Will's beard

Working on my new animation about Will's beard. I am using a combination of Illustrator and Flash. So far i have done 3 seconds! -------------------->
this is Will's head. Watch this space for more exciting updates on the animation!

Recipe Ginger Ice cream

I decided to have a go at making ice cream the other day. As i don't eat dairy i wanted to make a really rich creamy non dairy ice cream.

I found a really great recipe that uses the same concept for ice cream ( making a custard and then freezing it) which i adapted to make Ginger ice cream. (based on original recipe for green tea ice cream)

Ingredients:-

• ½ cup water
• ¾ cup plain soya
  
• milk, such as Silk
• 2 cups unsweetened plain soy yogurt
• 5 large eggs
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 3 balls of stem ginger in syrup
  
• 2 tbps of ginger syrup
• a handful of crystallised ginger

Method:

1. In a small saucepan over medium heat the soya milk, soy yogurt, and salt. Stirring constantly, bring the mixture just below the boiling point, so that steam is rising from the surface of the liquid, but no bubbles break the surface. Stir constantly until the mixture is slightly thickened, about 4-6 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.

2. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and the sugar until pale yellow. Add the ginger syrup and whisk until just combined. Pour 1 cup of the soymilk mixture slowly down the side of the mixing bowl, whisking quickly to prevent cooking the eggs. Add the egg mixture back into the saucepan over medium heat and cook until the mixture is thick and resembles a custard, about 4-5 minutes.

3. Add chopped up stem ginger into the custard mixture and then pour into a metal bowl or baking pan and cool until room temperature, stirring occasionally to help the mixture cool. Cover and place the pan in the freezer for 1 hour.

4. Remove the pan from the freezer and, in a blender or food processor, blend the custard mix until smooth and add the chopped crystallised ginger and pour back into the pan. Return the pan to the freezer and freeze for 30 minutes before repeating the blending process 2 more times at 30-minute intervals. After the third blend, freeze until desired consistency and enjoy cold. mmmmmmm tasty :-)

This was a great tasting ice cream and i am thinking of adapting the recipe to make a lemony ice cream too!

Drawing project update 4

and combined together we get...
Can we add more? who knows?!?!?

Drawing project update 3.5

Here is my addition to the drawing....
A frosty polar bear!

Drawing project update 3

Here is lovely Mr Alan's update on my drawing...
It's looking great, now my turn!

Drawing project update 2.5

ta da...
The next stage of the drawing.
I'm very pleased so far with our joint efforts huzzah us!

Drawing project update 2

Here is my next drawing of a little harvest mouse,
all i need to do is add it to the main picture by me and Mr Alan and
hey presto......

Drawing project- update 1

Yay Mr Alan has added to my drawing!
there it is. Now it's my turn....
Super fun!!! thank you Mr Alan

Drawing project

Drawing Project:-
Me and the lovely Mr Alan have chanced upon the lovely idea of a drawing project. I have started by drawing that lovely great tit there and Mr Alan will then add to the image and we will keep passing it back and fourth adding new drawings each time! Eventually we will end up with one huge lovely drawing Yay!!

It's also a great excuse for me to try out my new illustration style. I am quite pleased with this result of combing realistic drawing with type. It is a completely different style to my mooshpie site which is based more on animation and characters!

I'm going to try and do a drawing a day in this new style I'm rather excited whoop whoop!

Crochet Club

Crochet Club...
Session 1 learn how to crochet in 1 day( well actually half a day and we only mastered a few stiches!)
Chain stitch - check.
I just need to keep practising then Country Ripple here i come. Yay
xxx