I love to make Christmas special (it is all in the details!) and made up some treats this weekend for our festive entertaining.We had some special friends for dinner last night and these are the mini chocolate boxes I put at each place setting … [Read more...]
8 Sleeps to Go!
One of the things I love most about Christmas is baking up lots of treats to give to family and friends. I hope to start my Christmas baking next week. Sarah has made a start on hers already now that school has finished for the year and made up some … [Read more...]
Seeing Spots
I have been meaning to make a camera strap for a while now, and it was a quick and satisfying project. Everything looks good with Amy's Lotus Full Moon Spots. I used a tutorial I found at Ikat Bag and bought my strap hardware here. My Mum gave me … [Read more...]
Appliqué Fun
Christmas preparations are well under way here at Sugar Headquarters. Although my "to do" list seems to be getting bigger by the day. How I love this crazy time of year.This week I have made up a couple of appliquéd kitchen towels for special friends … [Read more...]
Chocolate Spice Cupcakes
Sarah loves to spend her pocket money buying cook books and recently ordered Martha Stewart Cupcakes from the Book Depository. It is a beautiful book with lots of lovely recipes as well as ideas for packaging cupcakes as gifts (not that any would … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Houses
Sarah and I had the best time today at a Gingerbread House and Christmas Cookie Workshop at Cake Tinz and Thingz. It was heaps of fun to decorate our house while sampling all the lollies.I went for a Red and White House to match our Christmas … [Read more...]
Christmas Decorating
It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas now that we have started our Christmas decorating at Chez Sugar. The teens insisted that we had to put up the decorations on December 1 - I love that they are still so into Christmas. They were in charge … [Read more...]
Review: Gourmet Crochet
A review copy of Gourmet Crochet: a yummy yarn cookbook by Christen Haden and Mariarosa Sala arrived on my door step this week from Penguin Australia. This is a sweet book which contains a smorgasbord of crochet items from sushi to fruit salad, … [Read more...]
Handmade Living: Handmade Christmas Gifts
Today Sarah and I are thrilled to be a stop on the Handmade Living Book Launch Blog Tour. We warmly welcome Rosalind Grace of Grace Designs, one of the contributors to the book, with this guest post on Christmas Giving the Handmade Living way. There … [Read more...]
This ‘n’ That
Sarah made up a batch of Chocolate Caramel Cookie Bars (Recipe from Martha Stewart) on the weekend and they were delicious!! The salted chocolate caramel layer was amazing. I think we will be making more of these over the festive season.Sarah and … [Read more...]
Christmas Favours
We are starting our Christmas celebrating early here this year as part of our extended family will be overseas for Christmas. I love to add some chocolates to gifts, especially when giving gift cards or money, as it makes it more festive. I seem to … [Read more...]
Quick Crochet Gift Tags
I crocheted up a batch of small granny squares using DMC Perle 5 in red and white, et voilà the Quick Crocheted Gift Tag was born.These would also work well in other colours - I can just visualise them in some pastel hues for Easter. … [Read more...]
