I guess that I fall in the unpredictable blogger.  Life has been so busy I have forgotten to blog.  In the description of the blog I said that it would mainly be about baking but with whatever I liked thrown in.

So, today's post is about the other things that have kept me busy in the last 4 months.

I participated in the Bernat Mystery Knit-A-Long.  Here is the link

http://www.bernat.com/2012mysteryafghan/

I had a blast doing this afghan.  I truly enjoyed the challenge of learning the new clues.  It was the first time that I worked with Bernat Waverly.  I am in love.  It is fabulous to work with.  I used A - Incense, B - Bitter Rose, C - Sundrift, D - Butter, E - Willow I love the colour palette.

I can't wait until next year's KAL.  I might try the Crochet a long if I find I have extra time :)


My list of projects for this year included a sweater for myself (done, just needs buttons), the KAL (done - see above), 2 baby blankets and an afghan for my DD.  


Here is 1 of the 2 baby blankets.

Here is the Pattern for "Twinkle Little Blanket'


http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=170

I used  Bernat Baby Co-ordinates - MC - Lemon Custard A - Soft Torquoise B - Aqua/Lemon. It was a new experience for me to work with a chart.  It was a bit of a challenge but once I got it, it was fairly easy.


My current project is "Lace Border Blanket"


http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=1743

Yes, there is a Bernat trend but it is a coincidence.  I am making this blanket out of Bernat Baby Softee - Can't find the colour name but it is a variegated yarn with pink, orange, green and white.  I will hopefully be done it quickly as the little girl who will be receiving is seems eager to make her appearance early.

I have still been doing my normally baking but what I wanted to show today was some of the other projects that I love to do.

Do you do more than baking?  What crafts do you like to do?  Leave a comment and let me know

~ Shay

Valentines Day

Wow it has been 2 months since my last post.  Sorry about that!

I didn't go all out for Valentine's Day.  I made some brownies which my family enjoyed.  I don't make brownies often but I don't really know why.  And truthfully I made a boxed mix.  It had real chocolate chips in it which made it even more yummy.

I made a Cherry Cola Chocolate cake for my DH birthday.  I am bad about getting pictures posted.  I did a very basic traditional icing job on it.  (the Knife swirl).  Here is the link to the original recipe which was for Cupcakes but I wanted to make it as a cake.  Wasn't a difficult transition.

The big difference, obviously, was that I baked it in a 3" pan instead of cupcake liners and tin.  I also used the cherry pie filling between the layers of cake.

http://passthesushi.com/cherry-coke-float-cupcakes

I didn't make the glaze and iced it with Buttercream icing.  I think it would have been a nice touch if I had added strawberry flavouring, to the icing.  Strawberry flavouring is now on my shopping list :)

I was gifted 3 boxes of different flavours so I am going to attempt to use them.  So I should have some interesting cakes coming out in the next few month.

On my list of cakes that I want to make is a Neapolitan 5 Layer cake.  Once I have tried it I will post the recipe.  


~ Shay ~