The kitchen is the heart of our home, not least because I am lucky to have an Aga, so it is the warmest place in the house for most of the day. It's a lovely large room which houses a good sized dining table, two walls of units and one brick-built recess on the third wall for the Aga. The fourth wall was a bit of a conundrum- it had an empty narrow alcove, the door to our hallway corridor and a sliding door to the small Utility Room. I needed a … [Read more...]
Tropical Breakfast Cereal Bars
About a year ago Fuss Free Flavours came to visit us for the day. I wanted to make her something tasty but healthy-ish as I know she likes whole food. In a classic once-in-lifetime larder fail, I had no oats for the flapjacks. But having recently used Malted Wheat cereal in a cake, I thought I'd give them a go. And they did work. Helen was impressed enough to tell me to blog about them. It's only taken a year. Print Tropical … [Read more...]
Cinnamon Apple Valentine’s Wreath
A couple of years ago there was a flurry of Cinnamon Apple dough across the interweb. From my reading it seems that this is a common childhood activity over in America but we Brits hadn't really come across it. Lulastic did a great post on how to make it. So I made some hearts to hang on our Valentine's tree. Recently unpacking a box I came across an industrial sized bag of cinnamon that I used to make my hearts with. There was … [Read more...]
Project 365: January 2014
In the year that the Olympics came to London I joined in Project 366. It was hard work but I joined The Boy and Me's linky every week and felt a tremendous sense of achievement at the end of the year. It changed the way I take pictures: it made me take pictures every day and not worry so much about the detail. It made me document the little things, the every day moments that make us the family that we are. I missed joining … [Read more...]
{Review} Organic Children by Green People
Things you don;t think about when you are pregnant number 2973 (OK, I may have totally made that number up) are the chemical toxins you may find in your child's toiletries. Obviously that doesn't matter so much with a newborn because you really don't need to use anything. But once you are a fully fledged parent- in my case with an almost-four-year-old and a five-and-a-half-year-old, you rather assume that bath products designed for children are … [Read more...]
Fairtrade Banana Date Flapjacks
Fairtrade Fortnight is imminent: Monday 24 February and Sunday 9 March 2014 and this year there is special emphasis on the banana, Britain's Favourite Fruit: we eat over 5 billion a year. But the cost of bananas have been dropping steadily and this has a significant effect on the welfare of the banana growers. "Fairtrade provides a vital safety net for banana farmers and workers, by paying a minimum price that aims to cover the costs of … [Read more...]
Pom Pom Monogram
This is one of those crafts conceived in a few moments that took a long time to make, partly because I massively underestimated the volume of pompoms needed and had to wait to reorder! I made a giant Pom Pom Monogram as a door hanging for Dimples' birthday this year. I made the large letter A, using the same technique I used for making a Number Door Hanging from LBG's party last year. I drew the letter free-hand- but you could use a template … [Read more...]
