T for Tuesday - Yoghurt and Tea Holder

 Today is a public holiday to celebrate Australia Day commemorating the founding on 26 January 1788 of the colony of New South Wales. Celebrations all over the Australia on this special day

EDITED: As per Sue's request here are the links to the recipes I used

The Kitchin

Video

Coconut Yoghurt

I started to make yoghurt again, love homemade yoghurt. I usually put it in my fruit smoothies

I made these tea holders from a tutorial from Pootles

Joining Elisabeth and Bluebeard for T for Tuesdays

WOYWW # 335 - Foiled and Ink Technique- Melbourne Cup 2015

This was my desk/dining table in the craft room when a fellow Crafter Doreen Worth came over to spend a wonderful day with me laughing and creating. Lots of mess and inky fingers. below is the results of this glorious day. 

I was trying to replicate this Foiled Technique by Penny Ward and as you can see it turned out nothing like it hahaha

Yesterday we had the biggest horse race in the world, and the most expensive. The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a Nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three year olds (horses that is) and over.

There was only one horse that was Australian, all the rest came from overseas, that is what this race commands, all these overseas investors.  I think the horse owner wins $3million. Anyway I bet on the winning horse $5 each way and won $466 woohoo it paid $86.70 to win and $21.60 to place and I put $5 to win and $5 to place, should have put more on it. They say they have never had a horse pay so much and be in lane 19 win, creating more of a history. It is unheard of that a horse that has 100/1 odds could win this prestigious race.

The winning horse created history, the rider Michelle Payne is a female and she is the first female to win the Melbourne Cup Race in its history.  Her brother Stevie  Payne is the horse's strapper and has Downs Syndrome is now famous. I never knew what a strapper was before yesterday, Stevie and Michelle are going to do so much for Downs Syndrome awareness. This race was just so awesome in so many ways.

Now the horses owners are a story in itself, POP nearly died in February of various complications. The Syndicate, Mike Botting, Greg Williams, Sam Brown, Scott Jenke, Adrian Brown and Tim Ashdod - a podiatrist, engineers, It consultant, solutions expert and a producer hid it from their wives that they were saving up to buy a horse as one last try because previously they had owned horses that didnt do well.  oh the horse is called Prince of Penzance or POP, Horse profile

I dont really follow horse racing but I love this once a year race. This is why this race is so unique, a horse bought for $50,000 won the race that usually attracts more expensive horses.

Joining Julia in her Stamping Ground to look at desks all around the world

Glue or Paint Holder

Glue or Paint Holder

This is what I normally do when I am using Liquid pearls or liquid glue, stand them upside down in my ribbon or tape holder so I put my thinking hat on and made myself a Glue Holder.

Pretty nifty and it works well and doesn't take up much room and holds 6 bottles of various designs

I started with those ribbon rolls that I decided to keep and make into something one day

 Removed the lids and bottom circles and using my Spellbinders Grand Calibur SKU: GC-001

 Nesties Classic Oval SKU: NEST-01 and Nesties Standard and Petite Circle Set SKU: NEST-04 I lined them up on the top of a tin and cut out the holes

I then cut out circles of brown cardstock and glued them to the ribbon cut pieces to give it more strength

Using the Spiral Blossoms One SKU: S4-351 die and rolled from the outside in to make this flower. I daubed the edges first with Distress Inks Frayed Burlap and Crushed Olive 

 I then took some organza ribbon and threaded some cotton through the middle of it and pulled the cotton to gather the ribbon up and glued that under the flower.

 I then added a gold pearl to the flower to give it a completed look and added some dyed seam binding ribbon. Voila here is my glue/paint holder

I cut out 2 Fleur de Lis Accents SKU: S5-042 and adhered that to the tin which was covered in designer paper

Xyron 5" Creative Station 

Photo Box Tutorial

Photo Box Tutorial

As promised, here is the tutorial on the photo boxes I have been making.

Top view

Side view

Photos inside

Cut out 2 Spellbinders Spiral Blossoms One SKU: S4-351 and edge with Tsukineko Black Tuxedo Me-00-900 Fade Resistant Dye

 Cut 2 of the largest size Spellbinders Labels Twenty Three SKU: S4-347 

 Cut as many of the largest size as you need of Spellbinders Nested Classic Rectangles

 Cut 6 of Parisian Accents Border SKU: S5-034

Cut 2 from Ribbon Banners SKU: S4-324. Sentiment is from Layers of Colours Sent with Love

Take 2 of the Spellbinders Nested Classic Rectangles and put slits in them so your ribbon can be threaded through, adhere the ribbon to the back of it

This is Spellbinders spiral blossom curled in from the outside towards the middle, adhere with hot glue gun

On black cardstock cut 2 of Spellbinders Floral Doily Accents SKU: S5-040 ran it through my Xyron 5" Creative Station fold in half and adhere together the top part and the bottom half to the top of the box