Kabak tatlisi - pumkin recipe

Kabak Tatlisi
ingredients
2 1/4 lb (1 kg) pumpkin flesh
5 oz (150 g) caster sugar
5 oz (150 g) chopped walnuts

method
1. Cut the pumpkin flesh into thin, rectangular pieces measuring about 3 x 1 1/4 inches

2. Place these in a very wide, flameproof earthenware casserole dish, sprinkle with the sugar and add just enough water to cover; leave to stand for 24 hours.

3. Place the casserole dish on a moderate heat, bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer gently for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the pumpkin is tender.

4. Leave to cool at room temperature and then serve in small bowls or dishes, sprinkled with the chopped walnuts, or with thick cream like clotted cream.

My favourite season - Autumn

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" I love Autumn the smell of bonfires the crisp air and the beautiful trees. Fabulous for walking the dog, or strolling in the park Autumn is exciting, fresh and vibrant.

Love mallorca

I had a great holiday with my eldest son, his wife,and my three lovely grand-sons and so i used some pictures of the holiday for the november weekly challenge on uks. Our villa was up this very steep slope that led to the church on top of the mountain, exhausting walking but fabulous views!

November house challenge for uks

Loved a chance to play with my digi kits thanks to daisy trail i had a fab afternoon.:)

Out of touch!

I have been more than a little out of touch with this blog - but I have my excuses ready. (Honest miss the dog ate my homework!) I had a fab weekend looking after my grandsons whilest their parents had a well deserved weekend away at Stratford upon Avon. The boys were perfectly behaved and we had a lovely time, thankfully their parents had a great time too and so everyone was happy. Althought I now know more about Yu-gi-oh than I think is strictly necessary!

Weekly challenge on UKS

This week the challenge was to use a panoramic photo or series of photos, I didn't have a clue, but then inspiration struck, and I dug out some photos taken by my daughter-in-law, they were beautiful pictures and panoramic too!
I really enjoyed playing with my digi for this one and found various bits on daisy trail that worked for this LO. I finally got the hang of the spray paint tool and used it to stencil nature themed shapes on my title letters. I really had fun and I like the LO too, which is a bonus :)

bother that printer!!!

I wanted to do a Hybrid-digi for this weeks uks challenge as I wanted it for my eldest son's album, but after hours of fighting with my printer which rejected my cheapie ink refills and wouldn't be reasonable i have had to do it digi. I will however be redoing it as soon as the printer and I are on speaking terms.
Still here it is anyway. :)

Blue brads Fun challenge

We have been livening up our team spirits with little challenges and fun evenings, and it really makes a difference. We were challenged to create a "white space" style Layout. Mine is Turquoise space but the general feeling is there. :)

Gotta love digi

I have been busy trying to learn how to use my new "Digital Scrapbook Artist2". It is soo much fun and i love it. I have also been printing out bits to use for hybrid and as there are way too many family birthdays this month, i have been making cards too.
I found some old strange photos and used them for the UKS monthly challenge. I required ice-cream colours, journalling, stripes and the subjct had to be about change. I quite liked the end result.

Blue brads Fun evening

My Team on UKScrappers are the Craftaholics and we are part of the Blue brads team for point collecting (ok! yes i am a little competative).
This week we had a fun evening and i really enjoyed it, and i won a prize (not for a LO just for guessing how many smarties were in a jar - i suppose i am just very experienced with smarties!)
We also did a little in-house challenge so i used Scrapblog! and did a little digi LO. Recently i have swapped family photos with my cousins and for the first time found they had a picture of my father with his twin, his sister, and mother. It is hand tinted so has that real vintage feel.

august week 1 challenge from UKS

This is a hybrid LO, I printed out the ribbon and the blue button from a shabby princess kit. The background was glimmer misted. I did this as a page for my eldest son's album (him of the dazzling computer skills). Trying vainly to cut down the amount i spend on scrapping for a bit so that i can save some money for later this year at the pink booby crop :)

Finally back on line!

I've had a few problems - all self inflicted I managed to load something nasty that wiped out my computer. But my eldest son (well know smart alec and all round good egg)fixed it for me. So Yey! Here I am even though I lost all the stuff that I had done and forgot to back up, I don't care cos I am back!!
First up is my attempt at the house challenge for august on uk scrappers - i have recently bought Digital Scrapbook artist2, as i was finding photoshop pro heavy going and i love it, Daisy trail do great kits too.

Mayfair

This class was my fav. I had totally forgotten how i love to mess with paint and canvas. I made it as a present for my niece (who has just had her second baby, and still is as slim as a willow) and her partner.

