Right Bun, Wrong Day

Posted by on Mar 23, 2008 in Craft, London Life | No Comments

Happy Easter! I am a bit of a heathen so these Hot Cross Buns were baked today – oops… Anyhow, I’m super pleased with them; they are light as a feather and nice and spicy – I link above to the recipe I used, with the only alteration being I used honey to sweeten them ...

UK Swap – Spoiled a rama!

Posted by on Mar 18, 2008 in Craft | 2 Comments

Ok, so this pic is *just the yarn* my lovely spoiler sent…!Can you believe it? There is also the lovely handmade bag, the patterns and the goodies*! Picperfic has done herself proud I think! Each yarn came with a pattern in it’s own little ziploc bag (they are red with a cute flower pattern on ...

UK Swap…

Posted by on Mar 18, 2008 in Craft | No Comments

I sent off my parcel to A for the UK swap with these little fellas in them. She has a family, and as it is almost Easter thought I’d include a bit of craft for them too in her swap. I’d been meaning to try out needle felting for ages, and this was just the ...

Knitty Spring

Posted by on Mar 11, 2008 in Craft | No Comments

Knitty is funny like that. Some issues just pass me by completely, with nothing tempting me to cast on and then sometimes, like the latest Spring issue, there are 4! Yosemite, Honeycomb and Marjorie are all quite fitted knits with enough detailing to keep me interested, Lace Ribbon a great little project to use single ...

February Finishing?

Posted by on Mar 8, 2008 in Craft | No Comments

Well kind of. I finished the sleeves of the Magnolia jumper, and haven’t yet cast anything else on :)Next on the list are the blanket squares for Easter craft club – need to do as many of these as poss, but they’ll be more manageable than that other WIP – the Swing Jacket. erk. In ...

Baking ups and downs…

Posted by on Mar 6, 2008 in London Life | No Comments

So; Leap Year, St David’s Day and then Mother’s Day – a jam packed weekend that was! and it involved a lot of baking… The Welsh cakes for Offline were a success (after I realised that making them is along the same lines as doing pancakes – the first few are either burnt or a ...