Hi there everyone.
Just to let you know I'm still around, just rather busy with other things. I have recently retired from my day job, but then started to take up my other hobby again as well. I have been really busy with that and have made it a bit of a 'career change' if you will. I will soon pick up on this blog though as well.
If you are interested to know about my other hobby (writing novels), then feel free to have a look on my Author's blog, my website, or follow me on facebook, twitter or Inlinkz as you please for updates on that.
Love,
Jo
Friday, 2 February 2018
Thursday, 11 May 2017
CRAFT Challenge Blog Hop 2017
Happy Birthday To Us
Happy Birthday To Us
Happy Birthday Dear CRAFT
Challenge
Happy
Birthday To Us!
Can you
believe it? CRAFT Challenge is already 8
years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and with a DT
mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the term CRAFT Challenge,
which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly Trimmies. Or if you wished
alternative meaning of Can't Remember A Flipping Thing) on the 4th
of May 2009.
We have now grown to be a large team of Design
Team Members from all around the world, supplemented with several Guest
Designers who join us for a month or a week at a time.
We have
always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless specifically
stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to have such a large
group of faithful followers.
So, how are
we going to celebrate this milestone?
Well, how else can we celebrate than to have our
yearly Blogaversary Blog Hop?
We all feature sponsors for this blog hop on our
blogs and I have the honour of featuring and offering a prize from the
following sponsor. You can win this prize by adding your name to Inlinkz at the
end of this post. I would love to see your comments as well.
The sponsor on my blog is Eureka Stamps.
And you can win 3 images from Eureka Stamps by adding your name to the Inlinkz at
the end of this post.
How can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our
sponsors?
That is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop, Our Blog
Hop lasts for the duration of this challenge, which means a closing time of
Wednesday 6pm GMT on the 17th of May 2017.
And here are our little
rules for this challenge/blog hop:
The rules this
year are very simple:
1. Make a
project for this challenge and your entry will be put in the random draw for
the prize by Sweet
n Sassy.
2. Visit
the blogs of our DT and enter into their Inlinkz to be put in the random draw
for the prize on their blog.
3. The
Top3 will again be chosen as every week as well.
4. No
sentences hunting this year I'm afraid.
You should have come here from Jean’s blog and as you can
see your next stop is Maggie's blog. The start and
finish of this blog hop are at CRAFT Challenge Blog.
And here is my project for this week, hope you
like it.
'Milton Mouse Colored Digital Image', 'Filmore Fox Colored Digital Stamp' and 'Sweet Birthday Wishes Digital Stamp' by Sweet n Sassy)
And now for our Blog Hop route:
Your next stop is Maggie's blog. Enjoy the rest of your hop! Don't
forget to add your name to Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of winning the
prize on my blog.
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Challenge 404, Mothers' Day/Female at CRAFT Challenge.
Hello everyone!
It's been a while since I last posted anything on my blog. Life just has been too busy with work, home and organising CRAFT Challenge to allow any time for crafting for me. I however could not let the current challenge at CRAFT Challenge go by as I needed some cards for 2 very special ladies.
February is a month with 2 female birthdays in our family. So, the current challenge at CRAFT Challenge is just right for this. For this card I have used a template from Robyn Cockburn at Craftsuprint. I have amended it very slightly to suit these 2 ladies (my mum in law and my daughter) in my life. I have removed the image the design came with and replaced it with a photo taken at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park of their favourite animal the tiger. Hope you like it. Don't forget to also check our challenge at CRAFT Challenge.
And here is the finished card, hope you like.
Love,
Jo.
It's been a while since I last posted anything on my blog. Life just has been too busy with work, home and organising CRAFT Challenge to allow any time for crafting for me. I however could not let the current challenge at CRAFT Challenge go by as I needed some cards for 2 very special ladies.
February is a month with 2 female birthdays in our family. So, the current challenge at CRAFT Challenge is just right for this. For this card I have used a template from Robyn Cockburn at Craftsuprint. I have amended it very slightly to suit these 2 ladies (my mum in law and my daughter) in my life. I have removed the image the design came with and replaced it with a photo taken at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park of their favourite animal the tiger. Hope you like it. Don't forget to also check our challenge at CRAFT Challenge.
And here is the finished card, hope you like.
Love,
Jo.
Recipe for homemade Satay Sauce.
To serve with Nasi Goreng or with sate sticks, or even as a sauce on top fo french fries.
Here is the recipe for sate sauce.
All you need is:
a jar of crunchy peanut butter
a diced onion
some sambal (the chili pepper sauce again, may have to dig out a recipe for that one as you can't buy it here very easily :lol: )
some Indonesian herbs ( ground ginger, ground cumin, and some others of which I don't know the English version, basically some tumeric I guess and of course some garlic)
some soy sauce
some lime or lemon juice
some sugar/brown sugar
some milk
Put some oil into a sauce pan and heat it.
