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florals and pyrex
It's great having thoughtful family members who know my tastes and love a charity shop rummage as much as I do. Sometimes they buy lovely things for me! My sister in law always seem to spot great pyrex...
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coconut and lime drizzle dinosaurs
Admittedly there isn't a huge amount of coconut in this recipe, but there's enough to give a bit of flavour and texture so I felt it was worth including in the title.But you're not here to question the...
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strawberry meringue roulade
Meringues give me "the fear". I never really know what they're meant to look or feel like so they send me into a bit of a baking panic. Making sure the baking bowl and whisk are completely oil free and...
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groovy duvet dress
Yay I've finally made a summer dress..... at the end of summer. I'm smart like that. And yay it matches my door and wallpaper!This is a By Hand London Kim dress, the second variation with the...
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raspberry trifle cupcakes
I'm just going to put this out there... these are the best cupcakes I've ever made, quite possibly the best cupcakes I've ever eaten. They are THAT. DAMN. TASTY.I've had this recipe bookmarked in the...
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mini raspberry bakewell cake
Last week I had cause for celebration -Â an issue which has been causing me immense stress and anxiety throughout the whole of this year has finally been resolved. I feel like a massive weight has...
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fabric, sparkly shoes and knitting
Now isn't that a great title for a blog post? As mentioned in my last post, I'm currently celebrating the end of a long period of anxiety and stress. Last week it was baking a cake, this week it's...
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blueberry and pecan crumble loaf
This cake was so close to not getting photographed. Each time I came back to the cake tin another slice was missing so I thought I'd better take a few snaps before it disappeared completely. Admittedly...
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snap happy skirt
This camera print fabric has been sitting patiently in my stash for over a year. It's funny how you can be desperate to buy something and have a clear vision of what you want to make but only get...
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chocolate chip banana and chocolate marble bundt
Another one of my "what will I do with those rotting bananas?" bakes. This time I had 4 bananas so I decided to bring out the big bundt pan.I was originally just going to bake Dollybake's chocolate...
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my birthday adventure and cake tour
When Mum asked what I wanted for my birthday this year I replied "to be away, sitting on a large, empty beach" so we booked ourselves off to a little cottage in the north west of Scotland for a week....
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Dad's birthday clootie dumpling
Last weekend Dad requested a clootie dumpling for his birthday bake of choice. For all the non Scottish folk reading, this is basically a fruit cake boiled in a cloth i.e. a "cloot."Clootie dumplings,...
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carrot and coconut battenberg cake
I've had this recipe bookmarked for ages as I've been itching to make a battenberg cake for a while and I was really intrigued by the flavours of this version.I'm really pleased with how it turned out;...
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liebster award
The other week I was surprised with a Liebster Award nomination from the stylish Shauni of The Magnificent Thread. Thanks, Shauni! It has been a couple of years since I've been a recipient so I'm more...
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almond and banana bread
Sometimes I feel like the only thing I bake is banana bread. Perhaps I should start eating bananas before they get to that ugly stage so I can bake other things.It was the usual situation of having...
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recent charity shop finds
I thought it was about time I did another one of my charity shop purchase round ups as I've managed to score a few lovely pieces recently.First up are these vintage Christmas bauble decorations. I'm...
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malted chocolate chip biscuits
I was going to write "cookies" but just couldn't bring myself to do it. To me, these are biscuits.Regardless of what you want to call these, they are utterly delicious. The malt flavour really comes...
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knitted: yellow agatha cardigan
I still can't believe I actually knitted this. Screw my school exam results, gaining my degree or passing my driving test, THIS is my proudest achievement in life to date.IT'S SO FANCY! I made this.(It...
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cranberry and orange muffins/cupcakes
Festive baking is now in full swing around here. I think I've baked something every evening since last Friday! The Christmas tree was also put up this week and I decorated it today whilst half watching...
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knitted: festive creatures
Hot on the heels of casting off my yellow Agatha cardigan I started some Christmas knitting. Mum stumbled across free festive patterns online and immediately printed them out as she thought we could...
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