Knitted Hippie Pillows

Gloomy days... where I am anyway, so just to make myself and everyone happy - knitted pillowcases.
Now available on ETSY.

Have a sunny day :-D

More cats & dogs and a grape bread.

I am still enjoying sunshine [or anything that resembles it] and do not want the wintery weather too soon, but I had to start thinking of Christmas presents, if I want to make them all on time.
This time two glasses cases - one for a cat lover and the other for a dog lover.

J, seeing the cat, said that it does not look like a cat but resembles him Misiu!  And then, to show me how the cat should look like, he drew one:

early morning sun in the kitchen...

 ... and in the room...

As a treat I decided to bake some Grape Bread.
It came quite big [1 kg of flour used!], so, not to get bored with it, some of the bread I turned into Grape Biscotti! It worked really well. More about it HERE.

Buckles - Cat means trouble!

I have to update the Buckles fun-club page with a very lengthy story this time. Mostly Metro dose not publish Buckles stories in series, but this one started couple of weeks and and it is still going! 

I do not think I have the very beginning of it, as I missed couple of issues of Metro, so for anyone interested how it started go HERE, because it is probably somewhere there.

Anyway, a world of introduction for this story-  Scrappy, the squirrel, steals bird's seedlings from the peach tree, and Jill decided to get a cat to protect the seedlings from the squirrel.

And here it comes the rest:

I hope tomorrow metro will publish the conclusion. We will see...

Autumn in the garden

Two redheads I made some time ago and forgot about them. 

  

 

Garden seems to be still at it's best :-D. We also still get some tomatoes!

Some great, very autumnal,  food - Kopytka [something like gnocchi, as this name is possibly more familiar outside of Poland] with pork escallops and sauerkraut full of herbs. Although I made quite a lot it was gone in seconds [almost]. Too yummy to keep for longer.

 And, of course cake and long hours in the garden! This time Polenta& Almond cake with Apples. So good...

Mushroom picking - first attempt!

I grew up surrounded by forests and can not imagine any autumn passing by without mushroom picking! It is a must - Nature calls me at that time [Mother Nature calls me out at any time, to be honest, because I am not an indoor person type].
So we went this morning to the forest [well, it is a park... and not too big either, but it has some trees and wild mushroom grow there, so it counts].
It was very pretty, but we only took pictures of anything we could find - nothing edible :-D