Break Over & Great Read

Right, summer break is over, the children back to school. I can't really say the summer is over as there hasn't been any proper summer around at all. So, back to our usual daily routine it is. Which also provides less time for one of my favourite occupations - reading. This is the book I've just finished:

Loved it to bits!

Taking It Easy

Now this is what I call a slow start into the new year. Nearly half of January has passed already and I'm on my second blog post! Well, it's been busy at our quarters in the last couple of weeks, what with my birthday celebrations and all ... And now I'm finally ready to embrace life at its usual pace :)

For a proper start, I'll make your mouth water with some of the Christmas & birthday goodies we made. As usual, I'm still not one for carrying my little camera around the house and taking photos of everything I do, so here's a very limited selection of our makings:

I always make shortbread for Christmas, following the above recipe. Always a success :)

Another batch was a chocolatey one - one half of the rice flour substituted by cocoa powder. Yummy!

The ones below are seriously the best biscuits ever. My little girl (with a brand new hair do) has been a busy bee :) And a great helper!

Next project and more help - I love making yummy treats with my girl!

The biscuits turned out absolutely gorgeous - and delicious. Looking forward to this year's Christmas :)

(P.S.: an Easter Bunny has hopped onto our plate of Christmas biscuits - no wonder, considering the weather!)

I'm Back!

Marysia'a angel, last year's birthday present

Right. I guess I needed that. It's been exactly a month since my last blog entry (and oh my, was it a quick and short one!) but apparently, life slows down after forty... :) I'm joking, you realise that, right? I can hardly find time to breathe these days. I have a camera full of pretty pictures - over two months old - and I still haven't managed to download them. I have every intention of blogging them at one point, though - last year's photos, how pathetic is that? There are some pretty ones among the lot, and I'd love to share them with you. Plus, in about a fortnight, my lovely fellow blogger Jane from The Small Fabric of my Life is organising another Capsule Wardrobe Challenge - I hope I can make it, I can't remember the last time I've posted an outfit! Nothing spectacular or worth mentioning on the outfit front anyway, I'm afraid, as we've been totally snowed in, pretty much like the rest of Europe (imagine an island in Dalmatia covered with snow... or St Peter's Square in Rome, all white... funny thing, this winter weather).

Anyway, I had a fabulous birthday, lots of absolutely gorgeous presents (angels and angels and angels...), yummy cake and splendid company. It's good to be forty, and I would like to thank all of you for the good wishes on my birthday, I'm awfully glad 'to have met you'!