A little SALE and some baking

What a lovely weekend we have had here in West Sussex a mini Indian Summer. We spent it on the beach and walking in the woods hunting for conkers. What did you do this past weekend ? I have set up a sale in my shop where you can save 20% on all my aprons…

Skull aprons and a Cappuccino cake

What a week we have had some of it good and some not so good but a very busy one yet again. So this weekend has been about the small things, baking, gardening, movies, reading and cooking and eating tasty home cooked food. Today I photographed some aprons I had made during the week using…

Scones and a pot cover.

When I visited my sister last weekend she gave me one of her many chilli plants. I love chillies we use them in cooking, we make flavoured olive oils with them and they brighten up the kitchen window sill. The trouble is the plastic pot it was planted in was bigger than any of my…

Artisan aprons and the best Shortbread

It’s been a week of visiting family, days out with the teens, broken bones ( the husband ), catching up on orders, picnics on the beach and of course baking. First I made a new Artisan style apron in a super light and soft cotton fabric ….. I am just loving these aprons at the…

Our daily bread

Now I would love to have the time to bake bread on a daily basis but sadly that is not to be as I am just to busy and unorganised. When I was a child my father worked at a local bakers and we had freshly baked bread everyday of the week and at weekends…

Photo shoot fun and brownies

They say you should never work with children or animals, well I don’t know about animals but I am going to add teenage girls to that list. On Friday afternoon we visited my sister for a cuppa and to photograph my aprons using my daughter and my niece as the models. To say the least…

Baking on the last day of term

I love baking and don’t do enough of it as my daughter tends to do the most of it and she is really good. I started to teach my children to bake and cook from a very young age, when they were still toddlers, as it was a way of entertaining them and spending quality…

Cake and a little embroidery

This morning I made a cake for this afternoons teatime and tomorrows lunch-boxes…. It is a lemon cake made using plain yogurt so its not a crumbly cake its slightly denser but tastes wonderful and yes it does have pink glitter on it as my daughter loves a little glitter,I hope her brother won’t mind…

Baking flapjack & the comforts of home

I love flapjack,but not the over sweet stuff you can buy in the shops,I mean the lovely oaty,crumbly flapjack you can make at home cheaply and is ideal for lunch boxes and keeps well in a sealed container. So yesterday I made some using some dates I had left over from Christmas and they give…

Cherry cake and bunting

Last Wednesday I just couldn’t get warm so I spent an hour in the morning baking a chocolate cherry cake for tea,keeping all snug by the oven and to do an upper arm workout and to keep warm I creamed the butter and sugar by hand till it was light and fluffy,the cake was better…

Baking our way through the Summer Hol’s

Well the children have broken up for the Summer holidays and there are long and hazy days ahead of us. I am praying for the sun to shine so that we can make use of the beach which is only a 10 minute walk from us and hope that we can have picnics in the…

Super cheap & easy home baked cookies

We have three people in this house that need a packed lunch daily and that is including my husband.I like them to have something sweet that has been baked by myself (or my daughter) as you can control how sweet it is and it will always be tastier than shop bought and I never want…