Treacle and Soup

I really enjoyed Sunday at the Treacle Market, setting up a table outside Mike's new shop, mosaicing with my gorgeous SMALTI.

I do not know where this week has got to!  It has been a wonderfully creative week, making coasters with children on Sunday, water colour beach scenes at Mount Hall and Mosaic Club on Monday, shifting 360 kilos glass yesterday and my mosaic group this morning.

I DO love Wednesdays.  I got a little excited today as my new slow cooker arrived so I could do a bigger batch of soup! Recipe at the end.

Janet and Georgina's mosaics are coming on so well - really proud of you girls! 

Well, the slow cooker worked.

I do not think I could EVER be able to run a cafe serving soup, I would not be able to make the same soup twice!

Here is what we had this week:

3 x small potatoes 

4 x small carrots 

2 x celery sticks

1/2 x white onion

1 x vegetable stock cube

1 x chicken stock cube

2 x fresh cloves garlic

1 x bay leaf

1/2 teaspoon oregano

1 x tablespoon cous cous

garlic and chili flakes to taste

1.5 litres water

splash of semi skimmed milk

Do not peel the vegetables - just the onion and garlic. 

Chop everything up small.

Place everything except the milk in the slow cooker on 'high' for 3 hours. Stir occasionally.

Optional - whizz half the soup with a hand blender and add the milk before serving.

I would actually have liked pearl barley in this but it was tasty nevertheless.

Treacle Market

Well it has been some time since I blogged. Terribly sorry for neglecting you!

I have been very busy organising my new shop Yes - Macclesfield  will soon have its very own Mosaics and More online shop, which, geographically speaking doesn't matter but it does mean that I am happy to receive visitors to the studio/shop if you wish to look at what you are buying!

Tomorrow is TREACLE MARKET!  I will be taking the BARNABY community mosaic to the market tomorrow so if you fancy coming along and gluing some pieces on, please do, I'd be happy to meet you!

As you can see, it needs some finishing off:

Approximately 30 local people have worked on the mosaic up to now, mostly young children but I am hoping to get that up to 50 participants.

When it is finished, I will donate it to the organisers of The Barnaby Festival so they can use it to raise funds or whatever they think best.

I will also have some of these beauties for sale - plus details of how to book a workshop to make your own!

Happy

I'm such a happy bunny today! Although I'm a little disappointed not to be able to make the Macclesfield Treacle Market, I am in my element preparing my design sample for my pitch on Tuesday. Amazingly, the author of the book it was suggested I read for research was written by an old school teacher! What a small world!

In between waiting for my mdf to dry (last layer of paint on now before I put the 'mosaic' on the wall) I am mosaicing my London piece for the hospital. Happy days!