And you can't have tea without cake...

So please help yourselves :)



Vanilla Cherry Blossom. Recipe from the book 'Making Cupcakes With Lola'

 Vanilla sponge swirled with Morello cherry jam, topped with toasted almonds and cherry butter icing. Nom nom!

I Love Tea

And I do. A lot. It is a magical nectar with the power to make me feel that all is well and good with the world, just for those glorious few slurping minutes. The first sip always makes my hunched shoulders drop better than any Pilates class and the sight of a teapot and cup and saucer can lift my mood better than any drug. Ahhhhh. Tea J

This is the first cross stitch I have done in years. I found my old ‘Forever Friends’ sewing box I had as a kid at my mum’s house and found a few scraps of aida and threads. Enough to make this lovely and very apt cross stitch which I stumbled across on The Cross Stitcher Magazine website http://crossstitcher.themakingspot.com/ It was also a bit of a saviour as I did it over the course of one of the many recent football matches so I was happily occupied J

Making Cupcakes With Lola

I have a confession to make. I bought the book 'Making Cupcakes With Lola' by Victoria Jossel and Romy Lewis as a flat warming gift for my friend. And I kept it. It was too hard to not to! Not only for the fact that I am a Lola, but because it is so beautiful I had to give cupcake baking a try! Now, my piping skills leave a lot to be desired but i must stress that this was my very first attempt!



Coconut & Lime

 And they tasted incredible. Thank goodness we had a few visitors over the Jubilee weekend otherwise we would have sat and ate all 12!

There are 65 gorgeous recipes in this book, I WILL try them all :) In fact I'm seeing the friend I originally bought the book for on Sunday for a BBQ so I will make some for her and confess all!

Nom Flipping Nom!