The Ultimate Tea Towel Repurpose

I LOVE this. So much. How many teatowels did this use? How did they find so many mint condition ones? Drewzel me ol mate (oh, pirate...), this is for YOU!

J


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Found here.

What a fantastic tote! She has a tutorial attached to this post, so click on over and see where it takes you!

Now if I can find a tea towel from 1974....

If you don't like tea towels, click on over to Cindy for a Week of Nanna here!

Hooray!

j


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Blogtoberfest winds down - week of teatowels!

Silly title, but you know...

Some others (not just me!) love a good vintage tea towel. This week I am paying tribute to the use of the teatowel as a repurposed item. These images are credited as they are NOT made by me!

You'll find these adorable treasures at My Poppet here.


Oooh! This week will be fun! Want to join in? I'd love to see what you've made!

Edit: See this clever chicken's tea-towel teddy bear!

j

Yesterday was ridiculously busy. I was up with the birds (before the kids!) making and baking for the school fair. I blew up the food processor making the five minute orange cake, (not good to see smoke coming from an appliance and not act on it...), made more gingerbread people (kids ate the whole first batch while they were cooling), finished off button necklaces, and a scarf, and loaded the car with toys and books and headed to the school.

The day was wonderful and the school raised over $20,000. However I got home too pooped for Bloglines and forgot to post the winner of the giveaway!!!

Master 6 is in love with random.org and has been creating lists and lists of random numbers all morning. Aspergers' kids generally do love numbers, and he is certainly typical of the condition!

Anyway, here goes: Drum-roll.....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

6 14

Congratulations Katie - please email me your details on
jess2jamesATyahooDOTcomDOTau so I can send you the sewing
stuff!

Congratulations also Bellgirl - please also email me your
details so I can send you the house.

The recipes are:

Toss baby spinach leaves and baby rocket together (or for the easy
option, buy it premixed),
Add some chopped up feta, cucumber and capsicum.
Then throw a small tub of sundried tomatoes and olives in with the
juice to dress it.

YUM! Easy and delicious.

#2 was a reminder of my dear, dear friend Wendy in Melbourne, who
always has a packet of Changs fried noodles on hand.

This is a Zingy Spinach Salad

Ingredients

1 bunch of spinach
1 packet of Changs Fried Noodles
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 packet slivered almonds or pine nuts – toasted

SAUCE
½ cup raw sugar
¼ cup vinegar
¼ Cup Fountain garlic soy sauce
¾ Cup salad oil
Boil sauce ingredients and cool.  Add salad oil and refrigerate.

METHOD
To finely chopped spinach , one hour before serving, add toasted
nuts and sauce.
Mix through (this is easier to do with your hands) – sprinkle
noodles on top.

Serve- YUM!

Thank you to all who entered - thirty of you came out of the
woodwork to share some recipes.  I would love to email you all
a copy of the complete recipes - email me on the above if you
are interested!

j


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What's for Dinner??

Check here for some recipes, and while you are there, enter my giveaway, due to be drawn this weekend!

Sewing stuff OR Vintage Fisher Price?!

Or enter two recipes and go in the draw for one of each!

Happy Blogtoberfest lovelies!

j

Blogtoberfest

Go on, get behind some hair growth here. Really good cause, check it out.


j

Blogtoberfest - Six Random Things Meme

I have been tagged by ChooksRUs for the Six Random Things Meme that has been doing the rounds recently. Ok, so off the cuff -

1. I have a history of silly medical visits... I have had dozens of splinters in my feet after swinging on the Hills Hoist and landing on an old table, have had a moth removed from my ear in hospital, and had my tongue surgically removed from my braces... Noice.


2. I have worked in a library, teaching (ESL) English, in Local Government, in retail, in customer service, and even been a Tupperware lady!


3. I bite my nails. It's utterly disgusting. I have done it since I was 8 or 9 years old and wish I could stop. Apparently it has something to do with anxiety?



4. My nick-name at school was Stressica (perhaps linked to point 3 above?)

5. I love starting things but rarely finish them, and have UFOs from years ago. As an example, I started making a mohair bear for my niece when she was in utero, I made the head, and go sidetracked - she just turned seven...

6. My thesis at Uni was on children's play, in public and private spaces, and how accessible and welcoming they are (or are not)... I planned many play spaces for kids, and despite being told they would never be funded, was delighted when the Ian Potter Area at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens was built (I had nothing to do with the project, but eerily there were many ideas friends and I had discussed!) It's a great place to visit - have you been there?



I'm not tagging anyone - but if you've stuck around and read through all this, then You Are Tagged Too!!!

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