Archive for the 'gifts' Category

Thank you

Published on 13 February 2007 in gifts. 2 Comments

Everyone has been lovely and supportive this week.

My colleagues gave me this beautiful orchid. It’s growing in a little pot filled with bark. I hope I don’t kill it, seeing as I have never tried to care for an orchid before… This is an opportunity to learn more about these beautiful plants, I’m sure. All I know is that this is a dendrobium.


It’s sitting on my desk in my office at the moment, and adds a lot of vivid colour to my otherwise rather drab office. (Can you see the desktop photo of Baubles? I can’t bring myself to take it down, even if it gives me a pang everytime I see it at the moment.)

I always appreciate cards, too. Handwriting always seems to me to have that much more feeling to it. I’m sure this is just me, and is not to say I haven’t appreciated all the lovely messages I’ve received both here at this blog and via email. Thank you everyone!

Flowers

Published on 11 February 2007 in gifts. 0 Comments

Thank you E, SW and MR for the beautiful flowers.

Update: These pretty flowers, which I received on Friday, are still blooming wonderfully today (Wednesday)!

Gingerbread

Published on 23 December 2006 in gingerbread, gifts, Christmas, baking and 2006. 7 Comments

M’s gone to the deli on his unicycle, to buy me some fizzy mineral water. I’m all hot from baking.

Take a pile of ingredients.

Measure, mix, cut out, pop into oven. Voila!

Thank you to Kathryn and her co-pilot for the lovely gift, which arrived safely in the post yesterday - the perfect gingerbread man cutter! There it is in the picture just next to the cooling rack. See the gingerbread men? The zanier, more interesting ones were decorated by M. My favourite one is the KISS gingerbread man. I’ve got another batch to make, which I think I will leave to M to decorate.

Update, Christmas Day:

Some of the finished gingerbread men.
Top row, left to right: Batman, Mario, Harry Potter.
Bottom row: Bob the Builder, Adam, Charlie Brown.