Fun Stuff: December 2015 Archives
This was a jigsaw my brother did and brought up one time. All that green was a bit annoying (the all the pieces are the same shape - blerf).
This was from our old family collection I think. It's Mariefred in Sweden.
This was one of David's from Picton I think. 500 pieces, super quick - I think I did it in about an hour and a half.
Another one from the old family collection. Whoever did it last couldn't be bothered separating every piece, so I had to do it :(:( But I did separate the pieces into "sections" (sky, path, buildings etc) which saved an awful lot of sorting later.
And one Mum won and she did herself (!!! - she never does jigsaws - this one took her weeks). I did it in about two and a quarter hours :)
Earlier this year I scanned this photo taken from Sydney Tower 1983
Here's the same view as at December 2011
Just a few more pics for Christmas..
Still loving the Frozen inspired Christmas tree
The weekend before last I made a big batch of gingerbread cookies using a recipe in this month's Coles magazine. Straight out of the oven they were pretty hard and dry, but they softened up over the week.
I decorated them using the leftover icing and lollies from the gingerbread kits of two years ago
I realised I never actually posted a photo of the paint-by-numbers I spent like four months doing!
Here it is!
Here's the eighteen colours it came with
And here's the twenty-one extra colours that I had to blend (there were eighteen colours to start with, but the pots were all very large and only the dark brown one was almost finished when I was done - they could have made most of pots smaller and actually provided the extra colours! #grunt)
Somewhat annoyingly, several of the colours were all clumpy, and needed water to thin them out.
Also, many of the paints weren't thick enough to be completely opaque - most areas needed at least two coats, which was super super annoying.
So while it was a lovely picture, and the detail was amazing and there weren't any mistakes on the board, I'm not sure I'd buy another set from this brand again.