'What is funny?' It's one of those 'big' questions...no.1.
It is indeed such a subjective question. What is funny?I am always curious to what makes us laugh. How some of us find things hilarious whilst another has a bare quiver of a lip. How it is...
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Sunday baking.
Yesterday I spent the better part of the day in my apron baking. I had a lovely ol' time to myself listening to music (MGMT, Newton Faulkner and REM if you are curious) and making a floury mess.Scrummy...
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It cannae just be me who does this....
Surely it cannot?Today I find myself with my mind birling with ideas.Creative juices a bubbling and a spiraling.I have a need to design. So I have all of this out designing a special quilt; my...
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Spring is in the air...
...even though we woke up to a thick layer of frost this morning.However Spring is poking it's head up with the daffodils and crocuses. I have especially been 'feeling it' in my sewing.The last few...
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A feast for the eyes!
CaKe. What else?I made these pretties a wee while ago and I'm so glad I took some photos to share their lovely colours with you. Sorry I have no actual lamingtons to give you (especially you,...
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Spring forward and back to Easter.
The latest Mollie Makes magazine dropped through my letterbox this morning and the cover filled me with thoughts of Easter past and present.Easter means, for me, Spring and also birthdays (mine and...
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Sing with me "I'm a Biscuiteer"......no really, I'm singing it.
Hello my friends!I hope you are all fine and dandy. I am feeling good today after a week of the most awful cold. It's still there, lingering but compared to earlier in the week I feel great!I wanted...
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April showers of a baking kind.
For me, April hasn't showered rain so much as flour and icing sugar. I've been a busy ol' bee with birthdays and things and when I look at my Instagram feed (I'm jammypudding on there by the way)...
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Can you ever have enough......
.......baking books?I really do not think so.I make something, sometimes many things, from each of the books I buy, yet the compulsion to have more is always there. First there is the 'noticing' of a...
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On the list of craft 'wanties'...
I always always always have my eye on yarn of some kind and yet again I am drooling over the [above] Starburst crochet blanket by Jane Brocket from the Gentle art of Knitting book (pattern also in...
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Effing rain!!
I don't want to be a right old moany face about it but I'm hormonal, therefore feel entitled to moan if I like. Don't get me wrong in many ways I love rain, the verdant greens, the slate greys of...
View ArticlePondering the 'summer' hols.
We are into the second week of the summer hols here folks and I may or not be giving a lovely long list of activities that my Biscuits and I have been up to but alas not. For one they are of an age...
View ArticleBlogging and lack thereof...
I cannae be arsed, there I said it. I think about my wee blog and I just have nothing to say. Not a thing (or so I thought, well because obviously right now I am writing this post). I could say I have...
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Why I love camping, glamping, holidaying in a tent...
I do.It's just lovely.This year we went up north a few hours in to the Scottish Highlands, the land of midgies and mouintains. Our campsite in the Rothiemurchus Estate (near Aviemore)....let me...
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Oh my, I love to embroider...part 1.
I have always sewn since way back as a wee lass learning at primary school. I was taught 'cooking and crafts' by Mrs M whom I remember enjoyed the sun. As in 'looked like an old leather handbag' liked...
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The day I made lemon curd and embroidered a pretty jar topper...
So I am asking why oh why oh why oh effing why haven't I made lemon curd before?I mean itWhy?I love lemons, adore them, cannot think of a tastier flavour of sponge. There are few better smells in the...
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Why a girl needs emergency chocolate cake stashed in the freezer...
I do and I'm a girl, well a grown up mummy lady but I do *need* emergency chocolate cake stashed in my freezer.Sometimes only chocolate cake will do and I am well apt to cope with what life throws my...
View ArticleHello hello, is anyone still out there?
Oh my it really has been the longest while since I blogged. No excuses given, I simply haven't. That's a bit of a fib I realize. Whenever I think about having to organize my thoughts, cables for...
View ArticleA crafty Fishy sale.
Tomorrow (5th February 2013) the amazingly talented and super seller KirstyFish, is having her annual sale day across her Etsy shops.If you haven't shopped with her before then tomorrow should be the...
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Beavering away....
I have been such a busy bee lately preparing for the opening of my Etsy shop jammypudding next week. Investing a not insubstantial amount of pennies on supplies and sewing like a wee trooper to build...
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