Crafty
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Easter Baking Ideas
Bake your favourite Carrot Cake, iced with cream cheese icingthen decorate it with the tiny carrots and flowers available in the baking aisle of most supermarkets. Bake your favourite Chocolate Cake, iced with chocolate icingand decorate by making a little garden on top with edible flowers and carrots etc , and if you have coloured fondant icing or colour some marzipan, the whole family could have fun moulding fruit and veg. You could mix a drop of green food colouring into desiccated coconut for some grass and add a few of the fluffy little chickens widely available at this time of year (in places like Hobbycraft, The Works, and probably…
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Easter hanging decorations
If you have a little tree or even a twig to hang light decorations on, why not make a few?
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Spring Plant Display Pots
Now is an ideal time to brighten up your front door or patio by planting up a pot of spring plants. A beautiful container of plants will make an ideal Mother’s Day present. The garden centres have a great choice of colourful primulas, pansies and other spring plants to make up your own display. Add some height with a few tete-a-tete daffodils. These will last longer if you can find some that are still in bud. Choose your container from the wide range of pottery and terracotta pots or pick a nice plastic pot or planter if you want something that is lighter to move around. The container must have…
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Valentine’s Day crafts
Please find here some simple crafts that you can do for a loved one this valentines day.
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Simple Valentine Sweet Treats
Obviously, there are many elaborate and delicious meals and cakes one can make to treat a special person, but there are also simple ways to just make everyday food a little bit special this weekend. Heart Shapes Either free-hand or using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut a heart shaped strawberry jam sandwich, slice of toast, scone dough etc. One trick (where there’s no waste) is to cut a heart out of a slice of toast – pop the outer into a frying pan and fry an egg in the aperture, while spreading butter and jam on the cutout. Chocolate While a chocolate fondue is fun with delicious fruit, a simpler…
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Christmas Bell Decorations
I cannot say who originally came up with this idea, but I have seen them on various internet sites and made by various friends.
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Christmas recipes
Three recipes which I grew up with my Mum making in the 1970s. The only place I saw them written down was her handwritten recipe book, and so I cannot give credit to whoever originally created the recipes. Chocolate Mousse Beat 3 egg whites until stiff (and set aside) Whip 250 ml cream (and set aside) Mix together: Until this mixture is thick and creamy. Melt 100 g dark chocolate and add this to the mixture Add the whipped cream to the mixture Carefully fold in the beaten egg whites Refrigerate Boiled Fruit Cake (simple, nut free alternative to Christmas Cake) Boil together these ingredients over a low heat, for…
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Bank Holiday Recipes
SMOKED MACKEREL PATE If you want a quick and easy but tasty pate to add to your weekend menu, this is my tried and testedrecipe, made for many years. It’s very good with crackers, breads, toast, with salads of most types, oras a dip with crudites (it does firm up when refrigerated but serving at room temperature Is ideal). 1 pack of 2 smoked mackerel (check for small bones as you remove the skin and break up the fish)50g soft butter 10ml horseradish sauce 10ml lemon juice Freshly ground pepper to taste Blend all the ingredients together, and garnish if desired with lemon and parsley. SMALL PAVLOVA If just for…
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Spring Decorations
To hang Spring decorations on, the bare-branched artificial tree up in the loft or packed away in the garage with the Christmas decorations is useful. Whether you make or buy decorations, they’re a bit of fun for the season.
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The Library Presents – Spring Events & Autumn Selections
What is The Library Presents? The Library Presents is a programme of arts activities, online and in locations around Cambridgeshire. Spring 2025 There’s a fantastic programme of crafty events available for adults and young people aged 12+. Visit the website to find out more, view the schedule of upcoming events and book your tickets. You can also sign up for their regular newsletter which provides information about volunteering opportunities too. Autumn 2025 – you choose! Help select the performances you would like to see in your library in Autumn 2025 by visiting this link and casting your vote before 2nd May.
