Well it is bank holiday Monday. Enjoy…

I made reverse button moon cupcakes inspired by Thornton’s button moon icecream which is white chocolate icecream with strawberry chips. Cakes are strawberry sprinkles with white chocolate chips. I reckon Button Moon icecream would be better that way too.

The butter cream is plain old whipped cream vanilla butter cream. Classic.

Yum!

Starry’s back, back again, starry’s back, tell a friend.

Yes I found my camera lead so I am extremely happy to have pictures yay! AND look what I have to share with you….

See those sprinkles? They’re Dr Oetkers Barbie sprinkles. They were hard and not that tasty so not that impressed with those. Still they look pretty and the edible sugar was pretty!

From this you would assume I have masses of free time and stuff. Um, no… Work has been a bit manic and I have been very stressed . Baking is very theraputic though and with a lovely BF to help with the cleaning up (and eating) it’s even nicer. Works a bit of a sod of late so pretty things cheer me up. The cupcakes were for my moms birthday. Which was last Sunday, mothering Sunday for all you Americans. Take a look at the rest…

I didn’t take that photograph by the way if it doesn’t look like my usual style lol, Sean did. I love those toppers. I didn’t have any letter cutters (Now I do, thank you ebay and Nigella) nor any piping bags (grrrrr ebay seller for not sending them on time). But they were just as effective imho. Cupcakes are all me, icing is courtesy of Betty Crocker, if you’ve ever tried to make butter cream without a mixer you appreciate why I used shop bought. Doesn’t taste as nice but still yummy. Making them rainbow was not so hard. Four layers spread across a cupcake liner…

Is it necessary to do a how to?

As the weather starts to warm up and people start venturing in to the outdoors more there is a distinct lack of blog posts across the blogging community. Those first few weeks of sun seem to awaken everyones senses to other things they used to do, last year when it was sunny. The longer days and the crispness of the days inbetween spring and summer are probably my favourites. Hayfever is dying down, warmth is coming and the sun is out that little bit longer. You can wear less and less clothes, avoid wearing a jacket if you want to and the icecream van comes round! Nothing better than a Mr. Whippy on a lovely day.

I really do hope this year that we have a nice summer with plenty of hot days, good amounts of rain (so the plants don’t die) and plenty of Mr. Whippy.

Also it was Sean and I’s 6 month anniversary yesterday. To celebrate we half reneacted our first date. We met at London Bridge at All Bar One and then went for Nando’s for chicken where I stuffed my self silly. Chicken, good, perinaise, good, sweet potato mash… GOOD! To top it all off I had cheesecake AND icecream. I’m going to grow a snout and trotters I know.

We had a lovely time, 6 months more please.

Hey people!

Well I am semi moved in to the OH’s in that I can’t get settled until the sofa goes and I have a bit more space to put my desk and such. Having a lappy now helps as I’m not confined to a desk. But looking forward to creating some new themes for the blog once I am set up. I’ve been doing a bit of consulting for a web developer who wants to add CMS for a fewn sites so I’m earning a bit of extra cash. The work I do for others is far more polished btw… Blogging is just for fun .

I have been sewing and crocheting and even a little knitting. People seem to be sprogging up left right and center so I’m being kept busy (and also somewhat broody) with little projects and mock ups while they decide what they want. All good practice for when I have one of my own I guess. Naughtily I haven’t taken any photo’s for you as I couldn’t find my camera BUT I have a few other bit’s I have made that are blog worthy…

I am pretty sure my blogerversary is coming up as we are about to move it’s June/July time so hopefully I’ll be back to celebrate that with lots to talk about.

I have the period from hell going on right now so I shall leave you at that.

Have a great weekend all!

Hello People,

I shall be moving house on Tuesday, in fact I’ve been preparing for it most of last month. That’s why I’ve been a bit quiet. I’ll probably be a bit quiet for the next few months while I’m in transition (moving in with the OH till we find our own place). The good news however is that I’ve got a new laptop yay! Allthough I won’t be completely with out net.

Any one expecting a parcel from me will have to hol;d tight don’t want to send stuff with no permanent address to return to. Besides my mom inadvertantly packed half of the contents lol.

