Make shift Garland

Hi guys today’s is just a quick one, sorry its late , I wasn’t going to blog today but I put my make shift garland tonight and loved it so wanted to show you it.

I mentioned the other day in my Christmas decorations ideas that I wanted to buy a garland but they were too expensive for right now and I don’t actually have a fire place mantel to put it on right now. Although I do have a cube storage unit that I put lots of trinkets on top of that I wanted to put some sort of garland on.

I went and had a look around Home Bargains and Pound World on Saturday and in Pound World I  found some lovely tinsel, I got 1 silver 2m one, 1 red one and one green and red leafy one. They were £1 each.

I also found some lovely berries, pine cones, holly etc.. on sticks that I added in. I bought 4 of them, 2 with berries, 1 with a flower and 1 with a pine cone and flower. These were also £1 each which was a little expensive but they add lovely detail to the tinsel.

Today in b&m I also bought 25 cool white led lights too add to them which are battery operated which is good because I don’t have a plug socket close to the unit. I wanted warm white but they didn’t have any. As you can see though when they mixed with everything else they don’t look too bright. These were £2.69.

What I did to make the garland was to lay all the tinsel and lights out next to one another. The silver and red on the outside and then the green leafy one and the lights in the middle and then I just basically plaited it, weaving them all together. Once it was all finished, I got the 4 extra pieces and carefully put them through the ‘garland’ in different places. Once they were through I bent the ends slightly around the garland to keep them in place.

I then placed this on my unit top and placed it around the trinkets and candles on the unit to make it look more garland like and put the lights on. I am actually pretty impressed with it to be honest.

Every garland I found (even the plain green ones) were at least £15 and the ones I really liked with holly and flowers and lights were at least £25-£30. This ‘make shift garland’ was £9.69.

I hope you liked this little blog. I like being quite creative and I hope you liked it too, might even give you a few ideas for Christmas. Let me know if you are doing anything like this this year.  Hopefully Friday’s blog will be a recipe or a baking blog. See you Friday.

Abbie x

Living Room Home Touches

Hi guys, today I’m going to show you all the trinket-y things I have in my living room. My living room is quite small but I also have a lot of things in it, the reason being that I have started buying things for a house but only have 1 room to fit it all in. So I have quite a cluttered room with many trinkets in. But I like them all far too much to box some of them up and put them away until I have more rooms to fill.

Today I’m going to show you most of them. I am also going to show you my curtains and cushions. The cushions I bought are from B&M and mostly match my curtains. I bought 3 cushions (which is all I could find I would have liked 4 but couldn’t find a 4^th and loved them so much I settled with 3). They were reduced from £4.99 to £2.99 per cushion which I thought was a bargain and I don’t mind if they don’t last too long or I find some different ones within a year (which I may do, I like to change my mind).

My curtains were a gift from my mum when we moved into this room and decorated it to make it our lounge. Although I did pick them, as my family know I like to pick my own gifts, I’m not one for surprises. Also, I had a plan for this living room and just love florals and teal. Its also not your typical combination, floral tends to be girly pinks or creams or more pastel colours. But I love them. They came from amazon and we have found the link for them but they are currently unavailable; I will link them on here though and at least you can see them. We think we only paid £10 for them which is an absolute bargain for fully lined curtains!

The next thing I have to show you are one of my favourite things, I picked them again but they were a present from my boyfriend last year for my birthday. I can’t remember the exact price of them but I know they were under or around £20. They are my Paris themed storage books. There are 3 of them and they stack on top of each other or stand up like books (if they are not too full). The lid of them opens up and you can fill them with whatever you want. The biggest one of ours is full of important documents as it’s bigger than A4 size so fits paper in perfectly. The next one down I use for plasters, tablets, nasal sprays and first aid things. It fits a lot in really nicely. The last one has little bits and pieces in stamps, nail polish, any little bits that I want hidden out the way.

I’m going to quickly show you my pictures and canvas’ on the walls. The biggest and my favourite is the New York and Brooklyn Bridge canvas which was one of the first house things me and my boyfriend ever bought. It was from B&M (as you’ll realise nearly everything I own is, I love the place) and it was £14.99. (sorry the picture is a bit blurry)

The other canvas’s we have are a paris one and a butterfly one that don’t actually have homes on the walls right now so I just propped them up to show you and they are also from B&M.

