• Christmas wrapping buttoned up

    This is my 500th post!!!! How strange I’m still tapping away, I never thought this blog would be such a key part of my life. Don’t you just love technology? Anyway, hopefully by now you’ve done your shopping and will be contemplating the marathon that is wrapping. Now, I like a glass of wine, sweeties…

  • Pin up

    Only a few sleeps to go and I realise that I haven’t made a present for elders best friend. So, here’s a quick tutorial for that emergency present. Remember dear readers, I have a stupid amount of craft equipment because I’m doing so many projects at the same time. All of this was gleaned from…

  • Oh little star

    Sneak preview of what I’m working on at the moment. Working to a deadline as ever. Can you guess what it is yet?

  • Now, where’s my passport?

    For surely I am bound zoo Oz with this edible treat…Gourmet Garden part 2 here we come. I gazed into the unlovely interior of my store cupboard and thought. And thought. And thought a little more. And what did I come up with? Store cupboard sushi stitch stylee…come this way… Take your sushi rice, rinse…

  • How does your Gourmet Garden grow?

    So, you know by now I’m an avid mumsnetter and you may know that MN has an active bloggers network. Well, we were approached to take part in the Gourmet Garden blog/cook off competition. Now, I’m no Nigella but I do empathise with their slogan ‘fresh made easy’ and those of you who know my…