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That Tamberine changes tune! & writing story tips
Twas the night before Christmas and no sign of dad was Jayne’s
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thoughts. Me dad only staggered in some nights wanting to see me but mum wouldn’t let him. The next morning Jayne could hear whistling coming down the road. Jayne popped her head out the window and it was her dad and he had this parcel neatly wrapped with red tissue paper and a white ribbon with a bow.
He gave me that red parcel with the white bow and it jingled. I missed you daddy and thank you for seeing me today and with a surprize red parcel, Open it.
I got the biggest surprize it was a tamberine…
The story above is different than what I wrote first and it’s so different-I liked the first snippet, thats filed, so you could be writing a snippet a few times before it’s right one that fits in well.
When starting my novel my ideas were going everywhere. I kept starting a line of thought then stopping. My teacher told me you just have to pick one idea and go with it. Starting from scratch with a novel there must be an idea and then revote around that. Some ideas with writing happening, maybe a chapter or two you can find that it’s not taking you anywhere. When I started Jayne Tishrae I started her as a little girl and it was in third person, though it didn’t take me anywhere after a 1000 words or 2.
One day it came to me boing! a diary format and I thought how cool is that-perfect. Plus I could write it as if she wrote it herself. This worked after part one and it’s still. Bits and pieces from the first idea with Jayne as a child I have kept snippets here and there. Kinda like above.
Textiles
I only manage to fit in 1 unit with Uni this year and I start another one in February 2012. I am going to do Textiles. It’s what I work with half the time. I got my grade for print making and I got a credit which made me feel proud. Someone who failed high school is doing better being older studying.
You know some of us are slow learners- I would of not coped these days- I would of only got to Grade 4. Some need a different approach to learning the encouragement of creatively stuff, but some only want to learn that stuff-something that you invent, as well.
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Minds are powerful what we hold, though over time you can change the way you think to push with what needs to be done. JM
Wholemeal Date & Cinnamin Scones
Easy to make yummy to eat! Trying to think back where did I get this recipe from like what era. If it was someones recipe to start with it was totally changed to my a little bit of this and a little bit of that! Mmm!
Wholemeal flour S/R, dates-1 bag, cinnamin- 2 teaspoons. olive oil butter-rub enough to look like bread crumbs, water or milk, doesn’t make much difference, with oven already heated up, flour a baking tray and make a slab and slightly make cut makes-makes about 8. Once cooked, smother with butter.
Wholemeal Bannana Cake/lemon icing
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My youngest daughter thought she would bake a cake and what a cake it was! The best ever risen cake I’ve seen…I could not do any better! We only had whole self raising in the house and bannanas, I thought grouse a wholemeal sponge cake.
1 and a half cups of self raising wholemeal flour, I egg, 2 tblespn of olive oil butter and the same with milk. 3 squashed bannanas, 3 quarters of cup of raw sugar…icing about a cup of icing sugar and a couple of sqeezers of a real lemon.
Cafe Noir- This is usually handed round after dinner, and should be drunk well sweeten. The coffee should be made very strong and served in very small cups, but never mixed with milk or cream. Cafe Noir may be made of the essence of coffee by pouring a dessertspoonful into each cup, and filling it up with boiling water. This is a very simple and expeditious manner of preparing coffee for a large party, but the essence for it must be made very good and kept well corked until requireed for use.
Resource Lee’s Priceless Recipes
Perfumes
Distilled Water & Oils
Perfumes can be distilled by the use of a glass retort. A napkin wet with cold water should beplaced about the tube and a reciever placed upon the table. A lamp should be kept burning under the retort, removed far away to prevent the liqiud running. It should pass drop by drop into the reciever, and when inclined to run the lamp should be removed…
I remember making my own perfume-pink blossum flowers and water seal into a bottle and kept for days and I think it pretended to smell, well at first it did then the flowers went brownish.
Cinnamon Water: Powdered cinnamon 20 ounces, water 2 gallons: distill 1 gallon.
Craft Attack!
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I lost my craft mind, hands while being a mother. I was always home and there for my children. I have been in that journey of joy and a lot of hard work, though the worry never goes away. Now, I have time (I think) to enjoy getting lost in my own little world and escape society. It might have gradualatd over the past three years. I have picked up where I left off before kids’ though they are there but in the background still calling out MUM!
So much I have to do before I reach 100 years old-I will be waiting for the queen’s letter to congratulate me and my life. I am in process of a trunk tomb of all relics and mementoes to pass down among my families.
…Your past is in your future. JM
Getting back to a craft attack I have started making paper flowers and I was inspired by The White Wedding Dress Exhibition, recently about the paper flowers that were hand crafted. A coincidence was I was in the op shop the other week and picked up an old book all about making paper flowers.