The Land Rover picture and frame that we have my boyfriend bought, (you will probably realise that he loves Land Rovers over time too). I don’t know where he got it from. We also have a Land Rover clock that I actually love and I bought it for Adam for his birthday this year. It was from ebay and was £15 including postage.

The main lot of my trinkets are on my cube shelving unit as I call it, again it came from B&M and I love it. I use the top like a mantel piece. I will explain the bits on the top. The biggest thing is the tree; I bought it to hang the blown glass heart from as I got that for my birthday from my nan (again I asked for it but I love it!). It is in my birth stone colour, amethyst. The tree itself is from gettingpersonal.co.uk and comes with 6 little picture frames to hang pictures from. I didn’t have many pictures so I just filled 4 (very badly). I also hung a gorgeous necklace I got for Christmas last year on the tree, because I’m not really a necklace wearer but it was way too pretty to leave in a box.

Also on my make shift mantel piece are candles, one big real candle that is a Chupa Chups cherry candle (again from B&M) and cost £4.99. It smells lovely; cherry is my all time favourite smell. I also have a yankee candle in soft blanket which I love but it lives out in the hall way normally and I got that from a hallmark outlet shop for £11! Total bargain price! The other 2 candles on the unit are that are actually fake battery-operated candles, that I love as they aren’t dangerous so I can leave them on when I’m not in the room. They were from Lidl ages ago and were £4.99 for the 2.

I also have another blown glass ornaments that my mum bought me for my birthday this year, again in my birth stone. I love these as they are so delicate and pretty and totally up my street. As is the little vase with fake flowers in that I bought from Aldi for £3.99. I love this as it just adds a nice touch to the top. The other trinkets on the top are presents or little things we have picked up on our travels (the little Cadbury’s truck is from a tiny little shop in Whitby that my boyfriend just couldn’t pass without buying something from, I think it cost us £2).

This picture is of some of my books.

I hope you liked this insight to my home, this is about all of it. I hope it wasn’t too long or boring. Thank you for reading it. See you on monday.

Abbie x

Nadiya’s Ploughman’s Cheese and Pickle Tart

Hi guys, today I’m going to tell you my partner’s favourite savoury bake that I’ve made so far. It’s Nadiya Hussain’s Ploughman’s Cheese and Pickle Tart from the book Nadiya’s British Food Adventure.

This is a recipe that I cannot eat as I have an allergy/intolerance to eggs and this has 4 in it so it’s a no go for me. But my boyfriend absolutely loves it. I would like to to make some small individual tarts aswell as the a big one like the recipe says. I haven’t made the small ones before but I think they would be much easier to store and also look much prettier at a party or on a buffet table than one big tart. But for today I am just making the full tart.

We are coming close to Christmas party season now and I think this would be a perfect thing to go on a table as nibbles or included in a buffet. They are a savoury equivalent to mince pies.

There’s only 1 thing in the original recipe that I do differently, I buy pre-rolled pastry, as I find it so much easier to use, so I don’t add the paprika to the pastry. Apart from that I do exactly as the recipe says and they turn out great.

The ingredients are quite simple, they are:

• 1 block of pastry
• Paprika to add to pastry
• 250g of cheddar cheese, grated
• 4 eggs
• 150ml of milk, it says whole but I just use the whatever I have in the fridge.
• 200g of pickle (preferably small chunk) I only had normal and it didn’t spread as evenly.

You also need a 23cm diameter, 3-4 cm deep loose bottomed flan tin and some baking beans or rice I used baking peas (that my nan got for me).

It’s very much like a quiche in the way you make it. You have to pre-cook the pastry before filling it.

Line the tin, leaving some to over hang, prick the bottom with a fork a few times and then bake for 25 minutes with the baking beans in and then 15 minutes without.

Beat the eggs and the milk together in a jug while it is baking.

Then once the pastry is pre-cooked you can spread the pickle all over the base.

Then sprinkle the cheese on top of the pickle.

After that you can pour the egg and milk mixture over the whole tart being careful not to disrupt the layer of pickle.

And cook for 25-mins until the egg layer is set and golden with a small wobble.

And that’s the tart cooked. Your can trim the edges of the tart with a sharp serrated knife, I didn’t make a good job of this, I think I need some practice.

I didn’t leave my tart in the oven for as long as I normally would as my boyfriend wanted to eat it already, it was perfectly cooked but not as golden brown as I would like. The tart is best warm, I didn’t even get chance to take a picture of this out of the tin before they had started tucking in.

