What better biscuit to bake for Christmas than shortbread? Gingerbread is definitely a close second. However, this blog is about shortbread…. The Scotts claimed to have ‘invented’ shortbread in the 12th century when shortbread started out as biscuit bread or rusks. Biscuits were made from left-over bread dough, sometimes sweetened, and dried out in the oven to form […]
In this new kind of normal with social distancing and masks it is still imperative that we make the Christmas season the special time it always is, a celebration. So, I thought to get you in the mood I’ll make a few Christmas inspired crafts which are relatively easy and cheap to make. You don’t […]
It doesn’t matter if you’re living in a big or small space, everyone deserves to have a space which they can call their own. Usually if the space is small it tends to get cluttered faster than living in a bigger space. So by making clever use of space, also in an economic and creative […]
Next year we will be celebrating 20 years of living in Ireland, our adopted country. So I thought I’ll make a list of my favourite things of Ireland. Things I’ve really come to love about this country. Because I’m always standing with one foot in another country and will never be fully one or the […]
A sweet potato soup recipe from this recipe book – A soup for Every Day – is been described in this blog post with pictures.
By hanging pictures, objects, photographs or other visual images on your walls, you extend your interior decorating to the walls of your rooms. That is a pretty cool concept. What makes it even more exceptional is that living spaces are unique, because everyone interprets their own space differently. So by putting thought into decorating your […]
Tsitsikamma Hiking Trail in South Africa is a tough hike through the mountains which can be done over six days. The huts and facilities are clean and well looked after. Fantastic hike.
Looking at well-designed objects, I’ve often wondered how and where designers got the original idea. That made me think about a designer I researched during my studies at the Interior Design Academy of Ireland. Marcel Breuer, Hungarian architect and designer, was the first furniture designer to actually use tubular steel to design a chair. And […]
A few years ago, we planted three apple trees in our front garden. For the bees and for the apples. Since then we’ve had an abundance of apples to eat and to cook with. The harvest starts in September, sometimes as early as late August, until end of October. As a young girl growing […]
Have you ever moved from one check-out line to another because it looks shorter and will move faster? Have you ever counted the cars in front of you at the traffic light so you can work out a way to move quicker through traffic? Are you constantly multi-tasking? Yes? Well, then you have something called […]