Sweet Treats...

With Mother's Day making an appearance very soon, I thought I should get some presents on the go!

In my family, we have always included Nan in Mother's Day and she absolutely loves marshmallows. So as a gift, I've made some marshmallow treats for her.

They took no time at all to make, look absolutely gorgeous and I know she will love them. Of course I had to sample one too, and might I say they were absolutely delicious!

Cookie Cookie, Delicious Cookie..

I have it on good authority that these cookies rival those made by Millies Cookies! So, I'm really excited to share them with you.

Ingredients
188g plain flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp salt
277g butter
100g caster sugar
150g light brown muscovado sugar
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
Mixed fruit (however much you like)

Method
Set the oven to 190 degrees C.

In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt

In another bowl, combine the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the vanilla and the egg. Beat until smooth.

Slowly add the flour combination until a sticky dough is achieved. Add the mixed fruit (or chocolate chips, mixed nuts, some of that, or all three! These cookies are even tasty plain)

Take one level dessert spoon of mixture and roll it into a ball, and place on a grease-papered baking tray. Keep them spaced quite far apart, I cooked mine in batches of six to make sure they didn't all stick together. This mixture makes about 2 dozen, so I made a variety of cookies.

Bake for 10 - 15 minutes. When cooked, remove from the oven, place on a wire cooling rack and leave to cool and harden.

Store in a cute kilner jar (if there are any left!)

Bon appetit!

And so it starts with a rocking chair...

So Him Indoors and I have made the decision not to move. Instead, we've decided to make our home more "homey" - when we moved in some 3 years ago we made the decision to keep the whole place neutral, to not put our stamp on it, to make it "saleable". Time has gone by and it doesn't feel like my home any more, it's not what I want - I want to put up wall paper, to get my dream furniture, to have a homely feel to the place... so, I figured, what other place to start than with a rocking chair?


My reason for this is mainly Him Indoors - he hates french chic, he hates shabby chic, he hates vintage, he hates white. And I love all of the above. J'adore french chic!


So, here's my project!

 Him Indoors helped me out by sandpapering the chair, which was rescued from my Mum's back garden. It has some cracks in the seat but I loved that - the character means it has a story to tell.

 Ready for painting, that's obviously all recyclables underneath it to protect the flooring from my painting escapaes!

All done with 3 coats of Jasmine White. It's really livened it up.

 Ta-da! My new feature corner in my lounge, complete with a cozy throw and some beautiful cushions. I'm so excited by the result, I can't wait to start working on some other furniture.