Add the onion and fry until it is soft.
Add the peanut butter and the herbs, the sugar (1 teaspoon), the sambal (1-2 teaspoons), the soy sauce(table spoon full) and stir, heat till warm.
Slowly add milk until it is a smooth sauce (will thicken during heating so you will probably need about 200ml)
I don't even need the recipes for these 2 any longer, just put them in as I find them and done. Absolutely love them.
If you want sate, all you need to do is get some diced chicken or pork, put in a marinade of Chinese or Indonesian herbs, sambal and soy sauce and leave to soak for about half an hour. Then put the pieces on some bamboo sticks or skewers, put under the grill for 10 minutes, turning over half way and ready, just add the sauce and you're done.
Another nice one is to boil some mixed vegetables (carrots, broccoli, green beans, peas, some cabbage, some beansprouts, some cauliflower for about 3 minutes, drain. Then put in a oven dish or large platter/bowl, add some slices of boiled egg on the top, some prawn crackers and the sauce again. (this dish is called Gado Gado in Indonesia and in Holland)
A lovely dish to add to a rice table. Can be really quick due to getting some out of the freezer (mixed vegetables) and using these.
I think I will need to stop now, getting too hungry now :lol: ;)
Here is the recipe for sate sauce.
All you need is:
a jar of crunchy peanut butter
a diced onion
some sambal (the chili pepper sauce again, may have to dig out a recipe for that one as you can't buy it here very easily :lol: )
some Indonesian herbs ( ground ginger, ground cumin, and some others of which I don't know the English version, basically some tumeric I guess and of course some garlic)
some soy sauce
some lime or lemon juice
some sugar/brown sugar
some milk
Put some oil into a sauce pan and heat it.
Add the onion and fry until it is soft.
Add the peanut butter and the herbs, the sugar (1 teaspoon), the sambal (1-2 teaspoons), the soy sauce(table spoon full) and stir, heat till warm.
Slowly add milk until it is a smooth sauce (will thicken during heating so you will probably need about 200ml)
I don't even need the recipes for these 2 any longer, just put them in as I find them and done. Absolutely love them.
If you want sate, all you need to do is get some diced chicken or pork, put in a marinade of Chinese or Indonesian herbs, sambal and soy sauce and leave to soak for about half an hour. Then put the pieces on some bamboo sticks or skewers, put under the grill for 10 minutes, turning over half way and ready, just add the sauce and you're done.
Another nice one is to boil some mixed vegetables (carrots, broccoli, green beans, peas, some cabbage, some beansprouts, some cauliflower for about 3 minutes, drain. Then put in a oven dish or large platter/bowl, add some slices of boiled egg on the top, some prawn crackers and the sauce again. (this dish is called Gado Gado in Indonesia and in Holland)
A lovely dish to add to a rice table. Can be really quick due to getting some out of the freezer (mixed vegetables) and using these.
I think I will need to stop now, getting too hungry now :lol: ;)
Thursday, 14 May 2015
CRAFT Challenge 311 - 14th of May – Bloghop, Birthday
Happy
Birthday To Us
Happy
Birthday To Us
Happy
Birthday Dear CRAFT Challenge
Happy
Birthday To Us!
Can
you believe it? CRAFT Challenge is already 6
years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and
with a DT mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the
term CRAFT Challenge, which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly
Trimmies. Or if you wished alternative meaning of Can't Remember A
Flipping Thing) on the 4th of May 2009.
We
have now grown to be a large team of Design Team Members from all
around the world, supplemented with lots of Guest Designers who join
us for a month at a time.
We
have always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless
specifically stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to
have such a large group of faithful followers.
So,
how are we going to celebrate this milestone?
Well,
how else can we celebrate than to have our yearly Blogaversary Blog
Hop?
We
all feature one of our sponsors for this blog hop on our blogs and I
have the honour of featuring and offering a prize from the following
sponsor. You can win this prize by adding your name to Inlinkz at the
end of this post. I would love to see your comments as well.
How
can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our sponsors?
That
is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop (you can also find
that in our side banner), Our Blog Hop lasts for the duration of this
challenge, which means a closing time of Wednesday 6pm GMT on the
20th of May 2015.
And
here are our little rules for this challenge/blog hop:
What
can you win on our challenge blog?
You
should have come here from Iona's
blog and as you can see your next stop is Maggie
's blog. The start and finish of
this blog hop are at CRAFT
Challenge Blog.
And
here is my project for this week, hope you like it. I have used
'Queen Anne's Wildflowers'
by Sweet
Stamps.
