Friday, April 5th, 2013
My life is regularly split in to two parts – the home part and the cake part. I try to manage the two, sometimes doing well and sometimes not doing very well at all. Right now I’m in the cake part. I get flashes of inspiration for new cakes wherever I look and have [...]
Friday, March 15th, 2013
UPDATED!!!! WE DID IT!!! I’ve EXCEEDED my target. Keep the donations coming in!!!!! See below for all the autographs you could receive. ************************************************************************************************** I’m NINETY PERCENT there! I’ve only got £28 pounds to raise and I’ve done it!!! One of the most heartbreaking things I’ve heard over the last week or so as [...]
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
I feel like I have been thinking about nothing but my book’s release since I first woke up on New Years Day this year. I had woken up in the year of it’s release and there was no going back only forward to the day on April 11th when [...]
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
You KNOW that I’ve always dreamt of an open home. I think it’s why I have a blog of this nature. So when the idea for Picket Fence Baking was first discussed it seemed natural to go out in to the big wide world and find it a home. What I didn’t realise was [...]
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
I write my blog in real time, so when it’s summer I write about summer. What I find really hard to get my head around is working a several months in advance. By sheer coincidence we shot every chapter of my book, apart from one, in the appropriate season which meant the lighting was perfect [...]
Monday, July 16th, 2012
On Saturday morning, at about ten am, my sister and I packed up the car and headed off in the direction of the Glynde Food festival where I was to be giving a demonstration in the How-To tent called Cupcake Heaven. I was really looking forward to the day and I knew why. My [...]
Monday, April 30th, 2012
We’re all moved in. It took a whole week, I kid you not. We moved ourselves without the aid of removal men. Just us and a van. Well a few vans if I’m honest. And a lot of help if I’m even more honest. And a tow truck complete with winch to hoist Robert out [...]
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
We exchanged on our new house. We hope to complete on Friday. It’s been a battle to get this house, let me tell you. But it looks like we’re there. I look forward to welcoming you in through the front door. I look forward to giving it a makeover, extending the porch, laying a new [...]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
If you don’t follow me on Facebook or Twitter (links below) you’ll not know that yesterday our mortgage was approved by the bank. After spending TWO MONTHS making up their minds (bit of a backlog apparently, although that didn’t help our state of mind while waiting) Robert called me from work yesterday to say they [...]
Friday, February 10th, 2012
The chapters of my book are currently going through the editing process. It is a process that I am learning a lot about as I know/knew nothing. I’m learning terms, language, publishing acronyms, more about the English language and I’m learning that blogging is very fluid but writing a book is much more structured. You [...]
