SOMETHING TWEET

A little gift for Argiebargerina's birthday......... She had been eyeing up a tree brooch, so I thought I would make her a one off with two cute love birds to keep her company during the day! Along with some lemon cupcakes with a lemon sugar syrup and lemon cream cheese topping! A recipe from Peggy Porchen.

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MY OTHER LOVE

I decided on the way home from a music gig on Saturday night that I wanted to share with you my other love apart from crafts.... the music that I love.
You may love them, hate them, already know them or I might have opened your ears to something new for you to love too.

This week I was lucky enough to see Scott Matthew (not to be muddled with Scott Matthews) at the 'Fleapit' in London with less than 40 people in a very small room, ( much nicer than a room filled with 2,000 people who think its fun to throw their half full beer cups in the air). Mr Matthew was un-miked, just the beauty and strength of his voice along with his guitar and band mates cello. It's amazing how music can make you feel. I suppose it gives you hope, amongst all the doom and gloom that life can bring, it can also bring such beauty.....just a shame that on the way to the gig , a little child threw an egg at my back.....hay ho you can't have everything!
I'm not sure if I can add a video to this blog, for now I have given you a link to one of his songs ( not his video!!) Scott Matthew- Market me to children

PUMPKIN CAKE

It all started with this ( handy work by My Husband)!! ............

Which got me making these little fella's ( I think I need some practise)...

Added to a yummy recipe of Pumpkin cake from bbcgoodfood. If you are a lover of carrot cake and bread pudding, its somewhere in between the two ( the best bit is the orange cream cheese frosting smoothered over the top)!

WALL ART

Be lovely if you could have the vases too...this makes such a lovely pic


A good one to remember when you've had a barny!!








I have a friend who has a love of sausage dogs! whilst searching for all things sausage I came across these great wall stickers.

Vinyl Wall Design

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COFFEE and CRAFT, A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME

The photo below was taken from Yourlocallondon.com

Now there I was complaining that I didn't have local dwellings for cake and tea when my sweet toothed sibling ( he may deny that remark) informs me that Muswell Hill (London) has a wonderful tea room and craft shop next door.

I haven't been able to find many pictures to share with you, but hopefully I will pop along at some point with my sweet toothed mum and taste the delights that they have to offer! It must be a miserable life if you do not have a sweet tooth, looking at all those cakes and not wanting one, how dull :)

Anyway enough rambling from moi, the tea room is called The Emporium ....I'm now going to eat a Mr Kiplings 'Fiendish Fancy' after all that cake talk, well it is almost Halloween!

COFFEE and CRAFTS

I have always been a lover of cake, I think that I have my mum to thank for that, a hereditary sweet tooth and growing up with a mum that baked homemade cakes for her little ones and now her big ones! Well can you imagine my joy when I found this place! CROWN AND CRUMPET, an amazing tea room, which also has goodies to buy! Imagine my sadness when I discovered its in San Francisco, so no popping out for a cuppa and slice of cake unless you have your own plane!

More eye candy than I can cope with, lets hope they open one a little closer by!!

Blog Award....for me!

I haven't posted for a week ( naughty naughty), I felt ashamed so I thought it was time to blog to all my followers (ha ha)!! How delighted was I to find out that I had been given a blog award,

by the lovely Vanessa at Coco Rose Textiles.

This award is given to 'alluring, amusing, inspiring, bewitching and impressive blogs!' I would like to think that I could be one of those things to one person, that would make it all worth while!......and allowing me to mumble on!

Thank you so much for awarding me Vanessa, it really has put a big smile on my face. Just what I needed on a monday evening, when outside is so dark and the winter chill beckons!. Why do we have to change the clocks? To make winter worse!?

Anyway I believe there are rules to these awards, so here goes;

1.Post the award on your blog
2.Nominate up to 9 blogs
3.Let your nominees know they have won
4.Link back to the person who gave it to you

These are a few gems I have found along the way;

Argiebargerina

Check Out Girl

Bugs And Fishes

I am sure you will enjoy a visit!