For a while now, I’ve been bothered by keeping an entire WordPress installation exposed to the internet for a blog I only update once or twice a year. Additionally, the flat file CMS I used to generate the rest of elizabethpowell.net was now deprecated and didn’t play nicely with supported versions of PHP and Twig. … Read more
There were a few books I remembered reading as a child which for many years I could never find online, usually because some other book with a title that matched the concept I was looking for would take up most of the search results. Here are three books I have recently identified, much to my … Read more
This is a selection of colours I thought would be convenient for watercolour sketching on location in Western Australia. My goal was to provide plenty of colours that could be used straight out of the pan for common subjects (trees, buildings, the sky), while also having options to mix most other colours. Red Bright, primary … Read more
For Avery’s 2nd birthday, because “2” looks kind of like a duck, Alex insisted that we needed to have the Australian Women’s Weekly Rubber Duck cake, popularly known as “Duck Cake” due to the hilarious episode of Bluey about said cake. Out of a sense of obligation to the classic Birthday Cakes book I used … Read more
Soup Vegan Potato Corn Chowder I used 1 sweet potato and 2 potatoes (totalling 950g) and added 1.5 teaspoons smoked paprika. Chocolate Cupcakes Chocolate Cupcakes I used all “Dutch-processed” cocoa. I settled on this recipe because I wanted one that just used cocoa powder and oil. Vanilla Flour Buttercream (or Ermine Buttercream) I added 1/3 … Read more