries in sight – Marce can you put up the recipe?

Looking forward to the next one

cheers,

Amanda

 

Labels

I ordered some labels for my “clothing line” the other week. Ha! Imagine that! A clothing line. They arrived in the post today. I like them. Suddenly I feel like a legitimate artist. As though putting a name on my work makes it professional and acceptable. Next scary thing is working out what to sell them for.  I have  a few ideas, but it is hard putting a number on my creativity.  A value.  We Australians suffer from something we like to call the Tall Poppy Syndrome. Where we don’t like to come across as arroganr or better than anyone else. We don’t like ayone else coming across that way either, but i think this means we are more likely to undervalue our own work than anything else. Where is the fine balance between underselling and ripping people off. I don’t want to do either, but it’s hard to put a monetary value on something so personal. A lot of love and thought and care goes into these things! Does that make them valuable to anyone else, though?

And WHERE to sell them. Do I go out on a limb and try to sell things as an unknown? Or do I borrow someone elses networks and have to pay a comission. Ah, it’s all so unknown to me. At the moment I am having so much fun creating things I don’t suppose it matters if nothing EVER sells! Though my husband and children may want the spare room back one day….

Ellen

Reclaiming the Art Nook

The time has come to stop procrastinating and reclaim the space that was once my Art Nook. I’ve tried to begin a few times and just got overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the amount of STUFF that seems to have accumulated there enroute to the shed – just a minor archaeological dig ahead I suspect. To balance the overwhelming sense of chaos invoked by the sight of the art nook, I retreated to the backyard to find some order and well who could leave it – the first Autumn leaves are falling and the sorting of the art nook remains to be realised another day.

Till then,

Amanda

 

thanks for the welcome Mr WordPress

…and to those we havn’t yet met, welcome to THE BOWERBIRD: THE CREATIVE ADVENTURES OF OWL AND LEFT HAND. The Bowerbird is four women who live in Hobart and Sydney on an adventure to rediscover creative shennanigans and craft banditry! Just like the bowerbird we will be re-purposing found materials as well as creating anew, giving us a space to nurture our creative spirits. 

Let the craft bandits begin…

 

Cheers,

Sarah, Marcia, Ellen and Amanda