Hi Honey Pattern Launched - Support the Bees!

£6.50

Help support the bees!

With each purchase of my hand embroidery pattern ‘Hi Honey’, 50p will go to the British Bee Keepers Association (BBKA).

I am a huge supporter of bees, they are utterly crucial to the eco-system of our planet, and well frankly I do find Bumble Bees rather cute. So if you love them as much as I do, then why not purchase the pattern.

Simply head over to my Etsy store www.etsy.com/themasonbee or go to my website www.masonbee.co.uk and look at the patterns page.

Very Busy Bee

It's a Bank Holiday weekend here in Blighty, and rather than sitting back and chilling out I am up to my eyes in fabric and threads. Most of which I am working on this weekend I can't show you, well I can just not at this moment in time. This is the weekend where I crack through an extremely long list of things to do, and only about an hour ago did I feel that I was getting any head way with it. But at least with my list done I know what it is I have to achieve it's easy to get distracted. As a very dear friend of my mine knows.

I do hope tomorrow or at least by Tuesday have photographed something that I can show you, it's going to be a few very special collars. All I say about them at the moment, because I like to draw things out is, sophisticated bling. I'll do a mid-week blog post about it.

Next weekend I'll be off again, this time down to my Aunt's to work on some costumes with her, which means I spot of late night sewing and chatting. Not done that in an age and I have to say I really do miss working with my aunt. She's uber talented lady and it's always a pleasure to work along side her. The costumes are for a stage production at the Old Vic. Can't wait to see what they look like.

That's about it for this post this Sunday but before I nip off to get dinner, I thought I would leave you with a few shots from my trip to the Peak District (so at least you get some pretty pictures today!)

Want it Wednesday: Baking Love

It's a little bit of a different Want it Wednesday, but you know it's good to switch things up a bit, right? Well tonight its just going to focus on one thing a book. A book that I fell in love with whilst visiting a very good friend last weekend. Now, you might have twigged over the years that I have a bit of a thing for baking, it's a side hobby in a way I don't do it often but its nice to just whip up a batch of scones as and when you feel like it. I almost have the recipe memorised to a point I only need to glance at the ingredients to make sure I've not missed anything.

So when I saw this book 

Miette Bakery Cookbook: Recipes from San Francisco's Most Charming Pastry Shop

I knew it had to be mine when I saw the recipes that would make good gifts, well it's not mine yet but I am damned well going to be! Sorry Sophie, it nearly ended up in my bag....