BACK TO IT

 

Hi Ho.  Today I'm just going to be pottering around the house.

I want to rearrange the runners in the market bags.  That will be job #1.

Then I have a pile of washing to fold and put away.  #2.

After that I'm going to make more cookie dough and freeze it.  #3.

And then I shall get into the sewing room and work on making a few more Red/Green Braid Runners.

I want to keep myself busy over the next few days, hoping my mind doesn't dwell on the 'what if's'.  Our Estate Agent said we probably won't hear anything for a few days... so I just have to hang in there right?

*Amended first job.  I had to pop into the supermarket for more baking supplies.

And string for the market.

Once home,  I sorted out the market bags - TICK.

I have realised that I will have to make yet another Market Bag for runners.  Grrrrr.  But it's that, or have one bag seriously overloaded and very heavy to lift.

After that job,  I folded up the washing and put it away - TICK.

And I have just finished making the cookie dough, and it's now in the fridge settling and cooling so I can roll the cookies out in about an hour.  They will then go in the freezer. -TICK.

It is now 10.50 am, and I'm taking a break before heading into the sewing room.

My finger feels ok today, thank goodness. And I don't have a headache... YET.  So it's a good day so far.

11.45 am: And I now have two dozen cookies in the freezer.  And two in the oven... making sure the recipe comes out right.  I changed it slightly from last time, added Molasses instead of Golden Syrup.  I'm sure they will be just as amazing.  

One for me, and one for Stew when he gets home.  It's called 'taste testing'.  😂

I just spent half an hour going through all my 'MADE' folders, taking out all the runners that are sold.  There's certainly heaps more SOLD than unSOLD now!

I like to keep track of what I have in stock, and what is selling well.  I presume that is called 'STOCK TAKING'.

It coming up to that time of year where it gets very quiet on the blogs.. well comments at least.  I try not to take it personally!  lol

I will keep blogging until no one gives a shit anymore I suppose.

ABOVE: Well they came out just fine... a bit bigger than one would have liked, but still OK.

Tasted half of one.  It's nice, but I think I preferred the ones I made using Golden Syrup.

And I will put more raisins in the next lot as well.

I might even try adding mixed fruit to half a batch as well. Might as well seeing as I have half a kilo of mixed fruit leftover from my Fruit Cake endeavours. 

Experiment time:  I got two cookies out of the freezer, defrosted them then:

1.  Got a square of cooking chocolate (chopped up) added to it.

2.  Got more raisins and a drizzle of Golden Syrup added to it.

They are both now in the oven, and will be cooled down and ready to taste test in about an hour.

6.55 pm.  Verdict on the doctored cookies?

Chocolate added... yeah nah.  

Extra raisins and Golden Syrup... really good.

This means when I take the cookies out of the freezer, I will have to defrost them and add the extra raisins and golden syrup to all of them and re-roll them before cooking them.  It will be worth it to have them tasting extra lovely.

The Molasses is going in the bin.

I got some sewing done this afternoon, AND I made another Runner bag.  So hopefully I am set with the five runner bags I have now.

Stew is home now, so it's time to just settle down for the evening.  Catch ya tomorrow.