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Home Made: Natural, Organic Body Butter
I’ve always had a little interest in essential oils, each one can make you feel a certain way and has a particular purpose. Whether it’s to sterilise a cut or treat a rash,…
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Chalk Paint: Upcycling Furniture
I’m sure you’ve heard of Chalk Paint by now!? It started to blow up in popularity about 2012 with Annie Sloan’s collection and ever since, women have been upcycling everything from mug trees…
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Tutorial Video: How To Make Peony Roses For Cakes
It’s finally here! My first sugarcraft tutorial video, the much requested Peony rose tutorial. Hope you like it and if you give it a try, hope it works for you 🙂 If you…
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Recipe: Home Made Butter
We love trying our hands at making our own! We’ve brewed our own beer, wine, made our own spaghetti, ravioli…..and even butter! I’ve my husband to thank for this and it couldn’t be…
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Recipe: Red Velvet Cake
I can usually take or leave cake, but my weakness is chocolate! Mention Red Velvet cake to me and my ears prick up! There’s something so enticing about that red velvety moist sponge…
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Chocolate Wedding Favours that are hassle free!
I’ve done lots of freelance event planning over the years, made cupcakes for events and in work, asked by brides about buying bags of chocolate and making their own favours in the form…
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Easter Bake Off!
Well, I may have mentioned in one of my last blogs that I was baking an Easter Cake for the competition my in-law’s now hold every year!! Well it was announced at Christmas…
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Crafting: Make Do & Mend!
So today I find a bag of old window scheme from my days as a visual merchandiser… Lots of Oriental style frog fastners and these faceted beads which I decided to use as…
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Crafting: Draft Excluder
We all have a drafty spot in our homes, what better way to use up old fabric than to make something really useful, like a draft excluder.. You don’t have to run out…
