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In baking, Christmas

Chocolate Chip Cookies

...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...

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In baking, cake

Christmas treats

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)...

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In belfast, belfast city hall

Christmas Continental Market

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 -...

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Spotty Tape - Giveaway prize!!!!

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...

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In channel 4, giveaway

4....is the magic number!

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...

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In craft, sewing

Draft Excluder

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...

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In Christmas, photography

"Holidays are coming...Holidays are coming..."

In cooking, inspiration

Inspirational Salmon!

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...

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