Last night, what with the lack of anything worth watching on tv, and my hands being a bit sore from knitting Dad’s socks, I decided to try out the cover project from home, paper, scissors.

I fed my new shredder some old manuscript editing pages, cut up the strips into short pieces, and started glueing. Instead of using a ceramic bowl covered in cling wrap, I used the packaging from last year’s Lions Christmas Pudding. I had plenty of scraps of paper left over, so I got out a plain white shopping bag and made a flat piece. This morning both were dry enough to peel off.

I was pretty chuffed at how well the bowl turned out. I’m sure I could make many more. But I’m not sure I have much use for lots and lots of paper bowls. The flat piece however, got me thinking about placemats for Christmas lunch. And about the lanterns I’d made. Which have celophane inside…

Glue one on top of the other…

A placemat. I just need to make three more. And maybe a table runner. And napkin rings. And maybe a tube to put over one of those push-button lights.

Yes, well, let’s see how much time I get. For the moment I’m making more placemats.

And I also made ‘Very Easy Fudge’ from a recent issue of Delicious magazine.

Which is, indeed, very easy. It’s also very yummy, and very not-good-for-the-diet.