Finish QuantuMatic Jury
Over the next few weeks, along with 9 other bloggers, I will be taking part in a trial for Finish QuantuMatic. I’ve never been part of a Jury before so it’s quite exciting! They have sent me one of their starter packs to try out in my dishwasher, putting it to the test with the...
March Bake It! Club
Having said I wasn’t going to do a link-up for the recipes this month, I was then pointed in the direction of inlinkz, which seems to be similar to what I was using before. So we’ll give this a go! I’ve seen several carrot and orange cakes popping up on blogs and I’m pleased to...
Smartbox Gift Experiences
Smartbox offer a whole range of interesting gift experiences ranging from culinary gifts to sporting gifts, wellbeing gifts to gifts for couples and much more. So I was very excited when they asked if I’d like to review one of their Family Days Out gift Experiences, which retails at £39.95. We are always looking for...
Billy The Bear Birthday Cake
Last year I made a rabbit shaped cake for Tegan’s birthday so I was delighted when her Mum came back to me this year and asked if I’d make another cake for her. This time Tegan wanted a cake in the shape of her favourite toy – Billy The Bear! I was sent a photo...
Review – Weight Watchers ProPoints Cookbooks
Although I’m not actually following the Weight Watchers ProPoints plan myself, I have heard some very positive things about it through friends and twitter, so I was interested to see what the cookbooks were like when I was asked to review them. I have to say I was very surprised at the range of recipes...
Faith’s knitted top
I am very pleased with myself as I have finished my second knitted project of the year. I started knitting this little tank top for Faith at the end of last year but as it was my ‘car project’ (I knitted it in spare moments when I was waiting for Grace to come out of...
Hotel Chocolat – Review and Giveaway
I don’t think it will come as any surprise to you when I say that I love chocolate! I am, as you will probably also guess, no stranger to the wonders of Hotel Chocolat and before the children came along and started sucking money left, right and centre, I belonged to their monthly chocolate club....
March Bake It! recipe – carrot and orange cake
Last month was manic and I’m afraid life got in the way of baking and blogging so there was no Bake It! recipe – apologies to those who missed it. It also means I didn’t get to announce the prize winner from January’s recipe, which didn’t seem to be very popular as there were only...
The Ultimate Book of Baby Knits – Debbie Bliss
Last year I was lucky enough to review The Knitter’s Year by Debbie Bliss and I loved it. The book still sits by my bed and every so often I flick through the gorgeous pictures – I’ve even just cast on the peg bag ready to grace my washing line in summer. So there was...
More slippers!
I am getting slightly addicted to making these felted slippers. A pretty blue pair this time for my sister to give as a birthday gift. I used the same pattern to knit them but tried some Cascade 220 Heathers yarn this time. They didn’t felt very evenly and I had to wash them 4 times...
Dairy free blueberry muffins
One of my friends can’t eat dairy products and whenever we have group get-togethers I always forget and make a big batch of buttercream laden cupcakes. Yes, I know, I’m a bad friend! However, last time we all got together I remembered to make her a batch of blueberry muffins and even packaged them up in a...
White chocolate party mix
This was one of our favourite treats over Christmas and is ideal to whip up when you’ve got friends round for the evening or a little treat instead of popcorn when you’re watching a DVD. When you read the list of ingredients some of you are going to think I’m a bit crazy, but trust...
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