Holly berry hunting.

Holly berry hunting around the garden this morning and only found a few, which was a bit disappointing as there were so many last year, I will have to make my berries for my christmas wreath this year. 

Sorry could not resisted taking my little gingerbread men along! I did find some hawthorn berries with beautiful water droplets hanging off them. Don't you think they look like little  berry chandeliers?

Christmas

Say hi to my new friends. These little fellows are not for sale but come free with all purchases till christmas. They are handmade by me so there is a limited number available.

I am very much looking forward to putting up my decorations this year I think as I am not doing the cooking this year it will give me more time to think about other things.

My first patch work quilt

Not the best photos very cloudy day and I was in a rush to get it in the post but here is my first patch work blanket, a wedding gift for Jessica and James.

And my ironing skills need to be improved too!

Sleep mask and garter for the lovely Long

Christmas 2012- sneaky peek.

Christmas is coming....


I have been somewhat busy over the past few months, here is a little of what I have been up to. Will post a few more photo later this week. I have decided to try posting more images and less writing in a way to keep my blog more active, so lets see how that goes!

Tea

Time for a tea break, alas no cake got a bridesmaid dress to fit into!

Guilty cake making

I have been away on my first hen party.  It was for my best friend the Lovely Long. I stayed at her flat while I was there and met her lovely dog Buster and Longs future husband James.  I traveled all the way from the Cornish countryside to the city lights of Hackney London. I was there all of five minutes and I managed to find a big hep of mud to accidentally drop my bag into. Only I could find mud on a city road to dump my stuff into! Must have been feeling home sick!


I was feeling a bit guilty about leaving for a fun weekend away with the girls and leaving Adam to look after our dog and chickens and take care of the veg patch and finish the flooring in the lounge, so I went into guilty baking making mode.


Here are a few photos of my guilty coffee and walnut cake.

I even managed to take Lovely Long cake too, and it did not get too squished on the train. I was so looking forward  to my weekend away, I just had to not look at this face for too long. x

Crazy chickens

A while back I told you we had a broody hen, and we tried to hatch out some eggs under her. Well not as successful as we had hoped. Only one egg was fertile. Very sad to only have one egg hatch.

            

                        

And here is a little photo of the lonely little chic. This was taken 7 weeks ago. The mother hen did take very good care of it, so well she would not let use get near it!

I have been very busy making lots of new sets of bunting for my Etsy shop, and thinking of some new things to make, and planning christmas stock, crazy I know. I will show you some photos very soon!