Denim Skirt

I wear jeans a lot. When I say a lot, I mean almost every day. The trouble with this is I tend to wear through a pair in just a few months, and most of my pairs go the same way. A hole will appear, normally on a seam somewhere. I'll think about mending them and then notice that there are two or three more baby holes just ready to spring into life, so I just pop them to the back of the wardrobe and...

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Patchworking

Today's Sunday post is just a photo - we are too busy patchworking! A poor excuse I know but we have several exciting things to show you all so...

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Photo Friday - Sunflower

Sunflowe...

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Fruit of the Garden - July's Harvest

July has come and almost gone so it feels like a good time to post an update on our harvest. It has been a month of many salads with the perfect weather to get us into the mood, strawberries to go with the Wimbledon final and the first of our potato harvest. We also had some stray garlic that had been flattened by something so I dug it up and tried smoking it, as it was all quite small. More on that...

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A series of cards

I love making hand-made cards for friends and family, for anniversaries, birthdays, mothers days and any sort of day really. Making something unique each time can sometimes be trying but once I have an idea the implementing is where it gets fun. Here are a few pictures of some of the better cards I've made over the last few months. As you can see paper-cutting features highly - its my favourite technique...

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Photo Friday - Cork Tree

Cork Tre...

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Grapefruit Sorbet

Has anyone noticed that summer seems to have arrived? We've been really enjoying the beautiful warm and sunny days with dinners outside, long evenings pottering in the garden and a bit of hard work finishing off our dining table. Naturally that's left us reaching for the ice cream. As our supplies dwindled my thoughts turned to a book we'd picked up for a couple of quid last summer; maybe prices were...

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Summer Knits: 2. Oh Bother

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I decided to do a sanity check on measurements, gauge and size of my cardigan after knitting around 10cm of the bottom. The bad news is that I needed to start again! Firstly, because I didn't have the 3mm needle the pattern recommended, but did have a 3.25mm needle I decided not to both with a gauge square - there was no way it could...

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Photo Friday - Gate Ornament

A gate ornament at St Fagan...

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Bakewell Puddings

There is a tradition in my office of bringing in something edible from where you have been on holiday. Having been near Bakewell it felt appropriate to bring something from there. Rather than bring back a couple of large puddings I decided to bake a batch of mini bakewell pudings. I used this recipe from the BBC but with a more traditional cherry jam - this seasons first cherries were just in....

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Summer Knits: 1. Casting On

We were on holiday a couple of weeks ago and for us that means one thing - new projects! It was while camping a few years back that we decided to each learn a new skill. I chose to learn to knit while Joe focused on crochet. Sitting around in our camp chairs with a ball of yarn has since become a bit of a habit and this year was no exception. Recently Joe's also started to learnt to knit and so this...

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Photo Friday - Rose

A white rose at Bennington Lordship Garden...

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Fruit of the Garden - June's Harvest

This is hopefully to be the first post of many. We decided that the best way of keeping up with the garden over the summer is to post pictures of our harvest. As we had a long winter this year (and didn't plant any spring crops in the autumn) the first produce is only just coming in, eggs aside. Our potatoes are almost ready and our salad crop is coming on nicely. The tomatoes (in the conservatory)...

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