Photos, crafts and Cambridge
Dec. 26th, 2012 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_roseChristmas Cookies
Same recipe as we used for the Halloween cookies but with handfuls of dried cranberries. Which might have been good for basic cookies but the cranberries kept stucking out of the cookie shapes, dislodging heads and looking like serious injuries to the little men! (In fact a couple of the ones in this photo look slightly rude!) Perhaps more "Nightmare Before Christmas" than Yule but hey, we're huge fans of the movie and Tim Burton's gothic visions :D
Knitting
I've done a lot of knitting this year. Three hats for nephew Elliot (none of which yet fit!), a pouch/purse/glasses case type thing for each of my parents, a bookmark for Dave and these gifts:
Mouse for Susan – my sister loves animals, especially rodents. The pattern was for small decorative mice but I knitted it on large needles for a bigger finished item. He's stuffed with a dishcloth so he can be used as a screenwipe :D
Poncho for Elliot. I'd knitted a couple of squares and decided a blanket was too big a project; Susan suggested making it into a poncho instead
Scarf: I'm proud of my first scarf, which I knitted for me in the asexual pride flag colours
Cambridge photos. I was seriously unimpressed with Cambridge, full of potholes and puddles and busy roads. I took a few pictures of a cool sculpture and some churches/old churches now re-purposed, but I don't think I'd be eager to go there again. East is a bad direction for us anyway, due to the lack of motorways. There's a few places I'd to see like the cathedral in Norwich, and we've sometimes visited the beach at Great Yarmouth, but it's not our favourite part of the country to go to.
Same recipe as we used for the Halloween cookies but with handfuls of dried cranberries. Which might have been good for basic cookies but the cranberries kept stucking out of the cookie shapes, dislodging heads and looking like serious injuries to the little men! (In fact a couple of the ones in this photo look slightly rude!) Perhaps more "Nightmare Before Christmas" than Yule but hey, we're huge fans of the movie and Tim Burton's gothic visions :D
Knitting
I've done a lot of knitting this year. Three hats for nephew Elliot (none of which yet fit!), a pouch/purse/glasses case type thing for each of my parents, a bookmark for Dave and these gifts:
Mouse for Susan – my sister loves animals, especially rodents. The pattern was for small decorative mice but I knitted it on large needles for a bigger finished item. He's stuffed with a dishcloth so he can be used as a screenwipe :D
Poncho for Elliot. I'd knitted a couple of squares and decided a blanket was too big a project; Susan suggested making it into a poncho instead
Scarf: I'm proud of my first scarf, which I knitted for me in the asexual pride flag colours
Cambridge photos. I was seriously unimpressed with Cambridge, full of potholes and puddles and busy roads. I took a few pictures of a cool sculpture and some churches/old churches now re-purposed, but I don't think I'd be eager to go there again. East is a bad direction for us anyway, due to the lack of motorways. There's a few places I'd to see like the cathedral in Norwich, and we've sometimes visited the beach at Great Yarmouth, but it's not our favourite part of the country to go to.
