July/August 2024 Challenge - Summer Fruit

[DawninCal]

Ready for another challenge? This challenge was inspired by the fruit salad I eat every morning. I was looking at all of the beautiful colors found in summer fruit and thought what pretty jewelry it would make. It kind of goes along with Cat's "Jam" Oldies Challenge.



Because our challenge has kind of morphed into sharing things other than jewelry, I think we will open it up to creating whatever you want as long as it fits the theme. To give you some ideas and get your creativity flowing, some things you might consider are fruit colors, fruit charms or art that features fruit.

Your submissions are due by August 15, but as always, we play kind of loose with our deadlines. Post your entries to this thread and at the end of the challenge, I will start a post at S&T to share your creations with all of the members who don't generally find their way to this forum. And, yes, I know I still need to do that for the Peacock challenge.

Have fun - looking forward to seeing your creations!



Dawn

[violetmoonnl]

Are Oranges summer fruits?

I have been using those the past month to make something with.
Though not jewelry, art or so

[caeterle]

We are not that strict with our rules, Carina. To me oranges are winter fruits, but you can get them now, so they are also summer fruits

[violetmoonnl]

I don't know if I get the time and/or the inspiration to make some cards or jewelry for this theme, but I did make this with some summer fruit. 😇

After I discovered a youtube on how to make simple syrups I came up with the idea to make my own lemonades
I have been making my own lemonades from oranges for the past month
And last week I also made one with blue berries.

These I made last June.


I left 1 bottle at work for my colleagues to have something sweet to drink while working.
They all loved it and keep asking me when I make a new bottle for them.
As soon as there are oranges in the fruitbasket at work I will make a new batch for them too. 

The pulp that I had left I placed in a jar to use as marmalade.
I even made a simple ice-cream (for the Ninja Creami) with it, I just added a few spoons to a protein drink, mixed it in and placed it in the freezer.

The fruits I used for my last batch.


Both concoctions on the stove, I brought them to a boil first and then left them to simmer for about 30 minutes to thicken a bit.
  

This is the final product.


There is a 3rd bottle where I mixed the orange and berries into 1, but that one is nearly empty by now.
Hubby has been drinking the orange one so that explains why there is less in that bottle.

btw these are syrups, just ad some in a glass and top with (sparkling) water.

[caeterle]

Nice! I can imagine they are very refreshing with water.

[violetmoonnl]

Jul 30, 2024 10:59:32 GMT -6 caeterle said:

Nice! I can imagine they are very refreshing with water.

These are made with real sugar, no aspartame or that other stuff, so they taste better too.
I usually drink coffee, tea or water but when it is hot I like something fresh and more sweet.

[DawninCal]

Oranges are a summer fruit somewhere! Australia, maybe?

Those look fantastic, Carina. I can imagine how good they must taste.



Dawn

[violetmoonnl]

Jul 31, 2024 10:34:52 GMT -6 DawninCal said:

Oranges are a summer fruit somewhere! Australia, maybe?

Those look fantastic, Carina. I can imagine how good they must taste.



Dawn

They are yummy, Hubby doesn't want the store bought anymore.

[michelle]

Wow! Beautiful syrups. I bet your house smells fantastic when you are making them.

[violetmoonnl]

Aug 2, 2024 6:29:48 GMT -6 michelle said:

Wow! Beautiful syrups. I bet your house smells fantastic when you are making them.

I don't smell it because I'm standing on top of it,
but hubby smell's it when I have made a new batch.

[Irith-Rita]

They look delicious Carina. It is a shame I only drink plain water. I was told by my doctors I should drink 1.5 liters of fresh plain water every day, and I hardly get to finish only 1 liter. When it gets to drinking fruit syrups which I love, I feel I can't take in anymore fluids.

[violetmoonnl]

Irith, they give that advice here too. Only here all fluids count.

During the day I drink filtered tapwater and coffee.
But sometimes I like something sweet to drink and the store bought syrups are mostly with artificial sweeteners.

[DawninCal]

Here is my entry and on time too! I had these bumpy red nuts in my stash. They have been dried, vanished and have holes drilled in them. I'm not sure exactly what kind of nut, but they remind me of berries which are definitely a summer fruit. They have been paired with turquoise colored ceramic beads which dangle from small copper wire hoops.





Dawn

[violetmoonnl]

Oh, those are nice!

I had to look up those beads, they remind me of walnuts of pecans but they are not
So i did a search on google and apparently they are from Nepal.

[DawninCal]

Thank you, Carina!

You did better in your search than I. I looked for bumpy nuts and didn't find anything close. Thanks for the info!



Dawn