comfort food game

Here's a clue for everyone. I hope you can guess now...
It's not a very common sort of cake anyway. In France we have it in autumn usually.

comfort food game

But what can it be???

A yummy lavender heart trio to be won if you guess the correct answer. It's easy to win! Just leave a comment and/or start following me between today and Sunday night to enter the competition. I will announce the winner early next week.

Wednesday edit ::

So, it's not fudge, it's not peanut, and it's not marzipan...but the main ingredient is definitely a nut of some sort. Does that help, or do you need more clues?

bad light and late resolution

Bad light, but I can't resist showing my latest trio of lavender hearts.

I've become completely addicted to making those. I made my own pattern (OK, it wasn't the most difficult thing to do, but it's so satisfying to create something from scatch!) after trying several different shapes, and can still spend long long minutes trying to figure out the best fabric / ribbon / button combination, but I love it! These three were made from my colleague's birthday recently.
I also had just enough time to make some for friends and family this Christmas. Which brings me to my late resolution. It's kind of a long term one, but this year....(drumroll)... I would really like to make more crafty presents for my nearest and dearest for their birthdays and Christmas. There. It's written in black and white, and there's no walking away from this one!!

* Happy New Year *

This year I have decided not to make too many resolutions. Isn't everyday life already challenging enough? In a couple of weeks I am going to hit 33, and journalists say I will be at my busiest ever, so I'm going to make it easy on myself this year.
When I go back to work tomorrow, I will take on an extra responsibility I applied for a while back. Nothing too strenuous on its own, but I am juggling two other massive chores, so things will definitely get interesting!

On the other hand, the whole bridesmaid thing is behind me now, and I can sit back and relax on the family duties for a while. Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like it really is a duty to do the family thing? (Well, visiting is not too bad, but I have just had my parents over for a whole week - compassion anyone?)
Anyway, I thought I'd share a couple of nice pictures from the special day - doubly special as it had to be rescheduled due to the thick coat of snow everywhere! All photos are from here.

The photographer was really nice, the ceremony sweet and simple, the venue and flowers gorgeous, and my dance partner...well, what do you think? Everyone enjoyed the wedding favours I spent so long making, and I think they made a difference.

* HAPPY NEW YEAR * 



winter

It has become custom for us to have more and more snow over the last handful of years, to my delight! Not only do I get time off work (we wouldn't want the little angels to hurt themselves in the snow, would we?) but I get to do what I do best in the given time: marvel at pretty things. Besides all the ever so inspiring blogs out there, there's things like that...

Isn't it just awe-inspiring? Ther stillness around was deafening, and the sky just looked amazing.