9 sleeps and a new look!!!

A new look!  My girlfriend dropped in today to give me some cool cherry fabric.  It was supposed to be part of the Gumnuts kris kringle gift but it was ordered online and took longer than expected to arrive.  I certainly didn't mind getting it late - I love it.  In fact, I thought I would try it out as my background for the blog!  What do you think?  A cheery cherry background for the Cherry Red Quilter!!! (and I am secretly delighted that I actually worked out how to do it!!!)

Baking for today was a new recipe!  I wish this was a scatch and sniff photo - these cookies have ginger and golden syrup in them and they smell divine!  These will be another cookie to go into my cookie tins that I am giving away to a few special people next week!

MUESLI COOKIES

225g (1 ½ cups) muesli

150g (1 cup) plain flour

85g (1cup) desiccated coconut

75g (1/2 cup) craisins

100g (1/2 cup) caster sugar

55g (1/4 cup) firmly packed brown sugar

1 ½ teasp ground ginger

125g butter, chopped

60mls (1/4 cup) golden syrup

1 tabsp water

1 teasp bicarb soda

Preheat oven to 160ºC.  Line two baking trays with non-stick paper.  Combine muesli, flour, coconut, craisins, caster sugar, brown sugar and ginger in a large bowl.  Melt together butter, golden syrup and water in a saucepan over low heat.  Cook stirring for 5 minutes or until butter melts and mixture is combined.  Remove from heat.  Add bicarb soda and stir until just combined.  Add muesli mix and stir.  Roll tablespoons of mix into balls and place on trays, allowing room for spreading.  Flatten to 1cm thick.  Bake in preheated oven, swapping trays halfway thru cooking, for twenty minutes or until brown and crisp.  Leave on trays for five minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

My sewing for today culminated in me finishing off these little bookmarks and my second technical achievement for the day was working out how to crop these pictures 

These are going to two gorgeous girls, daughters of one of my oldest friends.  One of the girls is my goddaughter.

I really like these too - I definitely have to make some more!

Don't forget the winner of my giveaway and most of the other Blog Hop Party Giveaways are being drawn tomorrow so you need to hurry up and check them out if you haven't already.  You can see mine here - just leave a comment on that post to enter and you can check out the list of all the other blogs here.

Till next time...............happy stitching!