Packaging ideas

We were all for homemade goodies this Christmas, and it made it so much more fun!  Here was some of our packaging ideas...

The Sourfig Preserve recipe will follow soon!

Handmade Wholesomeness

My mom, soon-to-be sister in law and I decided to give each other a recipe book for Christmas, it had to contain tried and tested recipes that we've assembled in the past or during the year!

This was our handmade version:

I've decided to make the books from scratch using a Pinterest tutorial.  It came in very handy!

The cover was a hand painted ink and bleach design. On the inside of the cover I decided to podge a interesting piece of fabric!

I've assembled fourty or so recipes, to include with a few extra pages to add your own during the year...

The bookmarks was a sheet of balsawood that I cut in rectangles, and from one cut a heart shape, and drawn a ink heart on the other...

Overall we wanted the book to have a handmade look and feel to it!

Enjoy!

Muisbosskerm - LEKKER

We were fortunate to visit the Muisbosskerm last night, with the brother and in-law-sister-to-be!

This is the original and first open air restaurant in South Africa...  All the dishes are prepared on open fires in front of the guests.  The number one and only rule: EAT AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE!

The menu

Starters

Traditional West Coast Bokkoms

Peaches 

Sweetcorn and butter

Mains

Smoked Snoek

Angel Fish

Yellowtail

White Stumpnose 

Cob

(All Char grilled)

Deep fried hake

Seafood Paella 

Springbok Potjie

Tripe

Waterblommetjiebredie

Cinnamon Sweet Potato 

Baked potato crisps

Green salad

Lobster

Fresh clay oven baked sourdough bread 

with green fig preserve, apricot jam and

'korrelkonfyt'

Dessert 

Koeksisters

Watermelon

Melon

Coffee

We say: "YUMMY"

The Santa Shell Project

We've been up to a few family Christmas Projects this year and have been savouring all of them!

The Santa Shell Project was one of the ideas we've been inspired by while on our day trip to Cape Town for Nikah's birthday.

We went to the beach last Thursday as we had another scorcher!

And collected a few shells, we hand painted them to decorate our front porch and possible travelling Christmas tree.

We are celebrating our first of many Christmas dinners this Saturday, so we decorated accordingly.

They are super easy to make and gives an unexpected festive twist, to what could be a rather expensive affair.

Stamping all the way to Potato Land

Since we live right in the middle of the largest Potato producing region of our country, 'Die Sandveld', we only saw fit to use this amazingly versatile veggie for something other than mashed-potato! 

We've printed on all sorts of mediums, napkins, t-shirts, cardboard packaging tags...  All you'll need is a few potatoes cut in a perfect half, (it should be an entirely flat surface).  Some sort of carving knife, reference material, a paintbrush and fabric paint if you are planning on stamping on anything wearable , or washable!

A few Christmas boxes is definitely going to be filled with some of this AWESOMENESS...

Keep your eyes peeled for a few other handmade Christmas goodies, we've been up to!

More posts on final products coming soon!