Things to do. . .

1. various cultured milk products: i have an urge to make some yogurt and quark. I’ve done it before, but for some reason it would never turn out as thick as we like it. Since then, I’ve realized that to get really thick homemade yogurt you really have to use some cream as well as milk. Could be the ticket. . .
   I am also enthusiastic about the prospect of making quark from some of the yogurt, which is also covered in Down to Earth’s amazing blog.
2. Napkins and Lunchbags: a colleague’s parents allegedly have a bunch of teatowel seconds. i have a plan for them i think, involving sewing washable lunch bags with matching napkins. Something like this, but with a snap closure instead of a button.
3. Homemade Ginger Beer: we are going through a ginger beer phase at our place (ginger ale, in Canada). i’ve found instructions on how to make it at home! this idea has me very excited. Long gone are the days of rye and ginge with the ladies, but this homemade recipe from Down to Earth is an equally thrilling prospect. Actually, i’ve been thinking this weekend at our belated Thanksgiving dinner ginger beer and champagne spritzers might be the ticket for me.
4. Happy Birthday Bunting: for BB who will be 3 at the end of the month.

they look like something in between this, from Belsize Square, and this, by Soulemama.

Only they will have to be infinitely more pink. i have no idea where BB's out of control
zeal for pink comes from. i blame it on dressing her in gender neutral colours as a baby.
one thing i have recently learned is that if i want her to like something that i spent hours
making for her, it had better be pink or it will stay on the shelf/in the closet/at the the
bottom of the toybox.

5. Felt Play Food: start sewing BB’s birthday presents, which I received the patterns for today via email from Umecraft on Etsy. Amazing play food made of felt! All in my inbox within 24 hours in PDF format. Sandwiches, veggies, cakes, icecream cones and SUSHI just to name a few. Hopefully I can do them justice.

see, we all like a bit of a list. actually, i prefer a completed list, with all items ticked off - which is the primary motivation behind a list i suppose.

so above is a list of five things to do over a rather long time frame. probably months. hopefully less than half a year. scratch that, a list needs a deadline. i'm going to say christmas. the only problem with a christmas deadline is the fact that there are additional tasks to accomplish before this day, specifically gift making projects. i have actually started on one christmas gift project but i must say it is going rather slowly. mainly because northern and southern hemisphere specific craft activities are directly opposite all year - come australian spring, time to start knitting for canadian family and friends but sitting in 30 degree heat with wool even close to touching me is highly undesirable. except on the train. the train ride in and out of the city 5 days a week takes place in a frigid carriage where being swathed in wool wouldn't be a bad thing. so i knit on that train, but it is only for 1 hour per day. can't get much done there. poo.