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Mini Book Review: Sewing For Boys
I’ve had Sewing For Boys on pre-order since I first heard about it earlier in the year, and having tried a Figgy’s pattern in the meantime, my anticipation was set to High. Then I started getting...
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Let Them Make Cake
After a blustery morning in the park I decided it was just Too Much to ask of my hair to spend more hours being flung about in the wind, so instead we stayed in to make cakes. What else? I showed Fitz...
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Forgotten pleasures
I went to the Knitting & Stitching Show last week, with my lovely friend Jo. I haven’t been since before I had the boy, what with being firstly a new mother of only 4 weeks, and then a mother who...
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November, November
*I did this face in about five minutes flat, having realised it was not half an hour to the child’s bedtime and we hadn’t carved a face. Halloween is not one of those things you can do the day after....
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A List of Nonsense born of Industry
(This post starts as one thing and ends up as something else. I’ve let it stand, as opposed to editing myself.) I’ve been beavering away making some bibs for the Craft Fair in Dulwich on Saturday....
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Wolf Porridge
So I’m a good baker. I may not be the best baker, but I rarely have a cake that doesn’t rise. As a young girl I made a cake every Saturday before I went ice skating, usually chocolate, let’s be honest,...
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Making Cinder Toffee
I don’t usually do spontaneous. There’s often no room for it for one, but in the interests of full disclosure : I don’t bloody like it. So when I saw Nigella’s tweet about her recipe of the day, it was...
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Boston Cake – A surfeit of Cinnamon Buns
Can you have a surfeit of cinnamon buns? Probably not. A few weeks ago I went into Town to do a spot of shopping, and wandered back through Soho on my way to the station. It was nice for several...
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Flag Waving
We’re in the business of making memories as well as physical/edible things, so today we went to watch the Olympic torch relay. It passed by the end of our street, so it would have been exceedingly...
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Tribe
I bloomin’ love the Olympics I do. Every time I get sucked right in, spending hours watching sports that don’t normally get any airtime, gasping at these amazing athletes who quietly dedicate their...
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