Month: January 2012
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Important things
I’ve been up late tonight ressurecting an old project. Something that’s coming back to life. Soon. Very soon. Very exciting to be back in blog land. And back with my old friends. It’s like waking up after a long slumber. Waking back up to life and love and living and friends! And I said I’d…
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A swell party
The last time we had a birthday party for the girls was Edith’s first birthday and Astrid’s third. We skipped last year. I’m so tired. I’ve been working weekends and evenings for the last three weeks. Yesterday I baked tarts, cake and cupcakes and today we hosted the party and I’ve been creating an intricate…
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Spice. Essence. Tea.
My favourites of late. Cooking from the Moro. Essences from Steenbergs. Tea with cute packaging design from Higher Living. I’ve been in pitch hell for the past two weeks at work. People following my Instagram will have seen that. And a few other things that I’ll write about soon because they need to be written…
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The adventures of the boy cats
Top: Rufus; Bottom: Oscar (and we need to clean the windows eek) Rufus and Oscar have settled into London life. Again. They’ve both carved out their neighbourhood territories and places they go to sleep in the sun. There’s a great big enormous cat that lives somewhere near. It’s the size of a very small cow.…
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All the cakes I’ve been baking
Hard to believe I’ve never baked a chocolate cake but usually all I ever bake is my 1 cake 100 ways. And this required a new method. I used the Donna Hay recipe from Modern Classics 2 although it didn’t come out at all moist which I suspect was due to my baking it for…
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A delicious weekend
This weekend I made hot chocolate each morning for myself and the girls. Saturday Edith made big tall towers of the old kitchen containers while I cleaned and filled the beautiful new Le Parfait jars to take pride of place in the pantry. In the afternoon we went to fabulous Lakeland out by Brent Cross…
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The living room
Back in June when we were in Provence the whole interior of the house was painted. So far I still haven’t styled the house to my satisfaction. No matter how tidy it is, the girls come along and mess it up. Three steps forward, two back. Always. At times like this I remember Melissa’s sewing…
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The wrong pants for gardening
Oh good lord it was too cold to go in the garden yesterday. But garden we did. I wanted an activity the girls to do at home to shake off some energy so I could sneak in some more photo editing. But in the end I erred on the side of being out there to…