I’ve teamed up with Whitworths again to bring you some New Year cheer! Fed up with snow and rain? Read on! January is a tough month- what with the post-Christmas and New Year blues. To lift your spirits throughout January they’re launching a New Year competition, encouraging fans to get back into the kitchen and do what they love, to bake! Each week in January one lucky follower will have the chance to a win a bespoke Whitworths goody bag, including the full Whitworths for Baking sugar range. The competitions will run from Saturday – Friday and the week’s winner…
-
-
I was a bit sceptical when I heard about a new Lego range for girls which was launched in December 2011 with 14 sets. I loved Lego when I was younger (and still do today!) and loved my Lego bricks and Technical Lego too. Extensive research suggested although girls enjoyed playing with Lego they found it difficult to identify with – Lego Friends was born. Each character has a distinct personality and a variety of interests ranging from invention and design to animals and performing arts. Lego Friends is the first LEGO building experience that has been fully tailored to…
-
Given my frequent mentions of the Queen of Print, Orla Kiely, it will come as no surprise I fell in love with these the moment I saw them. Paper cupcake wrappers featuring a very Orla Kiely-esque car print. I love this design and already have some luggage and a notebook featuring it so I thought these would be fun to use. I am the Queen of the packet mix so tried a Chocolate Muffin Mix from Tesco which I bought recently. The muffins were huge but don’t look too big in these lovely cupcake wrappers. I’ve only heard of…
-
It’s not every day that I receive an email asking if I would love to review cake, I wish it happened more frequently. However, the lovely people at Baker Days invited me to try out their personalised cakes, for any occasion, which fit through your letter box. Just in case you don’t believe me here’s a photograph of the cake we received, in it’s packaging, in our letter box. It’s obviously not going to be a huge cake but it’s enough for a family or office celebration. They also make a larger cake if you’re greedy. I chose a design from the…
-
There’s a great article in the latest issue of Gurgle magazine on how to throw the perfect party. I was pleased to see that Big Brother is ahead of himself, having a Thomas the Tank Engine themed party at the grand old age of 2! We knew that we wanted to make a special cake for his birthday and that it would probably be train-shaped. My husband’s mother set the bar really high, making my husband a concorde birthday cake when he was little. I have to admit that we had a bit of help with the cake from the…
-
As it’s Edward’s first Halloween we decided to go all out to have a party to remember. Edward had two outfits, or a morning and afternoon outfit, as he is a messy eater! This morning he wore a skeleton outfit and this afternoon a pumpkin outfit (hat knitted by nanny!). As well as an outfit we decided to have Halloween themed food and decorations, which meant a carved pumpkin. My husband is a novice pumpkin carver but managed to produce this beauty: Not bad for his first attempt!