Making, Baking, Skies, a Walk & Bunting...

 Making...

 ... snowflakes! Lots of. This was just a small selection. The spiky six-pointed ones are mine (it's very important to have six sides/points for a snowflake I think!), the round eight-pointed ones were made by another volunteer (less afflicted by the need for accuracy)

Also, painted panels...

...here shown completed. It took me ages to paint the words, I'm such a fusspot for neatness in these matters.

If you have young children you'll probably know where the words are from...

The reason why, to decorate the nursery float for the village's annual gala day. Our theme: We're Going On  Bear Hunt. The panels refer to the hazards encountered - long wavy grass (Swishy swashy), deep cold river (Splash splosh), etc. The Hooo woooo refers to a snowstorm, hence the snowflakes. However, I was disappointed to see we had a trailer with a pale roof which meant the snowflakes didn't stand out very well. I checked and in previous years we have indeed had a dark roof, grrr! Anyway, it's shown above almost finished, and we came third, out of three! The nursery has won the previous three years so I expect it was time for a change...

Now to some random May baking. Blogging has made me take regular photos of my baking, something I rather enjoy doing, and it's nice to have some kind of record of the made items because of course they don't last very long!

Scones. Still the best recipe I've tried (from this book). I'm going to attempt to make these again for this year's agricultural show, I heard a rumour that it's most important to use a ridged cutter, as I've done for the ones above. For last year's show I didn't have such a cutter and just used a glass which gave a smooth edge, surely that's the only explanation for my scones being unplaced!

 With ginger & rhubarb jam. Yum!

 

Another jar gone...

Chocolate cake, a favourite standby baking recipe. From this book (slightly modified - I mix in 3 tablespoons or so of milk at the end just before putting the mixture in the tin and use butter icing to top it once baked and cooled.)  

Now, two pretty sky and bird photos...

Then N and I are off on a walk to admire the cow parsley while A is at Brownies...

Moo.

Our walk companions.

And lastly, the granny bunting. This is for Lucy@attic24 who is trying to make miles of the stuff for Yarndale. As Lucy's blog was instrumental in helping me learn how to crochet I'm glad to be able to help. I made my first pennant while we were camping in Kirkcudbright.

Here's the second one.

And here are a few more while I use up lots of wee odds and ends of wool and N plays with the sandpit. Only after completing three did I bother to measure them, and discovered they were too big. I removed the seventh round and they're now fine. I've made ten altogether...

And that'll need to do for now - I've invited the parents to visit on Sat and the house is in dire need of a good clean and tidy...