May 2011 – Melanie Makes Meringues

Cutting + sticking + sewing + baking. My creative life.

Royal Wedding

I made a Royal Wedding care package for my Australian namesake and I can finally tell you about it as it has arrived. It took over a month! I thought it was lost in the post. The parcel contained union flag serviettes, small notebook and stickers and a tea cosy…

March Cake of the Month (a little late!)

Here's what happened with March Cake of the Month : - For March Cake of the Month I will make you something from The Whoopie Pie Book (which is new and I haven't even used it yet) if you can come up with the best answer to the following question; if…

Extravagant, Audacious, Outrageous, Amazing Grace

This year the challenge I have given myself is to make, at least, three new banners for my church. The last series of banners were made in 1992 and are looking a little dated now. I am working on them at my independant study days with Committed to Cloth. I…

Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals

I have been working my way through Jamie's 30-Minute Meals, it has some great recipes for week night dinners. Not sure if I'm managing to do them in 30 minutes though, I think I fall down on the "First get all your equipment and ingredients ready" bit! We are quite…

Growing and Preserving

I love snail mail! Nothing like getting a parcel in the post is there. So I got together a care package for my friend Alison who loves to grow stuff and is then great at preserving her produce. Alison and Chris's home-made wine is notorious, possibly similar to Tom Good's…

Melanie Makes Meringues