Baking cakes is a messy business

Well we've done snow stuff for the past few days and it was time to make some lemon cupcakes. Delicious but the frosting spoon did seem to spend a great deal of time being wafted about by Eleanor leading to splattered (but very tasty!) floors/walls and ceilings. i love the smell of the cakes baking but it was difficult for us both to be patient until the cakes had cooled enough to frost them....needless to say they're all gone now. We're off to Liverpool later this week to see the Tate and Liverpool Museum....no doubt we'll get some antique snooping done too.

Felt Flowers at Bea and Evie

Yesterday was the felt flower course at Tina's shop 'Bea and Evie' in Frome. Despite the weather I managed to get there and make three different flowers plus a very cute felt ring. Frome really is a lovely place and there are several great shops up the hill where you can find some real gems.

More snow

Martha's first real snow experience and Eleanors latest snow creation called Medusa!

Making and Buying

Finally I'm managing to replace the hats which I sold (the ones I hoped to keep for myself!) and some more ribbon flowers. The felts which I purchased from Holland are superb colours and work really well with some of the vintage flowers I've purchased recently. I also managed to pick up a wonderful hatbox at the B+W antiques fair so my new hats can be stored in style. It's snowing here so I'm looking forward to going out in my wellies with the girls later and having some hot chocolate afterwards to warm us up of course!

Let it Snow

"If you don't find snow exciting you know you've grown old!" according to my friend and I couldn't agree more! The place looks magical and finally Eleanor could go out and enjoy making a snowman (or is that Grover the muppet?).

Is it really mid Jan?

Time flies when you're having fun (or running around like a scalded cat!). Work had been very hectic so it was nice to have a Christmas day on our own, the first in ten years! and then see everyone on Boxing day instead. But now its back to school and the daily madness of school marking,planning,reporting and then organising Eleanor! Her Christmas present has been a big hit and she is already adding to the furniture with her pocket money. I did wonder if I was doing the right thing as it took me hours to paint in secret but she loves it.

Lacock Madness!

Today was the last day of the christmas fair at Lacock and it was even busier than yesterday, and colder! My feet were frozen by 2pm and even stamping up and down on a scrap piece of carpet didn't help. On a positive note there were lots of interested buyers incuding husbands sneekily buying for their wives for Christmas. I sold the only two adult hats I took with me..note for the next fair! Now full of cold and need whisky and bed.

'Christmas in the Cloisters', Lacock

My mum kindly came down to help on the stall and got fairly carried away with the business of selling!

There has been considerable interest in adult sized cloches at the fair and I have been taking orders for them too. A really lovely venue despite being a little open to the elements!