The British Homemaker - One day at a time

  Share this post : The kitchen table has been a lil over loaded this week. From food lists to meal planning, from Christmas present ordering to present making, from baking to Christmas decorations. Today, I have done most of what I wanted to do by now, though if I’m honest I’d prefer to have got a few more things ticked off. However, given that the world wont end if my idealisms aren’t achieved I am quietly feeling rather chuffed with myself. Instead of a list, here is what I can check off so far: Quick cake stand. 2 cake plates covered in cardstock, trimmed with gold ribbon. The centres are left over stuff I had from the baking. The top one is the cup from icing and the bottom one is a jar. Both of which have lids that come off so when I store it, it can be taken to pieces. Clever eh?   There was one small wall that was missing something. An old piece of canvas, cove...

Share this post : I hate lists! For as long as I can remember I’ve lived by them, defended them, worked them, scribbled out, added on and rigidly used them. When I sat at the table this morning for my usual 10 minute catch up with myself I decided to check back on my progress. While I am on target with tomorrow’s branch Christmas Party, I am behind with the house. While I have broke even with gifts/wrapping and posting, I am behind with the handmade presents. While I’m ahead with the planning and preparing, I’m actually way behind with the actual doing. On the upside though, Charley went to school with some cute hand made gifts for his teachers, headteacher and the lollipop lady (don’t ask!). Wanna see? To make 7 of these I decided to set a budget, throw a few idea’s round and then gave Charley the choice on what idea he wanted to settle on. Each one was different, thou...

Share this post :     I picked up two rather cute little leaf shaped food dishes for just 50p each. However, I they looked kinda plain as they were so out come the spray paint and off we went: I sprayed the back of each one in metallic silver but I admit that I wasn’t sure how this was going to turn out!   A little less metallic than I would have liked but i still love the effect. Now I have 2 lil silver leaf food dishes just perfect for nuts and stuff!   If you want to play along with another awesome site, just check out Chris’s blog! What’s on your table just now?