Makes, bakes and occasional fakes

For the school Christmas Fair, I have made two games for the children to play. The first is a treasure map, which took a bit of thinking abo...

Like a lot of parents with young children, I bought the £17  Ikea table and chairs  for my children. It's wooden and cheap, so I was hap...

Charlotte is entering the decorated tea light holder competition as part of the village fair this year. She is also entering a few other com...

The beast from the bottomless lake It will be Charlotte's birthday next month and she has decided on a Scooby Doo themed birthday p...

I have been feeling a bit unmotivated with all this grey weather. I have been busy making and baking, but not anything that seemed exciting ...

I was about to write about the dairy-free tandoori chicken masala I made for the first time tonight (part of my new year's resolution t...

We had some new wardrobes fitted in our bedroom a few weeks ago, and they are dark red gloss - I am in love with both the look of them and t...

I mentioned that I was re-painting the playhouse at the local nursery, and the front is finally finished! I can't finish the murals on t...

My sister reminded me of something I made a while back for my daughter's birthday. She was into Maisy Mouse at the time (Charlotte, not ...

I have just got back from fixing up another mural. It is unfinished, as the children from the nursery are going to add foliage to the tree w...

I am officially a self-employed artist. I haven't done much in the way of painting while the children have been small, and before that...