knitting, nature and living with autism in the family
Just popping in to wish you a very happy start to 2010.
Here we’ve had a good Christmas and the children are just back at school (although maybe not for long as it looks like snow may force school closures later in the week!). Anyway, the first of my new year’s resolutions is to tackle my mountainous email backlog and I’m not coming back properly until that is done, so for now I’ll leave you with some of my favourite things from 2009…
See you soon, J x
Well, the children are back home from their last day of school so our Christmas break has just begun (and we even have a few inches of snow- very exciting!)
Here’s wishing you a great Christmas / holiday season
see you in the new year x
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PS: a couple of people have asked about the mini stocking pattern – it’s available for free on Ravelry.
I must have been in a good mood when I decided earlier this week to make some sweets as teacher presents this year. It seemed good idea at the time but that was before I realised what a hugely messy and time consuming process it would be! The chocolate truffles were relatively painless but the marrons glace were a different story. My fingernails are now rather ragged and I have 2 sugar burns – I do hope that the teachers like them and it was all worth it!
First slit the chestnuts and simmer them. At the same time make a vanilla sugar syrup
peel the chestnuts (allow at least an hour for this and give up now if you need nice nails in the next few days!!)
poach the chestnuts in the vanilla syrup
and bring to the boil for 25 minutes
drain and dip into a second stronger sugar syrup then dry overnight on a rack
pack in twists of cellophane and bag up. Then have a very large glass of wine and make a mental note to do shop bought next year!
