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By Clare Albans / 26 Feb 2017

Hello! I’ve been absent from my blog for a little while now, but I promise I’ve been really busy working on so many things – the first of which I’m here to tell you about now…you can now sign up for my newsletter! 

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Reorganising my embroidery thread

By Clare Albans / 13 Jan 2017

A few years ago I decided to get my embroidery thread a little bit more organised, and I spent rather a long time putting them all on to cards to put in a compartment box.

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Christmas brownies

By Clare Albans / 15 Dec 2016

Hello friends! Sorry for being a bit quiet here lately – the weeks are just going by so fast!

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Christmas Cake

By Clare Albans / 06 Nov 2016

There are some times when it’s a bit to early to use the ‘C’ word, but when it comes to making a Christmas cake it’s good to be organised!

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Nigella’s chocolate olive oil cake

By Clare Albans / 28 Sep 2016

I recently made Nigella’s chocolate olive oil cake for a dear friend who is now dairy and gluten free.

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Hello! Hooray! shop is now open

By Clare Albans / 17 Sep 2016

I am SO excited that the Hello! Hooray! Shop is now open!

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Ultimate vanilla ice cream

By Clare Albans / 04 Sep 2016

We recently bought an ice cream maker as a joint wedding anniversary present to ourselves. Technically, 3 years is meant to be leather but we decided that this was much more appealing!

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Summer polaroid pictures

By Clare Albans / 30 Aug 2016

As August draws to a close, it really feels like the nights are drawing in and that summer is on the way out.

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Violets Cafe

By Clare Albans / 19 Aug 2016

Violets Cafe has been on my list of places to visit for a while, and we decided to go for a late wedding anniversary treat – it’s my new favourite place!

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Yorkshire Day parkin

By Clare Albans / 01 Aug 2016

1st August is Yorkshire Day, so we are celebrating by making some special Yorkshire Day parkin!

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Our experience of Shared Parental Leave

By Clare Albans / 01 Aug 2016

When we found out that we were expecting our first baby, we decided that I wouldn’t write posts about Little One on my blog.

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Craft workshops in Newcastle

By Clare Albans / 03 Jul 2016

Following my appearance on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour last month, I received so many lovely comments about my blog and the show – thank you SO much! It really meant a lot 🙂 

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Baked Spanish rice with chicken and chorizo

By Clare Albans / 25 Jun 2016

I realised recently that most of the recipes I’ve posted over the last few months have been for cakes! Well, they have all been cakes actually – haha! 🙂

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#positivityremains

By Clare Albans / 24 Jun 2016

Today has been a bit of a strange day. We woke up to find that the UK had decided to leave the EU, and as one of the 48% of people who voted to remain I was pretty gutted to be honest.

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Pecan cake with raspberry ripple ice cream

By Clare Albans / 17 Jun 2016

I really love getting back into baking again, and when I saw this recipe for pecan cake with raspberry ripple ice cream on Facebook I knew I had to give it a go!

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Creative hashtags for Instagram

By Clare Albans / 11 Jun 2016

I’ve recently got back in to Instagramming after a long break from it, and I had forgotten how much I enjoy sharing photos and browsing for photos I like.

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Woman’s Hour

By Clare Albans / 10 Jun 2016

I love it when fun things happen unexpectedly, and this week I was approached by BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

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Future creative projects

By Clare Albans / 08 Jun 2016

Do you have a list of things that you’d like to make? I have one that’s as long as my arm!

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Poppy pillow pattern

By Clare Albans / 29 May 2016

Before having Little One, I managed to make one or two bits and pieces that would come in handy. After having months of not doing too much crafting, I had a couple of weeks where all I wanted to do was bake and sew! 🙂

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Orange and almond Victoria sponge cake

By Clare Albans / 24 May 2016

It has been a little while since I managed to do any baking – I did do a bit in the last couple of weeks of my pregnancy as I had a thing about flapjack (recipe here) and wanted to have cake in the freezer (so I made this honey, banana and almond cake).

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Creativity takes courage

By Clare Albans / 22 May 2016

Sometimes, I think too much. I’ve had one of those days today and my mind has been wandering a bit – some of it good, some of it not so good! But then I remembered something that one of my friends posted on Facebook this week and it reminded me of the quote ‘creativity takes courage’.

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Hello, little girl!

By Clare Albans / 18 May 2016

Well hello there, friends! It has been a long long time since I wrote a post on my blog…for those of you who are new here, I was expecting my first child in April. I’m pleased to say that she arrived safely and we are loving getting to know her.

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Rainbow birthday cake

By Clare Albans / 12 Feb 2016

Hey everyone! Hope you’re all well? I was true to my word in my last post when I said that posts would be a bit more sporadic over here…lots of nesting and sleeping has been going on 🙂

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A longer than expected blog holiday

By Clare Albans / 15 Dec 2015

Hello everyone! Long time no see…and I’m really sorry about that!

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