Finnish What You Start

Hi All! Finnish Independence is marked the 6 th of December. Although I am an Australian, much of my heritage and background is from Finland. Many of my family members live in Finland and one of my closest and dearest friends relocated there this year! Last year I had made some Finland shaped cookies with blue icing and I was happy to see many people seemingly enjoyed this post. This time, well time wasn’t on my side as my son shared his flu with me. While I wanted to bake a new type of treat with incorporation of the Finnish flag instead, I needed to resort to a quick batch of cookies. Now I’ll let you know, this recipe I’m about to share is 3 INGREDIENTS for the base of the cookie, extra ingredients for the flavours – whatever you choose. The method is also very quick! This is a super handy recipe to have on hand for anyone who is in a pinch with time! CHECKERBOARD Cookies (Finnish recipe often called “small tiger cakes”) *Note these are made using the decilitre...

Hi All, It has been such a long time since I have last posted, and I am terribly sorry for that. In review of my last post at least it could hopefully be viewed that I pressed on to busily do things before the end of this decade! *giggles* I have indeed been busy I will try to recap as much of possible events with pictures included and new creative inspirations. During October I was trying to do the ‘Inktober challenge’ not that I have much to show for that.   I did some of the drawings or random scribblings. Then on other days realising I need to find inspiration for the passed 4 days was not ideal. As I prefer to write over draw, I began to turn the Inktober prompt list into an ideas board for writing. Some were just sweet small verses of a poem to expand on later, while others turned into a short story. Participating in Inktober this way was far more exciting, with the occasional drawing. With the idea of a prompt list I dug out some of the game cards ...