If you add the paprika to the pastry you have to fold it into the pastry gently and knead it until it’s all incorporated and then chill for 15 mins before rolling out and lining the tin. Another tip is always the make sure you leave extra pastry overhanging the tin because when it bakes it will shrink.

I cooked this Saturday afternoon and as I’m writing this Sunday evening it has gone! And I have an order of 2 more to make tomorrow. That’s how much my family love it.

I hope you enjoyed this. I also hope that if you make this you like it as much as we do. I think I am getting better at not rambling as much on these now, hopefully. Let me know if you make this or if you have any other great recipes that I should try. I’m hoping to do a slimming world recipe on Friday one from the new comfort collection recipe book.

See you Friday,

Abbie x

Christmas Decoration Ideas

Hi guys today I’m going to tell you about some of the Christmas decorations I have bought this year and also the ones I have seen that I love but haven’t bought yet, don’t have room for or the money for this year. I will link everything I can find in here for you as well.

I went into Asda last week, to get one of their cheese advent calendars (which I didn’t get) but that’s not my point. While there I had a look around some of the kitchen Christmassy bits they had. I love the kitchen bits but don’t have a kitchen to put them in at the minute so can’t warrant buying them but I can dream.

They had some absolutely gorgeous snowman stacking mugs. They would look lovely stood next to the kettle in the kitchen. I also saw reindeer glasses that were extremely cute. I didn’t buy them though as I don’t really have a kitchen to put them in or anywhere to store them but I would love to buy them when I do.

Asda was full of great Christmas home pieces that were very affordable too. I also saw a few other bits, they had some lovely cushions, my favourites were the car with the tree on top and the most wonderful time of the year cushions.

B&M is one of my favourite places to go shopping because you can get some great things for a bargain price but still good quality. So I went to look at their Christmas things, although in the store near me there were more toys and gifts than decorations. I did find some good buys though and I also saw some on other bits and pieces online that I want to buy.

The bits we found in store that I actually bought are some tree decorations. There were lots to choose from; we got some golden pine cones to go on the tree and also some red glittery icicle baubles. We also bought some new lights for the Christmas tree but we only have a small tree so we bought a box of 50 warm white lights.

(I can’t seem to find the pine cones to link them in, sorry.)

In the shop we saw an adorable little wooden light up house and a little Christmas door with a light up lamp and Santa stood outside that I didn’t buy but I may go back and get the little door I think it would look perfect stood on the coffee table or shelf. Sadly I don’t have space for the light up house but it was lovely. They also had a very cute little musical train on a track that goes around the bottom of the tree, which we can’t have at the minute either as our little Christmas tree stands on a tiny coffee table so there isn’t space but it is definitely on my list for when we have a big tree.

Online at B&M I found some gorgeous Christmas tree place mats and coasters. I promise you I will be buying this year. I am helping mum (doing it myself) host Christmas this year so I am going to buy these for the table. They also have matching everything to go with them but I don’t have the funds for everything and I don’t think they would get used enough. They would end up being stored away in a cupboard most of the time. But I will tell you about them in case you want to look at them or even buy them yourselves. They have plates, bowls, a gravy boat and a salt and pepper set, that are all in the same matching pattern as the place mats and coasters. How adorable would that look all set out on Christmas day on the table? They also have matching napkins and paper plates for evening food; I am not doing the evening food this year but if we were I would buy them.

That is all the places I have been so far and all that I have seen. I would also like to buy a garland this year but I haven’t found one I like yet, or one that isn’t more than I want to spend anyway.

I love all the pretty christmas bedding but I’m pretty sure my boyfriend would not like them or agree with me buying bedding for 1 month of the year. We also have a super king size bed so finding bedding is quite hard and also quite pricey.

Sorry I have rambled on for so long as you can tell I love Christmas decorations or anything Christmassy. I will do another blog about all the Christmas things I already have when I get them out and put them up in a few weeks’ time. I hope you have liked this blog hopefully it will help some of you get into the Christmassy spirit and get excited for putting up your decorations. Feel free to leave a comment telling me about your Christmas decorations.

Monday’s blog is going to be a savoury baking one. See you then.

Abbie x

 

Syn free BBQ sauce and Speed Syn free tomato soup

Hi guys today I’m going tell you about my go to slimming world recipe. Syn free BBQ sauce.

