Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy your day. I look forward to reading all your post-Christmas posts.
Brown paper packages….
All of the presents are wrapped and under the tree – in fact half of them have already gone to their new owners before I remembered to take photos of them (are we noticing a forgetfulness trend here?). This year I decided to go for brown paper, some red ribbon and cute pdf tags. The fawns ...
thinking out aloud
I’ve been thinking about this blog of late and how I can keep up with it a bit more rather than suddenly post five posts in a row after not posting for a week and I’ve come up with a solution- theme days. As of January 1st I’m going to structure my blog so for example, Monday ...
Anyone for some punch?
I love a good punch and I never entertain without whipping up a punch of some description. Last nights punch was fairly tame as far as punches go due to the number of people driving. Cranberry punch 1 punnet of strawberries, quartered 2 limes, quartered 1 bottle of sparkling wine 700 ml of ...
Turkish Delight Ice Cream Cake
Easy and yummy! 1L container of Cadbury turkish delight ice cream 500ml carton of custard Frozen raspberries Half a block of dark chocolate 1/4 cup of cream 1. Soften ice cream and combine with custard 2. Add frozen raspberries – I added enough that you could see them, but not so many ...
Christmas treats
Last night we had some friends around for finger food, drinks and dessert. Today we have an enormous surplus of food – mainly chocolate – due to my wonderful tendency to always prepare for the worst and thus over cater by oh say 20 people. 1. We catered for vegetarians, gluten ...
The Grinch
We had a ‘who can decorate the best Christmas table’ competition at work last week. This was right up my alley, so I hastily gathered the department together and we came up with The Grinch! It was worth it as we won third prize! The snow which covers the table is the ‘instant ...
Apron Swap!
A little overdue perhaps, but here are the aprons sent and received in the Sassy Apron Swap! Sent I had Jo from sparklygreenknickers (best blog title EVER!) to whip something up for. I sent her the following: The apron is a fairly simple reversible half apron that I made up as I went and hoped ...
Christmas Stitchery
I rather ambitiously decided to do a Christmas stitchery for the hallway. I admit I traced the wee cottages from some clip art then embellished as I saw fit because I just couldn’t get them right free hand! Due to my lack of embroidery skills it is rustic, but as we know, I quite like ...