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with love, cupcakes and biscuits.
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Have a sit down with a cuppa and a huge slice of cake and read all about my wee domestic life where I bake and make.
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On the list of craft wanties...

I always always always have my eye on yarn of some kind and yet again I am drooling over the [above] Starburst crochet blanket by Jane Brocket from the Gentle art of Knitting book (pattern also in is...

15 may 12

Can you ever have enough......

.......baking books?I really do not think so.I make something, sometimes many things, from each of the books I buy, yet the compulsion to have more is always there.  First there is the noticing ...

11 may 12

April showers of a baking kind.

For me, April hasnt showered rain so much as flour and icing sugar.  Ive been a busy ol bee with birthdays and things and when I look at my Instagram feed (Im jammypudding on there by the way) t...

01 may 12

Sing with me "Im a Biscuiteer".. ....no really, Im singing it.

Hello my friends!I hope you are all fine and dandy. I am feeling good today after a week of the most awful cold.  Its still there, lingering but compared to earlier in the week I feel great!I wa...

23 mar 12

Spring forward and back to Easter.

The latest Mollie Makes magazine dropped through my letterbox this morning and the cover filled me with thoughts of Easter past and present.Easter means, for me, Spring and also birthdays (mine and E...

12 mar 12

A feast for the eyes!

CaKe.   What else?I made these pretties a wee while ago and Im so glad I took some photos to share their lovely colours with you.  Sorry I have no actual lamingtons to give you (e...

07 mar 12

Spring is in the air...

...even though we woke up to a thick layer of frost this morning.However Spring is poking its head up with the daffodils and crocuses.  I have especially been feeling it in my sewing.The last fe...

05 mar 12

It cannae just be me who does this....

Surely it cannot?Today I find myself with my mind birling with ideas.Creative juices a bubbling and a spiraling.I have a need to design. So I have all of this out designing a special quilt; my T...

08 feb 12

Sunday baking.

Yesterday I spent the better part of the day in my apron baking. I had a lovely ol time to myself listening to music (MGMT, Newton Faulkner and REM if you are curious) and making a floury mess. ...

16 jan 12

What is funny? Its one of those big questions...no.1.

It is indeed such a subjective question. What is funny?I am always curious to what makes us laugh.  How some of us find things hilarious whilst another has a bare quiver of a lip.  How it i...

05 jan 12

Twenty Twelve or Two Thousand and Twelve? Dont Panic...

I have to ask which is it?The man of the flowing locks and much historical wisdom, Neil Oliver, got me thinking when he tweeted the other day we should be saying Twenty Twelve by now.  Since the...

03 jan 12

The answer to the ultimate question (not 42 by the way).

The question I mean is "what to have with a cup of tea when there are no home bakes at hand?"For me, it has to be... How about you?X

17 nov 11

Nearly Headless Nick...sorry I mean Nearly Wordless Wednesday!

Some days...It feels like I live in an apron.X

09 nov 11

The difference a day makes-surrounded by Christmas!

If Monday was a day of avoiding and in the end, completing dreaded domestic chores- by the way how can people not have to iron?  Tis like some kind of  magic if you dont have to -then yeste...

02 nov 11

Feck that for a game o sodgers!

I wish I could...But I cant.....I have tried...I have dithered about decorating windows with fake cobwebs and the like.I have procrastinated drinking coffee and now I am even writing a post about it,...

31 oct 11

Ive been a busy wee bee with birthday business!

For us, the last two weeks of October is abundant in birthdays which is fabulous really - love a birthday - but bugger its exhausting!  I feel sorry for Mr Biscuit too as inevitably we spend his...

25 oct 11

Weekend baking: Cinnamon Buns.

On Saturday I was up early doors so I could make Mr Biscuit Cinnamon Buns for elevenses, from my newest baking book.  I have gone on many a time about my love for Cupcakes from The Primrose Bake...

17 oct 11

Unbrushed hair and a poorly look on my face!

The reason for Mondays clumsiness became clear when I woke up yesterday feeling ill.  Yknow aches and pains, sore head and awful nausea.  I determinedly kept down my morning porridge and ca...

12 oct 11

Monday morning and being clumsy!

 Seriously....I genuinely almost fell out of the bed and no one wants to start their day suddenly finding themselves having to be agile.   I took it for the bad omen it was.  I am...

10 oct 11

Nearly Headless Nick..sorry I mean Nearly Wordless Wednesday!

Yesterday afternoon...I didnt know I had nodded off until my phone beeped and with a thudding heart, my arms flew into the air, my book went flying onto the floor and my mouth went "aarrrhhhhh...

05 oct 11

Nealy Headless Nick..sorry I mean Nearly Wordless Wednesday!

still hexed!!X

28 sep 11

Today...

I decided to print off some of the patterns accumulating on my laptop and boy now Im feeling a wee bit....forget that negativity.  Lets just say rather than looking on it as lots to do, overwhel...

23 sep 11

An out of body experience??

Well thats my story and Im sticking to it!Its not my fault!  I couldnt  help myself!  Effing Amazon!  It made me buy books I didnt need!  I dont know how I even arrived at th...

13 sep 11

The pet me punch!

 And of course, I did.X

12 sep 11

Theyve all got knits!

Knits in abundance!Everywhere I look I see AMAZING knits I am simply chomping at the bit to have a go at.An email from Loop had me smiling and drooling over these.. deer with antlers hatwoodland...

09 sep 11

To everything - turn turn turn. There is a season - turn turn turn. And a time for every purpose un...

Boy is it getting chilly of an evening!  Blankets are coming out and my need for knitting socks is abound.  Luckily that is exactly what I am knitting, therefore contentment follows easily....

02 sep 11

Nearly Headless Nick..sorry I mean nearly wordless Wednesday!

decisions,decisions... X

31 aug 11

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