Crochet Rolls

Finished sewing these crochet rolls for a great bunch of gals from my Ravelry group, Bangalore.....and wait till you see what they got for me!!! .... that will be another post as soon as I click pictures of them....

Another look.....

One more....

The open ones on the left (top) are small pouches for the non-crocheting lot...I thought they could use it as a knitting-notions bag.....

A view with the hooks in.....

There was a young member who I thought needed something brighter than this sombre brown, so I made her an orange gingham drawstring project bag....

Hope she finds it useful .......(sorry for the bad picture)...

And these......(didn't make these boxes, of course...)

Happy hooking!!! I enjoyed making these gifts immensely!!!!

Sneak Peek!!!

A secret project going on on my sewing machine...!!

Am in the middle of something for a bunch of friends ....

How's this???....

Details shall be posted later....bye bye!!!
You can check the details here , now that the secret is out....:) 

Gone in 60 Seconds!!!!

The cake I baked for my son's farewell dinner when he was leaving for college......

How to: 

I used this simple one-step recipe ......find it here..... for this cake.

For the icing I whipped up 200gms (about 1 cup) cream till it formed soft peaks, then added 3-4 tbsp of icing sugar. I used tinned cherries in sugar syrup. Had to de-seed the cherries before using.

I mixed 3 tsp of rum in the syrup and drizzled it over the cakes before icing to moisten them and add to the flavours. Then sandwiched the two layers with one-thirds of the cream and cherries. Used the rest to slather on top and finished with cherry halves. I then let it chill for an hour or so to set the cream.

The flavours develop better if you can keep the cake for a few hours.

That's it!!!

ps: adding the rum is optional....:)

The demolition begins.....

the pacman slice....

going.....

 going...

 almost gone!

 60 seconds - literally!!!!!!