Cupcakes

Look at these gorgeous little darlings! Aren't they fabulous? My friend Mandy is a brilliant cook and recently made almost a hundred cupcakes for her daughter's wedding. (sorry Mandy for the awful picture below. It was taken after a few glasses of champagne and I forgot to use the flash!) After baking all those, she must have been sick of the sight of cupcakes but knowing how much I enjoyed sampling the various flavours, icings etc while she was developing the ultimate wedding cupcake she very kindly made more and brought round a box last night. I'm not telling how many there were to start with or, more to the point, after a day at home how many are left ...

Autumn weekends

I feel a bit guilty. Having told my friend Denise off for not keeping her blog posts up to date, I see that I have not written anything since finishing LSNED.

Last weekend was really lovely and it seemed a shame to spend time indoors so my husband and I went for a walk out in the countryside near where we live. It takes about 10 minutes from leaving our front door to being out in the country and it was so nice to be out in the autumn sunshine. The leaves on the trees are all changing colour and it was beautiful around the lake and going up to the church via the farm. Was a bit sad to see that some of the conker trees seemed to have died though. I have happy memories of conker trees. When the children were younger, we used to collect conkers by the dozen, it was a family competition to see who could find the most!

On Shimelle's website, she has a page where she talks about colours associating with certain things, so here are a couple of pictures of around where I live which show all the colours that I associate with autumn.

last pages

Well I have had a happy day today finishing off the Learn something new every day project. Although I was anxious to finish it within a decent amount of time, now it is done I feel 'what will I do now?'! I do need to go back and number the pages and sort out any embellishment malfunctions but on the whole it is finished and I have really enjoyed doing it. Sometimes it was easier than others to find a lesson learnt, especially on days that consisted of the more mundane aspects of life but 30 days down the line, I managed to find something for every single day- success! So here are the final 3 pages -



and not to mention the title page:

Changes

This time last week I was walking along a beach and last Sunday I ate my Sunday lunch in the garden of a pub. How can two weekends be so different?

I know which weekend I preferred!

27 September

On 27th Paul and I went to Southwold on the Suffolk coast for a long weekend. The weather was superb and we had a lovely time. Southwold has 3 landmarks - the lighthouse, the pier and the beach huts. I took so many photos of the beach huts, they are so lovely and colourful and it wasn't until I went into a craft shop and bought a mug with pictures of beach huts all over it that Paul started to worry that perhaps I was becoming a little obsessed!

26 page

The continuing story of a husband on crutches! One advantage of emails and laptops means that even if you can't get into the office, the office can get to you. So despite Paul being unable to drive into London to get to work, or brave the trains and tubes, he was able to catch up on a lot of office work from his temporary office set up in the kitchen at home.

24th and 25th September

Oh dear, going away for the weekend has meant that I have fallen a bit behind with this! But here is my page for 24th. Inspired by the thought that you can tell Christmas is coming when the catalogues start arriving on your door step.

The next page was prompted by having to work on the evening of the 25th as it was Open Evening at school for prospective students. I may only work 3 days a week, but I do various jobs while I am there, and this week I have taken on new work helping the admissions officer. When we arrived for Open Eve, we were given labels to wear so prospective parents would know what role we held at the school, and my boss had printed one saying 'Wonderwoman' following a rather hectic day in the office preparing for the evening ahead. I did have to relinquish it for a 'proper' one, but for a few minutes, I felt really appreciated!