Cupcakes

One of the best things about Christmas is when you receive something you weren’t expecting. Those surprise moments (we’ve all watched that guy holding the boards in Love Actually 100 times. No? Just me?). I think that whole ‘just because it’s Christmas’ thing doesn’t happen enough. That’s where these cupcakes step in. To spread some unexpected Christmas cheer, I got up on Tuesday morning and made a load of these to give to out to friends and to the lovely people in my Dad’s office. I’ve had in my head for ages exactly how I wanted these cupcakes to look. I handmade all …

Ok so I’m trying my best to do some catching up with you guys this week. Let me start by telling you about the amazing event I made some cakes for a couple of weeks back. It was for my local florist Moonflower. They are incredible all year round but make especially magical creations around Christmas. Every year they transform our house with their beautiful arrangements and I always love seeing what they come up with for each room. The build up to Christmas wouldn’t be the same without …

I know what you’re thinking. Royal baby? But no, as exciting as that was, I’m waiting for another little baby to be born. My Pilates teacher Ellie is due in a month or so and I wanted to make her something now as she will be off for a while after she has had the baby. I’m also off on holiday for a week and I don’t want to miss her. As she doesn’t know what she is having I went for …

I deal with the fact that I don’t have a dog of my own by spending time with the ones that belong to my friends. My friend Louisa has a dog called Lenny. I love him for a lot of reasons. One of them being because we have the same hair, but I also love how cheeky he is. I’ve been told he once stole a child’s birthday cake from a picnic. On a particularly adorable walk with Lenny I took a seriously cute picture of him looking …