Oxford Street

This was so much fun, but took forever to dry. Lots of spraying but what a great effect, got to love those glimmer mists. The end result is another one to go in the dinning room :)

The Strand

This is a great class, very different from the things I usually do. I had some pictures of Portmeirion that I wanted to scrap for myself and this proved to be the perfect class for them.

the Angel, Islington

As I went to school in Islington I was looking forward to this one. I thoroughly enjoyed cutting the frames, the distressing and finished result was one i was happy with too. Fab Class!!

this was the Bow Street Class, lots of playing with paint and some old letters made an interesting title.

mystery kit uks

I made a few bits from the mystery kit, but had a problem up-loading, when the site was open my picture was missing so here it is.
MY kit was lovely it was from Sarahs Cards, i used the box it was delivered in covered in white paper and loads of glue + some stickles to make a box frame. It is now decorating my dining room :)

End of january 2010

The next page has a pocket and my ticket and photo's from a visit to "The Rocky Horror Show" Which was fabulous David Bedella had just the right touch for the part of Frank N Furter, I laughed all night a real feel good evening. The final page from January is a mini LO with a picture of the tree's in the snow.

The second page is mini photos of the children and the third page is made from the envelope I saved my receipts and photo's in. There are two pockets and lots of tags. One large tag has a list of highlight and lowlights of the month, the back has books I have been reading, also details of swaps and craft work from the month.

Document 2010

I have finally got around to making the minibook for the challenge (on UKScrappers),
I have been saving everything labels, tickets, photos and now I am in a panic incase I leave it too long and then dont start at all because there is too much to catch up with.

Last picture - the whole jigsaw

This is the finished jigsaw, which I will be posting on monday. I can't wait to see what I get back. That is the bit of a swap that I love best, it's just like christmas.

Last of the Jigsaw pieces

This is the Hollywood Bling piece for Elune I have used glossy accents and small stones to give it some umph! I am quite please with the effect.


Beneath it is the celtic inspired piece for Leigh, I used stamping and embossing in a silvery finish and also glossy accents. Because the designs were so complicated I decided to keep to black and white/silver to show them off.

Day Dream Believer

I did a digital Layout on scrapblog for this weeks challenge on ukscrappers, and really enjoyed it. I loved the bored expression and after I took the photos last year I have been looking for a suitable theme to use them and this one was perfect.

Eygpt and the Metal

Metal and grunge was for Magpie I am not quite satisfied with this yet so I may add or change it yet.

Eygpt was done for 3peaches, the backing was cut from a calendar I bought in Eygpt and distressed then I partially covered it with henna ink and copper coloured acrylic.

Magical Moon and the Vintage Butterflies

Magical Moon is for Dragonfly Jane and the background is a mixture of wax encaustic, a mica glimmer mist, and paint. This is the 1st time I experimented with encaustic and it was interesting - in fact i may play again.

Vintage butterfles is for pinkster I used blue and willow green paint dabbers for the background and as many butterflies as I could fit on!

Caribbean Islands, and the Blues

Caribbean island - for wisher includes a turtle at her request.

The Blues has a blues guitarist and a sax, a tribute to Gary Moore and my favourite piece of music "Still got the blues"

JIGGY TIME AGAIN !

I am working on my small jiggy pieces for a swap on ukscrappers. Being a duffus I got the date wrong and panicked because I thought it was posting on 22/02/10 but no! I had written it wrongly on the calendar so I have 4 whole weeks to do the last 2 pieces. Still I am busy as I am working on a scrap book about me, I am incorporating the new monthly scrapping challenge, and hope to collect a year in my life, and turn them into one album.
This piece is MIckey and Friends for sixophone

times are hard!

I have made a decision not to buy anymore craft stuff - I have way too much. As the result of being a chronic hoarder, I buy new bits all the time and so much is left unused and stored all over the house. Because of family circumstances I dont have a craft room at present, so now is a good time to get my stash down to a managable level.
However I did do this weeks challenge on UKScrappers, as a digital layout on Scrapblog. Also I have to make 2 spidermen and 1 fantastic Mr Fox mask by thursday - or I lose Grandma status!

Happy New Year

I thought about resolutions but i only want to improve my crafting. I wish everyone a great new year.
I hope that this year will be a good one, althought the snow is a really bad start. I love it when it first comes and everywhere is white and clean, but once the snow turns to ice i am soo over it.
i am making an effort to scan lots of my fathers old papers. He was a soldier when he was young and an athlete. My mother discovered some very old newspaper clippings and his old army pay book after he died. I used that last year to claim his medals for her, this year i want too scan the papers and them she can give them to my brother with his medals and i will still have a copy. I hope that they can be passed on down the family.
The document above was from when he served in India. I like that oone of the subjects in his examination was Army and Empire, if i had known this paper exsisted when he was alive i would have loved to ask him what else they did there. I know he spoke some words of urdu that he learned there, but not much else.