I have yet to get back into the routine of baking biscuits for church on Sundays and this is my first effort since Christmas. The red spotty plate gives the biscuits a touch of Christmas, which is now long over and done with, but what with the recent torrential rain and the disruption this has […]

I mentioned reverse appliqué decoration in my posts on Vietnamese  skirts and afterwards I remembered that when daughter No 2 spent her gap year inVietnam 15 years ago she had brought back several simple little zipped purses decorated in this way. I had an idea where one of these purses was and once I’d picked off the […]