Saturday 28 January 2012

I just can't help it!

I really think that all my sweets, cakes and other food related items say a lot about me!




Tuesday 24 January 2012

Yum!

I had to go to a meeting at the notonthehighstreet.com offices in Richmond yesterday and took the opportunity to have a day out in London.
My daughter came with me, just as well really as I'm useless on the underground and would probably still be there!
We left on the 7.40 train and made our way there stopping for a hot chocolate and chocolate twist in Costa.... yum!

After the meeting which finished around 12, we headed to Covent Garden. Such a lively, busy place with fantastic shops,



including this one, the Primrose Hill Bakery.... yum!





I have the Primrose Hill Bakery book, which I love and is one of my favourites that I use a lot. On Saturday I made the lemon drizzle cake (I also made on Sunday as the first one didn't last too long!) and couldn't believe the likeness to the one in their bakery!
It's in the photo above at the bottom.... yum!

The outside of the bakery is a beautiful, sunny yellow and I love the cake design in the window.




Next stop.....Hope and Greenwood..yum!




It has a lovely old fashioned feel with all those jars of sweets and took me right back to my childhood when I spied a box of sugar mice.....yum!





A hop on the tube to visit Liberty's. My daughter had never been there a and I knew she would love it.




How could anyone not?





You won't be surprised to hear that the only thing I bought was a bar of chocolate for my husband....yum!
Actually, i think the gorgeous bag they put it in cost more than the chocolate!



I could have scooped all of these up in my arms and ran off with them!




We had a lovely day, long and tiring but well worth the effort.



Yum!

Friday 20 January 2012

Cupcake love.

Cupcakes are very popular in our house so it seemed only right to make a Kindle case in honour!


Thursday 19 January 2012

On a roll.

I seem to be on a roll at the moment making new designs. I wanted to add these to my notonthehighstreet.com shop leading up to Christmas but lack of time meant I couldn't.
This idea popped in to my head while sitting at my sewing machine this morning!


Wednesday 18 January 2012

In the pink

I added a new colour to my range of glasses cases today, making nine in total. I have also changed the glasses fabric on the women's cases which I'm very happy with.




I've also made and listed a Kindle case with more designs to follow and new products in the pipeline!


A giveaway will be happening soon so be sure to pop back in a day or two!

Sunday 15 January 2012

Heaven in a box!

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Truly scrumptious!

I'm adding a new range to my glasses cases and this is the first one.

A lot of my products feature cakes and sweets........ naughty but nice!


It will be in my notonthehighstreet shop tomorrow.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Happy New Year!

Well I've no idea where December went, one minute it was there and then it was gone and now it's January........how did that happen?!
I managed to get all the Christmas orders done and posted in time for the big day and only one parcel went missing out of the 100's I posted so a very big well done and thank you to Royal Mail. The year before was a bit of a nightmare due to the weather and almost every day I had customers contact me to say that their parcel hadn't arrived. It's very frustrating but I also understand from a customer point of view how frustration that can be.
I did most of my Christmas shopping on line this year for the simple reason, I didn't have time to go to the shops. My daughter sat in the conservatory one day with the laptop while I was working and ordered loads of presents for me. Everything arrived really quickly and it's convinced me to do the same thing this year.
I ordered a dress for myself too from Boden as I thought I deserved a 'me' present for all my hard work :)
One evening my husband and I were packing orders in the conservatory and we heard a card being pushed through the letterbox. My husband went to the front door and found a courier card on the door mat. He opened the door to find a delivery driver walking up the drive. He called out to him, asking if he had a parcel for us. The driver said he had but the doorbell didn't work, it did, and my husband tried it to make sure. The driver then went to the rear of my daughters car and took a parcel( my lovely Boden dress) from underneath the rear wiper and handed it to my husband and walked off. When we looked at the card it had been ticked in the box' Left in a secure place' and he'd added 'left in the porch'. We don't have a porch unless of course that's a new name for a Ford KA! I'm so glad my parcels are small enough to fit through letter boxes and that I've never had to consider using Yodel!

Right, I realise I'm waffling and my main reason for being here today is to show you my new purchase.
We ordered a new dresser for the conservatory back in November and it arrived today...........at 6.55am! Oh here I go again, another delivery saga!
I had a call from M&S last week to say it would be here between 7-9 and not thinking I'd be the first on the delivery list I didn't see the urge to jump out of bed early, that was until I heard the lorry outside at silly o'clock!

My husband has been busy painting the wall for it to sit against. Do you like the colour? Yes it's that amazing fuschia pink peeping out at the top there. Isn't it just gorgeous? I can't believe he agreed to it!




I've wanted to collect Pip Studio china for ages and finally I have some, but I'm sure you'll agree there's not nearly enough!
Our plan this year is to have a shed/studio/log cabin built in the garden for me to work in and then have our house back to normal. I can't get away from work the way things are at the moment and I really want to be able to lock the door and walk away at the end of the day. I will keep you posted on that one but if any one out there know of a reliable company in the South East of England that make and erect those type of buildings, please let me know. We really want to avoid the cowboys!

On that note, I'd like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and thank you for taking the time to pop by.