TTFN!!

If you’re reading this I bet you are wondering where the heck I’ve been for 3 months… Well it all started with a snapped debit card!

Just after new year I went shopping with Sean. All was going well till I tried to pay, pushed my card into the slot and then proceded to snap it in two. I still don’t know how I did it. I’m laughing at the pure crazyness of the situation till I realise I now can not pay! Can’t get cash out and don’t have much cash. Between us we manage to scrape together enough to buy most of it but now have no cash at all :|.

What I didn’t know when I ordered a card was that they would cancel my old one… I also didn’t think it would take a whole month to replace my card meaning everything, my site, my email, anything paid for by auto card payment would lapse. So it was that the site went down, I lost my emails (I get them forwarded to my domain, stopped doing that now!) and had a very miffed bride to be harrassing me to get her site back up :|.

I am however back up after lengthy discussions and misunderstandings with my host. Cost me twice as much now, well not quite, what with the exchange rate being soooo bad.

I have been crafting. Sewing, crocheting, knitting and card making but I haven’t been taking pictures. I’ll have something crafty to blog about soon though.

In other news, new job is going ok. I’m working much longer hours though. Into the evenings which is icky but it’s A, good to have a job in this time and B, bloody good money. So might have to ride it on out at least till I can save up for a deposit…

That’s news too. In a few months I hope to be moving in with Sean. We virtually live together any way and we enjoy each others company so it makes sense. Besides, it’s a bit cramped at my house now lol.

I’m also trying to convince him we need a dog, not a cat. Who agrees?

It was my baby sis’s 18th yesterday so we’re going to celebrate tonight which should be fun. How quickly they grow. I still remember when she was taking her clothes off and streaking through the garden…

Have a nice weekend all!

I don’t read much any more (excepting blogs) but I liked the sound of this so here I go:

Instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read.
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (Catholic School…
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’dolin - Louis De Bernieres Mans
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I notice most of the books I read as a small child and almost all under 16. The most recent was shadow of the wind which I’ve lent to the OH. He seems to be enjoying it.

Byes for now.

Ok so it was my birthday 20 days ago. I’m slacking… I know. Sorry!

Apologies aside, I had an excellent birthday. Really REALLY good. Didn’t actually go out on my bday cos it was a Thursday but the OH made me dinner. Paela with chorizo and prawns, was so good! For my actual birthday I went to a local bar, was meant to be a bar in North London but so many people weren’t sure about it I scrapped the idea. My sisters came over, did my hair. I did my make up, put on my shoes and off we went. Well you can see from the pictures we enjoyed ourselves.

See that hat? I stole it

Awwwww!

I stole Anthony’s (unpictured) hat again this year so I now have 2 Fedora’s I doubt I’ll wear very often but are so cute! My sister and I are looking more and more different! Guess who’s older…

In crafting news I have finished my baby cord bag and I LOVE it. Even better than Sepia. I’ve named it Dora. No pics as I have been using it for a month so it’s not looking so hot tbh… It’s well loved. I still have 2 bag’s to make. Both are for christmas so cutting it fine. Are you done with your christmas crafting??

Wow! I was gone a whole month huh?? Funny how things hit you, rest assured I’m ok now. House is a state, though I’m not currently in it, not done much work so poor lol BUT…

I have a new job! Not only that but there’s a new man in my life too. Things are looking up no? Hopefully fewer doom and gloom posts and more happy, sweetness and light ones.

So, what have I been up to… Craft wise not a lot. I finished my second ABSCA in black baby cord, pink stitching and pink and black hounds tooth lining. I LOVE it! In fact I was using it before the lining went in! Awesome. Need to make more bags!! In the past week I’ve been to the Tate Modern, the London Aquarium and seen an awful lot of Hilly Crescent, well the inside of one particular flat any who. Also been to work obviously, market I can’t remember the name of and um… tesco! How exciting hehe.

Back to the regular world kinda today though. Been a little spoilt lately.

I’m sure I’ll have much more to talk about soon, for now I’m alive and kicking!

Ooh and anyone know any good diabetic friendly desserts??