I've had a lovely bank holiday weekend with a birthday barbecue on Saturday at a friend's who lives nearby - most of my friends live hours away so it was lovely to be able to go and hang out in their garden in an easy, low key way - the highlight was the company of course, plus the weather was great (just about OK for my little girl as we kept her in the shade) and the birthday cake came from Konditor and Cook - yum!
Then today we were at another barbecue, this time for two family birthdays - the weather was great (there had been thunderstorms...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Sunday, May 27, 2018
I want to tell you about a salad that I made and also a great product I found that will make taking photos for your blog or Instagram better straight away. But first the salad...
We went to a friend's barbecue yesterday which was lovely - my little girl enjoyed laying on a blanket in the shade and watching everything that was going on and meeting some of my friends for the first time. Here's a little photo of her for no reason other than she's cute!
My...
Monday, May 21, 2018
Flamingos are a really popular motif at the moment and one night while feeding the baby I decided they would look really good on a birthday card, and bought a flamingo stamp from Dovecraft on Ebay.
I also bought some die cut balloon shapes - it would be cheaper to buy the die in the long run and cut my own shapes but time is something I don't have a lot of at the moment (I'm writing this while the baby takes a nap but can already hear signs...
There's another bank holiday this weekend which doesn't mean as much as it used to now I'm not at work, but it will be nice to have my husband around for three days! We are going to a barbecue on the Saturday with friends and another one with family on Sunday and are also planning to barbecue at home a couple of times this week as my husband loves to use the Weber grill... so that's a lot of barbecue food!
Monday
Pie and mash (pies bought from Waitrose rather than made)
Tuesday
Forecast to be the nicest weather all week so I think we will barbecue...
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Last summer I had a few days in Majorca with two friends; while I reviewed the hotel not long after we got back, with one thing and another I never got around to blogging about the other places we ate. As so much time has passed this can't be classed as a review, as for all I know the places have changed since then, but I still want to share with you a couple of things that we did.
We ate mostly in the hotel as it was all inclusive and the food...
Monday, May 7, 2018
Towards the end of my maternity leave - and right after my baby was born - I developed the famous 'nesting instinct' and decided to sort out my kitchen cupboards. It's been really helpful because now I'm short of time I can find everything more easily - I also made a fair bit of space by throwing out packets of food I'd forgotten I'd bought that were long out of date!
I found a packet of poppy seeds - still in date - which I'd bought for...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
I have quite a lot of silver and gold outline stickers, and the sentiments and borders are great but I never really got on with using the shapes, as the fine gold outline often doesn't show up that well and looks a bit bare. That is, until I realised I could colour them in! I used Promarkers pens which are really good for this sort of thing (see link below to purchase on Amazon).
To make the card I matted a square of white paper onto...
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