Ribbon hanging loops for towels

I always thought everyone added hanging loops to their towels but apparently not! I cant take responsibility for the idea, i copied it from my sister but we've both done this for years so i thought i'd share.

I love it when a towel comes with a built in hook but they rarely do these days so i always add one myself.

Its just a small lenght of ribbon folded over and sewn in place. Pin it first to make sure its in the right place.

Then sew backwards and forwards over the ribbon a few times as it'll need to be strong. You can do this by hand, just make sure its nice and secure

The ribbon ends will fray, especially after youve washed it a few times. You can seal the end with nail varnish but i never bother, it is just a towel after all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homemade Pitta Bread

I made some delicious home made pitta bread recently, it was so easy i'll definitely do it again.

 

 

I used Paul Hollywood's recipe (love him!) here and definitely try and use a pizza stone, the ones on the stone were much better.

Chocolate biscuits

 

These are made from the left over dough from my ice cream sandwich biscuits - the dough froze well and the biscuits tasted the same as the fresh ones. They do make me crave ice cream though....

Food ID flags

I had a little mini house warming at the weekend and made some Mexican food for my guests. As some of my guests have specific dietary requirements i thought id make some food id flags to make sure there was no confusion. They are simply washi tape wrapped around a cocktail stick with the little triangle cut out of the end to make it more flag like. I wrote on them in silver pen and popped them in their corresponding dishes. Super easy and saved any potential confusion.
[sorry for the terrible photo, i planned to take better ones when they were actually in place but forgot until everything was pretty much eaten and looked like swarm of locusts had attacked so it wasnt looking very photogenic...]

Baby blankets - blue foxes

Another baby blanket - sorry for the terrible photo im still trying to find the place with the best light in my new house. I love this one especially as the fox fabric (sorry cant remember where i got it) makes me smile every time :)

This blanket has no owner as yet but as usual there's plenty of pregnant people in my life :)

Another baby blanket - no owner yet though

I finally got round to setting up my sewing machine last weekend and make a couple of baby blankets. This is the first one and i used some cream minky on the back instead of my usual white and i love it! I'm definitely going to try and incorporate more coloured minky in the future
Just need someone to pop out a kiddo and it'll have an owner!

Nail Varnish Marbling

I had a go at marbling with nail varnish at the weekend and it was fab!

I followed these instructions at Design Mom just used up two old nail varnishes i had lying around and some cartridge paper.

This is my favourite two tone one, love the big swirl of pink :)

And this is my fav one tone one, it hasnt come out very well in the photo but it has a wonderful subtle marble pattern

I did have some fails though - as Design Mom mentions you have to act quickly or the nail varnish dries - leaving bug chunks like on this one :(

But sometimes it just make a more patchy pattern like this one, which i quite like!

I love this technique, im definitely going to try it again, maybe with some bolder colours next time...

Blanket stitch embroidered baby blanket - baby boom!

George Digby Thomas was born on 26th March, a very welcome little addition for Neil and Adriana, and this is his blanket
 

Its a double layer of brushed cotton with white topstitching, a blue blanket stitch edge and a little G embroidered at the bottom corner
 

Simple but made with lots of love :)


 

Rolling magnetic planner - in use :)

Im please to say my magnetic rolling planner is in use in the new house :)

Our old fridge was a built in and therefore not magnetic so the planner used to be on a metal notice board but it always got covered up by other stuff.

But now its got it own proper place, so pleased!

Rice krispie cakes

Nom nom nom - how i love these :)

The pink ones are rice crispies in melted marshmallow and the others are choccie ones. They didnt last long thats for sure!