Crafts, baking + extras

 What have I been up to? Slow life stuff

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Fabric Dying process. 

So this was my first time natural dying fabric, using turmeric and spinach leaves. I didn’t follow any particular video or method this time around but here’s what I did.

 

Turmeric:

✦Prepped the fabric in water with salt and vinegar.

✦Boiled water added turmeric powder & root (the root will give more of an intense colour), boiled this for around 1.5 hours.

✦I transfered this water into a container where I could soak my fabric. 

✦The brighter yellow I soaked for around half an hour, and the lighter was around 5 minutes, turmeric seemed to dye very quickly however you lose some colour when rinsing.

Spinach experiment:

I was very impatient with the spinach dye, this was just a fun extra I was trying but I'll note what I did anyway.

✦Chopped spinach, boiled for about 2 hours. 

✦I dropped the fabric into the boiled spinach for a while but this did virtually nothing SO, I started rubbing the spinach into the fabric instead, the spinach was almost a paste-like consistency by this point anyway. This actually seemed to really work! 

✦I think next time I'll maybe grind the spinach into a paste after boiling and then work it into the fabric. I know there are easier and better ways to dye but this was a fun experimental process with cute outcomes!

Magpie cross-stitch

Still in progress, I want to find a small frame for this and thinking of doing a border as well.

I found this great website where you can create your own cross-stitch patterns! It creates a key for you and everything- I also used this for my Miffy cross-stitch you'll see further down.

https://flosscross.com/designer

Date treat 

This was a super tasty & sweet treat:

Squished dates

Peanut Butter

Chocolate 

Chopped pistachios 

& into the fridge!

Dark chocolate would also work really nicely.

Gingerbread - Gluten and Dairy free

Recipe:

I made quite a few batches of this and altered each time but I think this is the one I landed on. I based my recipe and method on this one. I was surprised by how easy this was- I popped them in little boxes with bows and gave them as Christmas presents to my family.

1&1/4 cup Gluten free plain Flour 

1/2 tsp Xanthan Gum

1/4 Bicarb

1&1/2 - 2 Tbsp of Ginger powder

1 Tsp Heaped Cinnamon powder

1/2 Tsp Allspice

50g Dairy-free Butter (I used Stork)

1/4 cup & 2 Tps Sugar

2 Tbsp Honey

1 Egg

 

Flower arranging workshop

Miffy

Finished Miffy for my Friend Parv- 

she always wears navy blue. This took ages but I'm getting quicker as I do more cross-stitch.

I'll be focusing on my garden more over the next few months, but hopefully I'll still have some energy for crafts<333

xoxo

Things I've learnt at 25....I know nothing

I was 26 last Sunday.....

A lot has happened and I feel like I’ve been tons of different people internally. 

In the summer I wrote these stories out but never posted them. “25- Things I’ve learned so far” I blocked some out because they were incredibly directed at a certain person lol. These are mainly kind of things I learned in my early 20's so as I'm fully in my MID 20's now I thought it only right to reflect and share...

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Listen to other people
Don’t react instantly based on feeling rejected
Let yourself be sad wallow then try to be happy
Being content with who you are is the most important thing
Let yourself change 
Situations may feel the same but they’re usually not
All kinds of relationships will have ebbs and flows
Being nice isn't boring
Being sexy is important
Brain and body are one
Being vulnerable is very hard 
Sometimes it's you, sometimes it's them aka you are not always the victim
Being your own support is hard
Go towards jealously- investigate it.
I am not tough
Have at least 2 earth sign friends
Be honest but not mean (they are very different)

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+  lots more

Pictures in no particular order- I can't believe I'm getting older couldn't imagine it for myself I wanna cry :') :'(  My physical state has always been so connected with my internal, I spent so much time experimenting with who I am, having vast changes every day. 

I'm at a point now where I feel free to be any one of these people and more, minus some of the rotted xoxo 

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