Saturday 25 February 2012

Handpainted brooches

I have been spending my spare time painting some of my wood pieces (instead of sewing my SAL project!!) and I have them on the Buttons and Brooches page-- with the help of my son who is home for the weekend. I don't know how I would have managed this blog without the help of my kids--- and I am sure they wonder how on earth their mother manages to do anything on the computer at all!

We have had a lovely weekend this weekend with both the children home. It is so nice to be able to sit and chat over dinner together. My daughter had done a Thai cooking class some time ago and they had cooked a dish using duck breasts. So she decided that she was going to cook that last night for our dinner. It was a challenge trying to find duck breast fillets-- which we eventually found in Coles-- as they sell all the produce found on Masterchef. The cooking of the meal appeared like a Masterchef show as well--- lots of stress trying to get everything cooked at the same time and duck fat exploding and splattering everywhere. Try cleaning the fat off every part of the kitchen--- I did not realise how much fat came off the duck in the first place. That was the first, and possibly last, time we will be cooking duck-- as I could picture our arteries clogging up with all that fat! In the end it was a delicious meal which she served up, accompanied by potatoes, beetroot and beans from our own vegetable garden (lovingly tended by my husband) with a red wine sauce. A piece of chocolate cake was a nice finish to the meal. Thank goodness I had had a swim yesterday evening and a walk early this morning to make up for the calories consumed in that meal alone.

Cheers,
Yvonne

3 comments:

Klarafina said...

Very pretty brooches :)

quilterliz said...

G'day Yvonne. The meal does sound yummy. I haven't tried duck before, but would be a bit concerned about all that fat as well. Your brooches are just beautiful. I hope at some stage to buy some from you. Take care. Liz...

barb's creations said...

Hi Yvonne thanks for stopping by my blog,I love your brooches good luck with the new venture.Like you I was computer illiterate till a few years ago and now I have a blog and have gone back to uni as well which requires computer skills too for my assignments,just give a shout out if you need any help :) Barb.