(First photo Sophie and the amazing cake she made for sports relief, isn’t it pretty???). Life in the house is suprisingly busy of late, I’ve got a comission for 100m of bunting for a friends wedding (they had bunting on the invitations so we are trying to match that, the main colours are candy pink, Read more about creating[…]
So tonight we gathered to have the official send off (from single life) to my friend Lea. The wedding isn’t until late April but Lea very sensibly decided to have the drinking lots and dancing part a whiole before. The girls went to a burleque dance workshop during the afternoon (sadly I couldn’t join them Read more about Lea’s hen do[…]
This year my work team gained a new member, I was more involved that usual interviewing and training our new recuit. But fantastically she is awesome and a keen baker. So for her birthday I decided to bake for her. I went for death by chocolate (pictured being held by the birthday girl). Sophie had Read more about Sophie’s Birthday cakes[…]
Last year on one of my first dates with Jam, I got taken to see Fautus at Blackwells Bookshop. It was incredible, the production itself was fresh and had loads of detail put into it by some very clever use of props and limited actors (and the setting of the bookshop, seeing a literary work amongst Read more about Hamlet at Blackwell’s bookshop[…]
Jam’s best friend is called Ben. They’ve been best friends for some years having gone travelling together when they were footlose and fancy free. This year however Ben gets married to his girlfriend Gywan who is Korean. So guess where they are getting married? Yup Korea, and the best bit is that we are going! Read more about What to wear to the wedding?[…]
This weekend I met up with the wonderful Alex to have a royally overdue catchup and explore the delights of Camden market. When I was a teenager Camden market was my go to place for all things cool (my uncle had a flat round the corner in the very posh Regents parks area and gave Read more about the one where I buy the oversize porcerlain cat…[…]
I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I’ve been attending a writing class for the last two months. I didn’t post about the first meet because it was all very new (and quite scary) and I wasn’t sure I had the nerve to go back (I still don’t really think of myself as Read more about Group 2012 and a breadstick experiment[…]
The weather is definitely getting a bit milder, so it’s hard to believe that merely two weeks ago there was snow on the ground and getting a day out of the office looked like a definite possibility. Sadly the snow day didn’t happen but almost as heartwarming is the fact that my lovely rescued ex-bats Read more about Chickens in snow[…]
So yesterday was my day of underwear making with Emma Kidd from Emiliana Underwear. Jam and I had a nice lie in during the morning and then I hopped on a train to visit the Old School Club in Clapham Junction. Due to some silliness with the trains I arrived just in time, but Read more about Making underwear with Emma[…]
(Homemade red velvet cupcakes, the sprinkles say ME LOVE YOU with hearts at the end of the lines).You may remeber that last year I made these cute heart shaped tea bags for Jam. Just like the presents I made for our 1 year anniversary last week I was certain that for valentines this year I Read more about Homemade valentines[…]