A Mothers Day Tea Party

As you can imagine, Mothers Day is a big deal in our house and we've been spoiling my mum like crazy all morning. The day began by bringing my mum breakfast in bed. I made homemade granola as a present and she had that for breakfast which was fun. I also made her a bouquet of fabric flowers which I will post pictures of later. After breakfast me and my mum went for manicures and pedicures which was LOVELY and I got blue on my nails and sparkly blue on my toes. I pretty much always have blue nails. After manicures my mum and my brothers went to Kew gardens and I went home to prepare tea! As every good tea party needs a theme I chose to make everything in this one red! As I write this my mum isn't home yet so I don't know if she's going to like it yet but I though I would share what I made to help people all over the world spoil their mum's too.

I don't know about you but my mum loves anything fresh and low fat so when I was thinking of what I could make her for tea I knew these strawberry's were the perfect thing! 

Cheesecake Strawberry's - (recipe adapted from SugarDerby)

You will need:

- 226 grams of low fat cream cheese.

- 20 strawberry's.

- 1/2 cup of icing sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence

- 10 digestive biscuits

Step One: Chop the heads of your strawberry's and hollow them out using a sharp, small knife.

Step Two: Mix together the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla in a big bowl until they are well combined. 

Step Four: Put the cream cheese mixture into a piping bag and fill the strawberry's with it. (I forgot to take pictures of this stage)

Step Five: Crush up the digestive biscuits, some people us a freezer bag and a rolling pin but I prefer to use a pestle when I'm only crushing a few biscuits. 

Step Six: Dip the strawberries in the crushed biscuits. 

Step Seven: ENJOY YOUR LOVELY STRAWBERRY'S!

I've never made flavoured water before and I couldn't BELIEVE how easy it was! It's so much fun and I think I might make it every day. 

Flavoured Water - (recipe from Jamie Oliver) 

You will need:

- water

- ice

- strawberry's

Step One: Crush up the strawberry's using a pestle or a fork

Step Two: Half fill your jug with ice.

Step Three: Add your strawberry mixture to the ice and then fill with water.

Step Five: Enjoy your lovely water!

I hope these recipes have been helpful and please leave a comment if you decide to make them!

Happy Mothers Day :)

Scarlett x

Saturday Knit Relief Items of the Day

So I decided not to do Items of the day yesterday because it was the first day but today it begins. I'm going to do a different them each day and today's theme is CROCHET! 

I know it was supposed to be Knit Relief but I got so many amazing crochet things and for someone who is just starting to get into crochet I was so inspired by everyone's amazing crocheting. Here are all the amazing crocheted items available in the Knit Relief Auction. 

Simply click on the items picture and it will take you straight to their page. Thank you so much for anyone who has bid so far and to anyone who is going to bid AND of course to everyone who entered items! I am eternally grateful.

CLICK HERE FOR THE KNIT RELIEF AUCTION! 

Love Scarlett x

Knit Relief has Begun

I am EXTREMELY excited to announce that Knit Relief has officially begun! YAY! We have so many amazing things on offer and it would be so amazing if you could bid on anything. You can access the Knit Relief eBay page HERE! 

To make Knit Relief go as amazing as I know it could be we all have to keep tweeting, blogging, facebooking emailing the link to the page to encourage as many people as possible to bid!

Every penny we make will go straight to Sport Relief. You may think that bidding on a knitted toy isn't going to change anything but here are just a few of the things that Sport Relief can do with your money: 

£5 - could buy new clothes for a child living or working on the streets of Nepal.

£10 - could give expert advice and guidance to a person living with dementai in the UK, and their carer, to improve their quality of life. 

£50 - could feed 100 vulnerable street children in India for one whole day. 

So even if you don't think you can make a difference you really can and Knit Relief can be the way that you make that difference!

I'm going to be doing a special 'Items of the Day' post every day until the end of Knit Relief so keep checking back here to see more of our amazing stuff.

CLICK HERE FOR THE KNIT RELIEF AUCTION!

Love Scarlett 

Knit Relief Update 2

Hey Guys,

Knit Relief is going so well so far and I'm continually blown away by the incredible responses I've had. Everyone has just donated the MOST lovely things ever and I'm so so happy. I hope everyone watched the David Walliams documentary, it really made me think about all the things people do and I so hope we can make a contribution to the amazing charity that is Sport Relief 

So here are some more of our amazing items that are all going to be available when the auction launches (This Thursday). If you want to find out more about Knit Relief click HERE and if you want to see the other items up for grabs click HERE. 

- One set of beautiful mittens and the cutest strawberry hat from Kate Curtis

- A lovely shawl from Vickie Glynn

- Three adorable little animals from Anna Morrissey (picture from pattern)

- These yummy baby booties from Susanna Wisniewski

- This amazing knitting and sewing bag from Anita

- An Awesome Tardis phone sock, knitted to the size of your phone, from Meg Roberts

- This beautiful broach from Louise Howe

- This awesome Kermit Toy from Louise Campbell

- This beautifully knitted cushion from Rebecca Cobb

- This awesome American Flag cushion from Cath Fearn

- A crocheted phone cover, knitted to the size of your phone and in the colour of your choice by Cath Fearn

- A pack of 10 beautiful handmade greetings cards from Michele

- This absoulutly amazing knitting print from Julie Rhodes

- This gorgeous quilt from Sharon Mcbeth

- This adorably scary crocheted triceratops from Renee Quinn

- This lovely cherry backpack from Kathy Hill

- These beautiful little baby booties from Rachel Hill knitted in the size, style and colour of your choice

- This awesome hat from Jenny Howard

- This amazing bracelet, also from Jenny Howard

- This lovely shawl from Evie Jones

- A wonderful cross stitch of your favourite Mr Men or Little Miss from Amanda Summons (picture from pattern)

-  This absoulutly gorgeous knitting bag from Val

- This incredible quilt from Ruth Al-Mushadani

- An awesome cross-stitch of the tweet of your choice from Kate Curtis

- This ADORABLE bunny from Lisa Coates with a jumper in the colour of your choice

I hope everyones looking forward to Thursday, I certainly am, it's going to take me a while to list all the items so if I don't have it up first thing on Thursday don't be alarmed! Keep checking this blog for more exciting updates and information and remember to keep spreading the word!

Love Scarlett xx