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Beautiful New Friendship, Jake’s Amazing Models and Creamy White Chocolate Chai and Vanilla Pots

1 Singing with The Suitcases and Claire is always beautiful, rain or not. One of our choir-babies was with us as well as the daughter of a very good friend and they had great fun together. If you look carefully, you’ll see the Sally-boots which have been pulled off!

Beautiful new friends

2 We’re keeping Jake’s lovely models until his next visit. (I know, he may have lost interest!)

Jake’s models – the hangar made with Mikki, the aeroplane made with Mr S and the rockets made with his Mum and me.

3 I made these deliciously wicked puds for KJ and Lucy’s last night and we finished them off today. The recipe came from http://thenutritionguruandthechef.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/creamy-white-chocolate-chai-and-vanilla-pots/

Creamy White Chocolate Chai and Vanilla Pots

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 14, 2012 in community, craft, family, Food, music, singing

Tags: Claire Ingleheart, Creamy White Chocolate Chai and Vanilla Pots, dessert, food, friendship, Jake, models, Postaday, pud, Sally-boots, singing, The Suitcases

Singing, Groucho Marx and Piano Playing

26 Apr

1 After singing with Sophie and the Suitcases this morning, I took the Sally-boots that I made this week to a friend for her new baby boy, Declan.

Sally-boots for Declan

2 I have been reminded this afternoon by of a quotation that pleases me. Thank you, Usha Pisharody

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
~Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx.

3 It’s been a long time since my last piano lesson but I have practised a lot since we came home from Senegal and today my lovely teacher said, with the first half of one piece, that I would have been given top marks if that had been the exam! Now I have to make the rest of the piece as good!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 26, 2012 in craft, knitting, music, piano, singing

Tags: community, Grade 1 exam, Groucho Marx, new baby, piano lesson, quotation, Sally-boots, Senegal, singing, Suitcases

Penryn, Shopping and Nutella

29 Mar

1 Another beautiful day so singing with The Suitcases in the Zed Shed was particularly lovely with the view of the Penryn river as a backdrop. It was our last session with Claire for seven weeks as she goes off to London to be MD on the Wildworks production, Babel in Caledonia Park. I hope to go up to London to see the show in May.

View from The Zed Shed

2 Went into Truro after singing to meet the lovely Mr S to do some final shopping for our trip to Senegal and also met Phillipa and Dan with their tiny baby daughter for whom I knitted the Sally-boots. They are too big for her just yet.

3 I made some Nutella meringues! Truly scrumptious but one to share was enough and the rest will be frozen. This was to use up all the egg whites I had left from making Jewel Cookies. Choc Chip Uru at Go Bake Yourself was my inspiration for these. Thank you! http://gobakeyourself.wordpress.com/

Nutella Meringues

Orange Choc Chip Cookies

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 29, 2012 in baking, Cornwall, Food, Senegal, travel

Tags: Babel, baby, Claire Ingleheart, http://gobakeyourself.wordpress.com/, Jewel Cookies, London, meringues, Mr S, Nutella, Penryn, Sally-boots, Senegal, Shopping, Truro, Wildworks

Sally-Boots, The Heligan Giant and Swish

28 Mar

1 I finished the Sally-boots for Dan’s new daughter just as he finished our fence. We all feel pleased.

Sally-boots

2 Lucy has been working in the Lost Gardens of Heligan helping to restore The Heligan Giant with the sculptors, Sue Hill and her brother, Pete.

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3 Went to the Swish at Krowji with Lucy this evening and we both found things we can wear in Senegal. A Swish, for those who don’t know is a clothes swap.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 28, 2012 in art, craft, environment, garden, knitting, nature, sculpture, Senegal, travel

Tags: clothes swap, Krowji, Lucy, nature, outdoors, Pete Hill, Sally-boots, Senegal, Sue Hill, Swish, The Heligan Giant, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

New Baby, Blogger Award and a Simple Supper

14 Mar

1 Work on the fence has stopped temporarily as our lovely landscaper became a Dad overnight! Congratulations to D&P. I’ll have to get busy on a pair of Sally-Boots!

2 I’ve been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award! Very pleasing. Check out the details here http://mybeautfulthings.com/versatile-blogger-award/ or by clicking at the top left of the page.

3 The simplest of suppers – Tomato and Mozzarella Pasta – delicious!

Bonus for today……

No 4 We’ve just seen Venus and Jupiter, seemingly very close together, in the night sky just above where the sun set. I’m told they are 3-4* apart and will be visible in our sky until Saturday if the skies are clear.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 14, 2012 in Uncategorized

Tags: awards, congratulations, Jupiter, new baby, night sky, Sally-boots, simple supper, tomato and mozzarella pasta, Venus, Versatile Blogger Award

Friends, Sally-boots and Piano Lesson

02 Feb

1 Despite a disastrous start to the day with two burst tyres, singing with the Suitcases and then a lovely lunch with understanding friends helped to recover the day.

2 Seeing Choir-baby Elowyn in her Sally-boots was a great pleasure, especially as they matched her Babygro.