This is my favourite recipe of all the recipes I have done that are slimming world. It’s one I have basically made up from other slimming world recipes. Me and my family love the slimming world recipe of Diet Coke Chicken, which is where this recipe mostly comes from. I use the basic sauce recipe from this and tweaked it slightly the more I made it. I use it on everything! Quite literally everything! Salads, chips, as a dipping sauce etc. I also use it for other recipes like pulled pork and hunters chicken. It’s so versatile, so easy to make and lasts for ages in the fridge. Not that ours ever does!

 

I will give you a quick run through of the ingredients and the way I make it and then show you the finished product.

The main ingredients are

• A can of diet coke or pepsi max. (I tend to use a bit more than a can as I like it really sweet and sticky)
• Half a carton of passata or a tin of chopped tomatoes. (you can always add more if it’s not tomatoey enough)
• A good splash of Worcestershire sauce
• Another good splash of soy sauce
• A chicken stock cube (sprinkled in) or a stock pot. (Can always use vegetable stock cube if you don’t want to use the chicken one.)

The ingredients you can add are

• Tabasco or sriracha sauce for chilli heat.
• Chinese 5 spice
• Herbs
• BBQ seasoning
• I sometimes add a tablespoon of premade BBQ sauce to help with the taste and also to help it thicken faster.

The way I make it is quite simple. I basically just throw it all together in a sauce pan, I would advise a saucepan bigger than you need so it has a lot of space to bubble away. Then I just boil it until it reduces by about half and thickens to a sauce consistency. I sometimes add a tablespoon or two of BBQ sauce to help it thicken and also sometimes to help with the smoky taste. This also makes the pan full a syn or two syns depending on how much you use. But it’s great without it too.

Speedy syn free tomato soup

This isn’t a recipe I have made up but I do like it a lot so I thought I would share it with you. It’s so simple its crazy you don’t even have to cook anything. It’s simply just put all the ingedients into a blend or a bowl with a hand blender and blend until smooth. Then just warm up the amount you want when you want it. As simple as that and tasty too.

 

The recipe is:

• 2 tins of tomatoes
• 1 tin of baked beans
• 1 tin of carrots
• ½ pint of veg stock
• 6 small pickled onions.

And that is it soup made.

I really hope you enjoyed these two recipes. Let me know if you try them and what you think of them and I will see you on Friday with either a baking blog or a Christmas decoration ideas blog.

 

Abbie x

 

 

 

Remembrance Day – Armistice Day

Hi guys today I’m going to talk about Remembrance Day, so this is a bit different to my normal blogs but I thought it was fitting with the fact that tomorrow is Remembrance Day. I feel it is a topic close to my heart and something that should always be talked about so I thought I would share my thoughts about it with you.

Every year I try and do my very best to support remembrance day. Not only that but armed forces charities too. I will often look to buy things to support help for heroes for example; they do amazing Christmas cards every year that are a lovely touch and show your support. They are also way of telling others about the charity when they receive the card.

A couple of years ago I bought a poppy badge that I absolutely love.

I wear it every year from the 1^st of November until remembrance day. This year I have also bought a poppy scarf that I absolutely love. I bought it from the seasons wholesale website, it was a great price at only £3.50 with a percentage going to the poppy appeal. It’s something you could wear all year round and not just around Remembrance Day. It’s a very autumnal scarf.

Tomorrow is a day I hold close to my heart, I feel like I am doing my bit if I care and do what I can to support remembrance day. I have friends that I grew up with in the army and even though we aren’t close anymore I feel like I wouldn’t be a good friend if I didn’t do my bit to remember what them and their fellow comrades do and have done for our country, for our freedom. I’m quite lucky to not know of anyone in my family that was in either of the wars but I still feel for the people that did. I feel for all the mothers, wives and children whose sons, husbands or fathers didn’t come home and how heart wrenching that must have been.

Every year me and my mum make an effort to sit down and watch the remembrance day parade at the cenotaph. We also make an effort to no matter where we are, always take part in the minute’s silence on the 11^th at 11am.

Last year when the display of poppies went on tour we went to see it at Lincoln Castle, which was the closest place to us that it was showing. It was lovely to go and see. It was lovely how respectful everyone was as soon as you entered the grounds you could tell that people were paying their own respects in their own way. It was quiet, everyone spoke in hushed tones and even the children that were there weren’t running around; they were admiring the display. I’m sure they were asking thousands of questions about them, the wars and lives lost that they represent, as children do.

