ANYWAY… a word of warning about the japanese lantern… it is VERY invasive… be forwarned… keep it potted and DON’T throw plant debri around carelessly…

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As I said before it has been a very quiet place and the pace slow but there are some pictures to break the monotony, ha-ha. I have the goal of beginning to blog in a more regular fashion - well regular in my fashion:0) with the coming of the New Year, mine, in November. Just the small matter of getting some clear space in my daily rather stretched days of the past months. So goodness knows how you manage even switching your machine on with job, garden and the small matter of tending to the needs and almost certainly whims of a rather powerful princess:0)

Sad to hear the package never made it, lets hope the contents made another little girl smile but she will have the same name as each item in the box had someones name embroidered or burnt on it. Another special day fast approaching so time to try again I think:0) Will need some measurements from you at some point I suspect as someone will certainly be making a new pencil mark on the wall in January! Will try to email again, I may have been using my private mail address rather than the blog one so will try again at the weekend when I’m not supposed to be on my way to an appointment as now.

My apologies for not writing sooner in response to your comment, I have been away from the blog in all manner for a bit. I do hope you are well. I didn’t receive a package months back but I’ll inquire at the PO today. So lovely to hear from you, words from an old friend such as yourself warm my heart and bring a smile to my face. I’m not sure why the email has been bouncing back to you-I do know that I have been having a tremendous problem with spam and the program is marking things spam that aren’t and vice-versa. I’ll have to make a trip over to your blog and see all the new things-I have also been remiss in with keeping up with my favorite bloggers. Amazing how one little one can take all of your time and energy, I can’t fathom how parents with several children handle it all so well, lol.

Did a small package reach your door back many months now. It never bounced back here so I hope the postal service didn’t lose it in some can’t be bopthered sack. Talking of bouncing I’ve tried to email a few times over the months and keep getting polite messages to say eiether post box is full or doesn’t exist, am I doing something wrong?

I’m just clipping a couple of my Hydrangers and about to put in two new ones as I love them too, their double gift of vibramnt colour when growing and fabulous dried concoctions when dieing off for the winter makes them a definite Yes in my garden.

Hope to pop by again and find more happenings:0)

Hi there,

Just wanted to let you know that I made this cake for my mother-in-law’s birthday (July 1) and we loved it.
I did make some minor changes: used the nutella mousse as the icing ( I can not tolerate buttercreams due to lactose issues with butter so I have to be creative) and used an italian pastry cream (chocolate) to spread in between layers. I also drizzled a combination of espresso, sugar and bailey’s on each cake layer. This recipe is a keeper.
In fact, the nutella mousse on it’s own is delicious. I am Italian and happy to have another nutella recipe on hand. By the way, the mousse turned out to be pretty resilient as a cake icing.
Thanks!

Hi Aimee- Thanks so much for the compliment to my daughter and for the birthday wish!