La cueillette

Yesterday it was such a nice summer day that we decided to go fruit picking. Only 30 minutes drive north of Highbury in Enfield, Middlesex there is a pick your own farm called Parkside Farm. Ines and Finn ran around the fields helping our with the harvest. Good job guys!

We ended up getting around 5kg of really sweet summer fruit: strawberries, raspberries and blackcurrant. One of the baskets came with us to Maria's diner party and we had a go at it with some vanilla ice cream. Yum, yum.

What a funny looking strawberry.

Gorgonzola & Pear Tart

Barbara prepared this delicious tart for our dinner last friday night. Hassan also had a funny story to tell about the search for the pastry. H&B have a little shop around the corner from their place that sells Mediterranean products. Barbara likes to shop there and challenge the shopkeeper as to what products he has. He often doesn't have what she is looking for and says he'll order it in for her. This particular time she was looking for an Italian type of pastry for the tart. The shopkeeper (slightly annoyed) pointed at this turkish filo pastry and said that the tart would taste better with this. He was right, the tart tasted great and looked beautiful...

Tote bag with Initial

This is the little bag that I made for Eva to replace the kimono that was too small. It has 2 different fabrics and I used it to wrap her gift.

Baby Kimono

Last week end, we went to visit some friends in Manchester and I tought I would make something cute with my new sewing machine for their daughter Eva. I used a lovely pattern from Habitual. I used bits of fabric from a dress that I never wore. That's recycling for you.

Unfortunately the kimono was too small for Eva, so I'll keep it for Ines.

Cute gift wrapping

I love this wrapping paper, it is basically brown paper with a cute black flower print. I used it to wrap Beau's birthday present. Ines helped stamp his name on it.

A Pea in a Pod

My little helper is preparing the peas for tonight's diner: tagine de petits pois.

One of my favourite tagines...

Carnaval de Venezia

I finally got around to decorating the Mask we got in Venice last December.

Ines was a great help tearing all the bits of paper and glueing them down.

This is the result and we keep it in her room.

Like a fish in water

Ines loves playing with her fish collection in the basin.

Lego

Playing with this so danish invention at Louisiana.

La petite princesse

Got some felt. Made Ines a Princess Crown with my new £5 sewing machine.

I love it.