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Life

Facing the New Year

My favourite place to spend New Years is at the drive-in So here I lay with my feet in the air and the remains of Christmas scattered across the floor and wonder, where did the year go? One second it was August and suddenly only hours remain of 2015.  ...

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Baking

Cake pop snowmen and a too hot kitchen

So Christmas is just waiting around the corner, and like every year, I have waited till the very last minute to come up with a cute handmade gift I can make for everyone. I was proud of myself this year. I started earlier than usual (usually I begin on Christmas eve or better still Christmas morning!) I decided this year to make cake...

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Life

It's finally beginning to look a lot like Christmas

So, as I said previously, I had gotten bored with our families decorations because for most, if not all the years of my life the decorations have not changed. The same baubles and trinkets go on the tree every year. Maybe it was because there was no theme or pattern to our tree, but whatever the reason I had had enough. ...

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Baking

Gorgeous Gingerbread!

While I haven't been very good at sharing it with you the past few weeks, I have seriously been enjoying the approach of Christmas. There is something so exciting and different about this year that I can't place.  ...

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Books

What I've been reading

I am a library lover. I take great pleasure in knowing that if I completely hate a book that I don't even need to finish it I can just return it and hopefully never see it again. I also love that I can browse for anything and easily change my mind once I get home. If I get the feeling for action but...

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Caitlin's conundrum

DIY Bauble Wreath (a minor disaster...)

I wasn't actually going to share this seeing it ended up a little more of a disaster than I had hoped, but if it makes at least on person laugh today then I'll be satisfied. I still, hopefully have a Christmassy crafty project to come (with some of the littler ones) which will hopefully work out better but here is the first. ...

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Beauty

November Favourites

Didn't the end of November come around so quickly! It feels like only yesterday that it was the first day of November and there was lots to do and now here we are at the very end and there are still so many more things to do!  Because I enjoyed writing about my favourite things last month (here) I thought I'd share them...

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