A DIY LOVE mini Pallet sign...

A DIY love mini pallet sign is a simple gift to make for Mother's Day.

Here's how to make it:

Cut a 34cm piece of pallet wood.

Paint it white and leave to dry.

 For the next stage you need a good length of cord.
(in a colour of your choice).

Use PVA wood glue to write your word on the wood.

Press black dressmakers cord in a continuous length 

onto the glue to create the word.

Then cleanup the excess glue with a cotton bud.

Talking about words, you can change it.

I've chosen LOVE,

but you could say:

FUN...JOY...LAUGH...or MUM.
(Just adapt your wood size to the word you choose)

Add a hanger using a staple gun.

I used the same black cord.

This gives you the option to wall hang your DIY mini pallet sign,

or as I ended up doing, 

just leaning it against the back of a bookcase.

Sunset LOVE...

As dusk fell the sky was on fire...

 The plants in my garden became silhouettes...

 Against the red and orange sky...

Nature's passion!

Life is nothing without passion.

(a free inspirational quote for your moodboard)

❤

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How Easy Is It To Make Peanut Butter?

In blog land everyone else is making peanut butter!

And everyone says it's EASY!

And ya all know EASY is my friend...

so I decided to test the theory.

Off I went to Bin Inn bulk store...

purchased my roasted salted peanuts.

Got out my food processor, added my peanuts,

 pulsed and smashed those peanuts into little pieces.

One blogger said - it takes 5 minutes to make smooth peanut butter!

Well....

my food processor is so powerful - 

I am glad it has suction cups to stick it to the bench.

It literally takes off!

Yip - it is a BEAST!

And after 6 minutes at top speed I had smashed peanuts,

that did not quite resemble peanut butter.

Processed for another 2 minutes - hmmm no change.

So I am thinking - 

maybe we dry roast all the oil out of our peanuts in New Zealand.

USA you must have wonderful oily peanuts!

So in went two tablespoons of oil.

Another 3 minutes of full speed processing and I had an in between kind of crunchy and smooth peanut butter.

By this stage the noise of the 'BEAST' was doing my head in,

 so after a taste test, I decided it was good enough.

It took 11 minutes but I won the homemade peanut butter battle.
It is delicious.

When compared to a natural store bought peanut butter
that is available in New Zealand (in the same quantities), 
it's actually no cheaper to make at home.

But at least I can tick it off the list, and say I've done it.   

;)