Happy Wednesday! As promised yesterday, today I am sharing my (very close) second favourite cake recipe with you. A little bit different to yesterday's Chocoholic Choccie Cake but still every bit as good in its own right. Today's cake is a simple 'Butter Cake'. Personally I think this butter cake is delicious! It is denser than a sponge cake yet, lighter and fluffier than a meidra cake. It has a subtle buttery flavour which is (as it suggests) not over powering, allowing for fancy icing / … [Read more...]
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Chocoholic Choccie Cake
Happy Tuesday Beautiful People! It feels like forever since I have shared any sort of recipe with you so today I though it only fitting to break the dry spell and start the week off right with something yummy. Not just anything yummy mind you but with cake. More importantly or MOST importantly with birthday cake! Of course, cake can be served at any occasion, in fact as far as I am concerned you don't need to have an occasion to serve cake you can go right … [Read more...]
Lil Gooseberry ~ 32 Week Update
Please excuse the incredibly cheesy grin (guess that's what happens when you are trying to take photos without a toddler and puppy trying to help you). Where has the last four weeks gone? It feels like time is going even faster now. And by the look of this photo I have totally popped out in the last four weeks. How far along: Coming up 33 weeks, time is just flying by. I am now on to fortnightly Midwife visits, that makes the time seem to go even faster! Baby is the size of: A bok … [Read more...]
SNUGPOD – the perfect swaddle every time!
Sebastian was a little Houdini when he was a baby, he was the master at getting his hands free. Try as you might no matter how tight you swaddled him, he could figure a way out. Then wake up. He didn't really want his hands free, he just didn't want them where I swaddled them. He wanted the freedom to move, not be swaddled so tightly he felt like an over stuffed sausage. So, a few weeks ago when I was contacted by the lovely Kim from Snugbags about reviewing a Snugpod Zip Up … [Read more...]
DIY Pillowcase Wall Art
When putting Sebastian's NEW Transport Inspired Bedroom together something which I struggled to find that I absolutely loved was wall art. I either found pieces which were not quite right for the look and feel of the room or they were ridiculously expensive and there is no way I was going there for a bit of artwork to be displayed on the wall of my toddlers room for a couple of years. So, after weeks (possibly months) of searching and pinteresting, I decided to make my own (at this point I … [Read more...]