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Only smarties have the answer! New handmade sweetie jewellery in the range

I love thinking of ways to add to my sweetie jewellery range on Etsy . I have just sourced some lovely Czech glass beads to add a smarties necklace and bracelet to my range of jewellery in time for christmas. The beads are really gorgeous, very shiny and brightly coloured. They are now available in my etsy shop so please take a look! Photos by Gary Ullah of Crafty Websites

Handmade christmas - baking cakes

This year I attended a cupcake decorating workshop at the The Make Lounge (I blogged about it here , and there are some yummy cake pics to look at!). I don't tend to make cupcakes much, it's quite a lot of effort if there's just two of you, but I do enjoy baking. So I decided to make some cakes for my colleagues in three offices at work instead of sending christmas cards. I made them on Sunday so they would be as fresh as possible for Monday. It turned out to be a bit of a mission! I had wanted to make some chocolate cakes and some vanilla cakes but unfortunately, when I had just finished baking the chocolate cakes the oven door fell off! It wasn't a big shock because it's been on it's last legs for a while but it did mean I couldn't make the vanilla cakes (although Gary has now fixed the oven door so that it does still function for a bit longer!). Luckily my recipe made 37 cakes which is still quite a lot! (But I had two myself, just to quality check th...