Healthy Vegan - Crafty Friday

A few weeks back, we went to Gloucester.  We stopped.  I like these vintage fruit and vegetable jars, I have a number - but no purchasing of them as I have a number of my own including beetroot when I made beetroot hash and crying onion showcased when I made White Broccoli Risotto, so these were for admiring only. 
I saw this up-cycled bottle with a peacock and little gems at a rural craft market in this corner of Wales.  I was so close to treating myself to it, but resisted.   A little part of me regrets its, a big part doesn't as I had no place to put it in my home. 
Once a week, in my lunch hour I visit Healthy Planet - Books for Free, I have come back with a number of (cook-) books (and did the good deed and donated some too).  I will share with you some books added to my burgeoning  bookshelf, but it was this up-cycled book that caught my attention - if you look close - READ.  This was made by one of their volunteers, very cool. 
At one of the rural craft markets I saw this fabric bag with stitched vegetable and fruit names in appropriate colours, funny thing, I just can't work out what the blue or purple one is - any ideas? 
And finally my own little creation that was consumed.  I made this Rose Cake.  It was my second time at sugar crafting, I've made a snowman with earmuffs before, but making flowering rose petals was a little more fiddly.  Not one for top marks, but I tried.  The icing I would do again, but the sugar crafting, well I need a lot more practice, but the cake was lovely.
I am sharing this with y Amy at Five on Fridays, please do pope on over and see what other bloggers have shared.

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