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Vintage scrap pack - sold out...

Just a quick blog today - sorry! I have tonnes to show you but not the time today - so I thought I would leave a friendly reminder to leave a comment to win a vintage fabric scrap pack here!

Dancing Sunday away...

IMG_0011, originally uploaded by myglorydaze.

It felt like I was dancing all day, but in actual fact we were rushing about finishing flatterning our front garden for some dirt and rock deliveries, finishing our courtyard for a pending pergola and paving and then...yes....drum roll, please....I cooked the plum pudding. Five hours after putting it on to the low boil we had a house smelling like Christmas and a delicious soft plum pudding cooling in the pot. It'll be 'fed' until Christmas Day (brandy is the food of choice) and then devoured with custard and cream...

As I found this pic on Flickr I'll put the plum pudding recipe up on the blog seperately...

Lots of new fabrics coming your way this week - I have finally booked them all in! Yes - some were in storage for more than three years...but...well, I got there in the end!

Stir Up Sunday - a new family tradition...

Photo of plum pudding recipe - Frankie magazine, issue Nov/Dec 2008

I made my first plum pudding for Christmas last year. I had grown up with a family friend making our plum pudding - in muslin, with coinage - and when she passed a couple of years back we started to purchase our plum pudding. No matter how nice the puddings were it just wasn't the same...

Lo and behold I entered the amazing world of Frankie last year and in the Nov/Dec 2008 edition they had a wonderful plum pudding recipe. I don't know why but I decided to make it. The older I get the more sentimental I get (and I was already sentimental) - but I thought the ritual of making the plum pudding could start a new family tradition. I was so proud I took a photo on Christmas Day...it tasted just a lovely as it looked :) I'll write the recipe out tomorrow and post it on the blog...



This year I decided to find out when the right time was to make the plum pudding. I came across Stir Up Sunday. Even though I am a Buddhist this seemed like such a wonderful ritual and tradition - the family time, the sharing in the stirring of the plum pudding mixture, the official start to Christmas etc. Sunday 29 November is Stir Up Sunday this year so today I set about cutting my fruit and peel with the help of all of the boys so it had overnight to bathe in the brandy. We're ready for Stir Up Sunday tomorrow and the 'steaming of the pudd'...I can't wait.