Cooking Weights and Base

With Christmas approaching and baking madness descending, I realised I had lost my trusty old 4, 2 and 1 ounce weights and have been using pennies instead ( I worked out that 4 tuppences and a penny made one ounce). So someone lovely who can make things decided to help. He found some vintage (maybeContinue reading “Cooking Weights and Base”

Historical Sewing

Recently one of my daughters and I have been following Bernadette Banner on social media and really getting interested in historical sewing. I have done some basic sewing in the past and my daughter can sew on a button, darn and make patchwork quilts. We both have a love of history, particularly the late Victorian/EdwardianContinue reading “Historical Sewing”