Showing posts with label Dining Room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dining Room. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

♥ Valentines Day ♥

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥



It is 4 years since we were last together on Valentines Day so its really not something we keep, but I've been wanting an excuse to create a special dinner so Valentines Day seemed a good enough excuse!?!

Red was the theme for table decor & food (as much as possible!)

I wanted to keep costs as low as possible & use as much stuff as I could find around the house ... it was surprising what I found. All I bought was the food, the heart confetti for 99p & 6 white candles for £1. Not bad :)


The larger candle holder was a little nik-nak I got ages ago for £1!



We had pork loin with raspberry sauce, in keeping with the red theme :)


For desert I made raspberry & blackberry jelly & dropped some white chocolate shavings on the top!


I came across a recipe for Raspberry Valentine Cupcakes (will post recipe another time) - the cakes were yummy but the icing a disaster - any quick/easy recipes for this would be appreciated!!





Finally, it was nice to chill out next to the fire after a busy day :)


If you celebrated, I hope you had a lovely day :)

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Monday, 26 April 2010

An 'Uncle Bens' Flower Vase...


I am having friends over for tea later & when I was grocery shopping I saw these lovely tulips which I couldn't resist! I got home & couldn't decide what vase to put them in & as I was feeling like a mini project I decided to make the vase myself!

I'm going for the easy option tonight ie using ready made sauce, (gotta love Uncle Ben!) & I decided to use the jar the sauce came in for my little project...


I emptied the contents of the jar & washed it out & got to work with my ball of string ... winding it around, gluing as I went...


I added extra glue around the top so it wouldn't become loose.


The finished product:

I'm REALLY happy with how it turned out & it was oh so easy to make - took literally 20 minutes!

While on the topic of alternative vases, I played about with my little rose plant last week...I wasn't sure whether this idea worked or not?!




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