new linen tape labels

i've been making gift bags with old coffee sacks and lining them with bright jam-coloured satin. i wanted some label tape on the bags so used some nice natural linen tape and some heat transfer paper that i bought at aldi ages ago.

end of the soccer season

olympia who is 16 now has been playing soccer for about 7 years. truth be told, she's a bit over it. long weekly training sessions in the cold and then early sunday morning games. often against really aggressive girl teams. her team are a delightful group of bright, attractive good all-rounders. they are the A team, so the girls are pretty excellent athletes. their club fosters a great culture of fair play and good-sportsmanship. they didn't win the competition this year but did admirably in their final match and had possession of the ball for most of the game. olympia collided mid-air with an opposing player and there was blood spilt. she now has a crescent shaped gash on her forehead that i suspect she is rather proud of. the other girl's nose was badly cut and she was gushing blood.

cookies

here are some delicious white chocolate, macadamia nut and cherry cookies:
the recipe and method is this:
partially melt 250g butter
in your mixer add 1 and a half cups of castor sugar and 1 and a half cups of brown sugar.
cream until light and fluffy then add 1 egg.
hand mix for the rest of the mixing... add 250g white chocolate roughly chopped, about a cup or less of macadamia nuts, a big handful of glace cherries, and 2 to 3 cups of self-raising flour. stir until combined. i used my hands as it was hard to stir.
pre-heat your oven to moderate and then put spoonfuls or fistfuls of the mixture on baking trays lined with baking parchment.
cook for 10 to 15 minutes until lightly browned.
cool on racks and then hide from the children if you want to eat any later...

labels stuck on jars

olympia kindly took some photos of my new labels on the jars, which reminded me that i was low on pear and vanilla jam. i spent yesterday making a new batch. mmm. rich and sweet. unlike me!

izzy's cartoon

watching david attenborough last night izzy suddenly lept up and drew this cartoon. she threw it away, but i think it's very funny, so i rescued it from the recycling bin.

jams are labelled

my new labels arrived from the printer and they look great. then i realised i need to get cracking with more jam as i have only three jars of pear and vanilla. heaps of chilli and a fair few of the delicious very berry. olympia helped me take some shots tonight so i'll upload them in a minute. in the meantime here are some pics taken with my phone: