Silver Challenge #4 and the end of Color My World 2010

  A Silver Challenge recipe was a bit too difficult for me

so I chose to use an English Christmas tradition

and put a coin inside the cake!

Whoever gets that piece supposedly has their

Christmas wish come true.

The baking is done and the yummy gifts from family

and friends are added to the display...

now the time has come to eat

and celebrate!!!

Silver Challenge #3

 I found a great idea for an unusual use of silver

for this weeks challenge on Rusty Rooster Vintage!

Over at Graphics Fairy I found this free clip art

and I had an antique tart tin and tree ornament.

Once it is put together it is a unique and

vintage looking ornament for the

top of a package or on the tree.

(Oh and by the way my new camera is up
and running--a Kodak Easy Share
with enough bells and whistles to keep
me busy for a long time! I can't believe
the great camera I could purchase for
the same price as my old point and shoot:)

Where is this weeks Silver Challenge?!

My silver challenge is not going to be posted this week

as my precious granddaughter that I was bragging about

 last post, dropped my camera and broke the lens!

Actually I wasn't upset at all as I had been longing

and wishing for a new camera with a lot more to it

and had planned to use my artisan fair profits to

buy one! Yippee, my new one is on its way

by Monday!

catch you then

Silver Challenge #1

Well here I am at the last month of this years

Color My World Challenge!

These are some things I like in silver...

Black Challenge #4

Black Bottom Cupcakes

That was as black as I dared to go on this challenge!

These are an all time favorite at my house,

and can be made gluten free also.

ONLY ONE MORE MONTH

OF

COLOR MY WORLD !!!

Black Challenge #3

 I used an old poloroid camera bag for this

challenge. I cut off the handle, sewed a new one,

and put lots of travel stamps all over the chipped spots.

The finished product is still a camera bag,

but for my digital camera and accessories!

The inside is a nice, soft felt so I didn't have to

do anything with that.

Black Challenge #2

My craft challenge this month was an

easy one as I had picked up this 12x12 frame

without the glass

at a garage sale for .25 and knew

what I could use it for.

This idea is from Creative Memories...

so thanks!

Black Challenge #1

Things I love in Black!

Only two more months of Challenges to Go!!

Orange Challenge #4

Pumpkin Cheesecake (with a ginger snap crust)

I used gluten free ginger snaps so that

I can have it too!

Yummy!!!

Orange Challenge #3

I found this orange tape measure and silverware

caddy at a garage sale for $1.25

 So I glued the tape measure around the top and sides,

and now I have a cute thread caddy in my sewing room.

I also found this clever idea in a sewing magazine for

keeping your thread from getting tangled. Use

colored hair bands and wrap around the spool

when its not in use.

Orange Challenge #2

Here is my craft challenge for week 2 at last!

I can't seem to get anything done these days, and

hope I'll have some time soon to get all

the sewing done for the artisan fair in early Dec.

This romper and hat, size 2

will be for sale at the fair in my

"Bits and Pieces" collection!

Orange Challenge #1

Things I love in orange!

Brown Challenge #5

All of the pictures above are from my

picnic basket project.

I found an old basket, covered the inside with

fabric, made padded handles, painted

a blue caddy, brown, found

silverware, plates, thermos, tablecloth, etc.

at thrift stores and just in general redid the whole thing! 

Brown Challenge #5! (Open Challenge)

Looks like we ended up with an extra week in our

brown challenge! So I think to give a fun twist

on this week lets pick anything

we want to share that has to do with brown.

It can be Whatever! So let your

imaginations go:)

Brown Challenge #4

Baked Caramel Apple French Toast

 

Brown Challenge #3

The unusual part of this challenge

is that I took a brown crayon

and rubbed it sideways over a piece of paper

placed on top of a sidewalk medallion.

I found this on Officers Row in downtown Vancouver.

I thought this was an unusual way to

have a souvenir of a sight seeing trip.Then I used it on my scrapbook page as

a background along with pictures etc.
This could be used anytime there is lettering
or numbers that is raised or indented on
metal or concrete.
Many older structures will have a building date
engraved somewhere on the property, and
I've also seen stamps in streets and brick,
so there are many ways it could be used:)

Keep Those Color Challenges Coming!

So fun to have fellow bloggers

still joining the color challenges!

http://junquecouturehome.blogspot.com/

just joined in this month...

check out her brown ideas too.

For all of you who have joined in some time

this year and may have not had time over

the summer to get much done,

I'd love to see you back in for

some of the next 4 months challenges:)

and of COURSE I'd love to still have some new

bloggers join in:)

Brown Challenge #2

Here is the felt hat I made for this weeks challenge.

It is a cloche style with twisted ribbon

and a vintage wooden pin.

Brown Challenge #1

Things I Love in Brown....

Gold Challenge #4

My Gold Challenge this week is a recipe I used in a

post about exactly a year ago!

"Peachy Keen Pie"(August 20, 2009)

I make it annually

as it is an all time fave at our house.

Fresh Peach Glace Pie.

I figured it was golden enough to qualify!
Rave reviews all around:)