Thursday 27 December 2012

Homemade with love Christmas

Hello my lovelies! Did we all have a beautiful Christmas? Here in Britain we were promised a White Christmas but sadly we ended up with a very, very, wet Christmas instead.

Nevertheless we still managed to have a lovely time. Presents were given and received, food was eaten and a  lot of non alcoholic wine was drunk by Mr Lardshow and I.

So to the homemade presents we made... our little white house has been smelling a lot like a little gingerbread house recently. Mr Lardshow helped me to make the gingerbread snowflakes and then on Christmas Eve when he had to go to work I brought the biscuits up to bed and got to work on the icing.

I really enjoyed icing these biscuits. There's no set design that you have to do, you can make them as basic or as complicated as you want. They did take me a long time though. Nearly 3 hours! The ones I'm most impressed with are the smaller snowflakes. They actually look like snowflakes!

I love the contrast of the brown and white, they match  our presents that we wrapped up with brown paper and string. 

So it will soon be new year's eve and the lovely Miss Rachel is coming up to stay. I can't wait to get cooking with her. 

2013 is going to be a new start. I. Can't. Wait.

Love. Love. xBx

Sunday 9 December 2012

Gingerbread

Happy Christmastime! The first of many gingery biscuits.

A few years ago I decided to stop buying presents for the sake of it and started making presents for people.

I have to say I don't like the taste of gingerbread but I love the way the smell of freshly baked gingerbread fills the house and makes it feel all cwtchy and Christmassy especially when the Christmas tree lights are on.

Once the biscuits have cooled down I like time pop them in a box and then' let it snow' all over them...

There's lovely xBx

Friday 7 December 2012

Christmas Cotton Reels

Hello all,
Just a quick post on my new phone to show you some festive fancies I've been making. I was trying to make Christmas wreaths but I fear the wire we've got isn't strong enough. Anyway I thought you'd like to see the lovely ribbons and colours.
Enjoy.
XBX