Wednesday 6 February 2013

DIY's like crafting

Purchased a new stand to use in the shop, and it came flat packed so putting it together is abit like crafting.
Its a white ladder shelf unit with four shelves of varying width. I'm really pleased with it and looking forward to creating my mothers day window display using it.
 It's been a while since I've built any flat pack furniture I'd almost forgotten how much I enjoy it.  Think I may purchase another one when they get back in stock, I like the ladder look feel it works with the vintage cottagey look I'm trying to achieve in the shop.










Also did abit more baking, got a huge bow of blueberries on special offer so just had to turn some of them in to blueberry and lemon muffins. It was a recipe I hadn't tried before ad was abit surprised how large they came out, however they are very yummy quite moist with the fresh fruit in and not too sweet because of the lemon, the icing was made using icing sugar and lemon juice instead of water, I maybe made it abit too thin as it ran everywhere will make it thicker next time. The book I got it out of suggested an alternative with fresh raspberries and white chocolate on top, think I will try that when the summer gets here.

Friday 1 February 2013

Something Sweet

I enjoy dabbling with a little baking as well as crafting and like to make things for the village events committee  meetings which I go to. This week I did not have much time to be making so made the following.
It is a quick and easy no bake refrigerator cake, make by melting butter and golden syrup together and add coco powder, raisins and crushed digestive biscuits,  which is then pushed firmly in to a tin and topped with melted chocolate. It went down well with the other committee members and was soon munched up.