3 Things happening

This is the painting I'm working on. It is huge, about twice the size of anything else I've done -- I've only been painting for 12 months.

This is just my foundation image. I did it last week at about 2 one morning, when I was suffering "busy brain" and couldn't sleep.

I'm just waiting for school to start, so I can get on with it.

These are Beau's feet, she is modeling the little slippers I have been working on. I made some for myself, then the kids wanted some. they just love them. I think that I should jigg my pattern again to make baby ones too.

I hope to finish the pattern and post it in the next few days.

This is the kids breakfast, with Home Made Tomato Sauce, They love it.

I was given a box of tomatos, so many, and decided to do somthing special. I adapted the recipe in Stephanie Alaxanders "Cooks Companion" (one of my fav. recipe books)

TOMATO SAUCE

5kg ripe tomatos, chopped

1 table spoon peppercorns and

1tbs clove wrapped in muslin

1tbs ground ginger

1tbs all spice

3/4 bulb of garlic - chopped

30 salt

500ml apple cider vinegar

Boil all these things together for 1 hour, then add

1kg raw sugar

Boil for 2 hours, stir regularly, so that it dosen't

catch on the bottom of your saucepan. Blend it

with a stick blender in your sauce pan. Bottle in

hot sterile jars/ bottles, I used screw cap wine

bottles.

I am absolutly delighted with this sauce, Handy loved it, and licked out the sauce pan. I am totally suprised that the kids like it, I hated the tomato sauce my mother made, I seem to remember it having somthing icky in it, maybe it was the spice, maybe I had an imature pallet.