The Tingle Factor Box

Roaming Roy Takes A Seat - Gordon Library

This week, with his online friends going back to school, Roy thought it would be a perfect time to take them to a place which they might be able to visit in the course of the school year. He thought a library would be a perfect place to visit because it is the sort of place people might need to go for school work. Many libraries have fascinating secrets, from statues and works of art, to secret nooks and crannies and Roy loves them all. This week he thought he would show you the secrets of Gordon Library - a secret garden and a tiny museum!

Roy Creates Microwave Lemon Spread

This week, Roy has been craving lemon butter to have on his morning toast. He loves lemon butter, but the type you can buy at the shops just isn't quite what he was after. He wanted the real, homemade type of lemon butter, but I didn't want to supervise the long process of him making it on the stove. Roys Grandma kindly let us use her recipe for lemon butter instead, which takes only about 10 minutes in total to make and is made in the microwave! She found it in a microwave cookbook years ago, but isn't sure what happened to the book. It was just what Roy was after, and so he decided to share it. So this week Roy Creates Microwave Lemon Butter.

They're So Fine - Depression Quilt Patches

Imagine, it is the 1930s and you are a mother. Times are really hard, your family seem to be living on the chokos from the vine over the outdoor dunny and you don't have a lot of money. You have to mend and make do with everything you can. Old shirts, worn out sheets, skirts with holes in them, even the sacks you buy flour in can all be cut down and sewn into all sorts of things, a dolly for your daughters birthday, a new shirt for your son, a quilt for the bed. You have been working on putting little patches leftover from other projects together into squares. You think it will make a nice quilt, mainly in shades of blue.