Are you a blogger, a writer, a lover of good food, a crafter or someone that just loves lifestyle, gorgeous surroundings and a good old natter over afternoon tea with a glass of fizz? If you are any of those things then I want to invite you to come along to a Meet & Eat [...]

  After the excitement and surrealism of last weekend I think I subconsciously checked out for last few days. Whereas I usually like to be busy and rushing about, cramming as much as I can in to a 24 hour space, something in me just stopped for a moment and told me to catch my [...]

  Saturday was a rather surreal day at first. I was up at five am and baking batches of chocolate cupcakes for the demonstration part of my book launch at Harrods. Then I was getting the kids breakfast and Robert and I were working out the logistics of him taking them on a long train [...]

  When you’re young you never, repeat NEVER, think that going out for an evening with your husband, family and friends and having a riotous good time will be anything out of the ordinary. But the time comes when you’ve had a child or two/three and you suddenly realise that it’s been quite a while [...]

Good morning! Without doubt I’d like to start today’s post by saying a HUGE thank you for all of your amazingness last week. The comments, tweets, instagrams, facebooks and Amazon reviews regarding the publication of the book have been overwhelming. I’ve tried to respond to most of them and I’m sorry if I have missed [...]

  My kids are fed and dressed and grandma is on her way to pick them up. Robert has left for work and I am on my third cup of coffee. Today I’m off to London because it’s the official publication day of my first hardback book, The Handmade Home. I’m immensely proud of this [...]

  Good morning! And what a bright and sunny morning it is here in West Sussex. It’s made me feel better in about a nano second. I am cleaning my house today and working on a certain room in particular as I have to take some photos of it and send them to someone waiting [...]

  Dear readers I’d like to thank you for your responses to my last post. Blogging is only a few years old and I have been doing it for most of those few. I love watching the lives of the bloggers that I follow progress, change, grow and unfold. I’ve observed people marry, have babies, [...]

  We moved in to this house almost exactly a year ago. We were certainly jubilant to have been given the mortgage that’s for sure and I think part of me felt we’d move in and settle down and that would be it. But it hasn’t quite been like that. What it has been is [...]

  With only nine days to go until my book is published (it’s still on special by the way and has 40% off on the pre-order) I’m burying myself in cake and have designed a new collection. I shall be teaching the Strawberry Tea cupcake course on the 16th & 25th of May and  1st [...]