17 Dec 2010

#16 How to find things that you have lost

Whether your house looks like this or is as tidy as a show home, we all lose things. I'm often guilty of having something in my hand one second and...

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10 Dec 2010

Wonderful cake decorations

I've not had a chance to get any more drawings online, so the Things My Mother Taught Me is on a slight pause. I promised in #12 The recipe for the best chocolate birthday cake to add some photos of the cakes decorated by my mother. So, here are a few I had to hand. The jungle cake was for my sister's 18th just this year, and the Klimt (you...

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5 Dec 2010

#15 Sewing Machines Are Like Computers

Unfortunately, this is less of a tip and more of an unavoidable truth. Sewing machines freeze, they crash, they seize up and do things that you have...

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