Birthday holiday

Here's a few snaps from my recent *ahem* birthday. We had a lovely birthday week in Dorset, staying in a cutesy little cottage in the heart of the village. The weather was outstanding and even though I was disappointed I didn't have cause to wear my wellies, it did make a special week a little bit nicer :) ... 

Boat on Beer Beach

Portland Bill

The Cobb at Lyme Regis

Birthday present retro sweets and cake plate

Lyme Regis - my favourite place in this lovely country

Oh my; what fun a new phone could be...

The potential here is quite exciting...

Clandestine Cake Club

What a spread!

Stars and Stripes cake

A very pretty Oreo Cake 

Waiting to dig in!

Pretty plates make the cakes taste even nicer.

So this week saw the first Clandestine Cake Club in the North West and my first trip out to a social event in the North West. What a better way to start than with eating cake with a lovely bunch of ladies (no chaps though!)?? Held in the truley beautiful Cake Gallery in Hale and organised by Gwyn from Vintage Afternoon Teas, I can resoundingly saw it was a fabulous success and I look forward to the next one.
The best bit though; bringing home a box of leftovers

This week in the kitchen...

Lemon blueberry bundt cake for the Clandestein Cake Club

Summer in a bowl

Squished peaches

Petunia in an egg

The recipe for the lemon blueberry bundt cake is adapted from Ellie Jarvis and is devine (if I do say so myself). I just added some lemon ride to the blueberries and used a basic lemon icing to glaze as I'm not a fan of cream cheese frosting. Go make it NOW

Introducing...

Northumberland boat

Lilly in the living room

Bobble scarf

New York cupcake

College textile project

Button inspiration

Bowmore Whiskey

Just some of my photos from previous holidays and wot-not. Just wanted to introduce my pictures and hopefully I'll be sharing more with you over the coming weeks, days, months and years....!