Author: Clare Albans

May 2, 2015

When we planned our new kitchen, we knew that it would be a lovely light, bright space. Now that we're well in…

May 1, 2015

It's National Stationery Week this week, and I thought I'd make a little project to celebrate (as a bonus post…

May 1, 2015

It's a lovely Bank Holiday weekend this weekend, which calls for cake! This lovely raspberry and blueberry lime drizzle cake is…

April 30, 2015

April has been a jam-packed month - it started out with the Easter holiday, which was just so lovely and…

April 24, 2015

Tom's Nanna recently passed on a box of vintage sewing treasures to me, and I had to let you see…

April 21, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was away at a conference this weekend with my day job, as a few of us were speaking about…

April 20, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1429462831161{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}"]About a year ago, I decided to have a revamp of my Filofax inserts and wrote a…

April 17, 2015

Don't you just love a jammy dodger? These ones are special: they are smiley jammy dodgers! I spotted the cutters…

April 16, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1429178532445{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}"]I am a huge Mollie Makes fan and when I saw that they had published another special,…

April 13, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1428958108391{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}"]It's finally spring in our garden - hooray! :-) We spent a couple of days in the…

April 12, 2015

So Easter has been and gone, and it's back to work tomorrow. I've been doing my best to avoid the…

April 7, 2015

I love love love Liberty fabric, and wanted to use my charm pack to make something that I could use all the…

April 3, 2015

It's a tradition for us to have hot cross buns on Good Friday, and over the past couple of years…

April 2, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1427962023771{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}"]Regular readers of my blog may well have been expecting the usual Instagram Gallery on the last…

March 26, 2015

We had a bit of leftover squash from our risotto the other week (I went a bit crazy on the…

March 18, 2015

I have recently made another patchwork baby quilt for one of our dear friends who has just had her first baby.…

March 16, 2015

Some of you will already know that we only eat bananas in cake or bread form! Tom isn't a fan…

March 13, 2015

A little while back, I saw a tweet from the Craft Cotton Co. asking for sewing bloggers who would be…

March 12, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1426092243686{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}"]We went to Birkheads Secret Gardens for the first time last summer, and bought a season ticket…

March 9, 2015

This recipe is adapted from another recipe that I have already posted, but we wanted to make a veggie version…

March 5, 2015

Our kitchen renovation is undoubtedly the biggest project we have ever undertaken, but it is one of the best things that…

March 2, 2015

Did you know that it's British pie week this week?! You know me, I love a good pie :-) And it…

March 1, 2015

Sometimes, you just feel like doing a spot of baking. This vanilla shortbread is something that I made when I…

February 27, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1425052949469{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}"]This project and post was inspired by one of my lovely blog readers, Jennie! We met last…