Kitchen Worktop

Gradually, I've been trying to neaten things up in the flat. It's good when a place feels and looks lived in but it's also good when people don't think you live in a dump. My aim is to move things about a bit and free up some space by sorting out cluttered corners. Corner No.2 after the sofa was the kitchen counter...

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Summer Cake

For my friend's mum's birthday I made this simple but effective cake. I love a nice tall cake with simple icing and flowers on top. I added a touch of yellow to this meringue based butter-cream and pinned some roses in at the top. As a finishing touch I sprinkled some edible glitter onto the centre of the cake.

Dinner Time

I've been trying to be healthy all my life and have recently been making a solid effort by stocking up the fridge regularly with tasty healthy treats. Even though I love cooking up more complex home-cooked goodies, sometimes it's nice to just go back to basics. Last week I made some chicken drumsticks and a mixed salad. It's super easy: just whack the drumsticks in the oven and pour over some olive oil, shake on some fajita mix and squirt on some BBQ sauce. Then chop up whatever greens and veggies you have. My favourite addition is fresh coriander for a tangy fresh salad.

Changing Seats

So our sofa gets a lot of use out of it. When we first moved into our flat we had an ancient beyond ancient sofa from my mum -a velvety olive green 2 seater with no support whatsoever. After a few months we updated and bought a sofa from SofaSofa. When it arrived we were off on holiday so barely glanced at the new delivery before rushing out. When we got home I was a little disappointed as the colour didn't quite match the picture online. We chose 'mushroom' but it looked more 'mould'. We've stuck with it and it's growing on me. One day I'll have my dream grey Chesterfield...but until then we'll spruce up what we've got. I wanted to add a little more colour to the room so purchased some patterned and a blue cushion to brighten the place up.  The Minky Grey Chevron was from ebay and the check one is from Matalan. The throw is from HomeSense (aka the best store in the world)...

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There's still a lot to do to make our tiny flat a home. I'll update as I do more.