Todays is just a short one, I don’t want to bore you all with my rambling and waffling. Plus I know that everyone pays their respects in the their own way. So I will leave you with a poem I absolutely adore and some pictures and quotes that some up remembrance for me.

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.

Thank you for reading again. I hope you liked it. I would love for you to leave comments letting me know what you do for remembrance day or what it means to you. Love to anyone who is remembering a lost one this weekend or any weekend. Monday’s blog will be a slimming world recipe. See you on Monday.

Abbie x

Christmas Wrapping

Hi guys, today I’m going to show you my Christmas wrapping. This year I am crazily ahead of time and have bought and wrapped most of my presents, so I thought I would show you a couple of presents and how I wrap and decorate them. I will try and link all the products for you if I can.

The presents I am showing you are for one of my partner’s cousins who is 3 so I know she won’t see these. I have bought her a Tin Tea Set and Carry Case, which I got from amazon and a penguin cooking apron and hat set which were from Aldi.

My wrapping paper this year is from Studio and is a creamy white colour with quotes from Christmas carols on in all different styles, font, sizes and colours. I really love it! And it was an absolute bargain! It was an incredible 49p for a 4 metre roll so I bought 6 and I’m not sure that I won’t need to buy some more. I’m pretty sure it is still in stock and this price on the website. I had my worries when I bought it that it would be very thin, maybe see through or rip easily but it’s none of those things; it’s great quality.

I bought some ribbon from The Works with a bulk order of Christmas presents. I got 2 rolls that were 3 metres for £1 but I ran out of this by the time I had wrapped 2 presents, so I turned to Amazon to find a much longer roll of ribbon so I didn’t run out so easily. I found a 20 metre length of ribbon for £5.49.

I will quickly explain to you how I wrap the presents, only quickly as everyone wraps presents differently but I’m going to do a quick how to wrap Christmas presents tutorial on how I wrap them.

So I get everything I need including scissors, tape, tape dispenser, wrapping paper, ribbon and tags. Then I get the presents and decide whether to wrap them together or individually, with these presents I’m going to wrap each of them separately. Then I will wrap the ribbon around them both and tape the tag to the top one. I’ll show you how in pictures as I explain.

For the tea set it’s an easy wrapping product as it’s box shaped. So I just measure it all out and tape all the pieces together, folding the edges into triangles and taping them neatly. This is all made easier by my tape dispenser which I couldn’t live without; there is nothing more annoying than having to try and keep your wrapping paper in place while trying to cut some tape, with the added dread of losing the end of the tape. I got my tape dispenser from The Works with the ribbon and lots of Christmas presents. It was £1, I also bought a packet of tape rolls that fit on the dispenser, they were £1 for 5.

I do the same for the other present. What I do now is to use Glu Dots (little tape stickers) to stick the 2 presents together. (show a picture of Glu Dots and then stuck together) I then get the ribbon and wrap it around the 2 presents as shown on the pictures below.

Then I make a bow on the front with the ribbon – this is my weakness I’m not great at tying bows. I also use the Glu Dots to stick the ribbon down so it doesn’t move around. I then attach a tag to the top of the presents. The tags I bought were from EBay they were about £2 for 100 so I’ll have enough left for next year too! They are just plain brown with string to attach them.

And that is my Christmas presents wrapped.

Here are some pictures of the other presents I have wrapped already.

I really hope you liked this blog as it’s my first lifestyle type one and also the first of many Christmas related blogs to come. I hope you have found this interesting and possibly helpful for your own wrapping this year. Maybe even made you feel a little bit Christmassy.  I have officially got into the Christmas spirit too early this year and I’m sure I’ll be completely over it by the time Christmas actually comes around.

Thank you all for reading. Feel free to follow my blog and you will get an email when I upload a new one every Monday and Friday. Also please like and/or comment and let me know what you thought of today’s blog. Also feel free to let me know your own Christmas wrapping ideas this year. See you all on Friday.

Abbie x

Halloween Cookies with kids

 

Hi guys, this week I’m going to share my Halloween cookies with you. I am a part time nanny to two six-year-old children so this is an activity I have planned for them. For ease this week I bought pre-made cookie dough from Tesco rather than making it myself. It is so easy to use and you get amazing results every time. Also baking with the children needs to be a quick, easy process or else they get bored, so I totally recommend this pre-made cookie dough.

This cookie dough is not as cheap as making cookies yourself, so if you do have time and want to save money it is definitely worth making the dough yourself and I’m sure soon I will do a blog with a cookie recipe in to show you all how it can be easy. But for this week I will show you the extreme ease of pre-made cookie dough.

