Anne of Green Gables

Yes I know. I am a bit obsessed with my sewing machines. But they are so important to me! I can not live without them. Last March before Easter I got my 1st ever treadle sewing machine. We call Her Vihervaaran Anna (Anne of Green Gables).

She is very Swedish Girl and She is finally back home!!!!! I made Her a proper bath (not literally) and pampered Her a lot. I placed Her on MyVeranda where She can see MyGarden and hear the wind that comes from the sea and brings greetings from Sweden which locates at the opposite shore not too far away. I told Her She is very special treadle sewing machine. She is from late 50's, has electric lights but still is a treadle sewing machine! She is Husqvarna automatic 51A.

I had never before tried out a treadle sewing machine. It works better when you tread Her like this; one foot front and one foot back. When you make sure the hand wheel goes all the time to the right direction (towards you) it all goes very well.

I thought it would have been more difficult and I had arranged the whole afternoon to spent with Anne. Perhaps She liked my loving whispers and made me to learn it all very fast. The next plan is to get used to Her. My craft & art teacher told me the 1st thing you sew with your new machine is the hood to keep the dust away. Well, Anne doesn't need the hood because She has this old fashion cabinet. Instead Her guide book has faced several distress during all these years. I will make a bag for her guide book!

Gluten free CrispyRiceCheeseCake

Happy Mother's Day to everybody! To celebrate the special day I share with you my own gluten free

CrispyRiceCheeseCake

Base & Cover

Melt and mix well together

75 g margarine or butter

200 g gluten free milk chocolate

Add and mix well

1 l gluten free crispy rice (I use Semper's)

Pour & spread approx 2/3 of the dough into 26 cm diameter round baking tray. Set a baking paper under it to avoid mess and make it easier to handle.

Pour & spread the rest of the dough on the bottom part of the baking tray. Set a baking paper under it too. This forms out the lid decoration of the cake.

Cheese filling

Mix well and add in the following order

2dl cream (whipped)

500g mascarpone cheese

100g milk chocolate (melt)

Set 3 gelatine leaves into cold water and let them soften

Warm up 1 dl Bailey's Original Irish Cream (it should be hot)

Squeeze the water out of the soft gelatine leaves and melt them into the drink; remember to mix it well. Pour it all carefully and little by little into cheese dough and mix well all the time.

Pour & spread the cheese dough over the bottom of the cake (into the baking tray). It doesn't matter there is not the bottom part placed. It all will stay in without mess if you have spread the rice chocolate well all over the tray. The edges will keep it in there.

Let the cheese dough congeal at least for 4 hours in fridge. Place the lid over the cake and E A T!

Fireblanket Cover

Do you remember MyScotlandHoliday2015? I was inspired to design this Thistle chart after the journey. The free chart is available. I stitched a book mark of this chart. But I also finished the whole chart for further use. The further use has arrived and I sew a cover for our very red FireBlanket in the kitchen. Now it looks very tidy and decorative. I used white raw silk and it looks pretty nice with white aida fabric. I made also lining of the silk for the cover so the original red shade stays in hide. It is all my own design.

Wet water

Today I have been stitching my mystery project.

Today I have been watching swans.

Today I have been in woods again with Nuka. We were finding dry way across the woods. Nuka was following my steps until we faced the place she had her brook.

Today I have been standing -after 35 years- in flooding spring ditch. It was not my own choice. I was overstepping it by using log some people had placed there. But Nuka was feeling big girl already. She wanted to find her own way like she's been doing at this place. Suddenly she noticed it's too deep at this time. She started to back off. I needed to jump from the log to the dry ground. I had to step into the ditch to give more leash to her from the other side and then I called her, told her to jump and pulled.

Now we know water is wet and -despite she thought she can not- she really can swim. We also know now that my wellingtons are too short. But it was fair enough; me getting wet high up to my legs and she to swim.

So, now it is done, she needed to learn the lesson and to swim.

MayDay

It May Be that we are going to have BunnyBabies this summer. My ContinentalGiant Sandy is BigGirl already. She is 1 year and 2 months old. She weights 8,3 kg. Today she visited ContinentalGiantMix Jytky. He weights 5,5 kg and is at Sandy's age. I was happy to notice they liked each other quite much. Sandy is going to visit him again tomorrow.

I got her in the meaning to breed her for my own purposes. But I have let her grow in peace, to mature, become adult and reach strong character. Unfortunately many people breed rabbits as fast as it is possible. We had TheAccident with angoras when Rasputin had came through rabbit safe wire web on autumn 2014! Since that no accidents have happen in our BunnyWorld and also Sandy has been able to grow up to reach good size. I am very pleased to notice that despite of living in unheated area with insulated nests etc. she has gained weight during even the coldest moths of the winter. It proves she has been under good care.

It has been a beautiful day. Some green things are slowly showing their colors after long white spring. Spring never happens up here in a short moment. It is slow and you have plenty of time to notice it all.