In the zone

Well I really have been in the creative zone this weekend and, as mentioned in the blog posting below, I have indeed made brownies AND finished the 3 cushions!

But that's not all....oh no!

So first of all, the brownies. By pure co-incidence I discovered it is World Baking Day today so I not only had a reason, the visiting parents, to make the brownies but also a reason to photograph them in an unusual setting and submit the image to the collection! As if I need any more reason to make brownies?! Here they are in all their chocolate glory:

(please note the unconventional setting!)

Of course I had to quality control the brownies which got me to thinking "What am I going to have for pudding this eve? Brownies and ice cream now seems like a good option" But I need a sauce to go with them.....Stay with me....

A few weeks back, via the Twitter, I had a convo with GD and a fellow tweeter about "Dulce de Leche". I'll be honest - I didn't really know what it was, so of course I Googled and discovered it was a delicious sounding caramely type sauce type thing. Yum, I need me some of that I thought. (especially since GD has introduced me to the mouth wateringly good Salted Caramel Milkshake). Thanks to the joy of the web I found a recipe - I actually found about 6 different recipes - got the ingredients and set to some culinary creating. 3 hours later...tada... Dulce De Leche!

The recipe I chose actually said to add salt before heating so it really does taste like salted caramel! Then combine this with the afore mentioned brownies and ice cream and voila....

(Or as my friend Murray likes to call it "Food Porn"!)

Then there was the stitching! It was all go yesterday! I have 3 cushions to finish, two are commissions, they feature the names (family names) of two people I don't know and will be a wedding gift for the bride and groom at their wedding during the first weekend in June. The other is a gift for my friends who has recently had a baby, Tom, (he's a few days older than GD's baby in the pics below), I will be visiting Tom and his family next weekend so perfect timing to deliver this gift to him.

Here they are:

And here's a blatant bit of self promotion! (Well if I can't do it here where can I do it?!) If you'd like to commission a cushion please leave a comment here or send a tweet via the Twitter.

So as you can see, it was full on creativity this weekend. 

GD*BG