Gluten Free Baked Doughnuts

Here is my weekend baking experiment from Torie Jayne's recipe

Yep, I realise they look nothing like doughnuts! But I don't have a doughnut pan, so I just made them in a patty cake pan. My mix was a bit thicker than I think it was supposed to be, so next time I will weigh the ingredients, instead of being lazy and just using the cups :) They were still pretty delicious though!

A Few Good Books

I love to read - it's how I relax. I hated reading until I was about 9 years old, then my mum gave me a book

I had no idea it was first published in 1948! I used to spend my pocket money on Trixie Belden books :)

and I have been reading ever since. I sometimes think she may have regretted giving me that book because I used to spend the entire day just lying on my bed reading book after book.

Here are some more recent books that I have enjoyed.



also called The House at Riverton. I can't wait to read her latest book, the Secret Keeper.





Pretty in Mint



 

1. Forever 21 2. Shop Ruche 3. Delicious! 4. Love it!

 5. Forever 21 6. H&M 7. Mmmm 8. Retro cool! 9. So pretty

















Waxed Irish Linen Crochet Jewellery

Last year I bought some waxed Irish linen. I couldn't decide on what colours to buy, so I got a sample pack - 10 yards of 34 different colours. I made a few bracelets and necklaces and then stopped using it, I'm not quite sure why. There is a gorgeous range of colours in waxed linen and I recently rediscovered my package of it and started using it in my crocheting. So far I love it! I just listed this bracelet today and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

In my Etsy and Madeit stores

These are all the colours I got last year

from White Clover Kiln on Etsy

The colours are so pretty I just had to include some pictures :)





from The Caning Shop



A colour chart on Ettika. The colours are gorgeous!

Mint Treasury on front page!

Yay, my Mint Treasury made it to the front page of Etsy Au! Check it out here :)

Gorgeous Purples

from Modcloth

Blackcurrant cream chocolate - delicious!

Who wouldn't want to live here?

or here?

Yummy!

from Modcloth

Crochet Supplies and Magazine

I recently did a post about some gorgeous craft magazines and I have found another one that looks like it has some cute patterns - Crochet today! (link below). Growing up, craft magazines were always for 'old ladies', so now either craft magazines have become amazing, or I am one of those old ladies....I vote for the first option!

I also found some gorgeous yarns from Pierrot, a Japanese company. The site is in English, the range is great and the prices seem really good. And postage...just $US10 if you order over 10,000yen of yarn (very easy to do!). And they also have some cute patterns.

Crochet today!



from Crochet today!

from Crochet today!

 

Pastel Jute from Pierrot Yarns



Pastel Lime Super Wool



Irish Linen



Baby Blue Cotton

More Super Wool



Pretty Pinks

skskv2 on Ebay

Eva Juliet

from here

No longer available, but from this store

Forever 21

Foxbury and CO.

Summer Rose

Summer Rose

Pretty Thumbtacks

After seeing this on Such Pretty Things Blog:



Earrings as thumbtacks on a pretty corkboard - gorgeous!

I then had to check out Forever 21 online as that is where the earrings above are from. They have some gorgeous things, but postage to Australia is ridiculous. So, then I went for a walk around the shops, but couldn't find anything that would work and that was cheap enough to use as thumbtacks. So then I checked out Ebay.....

Idealway16



Sanwoodseven

Idealway16



Pretty tutorials

Stocking covered glasses, One Kings Lane

Yarn wrapped box, Craft and Creativity

Fabric pens, Wrapped up in Rainbows

Pretty Blues

Mona Lina

Formosa Design

London Handmade

Maria's Farmhouse

Afrikitten

Sandmaiden Sleepwear

Bess Georgette

Taylor's Eclectic

Gorgeous Craft Magazines

Some gorgeous crafty magazines that I could spend all day browsing through!

All from Sweet Living Magazine, a free online magazine

91 Magazine, a free online magazine

Mollie Makes, a UK print magazine, also available for the ipad, though it does cost



Tickle the Imagination - free online magazine. The first print edition will come out in November. Check here if you would like to pre-purchase a copy.