Silent Sunday
Clandestine Cake Club – Warrington
Last Tuesday saw the second Clandestine Cake Club meeting in Warrington. We met in Jasper's Cafe in Stockton Heath to share our cakes. The theme was "Frolicking Fireworks & Copious Celebration" - ahem, what?! I decided to make a chocolate marshmallow cake cos everyone toasts marshmallows for Bonfire Night, yea?! ;) I have a recipe book with a chocolate marshmallow cupcake recipe so I thought I could easily alter that to make a cake. Hmmm.... didn't quite work like that! My first attempt … [Read more...]
R.I.P. Sylvester
Sylvester was our neighbour's cat who decided he much preferred living at our house most of the time. The first morning we woke up in our new house he was on our kitchen windowsill to say hello: Notice our cat Meg peeking out from inside? He was a real friendly fella and it didn't take long before he was a regular visitor to our house. He fitted right in with our 3 cats as well, there was never any fighting between them. He especially bonded with our male cat Jinx - the 2 of them used to … [Read more...]
October Books
Yes, yes I know I'm late again, but as much of last week was a write-off with my uber bad hangover I guess I'm allowed! ;) So, October's reads were: One Day by David Nicholls: This had been on my to-read list for ages and it finally became available at the library. Three words - I LOVED IT. One more word - ABSOLUTELY. If you haven't read it and don't know what it's about then I'm not going to tell you - just go and buy it/borrow it. I couldn't get enough of this book, and I thought I … [Read more...]
Monster Mash
After our fun Halloween last year, we decided to host a proper party this year and decorate the inside of the house as well as the outside. We invited some friends and told them they could dress up if they wanted to. We turned Gary into a quite terrifying zombie, and I was a corpse bride wearing the lovely dress I bought at the vintage fair. The house looked fab, all the kiddies that came to the door loved the outside decorations. Amongst our party guests we had a pumpkin (read how Sarah … [Read more...]
Vintage Fair
On Sunday (was it Sunday?? I'm so very confused with the days...) Sarah aka Tilly Mint Boutique and I headed to Manchester to attend the Affordable Vintage Fair. These are held all over the country, so there is bound to be one near you. The fair was held in a big warehouse type place. The bottom floor was freeezing lol.. and we got told off by some woman for trying clothes on in the toilet, even though that's where you were meant to go to try things on! So what do you do when you're cold and … [Read more...]