And
now for our Blog Hop route:
CRAFT
Challenge Blog (you
are here at the start of the hop)
Jo
(you
are here now)
CRAFT
Challenge Blog (you
are here at the end of the hop)
And
here is the letter to be collected on this blog:
Your
next stop is Maggie's
blog. Enjoy the rest of your hop! Don't forget to add your name to
Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of winning the prize on my blog.
Love,
Jo.
Thursday, 26 February 2015
300th Challenge at CRAFT Challenge
Morning all,
A long absence as I have been really busy with work and home. This week at CRAFT Challenge we celebrate our 300th challenge with our followers. I had nearly totally forgotten about it, but fortunately several of our DT already gave me the heads up on it. I have therefore worked on a mini kit to celebrate this challenge, which will be free to download by our followers if they wish. It does not really fit in with the challenge subject, but I hope you like it anyway. Just in case you want to have access to it as well, here it is available for download. Just click on the picture to download.
Enjoy!
Love,
Jo
A long absence as I have been really busy with work and home. This week at CRAFT Challenge we celebrate our 300th challenge with our followers. I had nearly totally forgotten about it, but fortunately several of our DT already gave me the heads up on it. I have therefore worked on a mini kit to celebrate this challenge, which will be free to download by our followers if they wish. It does not really fit in with the challenge subject, but I hope you like it anyway. Just in case you want to have access to it as well, here it is available for download. Just click on the picture to download.
Love,
Jo
Thursday, 22 May 2014
CRAFT Challenge 260 - 22nd of May - Colour Combo
Morning all,
Here are 2 cards I have created for CRAFT Challenge this week, hope you like them. Our challenge this week is a colour combo and I have used my own papers with this colour combo for this challenge.
Here are 2 cards I have created for CRAFT Challenge this week, hope you like them. Our challenge this week is a colour combo and I have used my own papers with this colour combo for this challenge.
(using 'Crafty Honey's Ruler' by Scrappers Delight)
(using 'Lion 3D decoupage sheet' and 'Here comes the sun' papers by
Trimgym's Digistamps and Images)
And here is our colour combo this week:
Love,
Jo
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Challenge 258 - 8th of May - Birthday - OUR ANNUAL BLOGHOP At CRAFT Challenge
Morning all!
Happy
Birthday To Us
Happy
Birthday To Us
Happy
Birthday Dear CRAFT Challenge
Happy
Birthday To Us!
Can
you believe it? CRAFT Challenge is already 5
years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and
with a DT mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the
term CRAFT Challenge, which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly
Trimmies. Or if you wished alternative meaning of Can't Remember A
Flipping Thing) on the 4th of May 2009.
We
have now grown to be a large team of Design Team Members from all
around the world, supplemented with lots of Guest Designers who join
us for a month at a time.
We
have always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless
specifically stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to
have such a large group of faithful followers.
So,
how are we going to celebrate this milestone?
Well,
how else can we celebrate than to have our yearly Blogaversary Blog
Hop?
We
all feature one of our sponsors for this blog hop on our blogs and I
have the honour of featuring and offering a prize from the following
sponsor. You can win this prize by adding your name to Inlinkz at the
end of this post. I would love to see your comments as well.
How
can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our sponsors?
That
is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop (you can also find
that in our side banner), Our Blog Hop lasts for the duration of this
challenge, which means a closing time of Wednesday 6pm GMT on the
14th of May 2014.
And
here are our little rules for this challenge/blog hop:
- Our challenge this week is Birthday
- Create something with this in mind
- Add your project to the Inlinkz at our challenge blog to be in with a chance of 3 digital stamps from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More
- Follow the route of the Blog Hop
- Add your project to the Inlinkz at each of these stops to be in with a chance of winning the prize advertised on that blog
- Collect the words on this and the blogs on the blog hop
- Form a sentence with these words
- Return to our challenge blog and put your winning sentence in our comments under the post.
- We will choose a winner randomly from the correct answers entered, who will win a special Blog Hop pack by Trimgym's Digistamps and Images
- We will enable comment moderation for the duration of this challenge/blog hop to ensure there is no cheating, lol.
- And the main rule: HAVE FUN!
What
can you win on our challenge blog?
- The winner of the winning sentence wins
And
here is my project for this week, hope you like it. I have used 'Betty Butterfingers' by The Stamping Chef.
And
now for our Blog Hop route:
CRAFT
Challenge Blog (you should
have started here)
CRAFT
Challenge Blog (you should
have returned here at the end of the hop)
And
here is the word to be collected on this blog:
Your
next stop is Marlene's
blog. Enjoy the rest of your hop! Don't forget to add your name to
Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of winning the prize on my blog.
Love,
Jo
Love,
Jo
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