Teacher/leader gifts

Tomorrow is Big E's last ever day at nursery (pre-school) so some teacher gifts were in order! It is a big nursery so I needed 5 female pressies and 1 male. I decided fabric flower brooches were the way to go for the ladies: I made them all different and attached them to a piece of card with the slogan...

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Low fat sponge cake - Yum!

Low fat and cake in the same sentence, really?! Yes, and it tasted fab! My little sister is 27 today (eek that makes me feel old!) but is on a diet so wanted a low fat cake. I have never made a traditional 'fatless' whisked sponge before but it was easy and turned out great. This is the recipe I...

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Don't you just hate it when...

a pattern you were excited to make turns out horribly? I am making Big E's school trousers and used a simplicity pattern (which I grew to dislike intensely!). I made them and it looks like the waist band is missing... They are also massive (even though I measured Big E's waist and made the correct...

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Heavenly but not handmade!

Heavenly: I love the garden at this time of year. Unfortunately it hasn't stopped raining here for the last few days and now the ground is like a swamp and the poppy's look like this and it is still raining. I think summer in Scotland has been cancelled this year...

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Pretty Girls Skirt

Big E is going to a little girls birthday party tomorrow so it was a perfect excuse to visit Mary's Patch our local fabric/ quilting shop! The little girl who's party it is is a grown up five year old so we chose this some pretty blue fabric with multi coloured watercolour effect flowers on it. I decided...

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