...Aka how to make my boyfriend fat with MORE baking! In my last post I mentioned the present I made for my secret santa - a Christmas Muffin mix. Well how funny that for MY present I also got a baking mix!! This one wasn't home made, but the principle is the same, and it came with a very cute little heart shaped...
This weekend I hosted a bit of a Christmas dinner party for 4 of my closest friends. I worked super hard for it but I have to say that it was a huge success and everyone had a lovely time. To ease the load (work wise and expense wise!) one of my friends brought the starter (a delicious cauliflower and three cheese soup)...
For the past 5 years now Belfast has held it's very own Christmas Continental Market in front of the City Hall. This for me has come to signify the start of the festive season and once the stalls start being erected I know Christmas is on the way. When the Christams lights are turned on it is a really magical place to wander through -...
I recieved my Giveaway prize from Quaint Living today! I LOVE IT!!!! Alice also enclosed a really cute little Christmas postcard in the envelope as well: I got the pink spotted and the grey spotted tapes. They actually work really nicely together as well. Not yet sure what I will use them for, I will have to get my crafting hat on for...
I took these photos during the summer but thought I would put them in a post as I just thought they were brilliant! I was in London with work one day during the summer and on my lunch hour I took a wee walk around some of the streets. I'm not very familiar with London so I was wandering quite aimlessly and happened...
I had mentioned earlier that I would put up a couple of photos of the very simple draft excluder that I made for my boyf, so here is that post. I made it because Rob needed one and was about to chalk out for a very ugly expensive one embellished with victorian dancers (I don't know, it was hideous!) and I said that...
What a treat! I had shown my little blog to Kelly, my work mate, who started salavating over my Pesto Salmon post and decided to try out my simple method. Today she greeted me by showing me this photo: Yum! Kelly's version of my easy steamed pesto salmon. She agreed that it was super easy to make and was really moist and full of...
Almost December folks! Not long until Christmas! And I am (slightly smug-ly) delighted to say that I have almost ALL my Christmas presents bought! This has got to be a record for me, I am normally only just starting at this point in the year. Perhaps it is the influence of my very organised boyfriend, or perhaps it is because my parents are...
I know I kind of intended for this blog to be about crafty stuff, but to be honest it's turning into an 'all things I love' blog instead! Thats why I've posted a load of photos (since I love photography) and why I am now posting a bit about cooking (oh, and I have my banana bread post too!). I love fish, but I...
2 posts in one day - go me! This post is just a group of photos from around my house of all the lovely red things I have. My kitchen and living room are red white and black and I get a little carried away buying lovely things for it - if its red and white spots I LOVE IT! Its actually turning...
I think I had said I would post these pics a while back, but I have only gotten round to taking the photos now! Anyway. When I got my lovely sewing machine from my dear kind parents (keeping them sweet in case they ever read this blog! lol), I realised I would be best to have a dedicated space for it to live...
I realised that I never put up a close-up photo of my new sewing machine, so here is it: One of its really useful functions is the button hole foot attachment. I was able to make quite a neat button hole after only a couple of practise runs. The foot has a place to put the actual button in it so that the...
Well I thought it was about time that I attempted to use my sewing machine! My mum, bless her, was very excited about the whole situation and scurried off to her sewing room and came back with a 'make your very first skirt kit' (Lettie Wilson Copyright 2009 - lol, joke!) where she basically gathered up every thing I might need to make...
This is a really magical country road in the back of beyond. I stumbled across the exsistence of this place when I was at the Natural History Museum in London at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition in 2007. The photograph really took me aback, and even more so when I discovered that this place was on my doorstep (well in Northern...
The sun managed to break through the heavy grey clouds, the rain gave us a day off and we were greeted by the most glorious day last Sunday! What better way to spend a sunny November afternoon than go for a walk in the Mournes (our wee, but stunning, mountain range in Northern Ireland). My wonderful boyfriend even made us a picnic including...
