Pretty in Pink

How cute is this meringue pig.

We have a book in our house called '1000 things to do in Britain' I love it. No. 26 is 'Pig out at Judges Bakery' Every single item they sell is made from organically certified ingredients. The only snag is that it is in Hastings, which is a long way from home.

My lovely friend Emily is from Hastings and recently on a trip to see her family she popped into Judges and picked me up some pink meringue pigs. Thank you Emily.

Interesting fact - they are dyed with raspberry and beetroot juice.

Yummy.

Cherry Bomb

Last week I printed off this photo to be scrapped. Then, the July scrap-a-go-go kit arrives with lots of lovely cherry stuff. Perfect.

Time to Party - 8am Saturday Challenge

Well, I managed to start scrapping at about 10:30 once i'd sorted everyone out. I had a whole 40 minutes before Daniel woke up. I snuck back into the conservatory about an hour ago and have just managed to finish this layout. The challenge is here. I didn't mean to use American Crafts paper, it just happened as they were the ones that suited the photos best. It was good however to use up some really old stash.

Week 2 - Project 365

Well, here are my pics from week 2. I'm only half way through January and I'm already starting to find this hard work. Some days are easy but others I just don't know what to photograph. It would be easy to just take photos of Jacob and Daniel every day, but I'm resisting the urge to do that as much as possible, unless there is a specific story attached to that particular day.

So here is the 8 January. Daniel wearing about a million layers before we went for walk in the freezing but beautiful cold.

9 January. A picture of Jacob and his friend after swimming lesson with a big plastic cow. A couple of people have asked whether this is a real cow. As if I would let 2 year old's near a real cow that size!

10 January. Come on Ipswich! This game was being shown on tv on Sunday afternoon, so all three boys put on their shirts to cheer the tractor boys on.

11 January. Another day, another headache. This was the third day on the trot where my head really hurt.

12 January. A peek inside my shopping bag. Before Christmas I shopped with my sister, I'm really missing doing it in the evening with her. We need to start it again soon.

13 January. Jacob's balloons. He had three but burst one. He got them from his BSF class.

14 January. Chocolate fountain enjoyed with friends. This was a gift from a friend in the Caymen Islands. Very yummy.

Cooking and Baking

Something very strange is happening. I think it might have something to do with living in a male dominated household. I just want to cook and bake all the time. I've made cake, shortbread, biscuits, soup and pasta sauce in the last week alone.

These are the cupcakes I made last week. I slightly overfilled the cases, so I cut the tops off before I iced them. They were so easy to make, put all ingredients in a bowl and mix.

Topped off with lemon butter cream icing. I had the girlie cake chicks round last week so fortunately they were able to help me polish them off.

It's Children in Need here in the UK this Friday. I have 25 Pudsey Bear cake cases. So, I shall be making cakes this week and accepting donations for them. Not decided what flavour to make yet.

Fruit & Veg

We had our first organic fruit and veg box delivered on Friday. It was on the step when we got up.

We had been thinking about ordering it for a while, but we have recently decided to try and eat more fruit and veg.

Delicious looking apples and bananas

Broccoli

Potatoes, red onions, pomegranates

Carrots and green cabbage.

I worked out how much it would've cost to buy this fruit and veg from the supermarket and it was about 50p more. We have said we will buy one box a week until Christmas and if we can use it all then we shall carry on into the New Year.

We had some of the veg and potatoes for tea followed by a pomegranate. I was quite surprised how much Jacob enjoyed it.

National Sausage Week

On Tuesday my husband asked "do we need anything in town?" My reply "yes, sausages from the market". At this point in the conversation he stopped and looked at me quizzically. "Any reason why?" he asked. Well, surely it was obvious. It's National Sausage Week in the UK (2nd -8th November), the reason it had to be from the market is because Dave Joinson, the butcher is donating 50 pence for every pound of sausages sold this week to Cancer Research.

As is often the case my husband indulged me in my randomness and we went and bought 6 award winning pork and apple sausages from the market.

We had them for our dinner last night with mash, peas and gravy. The perfect comfort food meal to be eaten when the weather is so cold and wet outside.