Paper Art Party Time!

Polly is having her paper art party and I really wanted to join in.......I am back to work this week and unfortunately after a short day of four or five hours I am pooped! I decided to at least share a few pictures of some of the paper projects I did last year. I do hope to take some more on line classes and learn to make more, there are so many beautiful paper artists in blogland.....go to The French Cupboard and have a look or join in and show your stuff!!!!

My wish book...
An art collage...
My wreath from book pages.....

Fresh from the oven.....

Bake some bread.......

Nothing says I love you like a loaf of fresh bread.....
Peel some peaches.....


Peach and vanilla jam....


Can some for a winter's day.....
With the help of my daughter and son, everything is peachy!

Lavender Lemonade and Apple Muffins.....

Want something nice to quench your thirst? I love to make Lavender Lemonade......

Bake some apple and oatmeal muffins.....

If you have some lemons...

Squeeze about one cup of juice. Boil one cup of sugar and water to make your simple syrup, and add the lemon juice....

Take some culinary lavender and steep it in a cup, you want the essence of lavender not the full flavour...

Add it to the lemonade and fill with cold water, maybe add some slices of lemon.....

Apple and Oatmeal Muffins, Preheat oven to 375 degrees

1 cup flour

1/4 cup wheat bran

1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 tsp b soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp cardamon

1 cup finely chopped apples (farmers market or the tree out back)

1 1/3 cups oatmeal

1 egg

1 cup buttermilk

1/4 canola oil

1 tsp homemade vanilla (recipe coming up soon)

1/2 cup apple water (scraps of apples boiled in two cups of water) or use juice

Mix dry ingredients together, add oatmeal and apples. In another bowl mix the egg, buttermilk, oil, vanilla and apple water. Add wet mix to dry mix and blend lightly. Spoon the batter into muffin tin and bake 20 minutes. Makes 12 lovely muffins.

(recipe adapted from Romantic Homes August 2009 issue)