#HarryPotter + #Baking + #Crafting + Weather

Of course, I had to get the matching Ravenclaw bowl that goes with the mug I showed you that I got a couple of weeks ago, didn’t I? So, here are a couple of photos of the bowl for anyone who would like to see it:

 

 

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I made this strawberry cloud pie in the cooking call:

 

 

It’s 100% vegan, and was very tasty, if I do say so myself.

 

I’ve made plenty of other things on the cooking call, including a new to me cookie recipe.  But I’m especially proud of this strawberry cloud pie since there were a lot of adaptations required to make it suitable for vegans, and I’d never done anything like that before.  That’s why I wanted to show it to you.

 

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I also made a little loom knitted scrubby, which is made out of a pale blue cotton yarn (the colour name is “ice blue” I believe).  So, here’s a photo of that for you to see too:

 

 

And I also made this black and white woven rope basket:

 

 

The basket was one of the large pile of kits that have been waiting for me to be able to do them for ages.  My Dad read the instructions for me so I could finally get to do it.  Hopefully he’s going to continue helping me work my way through the pile of craft kits.  It’s going to take some time to get through them though, because I ended up with a rather large pile of them.

 

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It was the Autumn Equinox a little over a week ago, and the weather most definitely agrees that the Summer is now over.  And that’s just fine by me.  I’d much rather these cooler temperatures that’s for sure!

 

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Things have been pretty busy here most days.  But - as I feel like I'm saying a lot lately - it's the kind of busy where I don’t really have anything to share despite that, so I’ll let this do for today.  I hope September has been a good month for you.  Stay safe, especially if you happen to be in the path of any of the really bad storms I’ve been hearing so much about.

A #Tortoise + A Weather Report + #Crafting

 

The photos at the top of this post are just a couple of random ones I took with my phone's camera of Artemis climbing on a pile of throw pillows on the sofa.  Just because you haven't seen an Artemis photo in a while, so I thought I'd take a photo or two to share with you.

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The days are just flying by.  It's hard to believe we're already a week in to April.  But, here we are.

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We got a little bit of snow just as we entered April.  We didn't take photos, because none of it settled.  We did get something like half an inch, but the conditions weren't right for it to stick around once it hit the ground.  I got to have fun catching snowflakes though, so there's that.

Lilie and Logan love when it snows too.  Partially because they do play with the snow a bit (though Lilie wasn't so interested in it this time) but I think mostly because I'm never in any hurry to go indoors when there's snow, which means they get to stay outside longer.  LOL!

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Since then it's been alternating between rain and hail storms, and sunshine.  And the temperatures have been all over the place as well, so that one day we're opening the windows to let a nice breeze in, and the next we're making sure the windows are firmly closed and looking for warm blankets to snuggle in because it's so cold.

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I've been doing a lot with the ACB Crafters.  I'm now part of their admin team, so helping to run some of the classes.  So much for my not wanting anything to do with all this when I was first told about the ACB Community calls about a year ago.  LOL!

 

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Anyway, I have some photos of finished projects to show you.

First, here are two different loom knitted shamrocks I made:

Next, here's a crocheted shamrock and a crocheted mini Easter basket:

I'm thinking of putting the shamrocks on some fabric and turning it in to a shamrock themed throw pillow.  The crochet and smaller loom knitted ones are close to the same size, and anyway all three of them are slightly different, so I thought it would look nice with the big loom knitted one in the middle, and the smaller two one on either side of it.

Anyway, I also made a couple of Easter cards... One with a rabbit head on it, and the other with two sheep on it... These were my own designs, and not following the ones the class was doing, because I didn't have the kit.  Anyway, here they are:

And this is the party hat you'll have seen if you read Lilie's post last week:

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I also sometimes attend classes via Future In Sight, which Kaila (one of the ones in charge of the ACB Crafters) works for.  Those are held via Zoom like the ACB Crafters ones, and are also aimed at visually impaired crafters.

Anyway, I made this rope coaster in one of those workshops recently:

And, while trying to get the rope coaster made, I somehow made this cone shaped thing, which reminds me of the kind of hat you'd see on a garden gnome, so I've been calling it a gnome hat, and am thinking of making a gnome to put it on.  Anyway, here it is:

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Going to let this do for today.

Hope you're having a great week.