about 2 months ago - No comments
I’ve been drooling over the cakes in the hummingbird bakery cook book for a while now. Last weekend was open gardens in our village to raise funds for the village hall. Twenty gardens were opened, plus there was a flower festival in the church and tea and cake served in the village hall. There was More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
It’s my final day at the BBC today after nearly 10 years. My colleagues were very kind and gave me a fabulous cake tin with a hole in the middle. I’ve been hankering after one for a while and was far too giddy when I opened the present! Very cool! Can’t wait to get out More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
My friend Jo and I went for a wander round Covent Garden this afternoon and we had a lurvely time in the bead shop. Jo was really excited by the large colourful glass beads – so much so that we bought a handful and have magicked up this beautiful necklace. Fab eh?
about 4 months ago - No comments
Oh boy this looks good! The pie looked so good in the Humming Bird bakery cookery book that I just had to make it. It’s quite a faff, what with having to make and bake blind the pastry; then the lemon filling followed by the meringue. It went in the oven three times! It looks More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
Isn’t this fun! This was originally planned for my nephew Max for Christmas, however we ditched that idea when we found something else he’d enjoy that didn’t need making! This turned into something much more complex than I expected! I was going to keep it simple; pinking shear the edges and applique on his name. More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
All this time at home and waking up early has given me space to sew. So I’ve made another dress for Amy! I bought the fabric about a year ago and the inclination hit me yesterday to make it into a dress. The feedback from the blue dress was that although it was a bit More >
about 6 months ago - 1 comment
I made my niece this beautiful blue dress over the weekend. I found the corduroy fabric on Bewick Street and got far too excited about it! I’d been thinking about making Amy a little skirt using pink cord fabric and the shop had exactly what I wanted and it was in their sale too! I More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
We now have beautiful handmade curtains hanging in our spare room. They’ve been WIP since October, when I went over to see Peter’s Aunty Jean who helped pin them in place and get them all ready for sewing up. She suggested I try and finish them for her visit at the beginning of December, but More >
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
The recipe says to cook the soap paste for 3 to 4 hours, so that when diluted the water is clear. After 8 1/2 hours it still wasn’t clear, so giving up on this experiment. I’ve added the water anyway – the result somewhat speaks for its self…
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
Don’t these look fab! Our neighbour lent us his angle grinder and as we’ve finished or rather as Peter has finished with it, I’ve made some brownies to say thank-you! Yummy squishy chocolate brownies.
I’ve been lent the Hummingbird bakery cookbook and am having fun making lots of cakes from it. The marshmellow cupcakes were the first… don’t they look fun! They’re very marshmellowy with pink melted marshmellows in the middle and a vanilla frosting mixed with mini marshmellows on the top. I’d recommend starting to melt the marshmellows early on in the process… they take a while!