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    Lego biscuits

    July 3, 2012 - By 

    It’s that time of the month, the PinAddicts Pinterest Challenge. The idea is to choose something from your Pinterest boards to create and link up each month. We are currently embracing all things Lego so when I saw Lego biscuits on Pinterest I knew I had to try making my own version of them. For the biscuits I turned to my faithful Biscuiteers recipe for plain biscuits as the recipe has never let me down. When I had rolled out the dough I cut out a number of biscuits using Lego bricks to make sure they were the right shape. Such…

  • scrabble tile biscuits - the gingerbread house
    baking - Father's Day - handmade - Handmade gifts - Kids crafts - tutorial

    How to make Scrabble tile biscuits

    June 18, 2012 - By 

    My piles of vintage board games have inspired me to make Scrabble tile biscuits! The children are too young for Scrabble but I thought we could make something special for Father’s Day. Today I’m showing you how to make Scrabble tile biscuits! How to make Scrabble tile biscuits   I followed the recipe for simple plain biscuits from the Biscuiteer Book of Iced Biscuits and cut them all the same size. They cooked quickly and had a lovely colour. I sampled the less-than-perfect ones which tasted pretty yummy. After they had cooled I prepared the royal icing, drawing a line…

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    Brilliant biscuits for the Diamond Jubilee

    June 3, 2012 - By 

    It’s been a while since I’ve come across any gingerbread biscuits worth writing about it. Whilst we were away in Devon we went to as Asda which was quite exciting as there are none near us in London. I was buying some snacks for our loong car journey home and found a box of gingerbread bites. The full name was Let’s Celebrate with 14 Gingerbread Bites and the biscuits were in the shape of a union flag – we’ve just finished them off whilst watching the Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant. We all really enjoyed the biscuits which had a lovely…

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    Jolly Gingers

    November 14, 2011 - By 

    I was so excited to see that the Biscuiteers have produced a range of gingerbread biscuits called jolly gingers. The biscuiteers bake and hand decorate biscuits (and more recently chocolates, cakes and sweeties). Undoubtedly beautiful and each one a work of art they are quite expensive so I was really happy to find an on-line code giving 50% off each biscuit. I chose 3 biscuits: santa jolly ginger for me, gingerman for Edward, and iginger for my husband who’s a huge Apple fan. Each ginger came in it’s own box, suspended through the art of cardboard so it arrived intact.…

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    Calorie-less biscuits?

    October 10, 2011 - By 

    I’ve been dying to try my hand at felt biscuits ever since I saw them on the cover of Mollie Makes, which were designed by Ouissi Gresty. The patterns were quite simple so I bought a copy of her book ‘Felt biscuits’ but I found it a bit disappointing. It’s a small book and only covers patterns for five biscuits (pink wafer, bourbon, shortcake, custard creams and a jam sandwich) but does include a pattern for a biscuit tray and tin. Personally I would have liked more biscuit patterns (garibaldi, rich tea, chocolate digestive, etc) or the patterns which featured…

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    Latest ornament

    December 21, 2007 - By 

    I received this wonderful ornament from Neele in Dusseldorf this week. It was beautifully wrapped and a real pleasure to open! I finished this last minute present for an aunt we are visiting tomorrow. The design is from simple sewing and was so simple to make. I used some of my favourite Cath kidston fabric. We also made some delicious gingerbread biscuits so I hope my aunt likes her handmade gifts. I even made a little felt Robin gift tag!

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    Day 24

    November 25, 2007 - By 

    No posting yesterday as we didn’t get back from the Amy Winehouse gig at Brixton until after midnight.She was absolutely brilliant, and only 45 minutes late. Today we have been searching all over London for a replacement fret for our fireplace. No-one was willing to see us the bit we wanted so it looks like we’ll be buying a reproduction one on the internet. We popped into Marylebone and looked round a small market at the top of the high street where we picked up these lovely biscuits (almost all gone). We also picked up some wallpaper samples from Farrow…