One pack makes 8 cookies so I bought 2 packs just to make my life easy as it means there’s one pack per child and no arguing whose cookies are whose. I also bought Halloween sprinkles from B&M at a total bargain price! B&M have some great baking and decorating kits that are great for kids or just for people who aren’t very confident bakers.

There are little black bats, white ghosts, orange pumpkins, orange sprinkles and black sprinkles all in one tub you just lift the lid on the section you want and shake them onto your cookie, or for the children I might shake them out onto little plates and let them pick up the pieces they want and place them onto the cookies, if not we may end up with all the sprinkles on one cookie!

To start with I will show you how to make the cookies. In 5 easy steps..
Step 1: Take the cookie dough out of the packaging and preheat your oven to 180.
Step 2: Take a sharpish knife (can be done with a butter knife for the children to join in) and cut the dough into 8 slices.

Step 3: Get a baking sheet and cover it in grease proof paper, this does not have to be exact its just to stop the cookies from sticking. If you don’t have any grease proof paper you can just get a small amount of butter on some kitchen roll and rub it onto the baking sheet. 
Step 4: Place the 8 slices of dough onto the baking sheet as evenly spaced apart as possible so you don’t end up with one big cookie. 
Step 5: Place the baking tray into the oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

So that is the cookies cooked. I did these the day before as we have limited time every day for activities. If done on the same day they need to cool before decorating.

We decorated our cookies with melted chocolate, the sprinkles and mini marshmallows. One of the children I look after does not like icing so I decided to use chocolate to stick the sprinkles with but you could as easily use icing.

All I did was melt a small amount of plain milk chocolate for a few seconds and then used a spoon to pour some on each cookie.

Then I let the children go crazy with the decorating

while I decorated a couple myself ..

All that’s left to do at that point is place in the fridge to set the chocolate, or if that’s too long to wait tuck right in with the melted chocolate on top. And of course the boring task of clearing up. Thankfully by using pre-made dough and pre-bought decorations this is an easy task as well.

I’m going to add to the end here that I wasn’t very impressed with the orange sprinkles in the tub, they looked very bright in the pot all together but were very dull and quite invisible when sprinkled on the biscuits. Other than that I was very impressed with the rest of them they weren’t too thin and flimsy that they broke when the children were hastily picking them up so I was happy with them. Just thought I would add that in so you all know that I am honest about my opinion on products.
I really hope you have enjoyed this blog, please leave comments below to let me know what you like and how I can improve; as you all have probably gathered I like to talk so feel free to tell me to cut the blogs down so they are shorter. Any advice would be great.

I am going to try and put up a blog on Fridays and Mondays from now on so I will hopefully see you on Monday with another blog and maybe a little tour of my lounge and all the bits and pieces I have in there.

Thank you guys,

Abbie x

p.s I promise I only ate one of these as they are not on my slimming world diet but a baker always has to test the batch. 🙂 x

First blog post – Get to know me

Hi guys, this is my first post, I don’t really know what I’m doing yet so please be patient with me. I’m just going to start by telling you a bit about me and what I want to do with this blog.

I’m 21 years old, I work as a part time nanny, I still live with my parents currently saving to move out. I live in a little village in Lincolnshire. I am a member of slimming world and plus size. I love baking and cooking all types of food some slimming world friendly and some most definitely not. I have a boyfriend that love cheese and sweet things so you may see a pattern in my cooking and baking of the things he likes the most. I am hoping to share all my recipes with you, the triumphs and the fails, which there are many of. I also want to share my slimming world triumphs and fails with you.

Even though I live at home I do love house items and lifestyle things. I still do all the cooking in the household which means I have free rein over the equipment in the kitchen. I also have a living room, bedroom and bathroom of my own that I love putting my own stamp on.

I’m currently doing my Christmas shopping of course and planning Christmas activities to do with the children I look after which I am more than happy to share with you all. I love Christmas and buying gifts for others.

I really hope you will enjoy everything I put on here. I am going to aim to put up a blog every week on or around a Friday evening but this may change to a Monday evening depending on when I find it easiest to write. My first blog will be this Friday and will be Halloween biscuits recipe that I make and then decorate with the children on Tuesday. Feel free to contact me with any questions and anything you would like me to show you.

Thank you for reading this, see you on Friday. Please feel free to like and share this post with others.

Abbie x