Thrifty Week Ends

 Enjoying the great weather strolling along Blatchington Road Hove I found two
side plates, a bargain, £1.00 each. Perfect to put my first try from the Primrose
Bakery cook Book -  plum cupcakes on. This great book arrived a few days
earlier from Amazon, and I am REALLY looking forward to trying out

so many of the gorgeous cakes. It's not often that I feel I will make 90% of the
recipes in a cook book, one down 89% to go. Ha ha.

Mid week up cycling

I was really inspired by these great cafe table's, at Inside Out Cafe in the
Lanes Brighton., and of course Gaudi Parc Barcelona.
With the help of my "girls" we have recycled a few paving
slabs for the front garden, to use a stepping stones.
I went to my local tile shop and bought £10.00
worth of end of line tiles (20p) each, found some
left over tile adhesive and some left
over grout, also I have recycled a few Ikea
glass beads originally used
in flower vases.

 It was easy to break the tiles with a screwdriver and hammer, and spread the

adhesive over the tiles, during the recent warm weather they dried very
quickly.

 Again it was easy to grout, I used an old take away, carton lid, cut to shape
to spread the grout. When it was dry, I wiped over with an old cloth to remove

the excess grout.

The summer we never had

Swimming in the channel in October - fresh but fab. Hope you have been enjoying
this incredible weather.

Indian Summer

After school treat, to celebrate this very welcome weather, hope you are enjoying it too !

Making and Baking

 Before this amazing weather arrived I had a bid baking session, including making
this so simple but very yummy soup, using the Avoca Cafe Cookbook. My cousin
introduced me to the Cafe's and cook book's a few years ago.
Avoca started as a family run business of Hand weavers and has
grown and grown. The soup requires zero cooking and prep, using
frozen sweet corn, onion and a few spices its very cheap too.

 I was given the recipe and base for this cafe "Herman the German" you have to
"feed" the cake for 7days, then on the 7th and final day you divide the mixture
into 4 and add more ingredients to one portion, bake, and give the 3 bases to
friends.

Kemp Town Treasures

Do you ever get bored with the same walk into town ? Yesterday I started from the marina and made my trip into town via Kemp Town, stopping to fuel up at Ground a lovely coffee shop. My tea was served in a huge glass cup and saucer with my own tea strainer, it made me Oh and Ar when it arrived, (sorry no

Photo, Oops camera at home), the walk into Brighton has plenty of vintage and retro shops to hunt out bargains. I picked up this retro fabric for a fiver to make into some purse's and bags. Hope you are having a great week end too.

Learning to crochet

I have loved knitting, sewing and craft for years

but I had never learnt to crochet.  So with the

help of Pip Lincolne's book Meet me at Mike's,

I finally got around to it, phew ! NOT easy to

start with, but these great videos found on

you tube and this one helped to explain the

chain 1 and treble 3, and now I am the proud

owner of a pile of granny square, I need to sew

in all the loose ends and either crochet or sew them

into ? I'm not too sure , maybe with a fabric backing

and a zip a cosy cover for my laptop. Oooo and by

the way Pip also has a great blog full of crafty ideas.