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To celebrate the fabulous Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company turning 35 this year they decided to hold a Moosical in London! The premise was simple, audience members were asked to tweet in puns (cow,...
All of my family are members of the National Trust and love to visit houses and countryside preserved for our National Heritage. The Trust oversee Bateman’s, the house that Rudyard Kipling and his...
Ahoy me hearties, did ye know that Walkers Crisps have launched them a fine new flavoured range of snacks!? No… then let me enlighten ye for they be low in calories, high in wholegrains and taste...
On Saturday morning I was watching the BBC Breakfast show when I heard an interview with Jack Monroe. If you’re not familiar with Jack, she writes a blog and campaigns against food waste. The...
I am very happy to announce our brand new competition today. We are giving away one of our gorgeous handmade silver thatched cottage pendants! The Thatched Cottage Pendant is worth £50 and is part...
Around the back end of last year I hit upon the idea of making my own soaps and handwash. I have naturally sensitive skin and this allowed me to use ingredients that I knew would benefit my skin...
I’ve talked recently about my bathroom and it’s need for a makeover, but the other common woe for householders all over the world is disdain for their kitchen. Supposedly your kitchen should be the...
We enjoyed some marvellous weather over the weekend, to say the sun has been shy this year would be an understatement and it’s arrival was more than welcome. We celebrated with a day out in our...
Today we have a guest post packed with wonderful activities to keep you busy on a rainy day! Gloomy, rainy days may provide the perfect excuse for sitting around watching films and vegging out....
The title for this post may seem a little strange, however all will be revealed. Whenever I visit a new area I am on the hunt for individual and unique shops. Many high streets seem to be carbon...
I love relaxing into a warm bath in the morning, those few moments of quiet solitude can set you up for a wonderful day. But my bathroom is not quite the sanctuary it should be. My bath tub has...
We are helping to organise and promote a new Yarn Bomb in Derby as part of this years Six Streets Art Trail. Six Streets is a community group that exists to increase neighbourlyness and friendship....
I recently read an article in the Mollie Makes magazine about a really unique printing ink called Inkodye and I instantly wanted to have a go. Unfortunately there is currently only one company in...
It snowed heavily here over the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd of March. In the past the snow seemed almost rare and as soon as it appeared I got the camera out, but the last few years it’s become...
I rarely buy ready meals as I prefer to make my own but we all like to have a night off once in a while and this is what I did last Saturday. I was kindly given a £10 voucher to test out one of the...
I absolutely adored the edible ‘turtle’ eggs I saw at the Tate & Lyle Tasting house earlier in the week, I also fell head over heels in love with the gingerbread creations. The only logical thing...
On Tuesday Anne and I were invited along to the fabulous Tate & Lyle Tasting House in London. If you can imagine Alice in Wonderland mixed with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory you’ll have some...
With Easter just around the corner there’s every chance that you are looking forward to baskets laden with chocolate eggs and gatherings with your family. But what if you don’t like chocolate!? Or...
Yesterday evening members of the Derby Makers group who are based at the Silk Mill Museum held an Ice-Off Competition for Comic Relief! Contestants were given four cupcakes to ice and also asked to...
That’s right Anne and I have written our first ever e-book! It’s a brief guide to Yarn Bombing with a wonderful collection of seven sports and games themed patterns including knitted dice, snakes...
Our most recent competition has ended and the winners have been chosen by a random number selector, so without further ado the lucky winners of a pair of tickets are: Joy Dehany Sylivia Hampel Sara...
Yesterday evening I attended the opening of the sixth International Photography Festival in Derby. Unfortunately the weather was very cold and wet but the performance by ELEMENTAL FORCE was well...
Last Friday (March 1st) I went along to the first installation of the Craftivist’s Collective jigsaw project. It was held in the cafe of the People’s History Museum in Manchester. As we were...
As a member of the Sainsbury’s Bank Family Blogger Network I was recently asked if I would like to create a cookie design in aid of comic relief I’m always keen to get creative so I was happy to...
Win tickets to Sewing for Pleasure, Hobbycrafts and Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch!! Between 21-24 March, Birmingham NEC will once again play host to three wonderful creative shows. This year the...
Happy Valentine’s Day from the Angel Eden Blog (including the spotty crocodile!). Keep an eye out over the next few days as I have an exciting competition coming up and a new diet recipe
You may recall that we recently organised a group sewing session to make some Jigsaw pieces for the installation organised by the Craftivists-collective in support of Save the Children’s Race...
I have always loved making macaroons with ground almonds, coconut and egg white. The only problem was I usually put the egg yolks into a mug in the fridge intending to use them at a later date and...
Just when I thought the wintry weather was gone and it was safe to travel, it happened again! The weather forecast had warned us to expect snow from 4pm, it came so much later that i honestly...
Recently many news outlets have focused on the problem of food waste, apparently nearly half of the food grown and produced in the world is wasted, amazingly this is about 2 billion tonnes. An...
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