So, my son is home for a while...with a lot of stuff. I do not have a garage or a shed, so my dining room is always full of stuff that has no home, and is now even more full. We looked at the large plastic storage boxes/mini sheds in the DIY shop and decided we had room in the garden for one of those...but how to get it home? the shop is only 5 mins away by car, but they wanted £20 delivery. So yesterday, OH and son and son's friend went off to get it, most of it went in the car, but the back piece wouldn't fit..so this is how it came home...



Son(at back) n friend(at front) walked home, around 15 mins with it on their heads, as you can see it was raining...but not just any old light summer shower, oh no, this was torrential, and they looked like drowned rats when they got here.

Banging and hammering are taking place right now as OH and son put said box thingie together.

Also yesterday i popped up to the quilting shop about half an hour away from us. They have quite a nice selection of fat quarters, and i was able to take in my new dress and shoes (for the wedding I am going to) and find 3 pieces of fabric that coordinate well.

I came home and 4 hours later, had this pretty little bag, all ready to take with me down to London.




The blue fabric has flowers in cream, made up of tiny dots. The cream bow fabric has tiny off white dots on it, and the lining is a dirty pink.....i don't do pretty pink, and it took me ages to find a pink that I could live with lol




I have a tiny scrap of blue and pink left and a bit more of the cream left, so today i shall make a matching coin purse...and then I need to make some sort of bracelet, and then i will be all set...apart from big knickers! i need big knickers to keep all my flabby bits in order. My dress is long and light and floaty and i really don't want my wobbly bits floating around too.

So purse today, maybe bracelet tomorrow, hairdressers on tuesday, packing on weds, a sewing day out with friends on thursday, and friday off to the wedding.....in between all that i still have 14 bags for Moldova to make.

here is tomato watch...i now have 3 bunches on toms on each plant, big ones at the bottom, some small/med toms half way up the plants and just in the past few days i have some tiny ones at the top of each plant. The big ones are rock hard and very heavy, but so far still very green. I am feeding them twice a week, very excited that we might actually get to eat them soon.

Hello Wednesday Wanderers. Hope you like the new look of the blog, I spent all day a few days ago revamping it, messing with the html till my brain was truly broken lol

Bag Update...14 bags finished and another 6 half done.

Since last week I have made another mini, the last one was blue,brown and green for a male friend's 40th, and this one is in pinks for a female friends 30th.

Again following instructions from Laura's page I love it when people design great stuff for me to have a go at.



I have loved making these two, and was able to pack a lot of photos into them, this one has *I think * 26 photos in it..can't check as it has been mailed out to her.



Each tag has a photo, and a title or a journal sticker. also a few of the pages have blank journalling areas for her to fill in.




Tomato watch...see how tall my babies have grown.

Just lookie!!! I am so impressed lol

Desk watch...machine set up, pile of bag straps and linings and a small pile of fat quarters which are to make a bag for myself at an upcoming sewing day with friends. hmmm now how did that can of cider get in there lol

Must get on with bags now, and also need to start a wedding album.

Speaking of which where can I get 2 silver coloured metal rings from, wedding ring stylee and NOT joined together....actually I could do with about 8, if I can get them cheap enough. If you know anywhere that sells them please let me know.

have a great week. x

Cupcakes for you today. ...or rather for me,him and the neighbours.

In my huge birthday box of glee that came last week there was this book..

Click pic to go to Amazon.


I had a quick look through and decided to try these.

Bounty Cakes.

Ingredients list wasn't big, I already had everything except the coconut milk.

butter , sugar, eggs , coconut milk , coconut , SR flour ,baking powder

Drop into muffin cases, ¾ full.
The recipe says it makes 12, my mixture only made 10.
Bake gas 3 for 20 mins.



I didn’t like the sound of the topping in the book, so I made this ganache instead.

6oz double cream
5 oz dark chocolate

Melt the chocolate with half the cream in a bowl over a pan of hot water, set aside to cool slightly.
Beat the remaining double cream.
Fold the chocolate mix into the whisked cream.
Pop in the fridge for 20 minutes to stiffen up, you need it stiff enough to pipe.

Then just pipe onto the cakes and top with a sprinkle of coconut.