sun's out

The sun showed its face today, a good day for drying. These new tea-towels will be in the shop soon -  split pea and sunspots. And a good day for stretching wings, this butterfly was an early visitor to the garden. I hope it doesn't get cold again as predicted or he is doomed! I have never seen a butterfly in the snow.

wood for the trees

Camping in the woods in Wales this weekend gave me the perfect photo opportunity for some shots of Sleep like a log pillows and Logpile tea towels which will be on sale from September. It also gave us lots of opportunities for merriment and sore heads in the morning, good fun all round!

I will be randomly selecting a winner for my cushion giveaway tomorrow, so there's still time to enter  - see previous entry for details.

stir up sunday

Today is Stir-up Sunday, the traditional day to make the Christmas pudding. I looked out our family recipe, carefully written out by my mum when she was nine years old, she is still using it today, making them in batches which lurk at the back of the kitchen cupboard from year to year. The recipe says boil for 5 or 6 hours!! Fast food compared to the recipe in this 1960's McDougalls recipe booklet, boil for 10 hours - blimey! The tea towels and aprons in kids and adult size available in my etsy store and online shop

weekend in the woods

The last time I spent the night in a tent was well before kids in the sunny south of France, so it took a bit of persuading to spend this weekend camping in damp South Wales. But it gave me the excuse to dig out my enamel kettle, thermos and collection of melamine mugs and I had the best weekend ever! We camped in the woods, dug fire pits, climbed over dunes to the sea, played at pirates and the sun shone! Thank-you so much Diana and Mike for a brilliant weekend x