One of the many things I love about Christmas, is pottering around in our kitchen baking special festive recipes and treats. We love to give our baked goods to family and friends at Christmas. This year we have prepared a batch of Fruit Mince Bars. … [Read more...]
Christmas Shortbread
We have a lot of Christmas traditions that we love to celebrate each year. One of them is preparing home baked Christmas treats to give to our family and friends. Each year we always make a big batch of Christmas shortbread - it wouldn't be Christmas … [Read more...]
Candy Cane Sleighs
Chocolate is always popular at Christmas (or any time of the year)! We love to make candy crafts that we can use as Christmas gifts. When Sarah was in primary school, her guide leader made the guides some Santa sleighs using Santa chocolates and Kit … [Read more...]
Travel Shoe Bags
We are making a start on some Christmas gift projects this week. First up are some travel shoe bags - they are a practical gift for a traveller and can be used to store shoes, clothing, or laundry in your suitcase. We have a lot of novelty prints in … [Read more...]
Personalised Photo Gifts
Sponsored by OfficeworksWe love to give thoughtful, unique and meaningful Christmas gifts to our family and friends. Each year it seems to get harder and harder to find the perfect Christmas present. This year we found the perfect solution and … [Read more...]
Bonjour Sucre
The past few months have been busy ones for Sarah, one half of the A Spoonful of Sugar Team! Sarah has finished high school and sat her final exams, and is now waiting to start her university course next year. One of her goals for the summer break … [Read more...]
Joy Christmas Gift Tags
After a couple of shopping outings this week. Sarah and I have nearly completed the Christmas gift shopping. We have set up a gift wrapping station on our dining table and are wrapping the gifts as we go. We needed some simple gift tags to suit our … [Read more...]
3D Christmas House Ornaments
Nothing inspires us to get crafting quite like Christmas. It is a great time to make decorations, gifts, and spend time baking. We don't really care for all the mass produced Christmas decorations, and it is fun to make you own to suit your holiday … [Read more...]
Just For You {Blog Hop + Book Giveaway}
"Just For You: Selfish Sewing with Your Favourite SewCanShe Bloggers" by Caroline Fairbanks-Critchfield and Sarah Markos, is a new sewing title from Stash Books that includes 24 stylish projects to make for yourself. Containing patterns for an … [Read more...]
Simple and Festive Decorating Ideas for Christmas
Sponsored by TargetChristmas is our favourite time of year! We love to decorate our home, make gifts, bake special treats, and embrace all the joy of the festive season. Our Christmas preparations are well under way and we look forward to sharing … [Read more...]
A Spoonful of Sugar on Instagram
Life has been very busy lately and we aren't updating our blog quite as often as we used to. We are hanging out over on Instagram most days, so if you want to catch up on what we are up to in between our blog posts, you can follow us over on … [Read more...]
Simple Christmas Ornaments
We love making new Christmas ornaments each year to decorate our home. This year we are planning a winter wonderland theme using lots of pastel coloured decorations with gold accents. Even though Christmas falls in the middle of our Australian summer … [Read more...]
