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Baking

Coffee and Pecan Cake

So the kids have been all about the baking at the moment, which in a fit of I'm-missing-you-as-you're-at-school-so-of-course-you-can-do-any-activity-you-like-as-long-as-it-makes-you-happy, ...

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This Year’s Christmas Cake

Every year I make a Christmas cake, using my family's traditional recipe. Once the cake has had a few weeks to be soaked in booze, it's retrieved from its tin, and decorating it completes this ...

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World’s Best Sausage Rolls!

I have to admit that I'm a bit of a pastry fiend. Sweet or savoury, I could eat the stuff all day, but I refrain as I would be the size of a house! However, once the festive season is upon us, I allow ...

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Toffee Apple Cake

Okay, so I'm slightly behind with making (and posting) this cake recipe, as I always think of toffee apples as being bonfire night fare, but I had to share as this cake is SO delicious! There are ...

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The Ultimate Christmas Cake Recipe

When I was growing up, every year around October half term, Mum and I used to make the Christmas cake, made from an old family recipe, to store away until December. It would be wrapped up in foil and ...

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  • We have exchanged!!!! 🥳 Almost a year ago to the day I went to view a house ‘just to have a nose’ and Adam thought I was a complete lunatic as we’d only been in our current house 18 months, now a year on we have finally reached this point 🙌🏻 we are so excited to move into our ‘forever home’ and it just feels so ‘right’ for our family of 5 and we are lucky to be able to have more space (and I can’t wait to get my hands on it 😁) Feeling relieved, thankful, exhausted, excited... being on the 28th May! Now to pack... 🤪 . . . . . #myinteriorstyletoday #homelove #stopandstaredecor #howwedwell #myspaceanddecor #spotthenewtrend #mycreativeinterior #dailydecordetail #postitfortheaesthetic #decorcrushing #rockinginteriors #interiormilk #mycuratedaesthetic #spotlightonmyhome #movinghouse #property #packing
  • Happy 7th Birthday to our little firecracker, Sasha! 🥳 you came into the world at speed and you haven’t stopped! You’re super-smart, funny, caring with a very grown up sense of humour 😊you’ve been planning your birthday since, well, your last birthday 😂 which makes me slightly terrified if you ever get married #bridezilla 😂 looking forward to pizza and cake with you tonight 🎂🍕 have the best day! #7yearsold #birthdaygirl
  • Completely unrelated photo as don’t think any image fits this crazy week- all going well we’re exchanging on our new house TOMORROW 😱and our move has been brought forward from the week in June that we were expecting to less than 3 weeks time 😱we haven’t packed a thing as haven’t wanted to tempt fate, so whilst removal guys are packing up the kitchen beforehand, I don’t know where to start on everything else 🤪with every move we’ve done we seem to have gained a child, so that definitely seems to complicate things 😂 need to order skip, get boxes, pay removal people, work out what can be packed now and what needs to be accessible... wish us luck! The poor Smeg will have to be stored in the new house garage for a bit as doesn’t fit in the current kitchen layout... we will meet again old friend, we will meet again 😢😆 . . . . . #myinteriorstyletoday #homelove #stopandstaredecor #howwedwell #myspaceanddecor #spotthenewtrend #mycreativeinterior #dailydecordetail #postitfortheaesthetic #decorcrushing #rockinginteriors #interiormilk #mycuratedaesthetic #spotlightonmyhome #kitchendecor #smegfridge #howdenskitchen #kitchenrenovation #housemove
  • I’ll feel as happy as Arlo tonight crawling into my bed...a crazy, busy, bittersweet week it’s been...handed in my notice for my day job today and whilst sad to leave everyone I work with, looking forward to the beginning of some exciting plans! 🌟💪🏻 . . . . #bedtime #ikea #ikeapictureledge #greybedroom #flashesofdelight #abmlifeissweet #thesimpleeveryday #abmlifeisbeautiful #daysofsmallthings #thehappynow #joy #bringjoy #lifecloseup #livethelittlethings #happy #gratitude #littlestoriesofmylife #newplans #check3216
  • Happy birthday to my partner in crime & the best husband and Daddy! 🥳Celebrating tonight with a Thai in front of the telly (birthdays on a weekday are so rock n roll now in Casa Freeman 😏😂) This would’ve been a lovely photo of my team but there’s always one joker isn’t there? 🤣 #teamfreeman #birthdayboy #dadsofinstagram #36yearsyoung
  • Sitting down to do a bit of work this evening and throwing back to the office/study in our old house- I can’t wait to have one again in our new house, I loved having the dedicated space and always felt so productive 💛 hopefully not long now- we are SO close to exchange and it will hopefully be happening this week 🤞🏻the wait is driving me crazy 🤪 hope everyone has had a good weekend? Ours was mostly facilitating kids sporting and social lives, although Ad and I did go out for dinner locally last night and had a rare time when the meal and service was AWFUL but it was almost so bad we couldn’t help but laugh 😂😬 if you went out to eat anywhere I hope it was a better experience than ours! . . . . . #myinteriorstyletoday #homelove #stopandstaredecor #howwedwell #myspaceanddecor #spotthenewtrend #mycreativeinterior #dailydecordetail #postitfortheaesthetic #decorcrushing #rockinginteriors #interiormilk #mycuratedaesthetic #spotlightonmyhome #homeoffice #eameschair #ikeadesk #workingfromhome #homestudy #whitefloorboards
  • This is the excited face of someone who started Brownies tonight 😌 I used to love Brownies as a kid, was such a brownie nerd and loved earning all the badges 🤓 I was an elf- if you were a brownie what were you?! . . . . . #childhoodunplugged #candidchildhood #Iittlefiercelittleones #ig_motherhood #motherhoodthroughimstagram #darlingmovement #thatsdarling #ife #simplychildren #thatauthenticfeeling #mamamoments #fromwhereistand #littlestoriesofmylife #brownies #girlguiding #brownieguides #parentblogger #pixel_kids #mumsofinstagram #mamamoment #myhappycapture
  • Absolutely knackered after a day in the office playing catch up after being off ill last week 😷 looking forward to getting the final ankle biter off to bed and having a bath and some much-needed Netflix time 🤓 secretly love Tuesday evenings for this as Adam is at football training and I get to hog the remote! . . . . . #myinteriorstyletoday #homelove #stopandstaredecor #howwedwell #myspaceanddecor #spotthenewtrend #mycreativeinterior #dailydecordetail #postitfortheaesthetic #decorcrushing #rockinginteriors #interiormilk #mycuratedaesthetic #spotlightonmyhome #greybathroom #subwaytiles #greyhomedecor #bathroomtiles #bathroomdesign #bathroomrenovation