Ashers Ice Cream Factory

I currently have some of my family visiting me in France, including my gorgeous nephew, Asher, who turned 2 yesterday.
We decided to throw an Ice Cream party to celebrate the occasion and spent the last week making and preparing decorations, ice cream, aprons, hats, games and a cake of course.
The weather, unfortunately, didnt hold out and so we ended up having to move the party indoors...but we still had lots of fun!

Ice cream flavours: Confiture de Lait (home made), Rhubarbe et Gingembre (home made), Chocolat, Pistache and Café.
The birthday cake; Chocolat Orange Beetroot cake...mmmmm! (here's the recipe)
The factory workers, ready to go!
The birthday boy!

More photos here!

for baby

Recently 2 of our best friends had their second child, Eponine. We love her name so much that we decided we should make her this to go up on her bedroom wall. We cut it out of MDF and painted it white. It measures roughly 100x30 cm.

Family Portrait

A while ago I blogged about my embroidered portraits of myself and my husband. I mentioned in the post that my plan was to frame the portriats in embroidery hoops and to also do one of our daughter, Pixie...well, here they are!

Annie Larson

Came across the wonderful Annie Larson recently and her fabulous knitwear...I actually cannot put into words how much I love this stuff!

Evian Bottle Lights

I was given these trendy little evian water bottles (designed by Paul Smith) about 18 months ago and straight away I knew I wanted to hang them in a cluster over lights in our hallway. Finally, I have done it! The reason for the delay was because in order to hang them, I needed to cut the bottoms off and the only tool I had for this task (Ephrem's Bottle Cutter) didn't seem to be cutting them so well. So there began the epic search for a tool/facility that would achieve the desired slick cut. The only tools my research led me too were far too expensive, I also went to several glass cutting studios, tile cutters and heavy duty machinary-hire places...all to no avail. I even tried the old tie-string-round-the-bottle-and-set-fire-to-it method which some people assured me would work, but it didnt. Eventually I decided to give my Ephrem's Bottle Cutter one last go. I managed to get 3 good, but not quite perfect, cuts, which I am very happy with.

More Plates

Having been inspired by my post about Jimbob Arts, my friends Jon White and Anna Kelly produced these plates as a wedding gift for Anna's brother Aaron and his wife Holly.
I absolutely love them and am ever so slightly jealous, firstly of Jon and Anna's skills and secondly of Aaron and Holly as they are now the proud owners of these little beauties!

oskah. shop

Pleased to present to you my new shop! You can also get to it by clicking on the green 'shop.' logo at the top of the page.

Currently selling Bandana bibs and Oskimos.