Parisian pastry

As I am off to Paris in less than 36 hours (aahh!!) I thought it would be fitting to practice my pastry-eating skills beforehand (although I know they're excellent).

I rustled up this very easy and very tasty pudding using:

• 1/2 pack readymade puff pastry (or however much fits in your baking tray) rolled out to 1/2 cm thick, placed in a baking tray and with approx 2cm of each edge folded over
• 1 tin of apricot halves in juice and
• a couple of tablespoons of frozen berries laid in rows straight onto the rolled out pastry
• 1 egg lightly whisked and brushed onto the pastry edges

 

 

Place your fruit-covered pastry in an oven pre-heated to 180 degrees centigrade and cook for roughly 25 minutes or until the pastry is golden:

Serve warm with a spoonful of creme fraiche. Bon appetit!

Hendricks gin soap dispenser

Does what it says on the tin.

Do remember to drink all the gin before adding the soap, and do make sure the original soap bottle top is wide enough to fit onto the spirit bottle, and the straw bit is long enough to reach the bottom.

Mother's Day bunting greetings cards

So here is an idea that I sneakily took inspiration from the AllAboutYou website for:

It is a simple greetings card made from a white A4 piece of card folded in half with fabric bunting glued/stitched on to give a spring-like, celebratory feeling.

I began by sorting through my scrap material collection and picking out coloured bits small enough not to be used for anything else more substantial, but large enough to cut out uniform triangle shapes using a cardboard template:

I then lightly glued six contrasting triangles onto a folded piece of white A4 card, corner to corner, in the shape of celebratory bunting hung up in a row.

When this was 100% dry, I used the sewing machine to sew a running stitch across the top of the bunting triangles, where string would be hanging them up in reality:

Your card is now ready to be written and sent to your mum! Or, if you make more than one, it's a fun idea to tie a set of cards together with some string or ribbon and give them as a gift - on this Sunday or any other time of the year!

Love you mummy!